An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, Larry Hatch, NICAP, Thomas R. Adams, George D. Fawcett, Chris Aubeck, Philip L. Rife, Richard Dolan, and an anonymous individual or group.
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I've split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present.
The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it's important to be aware that this is a timeline of UFO/UAP related events, not necessarily or exclusively UFO sightings. This is not exclusively a UFO sightings timeline or database.
Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature.
Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate "time" fields, but most don't. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields.
A few events don't have firm dates, for example "Summer of 1947", or "Late July 1952". In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.)
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1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969
Date: 1960's
End date: Mid 1980's
Description: ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April
2, 1912 — January 20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of
the first major things he does is discredit “Gerald Light”
Type: research group
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_593
Date: 1960's
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several
atomic fallout maps
Type: secret location
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_594
Date: 1960's (approximate)
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB
Description: Air Force Major: At Wright-Patterson AFB
saw intact UFO, damaged UFO parts, and dead alien bodies preserved under
glass. Stated "We have the proof UFOs are extraterrestrial."
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Leonard
Stringfield's 1978 MUFON Symposium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_985
Date: 1960
Description: The first planar monolithic integrated
circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_592
Date: 1960
End date: 1961
Location: US
Description: Through its spokesman in the Pentagon, Lt.
Col. Lawrence J. Tacker, the Air Force began answering critics of its
UFO program publicly. Late in 1960, Col. Tacker's book "Flying
Saucers and the U.S. Air Force" by Lawrence J. Tacker (Van Nostrand)
was published, with a foreword by General Thomas D. White, Air Force
Chief of Staff. Col. Tacker went on a public tour to publicize the book,
appearing on radio and television, and giving lectures.
Type: book release
Reference: Archive.org: "Flying
Saucers and the U.S. Air Force" by Lawrence J. Tacker
Reference: Amazon:
"Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force" by Lawrence J. Tacker
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_888
Date: 1960
Location: Cincinnati, MI
Description: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot chased
round UFO. [NICAP UFOE, V] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2425
Date: 1960
Locations: Tucson, Arizona; Alamogordo, New
Mexico
Description: Jim
Lorenzen is hired as senior technical associate with the Kitt Peak
National Observatory, so he and Coral move
to Tucson, Arizona, from Alamogordo, New Mexico. On their third day in
Tucson, an “exterminator” visits them, offering to inspect their rented
premises for free. He fails to mention the name of his company, nor does
he seem interested in his occupation. He talks with Coral about their
reason for moving, where Jim is employed, and UFOs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 50; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO
Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976, pp. 3, 251
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3389
Date: 1960
Locations: Mars; Atlantis; Lemuria
Description: Brinsley
Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, publishes The Sky People, in
which he claims that Adam and Eve, Noah, and many other
characters in the Bible originally lived on Mars. Trench believes that
Adam and Eve were experimental creations of extraterrestrials. The
biblical description of the Garden of Eden is inconsistent with what
Earth is like, and because Mars contains canals, the Garden of Eden must
have been located on Mars. He further claims that the north polar ice
cap melted on Mars, causing the descendants of Adam and Eve to move to
Earth. The Book of Genesis is a symbolic version of what actually
happened to groups of people on Mars, he writes, with the Great Deluge
referring to the flooding of Atlantis and Lemuria, which were populated
with Adamic migrants.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brinsley Le Poer Trench, The Sky People, Spearman, 1960;
Jerome Clark, “Vimanas Have Landed: Ancient Astronautics in Ufology,”
IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 26–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3390
Date: 1960
Description: Contactee George
Hunt Williamson legally changes his name to Michel d’Obrenovic, said
to reflect an ancestral connection to the throne of Serbia. However,
John Griffin says the real reason is that Williamson’s sensational
claims have rendered his anthropological work (such as it is) completely
unacceptable.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1287; Zirger and Martinelli, The
Incredible Life of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp.
119–124
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3391
Date: 1960
Locations: Brno; Czech Republic
Description: Night. During a pause in army maneuvers
near Brno [now in the Czech Republic], soldiers see a peculiarly colored
light above the city. After hovering a while, it vanishes but reappears
in another part of the sky. Their commanding officer tells them to look
at it with binoculars and check the radar. Headquarters sends up
interceptors to chase the object, but every time one of them gets near,
the light disappears from the radar screen, only to turn up elsewhere.
The incident goes on for an hour before the light disappears for
good.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 90
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3392
Date: 1960
Description: The invention of transponders that
transmit an electronic identification signal from aircraft to ground
control helps to further reduce clutter on air traffic control radars.
This means that “aerial phenomena” appear on radar only if they intrude
on flight paths and create a near miss of the type investigated by the
Civil Aviation Authority.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke, “Gremlins and Black Projects,”
Fortean Times 291 (August 2012): 26–27; National Air Traffic Controllers
Association, A
History of Air Traffic Control, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3393
Date: 1960
Description: USAF Airman 3rd Class Larry W. Rogers,
3926th Air Police Squadron K-9, states he saw a half dozen glowing UAP
while stationed at Ben Guerir Air Base, Morocco. Rogers states jet
fighters from Zaragoza AFB, Spain were scrambled and began interacting
with the lights. “The UFOs suddenly began moving around really quickly
and erratically.” After the event, Rogers said he and a few companions
who saw the event were told to get into an Air Force sedan, driven to
the headquarters building, put into different rooms and debriefed.
Rogers said they may have been OSI but he wasn’t sure; they threatened
him, told him not to talk, forced him to sign a non-disclosure statement
and shown a regulation “AFR 200-2.”
Note: USAF issued Air Force Regulation 200-2 on 26 August 1953, which restricted UAP reporting procedures and required UAP events to be sent to Air Force Intelligence. It is likely the interrogators were AFOSI, given Rogers recalls seeing AFR 200-2.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_94
Date: Early 1960
Locations: James Connally AFB [now TSTC Waco Airport]
near Waco, Texas; Waco
Description: Night. Vice Chief of Air Staff Gen. Curtis LeMay is
conducting an exercise to test his bombers’ capability to penetrate US
air space. An F-89J Scorpion jet instructor pilot and his radar
observer, 1Lt. Joe Meyer, have just successfully intercepted a B-47 and
are descending to land at James Connally AFB [now TSTC Waco Airport]
near Waco, Texas. They notice a pinpoint of light at their level 12
miles away over Waco and decide to approach and attack it as if they are
armed. As they approach on a collision course, they see the object has
four bright blue- white lights on it and it is stationary. They estimate
it is 25–30 feet in diameter. But the object shoots straight up at
incredible speed before they reach it. They look up and see the object
is bright blue white on its underside. It disappears at about 90,000
feet altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Pilot
Finally Reveals UFO Encounter,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 375 (July
1999): 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3388
Date: 1/1960
Locations: Victoria; Queensland
Description: The first issue of the Australian Flying
Saucer Review is published jointly by the Victorian Flying Saucer
Research Society and UFOIC, edited by Peter E. Norris and Andrew P.
Tomas. It
will continue until December 1972, various issues confusingly sponsored
by each group, plus the Queensland Flying Saucer Research Bureau and the
renamed Victorian UFO Research Society.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Australian
Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 1 (January 1960)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3394
Date: 1/1960
Description: Tests continue with a slightly modified
Avrocar.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Avro
Canada VZ-9 Avrocar” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3395
Date: 1/3/1960
Time: 23:05
Location: McCarran Field, Las Vegas NV
Description: A blue light, which raced silently across
the Las Vegas, Nevada sky, puzzled McCarran Field tower controlmen. "It
was the fastest thing I ever saw," said tower employee Jack McMillen who
spotted the light at about 11:05 p.m. A departing private plane also saw
the object. Earlier that evening, four different pilots in two
commercial airlines planes flying between Bryce Canyon and Mormon Mesa
reported observing a similar light. Their reports of the object to Salt
Lake City were intercepted by the McCarran tower. McMillen said he saw
the light for about two or perhaps three seconds, going north to south
at about a 15-20 degree elevation. He also said he had thought it might
have been a meteor but changed his mind as it left no trail, and had a
horizontal trajectory. He said he contacted a private plane which had
just taken off and asked the pilot for confirmation. The pilot confirmed
McMillen's sighting. An Air Force T-33 inbound to Nellis
AFB also confirmed its pilot had also seen a strange light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Bulletin
- Jan. 1960, Page 3
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_925
Attributes: Nellis
Date: 1/6/1960
Time: 08:00
Location: JACKSON, MI
Description: Several observer(s). Cone saucer going
quickly south / treetop level. Going [to] into cloudbank pointed end
down.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6325
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "282", HatchDesc: "JACKSON,MI:SVRL OBS:CONE SCR >>S/TREETOP Lvl:> INTO CLOUDBANK pointed end down", LatLong: "42.244446 -84.400004", LatLongDMS: "42:14:40 N 84:24:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/18/1960
Time: 11:00
Location: NUWARA ELIYA, SRI LANKA
Description: 3+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars.
Large cylinder/cigar-shape going east / 5 minute(s). 10cm / ARMs length.
No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6326
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected
Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "NUWARA ELIYA,SRI LANKA:3+OBS/BINOCS:LRG CGR >E/5min:10cm/ARMs LENGTH:NFD", LatLong: "6.972223 80.772226", LatLongDMS: "06:58:20 N 80:46:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SRL", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/18/1960
Time: 22:50
Location: US2 9 MILE(S) WEST / LAKOTA, ND
Description: Flash. Car lights dim. Crescent saucer
going down [to] toward(s) field. / r79p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6327
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "465", HatchDesc: "US2 9mi.W/LAKOTA,ND:FLASH:CAR LITES DIM:CRESCENT SCR ↓ twrd FIELD:/r79p17", LatLong: "48.038891 -98.477782", LatLongDMS: "48:02:20 N 98:28:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/18/1960
Location: Lakota (near), ND
Description: Car lights dimmed as UFO descended toward
field, apparently about a mile off highway (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2426
Date: 1/18/1960
Location: Gulf of Mexico, At Sea
Description: Two Radars On B-52 Track UFO At 14,000
Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 600118
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2427
Date: 1/18/1960
Locations: US Highway 2; Lakota, North Dakota
Description: 10:45 p.m. Leo Haley and Bert C. Baker are
driving on US Highway 2, some 9 miles west of Lakota, North Dakota, when
the headlights dim just as a brilliant green flash lights up the sky. In
a field to the north about 1 mile away they can see a 5–6 foot
crescent-shaped object with a 9-foot exhaust tail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Schopick,
p. 69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3396
Date: 1/18/1960
Description: Two men driving in a car, Haley and Baker,
at 10:55 p.m. in Lakota, North Dakota had their car's headlights dim as
a UFO flew nearby. The object flew off towards a field approximately 1.5
kilometers from the highway.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Grand Forks (ND) Herald, January 21, 1960;
USAF Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Mark
Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_367
Date: 1/26/1960
Location: Area 51 in Nevada
Description: Richard
Bissell notifies Kelly
Johnson that the CIA is authorizing the delivery of 12 A-12 aircraft
that will be five times faster than the U-2 and fly three miles higher.
Skunk Works will move into production at Area 51 in Nevada to work on
Project Oxcart. (Wikipedia, “Lockheed A-12”;
Jacobsen, Area 51, pp.
134–135)
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3397
Date: 1/29/1960
Time: 20:00?
Location: URSENBACH, SWZ
Description: Huge torpedo-cylinder/cigar-shape crosses
road / 2M altitude. Horse ignores! Maneuvers / farms.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain
Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6328
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks
Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "URSENBACH,SWZ:HUGE TORPEDO-CGR CROSSES ROAD/2M alt:HORSE IGNORES!:MNVRS/FARMS", LatLong: "47.133336 7.766667", LatLongDMS: "47:08:00 N 07:46:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Berne", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/31/1960
Description: Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist
Dr. Leon Davidson to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret
aircraft” rumors of a Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB.
Type: telegram
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_595
Date: 1/31/1960
Time: 05:00
Location: OFF LAE, PAPUA-NG
Description: 6 / boat. White 14M umbrella sways to and
fro. 4 'windows' / underside. Going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
737)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6329
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off LAE,PAPUA-NG:6/BOAT:WHT 14M UMBRELLA SWAYS TO+FRO:4 'WINDOWS'/UNDERSIDE:↑", LatLong: "-6.783334 147.083340", LatLongDMS: "06:47:00 S 147:05:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PNG", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/31/1960
Description: Six in a boat on the ocean on the coast of
Lae, Papua New Guinea saw a 14 meter diameter umbrella-shaped craft
swaying back and forth in the sky in overcast skies at around five
o'clock in the morning. It had four windows on the underside. It shot up
vertically.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Flying Saucers, May 1962, p. 36; APRO
Bulletin, May 1961
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_634
Date: 2/1960
Description: The US Navy reportedly detects a “dark
satellite” thought to be a Soviet spy satellite in orbit. However, a
follow-up article alleges that the object was “the remains of an Air
Force Discoverer VIII satellite that had gone astray.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Trackers
Spot Mystery Object Orbiting Earth,” Washington \(D.C.) Evening
Star, February 11, 1960; Wikipedia, “Corona
(satellite)”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3398
Date: 2/3/1960
Time: 20:50
Location: INTERVALE, NH
Description: Ex-USCG man. 3 luminous objects in-line. 2
more join. Going quickly northwest fast. / r242p71.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6330
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "167", HatchDesc: "INTERVALE,NH:EX-USCG MAN:3 LUMn.OBJs IN-LINE:2 MORE JOIN:>>NW FAST:/r242p71", LatLong: "44.066669 -71.050003", LatLongDMS: "44:04:00 N 71:03:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/3/1960
Location: Intervale, New Haven, CT
Description: Former Air Force PT Boat Commander watched
UFOs rendezvous, travel in formation. [NICAP UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2428
Date: 2/5/1960
Time: 23:10
Location: HOLLYWOOD, CA
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Invisible
cylinder/cylindrical object with red light west going east stops / 8
minute(s). Same / 6 February. / r242p138.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6331
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "50", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "HOLLYWOOD,CA:100s/OBS:INVSBL CYL W/RED LITE W>E STOPS/8min:SAME/6FEB:/r242p138", LatLong: "34.100002 -118.316672", LatLongDMS: "34:06:00 N 118:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/5/1960
End date: 2/6/1960
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Several witnesses (about 11:15 p.m. each
night) saw a distinct round UFO hover and maneuver slowly (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 600205-06
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2429
Date: 2/5/1960
Description: The office of the AF Chief of Intelligence
is informed of ARDC’s rejection (by Maj. Gen. James
Ferguson) of the ATIC proposal.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saucer
Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3399
Date: 2/5/1960
Location: Sunset Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in
Hollywood, California
Description: 11:15 p.m. Many people see a distinctly
round UFO hover and maneuver slowly over or near the intersection of
Sunset Boulevard and La Brea Avenue in Hollywood, California. Cars are
stopped bumper-to- bumper, according to employees of several businesses
around the intersection, with people gaping at the object overhead.
Persons on hotel and apartment rooftops go out to see a bright
“cherry-red, circular light.” Two service- station attendants at the
intersection, Jerry Darr and Charles Walker, say that “hundreds of
people saw it— everybody was looking” as the light hovers for at least 5
minutes over a busy drive-in. Pen Meyer, another service station
attendant a third of a mile to the north, watches it hovering for about
10 minutes. Harold Sherman, his wife, and two others watch it as it
resumes motion very slowly eastward. After proceeding east for a
distance of a block or two, it veers southeastward and passes out of
sight. No sound is heard over street-noise background.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee case files;
James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3400
Date: 2/6/1960
Locations: Hollywood, California; Sunset Boulevard and
Sycamore Avenue; La Brea Avenue; Sunset and La Brea
Description: 11:15 p.m. The red object reappears over
Hollywood, California, this time about one block further east, above
Sunset Boulevard and Sycamore Avenue. A number of witnesses observe it
hovering for about 10 minutes at an altitude of 500–600 feet. Then with
a loud explosion it emits a brilliant bluish-white flash that extends
downward and to the west, lighting up the ground all around La Brea
Avenue. A mushroom-shaped cloud appears and dissipates. As the red light
is extinguished, an object described by most witnesses as long, tubular,
and about 70 feet long shoots upwards. A few seconds later, the red
light appears about 1,000 feet above Sunset and La Brea for about 8
minutes. It then begins drifting slowly eastward, turns sharply toward
the north-northeast, accelerates and climbs steeply, not stopping again
until it is at a very high altitude well to the north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee case file;
James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 54–57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3401
Date: 2/8/1960
Location: CAPO PASSERO, ITL
Description: Disk sinks 200M offshore. No further
details / Giornale d'Italia 9 / 2 / 60.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri
Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6332
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "CAPO PASSERO,ITL:DISK SINKS 200M OFFSHORE:NFD/Giornale d'Italia 9/2/60", LatLong: "36.683335 15.166667", LatLongDMS: "36:41:00 N 15:10:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/13/1960
Time: 22:00?
Location: GRAND BLANC, MI
Description: Joe Perry photographs domed saucer.
FBI-types seize photograph. / r27p198.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6333
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "256", HatchDesc: "GRAND BLANC,MI:JOE PERRY FOTOS DOMED SCR:FBI-TYPES SEIZE FOTO:/r27p198", LatLong: "42.927780 -83.627782", LatLongDMS: "42:55:40 N 83:37:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 2/13/1960
Time: 07:04:00.0
Location: 27.0000 0.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Air. Country: France Name:
“gerb._bleue”
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1837
Extra Data: LatLong: "27.0000 0.0000", LatLongDMS: "27:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "gerb._bleue", NukeSource: "BOLT", NukeType: "A"
Date: 2/14/1960
Time: 16:40
Location: NOME GOING QUICKLY [TO] ST. MICHAEL, AK
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Silver
cylinder/cigar-shape / 600M altitude going quickly southeast. Curves
going up. / r242p118+/ r151.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
723)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6334
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "3", Elev: "11", HatchDesc: "NOME>>St.MICHAEL,AK:100s/OBS:SLVR CGR/600M alt >>SE:CURVES↑:/r242p118+/r151", LatLong: "64.500003 -165.416675", LatLongDMS: "64:30:00 N 165:25:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/14/1960
Location: Nome, AK
Description: Airline employee, others, saw a silvery
rocket-like object with orange flame trail curving up and away "as if it
were manned and controlled." A similar second UFO was sighted at
Unalakleet moving rapidly NW leaving contrails. [NICAP UFOE, X] (NICAP:
01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2430
Date: 2/14/1960
Description: At 4:40 p.m. a silver cigar-shaped object
streaked through the sky over Nome, Alaska on a curved flight
trajectory. There were four or more witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, March 1960, p. 8,
citing Anchorage Daily News, February 15, 1960; APRO Bulletin,
March-April 1960; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 118,
citing the Fairbanks Daily, February 16, 1960
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_914
Date: 2/15/1960
Time: 23:00?
Location: PACIFIC LONGITUDE & LATITUDE COORDS. =
BIG GUESS
Description: Several brass. 2000' UFO paces flying
tigers plane. RADAR-visual.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 262)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6335
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC LL=BIG GUESS:SVRL BRASS:2000'UFO PACES FLYING TIGERS PLANE:RDR-VISUAL", LatLong: "28.850001 131.750006", LatLongDMS: "28:51:00 N 131:45:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/16/1960
Time: 09:20
Location: LAGUNA BEACH, CA
Description: Chemist. White ovoid going quickly east.
Wobbles until 2nd object joins. / r114p119.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6336
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "11", HatchDesc: "LAGUNA BEACH,CA:CHEMIST:WHT OVOID >>E:WOBBLES until 2nd OBJ JOINS:/r114p119", LatLong: "33.544446 -117.766672", LatLongDMS: "33:32:40 N 117:46:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 2/16/1960
Location: Laguna Beach, CA
Description: Retired chemical manufacturing company
executive observed rendezvous of two oval UFOs. [NICAP UFOE, VII]
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2431
Date: 2/17/1960
Time: 16:20
Location: NEW MARTINSVILLE, WV
Description: 2 observer(s). Fireball or black Saturn
saucer with light ring blows smoke / rear.
Type: sighting
Reference: TEETS, Bob: WEST VIRGINIA UFO's; Headline
Books, PO Box 52, Terra Alta, WV 1995 213pp. (Index 82)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6337
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "191", HatchDesc: "NEW MARTINSVILLE,WV:2 OBS:FBL or BLK SATURN SCR W/LITE RING BLOWS SMOKE/REAR", LatLong: "39.644446 -80.861115", LatLongDMS: "39:38:40 N 80:51:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 2/17/1960
Description: Hynek writes
to Brig. Gen. Benjamin
G. Holzman at ARDC in the hopes of interesting him in assessing UFO
reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saucer
Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3402
Date: 2/17/1960
Description: A grayish black Saturn-shaped disc with
exhaust cruised the tops of the hills in New Martinsville, West
Virginia. A lighter-colored ring on the object emitted smoke from rear
end.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bob Teets, West Virginia UFOs: Close
Encounters in the Mountain State, p. 82
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_961
Date: 2/22/1960
Time: 17:30
Location: SARNIA, ON
Description: 5 observer(s). 2 groups / white saucers /
different ALTs beam lights going down. Dynamo sound. / r70p3-69.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6338
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "186", HatchDesc: "SARNIA,ON:5 OBS:2 GRPs/WHT SCRS/DIFF.ALTs BEAM LITES ↓:DYNAMO SOUND:/r70p3-69", LatLong: "43.000002 -82.400004", LatLongDMS: "43:00:00 N 82:24:00 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 2/27/1960
Time: 18:30
Location: ROME AIR FORCE BASE, NY
Description: 5 Air Traffic Controllers. Night light
trails white fan shape. Slow 3-4 minute(s) descent. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS;
(FUFOR). (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6339
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "4", Elev: "154", HatchDesc: "ROME AFB,NY:5 ATCs:NLT TRAILS WHT FAN SHAPE:SLOW 3-4min DESCENT:NFD", LatLong: "43.211113 -75.455559", LatLongDMS: "43:12:40 N 75:27:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 2/27/1960
Location: Rome AFB, NY
Description: Light trailing a white fan shape make a
mild descent (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6663)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2432
Date: 2/27/1960
Time: 6:27 PM
Location: Rome AFB, New York
Description: Witnesses: control tower officer Capt. J.
Huey and four other tower operators. One light trailing a white fan
shape, made a mild descent for 3-4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_445
Date: 2/27/1960
Description: NICAP sends photocopies of O’Keefe’s
1959 “UFOs Serious Business” memo to the media and to committees in the
House and Senate, calling for congressional hearings. NICAP Board member
Rear Adm. Roscoe
Hillenkoetter adds a statement: “Behind the scenes, high-ranking AF
officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official
secrecy [AFR 200-2] and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the
unknown flying objects are nonsense.” NICAP board member Albert
Baller writes: “If the UFOs are believed a threat, it would seem
incumbent on the armed forces to waste no time in alerting the people.
Any sudden, hostile act against a nation left in relative ignorance
could have serious consequences.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “UFO
Warning Issued: Flying Objects
‘Now Serious Business,’” Lincoln \(Neb.) Journal Star, February 27,
1960, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman
of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The Author,
2003, p. 37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3403
Date: 2/27/1960
Description: A nocturnal light trailed after a white,
fan-shaped UFO in the skies over Rome AFB, New York at 6:27 p.m. Five
military witnesses including control tower officer Capt. J. Huey and
four other tower operators witnessed the two UFOs. They moved slowly in
a three to four minute descent.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted
in official statistics, case #6663; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1150
Date: 3/1960
Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by
Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
Type: article
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_596
Date: 3/1960
Location: SOUTHWEST / GORDONSVILLE, VA
Description: 2 airliner crews. Huge wingless fuselage
going quickly southwest / 6000 mph. / MJ#263.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot
Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE.
(Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6340
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "151", HatchDesc: "SW/GORDONSVILLE,VA:2 AIRLINER CREWS:HUGE WINGLESS FSLG >>SW/6000 mph:/MJ#263", LatLong: "38.083335 -78.250004", LatLongDMS: "38:05:00 N 78:15:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/1960
Location: Ottawa
Description: The Ottawa Flying Saucer Club begins
publishing Topside, edited by Wilbert B.
Smith until 1962. It continues until winter 1971.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Topside, no.
1 (March 1960)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3404
Date: 3/2/1960
Time: ~01:30
Location: LEIBNITZ, AUS
Description: Newsman. Photograph / saucer over woods.
Skin burns. / r68p80. / LDLN#123. Fake / VJBO.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6341
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "3", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LEIBNITZ,AUS:NEWSMAN:FOTO/SCR OVR WOODS:skin burns:/r68p80:/LDLN#123:fake/VJBO", LatLong: "46.783336 15.533334", LatLongDMS: "46:47:00 N 15:32:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/2/1960
Description: Mr. Schedelbauer, a 36-year-old newsman,
was driving his car near Labuttendorf, Austria at 1:30 a.m. when he had
a close encounter with a round, glowing aerial object. He was able to
take a photograph of the luminous UFO, but he also received burns on his
face and hands from the encounter.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Waveney Girvan, Flying Saucer Review,
July-August 1960, p. 16; NICAP UFO Investigator, March-April 1960, p. 3;
George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September 1961, p. 48
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1243
Date: 3/2/1960
Location: Labuttendorf, Austria
Description: Newspaperman Edgar Schedelbauer of Vienna,
Austria for the newspaper “WIENER MONTAG,” suffered “great red spots” on
his face and hands after his close encounter with a milky-white
spider-shaped hovering UFO. It made a low humming sound and then a
jet-like roar as it hovered about 50 feet above a road. A photographer
took pictures of the object. Now under investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_87
Date: 3/4/1960
Time: 17:50
Location: DUBUQUE, IA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6667. Pilot and
several. 3 saucers / row. Going [to] 2K' altitude. 19' / film. /
r242p40+/ APRO 8'60.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6342
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "4", Elev: "186", HatchDesc: "DUBUQUE,IA:BBK#6667:PILOT+SVRL:3 SCRS/ROW:>2K'alt:19'/FILM:/r242p40+/APRO 8'60", LatLong: "42.500002 -90.666671", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 90:40:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/4/1960
Location: Dubuque, IA
Description: 3 elliptical-shaped objects make a slight
climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6667)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2433
Date: 3/4/1960
Time: 5:55 PM
Location: Dubuque, Iowa
Description: Witness: Charles Morris. Three
elliptical-shaped objects made a slight climb for 4 minutes. Film
exposed during sighting showed no images of the objects.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_446
Date: 3/4/1960
Description: Pilot Charles Morris filmed three silver
discs with his motion picture camera, flying over Dubuque, Iowa at 5:57
p.m. The Air Force claimed that no unusual objects appear on any of the
frames.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I),
p. 40
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1291
Date: 3/6/1960
Time: 05:20
Location: NORRTALJE, SWD
Description: Photograph shoots 3 satellites going
southeast. All 3 reverse course going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 138)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6343
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, GSA: Covert Security Agency
Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "12", HatchDesc: "NORRTALJE,SWD:PHOTOG SHOOTS 3 SATELLITES > SE:ALL 3 REVERSE COURSE >>N", LatLong: "59.783336 18.650001", LatLongDMS: "59:47:00 N 18:39:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/6/1960
Locations: Norrtälje, Sweden; Stockholm latitude
Description: 5:15–5:27 a.m. Photographer Esse Jansson
of Norrtälje, Sweden, goes out early in the morning to try to take a
photo of an unidentified satellite, termed 1960 Alpha [however, the
designation of 1960 Alpha 1 is reserved for the Pioneer 5 space probe,
which isn’t launched until March 11], “which was expected to pass the
Stockholm latitude in a southerly direction about 0525 hours.” He sees
two objects that come from the north and move in a southeasterly
direction. They are similar to phenomena he has seen before, but these
objects reverse direction completely. One of his plates shows a third
object. The CIA takes note of this and another mystery satellite viewed
by a Swedish airplane and reported in Dagens Nyheter, March 8.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Central Intelligence Agency, “UFO’s Sighted,
Photographed in Sweden; Unidentified Satellite Seen,” FDD Note 1107,
March 17, 1960
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3405
Date: 3/8/1960
Description: Holzman forwards
Hynek’s
letter up the chain of command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saucer
Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3406
Date: 3/12/1960
Location: Alamogordo, New Mexico
Description: The AERIAL PHENOMENA RESEARCH ORGANIZATION
at Alamogordo, New Mexico announced that its organization has fragments
of an “Extraterrestrial Flying Saucer” that fell from an exploding UFO
in Brazil in 1957 and photographs of an “Extraterrestrial Flying Saucer”
taken at Trinidade Island in 1958.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_88
Date: 3/17/1960
Location: Cuba
Description: President Eisenhower signs
off on a CIA paper titled “A Program of Covert Action against the Castro
Regime.” The order gives the agency authorization to create an
organization of exiled Cubans to manage opposition programs, begin a
propaganda offensive to draw support for the movement, create an
intelligence gathering network inside Cuba, and develop a paramilitary
force to be introduced into Cuba to organize, train, and lead resistance
groups against the Castro regime. Its budget is $4.4 million. Under the
Cuban Project and under the direction of CIA Directorate for Plans Richard
M. Bissell, MKUltra’s Sidney
Gottlieb proposes spraying Fidel Castro’s
television studio with LSD and saturating his shoes with thallium to
make his beard fall out. Gottlieb also hatches schemes to assassinate
Castro, including the use of a poisoned cigar, a poisoned wetsuit, an
exploding conch shell, and a poisonous fountain pen.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Sidney
Gottlieb”; Kris Hollington, Wolves,
Jackals, and Foxes:
The Assassins Who Changed History, St.
Martin’s, 2008; Wikipedia, “Operation
Mongoose” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3407
Date: Spring 1960
Time: night
Location: Syracuse, New York
Description: An electronics engineer was fishing when
he heard a shrill, whirring sound and saw a round object, with a
rotating light on top, land on the shore. The sound gradually stopped,
an opening became visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out
with a hose and pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to play
like children. Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_501
Date: 3/23/1960
Time: 03:40
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: 2 observer(s). 20M "kite" arcs and
maneuvers all over sky. Vibrant bright and metallic. 10 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6344
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:2 OBS:20M "KITE" ARCS+MNVRS ALL OVR SKY:VBRITE+METALLIC:10min", LatLong: "39.766669 -86.150004", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 86:09:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/23/1960
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Description: A series of balls, arranged like an “X”
with one diagonal line (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6691)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2434
Date: 3/23/1960
Time: 3:35 AM
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. E.I. Larsen. A
series of balls, arranged like an "X" with one diagonal line, seen for
3/4 of a minute. Note: little data on the case in the files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_447
Date: 3/23/1960
Description: At 3:35 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Larsen sighted
an object over their residence in Indianapolis, Indiana that looked like
a kite made up of little metallic balls. The object or objects moved in
an arc through the sky to the west, then made a 180-degree turn, and
finally rose and departed vertically. It made no sound. Listed as a U.S.
Air Force Project Blue Book unidentified report.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case 6681; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying
Saucers, p. 27; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 170
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1625
Date: 3/24/1960
Locations: Lambert–St. Louis International Airport;
Missouri
Description: Two policemen are in the vicinity of
Lambert–St. Louis International Airport in Missouri, one on the north
side, the other on the south side. A bright light illuminates the entire
area. Three objects in a V-formation whisk overhead. They are round,
white, and 9 feet in diameter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 293
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3408
Date: 3/25/1960?
Time: ~15:00
Location: VICHEL, FR
Description: Gas turbine noise. Cylinder/cylindrical
object hovers / 5+min. Shoots going quickly southeast sideways like an
arrow.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #.
May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters &
individual members' UFO reports. (Index 50)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6345
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "VICHEL,FR:GAS TURBINE NOISE:CYL HVRS/5+min:SHOOTS >>SE SIDEWAYS like an arrow", LatLong: "45.433335 3.250000", LatLongDMS: "45:26:00 N 03:15:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Puy-de-Dôme", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/25/1960
Description: Making a noise like a gas turbine, a
cylindrical UFO hovered over Vichel at around 3 p.m. in Puy-de-Dome
department, France for more than five minutes, then shot away to the
southeast, traveling sideways like an arrow.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5897,
citing Lumieres dans la Nuit Lecteurs
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1651
Date: 3/31/1960
Time: 19:00
Location: NORTH ATLANTIC
Description: Steamship MV Avafors / location unknown.
Night light going south slow. Curves up then down. Going SSW /
220°.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6346
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "N.ATLANTIC:SS MV AVAFORS/loc.unk:NLT > S SLOW:CURVES UP THEN DOWN:>SSW/220°", LatLong: "42.000002 -63.500003", LatLongDMS: "42:00:00 N 63:30:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/1960
Location: NEAR SCAER, FR
Description: Moped malfunctions due to EME
(electro-magnetic effects). Man invites observer(s) to 6M saucer /
ground. Seats and levers and map and dials..
Type: sighting
Reference: BOEDEC, Jean-Francois: Les OVNI EN BRETAGNE,
Anatomie d'un Phenomene. 1978 Editions Fernand Lanore, Paris. (Index
146)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6347
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CNT: Contactee related, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "nr SCAER,FR:MOPED EMEs:MAN INVITES OBS TO 6M SCR/GND:SEATS+LEVERS+MAP+DIALS..", LatLong: "48.016669 -3.700000", LatLongDMS: "48:01:00 N 03:42:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finistère", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 4/1960 (approximate)
Time: 21:00?
Location: SYRACUSE, NY
Description: Fisherman. Saucer lands. Small humanoids
(or Greys) draw water / hose. Play like kids. / O. Binder.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 501)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6348
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", Elev: "120", HatchDesc: "SYRACUSE,NY:FISHERMAN:SCR LANDS:OIDS DRAW WATER/HOSE:PLAY LIKE KIDS:/O.Binder", LatLong: "43.050002 -76.133337", LatLongDMS: "43:03:00 N 76:08:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 4/1/1960
Time: 12:00
Location: ANGRA DO HEROISMO, AZORES
Description: Metallic saucer skims ground. Red edge. /
Diario Insular.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS
Download). (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6349
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ANGRA do HEROISMO,AZORES:MTLC SCR SKIMS GROUND:RED EDGE:/DIARIO INSULAR", LatLong: "38.650002 -27.200001", LatLongDMS: "38:39:00 N 27:12:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Azores", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/1/1960
Time: 06:17:00.0
Location: 27.0000 0.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Air. Country: France Name:
“gerb._blanche”
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1838
Extra Data: LatLong: "27.0000 0.0000", LatLongDMS: "27:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "gerb._blanche", NukeSource: "BOLT", NukeType: "A"
Date: 4/5/1960 (approximate)
Location: NEAR BEIRA, MZBQ
Description: Orange saucer whistles and lands. 4 small
humanoids (or Greys) run going [to] woods. Saucer explodes! /
r8#502.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6350
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "Mozambique", Credibility: "5", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "nr BEIRA,MZBQ:ORG SCR WHISTLES+LANDS:4 OIDS RUN >WOODS:SCR EXPLODES!:/r8#502", LatLong: "-19.666668 34.833335", LatLongDMS: "19:40:00 S 34:50:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BEI", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 4/5/1960
Location: Beira, Mozambique
Description: An orange disk landed with a hissing
sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran away into the
brush.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 5; 126 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_502
Date: 4/5/1960
Description: An orange disk landed in Beira, Mozambique
with a hissing sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran off
into the brush.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 501
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1846
Date: 4/6/1960
Time: 18:00
Location: LOOGOOTEE, IN
Description: Navy civil eng. Tech. Large yellow-red
ovoid crosses road going south. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6351
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "164", HatchDesc: "LOOGOOTEE,IN:NAVY CIV.ENG.TECH:LARGE YLW-RED OVOID CROSSES ROAD >S:SLNT:", LatLong: "38.683335 -86.916671", LatLongDMS: "38:41:00 N 86:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/8/1960
Locations: National Radio Astronomy Observatory at
Green Bank, West Virginia; Soviet Union
Description: Project Ozma, set up only a few days
earlier by Frank
Drake at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank,
West Virginia, seems to hit paydirt. As he slews his antenna off Tau
Ceti and onto Epsilon Eridani, Drake is greeted with a strong, periodic,
pulsed signal on 1420 MHz, the hyperfine transition emission line of
interstellar hydrogen atoms proposed for SETI by Giuseppe
Cocconi and Philip
Morrison, and still favored as a promising hailing frequency for
interstellar communications. Drake is ready with a second, low-gain
antenna. The pulses are there as well, sadly disproving their
extraterrestrial origin. But they are not exactly terrestrial
interference, either. The rate at which the phantom signal traverses the
sky suggests that it is emanating from an aircraft cruising at
unprecedented altitude—perhaps 80,000 feet. At the time, no known
aircraft can reach the stratosphere. Such an aircraft, as it happens,
doesn’t “come into existence” until the following month, when Francis
Gary Powers is shot down over the Soviet Union. (Drake wisely
decides to withhold publication of this positive result, so he never
does receive proper credit for “discovering” the U-2.) The project only
lasts through July.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project Ozma”;
H. Paul Shuch, “Project
Ozma: The Birth of Observational SETI,” in Searching for
Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Springer, 2011, pp. 13–18; Seth Shostak,
“Project Ozma,” SETI
Institute, July 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3409
Date: 4/9/1960
Locations: Pakistan; Semipalatinsk Test Site in
Kazakhstan; Dolon Air Base in Semey, Kazakhstan; SAM test site near
Saryshagan, Kazakhstan; Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan;
Iranian airstrip at Zahedan
Description: The U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis
Gary Powers crosses into the Soviet Union from Pakistan and flies
over the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan; the Dolon Air Base in
Semey, Kazakhstan; a SAM test site near Saryshagan, Kazakhstan; and the
Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan. The plane is detected by
Soviet Air Defense Forces but avoids intercepts by a MiG-19 and a Su-9.
Powers lands at an Iranian airstrip at Zahedan. A 1994 CIA monograph by
Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” claims
that “According to later estimates from CIA officials who worked on the
U-2 project and the Oxcart (SR-71, or Blackbird) project, over half of
all UFO reports from the late 1950s through the 1960s were accounted for
by manned reconnaissance flights (namely the U-2) over the United
States.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “1960 U-2
incident”; Gerald K. Haines, “CIA’s
Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947–90,” Studies in Intelligence 40, no.
5 (1997): 67–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3410
Date: 4/10/1960
Time: 22:00
Location: SOUTHEAST / LE BOULOU, FR
Description: 2 big white disks over Mt. St. Christophe.
Vanish and reappear. Photographs. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #.
May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters &
individual members' UFO reports. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6352
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "SE/Le BOULOU,FR:2 BIG WHT DISKS ovr Mt.St.CHRISTOPHE:VANISH+REAPPEAR:FOTOS:NFD", LatLong: "42.494446 2.883333", LatLongDMS: "42:29:40 N 02:53:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pyrénées-Orientales", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/11/1960
Time: 20:20
Location: SOUTHWEST / STONEHAVEN, SCTL
Description: 6 / car. Red-gold saucer going north to
cloud. Exits / different direction. Separate observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6353
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "SW/STONEHAVEN,SCTL:6/CAR:RED-GOLD SCR >N to CLOUD:EXITS/DIFF.DIRECTION:sep.obs", LatLong: "56.883336 -2.333333", LatLongDMS: "56:53:00 N 02:20:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/12/1960
Time: 21:00
Location: LACAMP, LA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6711. Saucer going
quickly south plows through trees. Skips off ground. Flies off. Lots /
traces.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 169)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6354
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "LACAMP,LA:BBK#6711:SCR>>S PLOWS THRU TREES:SKIPS OFF GND:FLIES OFF:LOTS/TRACES", LatLong: "29.950001 -92.916671", LatLongDMS: "29:57:00 N 92:55:00 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/12/1960
Location: La Camp, LA
Description: A fiery-red disc from the S touch the
ground about 1,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6711)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2435
Date: 4/12/1960
Time: 9 PM
Location: LaCamp, Louisiana
Description: Witness: Monroe Arnold. One fiery-red disc
exploded four or five times. Analysis of paint samples from explosion
proved inconclusive. Sighting lasted 2-3 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_448
Date: 4/12/1960
Description: LaCamp, Louisiana. At 9:00 p.m. Monroe
Arnold, a physical scientist, saw a fiery-red disc that made a rumbling
sound and exploded four or five times while flying through the sky for
two to three seconds. It plowed through trees, struck the ground,
bounced nine times, and resulted in explosions and flames. It left
behind nine ground scars. An analysis of paint samples from the
explosion proved inconclusive.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns;
Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 6711;
NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1960, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1969
Date: 4/13/1960
Location: Red Bluff, CA
Description: State Police encounter with highly
ma-neuverable elliptical object, red light beams swept ground (NICAP
UFOE, V). (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2436
Date: 4/13/1960
Location: Red Bluff, CA
Description: State Police encounter with highly
maneuverable elliptical object, red light beams swept ground
Type: sighting
Reference: The
UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID:
HallUFOE2_7
Date: 4/16/1960
Time: 17:50
Location: NAPIER, NZ
Description: 3 women. Brilliant pole rises slowly.
Turns horizontal and darkens and going northeast to sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6355
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "NAPIER,NZ:3 WOMEN:BRILL.POLE RISES SLOWLY:TURNS HORIZONTAL+DARKENS+ >NE TO SEA", LatLong: "-39.516669 176.916675", LatLongDMS: "39:31:00 S 176:55:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/16/1960
Description: A brilliant vertical cylinder or
pole-shaped object rose slowly over the shore of Napier, New Zealand at
5:50 p.m. It turned horizontal and then darkened. It finally flew to the
northeast and out to sea.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1960
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2052
Date: 4/17/1960
Time: 20:30
Location: RICHARDS-GEBAUR AIR FORCE BASE, MO
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6721. 2 / 48X-(seen
thru) telescope. Red night light turns in sky. High and distant.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE;
Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6356
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "332", HatchDesc: "RICHARDS-GEBAUR AFB,MO:BBK#6721:2/48X-TSCOPE:RED NLT TURNS IN SKY:HI+DISTANT", LatLong: "38.883335 -94.533338", LatLongDMS: "38:53:00 N 94:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 4/17/1960
Location: Richards-Gebaur AFB, MO
Description: (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: 6721)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2437
Date: 4/17/1960
Time: 8:29 PM
Location: Richards-Gebauer AFB, Missouri
Description: Witnesses: USAF Maj. J.G. Ford and Link
representative A. Chapdelaine, using a 48x telescope. One reddish glow
made an odd orbit for 2.5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_449
Date: 4/18/1960
Time: 2100
Location: Lacamp, Louisiana
Description: Mr. Arnold saw a round object, fiery red
in color, arriving at high speed from the south. It touched the ground
about 300 m away with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a
flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for about 300 m, then rose
again, turned west and disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine
places, and a substance resembling metallic paint was found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Science & Mechanics Dec., 66 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_503
Date: 4/18/1960
Description: At 9:00 p.m. Mr. Arnold saw a round, fiery
red flying object approach at high speed from the south in Lacamp,
Louisiana. It touched the ground about 300 meters away with a loud
explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly
direction for about 300 meters, then rose again, turned west and
disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance
resembling metallic paint was found.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 503
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2111
Date: 4/21/1960
Time: 12:00?
Location: GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6724. Unidentified.
Poor naval photos / daylight disks. No further details. / photograph
only.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK;
Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 364)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6357
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GUANTANAMO BAY,CUBA:BBK#6724:UID:POOR NAVAL PHOTOS/DAYLITE DISKS:NFD:/pix only", LatLong: "19.583334 -75.583337", LatLongDMS: "19:35:00 N 75:35:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CUB", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/21/1960
Time: 21:00
Location: ESTREMOZ, PORTUGAL
Description: Several / train station.
Cylinder/cigar-shape-object flies by. / O Seculo. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS
Download). (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6358
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ESTREMOZ,PORTUGAL:SVRL/TRAIN STATION:CGR-OBJ FLIES BY:/O SECULO:NFD", LatLong: "38.850002 -7.605556", LatLongDMS: "38:51:00 N 07:36:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "AAL", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/22/1960
Description: A cigar-shaped UFO flew by a train station
at 9:00 p.m. in Estremoz, Portugal.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos case
investigation files
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2213
Date: 4/25/1960
Time: 19:00
Location: SHELBY, MT
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6727. Unidentified.
3M orbs seen 5x since 1957. Slow and fast. Sharp turns. Vanish.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 143)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6359
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "180", Elev: "1002", HatchDesc: "SHELBY,MT:BBK#6727:UID:3M ORBS SEEN 5x SINCE 1957:SLO+FAST:SHARP TURNS:VANISH", LatLong: "48.516669 -111.877783", LatLongDMS: "48:31:00 N 111:52:40 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/25/1960
Time: 21:00
Location: PLYMOUTH, NH
Description: 1 observer. Scarlet cylinder/cigar-shape
hovers / 45 second(s). Going quickly south fast and silent. / r219p12. /
r70p3-69.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 68)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6360
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "157", HatchDesc: "PLYMOUTH,NH:1 OBS:SCARLET CGR HVRS/45sec:>>S FAST+SLNT:/r219p12:/r70p3-69", LatLong: "43.755558 -71.688892", LatLongDMS: "43:45:20 N 71:41:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/25/1960
Location: Plymouth, NH
Description: Former Town Selectman saw bright red
cigar-shaped UFO hover, speed away. [NICAP UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 02 - Close
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2438
Date: 4/25/1960
Location: Shelby, MT
Description: Saw 5 circular objects fly in trail
formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6727)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2439
Date: 4/25/1960
Time: 7-10 PM
Location: Shelby, Montana
Description: Witness: Mrs. M. Clark. Five circular
objects flew in trail formation, hovered and accelerated and made sharp
turns. Case file includes other reports from Mrs. Clark for previous 3
years.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_450
Date: 4/25/1960
Description: Mrs. M. Clark of Shelby, Montana saw five
circular or round objects fly in a trail formation, hover, accelerate,
and make sharp turns. A strong white light beam shone down from the
balls of light (BOL), which had a red glow. They flew at a low altitude,
and made sharp turns.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 6727; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Lloyd
Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2294
Date: 4/27/1960
Description: Mr. N. N., a painter, was driving from
Slagelse to Naestved, Denmark at around 3:00 a.m. when his car engine
and lights died. His car stopped twenty feet from a green glowing
thirty-foot wide domed disc. The object was shaped like two bowls
edge-to-edge, had a shining stripe of light around its center, three
portholes, three legs for landing gear, and a central column. It also
made a humming sound. Four three-foot tall entities in luminous green
costumes emerged. Their uniforms had three dark vertical marks on the
chest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger I Danmark, p.
