Occurred: 2014-04-07 21:05 Local
Reported: 2014-04-07 23:15 Pacific
Duration: 50 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Iowa City Hwy 218 north, I-380 north, Cedar Rapids), IA, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

Three objects seen initially, two observed while travelling north, and one low and hovering craft was observed east of my apt. bldg.

I saw three brightly lit objects over the Saddlebrook development in Iowa City when I was leaving work at approximately 9:05 pm tonight. The objects were south and east from me and had a horizontal bar shape with a central area that was larger and brighter, and they were moving, bobbing horizontally and vertically about. I stood outside looking at them.

Then I noticed that one was descending, becoming brighter and more easily discerned, and I could see that it was actually ring shaped like a diamond eternity band with a central, larger diamond. It was descending quickly, and I hurried to my car. I traveled west on Hwy 6 going toward the 218 north entrance and continued to see the three objects, studying them as they moved when stopped at each crossing light, fearful that I might become distracted and have an accident. One remained lower and brighter than the other two, but they moved somewhat together. Minutes later when initially driving north on 218, I saw only one to my north and west, but eventually I saw two, the brighter and lower one behind me while I drove.

The one to my left and in front of me appeared higher, and it was going in and out of the clouds, so sometimes I saw it and other times I did not. Highway 218 north became Interstate 380 north. When I finally got to Cedar Rapids, I thought they would rise and vanish. As I got closer to my apartment building off Wilson Ave, however, I could see two, both higher and less brilliant in light. Then when I parked my car outside my apartment building facing east, a very bright red ring shaped object was hovering low and east of my apartment building over a hill. I sat inside my car and looked right at it while I was talking to my co-worker on the phone because I was frightened. She pooh-poohs the existence of UFOs but stayed on the phone with me until I walked away from my car and was inside my apartment. The time was a few minutes before 10:00 pm, I believe, and the NCAA ! men’s championship basketball game had a couple minutes left. I can't take pictures with my phone.

I am re-entering this to clarify that I initially travelled on Highway 218 north which then becomes Interstate 380 north.

Posted 2014-04-11

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