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)
Decatur · AL, USA
Strange light shivered across sky, stopped overhead, tried to land, stopped, and then took off out of sight in 2 seconds.
Tacoma · WA, USA
Witnesses in Tacoma, Washington, reported black, half-sphere-shaped objects arranged in a triangular formation during a sighting lasting one to two minutes in June 1967.
Cedar Rapids · IA, USA
Bright-as-chrome object hovering
Camelon (UK/Scotland) · United Kingdom
Sphere
El Paso · TX, USA
Witnesses in El Paso, Texas, reported two light objects that appeared to dock and stay together for about ten minutes before separating and gaining altitude, in a sighting in June 1967.
Poteau · OK, USA
Witnesses in Poteau, Oklahoma, reported a light that changed color while darting back and forth across the sky during a 15-minute sighting in June 1967.
Thomasville · GA, USA
Two witnesses in Thomasville, Georgia, reported a barbell-shaped object in a clear daytime sky at low altitude during a six-minute sighting in June 1967.
DeSoto · KS, USA
An anonymous witness in DeSoto, Kansas, reported a fast-moving light traveling in straight-line paths across the northern sky during a brief ten-second sighting in June 1967.
Kent · WA, USA
IN THE SUMMER OF 1967 I saw a saucer at 35 feet above my car! I saw things that were were concidered impossable for that time period.
Powell · OH, USA
A witness in Powell, Ohio, reported a disk-shaped object hovering directly overhead while walking alone at night, during a sighting lasting about two hours in June 1967.
Highway · AZ, USA
A witness reported a circular object over a highway somewhere between Utah and Southern California, in a sighting lasting about 30 minutes in 1967, filed years after the event.
Detroit · MI, USA
Witnesses in Detroit, Michigan, reported a large, metallic ball-shaped object hovering low in the air before moving away at high speed, during a one-minute sighting in June 1967.
China Lake · CA, USA
a silver sphere was filmed with a high speed tracking camera with data bar the sphere was 30 ft in diamer flying at 1900mph at a range
Edison · NJ, USA
the object was one color.orange
Glens Falls · NY, USA
Passed over our backyard
Oak Ridge · TN, USA
Red Sphere in Oak Ridge.
Arbuckle · CA, USA
At dusk in 1966 or 67, three lights in formation or triangular craft with no visible substance floated silently into the West.
Salt Lake City · UT, USA
In June of 1967 while waiting in our car to get into a drive-in movie a saucer shaped craft hovered between us and the Wasatch Mountain
Oak Ridge · TN, USA
Witnesses in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, reported five or six diffusely white-lit spherical objects arranged in a concentric pattern, hovering overhead during a two-minute sighting in June 1967.
Lake Magog (Canada) · QC, Canada
Fast moving white object zig-zags across lake stops beside tree top (orange saucer) for a short time then shoots into sky.
St. Williams (Canada) · ON, Canada
Witnesses near St. Williams, Ontario, Canada, reported a cigar-shaped object with red and green lights running from end to end before it vanished, during a 30-second sighting in June 1967.
Savannah · GA, USA
Witnesses in Savannah, Georgia, reported five orange, glowing spherical objects arranged in a line above the treetops during a three-to-four-minute sighting in June 1967.
Baker · OR, USA
Witnesses in Baker, Oregon, reported a disk-shaped object with differently colored revolving lights during a 30-minute sighting in June 1967.
High Point State Park · NJ, USA
2 glowing discs
Fairfield · CA, USA
I believe