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)
Towaco · NJ, USA
I, and my wife at the time, saw what appeared to be the center star in a star cluster I believed was big bear move in a half circle and
Azores (U.S.S. Monrovia) · Azores
A USO was reported near the Azores by observers aboard the USS Monrovia in May 1968, in the days following the sinking of the submarine USS Scorpion; the sighting lasted about 90 minutes.
Morehead · KY, USA
Silent and fast, the 6 lights in the mountian skies were not normal to any of the 13 witnesses that night in Morehead, KY.
Delta · CO, USA
Slow moving large red spherical object moving in a upward direction over the town. The object then split into two seperate objects and
Savannah · GA, USA
the date above is a guess as it was many years ago - i was headed east oh hyway 80 and saw in the north east sky +/- 7 spherical lights
Gainesville · GA, USA
A teenager driving home from school in Gainesville, Georgia, reported seeing a bright silver cigar-shaped object appear briefly in the air ahead of them in April 1968.
Little Rock · AR, USA
A witness in Little Rock, Arkansas reported a silent, non-reflective cylindrical object in the sky in April 1968, observed for about three minutes before it disappeared from view.
Gainesville · GA, USA
In 1968 a UFP communicated with me that Martin Luther KIng would die and he died four and a half hours later.
Westland · MI, USA
A disk-shaped object was reported over Westland, Michigan, in April 1968 during a two-to-three-minute sighting; the witness noted a possible connection to a later 1982 U.S. Navy account.
Columbia Station (RT. 252) · OH, USA
Was stocking a small fish pound, and seen reflection of three SPHERES in triangle form 50'foot up. They glittered like a disco ball wit
Walla Walla · WA, USA
The object moved up, down, hovered, then left with extreme speed on a huge trajectory up into space. We followed it on a surveyor's tr
Munich (Oberschliessheim Army Airfield) (Germany) · Germany
I was in the military at the time part of withdrawal of the troops from Germany the date of the day might be wrong but it was on the we
Scottsville · KY, USA
Witnesses in Scottsville, Kentucky reported a disk-shaped object with lights hovering over a house in April 1968, observed for five to ten minutes before it left the area.
Overton · NE, USA
A witness near an Interstate 80 offramp in Overton, Nebraska, reported a blue oval object in April 1968 that reportedly caused electrical interference in their car during a three-minute encounter.
Las Vegas · NV, USA
I was sighting in my new telescope I was on Eastern av in LV I turned my telescope in the direction of NNEtoward Nellis AFB it was alm
Silver City (near) · IA, USA
Witnesses near Silver City, Iowa, reported a large white circular light in the sky during a 60-second sighting in April 1968.
New Kensington · PA, USA
Witnesses in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, reported a circular object hovering above the Allegheny River during a ten-minute sighting in the spring of 1968.
New York City · NY, USA
I remember it so well to this day. I was in class getting ready for the day's dismissal time at 3 pm. All of us had our coats on and
Alamosa · CO, USA
I exited my mobile home east of Alamosa at 11:00AM I was carrying a camera because I was teaching Photo Journalism at the local colleg
Los Alamitos · CA, USA
Large red orb with bright red light orbiting around it like radar hovered above me at @100 ft in the air then flew at incredible speed.
Temple · OK, USA
multiple sightings of red lights
Ironwood · MI, USA
Witnesses aboard a Piper Cherokee aircraft near Ironwood, Michigan, reported chasing a small spherical object that led them in a circle before passing below the plane, in February 1968.
McKenzie Bridge · OR, USA
Very unusual disc shaped object observed through a telescope with 7 pinpoint lights rotating around it like the second hand of a clock.
Lawndale · CA, USA
Craft with a portal
Burlington · NJ, USA
On New Year's night in the late 1960s, a witness and their father and two brothers in Burlington, New Jersey, reported observing a circular object during a 20-minute sighting.