36; Gene Duplantier, Saucers, Space & Science; David F. Webb &
Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0492
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2366
Date: 4/30/1960
Description: George
Adamski appears on Long John
Nebel’s late-night TV show on WOR.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Long John Nebel,
The Flying Saucer Story
(George Adamski interview),” ThriftStoreVinyl YouTube channel,
September 4, 2018; “Final Years,”
The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3411
Date: 5/1960
Time: 13:00
Location: SOUTH / BORNOS RESERVOIR, SP
Description: 1 / motorcycle. 2 red figure(s) /
Michelin-Man suits cross road / angle.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
967)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6361
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NFO: No craft seen, RBT: Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "S/BORNOS Rsvr,SP:1/MCYCLE:2 RED FIGs/MICHELIN-MAN SUITS CROSS ROAD/ANGLE", LatLong: "36.783335 -5.733334", LatLongDMS: "36:47:00 N 05:44:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CDZ", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/1960
Locations: Miami, Florida; Retalhuleu; Sierra Madre
mountains of Guatemala
Description: The CIA begins to recruit anti-Castro
Cuban exiles in the Miami, Florida, area. Infantry training is carried
out at a CIA-run base that is code-named JM Trax near Retalhuleu in the
Sierra Madre mountains of Guatemala.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Brigade 2506”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3412
Date: 5/1960
Location: Washington, DC
Description: The NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON
AERIAL PHENOMENA in Washington, D.C. announced that the “UFOs or FLYING
SAUCERS" are unknown devices, which have been reported by scores of
reliable observers, are intelligently controlled machines from outer
space.” Vice Admiral R. H. Hillenkoetter, former head of the Central
Intelligence Agency, stated that the “unknown objects are operating
under intelligent control.” He added, “I know that neither Russia nor
this country has anything even approaching such high speeds and
maneuvers.” Speaking as a NICAP Board Member, Admiral Hillenkoetter said
it was high time the secrecy was ended.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_89
Date: 5/1/1960
Locations: Peshawar, Pakistan; Baikonur, Kazakhstan;
Chelyabinsk, Russia; Plesetsk Cosmodrome; Kyshtym, Russia; Sverdlovsk
[now Yekaterinburg]
Description: 6:26 a.m. A US U-2 spy plane, flown by CIA
pilot Francis
Gary Powers, takes
off from Peshawar, Pakistan, and performs photographic aerial
reconnaissance over Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Powers has orders to continue across Siberia to get a look at the new
Plesetsk Cosmodrome, but at 8:53 a.m. local time he is hit by an S-75
Dvina (SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missile fired by a defense
battalion near Kyshtym, Russia. The U-2 crashes near Sverdlovsk [now
Yekaterinburg]. The Soviet Air Defense Forces have anticipated the
flight and give orders to “attack the violator.” Powers parachutes
safely and is captured. This is the first time in five years of
overflights that the US is caught.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “1960 U-2
incident” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3413
Date: 5/4/1960
Time: 09:20
Location: SARASOTA, FL
Description: Architect. Yellow cylinder/cigar-shape
with 4 square windows / side. Ground level. / r8#504p278.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6362
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "SARASOTA,FL:ARCHITECT:YLW CGR W/4 SQR WINDOWS/SIDE:GND LVL:/r8#504p278", LatLong: "27.366668 -82.550004", LatLongDMS: "27:22:00 N 82:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/4/1960
Time: 21:20
Location: BEDFORD, MA
Description: Planetarium Tech. Thin white beams / sky.
Red sphere appears. Pulses.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6363
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "41", HatchDesc: "BEDFORD,MA:PLANETARIUM TECH:THIN WHT BEAMS/SKY:RED SPHERE APPEARS:PULSES", LatLong: "42.500002 -71.283337", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 71:17:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/4/1960
Location: Sarasota, FL
Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with four window-like
markings sighted by architect. [NICAP UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2440
Date: 5/4/1960
Time: 0915
Location: Sarasota, Florida
Description: A yellow, elliptical object with four
evenly spaced windowlike openings was observed at ground level by an
architect.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 60 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_504
Date: 5/4/1960
Description: A yellow, cigar-shaped or elliptical
object with four evenly spaced windows was observed at ground level by
an architect in Sarasota, Florida at 9:15 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 504; NICAP Special Bulletin, May 1960, p. 4;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 138; George D. Fawcett, Flying
Saucers, December 1967, p. 24 & September 1970, p. 6
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2504
Date: 5/4/1960
Description: In 1960 a giant cigar-shaped object
crossed the skies over the town of Botocatu, Brazil during the daytime.
It moved at a tremendous speed and was gone from sight in 30
seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, UFOs:The Whole Story, p.
221
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2505
Date: 5/5/1960
Location: MALLORCA ISLAND, SPN
Description: Astronomers. 1 / 4 moon-size spinning
triangle! / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v7#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine
Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 437)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6364
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "MALLORCA ISL,SPN:ASTRONOMERS:1/4 MOON-SIZE SPINNING TRIANGLE!:/FSR v7#1", LatLong: "39.633335 3.000000", LatLongDMS: "39:38:00 N 03:00:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BLR", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/5/1960
Locations: north of Turkey; NASA Flight Research
Center; Armstrong Flight Research Center; Edwards Air Force Base;
California
Description: NASA issues a press release saying a
weather research aircraft has “gone missing” north of Turkey and
speculates that the pilot has fallen unconscious and the plane has
crashed. Under the impression that the pilot has died and that the plane
has been destroyed, a U-2 plane is quickly painted in NASA colors and a
photo is shown to the media at NASA Flight Research Center [now the
Armstrong Flight Research Center] at Edwards Air Force Base in
California. Premier Nikita
Khrushchev announces the shoot-down to the Soviet parliament but
does not reveal yet that the pilot has survived.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NASA, “U-2,”
September 4, 1997
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3414
Date: 5/6/1960
Description: Shortly before 9:00 p.m. a rocket-shaped
UFO crossed over the town of Vila Ezio, Sao Paulo State, Brazil moving
at high speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: UFO Nachtrichten, August 1961, citing Olavo
T. Fontes: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 221
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2581
Date: 5/7/1960
Location: Regina, Saskatchewan, CAN
Description: (McDonald list) Sightings Backed By FPS-20
& FPS-6A (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 600507
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2441
Date: 5/7/1960
Description: Khrushchev now
reveals to the Soviet parliament that Powers is
alive and much of the U-2 technologies have survived the crash.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3415
Date: 5/9/1960
Location: Congress
Description: Director of Central Intelligence Allen
Dulles tells Congress that all U-2 flights are used for aerial
espionage and are flown pursuant to “presidential directives.”
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3416
Date: 5/10/1960
Locations: Mo.; Soviet Union
Description: House Appropriations Chair Clarence
Cannon (D-Mo.) reveals to the press that the U-2 is a CIA plane
engaged in aerial espionage over the Soviet Union “under the aegis” of
the president. The press begins to suggest that Eisenhower has
lost control of the intelligence agencies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “1960 U-2
incident” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3417
Date: 5/13/1960
Time: 18:30
Location: TABOLEIRO / NAZARE, BRZ
Description: Huge round grey object follows donkey herd
going east. Light / top. Low and silent. Quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6365
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "TABOLEIRO/NAZARE,BRZ:HUGE RND GRY OBJ FOLOS DONKEY HERD >E:LITE/TOP:LO+SLNT:↑↑", LatLong: "-3.400000 -39.233335", LatLongDMS: "03:24:00 S 39:14:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CEA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/13/1960
Time: 18:30
Location: OFF PARACURU, BRZ
Description: Dark silent object going down / 100M over
fishing boat. 3 observer(s). Blue light going down. Going
southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6366
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off PARACURU,BRZ:DRK SLNT OBJ ↓/100M ovr FISHING BOAT:3 OBS:BLUE LITE ↓:>SW", LatLong: "-3.333333 -39.000002", LatLongDMS: "03:20:00 S 39:00:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CEA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/13/1960
Time: 19:00
Location: PARACURU, BRZ
Description: 100+. 60' saucer / searchlight. 7 states /
huge 2 hour wave. / r111p199+/ FSRv7#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6367
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "10", Duration: "120", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "PARACURU,BRZ:100+:60'SCR/SEARCHLITE:7 STATES/HUGE 2hr WAVE:/r111p199+/FSRv7#3", LatLong: "-3.400000 -39.066669", LatLongDMS: "03:24:00 S 39:04:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CEA", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/13/1960
Time: 19:50
Location: FORTALEZA, BRZ
Description: Silent saucer hovers / edge of town. Air
Force jet chases. Fast evasive maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6368
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "FORTALEZA,BRZ:SLNT SCR HVRS/EDGE of town:AF JET CHASES:FAST EVASIVE MNVRs", LatLong: "-3.733334 -38.516669", LatLongDMS: "03:44:00 S 38:31:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CEA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/13/1960
Locations: Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil; Céara state; Rio
Grande do Norte; Pernambuco; Paraíba; Bahia; Piauí; Maranhão
Description: 7:00 p.m. More than 100 people at
Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil, watch a disc-shaped UFO. Flying about 600 feet
in the air at low speed, the silent object maneuvers over the downtown
area or a long time. About 60 feet in diameter, it hovers at an angle by
a church. A strong bluish light is on top of it. The same day, 20 cities
and towns in Céara state, four in Rio Grande do Norte, three in
Pernambuco, two in Paraíba, two in Bahia, and one each in the states of
Piauí and Maranhão report UFO sightings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 220–221; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June
1960, The Author, 2003, pp. 92–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3418
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: There were over 20 UFO sightings including
two close encounters in Brazil recorded for this evening in 1960 between
6:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2796
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: Brazil: At shortly before 18:30 a huge
cigar-shaped object came from the west at high speed and passed over
Campos Sales, Brazil. It two ends were opaque and smoky, but it had a
bright light at the center. It was seen by many residents.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization, between 6-8pm
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2797
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: At 18:30 off the coast at Paracuru, Brazil
at the location marked as (2) on the map, three fisherman were
frightened when a luminous disc hovered 300 feet over their fishing boat
in a clear sky for three minutes. It emitted a strong blue glow but made
no sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization, between 6-8pm
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2798
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: At the same time a huge round gray object
followed a donkey herd between the towns of Taboleiro and Nazare, Brazil
at the location marked as (3). The UFO had a light on its top, and flew
low and silently. It rose vertically as it flew off.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization, between 6-8pm
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2799
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: A 60-foot wide oval-shaped disc, almost
circular, with a strong bluish light on top, flew noiseless and then
hovered in a tilted position over Paracuru, Ceara State, Brazil (4) at
19:00.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dr. Olavo T. Fontes for the Aerial Phenomena
Research Organization, between 6-8pm
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2800
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: At 19:45 p.m. a military jet tried to
intercept at the location marked as (5) over Fortaleza, Brazil. The UFO
made an evasive maneuver, and was gone in a few seconds at supersonic
speeds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1960,
pp. 3-5; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing FSR, May 1961; Correio
Ceara, May 16, 1960; O Globo, May 25, 1960
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2801
Date: 5/13/1960
Description: At 4:00 a.m. the next day (May 14, 1960)
Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on a hill near a farm called
Capin Acu, near the ocean in Paracuru, Ceara State, Brazil. He went near
them and saw several small beings, pale-looking, making friendly
gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms and white
helmets. The previous day at 7:00 p.m., over 100 witnesses observed a
dark-gray, circular craft, 20 meters in diameter with a powerful light,
maneuvering and hovering in the sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case # 505, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue
58
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2802
Date: 5/14/1960
Time: 04:00
Location: PARACURU BEACH, BRZ
Description: 2 metallic disks on beach. 2 small
humanoids (or Greys) / helmets by! Gestures. Observer(s) runs.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6369
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "PARACURU BEACH,BRZ:2 MTLC DISKS ON BEACH:2 OIDS/HELMETS BY!:GESTURES:OBS RUNS", LatLong: "-3.366667 -39.050002", LatLongDMS: "03:22:00 S 39:03:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CEA", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/14/1960
Time: 0400
Location: Paracuru, Brazil
Description: Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on
hill near a farm called Capin Acu. He went near them and saw several
small beings, palelooking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The
creatures wore blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at
1900, over 100 witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 m
in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 37; LDLN 58 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_505
Date: 5/14/1960
Location: Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil
Description: 4:00 a.m. Fisherman Raimundo Ursulino dos
Santos sees two metallic discs landed on a sandy hill by the beach at
Paracuru, Ceará, Brazil. As he approaches, he sees two humanlike beings
outside, talking to each other. They are small and pallid. One is
dressed in a blue suit with a helmet. Dos Santos turns and runs away.
Marks in the sand are found later.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The
Author, 2003, p. 93; Patrick Gross, URECAT, September
29, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3419
Date: 5/14/1960
Description: At around four a.m. Raimondo dos Santos
saw two craft land on hill near a farm called Capin Acu in Paracuru,
Brazil. He went near them and saw several small pallid beings, who were
making friendly gestures at him. He ran away. The creatures wore blue
uniforms with white helmets. The previous day at 7 p.m., over a hundred
witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 meters in
diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering in the
sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 505; Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, September
1960, p. 5; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of
the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 200
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2825
Date: 5/14/1960
Description: A red light 10 feet in diameter paced the
Lewis family in their car in Casterton near Mount Gambier, South
Australia at 6:50 p.m. It stayed in front of their car for 15
miles.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs Over the Southern
Hemisphere, p. 170
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2826
Date: 5/16/1960
Time: 03:50
Location: HAWAII TO COLORADO
Description: Time = GMT. 4 separate telescopes record
same high-power radio source.
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 167)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6370
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Pluto", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "HAWAII to COLORADO:TIME=GMT:4 SEP TSCOPES RECORD SAME HI-POWER RADIO SOURCE.", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 5/17/1960
Time: 19:00
Location: ACARAU, BRZ
Description: Luminous green sphere going south. Stops
offshore. Follows coast going southeast. Night light follows
later.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6371
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ACARAU,BRZ:LUMn.GRN.SPHERE > S:STOPS OFFSHORE:FOLOS COAST >SE:NLT FOLOS LATER", LatLong: "-2.800000 -40.116669", LatLongDMS: "02:48:00 S 40:07:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CEA", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 5/17/1960
Description: At 6:30 p.m. two men herding donkeys in
Taboleiro de Nazare, Ceara State, Brazil were chased by a huge round
object at low altitude for about 20 minutes. It pursued them for 18
kilometers, keeping same distance. Finally, after it flew away by
climbing very quickly out of sight. Ten minutes later a luminous green
ball of light was spotted along the coastline in Acarau, Ceara State,
Brazil. It stopped offshore, then followed the coastline to the
southeast. Another light followed along after it a short time
later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of
Type 1 Reports, case 939, citing APRO Bulletin, September 1960; (2)
Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 5923, citing Flying Saucer
Review
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2924
Date: 5/18/1960
Location: WELLINGTON, NZ
Description: Cigar-UFO with portholes. Time unknown. No
further details. / r78p185.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6372
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "WELLINGTON,NZ:CIGAR-UFO WITH PORTHOLES:TIME UNK:NFD:/r78p185", LatLong: "-41.250002 174.750008", LatLongDMS: "41:15:00 S 174:45:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/18/1960
Location: Wellington, NZ
Description: Cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes." [NICAP
UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2442
Date: 5/18/1960
Description: One year later a cigar-shaped object w
portholes was seen over Wellington, New Zealand.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, May-June 1959; Richard Hall,
The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 138
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2952
Date: 5/19/1960
Location: DILLINGHAM, AK
Description: 25' ovoid with legs. Grass and oilcans
lifted. Antenna spins / bottom/underside. / r249p407.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT;
Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 146)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6373
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "26", HatchDesc: "DILLINGHAM,AK:25'OVOID W/LEGS:GRASS+OILCANS LIFTED:ANTENNA SPINS/BTM:/r249p407", LatLong: "59.044447 -158.461119", LatLongDMS: "59:02:40 N 158:27:40 W", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/19/1960
Time: 22:00?
Location: SIRACUSA, SICILY
Description: 1M small humanoid (or Grey) / diving suit
seen / headlights. Helmet and "wings". / FSR'64#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 506)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6374
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SIRACUSA,SICILY:1M OID/DIVING SUIT SEEN/HEADLITES:HELMET+"WINGS":/FSR'64#4", LatLong: "37.050002 15.266667", LatLongDMS: "37:03:00 N 15:16:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SR", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/19/1960
Location: Dillingham, AK
Description: Silver-colored round object 20-25 ft wide
with hanging appendages (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2443
Date: 5/19/1960
Time: night
Location: Siracusa, Italy
Description: Salvatore Cianci, jeweler, and his wife,
were driving near this Sicilian town when a creature about 1 m tall
appeared in the headlights. It wore a shining coverall and a diving
helmet and had two short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_506
Date: 5/19/1960
Locations: Ekuk, Alaska; Dillingham; Wright Patterson
AFB
Description: A silver-colored round object, 20–25 feet
wide with hanging appendages, hovers 50–100 feet away from Indigenous
observers in the village of Ekuk, Alaska, south of Dillingham. It barely
clears electric wires 12 feet above the ground. It sucks up two empty
five-gallon trashcans and drags them swirling along the ground. It flies
between two houses and crosses to the other side of a ridge for 100
yards, drops the trashcans and sucks up some swirling grass, makes a
loud sucking sound, then ascends rapidly. Thomas
M. Conrow, chief
of intelligence at a nearby Air Force Base, interviews the witnesses and
concludes that “there still appears to be no logical explanation of the
sighting.” At Wright Patterson AFB, Blue Book analysts classify it as a
“weather balloon with a radar reflector,” even though it is traveling
against the wind.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hynek UFO Report, pp.
146–149; Sparks, p. 284;
Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June
1960, The Author, 2003, pp. 99–101
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3420
Date: 5/19/1960
Description: On this night Salvatore Cianci, a jeweler,
and his wife, were driving near the Sicilian town of Siracusa, Italy
when a creature about one meter tall suddenly appeared in the
headlights. It wore a shiny coverall uniform and a diving helmet, and
had two short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Flying Saucer Review, April 1964; Jacques
Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 506; David F.
Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case
A0498
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2974
Date: 5/19/1960
Description: At 3:50 p.m. twelve UFOs were seen over
Long Beach, California swinging in the sky in a pendulum motion.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, August 1961, p.
6
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2975
Date: 5/19/1960
Description: Residents in Ekuk, AK see a 25 foot silver
round object hover near electrical wires and suck up trash cans before
dragging them on the ground in a swirling motion.
USAF Thomas M. Conrow interviews witnesses and says there is “no logical explanation,” but Project Blue Book classifies the UAP as a weather balloon to debunk the sighting. Records show the UAP traveled against the wind.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_92
Date: 5/20/1960
Time: 22:40
Location: VAL POSCHIAVO, SWZ
Description: 1 / (seen thru) binoculars.
Blimp-cylinder/cigar-shape with colored beams. Going east and west over
town. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v6#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: Periodical: WELTRAUMBOTE: Monthly, Zurich,
SWZ. Clipping/B.Mancusi. (Val Poschiavo: #56-57 Nov.-Dec 1960,
p23.)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6375
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "14", HatchDesc: "VAL POSCHIAVO,SWZ:1/BINOCS:BLIMP-CGR W/CLRD BEAMS:>E+W OVR TOWN:/FSR v6#5", LatLong: "46.383336 10.050000", LatLongDMS: "46:23:00 N 10:03:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GRB", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/21/1960
Time: 22:00
Location: SOUTHWEST / LEXINGTON, KY
Description: 2 observer(s). 8' torpedo over lawn. Burnt
grass and car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) 60 days
later.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6376
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "287", HatchDesc: "SW/LEXINGTON,KY:2 OBS:8'TORPEDO OVR LAWN:BURNT GRASS+CAR EMEs 60 DAYS LATER.", LatLong: "38.172224 -85.638893", LatLongDMS: "38:10:20 N 85:38:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 5/22/1960
Time: 09:30
Location: PALMA, MAJORCA
Description: Astronomers. Silent
delta/triangle/box-like craft spins. Going [to] WSW. / cable going [to]
NASA. / r242p123+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v6#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6377
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "PALMA,MAJORCA:ASTRONOMERS:SLNT DLT SPINS:>WSW:/CABLE >NASA:/r242p123+FSR v6#5", LatLong: "39.566669 2.633333", LatLongDMS: "39:34:00 N 02:38:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BLR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/22/1960
Time: 10:30
Location: OCUMARE DEL TUY, VNZL
Description: 20+HIQ observer(s). 30M metallic ovoid
maneuvers low. Lands. Physical traces. / r111p185.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
741)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6378
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "Venezuela", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "178", HatchDesc: "OCUMARE del TUY,VNZL:20+ HIQ OBS:30M MTLC OVOID MNVRS LO:LANDS:TRCs:/r111p185", LatLong: "10.122223 -66.772225", LatLongDMS: "10:07:20 N 66:46:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MRN", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/22/1960
Location: Majorca Isle, Mediterranean Sea
Description: Palma Observatory reported morning
observation of a white triangular UFO, about one-fourth the size of the
moon, spinning on its axis. [NICAP UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2444
Date: 5/22/1960
Locations: Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain;
Washington, D.C.
Description: 9:33 a.m. An observatory on Majorca,
Balearic Islands, Spain, sees a white, triangular object one-quarter the
size of the moon spinning on its own axis and maintaining a steady
course. It cables a report to NASA in Washington, D.C.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
123
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3421
Date: 5/24/1960
Location: Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela
Description: Several doctors, a topographer and
policemen saw three UFOs, in-line formation, which landed in a heavily
wooded area on a hilltop; diamond-shaped scorched marking found at
landing site. [NICAP UFOE, VIII] (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2445
Date: 5/25/1960
Time: 12:00?
Location: NEAR GODALMING, SURREY
Description: Grey ovoid hovers / Broadwater Lake / tree
height. Going west. / r8#507.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6379
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "18", HatchDesc: "nr GODALMING,SURREY:GRY OVOID HVRS/BROADWATER LAKE/TREE HEIGHT:>W:/r8#507", LatLong: "51.200002 -0.594444", LatLongDMS: "51:12:00 N 00:35:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/25/1960
Location: Chinthurst Hill, Great Britain
Description: Vera Bowden, 35, saw a gray, elliptical
object hovering at tree height over Broadwater Lake for 18 min. Then it
left toward the west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 5 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_507
Date: 5/25/1960
Description: Vera Bowden, age 35, and a man named
Foster saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at tree height over
Broadwater Lake in Chinthurst Hill, England for 18 minutes. It then flew
off towards the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 507
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3084
Date: 5/28/1960
Description: Engineer Ronald N.
Bracewell, suggests
that extraterrestrials may already be in our neighborhood through an
autonomous interstellar space probe (now called a “Bracewell probe”)
sent for the express purpose of communicating with alien
civilizations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ronald N. Bracewell, “Communications from
Superior Galactic Communities,” Nature
186 \(1960\): 670–671
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3422
Date: 6/1960
Time: 07:30
Location: NEAR PIERCE, AZ
Description: 2 / horseback. 2 silent metallic saucers
glide up dry wash / low altitude. Going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
374)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6380
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "262", HatchDesc: "nr PIERCE,AZ:2/HORSEBACK:2 SLNT MTLC SCRS GLIDE UP DRY WASH/LO ALT:>E", LatLong: "33.366668 -112.616672", LatLongDMS: "33:22:00 N 112:37:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/1960
Location: Michigan
Description: The U.S. Air Force is currently
investigating films and movies of “UFOs and FLYING SAUCERS” taken over
Michigan in February, over Austria and Iowa in March, over Wisconsin in
April, and over New York in August, all of this year 1960. They were
photographed by a newspaperman, a restaurant owner, a pilot, a
housewife, and an astronomer. (A point of information.) I have listed
over 171 different photographs or movies taken worldwide since 1905 in
my own private “SAUCERIANA COLLECTION.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_90
Date: 6/1/1960
Locations: Worcester (Mass.); Washington, D.C.
