SIGHTING: MUSCATINE, IOWA (UNITED STATES)

Witness Testimony

"At approximately 21:30/9:30 pm on 08/11/17 my wife, my 9 year old daughter and a 9 year old friend of my daughters, were out on our back deck looking for meteorites. my wife pointed out a white pulsating light to the west of our house, quite high in the sky, and in the area of the muscatine municipal airport. the pulse was was white and was followed by a much bigger and brighter flash. there was several seconds between the flashes, sometimes about 20 seconds. the object was moving from east to west and was moving quite slow. at one point it appeared to have moved in reverse. it also appeared to change directions to the north, and then a few moments later, continued east, and we lost sight of the object. the whole incident took 5-7 minutes. i couldn't see any shape to the object due to it being dark, and not having any binoculars handy. i did video the flashes on my phone, but its really not great video. on 08/12/17 at approximately the same time, the object again appeared and flew in the same manner and direction, for approximately the same time. this was also witnessed by the same people from 08/11. 08/13/17 there was to much cloud cover to view the object. 08/14/17 again at approximately 9:30 pm, i was watching for it. visibility was good, and i could see several airplanes in the sky. i should have seen this approaching, but it just seemed to appear out of nowhere. my wife also witnessed this. this time on one of the flashes i thought i could see a small dim red light to the right of the white flash. on the bright flash, it appeared to throw off an arc of light. the object was traveling west to east as before. this time it did not disappear over the house and out of sight, it just disappeared. i will be looking again tomorrow, and will have a video camera."