By Tim Binnall
A motorist in Iowa was left mystified when he glanced out his window and spotted an odd glowing orb hovering in the night sky. The strange sighting reportedly occurred this past Tuesday evening as witness Jacob Ferrell was driving through the city of Des Moines. "It was like an eyeball-looking UFO," he recalled to TV station KCCI, "I don't know what to make of it." Fortunately, Ferrell had the wherewithal to capture some of the sighting with his cell phone. "It was kind of just hovering there in the sky just standing still," he marveled, "it was just too weird."
Although he suspected that the object might have been something related to SpaceX, Farrell ultimately conceded that he had no idea what the anomaly was. An attempt by KCCI to get to the bottom of the mystery left them without any answers from the FAA. The witness did, however, submit his sighting to the National UFO reporting center and director Peer Davenport told the TV station that "I have no reason to believe it is an alien spacecraft."
As for what the object might have been, setting aside the extraterrestrial hypothesis, prosaic possibilities include a misidentified celestial object or perhaps an aircraft leaving or departing the city. That down-to-earth take was echoed by KCCI weatherman Chris Gloninger, who amusingly assessed the footage and concluded that the 'UFO' was "a dirty windshield and maybe a plane." That said, as of now, the object seen in the sky over Des Moines remains a mystery. What do you think Ferrell saw? Share your best guess with us at the C2C Facebook page.