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)
Rangely · CO, USA
Introduction
Pineville · KY, USA
A witness near Pineville, Kentucky reported a humming noise and a shaking house around 2 a.m. on May 10, 1964, in an event lasting about 15 minutes.
Vancouver (Canada) · BC, Canada
When I was babysitting my brother and sister in Vancouver we heard a sound that was loud and deep-so loud we ran outside to find the so
Hardwick · VT, USA
Two witnesses in Hardwick, Vermont reported three saucer-shaped objects flying in formation toward the south, in a sighting lasting about five minutes in May 1964.
Texarkana (outside city limits) · AR, USA
A witness outside Texarkana, Arkansas reported a large disk-shaped object resting on the ground along a country road in daylight, lasting about five minutes, May 1964.
Covina · CA, USA
A witness in Covina, California described a slowly rotating, metallic, cigar-shaped object flying at low altitude during daylight in May 1964, lasting about five minutes.
Covina/West Covina · CA, USA
A witness in Covina, California reported a tumbling, cigar-shaped object on May 15, 1964, corroborating an earlier account, in a sighting that lasted about 10 minutes.
Walden · VT, USA
A witness in Walden, Vermont reported a large, silver, cigar-shaped object in the sky in May 1964, in a sighting lasting about two minutes.
Miami · FL, USA
It was 1963-64, I was 8-9 years old. It was just getting dark and we saw a very bright star in the north sky. It then turned into a clo
Valley Station · KY, USA
A witness in Valley Station, Kentucky reported a close-range view of an oval or disk-shaped object in the spring of 1964, in a sighting lasting about seven minutes.
Bancroft · MI, USA
We were surrounded by these UFOs.
Seattle (80miles west of) · WA, USA
Many sighting in the sky
Beirut (Lebanon) · Lebanon
UFO was travling east to west , 500 feet altitude ,speed was about 75 / h,it was metalic color with three antinas . it was the size of
Bristow · OK, USA
Childhood vision of a gray.
Cherry Valley · CA, USA
A young girl in Cherry Valley, California reported waking to lights and seeing a circular object in March 1964, in a sighting lasting about 20 minutes.
Fries · VA, USA
A witness in Fries, Virginia described a silent, heavy-looking metallic, cylindrical object moving slowly against the wind on a sunny March morning in 1964, lasting about 30 minutes.
Oscoda · MI, USA
A witness in Oscoda, Michigan reported circular objects seen repeatedly in the sky, describing a February 1964 sighting that lasted about five minutes.
El Cerrito (over Old Berkeley dump) · CA, USA
A witness near the old Berkeley dump in El Cerrito, California reported a fireball in the sky in January 1964, lasting about two minutes, with no air crashes reported that night.
Frankford · WV, USA
Strobe lights and entities on ground.
Omaha · NE, USA
Observing the first orbits of Echo 2 radar-reflective satellite through a 50 power telescope, I saw a "lesser light" perhaps spherical,
Cave Springs · GA, USA
In 1864, prior to airplanes, a white object was observed about half a mile high and moving rapidly toward the south.
Cave Spring · GA, USA
This is a UFO report by a respected Confederate soldier during the Civil War.
Rome · GA, USA
An unmistakable sighting of a silent craft that followed us for 3miles, stopped hovered and accelerated out of sight straight up.
Engelwood Cliffs · NJ, USA
A witness on Route 9W in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey reported a row of bright rectangular windows with no visible surrounding structure, lasting about three minutes, November 1963.
Thunder Bay (Canada) · ON, Canada
This was not a UFO