Description: Bulkley
Griffin, chief
of the Worcester (Mass.) Evening Gazette’s Washington, D.C., Bureau,
writes a well- reasoned story about the Air Force’s unilateral control
of UFO information and its national security implications. He quotes
Adm. Hillenkoetter’s
opinion that UFOs are intelligently controlled and are neither US nor
USSR devices, which is why he is pushing for a Congressional
investigation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the
Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January–June 1960, The Author, 2003,
pp. 111–112
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3424
Date: 6/4/1960
Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2446
Date: 6/8/1960?
Time: 18:00
Location: QUEENS, NY
Description: Scientist watches echo satellite.
Featureless disk passes / 5 minute(s). / r24v1#10.
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 143)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6381
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "QUEENS,NY:SCIENTIST WATCHES ECHO SAT.:FEATURELESS DISK PASSES/5min:/r24v1#10", LatLong: "40.716669 -73.800004", LatLongDMS: "40:43:00 N 73:48:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/8/1960
Location: New York City, NY
Description: Elliptical UFO sighted by biochemist.
[NICAP UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2447
Date: 6/10/1960 (approximate)
Time: 00:20
Location: 4 MILES NORTHWEST / PERIDOT, AZ
Description: Family westbound / US70. Small humanoid
(or Grey) stands / N. roadside. No UFO seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with
UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index
180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6382
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey"
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "800", HatchDesc: "4mi NW/PERIDOT,AZ:FAMILY WESTBOUND/US70:OID STANDS/N.ROADSIDE:NO UFO SEEN", LatLong: "33.366668 -110.550005", LatLongDMS: "33:22:00 N 110:33:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/10/1960 (approximate)
Time: 03:30
Location: ALGOZ, PRT
Description: Man sees saucer and hides. 6 "men" around
it. Goes straight/strait(s) up. Reappears. Light / ground.
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of
200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6383
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks
Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ALGOZ,PRT:MAN SEES SCR+HIDES:6 "MEN" AROUND IT:GOES STRT UP:REAPPEARS:LITE/GND", LatLong: "37.166668 -8.305556", LatLongDMS: "37:10:00 N 08:18:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Algarve", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 6/10/1960
Description: Half a dozen "men" could be seen standing
around a landed disc-shaped UFO in Algoz, Portugal at 3:30 a.m. The
boarded the craft and the UFO took off vertically. When the witness
started to run the object lit up the ground with an intense beam of
light. His dog ran away in fear. Later that same night the headlights of
a car driving fifteen miles east of Globe, Arizona illuminated a small
figure standing 300 feet away. The being turned and ran. It was
described as having broad shoulders, long arms, a dark body, no ears or
nose, and a large pumpkin-shaped head with two orange glowing
eyes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of
Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, p. 7 (case 30); Coral E.
Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 128-129
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3407
Date: 6/12/1960
Locations: Quebec; St. Lawrence River; Les Écureuils;
Quebec City, Quebec; Japan; Ottawa; Sorel, Quebec; Ohio; Colorado;
Montreal; Canada
Description: 3:00 or 4:00 p.m. Following a sonic boom
above Quebec, a fiery object falls from the sky from an altitude of
1,000–2,000 feet and splits into two pieces that fall into the St.
Lawrence River near Les Écureuils, about 20 miles upriver from Quebec
City, Quebec. A beachcomber runs across the pieces, one closer to the
shore and visible at low tide, the other one further out and mostly
submerged. He retrieves a smaller piece (800 pounds) and sells it to a
scrap-metal dealer, who fails to recognize it as ferrous and possibly
ships it to Japan. The other piece is picked up by the Canadian Armament
Research and Development Establishment [now DRDC Valcartier] near Quebec
City. Wilbert
Smith’s Ottawa Flying Saucer Club \[later the Ottawa New Sciences
Club\] tells its members that the material is high-strength metal that
is 6 feet in diameter and 2 feet thick at the center with an embedded
tube, an “electronic potting can,” and a transistor. CARDE’s analysis is
said to have revealed an alloy with a high manganese content, although
it was identified as the “normal product of a foundry, consisting of
slag with semi- molten scrap embedded in it,” likely coming from Sorel
Iron Foundries in Sorel, Quebec. Smith rejects those findings and and
conducts his own tests (although he is an electrical engineer and not a
metallurgist) on a chunk the club retrieves from the river around July
1, supposedly engaging in a “tremendous amount of detective work on this
metal.” In November 1961, Smith tells Ohio UFO researchers C. W. Fitch
and George Popovitch: “We are speculating that what we have is a portion
of a very large device which came into this solar system…we don’t know
when…but it had been in space a long time before it came to Earth; we
can tell by the micrometeorites embedded in the surface. But we don’t
know whether it was a few years ago—or a few hundred years ago.” In June
1968, the Colorado project’s Roy
Craig is in Ottawa and offers to examine the club’s chunk of metal
because they had offered it to Condon a year earlier. Craig obligingly
takes a piece with him but does not analyze it since there is no
connection to a UFO and it looks like foundry slag anyway. Later, the
Montreal UFO Society’s Ronald Anstee has a piece of it analyzed by an
independent metallurgist, who finds that the composition “does not
correspond to any known commercial manganese steel.” In September 1967,
Eric Smith of the Canada Department of Energy, Mines, and Resources
visits the Ottawa club and examines their large artifact, but fails to
report back. In 1969, the National Research Council’s Peter
Millman takes a look and is convinced that it is ordinary manganese
steel from the Sorel plant.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The
Mysterious Chunk of Hardware at Ottawa,” Topside, no. 20 (Spring
1966): 4–6; Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam ed., 1966, pp.
48–49; “The
Mystery of UFO Hardware,”
Topside, no. 24/25 (Spring/Summer 1967): 10–11; “Unidentified
Hardware Mystery Deepens,” Topside, no. 27 (Winter 1968): 4–9; “Latest
Report on the Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 29 (Summer 1968): 11– 12;
Condon, pp.
133–135; “Canada’s
Mysterious Chunk of Metal,” Spacelink 6, no. 2 (January 1970): 6–9;
“More Mystery
Added to Ottawa’s Mysterious Chunk of Hardware,” Topside, no. 33
(Winter/Spring 1970): 13–17; “Latest
Report on Ottawa’s Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 34 (Summer/Fall
1970): 22–23; “New
Deveopments on Ottawa’s
Mystery Metal,” Topside, no. 35 (Winter 1971): 29–33; Story, pp.
208–209; John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp.
53–56; Roy Craig, UFOs: An Insiders’ View of the Official Quest for
Evidence, University of North Texas, 1995, pp. 121–132; Good Above, pp.
188–189; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night,
2022, pp. 166, 229–249
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3425
Date: Summer 1960
Location: Orbit of the Earth
Description: "Mystery satellite" tracked, photographed
by Grumman.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_237
Date: Summer 1960
Location: Walkerton, Ontario
Description: 2:00 a.m. Two brothers are alerted by
their journalist brother about an elusive UFO that local police in
Walkerton, Ontario, have been pursuing for about an hour. They drive out
along country roads until they get within 300 feet of the object, which
is hovering around a large tree. The object is circular and apparently
about 3 feet in diameter. It is very bright and changes color repeated.
It then circles the tree purposefully for several minutes. The brothers
climb a fence and approach it, but the UFO suddenly accelerates and
disappears to the south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
Ballantine ed., 1974, pp.
54–56
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3423
Date: 6/21/1960
Description: NICAP sends a confidential report to the
US Congress on “Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects)
and Digest of Documented Evidence” urging legislators to go on the
record about the reality of UFOs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “Confidential
NICAP Report to Congress: Dangers of Secrecy on UFOs (Unidentified
Flying Objects)
and Digest of Documented Evidence,” June 21, 1960
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3426
Date: 6/22/1960
Location: Clan Lake, Northwest Territories
Description: 6:20 p.m. John Person is setting up camp
at Clan Lake, Northwest Territories, on a prospecting expedition and is
waiting for his partner. He hears a noise like an aircraft approaching
and something bounces and hits the surface of the lake about 1,700 feet
behind him. Person sees an object 4–6 feet wide with arms or spokes is
rotating rapidly in the water, but gradually slows down and stops
spinning. When his partner arrives, they get into a canoe and travel to
the impact area. They find an area of burned grass and another area
where grass it cut up in small pieces. They use a pole to probe the lake
bottom and find a channel that is one foot deeper at one end and three
feet deeper at the other, RCMP Cpl. Matheson flies to the lake in a
seaplane on July 19 and August 15 and finds the impact area as Person
has described but no submerged object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Report
of Strange
Object Striking Clan Lake, Clan Lake Dist., N.W.T.,” July 19, July
25, and August 25, 1960; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified,
August Night, 2022, pp. 98–102
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3427
Date: 6/22/1960
Description: A strange flying object struck Clan Lake,
which is located some 30 miles north of Yellowknife, Northwest
Territories, Canada at around 6 p.m. About 20-25 minutes after a
airplane had dropped off witness C. T. Wright, he heard a noise that
sounded like a large plane in the distance. The noise got louder but he
could not see anything in the sky. He then heard something strike the
water behind him and saw an object with arms or spokes rotating in the
water. It was rotating very rapidly and throwing water, but gradually it
began to spin less and finally stopped. It was about 1700 feet away from
him. When his partner arrived they took a canoe and went over to the
shallow spot in the lake where the object hit the water. There was grass
about 18 inches high were the object hit and it appeared to be burnt and
cut up over an area of 20 feet by 60 feet. They felt around in the water
with their paddles where the floor of the lake was very much disturbed
and muddy, and one to three feet deeper than the surrounding lake
proper. The object looked to be about 4-6 feet wide. Mr. Wright did not
see any steam when the object hit the water. He and his partner went
back to the location on two more occasions but could find nothing.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Feindt, www.waterufo.net, citing RCMP report
courtesy of Chris Styles
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3603
Date: 6/22/1960
Description: Former CIA director Adm. R. H.
Hillenkoetter states in a newspaper that UAP flying saucers are
“operating under intelligence control,” and they’re not U.S. or Russian.
Hillenkoetter states the Air Force is not telling U.S. citizens the
truth about UAP.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_93
Date: 6/28/1960 (approximate)
Time: 12:00
Location: LOUVIERS, FR
Description: 1 / garden. Fat 20M cylinder/cigar-shape /
30M altitude going northeast slow. Orange and white. Sound = swarm of
bees.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
138)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6384
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LOUVIERS,FR:1/GARDEN:FAT 20M CGR/30M alt >NE SLOW:ORG+WHT:SOUND=SWARM of BEES", LatLong: "49.233336 1.166667", LatLongDMS: "49:14:00 N 01:10:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EUR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/29/1960
Time: 11:30
Location: SUNLANDS, RSA
Description: Several / farm. 10M cylinder/cigar-shape
hovers and turns / 200M altitude. Possible landing / hills.
Balloon?
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6385
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Republic of South Africa", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "SUNLANDS,RSA:SVRL/FARM:10M CGR HVRS+TURNS/200M alt:POSS.LANDING/HILLS:balloon?", LatLong: "-33.933335 25.400001", LatLongDMS: "33:56:00 S 25:24:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CAP", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 7/1960
Time: 07:00
Location: SCANDALE, ITL
Description: 1 observer. 2M grey metallic torpedo
passes / few meters altitude. Straight and level flight. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri
Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6386
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SCANDALE,ITL:1 OBS:2M GRY MTLC TORPEDO PASSES/few METERS ALT:S/L FLITE:NFD", LatLong: "39.116669 16.950001", LatLongDMS: "39:07:00 N 16:57:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CZ", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/1960
Location: US Senate
Description: Members of the US Senate Preparedness
Committee and the House Science and Astronautics Committee, as well as
the CIA, ask for hearings on USAF’s handling of UFOs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 922
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3428
Date: 7/1/1960
Location: Canada
Description: Canadian authorities possibly recover
"very strange metal". Non-US military.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_236
Date: 7/1/1960
Time: 10:30
Location: NEAR LEEFE, WY
Description: 3 / mine. Silent 55M saucer hovers 50' /
slag heap. 5 transparent domes / bottom/underside. Going quickly
south.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6387
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1127", HatchDesc: "nr LEEFE,WY:3/MINE:SLNT 55M SCR HVRS 50'/SLAG HEAP:5 XPRNT DOMES/BTM:>>S", LatLong: "42.000002 -110.583339", LatLongDMS: "42:00:00 N 110:35:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/1/1960
Location: Leefe (near), WY
Description: Hovering disc like "two dinner plates face
to face," ascended and sped away. [NICAP UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2448
Date: 7/1/1960
Locations: Leefe Mine; Lincoln County, Wyoming
Description: 10:30 a.m. Four witnesses at the Leefe
Mine in Lincoln County, Wyoming, see a shiny disc move in from the south
and hover above a slag heap. It has a diameter of at least 185 feet and
is 14 feet thick. Five transparent bubbles are visible on the bottom as
it rocks gently before moving off to the south at high speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, p. 221
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3429
Date: 7/2/1960
Time: 03:00
Location: NEAR PUERTO RICO
Description: Luminous UFO paces Venezuelan.airliner /
20 minute(s). Shoots away. / LDLN#334p3.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6388
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr PUERTO RICO:LUM.UFO PACES VENEZUELAN.AIRLINER/20min:SHOOTS AWAY:/LDLN#334p3", LatLong: "19.000001 -67.000003", LatLongDMS: "19:00:00 N 67:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PRC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/2/1960
Location: Maiquetia (near), Venezuela
Description: Pilot and crew of Venezuelan Airlines
Super-Constellation arriving from Spain, reported plane was followed by
a luminous UFO. [NICAP UFOE, X] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2449
Date: 7/2/1960
Location: Kankakee, Illinois
Description: Early morning. A couple driving in the
vicinity of Kankakee, Illinois, see the landscape light up with a bright
blue light as a ball of fire approaches out of the south. It passes
above their car dragging a trail of bluish light behind it. The inside
of the car heats up uncomfortably, waking up their daughter and her
husband who are asleep in the back. The light gradually fades and
disappears in the north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 221–223
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3430
Date: 7/3/1960
Time: 16:30
Location: NORTHEAST / YACANTO, ARG
Description: Air Force Captain / car photographs cone.
8M tall-4M diameter. Spins. Slow and silent. / r11p331.
Type: sighting
Reference: FSR CASE HISTORIES. Bimonthly/London.
Supplements 2 - 18 (final issue) (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6389
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "745", HatchDesc: "NE/YACANTO,ARG:AF CAPT/CAR FOTOS CONE:8M TALL-4M diam:SPINS:SLOW+SLNT:/r11p331", LatLong: "-31.833335 -64.750003", LatLongDMS: "31:50:00 S 64:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CRD", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/3/1960
Locations: Argentine Air Force; Villa General Belgrano,
Córdoba, Argentina
Description: 4:30 p.m. Argentine Air Force Capt. Hugo
F. Niotti is driving north near Villa General Belgrano, Córdoba,
Argentina, when he notices a dark object hovering to the right of the
road. He stops his car, grabs his camera, and takes a photo of the
object, which is moving slowly over a field. As he is winding the film
to take another shot, the object accelerates and disappears into the
clouds. The photo shows a conical object low above the ground, as well
as a horse whose attention is attracted to the object. Analysis shows
that the object is about 23 feet high, 20 feet in diameter, and 56 feet
above the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Guillermo C. Roncoroni and Gustavo J.
Alvarez, “Foto
de OVNI Avalada
por la Fuerza Aerea Argentina,” UFO Press 1, no. 3 (April 1977):
32–38; “Cone-Shaped
UFO Photographed
in Argentina,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 1, no. 8 (December 1980):
1; Johannes Koch, “Correspondence,”
CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 2 (February 1981): 2; Willy Smith, “The
Yacanto, Cordoba,
Argentina, Photograph, 07-03-1960,” UFO Casebook; Willy Smith, “UFOs
in Latin America,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp.
104–106
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3431
Date: 7/3/1960
Description: An Argentinean Air Force Captain
photographed a cone-shaped UFO between Yacanto and Cordoba, Argentina at
4:30 p.m. There was a mystery fall of ice from the sky in Portage,
Pennsylvania.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: FSR Case Histories, December 1973, p. 17;
George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 788
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3801
Date: 7/6/1960
Time: ~20:30
Location: TELI, TUVINSK., RUSSIA
Description: 8 scientists. Moon-object 45° over
horizon. Going north at 1.5° / minute. / LDLN#204.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the
SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6390
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "TELI,TUVINSK.,RUS:8 SCIENTISTS:MOON-OBJ 45°OVR HRZN:>N @1.5°/minute:/LDLN#204", LatLong: "51.083336 90.200004", LatLongDMS: "51:05:00 N 90:12:00 E", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TUV", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/6/1960
Location: Texas
Description: Responding to NICAP’s “Dangers of Secrecy
on UFOs” report, Sen. Lyndon B.
Johnson (D-Tex.) states that he has ordered the staff of the Senate
Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee to keep a close watch on UFO
developments.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “NICAP
UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa in the
House of Representatives,
Wednesday, August 31, 1960,” Congressional Record, Proceedings and
Debates of the 86th Congress, Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, pp.
18955–18956
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3432
Date: 7/6/1960
Description: A moon-like object was sighted by eight
scientists over Teli, Russia at a 45-degree elevation above the horizon.
The UFO flew to the north moving at 1.5 degrees of arc per minute.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 79;
Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat,
p. 185
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3875
Date: 7/8/1960
Time: 12:00?
Location: KAMCHUK R.W / TELI, RUSSIA
Description: Same scientists and saucer. Appears from
mountains / west. Unpopulated area.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the
SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6391
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "KAMCHUK R.W/TELI,RUS:SAME SCIENTISTS+SCR:APPEARS fm MTNS/W:unpopulated area", LatLong: "51.083336 89.966671", LatLongDMS: "51:05:00 N 89:58:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TUV", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/13/1960
Locations: Washington National Airport; Levelland
Description: The Air Force gives a preliminary briefing
to associate counsel Stuart French, staff member of the Senate
Preparedness Committee, who wants to know about USAF explanations for
the Washington National Airport and Levelland cases.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet
ed., 1976, p.
156
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3433
Date: 7/14/1960
Location: Miho AFB (2 miles E of), Japan
Description: Pilot Sees Oblong Object At Very High
Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 600714
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2450
Date: 7/15/1960
Description: The Air Force gives a major briefing on
UFOs for congressional staffers: Chief Counsel Robert Smart (House
Committee on Armed Services); Spencer
Beresford, Richard Hines, and Frank Hammill (House Science and
Astronautics Committee). Charles
S. Sheldon II, technical
director of the House Science and Astronautics Committee, is also
present. The USAF reps are Robert
Friend, Lawrence
J. Tacker, Hynek, and Maj.
Gen. Arno H.
Luehman. CIA
officers Richard Payne and John S. Warner are possibly there as well.
The staffers are skeptical; Smart accuses the Air Force of withholding
information and wants to be kept informed of sightings and
investigations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet
ed., 1976, pp.
156–159; Marcia S. Smith, The UFO Enigma, Congressional
Research Service Report No. 83-205, June 20, 1983, pp. 65–66; Swords
291–292; “Saucer
Reading Fest,” Saturday Night Uforia, January 25, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3434
Date: 7/19/1960
Time: 20:30
Location: ST. LOUIS, MO
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6858. 8+observer(s)
/ 3 nights. Small sphere/orb/globe with lights / edge. Rotation = 20
rpm. / r59p144.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6392
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", Elev: "138", HatchDesc: "ST LOUIS,MO:BBK#6858:8+OBS/3 NITES:SML ORB W/LITES/EDGE:ROTn=20rpm:/r59p144", LatLong: "38.633335 -90.200004", LatLongDMS: "38:38:00 N 90:12:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 7/19/1960
End date: 7/21/1960
Location: St. Louis, MO
Description: Round, bright red light fly overhead,
stop, hover, and back up (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
6858)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2451
Date: 7/19/1960
Time: 8:30 PM
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Description: Witness: T.L. Ochs. One round, bright red
light flew overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. Sighting
lasted 20 minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three
following nights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_451
Date: 7/19/1960
Description: 8:30 p.m. CDT. Witness T. L. Ochs of St.
Louis, Missouri reported watching a round, bright red light that flew
overhead, stopped and hovered, and then backed up. The sighting lasted
20 minutes. Note: Ochs reported similar sightings on three following
nights. An hour later, another witness named Sokol reported seeing a
round red ball or wheel-like object with a central nucleus; around it
were revolving or orbiting lights or balls. They winked off.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 6858; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4197
Date: 7/21/1960
Description: On this evening a power failure occurred
in Miami, Florida after a misty blue cloud with a bright center was
seen. A crowd chased a "spaceman" wearing bubble headgear "with gold in
it" down Collins Avenue, but lost him.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0501, citing newspaper clipping
dated July 22, 1960
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4265
Date: 7/22/1960
Time: 22:00
Location: MARTIN, TN
Description: Girl / 13. Saucer hovers. Rudderlike
protrusion. Large oily circles found. / r180p24.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6393
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "126", HatchDesc: "MARTIN,TN:GIRL/13:SCR HVRS:RUDDERLIKE PROTRUSION:LRG OILY CCLs FOUND:/r180p24", LatLong: "36.344446 -88.850004", LatLongDMS: "36:20:40 N 88:51:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/22/1960
Description: At ten o'clock in the evening a
disc-shaped object with a fin or rudder-like proturberance was seen
hovering over Martin, Tennessee by a 13-year-old girl. After it left
large oily circles were found on the ground.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, March
1972, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4297
Date: 7/24/1960
Time: 20:50
Location: PORTVILLE, NY
Description: Cop and 2. 2 silver cigars change shape
and color(s). Hover. Going NNW. Turn going south. / r114p54.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 64)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6394
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "434", HatchDesc: "PORTVILLE,NY:COP+2:2 SLVR CGRS CHANGE SHAPE+CLRS:HVR:> NNW:TURN>S:/r114p54", LatLong: "42.038891 -78.338893", LatLongDMS: "42:02:20 N 78:20:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/24/1960
Location: Portville, NY
Description: State policeman reported two dumbbell-like
UFOs. [NICAP UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2452
Date: 7/24/1960
Description: Frank Porcello and two others saw two UFOs
maneuver over Portville, New York at 8:45 p.m. The sighting lasted more
than four minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I),
p. 64; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case
113
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4351
Date: 7/26/1960
Description: Lt. Col. Lawrence
J. Tacker writes to Stringfield that
“There is absolutely no truth in the charge that the Air Force or any
other governmental agency is withholding information on the subject of
UFOs from the general public.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest,
1977, p. 167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3435
Date: 7/30/1960
Time: 23:30
Location: BISHOPBRIGGS, SCT
Description: 18+observer(s). Bell-saucer low and slow /
60 minutes. Electric humming. Lit portholes. Glows.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6395
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "BISHOPBRIGGS,SCT:18+OBS:BELL-SCR LOW+SLOW/60mins:ELCTRIC HUM:LIT PORTS:GLOWS", LatLong: "55.900003 -4.233334", LatLongDMS: "55:54:00 N 04:14:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/31/1960
Time: 17:00
Location: NASHVILLE, OH
Description: 2 observer(s). Slow silent
cylinder/cigar-shape passes. Painfully brilliant. Vanishes in
place.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6396
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "782", HatchDesc: "NASHVILLE,OH:2 OBS:SLOW SLNT CGR PASSES:PAINFULLY BRILLIANT:vanishes in place", LatLong: "40.600002 -82.111115", LatLongDMS: "40:36:00 N 82:06:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/31/1960
Time: 17:00
Location: AUCKLAND, NZ
Description: 4 / (seen thru) binoculars. Shiny metallic
'parachute' hovers / BROWNs bay. No cords or rider.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
727)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6397
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "AUCKLAND,NZ:4/BINOCS:SHINY MTLC 'PARACHUTE' HVRS/BROWNs BAY:no cords or rider", LatLong: "-36.866668 174.700008", LatLongDMS: "36:52:00 S 174:42:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/31/1960
Description: At 5:00 p.m. in Nashville, Ohio a very
bright cigar-shaped object passed by slowly. Its light was so intense it
caused eye irritation for the two witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, July 1960; George D. Fawcett,
Flying Saucers magazine, September 1962, p. 36
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4522
Date: 8/1960
Location: GRUMMAN ARCRFT CO TRACKS AND PHOTOS MYSTERY
EARTH SATELLITE / SEVERAL DAYS
Description: Many observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE;
Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 162)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6398
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account
Extra Data: Country: "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", Credibility: "11", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "GRUMMAN ARCRFT CO TRACKS+PHOTOS MYSTERY EARTH SATELLITE/SVRL DAYS:MANY OBS", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CLF", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/1960
Time: 01:30
Location: BELMONT, NSW
Description: Buzz. Big top-saucer / backyard!
