爱荷华州‎巨型乌鸦（Giant crow in Iowa）是指于2009年10月中旬在爱荷华州由科利尔和其室友所目击到的神秘动物。这种生物被描述为一种体型异常巨大的乌鸦，它们的翼展可达八英尺，飞行速度极快。

以下是目击者科利尔的叙述：

“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)开车向西，去前往我的家乡和家人团聚。在上午10点左右，太阳就在我们的身后。那里的乡村和爱荷华州中部大部分地区一样，这里过去是玉米地，但是玉米已经被收割了，我们路过的田地里到处都是干了的、断了的玉米秆。”
‎“我眼角的动静吸引了我的注意力，我转过身来，并且看到了一只巨大的黑鸟正在低飞——那东西离地面有5到6英尺远——并且飞行速度极快，那东西飞过了我们右边的田野，也就是高速公路的南边。当在我们向西行驶的时候，它正在朝西南方向飞去，而且它几乎是直接从汽车上方飞过去的。当我第一次看到它时，它离我们还不到20英尺。”
‎“看看那个！"我对我的室友说，我指着它并放慢了脚步。他也看见了这只生物，问道："那是一只什么样的鸟？它很大！‎”除了大小之外，它在所有方面看起来都和乌鸦或渡鸦一模一样，但它要大得多，而且它的飞行速度比我所见过的任何一种鸟都要快很多。当它以一个远离我们的角度飞行时，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，我能与它进行比较。”
怪物的翼展可达八英尺，和我之前观察到的任何其他大型鸟类都不同，这只鸟拍打翅膀的速度是非常快的。当我看到它的时候，我就放慢了速度，当它飞了大约100码的时候。当它离开我们时，它转向正西，与我们的路线平行，几乎与汽车保持一致，基本上是在为我们踱步约四分之一英里。”
“我看到了它的身体侧面，这肯定了我对这种生物的第一印象，它看起来就像一只巨大的乌鸦或渡鸦一样。我曾经见过金雕和秃鹰是如何飞行的，但那家伙肯定不是它们其中的任何一只。我们谈到它飞得有多快，我看了一下速度表——我们的速度是每小时34英里远，它和我们的车并驾齐放。然后它突然飞升，飞过了田野边缘的一排茂密的树木，然后又降落了另一边，我们就看不见它了。”

参考

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