UFO Sightings in the 1960s
1,727 UFO sightings reported during the 1960s, peaking in 1968 (288 reports); most often described as disk.
- Total sightings
- 1,727
- Span
- 1960–1969
- Peak year
- 1968 (288 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Disk
1960–1969 · peak 1968 (288 reports)
Bishop · CA, USA
Bright light several thousand feet over the Owens Valley near Bishop, California. Attacked by airplanes and left at high speed
Livingston · NJ, USA
Livingston NJ UFO sighting, Time stopped!
Taylor · MI, USA
A witness near Detroit Metro Airport in Taylor, Michigan reported a three-foot transparent, capsule-shaped object traveling at treetop height in June 1968, during a one-minute sighting.
Allentown · PA, USA
Craft and Crew sighted
Pittsburgh · PA, USA
Pilots, Air Force officers, and tower personnel reportedly observed a bright object hovering over a radar site near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in June 1968, during a thirty-minute sighting.
Wytheville · VA, USA
A witness in Wytheville, Virginia reported a domed, disk-shaped object with lights around its rim hovering close to the ground with a loud humming sound, in June 1968, for about ten minutes.
Brevard · NC, USA
Four witnesses in Brevard, North Carolina reported an orange, glowing, silent mass of light flying past them in June 1968, during a sighting that lasted about five minutes.
Mariposa · CA, USA
A witness in Mariposa, California reported red lights shining into the back of their car in June 1968, comparing the effect to police lights, during a ten-minute encounter.
Mojave Desert · CA, USA
It was a summer night. I had gone camping with my dog to a mountain elevation (Placerita Canyon)north of LA. The stars were very bright
Garden Valley · CA, USA
Three witnesses on a forested road in Garden Valley, California reported a saucer-shaped object hovering about 100 feet above their car in June 1968; the report surfaced eight years later.
Salt Lake City · UT, USA
Utah U F O
Fairfield · IA, USA
A witness in Fairfield, Iowa reported a huge object, 100 to 150 feet across and resembling a chrome-colored deflated balloon, moving slowly overhead in June 1968 for about five minutes.
York · PA, USA
Egg shaped object lit-up like the moon.
Badlands · SD, USA
On a clear night in the Badlands, South Dakota, witnesses reported two objects tracing a large circle in the sky before disappearing at high speed in June 1968, during a ninety-second sighting.
Upper Lisle · NY, USA
A witness in Upper Lisle, New York reported a silent, slow-moving, dark gray triangular object with three lights at each corner in June 1968, observed for one to two minutes.
Honolulu · HI, USA
it was a night that was extremly dark, my friend mark and I were playing army, and I rolled under neith a parked car, and rolled back o
Wyoming · MN, USA
I sent this in the other day tothe national reporting site as well....My brothers and I and other friends have saw ufo's in the area ov
Sanchez (Dominican Republic) · Dominican Republic
A disk-shaped object was reported near Sanchez, Dominican Republic in June 1968; the original report was submitted in Spanish and described a sighting lasting about one hour.
Cottonwood · AZ, USA
It was dusk and still very warm, so my family and I went out on our porch to cool off. The porch faced west toward Mingus Mountain, we
Thurmont · MD, USA
I've been visited many times but I can't remember anything , other than they mean us no harm.
Bong Son (Viet Nam) · Viet Nam
According to a witness account, Navy fighter jets over Bong Son, Vietnam reportedly encountered unidentified objects in June 1968 during an encounter lasting about half an hour.
Harahan · LA, USA
A witness in Harahan, Louisiana reported a huge bright light in June 1968 that descended from the sky before suddenly shooting off at an angle and disappearing.
Burien/Vancouver · WA, USA
2 differnt people 47 years later aggreing meeting on a game and chat sight seeing the same thing
Whittier · CA, USA
A sphere of blue/white light/energy descended from the night sky to just outside my window. It was 8-10" and brissling with an electri
Chicago · IL, USA
I've have seen a real alien up close.