Pseudo-human/entity / south-suit walks going [to] house. Sees
observer(s) and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH:
ENTCAT97.DOC: Catalog of Australian Entity and related reports: October
1997
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6399
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "BELMONT,NSW:BUZZ:BIG TOP-SCR/BACKYARD!:PSH/S-SUIT WALKS > HOUSE:SEES OBS+AWAY", LatLong: "-32.916668 151.700007", LatLongDMS: "32:55:00 S 151:42:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/1960?
Time: 02:00
Location: NEAR WALKERTON, ONT
Description: Scientist/science and cops. 3' saucer
closely examines tree. Flies off when approached.
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6400
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "10", Duration: "66", Elev: "255", HatchDesc: "nr WALKERTON,ONT:SCI+COPS:3' SCR CLOSELY EXAMINES TREE:FLIES OFF WHEN APPRCHD", LatLong: "44.127780 -81.205559", LatLongDMS: "44:07:40 N 81:12:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1960
Time: 03:00
Location: MEUSSIA, FR
Description: 3 observer(s). Strange glowing white
rectangle / ground. See Cazalla de la Sierra, Sp.
Type: sighting
Reference: FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis:
OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index
242)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6401
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "MEUSSIA,FR:3 OBS:STRANGE GLOWING WHT RECTANGLE/GND:see CAZALLA de la SIERRA,SP", LatLong: "46.500002 5.733334", LatLongDMS: "46:30:00 N 05:44:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Jura", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 8/1960
Time: 09:20
Location: HAMBURG, GER
Description: 7M saucer-on-edge descends / garden. 3
beams / light / center. Haze and gas. P279.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 508)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6402
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "HAMBURG,GER:7M SCR-ON-EDGE DESCENDS/GARDEN:3 BEAMS/LITE/CENTER:HAZE+GAS:p279", LatLong: "53.566669 10.050000", LatLongDMS: "53:34:00 N 10:03:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SCH", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/1960
Time: 13:00?
Location: NEAR FT. BRAGG, NC
Description: Airman. Metallic domed 10M saucer drops /
storm clouds. Portholes. Rocks. Going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 44)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6403
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "nr Ft.BRAGG,NC:AIRMAN:MTLC DOMED 10M SCR DROPS/STORM CLOUDS:PORTHOLES:ROCKS:↑", LatLong: "35.166668 -79.000004", LatLongDMS: "35:10:00 N 79:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1960 (approximate)
Time: 17:00
Location: MOSCOW
Description: Scientist and many. Rectangular object
hangs miles / sky. No visible support.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the
SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6404
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "18", HatchDesc: "MOSCOW:SCIENTIST+MANY:RECTANGLR OBJ HANGS MILES/SKY:NO VISIBLE SUPPORT:", LatLong: "55.733336 37.583335", LatLongDMS: "55:44:00 N 37:35:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/1960 (approximate)
Time: 22:00?
Location: NANJING, CH
Description: Large and small orbs during tornado. Night
lights enter cottage. Cottage rises / air!
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983
UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 42)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6405
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "NANJING,CH:LRG+SML ORBS DURING TORNADO:NLTS ENTER COTTAGE:COTTAGE RISES/AIR!", LatLong: "32.066668 118.766672", LatLongDMS: "32:04:00 N 118:46:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Jiangsu", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 8/1960
Time: 0920
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Description: Mrs. K. St. Bereits was in her garden when
she saw an object coming down at great speed. Arriving at ground level,
it came toward her, appearing as a disk standing on edge, 7 m in
diameter with a pulsating halo of yellow light. Three beams of light
came from a central opening. A sort of haze and "gas stream" was also
described.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Jan., 61; FSR 61, 4 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_508
Date: 8/1960
Locations: US; Dominican Republic
Description: The US severs diplomatic relations with
the Dominican Republic. The CIA’s Special Group decides to arm
Dominicans in hopes of an assassination of generalissimo Rafael
Trujillo. The CIA disperses three rifles and three .38 revolvers,
but things pause in 1961 as John F.
Kennedy assumes office.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3436
Date: 8/2/1960
Time: 00:30
Location: MOULLE, FR
Description: 3 observer(s). Thin 5M glowing-disc
crosses road / 2M altitude. Follows car / 1km. / r30p243.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
117)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6406
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "MOULLE,FR:3 OBS:THIN 5M GLO-DISC CROSSES ROAD/2M ALT:FOLOS CAR/1km:/r30p243", LatLong: "50.788891 2.183333", LatLongDMS: "50:47:20 N 02:11:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/2/1960
Description: Mr. & Mrs. Hiot and a third witness
encountered a purple light while driving between Difques and St. Omer,
Pas-de-Calais department, France at 12:05 a.m. As it got closer it
revealed itself to be a domed disc-shaped object, four meters wide, with
a red luminous bottom that illuminated the road. the UFO paced their car
for one kilometer, making no noise and flying just three meters above
the ground. Mrs. Hiot saw a human-looking figure inside the
saucer.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ouest France, August 5, 1960; David F. Webb
& Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A1786;
Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 117
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4593
Date: 8/5/1960 (approximate)
Time: 02:00
Location: EYZIES-DE-TAYAC, FR
Description: Dark domed saucer glows / hills.
Observer(s) feels watched. Away fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M.
Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN
(Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6407
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "EYZIES-de-TAYAC,FR:DRK DOMED SCR GLOWS/HILLS:OBS FEELS WATCHED:away fast", LatLong: "44.933335 1.016667", LatLongDMS: "44:56:00 N 01:01:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Dordogne", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/9/1960
Locations: Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel; Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles, California
Description: Contactee Gabriel
Green announces his candidacy for the presidency of the United
States at a press conference at the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel. He
publishes his Space Age Platform at the second meeting of his
Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America convention in the Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles, California, on August 13–14, but soon drops
out and lends his support to John F.
Kennedy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Gabriel Green”;
“Space
Age Platform of Gabriel Green: Candidate for the Office of President of
the United States,” AFSCA World Report, no. 16 (July/Aug. 1960):
4–7; Clark III 99; S. D. Tucker, False Economies: The Strangest, Least
Successful, and Most Audacious Financial Follies, Plans, and Crazes of
All Times, Amberly, 2018, chapter 3, excerpted in “Taxing Credulity,”
Fortean Times 367 (June 2018): 52–55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3437
Date: 8/10/1960
Locations: Vandenberg AFB [now Vandenberg Space Force
Base], California; North Pacific
Description: The Discoverer 13 Corona KH-1
photoreconnaissance satellite is launched from Vandenberg AFB [now
Vandenberg Space Force Base], California. The primary goal of this
series of satellites is to replace the U-2 spy plane in surveilling the
Sino-Soviet Bloc, determining the disposition and speed of production of
Soviet missiles and long-range bombers assess. The Corona program is
also used to produce maps and charts for the Department of Defense and
other US government mapping programs. On August 11, after 17 orbits, the
satellite splashes down in the North Pacific and its payload is
recovered. It represents the first-ever successful recovery of an object
from orbit.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Discoverer 13”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3438
Date: 8/11/1960
Time: 15:10
Location: LEFT HAND CANYON, CO
Description: Saucer going down / ground. Tractor
malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Humming. Outer plate
pulled in and replaced!
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6408
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "3218", HatchDesc: "LEFT HAND CANYON,CO:SCR↓/GND:TRACTOR EMEs:HUM:OUTER PLATE PULLED IN+REPLACED!", LatLong: "40.111113 -105.305561", LatLongDMS: "40:06:40 N 105:18:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 8/11/1960
Locations: Left Hand Canyon; Altona, Colorado
Description: 3:10 p.m. Ray Hawks is operating a farm
tractor at Left Hand Canyon near Altona, Colorado, when he hears a
muffled explosion. Looking up, he watches a disc dropping vertically out
of the cloud cover. It stops in midair about 650 feet away from him and
200 feet above the ground, wobbling a bit. When it stabilizes, he sees
it looks like two concave discs joined together at the rim and dull
aluminum in color. Bluish smoke is issuing from an apparent gap in its
surface. An electric hum seems to come from inside the object. The
section where the smoke is issuing is withdrawn inside, and a new
section appears to replace it, settling in with a click. The hum
increases in intensity, and the object appears to be surrounded by a
heat haze. It then shoots up into the clouds and vanishes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 223–225
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3439
Date: 8/11/1960
Description: An important close encounter case
involving ignition interference with the engine of a tractor occurred on
this day in Left Hand Canyon, Boulder County, Colorado at 3:10 in the
afternoon. Mr. Robert Hawks was operating a tractor with a backhoe when
his tractor stalled. Looking up he saw a disc-shaped object hovering in
the sky above the canyon, making a humming noise, and he watched for the
next 15 minutes, unable to re-start his tractor, while some apparent
repair activity was performed on the hovering craft. A panel on the
craft was rotated inside and replaced. Ater the repair was completed,
the craft departed by shooting straight up in the sky. Mr. Hawks could
then restart his tractor.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: B. V. Wilson, APRO Bulletin,
September-October 1960, p. 1; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The
Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 182; Thomas M.
Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 114; Mark
Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4866
Date: 8/12/1960
Time: 03:30
Location: SAN MATEO, CA
Description: Amateur astronomer. Odd theramin sound! 2
groups / white night lights east going west in V-formation.
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6409
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "11", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "SAN MATEO,CA:AM.ASTRONOMER:ODD THERAMIN SOUND!:2 GRPS/WHT NLTS E>W IN V-FORMn", LatLong: "37.561113 -122.333339", LatLongDMS: "37:33:40 N 122:20:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/12/1960
Locations: NASA; Thor-Delta rocket
Description: NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite is
launched by a Thor-Delta rocket and becomes the first passive
communications satellite. Microwave signals are bounced off the
satellite from one point on earth to another.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project Echo”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3440
Date: 8/13/1960
Location: Red Bluff, CA
Description: Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A.
Carson and Stanley Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they
thought was an airliner about to crash. When the UFO had descended to
about 100 or 200 feet altitude it suddenly reversed direction and
climbed to 500 ft. Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow
(color not mentioned) and having definite red lights at each end. They
continued to watch the UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats.
The local RADAR operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it
the next day. Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO
and another similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_597
Date: 8/13/1960
Time: ~20:00
Location: PLUMAS CO, CA
Description: Cop and several. Formations / red and
white-glowing-disks maneuver / incredible speeds. / r242p61.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6410
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "1400", HatchDesc: "PLUMAS co,CA:COP+SVRL:FORMNs/RED+WHT-GLOW-DISKS MNVR/INCRED.SPEEDS:/r242p61", LatLong: "40.000002 -121.000006", LatLongDMS: "40:00:00 N 121:00:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/13/1960
Time: 23:50
Location: EAST / CORNING, CA
Description: 2 California Highway Patrol (CHP) and
more/others. RADAR. Saucer / fantastic maneuvers. Red beam scans sky and
ground. / r103p66.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6411
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "120", Elev: "84", HatchDesc: "E/CORNING,CA:2 CHP++:RDR:SCR/FANTASTIC MNVRS:RED BEAM SCANS SKY+GND:/r103p66", LatLong: "39.433335 -122.055561", LatLongDMS: "39:26:00 N 122:03:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/13/1960
Time: 23:50
Location: RED BLUFF, CA
Description: Cops and many and RADAR's. Red ovoid /
impossible maneuvers. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). / r11p272+/
r242p170.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6412
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "220", Elev: "95", HatchDesc: "RED BLUFF,CA:COPS+MANY+RDRS:RED OVOID/IMPOSSIBLE MNVRs:RFI:/r11p272+/r242p170", LatLong: "40.172224 -122.238895", LatLongDMS: "40:10:20 N 122:14:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/13/1960
End date: 8/18/1960
Location: Northern Area, US
Description: Concentration of UFO sightings, mostly in
north, including -many police witnesses. (NICAP UFOE, XII) (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2453
Date: 8/13/1960
Location: Red Bluff, CA
Description: Police, vehicle encounter, light beam,
E-M, maneuvers, cat-and-mouse pursuit (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 600813
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2454
Date: 8/13/1960
Location: Red Bluff, CA
Description: Red Bluff, California, G,V (NICAP: 09 -
RADAR Cases, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 600813
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2455
Date: 8/13/1960
End date: 8/14/1960
Locations: Highway Patrol; Red Bluff, California;
Tehama County
Description: 11:50 p.m.–2:05 a.m. Highway Patrol
officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley
E. Scott, plus three others at Red Bluff, California, are on patrol
when see what they think at first is an airliner about to crash. It
turns out to be a maneuvering, silent red light with five white lights,
descending to 100–200 feet altitude. It suddenly reverses course, climbs
to 500 feet, hovers, sweeps the ground with a red beam, performs aerial
gymnastics, then heads east, chased by the police car. It is joined by a
similar object from the south, then it disappears in the east. A local
radar operator confirms the UFO at the time but denies it the next day.
Tehama County sheriff’s officers also see the UFO and another similar
one the same night.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Red Bluff Incident”; “False
AF Answer in Red Bluff Case,”
NICAP Special Bulletin, October 1960, pp. 1, 4; Schopick, pp.
96–100; Lorenzen, FSHoax, pp.
180–182; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 153–156,
225; Hynek UFO Report, pp.
92–94; Clark III 1002–1006; Sparks, p. 284; UFOEv,
pp.
61–62, 112;
Swords 295–297; “Red
Bluff: 1960,” Saturday Night Uforia, February 16, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3441
Date: 8/13/1960
Description: At 11:50 p.m. a red colored, cigar-shaped
UFO in Tehama county, California twice approached a police car at close
range. Police officers Scott and Carson were 18 miles north of Red Bluff
and east of Corning, California on Hoag Road when they first encountered
the UFO. It had red lights at both ends, and one of the red lights swept
the ground like a searchlight. They experienced heavy static on their
police radio, and the UFO swerved to avoid their spotlight. There were
at least two other independent witnesses to the UFO that night.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: San Francisco Chronicle, August 16, 1960;
Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the
Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 162; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence
(Volume I), p. 61; APRO Bulletin, September 1960, p. 1; Mark Rodeghier,
UFOs Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 18; Hynek J Allen Hynek,
The Hynek UFO Report, p. 92
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4966
Date: 8/14/1960
Time: 00:30
Location: LOS MOLINOS, CA
Description: Wave. Hundreds / observer(s) in many N.
California towns. 13-20 August. 1 Case / MJ#179p3.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine
Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 348)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6413
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "206", Elev: "67", HatchDesc: "LOS MOLINOS,CA:WAVE:100s/OBS in MANY N.CAL TOWNS:13-20aug:1 CASE/MJ#179p3", LatLong: "40.022224 -122.100006", LatLongDMS: "40:01:20 N 122:06:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/15/1960
Location: US
Description: "Air Force Information Policy Letter; For
Commanders," Vol. XIV, No. 12, issued by Office of Secretary of Air
Force. Under title "AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace," stated,
"There is a relationship between the Air Force's interest in space
surveillance and its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near
Earth for unidentified flying objects--'UFOs.'"
Type: policy letter
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_887
Date: 8/15/1960
Time: 22:00
Location: LISBON, PORTUGAL
Description: 2+observer(s). Luminous yellow
cylinder/cigar-shape flies fast. No further details. / O Seculo.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS
Download). (Index 72)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6414
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LISBON,PORTUGAL:2+OBS:LUMN.YELLOW CGR FLIES FAST:NFD:/O SECULO", LatLong: "38.716669 -9.066667", LatLongDMS: "38:43:00 N 09:04:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 8/15/1960
Description: Air Force Information Policy Letter for
Commanders, vol. 14, no. 12, is issued by Office of the Secretary of Air
Force. In “AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace,” it states, “There is a
relationship between the Air Force’s interest in space surveillance and
its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near Earth for
unidentified flying objects—’UFOs.’”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
108
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3442
Date: 8/15/1960
Description: In Lisbon, Portugal at 10:00 p.m. a
luminous yellow, cigar-shaped object flew by the city at high
speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Victor Lourenco, PORTUCAT, case # 72, citing
the newspaper O Seculo
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5032
Date: 8/16/1960
Location: OAK FOREST, IL
Description: Former Air Force pilot. Saucer hovers and
bobs around. No further details. / r78p186.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 138)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6415
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "205", HatchDesc: "OAK FOREST,IL:FORMER AF PILOT:SCR HVRS AND BOBS AROUND:NFD:/r78p186", LatLong: "41.605558 -87.744449", LatLongDMS: "41:36:20 N 87:44:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 12:00?
Location: KAZAKH LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: Geology Professor. Bright disc / sky.
Going [to] moons diameter. No further details. / r11p285.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA;
BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 285)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6416
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Kazakh Republic", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KAZAKH LOC UNK:GEOLOGY PROF:BRITE DISC/SKY:>MOONS DIAMETER:NFD:/r11p285", LatLong: "48.750002 59.000003", LatLongDMS: "48:45:00 N 59:00:00 E", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 20:30
Location: CORNING, CA
Description: Cops and many. 2 red saucers and delta.
Red lights sweep grounded and sky. / r242p170+r249.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine
Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 348)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6417
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "135", Elev: "83", HatchDesc: "CORNING,CA:COPS+MANY:2 RED SCRS+DELTA:RED LITES SWEEP GRND+SKY:/r242p170+r249", LatLong: "39.933335 -122.200006", LatLongDMS: "39:56:00 N 122:12:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 21:30
Location: EUREKA, CA
Description: Many observer(s). 6-8 bright red and white
night lights maneuver in formation. = planes refueling / USAF.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine
Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 348)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6418
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "EUREKA,CA:MANY OBS:6-8 BRITE RED+WHT NLTS MNVR/FORMn:=PLANES REFUELING/USAF", LatLong: "40.750002 -124.166673", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 124:10:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 22:00
Location: KUYBYSHEV = SAMARA, RUSSIA
Description: Slow disk seen. Lens-saucer zigzags going
northeast / Kazak Mountains / r97#50.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the
SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6419
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KUYBYSHEV=SAMARA,RUSS:SLOW DISK SEEN::LENS-SCR ZIGZAGS >NE/KAZAK Mtns/r97#50", LatLong: "53.166669 50.083336", LatLongDMS: "53:10:00 N 50:05:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SAM", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 23:00
Location: MINERAL, CA
Description: Cops and many. 6 objects dip and dive and
hover. Incredible speeds. / r28p348.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6420
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "1496", HatchDesc: "MINERAL,CA:COPS+MANY:6 OBJs DIP+DIVE+HVR:INCREDIBLE SPEEDS:/r28p348", LatLong: "40.350002 -121.600006", LatLongDMS: "40:21:00 N 121:36:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 23:00
Location: BARAKHUDZIR RV, USSR
Description: 11m north / Koktal, CH. Geologists.
Luminous object 1.5 / moon north going quickly south over
mountains.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the
SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6421
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Tadzhik Republic", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "BARAKHUDZIR Rv,USSR:11m N/KOKTAL,CH:GEOLOGISTS:LUM OBJ 1.5/MOON N>>S OVR MTNs", LatLong: "39.266669 74.100004", LatLongDMS: "39:16:00 N 74:06:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "???", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/16/1960
Time: 23:40
Location: CONCORD AND PLEASANT HILL, CA
Description: Circular object maneuvers going up and
down [to] and side to side. Colored lights. / r28p348.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6422
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "35", Elev: "24", HatchDesc: "CONCORD+PLEASANT HILL,CA:CIRC.OBJ MNVRS ↑+↓+SIDE to SIDE:CLRD LITES:/r28p348", LatLong: "37.966668 -122.016672", LatLongDMS: "37:58:00 N 122:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/16/1960
Location: Oak Forest, IL
Description: Former Air Force pilot saw disc-like UFO
which hovered, bobbed around. [NICAP UFOE, V] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2456
Date: 8/16/1960
Location: Charleston, South Carolina
Description: Night. A woman in Charleston, South
Carolina, takes a photo of a mystery satellite that is in the same part
of the sky as Echo I, which is also in the photo.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,”
IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3443
Date: 8/16/1960
Description: Eight geophysicists working in the
Kazakstan Mountains near the Barakhudzir River, 18 kilometers north of
Koktal, Kazakstan, U.S.S.R. saw a bright orange lens-shaped UFO at 11:00
p.m. The strange luminous body suddenly appeared over the mountainns on
the east slope of the valley, moved north to south while keeping a
constant speed and altitude. It went behind the mountain top, then
re-appeared, flying off to the southeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 61;
Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat,
p. 185; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron
Curtain, p. 284
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5074
Date: 8/16/1960
Description: At 10:30 p.m. in Corning, California
pilots and many other witnesses observed two long red ovoids, followed
by a V-shaped boomerang.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 170;
Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist!, p. 366
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5075
Date: 8/17/1960
Time: 02:00?
