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)
Falls Church · VA, USA
round plate like structure
Lawrenceburg · KY, USA
It was a full moon when my brother and I observed 100 yards away for 5 minutes above the tree topics a metalic saucer shaped craft with
HWY 77 (along King Ranch) · TX, USA
A witness driving along Highway 77 near King Ranch, Texas reported white lights following their vehicle in June 1969, during a six-minute sighting.
Sausalito · CA, USA
friend and I were walking between the edge of Richardson bay and highway 101. Must have been between 9 PM and Midnight. it was foggy,
Akron · OH, USA
A witness in Akron, Ohio reported an aerial light performing turns they said were not possible for conventional aircraft, in June 1969, during a ten-second sighting.
Surrey (Canada) · BC, Canada
A witness in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada reported four widely spaced lights that moved rapidly across the sky in June 1969, during a thirty-five-minute sighting.
Athens · NY, USA
A witness in Athens, New York reported a huge, dark rectangular object with some white lights that moved quietly and quickly in June 1969, during a three-minute sighting.
Millbrae · CA, USA
What I saw, I have never told anybody. I watch too much UFO stuff on tv and must tell this story.
Catania (in countryside) (Italy) · Italy
Green cloud in night sky
Orangevale · CA, USA
A witness in Orangevale, California reported an unidentified object in the sky in May or June 1969, during a sighting lasting thirty to forty-five minutes.
Philadelphia · MS, USA
Moon shaped object in pasture
El Paso · TX, USA
An incomplete report given on behalf of another due to a kidnapping situation
Chance · MD, USA
A witness in Chance, Maryland, on the state's Eastern Shore, reported a disk-shaped object in June 1969, during a five-minute sighting.
Windsor · SC, USA
what was this? ufo or NO ? No doubt a ufo back then.,.
Rio Piedras (Puerto Rico) · Puerto Rico
2 lights moving oddly in the night sky
Portland · OR, USA
A witness in Portland, Oregon reported being close enough to a disk-shaped object to throw rocks toward it, describing fear that they had been noticed, during a three-minute sighting in June 1969.
North Wildwood · NJ, USA
A witness in North Wildwood, New Jersey reported a triangular object outlined in red lights that appeared to land in the back bay area in June 1969, during a three-minute sighting.
Whitmore Lake · MI, USA
star like object moving in a east to west directions suddenly stops. Watch object for about 30 secounds when a smaller light drops from
Port Hope (Canada) · ON, Canada
After seeing bright globe over uranium re finery float slowly over Lake Ontario, the object suddenly accerated extremely fast diminishi
Land O'Lakes · FL, USA
A witness in Land O'Lakes, Florida reported a glowing red, cup-and-saucer-shaped object near Tower and Drexel roads in June 1969, during a one-minute sighting.
Boulder · CO, USA
Possible abduction in Colorado in 1969. ((anonymous reports))
Islip · NY, USA
Sightings/Multiple witnesses
Grang junction colorado · CO, USA
Me and brother were walking to the book store on main street and we heard a whistle sound coming from above . We looked up there and sa
Little Rock · AR, USA
no sound or lights
Kent · WA, USA
not remembering past getting out of the car. 500 Lights On Object0: Yes