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Des Moines, IA
Iowa · Polk County · Des Moines-West Des Moines Metro
Des Moines is a large city in Iowa with a population of 212,464. Residents earn $63,966 per year, which is 15% below the national average.
3.3
/5.0
B
Good
212,464
Population
2,410/sq mi density
$63,966
Median Income
$36,459 per capita
$183,700
Home Value
$204,843 Zillow
$1,054
Median Rent
28.8% income on rent
53°F
Avg Temperature
290 sunny days/yr
712
Violent Crime/100K
4,091 property/100K
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Overall
3.3 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B+
Economy
3.7 / 5.0
$63,966 median income, 4.1% unemployment
A+
Affordability
5.0 / 5.0
$183,700 home value, $1,054/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
712 violent crimes/100K (87% above avg)
B
Education
3.3 / 5.0
29.0% bachelor's degree or higher
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Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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UFO Sightings Near Des Moines, IA
83 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Des Moines, IA.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Des moines, IA | 2014 | In Des Moines Iowa white/red light, shot up like a firework, stopped, then zoomed away. |
| Des moines, IA | 2014 | 5 orange lights in a chevron shape |
| Des moines, IA | 2014 | Disc shaped object flashing red and blue lights. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | Triangular UFO seen by family of 6 just south of Des Moines on I35. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | Bright white turning red/orange close to ground then disapearing by des moines airport. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | Large low-flying craft with orb like lights in a cross shape. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | Orange Red Light Formations Over Des Moines, Iowa on August 24, 2013 at 10:00 p.m. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | 30-40 glowing, orange lights drifted across the sky, very low, over Des Moines, not losing altitude until they passed from view. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | 20+ flying objects in Des Moines Iowa. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | Large red/orange sphere seen above Des Moines, Ia. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | Orange/red lights hover over Des Moines. |
| Des moines, IA | 2013 | 3 glowing red lights made formations and disappeared. |
| West des moines, IA | 2013 | 10 red orb/lights ranging across the entire northern sky traveling at the same speed and vanishing within 15 seconds. |
| West des moines, IA | 2013 | Eight to ten stationary orange lights over West Des Moines, IA |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | Fast moving silver light |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | While driving east on 80/35 near the Merle hay exit A large cherry red to orange fireball. It moved as though it may land in front of m |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | Floating white light with dim blinking light still in the sky with no sound. |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | 3 circular orange reddish lights in the shape of a triangle seen in Des Moines, IA near the State Capitol building. |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | Several moving lights over des moines, IA, blended in sky as if they were stars til they started moving.((NUFORC Note: Planets?? PD)) |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | Came out on my deck and before me in the sky were approximately 8-10 orange orbs moving in a SW to NE arc. This grouping was followed b |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | Unusual flight pattern of a squadron of aircraft that defy gravity and G-force manuverability. |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | Green and yellow fall in an arc shape across the sky. very bright |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | 3 Bright Red Lights in a Triangle Formation |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | White orb dissapears into night. |
| Des moines, IA | 2012 | 2 Bright Orbs in the Eastern Sky moving fast and irregular. |
| West des moines, IA | 2012 | orange glowing object in clear black sky amazing speed |
| Des moines, IA | 2011 | A v shaped formation maybe 20 illuminated dots seen for about 30 seconds and then dissapeared |
| Des moines, IA | 2011 | lights (round shaped) in a v-shaped formation (5-7 in the v formation and one on the left side and another on the right side in front o |
| Des moines, IA | 2011 | Siting looking at the stars was moving fast and steady rusty dark look no lights but had a glow and was heading west it came out of sig |
| Des moines, IA | 2011 | Sometime after 8:30, I went home with my mother and after parking in the driveway, I looked up (facing north) as always. Everything se |
| Des moines, IA | 2011 | An unexplained, unidentified flying object. |
| West des moines, IA | 2011 | One multi-lighted triangle-shaped UFO sighted over West Des Moines, Iowa at 9:25 PM on 08/23/2011 by two people driving home. |
| West des moines, IA | 2011 | 2 red/orange spheres moving slowly appeared in des moines iowa. |
