愛荷華州?巨型烏鴉（Giant crow in Iowa）是指于2009年10月中旬在愛荷華州由科利爾和其室友所目擊到的神秘動物。這種生物被描述為一種體型異常巨大的烏鴉，它們的翼展可達(dá)八英尺，飛行速度極快。

以下是目擊者科利爾的敘述：

“I was driving with good friend and roommate [name withheld] headed west, bound for my hometown for a reunion. It was mid-morning and the sun was behind us. The countryside there, like most of central Iowa, was/is cornfields, but the corn had been picked and the fields we were passing were just full of dried, broken cornstalks.”
“Movement in the corner of my eye attracted my attention and I turned to see a huge black bird flying low – 5 to 6 feet above the ground – and fast, over the field to our right, that is, on the south side of the highway. It was flying to the southwest as we drove due west, and it had to have just flown almost directly over the car. When I first saw it, it was no more than 20 feet from us.”
“Look at that!” I said to my roomate, pointing and slowing way down. He saw it and asked, “what kind of a bird is THAT? Its huge!” In all aspects other than size it looked exactly like a crow or raven, but much larger, and it was flying faster than I’ve ever seen either of those birds fly. I had a good view of its wingspan as it flew at an angle away from us, and a decent scale in the rows of 2-3 ft tall corn stubble to compare it to.”
“The wings spanned approx. 8 feet, and unlike other large birds I’ve observed flying before, this one was flapping its wings very rapidly. I had slowed down when I saw it and when it got about 100 yds. away from us it turned due west and paralleled our route, staying right with the car, essentially pacing us for about 1/4 mile.”
“I saw it in profile then, and this affirmed my first impression that it looked exactly like a huge crow or raven. I have seen golden and bald eagles in flight and it was not either of those. We remarked on how fast it was flying and I checked the speedometer – we were doing 34 mph and it was staying neck in neck with our vehicle. It suddenly climbed then and swooped over a heavy line of trees at the edge of the field then, then dropped down on the other side of them and we lost sight of it.”
?“我和我的好朋友兼室友(不愿透露姓名)開車向西，去前往我的家鄉(xiāng)和家人團(tuán)聚。在上午10點左右，太陽就在我們的身后。那里的鄉(xiāng)村和愛荷華州中部大部分地區(qū)一樣，這里過去是玉米地，但是玉米已經(jīng)被收割了，我們路過的田地里到處都是干了的、斷了的玉米稈?！?br>?“我眼角的動靜吸引了我的注意力，我轉(zhuǎn)過身來，并且看到了一只巨大的黑鳥正在低飛——那東西離地面有5到6英尺遠(yuǎn)——并且飛行速度極快，那東西飛過了我們右邊的田野，也就是高速公路的南邊。當(dāng)在我們向西行駛的時候，它正在朝西南方向飛去，而且它幾乎是直接從汽車上方飛過去的。當(dāng)我第一次看到它時，它離我們還不到20英尺?！?br>?“看看那個！"我對我的室友說，我指著它并放慢了腳步。他也看見了這只生物，問道："那是一只什么樣的鳥？它很大！?”除了大小之外，它在所有方面看起來都和烏鴉或渡鴉一模一樣，但它要大得多，而且它的飛行速度比我所見過的任何一種鳥都要快很多。當(dāng)它以一個遠(yuǎn)離我們的角度飛行時，我很清楚地看到了它的翼展，在一排2-3英尺高的玉米茬中，我能與它進(jìn)行比較?！?br>怪物的翼展可達(dá)八英尺，和我之前觀察到的任何其他大型鳥類都不同，這只鳥拍打翅膀的速度是非常快的。當(dāng)我看到它的時候，我就放慢了速度，當(dāng)它飛了大約100碼的時候。當(dāng)它離開我們時，它轉(zhuǎn)向正西，與我們的路線平行，幾乎與汽車保持一致，基本上是在為我們踱步約四分之一英里。”
“我看到了它的身體側(cè)面，這肯定了我對這種生物的第一印象，它看起來就像一只巨大的烏鴉或渡鴉一樣。我曾經(jīng)見過金雕和禿鷹是如何飛行的，但那家伙肯定不是它們其中的任何一只。我們談到它飛得有多快，我看了一下速度表——我們的速度是每小時34英里遠(yuǎn)，它和我們的車并駕齊放。然后它突然飛升，飛過了田野邊緣的一排茂密的樹木，然后又降落了另一邊，我們就看不見它了。”

參考

1. ^Monstrous Crow Sighted in Iowa?https://nationalcryptidsociety.org/2017/09/16/ncs-case-file-49/