Light over North Liberty, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Four white lights swirled in arcs across the sky, then were absorbed into a red/blue orb which sped away.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2012-10-30 → 2012-11-16
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August 8, 2014 · 3:30 AM · CIRCLE
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The incident I am reporting occurred at approximately 0330 Hours CST while driving on Interstate 380 North about 2 miles after the North Liberty on-ramp. It was cloudy and I saw two circles of light above the observable cloud ceiling (which is not uncommon given the CID airport is about 12 miles north). The circles were right behind each other. What caused me alarm was when the object protruded from the clouds and got closer. They were dark and much larger, circular (sphere or disc-shaped, not certain) and had what looked most like a bright light-emitting apparatus on the underside. It passed about 75 feet over me, moving SSE at a very high rate of speed. The noise I heard it make was most similar to the noise sandpaper makes against wood, but louder. I got home at around 5:00am yesterday, I usually get home at around 4:00am, I chalked the tardiness up to me driving extra carefully because the road was damp, but the math just doesn't add up. I want to know what happened on that road last night! I drive this route 6 days a week to work from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Coralville, Iowa, and back. No remarkable event have ever occurred minus seeing some drunk crash into shrubs three months ago. I never thought I'd be on one of these sites reporting this but who knows?
June 2, 2014 · 10:25 PM · FIREBALL
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I saw what appeared to be a medium sized red/orange glowing ball shape moving low and silently in the sky, moving east over North Liberty, Iowa. It was moving relatively slowly as well. I witnessed this outside of my home window, while watching tv. The object stayed in sight, for about a minute before it disappeared behind a tree line. The object didn't have any flashing lights, that would indicate it as being a commercial or military flight. I also reported the sighting to a local news station, but I haven't heard back from them. After the sighting