Location: HEALDSBURG AND SANTA ROSA, CA
Description: Deputy. Dull red flattened ball hovers and
floats near horizon.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6423
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "33", HatchDesc: "HEALDSBURG+SANTA ROSA,CA:DEPUTY:DULL RED FLATTENED BALL HVRS+FLOATS nr HRZN", LatLong: "38.616669 -122.883339", LatLongDMS: "38:37:00 N 122:53:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/17/1960
Time: ~20:00
Location: ROSEVILLE, CA
Description: 2 cops and more/others. 2 lit up Oblong
objects play over town / 1 hr. No further details. / r28p348.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6424
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "ROSEVILLE,CA:2 COPS++:2 LIT UP OBLONG OBJs PLAY OVR TOWN/1 hr:NFD:/r28p348", LatLong: "38.733335 -121.316672", LatLongDMS: "38:44:00 N 121:19:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/17/1960
Time: ~22:00
Location: FOLSOM, CA
Description: UFO / whining noise. 2 white lights /
front and amber light / rear. / r28p348.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6425
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "67", HatchDesc: "FOLSOM,CA:UFO/WHINING NOISE:2 WHT LITES/FRONT+AMBER LITE/REAR:/r28p348", LatLong: "38.666669 -121.166672", LatLongDMS: "38:40:00 N 121:10:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/17/1960
Location: Moscow
Description: The trial for downed U-2 pilot Francis
Gary Powers begins in Moscow.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3444
Date: 8/18/1960
Time: 00:10
Location: DUNSMUIR, CA
Description: Highway patrolmen. Ovoid going down [to]
near ground. Absolute(ly) quiet. 2nd object joins. / r11p272.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6426
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "130", Elev: "698", HatchDesc: "DUNSMUIR,CA:HWY PATROLMEN:OVOID ↓ nr GND:ABS QUIET:2nd OBJ JOINS:/r11p272", LatLong: "41.133335 -122.283339", LatLongDMS: "41:08:00 N 122:17:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/18/1960
Time: 01:50
Location: REDLANDS, CA
Description: Domed disk with ring / red lights. Humming
and deep roar. / r28p348+/ r242p170.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6427
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "402", HatchDesc: "REDLANDS,CA:DOMED DISK W/RING/RED LITES:HUM+DEEP ROAR:/r28p348+/r242p170", LatLong: "34.033335 -117.200006", LatLongDMS: "34:02:00 N 117:12:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/18/1960
Time: 21:50
Location: HONEYDEW, CA
Description: Postmaster. Delta/triangle/box-like craft
seen clearly. Interior lit up. Sharp turn and away. / r28.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6428
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "110", HatchDesc: "HONEYDEW,CA:POSTMASTER:DLT SEEN CLEARLY:INTERIOR LIT UP:SHARP TURN+AWAY:/r28", LatLong: "40.244446 -124.122228", LatLongDMS: "40:14:40 N 124:07:20 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/18/1960
Location: Mys Schmidta airfield in Siberia
Description: The Discoverer 14 Corona KH-1 spy
satellite is launched. It is the first completely successful mission and
returns images of the Mys Schmidta airfield in Siberia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Discoverer 14”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3445
Date: 8/23/1960
Time: 03:20
Location: WICHITA, KS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6914. Unidentified.
"Japanese lantern" with portholes follows Echo satellite trajectory.
Very large.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 146)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6429
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "392", HatchDesc: "WICHITA,KS:BBK#6914:UID:"JAP.LANTERN" W/PORTS FOLOS Echo SATELLITE TRAJ:VLARGE", LatLong: "37.683335 -97.316671", LatLongDMS: "37:41:00 N 97:19:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/23/1960
Location: Wichita, KS
Description: Dull orange round object, with yellow
lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6914)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2457
Date: 8/23/1960
Time: 3::24 AM
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Description: Witness: Boeing aeronautical engineer C.A.
Komiske. One round object with yellow lights coming from what looked
like three triangular windows at bottom. Object was dull orange. Flew in
an arc for 2 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_452
Date: 8/23/1960
Description: C.A. Komiske, a Boeing aeronautical
engineer, sighted a dull orange, round flying object at 3:24 a.m. in
Wichita, Kansas. The object had three yellow lights that came from what
looked like triangular windows at the bottom. The object flew in an arc
for two minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5253
Date: 8/25/1960 (approximate)
Time: 20:50
Location: BETHPAGE, NY
Description: Grumman station/depot/facility. Surprise
satellite meets echo-I from opposite direction. "Common".
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6430
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "BETHPAGE,NY:GRUMMAN Stn:SURPRISE SAT. MEETS ECHO-I FROM OPPOSITE DIRn:"COMMON"", LatLong: "40.750002 -73.483337", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 73:29:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/25/1960
Time: 22:00?
Location: CHICAGO, IL
Description: 2 / (seen thru) binoculars / planetarium.
Echo satellite going east. UFO going quickly west 3X as fast. /
r97#50v1#11.
Type: sighting
Reference: KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York
TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index
860)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6431
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "190", HatchDesc: "CHICAGO,IL:2/BINOCS/PLANETARIUM:ECHO SAT.> E:UFO >>W 3X as FAST:/r97#50v1#11", LatLong: "41.833335 -87.683338", LatLongDMS: "41:50:00 N 87:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "9999", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 8/25/1960
Location: Bethpage, NY
Description: Grumman mystery satellite photo (NICAP: 08
- Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 600825
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2458
Date: 8/25/1960
Location: Bethpage, Long Island, New York
Description: The “dark satellite” is seen and
photographed five times by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation at
Bethpage, Long Island, New York. It is supposed to be three times faster
than the Echo 1 satellite and travels east to west in a retrograde
orbit, rather than west to east. Its inclination to the equator is about
135°. The color of the object varies from “carrot to straw.” The Grumman
observers estimate that the object is in an eccentric orbit with an
apogee of as much as 4,200 miles and a perigee of about 300 miles. They
immediately produce a proposal to the US Air Force to share data in the
hopes of plotting a firm orbit for the mystery satellite.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Grumman Mystery
Satellite”; Gordon W. Creighton, “Unidentified
Satellites,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1961): 3–6;
“The
Unidentified Satellite: Grumman Aircraft Writes to One of Our
Readers,” Flying Saucer Review 7, no. 2 (March/April 1961): 29; Blue
Book files, “Grumman
Proposal for Optical Surveillance of the Retrograde Satellite,” 1961;
UFOEv, p.
138; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4
(October 2009): 13; Center for UFO Studies, “Moonwatch
Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_3446
Date: 8/25/1960
Description: The National Security Council recommends
to President Eisenhower the
establishment of a top secret National Reconnaissance Office to
coordinate USAF and CIA reconnaissance satellite activities because of
management problems with the USAF satellite program.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “National
Reconnaissance Office” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3447
Date: Late 8/1960
Location: Butte Falls, Oregon
Description: Two men in a car near Butte Falls, Oregon,
see a pale-white light hovering 300 feet ahead of them. They watch it
for 15 minutes, then decide to drive closer. The light then rises to 100
feet and recedes, then changes to orange. No sound is heard. The light
performs geometrical maneuvers, creating rectangle paths and other zig-
zags. It then accelerates, changes back to white, and zooms off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 294
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3450
Date: Late 8/1960
Alternate date: Early 9/1960
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Description: Evening. Rhodes
McCarroll and his grandfather, sitting on the upstairs back porch of
their home in Memphis, Tennessee, notice a glowing basketball-sized
globe in the soil by the hedge. They watch it for 5 minutes, then see a
figure standing behind the ball. It is a glowing nude, generally
humanlike figure, about 6 feet tall, holding a light at chest level. The
figure is square-shouldered and has disproportionately long legs that
are narrow and pointed between the knees and ankles. The witnesses watch
another 5 minutes, at which point the globe and the entity begin to fade
and are gone from sight in another 5 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 279–280
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3451
Date: 8/25/1960
Description: On this afternoon an agriculture student
named Nielsen was sucked up into a flying saucer in Halmstad, Sweden. He
lost consciousness; when he came to he found himself on a bed in a room
with light-emitting walls. A man wearing coveralls apologized to him in
Swedish. He was then taken to an underground base.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Flying Saucer Review, April 1963, p. 10;
David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports,
case # A0503
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5315
Date: 8/26/1960
Time: 20:00
Location: MESA, AZ
Description: Chemical teacher. Object rumbles and
hovers. 4 beams and beacon / top. Vanishes / reappears.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 68)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6432
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "376", HatchDesc: "MESA,AZ:CHEM.TEACHER:OBJ RUMBLES+HVRs:4 BEAMS+BEACON/TOP:VANISHES/REAPPEARS", LatLong: "33.433335 -111.850005", LatLongDMS: "33:26:00 N 111:51:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/26/1960
Location: Mesa, AZ
Description: UFO observed by chemistry teacher, pilot.
[NICAP UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2459
Date: 8/26/1960
Locations: Adler Planetarium; Chicago, Illinois
Description: 9:00 p.m. Director Robert I. Johnson and
other staff at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, Illinois, observe a
faint reddish object in the sky moving from east to west, apparently the
same mystery satellite seen and photographed by the Grumman
observers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,”
IUR 32, no. 4 (October 2009): 13; Swords 294; Center for UFO Studies,
“Moonwatch
Mystery Satellites, 1958–1962” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_3448
Date: 8/29/1960
Time: 16:10
Location: CRETE, IL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6929. Unidentified.
Brill silvery globe over farm road. Rises going up [to] until
gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 174)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6433
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "223", HatchDesc: "CRETE,IL:BBK#6929:UID:BRILL SILVERY GLOBE OVR FARM ROAD:RISES ↑ UNTIL GONE", LatLong: "41.433335 -87.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:26:00 N 87:39:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/29/1960
Location: Crete, IL
Description: Shiny, round, silver object fly straight
up at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6929)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2460
Date: 8/29/1960
Time: 4:05 PM
Location: Crete, Illinois
Description: Witness: farmer Ed Schneeweis. One shiny,
round, silver object flew straight up very fast for 18 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_453
Date: 8/29/1960
Description: At 4:05 p.m. in Crete, Illinois farmer Ed
Schneeweis sighted a shiny, round, silver object that flew straight up
very fast. It was in sight for 18 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5460
Date: 8/31/1960
Locations: Iowa; Congress
Description: Rep. Leonard G.
Wolf (D-Iowa) makes a statement in the House on NICAP’s “Dangers of
Secrecy on UFOs” report, saying that it is “imperative to end the risk
of accidental war from defense forces’ confusion over UFOs.” He mentions
NICAP board member Adm. Roscoe
Hillenkoetter’s request that “Congress inform the public as to the
facts.” Based on a there-year NICAP study, Wolf states that all defense
personnel “should be told that the UFOs are real and should be trained
to distinguish them—by their characteristic speeds and maneuvers— from
conventional planes and missiles…. The American people must be
convinced, by documented facts, that the UFOs could not be Soviet
machines.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “NICAP
UFO Report: Extension of Remarks of Hon. Leonard G. Wolf of Iowa
in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, August 31, 1960,”
Congressional Record, Proceedings and Debates of the 86th Congress,
Second Session, vol. 106, Part 14, pp. 18955–18956; Good Need, p.
261
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3449
Date: 9/1960
Location: Groom Lake in Nevada
Description: Groom Lake in Nevada receives the name
“Area 51” when A-12 test facility construction begins, including a new
8,500-foot runway (Runway 14/32) to replace the existing one built for
the U-2.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Area 51”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3452
Date: 9/1960
Locations: New York City; Cuba
Description: CIA officer Richard
M. Bissell Jr. and DCI Allen W.
Dulles initiate talks with two leading figures of the Mafia, Johnny
Roselli and Sam Giancana. Later, other
crime bosses such as Carlos
Marcello, Santo
Trafficante Jr., and
Meyer Lansky become involved in the first plot against Fidel Castro. The strategy
is managed by Sheffield
Edwards. Robert Maheu, a veteran of
CIA counterespionage activities, is instructed to hire the Mafia to kill
Castro. The advantage of employing the Mafia for this work is that it
provides the CIA with a credible cover story. The Mafia are known to be
angry with Castro for closing their profitable brothels and casinos in
Cuba. On September 14, Maheu meets with Roselli in a New York City hotel
and offers him $150,000 for the “removal” of Castro. James
O’Connell, who
identifies himself as Maheu’s associate but is really the chief of the
CIA’s operational support division, is present during the meeting.
Declassified documents do not reveal if Roselli, Giancana, or
Trafficante accept a down payment for the job. According to CIA files,
it is Giancana who suggests poison pills to add to Castro’s food or
drinks. Such pills, manufactured by the CIA’s Technical Services
Division, are given to Giancana’s nominee named Juan
Orta. Giancana recommends him as being an official in the Cuban
government with access to Castro. Allegedly, after several unsuccessful
attempts to introduce the poison into Castro’s food, Orta abruptly
demands to be let out of the mission, handing over the job to another
unnamed participant. Later, a second attempt is mounted through Giancana
and Trafficante using Tony Varona,
the leader of the Cuban Exile Junta, who has, according to Trafficante,
become “disaffected with the apparent ineffectual progress of the
Junta.” Varona requests $10,000 in expenses and $1,000 worth of
communications equipment. However, it is unknown how far the second
attempt goes, as it is canceled due to the launching of the Bay of Pigs
Invasion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Sam
Giancana”; Wikipedia, “Assassination
attempts on Fidel Castro”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3453
Date: 9/1960
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Description: MKUltra chief Sidney
Gottlieb brings a vial of poison concealed in toothpaste to the
Democratic Republic of the Congo with plans to place it on Prime
Minister Patrice
Lumumba’s toothbrush. The plot is abandoned, allegedly because CIA
station chief Larry
Devlin refuses permission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Patrice
Lumumba”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3454
Date: 9/1960
Description: The USAF Assistant Chief of Staff for
Intelligence turns down ATIC’s request for one additional staffer for
Project Blue Book (raising it to 3) and additional funding.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 922
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3455
Date: 9/2/1960
Locations: US Highway 1 in Westbrook, Connecticut; Long
Island, New York; Chalker Beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Description: 11:30 p.m. Richard Ireton and his wife are
driving on US Highway 1 in Westbrook, Connecticut, when they notice what
seems to be an aircraft about to crash. It veers close to the shore and
the Iretons drive to the beach to look for it. They see a
triangular-shaped object flying silently at the speed of a Piper Cub
airplane, alternately hovering and moving horizontally and vertically.
When it reaches the public beach, it takes off at great speed toward
Long Island, New York. They see a similar object the next evening around
9:30 p.m. at Chalker Beach in Old Saybrook, Connecticut.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying
Triangle’ Seen
in State,” Hartford \(Conn.) Courant, September 17, 1960, pp.
1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3456
Date: 9/2/1960
Description: In the middle of the night Mr. & Mrs.
Palmes noticed a large dark gray object, covered with tiles and as large
as a three-storey building, in a nearby field while driving down a
highway north of Bunnell, Florida. The UFO then came and hovered over
road, only 30-50 feet away. The car's lights and engine died. The wife
recalls seeing short people in tight-fitting uniforms, and her husband
being in a trance. There was an undisclosed period of missing
time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0504, citing Norman Bean, Skylook,
August 1975, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5568
Date: 9/3/1960 (approximate)
Time: 22:30
Location: NORTH / BUNNEL, FL
Description: UFO / field. Car malfunctions due to EME
(electro-magnetic effects). Driver dazed. Figure(s) approach car. 60
minute(s) missing time.. .
Type: sighting
Reference: RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING
VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1
CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf
(Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6434
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "65", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "N/BUNNEL,FL:UFO/FIELD:CAR EMES:DRIVER DAZED:FIGS APPROACH CAR:60min MST...", LatLong: "29.666668 -81.283337", LatLongDMS: "29:40:00 N 81:17:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 9/4/1960
Time: 21:30
Location: LEXINGTON, KY
Description: Former Strategic Air Command (SAC) RADAR
Tech. Glowing sphere goes southwest going quickly northeast horizon to
horizon.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 59)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6435
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "288", HatchDesc: "LEXINGTON,KY:FORMER SAC RDR TECH:GLOWING SPHERE GOES SW>>NE HRZN TO HRZN:", LatLong: "38.050002 -84.500004", LatLongDMS: "38:03:00 N 84:30:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/4/1960
Location: Lexington, KY
Description: Former Strategic Air Command radar
technician saw a glowing sphere traveling from horizon to horizon.
[NICAP UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2461
Date: 9/5/1960
Location: SONOMA CO, CA
Description: Cops. 6 UFO's / V-formation. Various
colors. Bouncing trajectory. No further details. / r78p186.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6436
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "SONOMA co,CA:COPS:6 UFOS/V-FORMn:VARIOUS COLORS:BOUNCING TRAJ:NFD:/r78p186", LatLong: "38.300002 -122.450006", LatLongDMS: "38:18:00 N 122:27:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/5/1960
Location: Sonoma County, CA
Description: Sheriffs observed six vari-colored UFOs
flying in V-formation. [NICAP UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2462
Date: 9/6/1960
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Description: Fragments fell to ground from bluish-green
speeding UFO and landed with a hissing sound. They are now under
investigation by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in
Washington, D.C.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_91
Date: 9/8/1960
Location: Consett, South Shields, Newcastle upon Tyne,
England
Description: Night. Witnesses in Consett, South
Shields, and Newcastle upon Tyne, England, see a triangular formation of
lights with a red light in the center.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Evening Chronicle, September 9, 1960;
Marler 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3457
Date: 9/10/1960
Time: 21:50
Location: RIDGECREST, CA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #6962. 4
observer(s). 1 sees disk. 1 photographs boomerang. 4 passes / 70
minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: LOFTIN, Robert: IDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS:
D. McKay, NY 1968 (Index 184)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6437
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "70", Elev: "698", HatchDesc: "RIDGECREST,CA:BBK#6962:4 OBS:1 SEES DISK:1 FOTOS BOOMERANG:4 PASSES/70min", LatLong: "35.616668 -117.633339", LatLongDMS: "35:37:00 N 117:38:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/10/1960
Location: Ridgecrest, CA
Description: 2 light gray glowing objects, saucer or
boomerang-shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 6962)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2463
Date: 9/10/1960
Time: 9:50 PM
Location: Ridgecrest, California
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. M.G. Evans. Two
light gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, which swished
when accelerating. Seen 1-2 seconds each.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_454
Date: 9/10/1960
Location: Scituate, Massachusetts
Description: A married couple in Scituate,
Massachusetts, sees a trio of brilliant discs parked in a triangle
formation in the sky. About 12° to the objects’ left is a huge cylinder.
One witness watches them through binoculars, and the brilliance hurts
his eyes for two hours. Two more discs seem to be attached to the top of
the cylinder. Small domes sprinkle their surface. The large object
disappears too quickly for the eye to follow.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 294
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3458
Date: 9/10/1960
Location: Ridgecrest, California
Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. M. G. Evans see 2
light-gray glowing objects, saucer or boomerang-shaped, that swish when
accelerating, over Ridgecrest, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 294; Sparks, p.
285
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3459
Date: 9/10/1960
Description: In Ridgecrest, California at 9:50 p.m. Mr.
and Mrs. M. G. Evans sighted two light gray glowing objects, saucer or
boomerang-shaped, which made a swishing sound when accelerating. They
were seen for a couple of seconds each.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5823
Date: 9/13/1960
Time: 01:20
Location: CASCAIS, PORTUGAL
Description: Several satellite watchers see UFO
instead. Type unknown. / O Seculo.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS
Download). (Index 73)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6438
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CASCAIS,PORTUGAL:SVRL SATELLITE WATCHERS SEE UFO INSTEAD:TYPE UNK:/O SECULO", LatLong: "38.700002 -9.416667", LatLongDMS: "38:42:00 N 09:25:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "3"
Date: 9/14/1960
Location: Lorain, Ohio
Description: 2:50 a.m. A dispatcher in Lorain, Ohio, is
taking a coffee break when he sees a light that he thinks is the Echo 1
satellite. As he watches it, knowing it is not the right time for Echo
1, he sees four objects traveling in a perfectly spaced line of flight.
It makes a surprising right turn, after which the objects move on their
way, apparently at a great height.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “I’ve Seen the Light…But
What Was It?” IUR 32, no. 3 (July 2009): 3; Swords 294–295
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3460
Date: 9/15/1960
Location: COLORADO SPRS, CO
Description: Military tracking team. Unexplainable
'satellite' / unusual maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6439
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "1802", HatchDesc: "COLORADO SPRs,CO:MIL.TRACKING TEAM:UNEXPLAINABLE 'SATELLITE'/UNUSUAL MANEUVERS", LatLong: "38.833335 -104.800005", LatLongDMS: "38:50:00 N 104:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 9/15/1960
Location: Carrizales, Venezuela
Description: Professor of engineering observed
accelerating luminous object. [NICAP UFOE, X] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2464
Date: 9/15/1960
Locations: Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica,
California; West Los Angeles police station; Santa Monica Boulevard and
Beverly Glen Street
Description: 7:30 a.m. A witness sees a UFO hovering
300–400 feet above the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica,
California, and calls it into the West Los Angeles police station. Desk
Officer Don Anderson goes outside and sees a dark triangular object
moving slowly to the northeast at 3,000 feet. It disappears in the
vicinity of Santa Monica Boulevard and Beverly Glen Street.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Officer Reports Flying
Triangle,” San Pedro \(Calif.) News-Pilot, September 15, 1960, p.
1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3461
Date: 9/15/1960
Location: Long Beach, California
Description: Ruppelt dies
of a heart attack in Long Beach, California, at age 37.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1024
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3462
Date: 9/16/1960
Time: 13:00?
Location: SANTA MONICA, CA
Description: Cop. 3M triangle hovers 100M over Douglas
aircraft plant. Test?