| Des moines, IA | 2010 | Solid and silent red light flying over Des Moines, Iowa. |
| Des moines, IA | 2010 | Single light multiplied then came together as a diamond then became one and disappeared. |
| West des moines, IA | 2010 | 2 Bright Lights in Des Moines Iowa |
| Des moines, IA | 2009 | Flashing and strobing object, flashing and strobing military jets, and two white lights moving above the Des Moines Iowa area. |
| Des moines, IA | 2009 | object first appeared to be aircraft with search lights on. ((NUFORC Note: Venus?? PD)) |
| Des moines, IA | 2008 | My brother and my mom were with me as we saw a ball of light moving Northwest through the sky. It only lasted about 40 seconds. |
| Des moines, IA | 2008 | Red light over Des Moines, Iowa vewed from Mitchellville, Iowa. |
| Des moines, IA | 2008 | 4 Fighter Jets continuous pattern. 2 F16's elongated N-S oval grid and 2 F16's elongated E-W oval grid. 2 craft leave fast after 3 hrs |
| Des moines, IA | 2008 | WHILE I WAS DRIVING ON THE INTERSTATE I SAW 3 TRIANGLER UFOS OVER MY CAR. |
| Des moines, IA | 2007 | Shape Changing Tube or Rod with Pursuing Military Jets? |
| Des moines, IA | 2007 | WHILE I WAS GOING TO AN INDIAN RESTAURANT I SAW A TRIANGLER SHAPED OBJECT. |
| Des moines, IA | 2007 | Green lit-up horizon with saucer like flying object. |
| Des moines, IA | 2007 | Hazed lights traveling dew north in a clockwise position. |
| Des moines, IA | 2007 | very bright white light that slowly dimd then moved slowly to the north across the sky at high altude. Brightend again then disapered.t |
| Des moines, IA | 2007 | To fast to be any thing Ive seen as a point of light, two objects parallel in a turn. |
| West point, IA | 2007 | Large thin orange crescent with outline lights low in sky; changed size; possible mirage. |
| Des moines, IA | 2006 | Flash of white light turns into orb then dims to likeness of dimm star. |
| Des moines, IA | 2005 | Two objects leading a third, or was the two objects being followed ? |
| West des moines, IA | 2005 | Blue light that look about as bright as Venus streaked across the sky from the south to the north. I am in apartments sw of the I-235 |
| West des moines, IA | 2005 | Object Hovering between 2-5ꯠ feet in the air. 4-5 Strobe lights in a row flashing in sequence. Object hovered without making a sou |
| Des moines (east of), IA | 2004 | Seen from 29ꯠ ft-- two "stars" stared moving, parallel to one another, and abruptly stopped 15 sec. later. Faded out. |
| Des moines, IA | 2004 | Triangle sighted on I-35 in Des Moines |
| Des moines, IA | 2004 | Lighted Triangle object hovers by major interstate |
| West des moines, IA | 2004 | Iowa Air National Guard and 727 watched by UFO in West Des Moines Iowa ((NUFORC Note: May not be a serious report. PD)) |
| Des moines, IA | 2003 | Cloaking Cigar... |
| Des moines, IA | 2003 | It was a triangular shaped craft withfour lights |
| Des moines, IA | 2003 | 3 spheres of multi-colors circled and shot straight up out of site. |
| Des moines, IA | 2002 | It looked like a teardrop and kept dropping and rising back and forth in a diagnol pattern. My friend was standing next to me and saw |
| Des moines, IA | 2001 | white light changing directions in the sky. |
| Des moines, IA | 2001 | Red ball of light plummits towards ground and dissapears. |
| Des moines, IA | 2001 | mother ship |
| Des moines, IA | 2001 | I was driving to the store and when I turned onto county line road, I saw a huge triangle shape /_\ just like that,, In the middle ther |
| Des moines, IA | 2001 | Grenn trailing orb seen in Iowa woods! |
| Des moines, IA | 2001 | slow moving green fireball |
| Des moines (metro area), IA | 2000 | Light in sky from which (twice) descended another smaller light. Moved AGAINST wind no matter what direction. |
| Des moines (southeast of), IA | 2000 | Red light in stop and go movement and dropping a storbbing object low in the sky then fading out. |
| Des moines, IA | 2000 | Red Light in the Southern Sky on the Fourth of July |
| Des moines, IA | 2000 | It was a round star object that went straight then zig zagged. |
| Des moines, IA | 2000 | What I thought was just a satellite, with binoculars I see 3 traveling together at the same speed. |
| West des moines, IA | 2000 | Red Light Hovering over West Des Moines Iowa |
| Des moines (east of, 152 mm on i-80), IA | 1999 | 3 YELLOW LIGHTS SIMILAR TO STARS IN SKY, APPEARED TO BE IN A TYPE OF DOG FIGHT. THEY WOULD COME TOGETHER AND THEN FLY APPART. |
| Des moines, IA | 1999 | Looked like shooting star, Except they had no tail, went from south horizion to north horizion at a very high rate of speed |
| Des moines, IA | 1999 | What looked like a star was moving to the north for a duration of 15 seconds before being blocked out by some high clouds. |
| Des moines, IA | 1998 | It made no sound, but you could see the rear was lit up like a jet and it was as if it was looking for something. |
| Des moines, IA | 1996 | my friend and i saw a blurry white shape, 'bobbing' far off in a blue sky. we got the binoculars and with those saw that it was a class |
| Des moines, IA | 1993 | My diesel engine saved me? |
| Des moines, IA | 1989 | craft hovering over Des Moines River in Iowa |
| Des moines, IA | 1978 | Boomerang shape many light made no sound. |
| Des moines, IA | 1977 | never made a sound |
| Des moines, IA | 1968 | a strange but non frigtening evet |