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Lake Bonita · NM, USA
It landed and lit up the mountian like day. there were some sort of peoplw with lights that where they put them it wasa like daylight.
Strathmore · CA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Strathmore, California, reported a disk-shaped object in the sky, observed for about four minutes before it moved out of sight.
Castle Rock · WA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Castle Rock, Washington, reported a large cigar-shaped object with evenly spaced windows drifting silently over treetops at night, for about 30 seconds.
Gardner Lake (Extreme northeastern US) · ME, USA
Craft desending ,from high rate of speed to a very slow speed, traveling across Gardner Lake - Landeed on east side of lake
Long Beach · CA, USA
As a young man, I would lay out in the yard at night and look at the sky--I often saw an object moving at night speed, very high, no no
Nort Sutton (resort area near) · NH, USA
In July 1959, a witness near North Sutton, New Hampshire, reported a small cloud-like object with a blinking light in a clear sky, visible for about 15 seconds.
New Albany · IN, USA
Cigar shaped object hovered in the sky
Worcester · MA, USA
In July 1959, a witness in Worcester, Massachusetts, reported a strange object in the sky, with a similar sighting reported the same day on Long Island, New York.
Salem · OH, USA
In 1959, a witness in Salem, Ohio, reported four huge, white-yellow disk-shaped objects moving in a shifting pattern high in the sky at great speed, over about an hour.
Fort Lauderdale · FL, USA
In 1959, a witness in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, reported two star-like lights converging upward and appearing to merge into one, over about two to three minutes.
Allendale · KY, USA
In 1959, a witness in Allendale, Kentucky, reported a light moving very fast across the sky, an event that reportedly lasted about five minutes.
Wabash River (on) · IN, USA
Metallic object up close
Orange · CT, USA
In 1959, a witness in Orange, Connecticut, reported sighting a cylindrical craft and what appeared to be its descent toward the ground, over about an hour.
Nashville · TX, USA
In 1959, a witness in Nashville, Texas, reported an object resembling a star in the daytime sky that, when photographed, appeared triangular, over about fifteen minutes.
Sidney · OH, USA
Saw a bright light shining down. Pulled over to the side of I75 and watched it about 5 min. before it took off very quickly heading ea
Nelson · NE, USA
this was told to me from the man who seen the object. it was after a softball game in the summer of 1959. he was in the country going h
Arvada · CO, USA
In 1959, a witness in Arvada, Colorado, reported a small, round object at high altitude near the Rocky Flats site, visible in the sky for about an hour.
Monroe · MI, USA
In 1959, a witness in Monroe, Michigan, reported three objects flying at very high altitude performing unusual maneuvers, observed over about thirty minutes.
Missoula (event at Superior) · MT, USA
In 1959, a witness near Superior, Montana, described twenty consecutive nights of encounters with unidentified figures, including what they called apparent abduction attempts.
Minneapolis · MN, USA
Silver Bullet
Campbell · CA, USA
3 glowing disc shaped objects
Buffalo · WV, USA
In 1959, witnesses in Putnam County near Buffalo, West Virginia, reported two lights colliding or merging in the night sky, with debris said to be found the next day.
Minneapolis · MN, USA
Flying while in the Marine Corps in a AD Skuraider & with a wing man, at apprx 6,000 ft observed Four Red cly objects estimating at 20,
Seaford · Long Island, NY, USA
huge circular craft, had a dome with red lights at bottom ; flying at level of top of a telephone pole, turned 90 degrees in an instant