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)
Webster City · IA, USA
Witnesses near Webster City, Iowa, reported two silent, slow-moving red spherical objects that suddenly accelerated and vanished from sight during a two-minute sighting in December 1966.
Valley Forge · PA, USA
Ball decending toward home about 50 yds. away and about 50 ft. high..Son panicked and ran into house thinking it was a plane about to c
Phoenixville · PA, USA
mind blowing speeding discs.
Salem · OR, USA
Witnesses in Salem, Oregon, reported strange orange lights moving silently through the night sky during a brief 30-second sighting in December 1966.
Trinidad (location unspecified) · Trinidad
LIQUID
Rockford · IL, USA
Close encounter experience. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes
Hammond · IN, USA
Witnesses in the Hessville area of Hammond, Indiana, reported a triangular object with flashing lights during a one-minute sighting around late 1966 or 1967.
North Dade County · FL, USA
Crestview Elementary, North Dade County, Florida circa 1966/1967. Second-hand account of taped interview with eye witness
Opa Locka · FL, USA
Witnesses in Opa-Locka, Florida, reported two oblong, cylinder-shaped flying objects in 1966, with accounts describing that military personnel were called to the scene.
Miami · FL, USA
In response for information about the event at Crestview Elementary I can confirm the event did happen. I lived on the same street abou
Opa Locka · FL, USA
Witnesses reported a disk-shaped object over Crestview Elementary School in Opa-Locka, Florida, sometime between late morning and early afternoon around 1966.
Opa Locka · FL, USA
Multiple reports describe chevron-shaped objects hovering over an elementary school in Opa-Locka, Florida, for extended periods around 1966, though few first-hand details survive.
Opa Locka · FL, USA
2 oval shaped ufo’s.
Kodiak Naval Station · AK, USA
I cannot find reports from Elmendorf AFB concerning bogies near the Anchorage area where our radio relay crew working the old White Ali
Seattle · WA, USA
Driving around after swingshift to relax. Drove by familiar watertower; a red, flashing light caught my eye--to bright for the tower li
Hempstead · NY, USA
Other, moving starlike cluster
Jacksonville · FL, USA
It was between 3 and 5 am in my backyard when i went to let dog out. I was staring at the constellation Cassiopeia and then turned my a
Corpus Christi · TX, USA
I saw an oval shaped object that stood in the air and made square turns and left almost straight up at thousands of miles per hour. I
Hinckley · OH, USA
I was getting ready for school and I had to wear a tie that day, so I went into my parents’ room to borrow one from my father's selecti
Huntington Beach · CA, USA
Witnesses in Huntington Beach, California, reported a ring of blue lights roughly 200 feet in diameter flying slowly across the night sky at about 500 feet altitude in November 1966.
Winston-Salem · NC, USA
Witnesses in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reported three white lights arranged in a triangular pattern high in the sky, making a sharp 90-degree turn during a sighting in November 1966.
Viet Nam (3 mi. off coast of; aboard ship) · Viet Nam
Witnesses aboard a ship about three miles off the coast of Vietnam reported a disk-shaped object that was observed for about 15 minutes before slowly moving away, in November 1966.
Wanaque · NJ, USA
Witnesses in Wanaque, New Jersey, reported an oval-shaped object gliding at treetop level during a brief ten-second sighting in November 1966, days before a similar report in the same town.
Wanaque · NJ, USA
Witnesses in Wanaque, New Jersey, reported an oval-shaped object floating at treetop level during a 30-second sighting in November 1966.
Edmonton (30 mi. east of · Hwy 16 East) (Canada), AB, Canada
Unusual ights in distance. Approached until object overhead as wide as road and ditch. Bright lights, Turned head to find object in hor