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)
Boise · ID, USA
Light landing on runway, traveling past end zone, travelling overland over roadless area then turning to merge into freeway traffice
none · MI, USA
daylight disk at 200 meters.
Glendale · AZ, USA
Witnesses in Glendale, Arizona, reported a silent white spherical light that appeared around 11 p.m., approached to within about a foot of a witness's face, then flew off, in June 1967.
Peoria · IL, USA
Witnesses in Peoria, Illinois, reported two or three disk-shaped objects flying in formation during daylight, which then shot away quickly, in a sighting lasting several minutes in June 1967.
Columbus · OH, USA
Witnesses in Columbus, Ohio, reported a large lighted object emerging from the northern sky, passing about fifty feet from their driveway, in a sighting dated to June 1967.
Kansas city · KS, USA
Witnesses in Wyandotte County, Kansas, near Kansas City, reported an object resembling an aircraft that appeared suspended motionless in midair, in a sighting reported for 1967.
Lander · WY, USA
Witnesses in Lander, Wyoming, reported unusual lights in the sky during a sighting lasting five to ten minutes in June 1967, though few further details were recorded.
Oakwood (Dayton) · OH, USA
In the forty years since, I have yet to see anything that will explain away what I witnessed in the middle of the night.
Saugas · CA, USA
In 1967 I am a little kid now. I am sleeping I am awoke by movement. I am so scared what is on my bed, something is moving.
Goleta · CA, USA
A witness in Goleta, California, near Santa Barbara, described being pursued by humanoid figures during an encounter lasting about three hours in 1967.
Jacksonville · NC, USA
Students in Jacksonville, North Carolina, reported a circular object floating above their school gymnasium during a 20-second sighting in June 1967.
Pine River · MN, USA
Grays i seen when a small child
Weirton · WV, USA
Witnesses near Weirton, West Virginia, west of Pittsburgh, reported a green, glowing spherical object during a sighting lasting one to three minutes in the summer of 1967.
Waterford · PA, USA
My mother and her sister, now in their late 50's went to a field together when they were under ten years of age. They lived on farm lan
Portmouth · RI, USA
Witnesses in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, reported a luminous, tilted disk-shaped object surrounded by a hazy aura during a five-minute sighting in June 1967.
Reidsville · NC, USA
Witnesses in Reidsville, North Carolina, reported a round, ball-like object with red and yellow streaks moving over treetops during a 15-minute sighting in June 1967.
Slidell · LA, USA
I appreciate this forum to report what I saw. I was a young lad who went outside to feed the dog in the back yard. While walking back t
Lansing · KS, USA
Silent light darts to avoid collision.
Schofield Barracks · HI, USA
Witnesses near Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, reported a luminescent, disk-shaped object traveling at extremely high speed over the ocean during a brief five-to-eight-second sighting in June 1967.
Aiken · SC, USA
Witnesses in Aiken, South Carolina, reported a silent, metallic oval-shaped object about 2,000 feet overhead with four oscillating lights, during a three-minute sighting in June 1967.
out at sea east coast U.S. · Unknown
A U.S. Navy ship crew reported an unidentified light object while at sea off the U.S. East Coast, during a sighting lasting a few hours in 1967.
Ft. Lewis · WA, USA
We noticed three points of light that came together to form a triangle, hovered there, and then streaked off in different directions.
Vandenberg AFB · CA, USA
Witnesses at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, reported a disk-shaped object approaching from the Pacific Ocean and hovering over a Minuteman missile silo during a sighting in June 1967.
Glenview · IL, USA
Witnesses in Glenview, Illinois, reported a large ball of light hovering above a road, observed by an estimated 25 to 30 people during a sighting lasting 15 minutes or more in 1967 or 1968.
Olongapo (Philippines) · Philippines
The bottom was straight and the top was round like a half shaped moon. ((NUFORC Note: Air Traffic Controller report. PD))