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6440
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "SANTA MONICA,CA:COP:3M TRIANGLE HVRS 100M ovr DOUGLAS AIRCRAFT PLANT:test?", LatLong: "34.016668 -118.450006", LatLongDMS: "34:01:00 N 118:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/17/1960
Location: Kirksville AFS, MO
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2465
Date: 9/17/1960
Location: Kirksville AFS, MO
Description: Multiple Targets Tracked Several Times
(McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 600917
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2467
Date: 9/19/1960
Location: Susanville, CA
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2466
Date: 9/20/1960
Time: 21:40
Location: EAGLE AND MORE/OTHERS, CO
Description: Pilots and many. Square object inside
round object. Flashes color(s). 60km altitude / FAA estimated.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6441
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "2012", HatchDesc: "EAGLE++,CO:PILOTS+MANY:SQR.OBJ INSIDE ROUND OBJ:FLASHES CLRS:60km alt/FAA estm", LatLong: "39.655557 -106.827783", LatLongDMS: "39:39:20 N 106:49:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/20/1960
Location: Farmington (SE of), NM
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2468
Date: 9/23/1960
Time: 21:40
Location: LOCATION UNKNOWN OFF NORTH LABRADOR
Description: SHIPs crew. Cylinder/cylindrical object
object with lit portholes dives into sea and sinks.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 509)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6442
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "LOC.UNK off N.LABRADOR:SHIPs CREW:CYL OBJ W/LIT PORTHOLES DIVES INTO SEA+SINKS", LatLong: "58.000003 -62.000003", LatLongDMS: "58:00:00 N 62:00:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LAB", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 9/23/1960
Time: 2135
Location: Labrador
Description: A Canadian ship reported that a
cylindrical object with lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and
sank off the northcoast of Labrador.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_509
Date: 9/23/1960
Description: A Canadian ship reported that a
cylindrical object with lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and
sank off the north coast of Labrador.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 509
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6252
Date: 9/25/1960
Location: ESSEX, ENGL
Description: All / county. Thousands / huge parachutes
/ 15-50K' altitude. None land. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v7#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 269)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6443
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "13", Duration: "99", HatchDesc: "ESSEX,ENGL:ALL/COUNTY:1000s/HUGE PARACHUTES/15-50K'alt:none land:/FSR v7#1", LatLong: "51.666669 0.666667", LatLongDMS: "51:40:00 N 00:40:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 9/25/1960
Location: Midway Isles, At Sea
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2469
Date: 9/26/1960
Time: 03:00
Location: WEST AND NORTH / LAS CRUCES, NM
Description: 2+2 separate cops. Fireball lands and
flies. Bright green disk makes turn and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
729)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6444
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "1200", HatchDesc: "W+N/LAS CRUCES,NM:2+2 SEP.COPS:FBL LANDS+FLIES::BRITE GRN DISK MAKES TURN+AWAY", LatLong: "32.333335 -106.766672", LatLongDMS: "32:20:00 N 106:46:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/28/1960
Location: Kirksville, MO
Description: (McDonald list) Slow Radar Return At
100,000' (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 600928
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2470
Date: 9/28/1960
Location: Sheppard AFB, Wichita Falls, TX
Description: OSI document says crash reported and
mention of "Moon Dust", asks ATIC to come to the scene. (NICAP: 06 -
Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 600928
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2471
Date: 9/28/1960
Location: Arlington, TX
Description: Aeronautical engineer observed erratically
maneuvering UFO. [NICAP UFOE, V] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2472
Date: 9/29/1960
Time: 18:20
Location: ARLINGTON, TX
Description: PAA radioman and several. Orange star /
erratic maneuvers. Starts and stops. Away fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6445
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "14", Elev: "192", HatchDesc: "ARLINGTON,TX:PAA RADIOMAN+SVRL:ORG STAR/ERRATIC MNVRS:STARTS+STOPS:AWAY FAST", LatLong: "32.733335 -97.116671", LatLongDMS: "32:44:00 N 97:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 9/29/1960
Location: New Westminster, British Columbia
Description: 9:25 p.m. Five people are out looking for
the Echo 1 satellite in New Westminster, British Columbia. After they
spot it, they remain for a few minutes talking. One of them sees three
objects come up from the southeast, pass overhead, and disappear over
the rooftops in 10 seconds. The objects are luminous, round- cornered
triangles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmerman’s Triangles,”
IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3463
Date: 9/30/1960
Description: Tiffany
Thayer’s widow Tanagra
Thayer formally disbands the Fortean Society.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 516
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3464
Date: 10/1960
Location: EAST / RED BLUFF, CA
Description: Cop and dispatcher. Orange sphere crosses
road just ahead / cruiser.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 179)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6446
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "E/RED BLUFF,CA:COP+DISPATCHER:ORANGE SPHERE CROSSES ROAD JUST AHEAD/CRUISER", LatLong: "40.172224 -122.227784", LatLongDMS: "40:10:20 N 122:13:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/1960
Time: 23:00
Location: BERK-BISK, BIYAL RIVER, RUSSIA
Description: Engineer and 50. Single cloud on clear
day. Glows and moves. Beams light.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the
SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6447
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "BERK-BISK,BIYAL Rvr,RUS:ENG+50:SINGLE CLOUD on CLR DAY:GLOWS+MOVES:BEAMS LITE", LatLong: "52.533336 85.466671", LatLongDMS: "52:32:00 N 85:28:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GNA", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/1960
Location: Yariguarenda Jungle, Argentina
Description: New apparitions of a monstrous
"cyclops."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 129 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_510
Date: 10/1960
Locations: Nellis AFB complex; Area 51
Description: Reynolds Electrical and Engineering
Company begins construction of “Project 51” at the Nellis AFB complex in
Nevada with double-shift personal schedules. They mark an Archimedean
spiral on Area 51’s dry lake approximately two miles across so that an
A-12 pilot approaching the end of the overrun can abort instead of
plunging into the sagebrush. Area 51 pilots call it “The Hook.” For
crosswind landings, they mark two unpaved airstrips (runways 9/27 and
03/21) on the dry lakebed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Area 51”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3465
Date: 10/1/1960
Time: 16:00
Location: AMANZIMTOTI, NATAL
Description: ~50 observer(s). Cylinder/cylindrical
object makes wide circles / sky. Large and high. Hovers. Rises
away.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6448
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Republic of South Africa", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "AMANZIMTOTI,NATAL:~50 OBS:CYL MAKES WIDE CCLS/SKY:LRG+HIGH:HVRS:RISES away", LatLong: "-30.050001 30.883335", LatLongDMS: "30:03:00 S 30:53:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KwaZulu-Natal", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/3/1960
Location: City unknown, Tasmania
Description: The sighting of six flying saucers and a
'mother ship' has been reported from the Australian island state of
Tasmania. A Church of England minister says he saw the mysterious craft
nearly one week ago, but was reluctant to report them. (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2473
Date: 10/4/1960
Time: 18:10
Location: CRESSY, TASM
Description: Minister and 1. Cylinder/cigar-shape going
west. 5 30' domed disks join. Going quickly east. /
r111p204+APRO.Sep'60.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
293)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6449
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "12", HatchDesc: "CRESSY,TASM:MINISTER+1:CGR > W:5 30'DOMED DISKS JOIN:>>E:/r111p204+APRO.Sep'60", LatLong: "-41.683335 147.066674", LatLongDMS: "41:41:00 S 147:04:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TSM", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/4/1960 (approximate)
Time: ~22:00
Location: STAROLKA, POLAND
Description: Many observer(s). Bright object going [to]
going up [to] going down [to] and all directions. Type unknown. Exits
going quickly south. / r84p212.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
731)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6450
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "STAROLKA,POLAND:MANY OBS:BRITE OBJ >↑↓+ALL DIRs:TYPE UNK:EXITS >>S:/r84p212", LatLong: "52.400002 16.916667", LatLongDMS: "52:24:00 N 16:55:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PZN", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 10/4/1960
Location: Cressy, Tasmania
Description: 6:10 p.m. Rev. Lionel Browning and his
wife are looking at a rainbow outside their rectory in Cressy, Tasmania,
when they see a gray, cigar-shaped object emerge from a raincloud. It
has 4 or 5 vertical, dark bands around its circumference and an aerial
array that projects from the top. Browning estimates it to be 100 feet
long and about 4 miles distant. It moves north at about 60–70 mph at
about 400 feet altitude. After one minute, it stops and is joined by 5–6
smaller objects that emerge from a cloud. After another minute, all the
UFOs abruptly reverse back into the rain squall at the same speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mysterious
Ships in the Sky,” Australian Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 4
(February 1961): 1–2; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December
1960, The
Author, 2003, pp. 104–107; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
a History: January–June 1961, The
Author, 2003, pp. 35–36; Clark III 350–352; Bill Chalker, “The
Australian Government and UFOs,” IUR 22, no. 3 (Fall 1997): 19–20;
Swords 385–388
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3466
Date: 10/4/1960
Description: Reverend and Mrs. Browning in Cressy,
Tasmania observed a cigar-shaped object fly toward the west. Five 30'
diameter domed discs joined the larger object, and all flew away rapidly
to the east at 6:10 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: James E. McDonald case investigation files;
APRO Bulletin, September-October 1960, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6556
Date: 10/5/1960
Location: Mount Kisco, NY
Description: Bright, star-like light move across 120°
of sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7057)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2474
Date: 10/5/1960
Time: 7:37 PM
Location: Mt. Kisko, New York
Description: Witness: E.G. Crossland. One bright,
star-like light moved across 120^ of sky in 20 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_455
Date: 10/5/1960
Locations: Thule Site J in Greenland; Russia; Omaha,
Nebraska
Description: A formation of UFOs is detected by the new
Ballistic Missile Early Warning System at Thule Site J in Greenland. The
objects appear to be heading directly toward North America from the
direction of Russia. Within seconds, Strategic Air Command headquarters
in Omaha, Nebraska, scrambles the crews of B-52 bombers armed with
nuclear warheads to prepare a retaliatory strike. But at the last moment
checks reveal that the objects are spurious radar echoes. Unusual
atmospheric conditions create phantoms on the BMEWS that cannot be seen
by other radars.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear
Weapons, the Damascus Incident, and the Illusion of Safety, Penguin,
2013, pp.
253–254, 542
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3467
Date: 10/9/1960
Time: 18:30
Location: LONG POINT, IL
Description: Minister and several. Golden football
hovers / 8-10 minute(s) and goes. Observer(s) chase / 6km.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6451
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "196", HatchDesc: "LONG POINT,IL:MINISTER+SVRL:GOLDEN FOOTBALL HVRS/8-10min+GOES:OBS CHASE/6km", LatLong: "41.005558 -88.894449", LatLongDMS: "41:00:20 N 88:53:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/9/1960
Location: Longpoint, IL
Description: Minister and others saw a golden,
elliptical UFO hover, move away. [NICAP UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2475
Date: 10/15/1960
Location: Cressy (30 miles from), Tasmania
Description: Spherical 75 ft object flying at great
speed at 36,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2476
Date: 10/20/1960 (approximate)
Time: 19:00
Location: LA VAURE, FR
Description: Luminous rectangular / 4M altitude 10M
away. Shadows / 2 helmeted small humanoids (or Greys) / inside. UFO
going southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6452
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LA VAURE,FR:LUM RECT./4M alt 10M AWAY:SHADOWS/2 HELMETED OIDS/INSIDE:UFO >SW", LatLong: "46.016669 3.066667", LatLongDMS: "46:01:00 N 03:04:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Puy-de-Dôme", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 10/20/1960
Locations: Australia; Cressy, Tasmania
Description: Australian MP Gil Duthie asks Frederick
Osborne, Australian Minister for Air, whether he has read the
account of the UFO seen at Cressy, Tasmania. Osborne responds that he
has, and he admits that the Department of Air receives UFO reports and
shares them with the RAF and the US Air Force. However, all of them are
“explainable on a perfectly normal basis.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 352; Swords 387
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3468
Date: 10/27/1960
Time: 17:50
Location: LEXINGTON, KY
Description: Attorney. Saucer hovers / 10 minute(s).
Going quickly northwest rising faster than a jet. Contrail.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 68)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6453
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "287", HatchDesc: "LEXINGTON,KY:ATTORNEY:SCR HVRS/10min:>>NW RISING FASTER than a JET:CONTRAIL", LatLong: "38.050002 -84.483337", LatLongDMS: "38:03:00 N 84:29:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/27/1960
Location: Lexington, KY
Description: Attorney saw disc hover, move away. [NICAP
UFOE, VII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2477
Date: 10/30/1960
Location: CRESCENT CITY, CA
Description: FAA expert and more/others. 2+3 Brill
objects hover. 6th object scouts between groups.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6454
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "CRESCENT CITY,CA:FAA EXPERT++:2+3 BRILL OBJS HVR:6th OBJ SCOUTS BETWEEN GROUPS", LatLong: "41.755558 -124.200006", LatLongDMS: "41:45:20 N 124:12:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 10/31/1960
Location: Cuba
Description: Most guerrilla infiltrations and supply
drops directed by the CIA into Cuba have failed; these are replaced by a
plan to mount an initial amphibious assault with a minimum of 1,500
men.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3469
Date: 11/1960
Location: CARACAS, VNZL
Description: Hundreds / observer(s).
Cylinder/cigar-shape going south low and slow. Blue-green luminous halo.
Males turn over mountain.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
741)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6455
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Venezuela", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", Elev: "930", HatchDesc: "CARACAS,VNZL:100s/OBS:CGR >S LO+SLOW:BLU-GRN LUMn.HALO:MALES TURN ovr MOUNTAIN", LatLong: "10.466667 -66.983337", LatLongDMS: "10:28:00 N 66:59:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CRC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/3/1960
Time: 16:30
Location: PRICE CO, WI
Description: Humming. 7M domed metallic saucer /
ground. Quickly going up [to] and away fast. Several square portholes. /
r242p147.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
733)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6456
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "456", HatchDesc: "PRICE co,WI:HUM:7M DOMED MTLC SCR/GND:↑↑+AWAY FAST:SVRL SQR PORTs:/r242p147", LatLong: "45.683336 -90.350004", LatLongDMS: "45:41:00 N 90:21:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 11/3/1960
Location: Price County, Wisconsin
Description: 4:30 p.m. Two 8-year-old boys are walking
over a small hill in rural Price County, Wisconsin, when they hear an
odd high-pitched, humming noise. The air has become unusually warm. They
look back and see an aluminum-colored object on the hill behind them.
They run back toward it, but it lifts off and shoots away. They find the
soil of the hill to be warm to the touch.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Small
Boys See Warm, Landed UAO,” APRO Bulletin, January 1961, pp. 1,
4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3470
Date: 11/4/1960
Location: Massachusetts
Description: House Majority Leader John W.
McCormack (D-Mass.) writes to Keyhoe that “it
was pretty well established by some, in our minds, that there were some
objects flying around in space that were unexplainable.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Congressmen
Confirm AF Secrecy: Pressure for Investigation Increasing,” UFO
Investigator 1, no. 11 (Dec./Jan. 1960/1961): 1; UFOEv, p.
175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3471
Date: 11/7/1960
Time: ~19:00
Location: CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL
Description: Night lights = running lights / 2 large
UFO's. Type unknown. Possible portholes. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE:
$5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 292)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6457
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "198", HatchDesc: "CHICAGO HEIGHTS,IL:NLTS=RUNNING LITES/2 LRG UFOS:type unk:POSS.PORTHOLES:NFD", LatLong: "41.800002 -87.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:48:00 N 87:39:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 11/11/1960
Location: MOLINE, IL AND MORE/OTHERS
Description: Airport weathermen and more. Large silver
object with antenna on side. Others / widely.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6458
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "MOLINE,IL++:AIRPORT WEATHERMEN+:LRG SLVR OBJ W/ANTENNA on SIDE:others/widely", LatLong: "41.505558 -90.516671", LatLongDMS: "41:30:20 N 90:31:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/11/1960
Time: 22:00?
Location: WARMINSTER, WILTS
Description: 3 military and 1. Blinding
sphere/orb/globe going down. Nearly lands. Going quickly north. Type
unknown. / r8#511.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
731)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6459
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "120", HatchDesc: "WARMINSTER,WILTS:3 MIL+1:BLINDING ORB ↓:NEARLY LANDS:>>N:type unk:/r8#511", LatLong: "51.200002 -2.166667", LatLongDMS: "51:12:00 N 02:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/11/1960
Time: night
Location: Warminster, Great Britain
Description: Four witnesses, among them three military
men, saw an object that seemed about to land, then took off again toward
the north, leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 130; FSR 61,1 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_511
Date: 11/11/1960
Description: On this night four witnesses in
Warminster, England, including among them three men in the British
military, saw an object that seemed about to land, but then took off
again. It flew off toward the north, leaving a trail of sparks and
blinding them by its brilliance.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 511
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7595
Date: 11/13/1960
Time: 02:50
Location: LA LONDE, FR
Description: 6M domed saucer / railroad/railway tracks.
Retracts legs. Going quickly southwest. Dog avoids site. /
r30p244.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
94)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6460
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "45", HatchDesc: "LA LONDE,FR:6M DOMED SCR/RR TRACKS:RETRACTS LEGS:>>SW:DOG AVOIDS SITE:/r30p244", LatLong: "49.305558 0.944444", LatLongDMS: "49:18:20 N 00:56:40 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 11/13/1960
Time: 0245
Location: La Londe, France
Description: Remi Carbonnier, 45, was awakened by a
green light illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a
bright, round object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs on the
railroad tracks 300 m away. It was emitting orange flashes. A dome on
top of the object started spinning, the legs disappeared, and the object
rose vertically above the trees, without noise. Less than 20 sec later,
it had cleared the hill and was lost to sight in the southwest. The next
day the witness went to the site and found no trace, but his dog turned
around and ran away,
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 131 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_512
Date: 11/13/1960
Description: In the year 1960 in La Londe, France a
domed disc-shaped UFO was spotted sitting on railroad tracks at 2:45
a.m. It made no sound, and shafts of orange light periodically shot out
from the object. It rose vertically, folded its landing gear, and shot
off straight up.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 512
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7630
Date: 11/14/1960
Location: Dillsboro, IN
Description: S. Indiana/Dillsboro Nike Missile Station,
G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 601114
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2478
Date: 11/15/1960
Time: 10:40
Location: 50KM NORTH / CRESSY, TASM
Description: 70' saucer going [to] 800MPH / 36K'.
Buzzes USAF RB-57. / r249p484. / r120p167.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian
Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN
1-875989-04-8 (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6461
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "50km N/CRESSY,TASM:70'SCR>800MPH/36K':BUZZES USAF RB-57:/r249p484:/r120p167", LatLong: "-41.427780 147.261118", LatLongDMS: "41:25:40 S 147:15:40 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TSM", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/15/1960
Locations: RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria, Australia;
Launceston, Tasmania
Description: 10:40 a.m. A USAF B-57 Canberra
reconnaissance aircraft operating out of RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria,
Australia, encounters a UFO 15 miles north of Launceston, Tasmania.
Capt. Douglas
G. Ludlam and Capt. Joseph
W. Ivins say it looks like a balloon about 70 feet in diameter and
is flying at 35,000 feet, just below the B-57, and traveling at about
920 mph. It is in sight for 5–7 seconds before it disappears under the
left wing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Australian
A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 11 (December 1982):4;
Clark III 352; Sparks, p. 285
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3472
Date: 11/17/1960
Time: 01:30
Location: HENDERSON, KY
Description: 2 / (seen thru) binoculars. Silent orange
and brown colored object soars over valley. Spews angel hair all
over/all about.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 271)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6462
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "132", HatchDesc: "HENDERSON,KY:2/BINOCS:SLNT ORG+BRN OBJ SOARS ovr VALLEY:SPEWS ANGEL HAIR ALLO", LatLong: "37.850002 -87.600004", LatLongDMS: "37:51:00 N 87:36:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 11/17/1960
Location: Lexington, KY
Description: Three UFOs were seen to follow two jet
aircraft. One object closed in on the jets, then stopped, repeating this
several times. Witnesses described it as round, rotating, color changing
from gray to silver as it turned. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2479
Date: 11/18/1960
Location: Cuba
Description: Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles and
CIA Deputy Director for Plans Richard
Bissell brief President-elect John F.
Kennedy on the Cuban invasion. Dulles is confident that the CIA can
overthrow the Cuban government.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3473
Date: 11/20/1960
Description: A gruesome case classified as spontaneous
human combustion occurred on this date in 1960 in Grassy Creek,
Kentucky. The burned bodies of four men and a youth were found in a car.
Molten metal from the car's roof had dropped on the cremated
bodies.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral Lorenzen, APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p.
8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7747
Date: 11/24/1960
Time: 10:00
Location: NEAR DEFIANCE, OH
Description: Physics Professor and 1 / car. Silent 30M
black disk going northwest. Clear edges. / r242p54.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
749)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6463
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "210", HatchDesc: "nr DEFIANCE,OH:PHYSICS PROF+1/CAR:SLNT 30M BLK DISK >NW:CLEAR EDGES:/r242p54", LatLong: "41.211113 -84.438893", LatLongDMS: "41:12:40 N 84:26:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/24/1960
Location: Unknown City, OH
Description: White elliptical UFO observed by
scientist. [NICAP UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2480
Date: 11/24/1960
Description: At 10:00 a.m. in Defiance, Ohio a physics
professor driving in a car, and his passenger, watched a silent 30-meter
in diameter black disc-shaped object that flew off to the northwest. It
had clearly defined edges.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 54
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7870
Date: 11/27/1960
Time: 19:30
Location: CHULA VISTA, CA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7133. 7 / trailer
camp. Sphere/orb/globe with antennas arcs and dashes. Seen / (seen thru)
binoculars.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 149)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6464
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "25", Elev: "21", HatchDesc: "CHULA VISTA,CA:BBK#7133:7/TRAILER CAMP:ORB W/ANTENNAS ARCS+DASHES:SEEN/BINOCS", LatLong: "32.638890 -117.083339", LatLongDMS: "32:38:20 N 117:05:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/27/1960
Location: Chula Vista, CA
Description: Orange-red point of light, with white
sparkler-like light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7133)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2481
Date: 11/27/1960
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Chula Vista, California
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. L.M. Hart. One
orange-red point of light made huge circles and stopped during the 20-30
minute sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_456
Date: 11/27/1960
Description: A red UFO maneuvered all over the sky in
huge circles over Chula Vista, San Diego County, California at 7:30 p.m.
for 20 minutes. It looked like a ball with a long antenna rod attached,
and a flashing white light ran back and forth along the rod. The UFO
made several dashes at terrific speeds, and was watched through
binoculars by seven witnesses. It made no sound. The sighting lasted
between 20 and 30 minutes. A Project Blue Book "unknown".
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7133; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December
1966, p. 30; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 91
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7956
Date: 11/29/1960
Time: 18:40
Location: SOUTH / KYUSHU, JPN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7134. Unidentified.
2 / T33 trainer. "Star" paces plane. Vanishes. / r185.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6465
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "S/KYUSHU,JPN:BBK#7134:UID:2/T33 TRAINER:"STAR" PACES PLANE:VANISHES:/r185", LatLong: "31.000001 131.000006", LatLongDMS: "31:00:00 N 131:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/29/1960
Location: Vincennes, IN
Description: Observed for 25 minutes, an object with a
bright, pulsating light was seen by Francis Ridge, a NICAP subcommittee
chairman, and many other witnesses. (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2482
Date: 11/29/1960
Location: Kyushu (South of), Japan
Description: Light Paces T-33 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 7134)
Reference: NICAP: 601129
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2483
Date: 11/29/1960
Time: 6:38 PM
Location: south of Kyushu, Japan
Description: Witnesses: USAF Lt. Col. R.L. Blwlin (sp?)
and Maj. F.B. Brown, flying a T-33 jet trainer. One white light 8lowed
and paralleled the course of the T-33 for 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_457
Date: 11/29/1960
Location: Cuban
Description: Eisenhower meets
with the chiefs of the CIA, Defense, State, and Treasury departments to
discuss the new concept of a Cuban invasion. No one expresses
objections, and Eisenhower approves the plans with the intention of
persuading John F.
Kennedy of their merit.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3474
Date: 11/29/1960
Description: At 6:38 p.m. two crew members of a USAF
T-33 trainer sighted a white light flying south of Kyushu, Japan. The
object slowed down to pace the Lockheed jet trainer, and followed the
plane for 10 minutes without making any sound. The case is listed by
Project Blue Book as unexplained.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7134; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 36;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 92; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 32, citing Don Berliner
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8030
Date: 12/3/1960
Description: In 1960, a man and his grandson were out
duck hunting early in the morning near Atlantic City, New Jersey. They
were sitting in a duck blind at around 6 a.m. when they saw a 20-meter
wide disc approach to within 100 meters of their position. It glowed red
and lit the ground, and moved with a jerky motion “like a bouncing
ball.” It changed color from red to purple as it rose vertically into
the sky, then flew off toward the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, September
1961, p. 53
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8161
Date: 12/5/1960
Location: US
Description: Debate with NICAP Director and USAF Col.
Tacker on Dave Garroway's network television program.
Type: debate
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_889
Date: 12/5/1960
Location: Pentagon
Description: Pentagon UFO spokesman Lt. Col. Lawrence
J. Tacker publishes Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, in which
he blisteringly attacks critics of Project Blue Book, depicting them all
as charlatans and opportunists and gullible believers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lawrence J. Tacker, Flying
Saucers and the U.S. Air Force, Van Nostrand, 1960; Clark III
922
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3475
Date: 12/5/1960
Description: Keyhoe debates
Lt. Col. Lawrence
J. Tacker on the Today show, hosted by Dave Garroway.
Tacker says he wrote the book Flying Saucers and the US Air Force
because “I felt the Air Force was being set upon by Maj. Keyhoe, NICAP,
and other hobby groups who believe in spaceships as an act of pure
faith.” Keyhoe repeatedly challenges Tacker, whose statements ring
hollow, and even Garroway asks Tacker pointed questions and coolly notes
Tacker’s apparent ignorance of basic physics. The show generates
numerous phone calls and letters to NBC, most of them critical of the
Air Force.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December
1960, The
Author, 2003, pp. 129–135; “New
Debunking Campaign Backfires,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 11 (Dec.–Jan.
