PERRY, Iowa — You may have seen those videos showing what look like UFO's captured by the U.S. military over the past few years.
But back in the 60's, Perry resident Beverly Trout had her own close encounter.
"As it got directly across the road from us, it changed direction and headed off very fast away from us," Trout said as she recalled seeing what she describes as a small over her dairy farm.
It would take a couple of decades, however, for the out-of-this-world to become her whole world.
"My phone rings rather frequently. And, you know, I'm in ongoing conversations with witnesses.
The amateur investigator now keeps files of hundreds of reported sightings. Many have been in Iowa.
Trout showed Local 5 some of the photographic evidence of what she believes are UFOs from other worlds.
In recent years, she feels her work has gotten more validation as the U.S. military has confirmed video of what they call unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAPs, are authentic.
U.S. Congress, this month, is expected to receive a report from the intelligence community about what's known about UAPs.
Greg Anderson, director of the Mutual UFO Network in Iowa, or MUFON, a civilian organization that investigates UFO sightings isn't expecting much.
"We've known all this stuff all along, and there's very little that's really going to come out of this. There is because there are layers in the report. There's classified layers and then unclassified, and the only thing that we're going to see is the unclassified version of this," said Anderson.
Trout, on the other hand, believes regardless of what the report reveals, it's still important.
"We should rather objectively look at that and sort it out and understand that we in the public have a role to play here. As far as beginning to understand, frankly, we're not high man on the totem pole in the universe--as far as technology is concerned," Trout said.