Report From the Iowa UFO Research Network

Poweshiek: A report filed by Beverly Trout of the Iowa Mutual UFO Network, and printed in the Volume 2, Number 45 (November 23, 1997) issue of the online journal UFO Round Up , edited by Joseph Trainor, describes lights very similar to those seen in Seattle on Friday, November 14, 1997, were seen near Brooklyn, Iowa on the same night. According to the report the witness was driving on Interstate Highway 80 spotted "a horizontal row of seven or more steady white lights at about 40 degrees up from the horizon ascending at a 15-degree angle from the southeast to the northwest." The sighting reportedly took place at 7:30 p.m. Central time, four hours before the "Seattle Lights" event.

     "The lights would have crossed his path of travel if the 100 foot (30 meter) long object turned sharply and headed back east-southeast at a steeply-descending angle---almost in a dive. When the object tilted, showing one end lower than the other, he could see a portion of the surface illuminated by lights. At that point, the object was a quarter-mile south of I-80...He drove at 65 miles per hour to the end of the row of trees, at the end of which he expected to see the object sitting in the field. But when he reached that point, he saw that the object had simply disappeared."

     Polk: The same issue of UFO ROUNDUP also carried a story on two college students from Ames who spotted a UFO on November 11. The witnesses were said to be driving north on Highway 69, about 28 miles north of Des Moines, when they spotted a strange object in the sky. The Iowa State University students "saw a dark orange/amber globe of light at about 40 degrees up from the horizon, to the left of the roadway. At first they thought the light was resting on a 100-foot water tower nearby, but this proved not to be the case. They proceeded west and caught sight of a full circular orb now ahead of them and moving very fast. The object finally began to sink below the horizon, and the two men watched it disappear from view." This information was also provided to the ROUNDUP by Beverly Trout. No names of witnesses were released, nor were sufficient details given to do any follow up investigation of our own.

     As always, we hasten to state that the Iowa UFO Research Network is wholly seperate from any other UFO reporting agency or group and we neither give nor recieve endorsements. If readers have further information on these sightings or how to contact the witnesses directly, please contact this magazine.