1960/1961): 1–2; “Dave
Garroway Show NBC-TV UFO Discussion: Tacker vs. Keyhoe, December
5, 1960,” Journal of UFO History 1, no. 4 (Sept./Oct. 2004):
3–6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3476
Date: 12/8/1960
Description: Richard
Bissell presents an outline for the Cuban invasion to the Special
Group, while declining to commit details to written records.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3477
Date: 12/9/1960
Time: 20:30
Location: CARIGNAN, FR
Description: 3 separate observer(s). 4M saucer rests /
park. Vague figure(s) inside. Going quickly north. / Flying Saucer
Review (FSR) v16#5+/ r30.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
130)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6466
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "CARIGNAN,FR:3 SEP.OBS:4M SCR RESTS/PARK:VAGUE FIGs INSIDE:>>N:/FSR v16#5+/r30", LatLong: "49.633336 5.166667", LatLongDMS: "49:38:00 N 05:10:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ardennes", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 12/9/1960
Time: 2030
Location: Carignan, France
Description: A dog barking at a glowing object resting
in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It
appeared as an oval, luminous craft, 4 m in diameter, inside which vague
shadows were seen. It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed
grass was found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 27 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_513
Date: 12/9/1960
Locations: Château des Mailles; Carignan-de-Bordeaux;
Gironde, France
Description: 8:30 p.m. Mme. Dhelens in the Château des
Mailles (31 miles south of Carignan-de-Bordeaux), Gironde, France, sees
a luminous oval object twice the size of an automobile hovering just
above the ground in the château’s park. It has two round portholes,
behind which she sees indistinct shadows moving. It takes off, leaving a
12-foot circle of yellowed grass, which later dies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
a History: July–December 1960, The
Author, 2003, p. 138
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3478
Date: 12/9/1960
Description: At 8:30 p.m. in Carignan, France a dog was
seen barking at a glowing UFO resting in a park. Three witnesses
observed it from separate locations. It appeared to be an oval-shaped,
self-luminous craft, four meters in diameter. Inside the glowing object
vague shadows were seen moving about. It took off toward the north. A
circle of yellowed grass was found at the site.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magoina: A
Century of Landings, case 513; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0506, citing Ouranos, August
1961
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8282
Date: 12/14/1960
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: The Brookings Research Institute in
Washington, D.C., releases a 186-page report prepared for NASA titled
Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for
Human Affairs. It is later published as a 272-page Committee Print for
the House Committee on Science and Astronautics on March 24, 1961. The
report includes a section on “Implications of a Discovery of
Extraterrestrial Life.” It is sent to the House Committee on Science and
Astronautics for approval by Rep. Overton
Brooks (D-La.) and discusses the effects of meeting extraterrestrial
life: “It is possible that if the intelligence of these creatures were
sufficiently superior to ours, they would choose to have little if any
contact with us.” It also speculates on the possibility of finding alien
artifacts on earth and the possibility that contact might result in
social disintegration.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Brookings Report”;
Proposed Studies on the Implications of Peaceful Space Activities for
Human Affairs, committee print prepared for NASA by the Brookings
Institution, Report of the US House Committee on Science and
Astronautics, 87th Congress, First Session, March 24, 1961, pp.
215–216, 225–226 (note
34)
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3479
Date: 12/14/1960
Locations: Leningrad [now St. Petersburg]; Moscow;
Kaliningrad; Hiroshima
Description: The first Single Integrated Operational
Plan, titled SIOP-62, is completed. It describes a massive strike with
the entire US arsenal of 3,200 warheads, totaling 7847 megatons, against
Russia, China, and Soviet-aligned states with urban and other targets
being hit simultaneously. Nine weapons are to be “laid down” on four
targets in Leningrad [now St. Petersburg], 23 weapons on six target
complexes in Moscow, and 18 on seven target areas in Kaliningrad.
Weapons scientist George
W. Rathjens looks through SAC’s atlas of Soviet cities, searching
for the town that most closely resembles Hiroshima in size and
industrial concentration. When he finds one that roughly matches, he
asks how many bombs the SIOP “laid down” on that city. The reply: one
4.5 megaton bomb and three more 1.1 megaton weapons in case the big bomb
is a dud. The execution of SIOP-62 is estimated to result in 285 million
dead and 40 million casualties in the Soviet Union and China. Presented
with all the facts and figures, USAF Gen. Thomas D.
White finds the plan “splendid.” Disregarding the human aspect,
SIOP-62 represents an outstanding technological achievement.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Single
Integrated Operational Plan”; Daniel Ellsberg, The Doomsday Machine,
Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 90–103
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3480
Date: 12/18/1960
Location: US
Description: Interview with USAF Col. Tacker on
Westinghouse network radio program, "Washington Viewpoint."
Type: interview
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_890
Date: 12/24/1960
Time: 23:50
Location: DURANGO, CO
Description: 12 observer(s). 20' domed saucer /
mountain top. Ringed / lights. Pulses. Dog / panic-dies. / r70.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
733)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6467
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "15", Elev: "1988", HatchDesc: "DURANGO,CO:12 OBS:20'DOMED SCR/Mtn.TOP:RINGED/LITES:PULSES:DOG/PANIC-DIES:/r70", LatLong: "37.250002 -107.866672", LatLongDMS: "37:15:00 N 107:52:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 12/24/1960
Description: A domed disc, estimated to be 20 feet in
diameter, was seen near a mountain top in Durango, Colorado at midnight.
It had a ring of lights around its rim. It pulsated and was in view for
15 minutes. A dog panicked in an agitated reaction, and later
died.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Durango Herald, December 28, 1960; Thomas M.
Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 117, citing APRO
Bulletin, January 1961, p. 1; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p.
163; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, March 1970, p. 13: Otto Binder,
What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 160
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8586
Date: 12/25/1960
Time: 23:50
Location: COTTONWOOD, MN
Description: Saucer and 3 night lights exchange green
beams. Night lights enter saucer / door. Going quickly north. /
r114p85.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
755)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6468
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "427", HatchDesc: "COTTONWOOD,MN:SCR+3 NLTS EXCHANGE GRN BEAMS:NLTS ENTER SCR/DOOR:>>N:/r114p85", LatLong: "44.611113 -95.672227", LatLongDMS: "44:36:40 N 95:40:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 12/25/1960
Description: A disc-shaped flying object and three
nocturnal lights exchanged green beams of light in the sky over
Cottonwood, Minnesota at 11:45 p.m. The nocturnal lights then entered
the saucer-shaped craft through a hatch. The disc flew off toward the
north. Pendulum motion was also reported.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1962, p. 2; Thomas
M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 3-071
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8598
Date: 12/26/1960
Location: CORDOBA, ARG
Description: Pilots and many. Panic. Extra moon stops /
45 minute(s) / 1100M. Changes color(s). Gone!
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
731)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6469
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "10", Duration: "45", Elev: "384", HatchDesc: "CORDOBA,ARG:PILOTS+MANY:PANIC:EXTRA MOON STOPS/45min/1100M:CHANGES CLRS:gone!", LatLong: "-31.416668 -64.166670", LatLongDMS: "31:25:00 S 64:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1100", State/Prov: "CRD", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/27/1960
Time: 07:30:00.0
Location: 27.0000 0.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Air. Country: France Name:
“gerb._rouge”
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1839
Extra Data: LatLong: "27.0000 0.0000", LatLongDMS: "27:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "gerb._rouge", NukeSource: "BOLT", NukeType: "A"
Date: 12/27/1960
Location: Pentagon
Description: Blue Book officer Maj. Robert
Friend and his boss at ATIC, Philip G. Evans, write a memo to Air
Force Intelligence in the Pentagon. Friend complains about civilian UFO
organizations supported by people for “financial gain, religious
reasons, pure emotional outlet, ignorance, or possibly to use the
organization as a ‘cold war’ tool.” He is upset by their accusations
that the Air Force is withholding UFO information.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 292
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3481
Date: 12/29/1960
Location: Miho, Japan
Description: T-33 Crew Observed Bright Light (NICAP: 11
- Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 601229
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2484
Date: 1961
Location: Washington DC
Description: ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he
was given a file cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which
contained material recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use
these items for “utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out
to various companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further
develop. Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night
vision, fiber optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and
lasers.
Type: historical event
Reference: "The Day after Roswell", by Philip J.
Corso
Reference: Philip J. Corso's Manuscript
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_598
Date: 1961
End date: 1963
Location: Area 51
Description: Near Nellis
AFB, NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at Nevada’s AEC between
1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal that Project REDLIGHT
was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”, a 50-mile-square
quadrant of land east of Nellis
AFB. This Project “involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been
shipped there from Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20
to 30 ft. in diam., and had no wings or tail.
Type: ufo testing
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_599
Date: 1961
Location: Russia
Description: Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an
elliptical area where he claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to
Earth in 1961. A local resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s
story about the 1961 crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself.
She said a big, fiery, red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the
valley by the river.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_603
Date: 1961
Location: Moscow (near), USSR
Description: Report of Russian tact missiles being
fired on UFO (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 610000
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2485
Date: 1961
Description: The first American to publish on the
microwave auditory effect is biophysicist Allan
H. Frey. In
his experiments, the subjects are able to hear appropriately pulsed
microwave radiation from a distance of 328 feet from the transmitter.
This is accompanied by side effects such as dizziness, headaches, and a
pins-and-needles sensation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Allen H. Frey, “Human
Auditory System Response to Modulated Electromagnetic Energy,”
Journal of Applied Physiology 17 \(July 1, 1962): 689–692; Wikipedia,
“Microwave
auditory effect” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3482
Date: 1961
Description: Ray
Palmer begins publishing The Hidden World, a quarterly magazine in
trade-paperback format that runs through 1964. It consists of reprints
of Richard
Shaver stories and readers’ contributions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 873
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3483
Date: 1961
Description: George
Adamski publishes Flying Saucers Farewell, signaling his intention
to refocus his efforts on teaching about life and consciousness.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George Adamski, Flying Saucers Farewell,
Abelard-Schuman, 1961; “Final Years,”
The Adamski Case, June 11, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3484
Date: 1961
Locations: Sverdlovsk, Russia; Kurgan
Description: An Antonov AN-2P mail biplane takes off
from an airfield at or near Sverdlovsk, Russia, bound for Kurgan with
seven people on board. About 80–100 miles from Sverdlovsk, the aircraft
disappears from the radar screen. Ground control cannot regain contact,
so a search is launched with helicopters and troops. The aircraft is
found in a small clearing in a dense forest, completely intact. The
authorities state that it looks like it was placed there gently from
above. All the mail is intact, and there is no sign of anyone on board.
No marks or footprints are seen. A 100-foot wide, clearly defined circle
of scorched grass and depressed earth is found at a distance of 328 feet
from the plane. A report by the Moscow Aviation Institute claims that a
UFO was tracked on radar at the control tower and that strange radio
signals were hear at the time of the disappearance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, pp.
228–229
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3485
Date: 1961
Locations: Catalina Huanca; Apongo, Peru
Description: A UFO appears above the iron-ore mine of
Catalina Huanca, owned by the Marcona Mining Company, near Apongo, Peru.
It hovers for 5–15 minutes, only about 300 feet away from a young mining
engineer. It is round and glowing, with windows on the upper part. The
engineer gets a look at it through his theodolite, but it still looks
fuzzy. The object reappears throughout the day, allowing all the mine
workers (about 70) to view it. The following day it follows a supply
truck for several hours as it exits the mine heading south over a dirt
track.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: S. Parker Gay Jr., “Peru, 1961,” IUR 24, no.
3 (Fall 1999): 29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3486
Date: 1961
Description: Texas Instruments establishes the
Southwest Center for Advanced Studies and later hires I. Robinson, W.
Rindler, J. Ehlers and C. Bichteler to work on gravitational
physics.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_95
Date: 1961
Description: US Army Col. Phillip J. Corso states when
the USAF Foreign Technology Division began, he was put on it and
received autopsy reports of what seemed like extraterrestrial bodies,
crash reports of UAP craft, and recovered artifacts from crashes.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_96
Date: 1/1961?
Location: IRKUTSK, BIRYAT, RUSSIA
Description: Doctor. Rocket / going down [to] 4 legs. 2
figure(s) nearby. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) May'67+Quest.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S
from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index
285)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6470
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "IRKUTSK,BIRYAT,RUSS:DOCTOR:ROCKET/↓4 LEGS:2 FIGs NEARBY:/FSR May'67+Quest", LatLong: "52.266669 104.000005", LatLongDMS: "52:16:00 N 104:00:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRY", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 1/1961
Locations: La Victoria; El Vigía, Mérida,
Venezuela
Description: Day. Government topographer Adolfo Paolini
Pisani is driving a jeep along the highway between La Victoria and El
Vigía, Mérida, Venezuela, when a truck passes him. A few minutes later,
a brilliant metallic disc like polished blue steel swoops down and
passes dangerously close above the hood of the truck. The truck rises a
few feet into the air and overturns in the direction taken by the
object, falling in a sandbank with its wheels in the air. The object
ascends and is lost to view in a few seconds. Pisani stops his jeep to
assist, but fortunately the lone driver has only a few scratches.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Horacio Gonzales, “Disc
Upsets Truck,” APRO Bulletin, September 1961, pp. 1, 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3487
Date: 1/1/1961
Location: LA VICTORIA, VNZ
Description: Saucer going [to] overhead. Truck pulled
1M going up. Falls / ditch. 2 separate observer(s). / r111p185.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
741)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6471
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Venezuela", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "612", HatchDesc: "LA VICTORIA,VNZ:SCR > OVHD:TRUCK PULLED 1M ↑:FALLS/DITCH:2 SEP.OBS:/r111p185", LatLong: "10.233334 -67.333337", LatLongDMS: "10:14:00 N 67:20:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CAR", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1/1/1961
Time: 20:00
Location: MUNCQ-NIEURLET, FR
Description: Farmer. Silent luminous top hovers /
woods. Red turns going [to] orange. Going west and vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOURRET, Jean-Claude: Le NOUVEAU DEFI des
OVNI. Editions France Loisirs, Paris. 1976 ISBN 2-7242-0104-3 395pp.
(Index 37)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6472
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "MUNCQ-NIEURLET,FR:FARMER:SLNT LUMn.TOP HVRS/WOODS:RED TURNS>ORG:>W+VANISHES:", LatLong: "50.850002 2.100000", LatLongDMS: "50:51:00 N 02:06:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/1/1961
Location: La Victoria, Venezuela
Description: A government topographer, Adolfo P.
Pisani, was passed by a truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A
brilliant disk with the appearance of blue steel swooped down very close
to the hood of the truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up
nearly 1 m above the road and overturned in a sandbank. The driver
escaped with minor injuries.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor.I 250 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_514
Date: 1/1/1961
Description: Mr. Pisani, a government topographer, had
just passed a truck on the Andean Highway between La Victoria and El
Vigia, Venezuela on a clear day when he witnessed a flying disc of
polished blue steel swoop down very close to the hood of the truck and
lift it about a meter into the air. The truck overturned onto a
sandbank, causing minor injuries to the driver.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The
Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 185, citing H.
Gonzalez; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,
case 514
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5
Date: 1/3/1961
Location: Cuba
Description: President Eisenhower severs
diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3488
Date: 1/3/1961
Location: Idaho Falls, Idaho
Description: 9:01 p.m. An explosion at the US Army’s
SL-1 nuclear power reactor in Idaho Falls, Idaho, causes a meltdown,
killing three operators. The direct cause is the improper withdrawal of
the central control rod, responsible for absorbing neutrons in the
reactor core. The event is the only reactor accident in the US that
results in immediate fatalities.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “SL-1”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3489
Date: 1/4/1961
Location: Cuba
Description: The CIA Deputy Director of Plans Richard
Bissell plans for a “lodgement” by 750 men at an undisclosed site in
Cuba, supported by considerable air power.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3490
Date: 1/6/1961
Time: 03:00
Location: TORROJA DP, SP
Description: 6M saucer lands 1500m away / 20 minute(s).
Dog avoids area after. / r50p7.
Type: sighting
Reference: FSR CASE HISTORIES. Bimonthly/London.
Supplements 2 - 18 (final issue) (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6473
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "TORROJA DP,SP:6M SCR LANDS 1500m AWAY/20min:DOG AVOIDS AREA AFTER:/r50p7.", LatLong: "41.266669 1.083333", LatLongDMS: "41:16:00 N 01:05:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TRG", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1/6/1961
Description: At 3:00 a.m. Luis G. Ferre Casas, age 33,
and two other witnesses watched as a domed disc-shaped object, six
meters in diameter, landed quietly on a mountain in Torroia del
Priorato, Tarragona, Spain. It was the color of moonlight. A dog who was
with them refused to approach the landing site. The incident lasted 20
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, FSR Case
Histories, February 1974, p. 10; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, OVNIs: El
Fenomeno Aterrizaje, p. 49; Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain
and Portugal, case 31; UNICAT database, case 488, citing Ballester
Olmos
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_163
Date: 1/8/1961
Locations: Uzbekistan; Tajikistan; USSR
Description: Pravda asserts that “some regions”
(including Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) of the USSR are reporting UFOs. It
quotes physicist Lev
Artsimovich saying that “it is about time that these tales be
stopped no matter how breathtaking they may be.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January– June
1961, The
Author, 2003, pp. 5–6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3491
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
Description: UFO follows Polaris missile during
launch.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_238
Date: 1/10/1961 (approximate)
Location: ATLANTIC 33° 40W-19° 48S
Description: Radars. Huge object paces Polaris missile
test. / r211p55.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick
& Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index
367)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6474
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "10", Duration: "14", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ATLANTIC 33°40W-19°48S:RADARS:HUGE OBJ PACES POLARIS MISSILE TEST:/r211p55", LatLong: "-19.800001 -33.666668", LatLongDMS: "19:48:00 S 33:40:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SAT", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1/10/1961
Time: 21:10
Location: SOUTH / BENJAMIN, TX
Description: Pilot and more/others. Saucer zigzags
going quickly southwest and lands. Darkens and going up [to] as Posse
nears. / r242p43.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
735)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6475
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "6", Elev: "485", HatchDesc: "S/BENJAMIN,TX:PILOT++:SCR ZIGZAGS >>SW+LANDS:DARKENS+↑ as POSSE NEARS:/r242p43", LatLong: "33.500002 -99.794449", LatLongDMS: "33:30:00 N 99:47:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1/10/1961
Time: 21:10
Location: BOULDER, CO
Description: Radio astronomers. Intense artificial
white noise / 29.75MHz / S. sky.
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6476
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "55", Elev: "1629", HatchDesc: "BOULDER,CO:RADIO ASTRONOMERS:INTENSE ARTIFICIAL WHITE NOISE/29.75MHz/S.SKY", LatLong: "40.016669 -105.283338", LatLongDMS: "40:01:00 N 105:17:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
Description: UFO alters launch of U.S. Navy Polaris
missile, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 610110
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2486
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
Description: UFO blocks tracking of U.S. missile, G
(NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection)
Reference: NICAP: 610110
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2487
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Atlantic bet. Cuba and Haiti, At Sea
Description: (McDonald list) UFO "Alters" Navy Polaris
Missile Test (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610110
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2488
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Wichita Falls, TX
Description: A/c Sees Object Maneuver and Land (NICAP:
06 - Trace Cases, Code: T, Rating: 5, BB: BBU) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 610110
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2489
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Benjamin, TX
Description: Glowing red, zig-zagging UFO observed from
air by pilot (also from ground by others); maneuvered and landed on
large overgrown field. [NICAP UFOE, V] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2491
Date: 1/10/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Description: A US Navy A-1 Polaris missile is launched
from a ground pad at Cape Canaveral, Florida. A disc, whose diameter is
close to the length of the Polaris, alters its tracking, but does not
block the missile firing, since the tracking system continues to follow
the object and later returns to again to track the Polaris downrange.
The diameter of the disc is approximately 20–25 feet and it is about 6–8
feet thick at its center. It is visually lost to ground observers and
the primary witness (Clark C. McClelland,
with 10x50 binoculars) as it continues downrange. The original
investigation is conducted by McClelland and his Florida NICAP
subcommittee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “UFO ‘Alters’
Tracking of Navy Polaris Test”; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
a History: January–June 1961, The
Author, 2003, pp. 6–7; Sparks, p. 286
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3492
Date: 1/10/1961
Description: At 12:14 p.m. a Polaris missile launched
from Cape Canaveral, Florida was paced by a UFO. Its radar signal was so
strong that the radar tracking locked onto the UFO instead of the
missile.The UFO stayed on the radar screen for several minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: William R. Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO
Calendar 1999; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State:
Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 411
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_239
Date: 1/10/1961
Description: At 9:12 p.m. a bright red disc-shaped
object was sighted near Benjamin, Texas by two men in a light plane. It
followed their Beech Debonair airplane, zigzagged, and then landed. The
pilot was interviewed by the US Air Force.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 32; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 43; Gordon I. R.
Lore, Jr., UFOs: A New Look, Washington DC: NICAP, p. 24
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_240
Date: 1/12/1961
Locations: Moscow, Russia; Fort Bliss
Description: In a press conference in Moscow, Russia,
Minister of Merchant Marine Viktor
Bakaev charges that US military aircraft and ships are
systematically conducting “provocative actions” against Soviet vessels
around Cuba. He is probably referring to close approaches to Cuban
airspace by Fort Bliss–based reconnaissance aircraft that are testing
the responses of Soviet electronic countermeasures.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, pp.
155–157
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3493
Date: 1/17/1961
Locations: Élisabethville [now Lubumbashi]; Democratic
Republic of the Congo; Katanga
Description: DRC Prime Minister Patrice
Lumumba is executed by firing squad near Élisabethville [now
Lubumbashi], Democratic Republic of the Congo. CIA Station Chief Larry Devlin has
helped direct the search to capture Lumumba for his transfer to his
enemies in Katanga, he is involved in arranging Lumumba’s transfer
there, and he is in direct touch with the killers the night Lumumba is
killed. The Congolese leaders who kill Lumumba, including Mobutu Sese
Seko and Joseph
Kasa-Vubu, receive money and weapons directly from the CIA. John Stockwell writes
in 1978 that a CIA agent had the body in the trunk of his car in order
to try to get rid of it. Stockwell, who knows Devlin well, feels Devlin
knows more than anyone else about the murder. However, documents
released in 2017 reveal that the US role in Lumumba’s murder was only
under consideration by the CIA and never carried out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Patrice
Lumumba”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3494
Date: 1/17/1961
Description: Eisenhower delivers
a farewell address in a TV broadcast. Perhaps best known for advocating
that the nation guard against the potential influence of the
military–industrial complex, a term he is credited with coining, the
speech also expresses concerns about planning for the future and the
dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending, the prospect
of the domination of science through federal funding, and, conversely,
the domination of science-based public policy by what he calls a
“scientific-technological elite.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Eisenhower’s
farewell address” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3495
Date: 1/17/1961
Locations: Holloman AFB; Cimarron, New Mexico
Description: 6:17 p.m. A former weather officer at
Holloman AFB is driving with some companions near Cimarron, New Mexico,
when they see three different groups of amber UFOs flying in V-formation
about 15 miles away at 30,000 feet. There are six lights in the first
group and eight in the second and third. They fly away to the southwest
and then return to where they first appeared.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 226–227
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3496
Date: 1/19/1961
Description: A USAF press release proclaims that “not
even a minute fragment of a so-called ‘flying saucer’ has ever been
found.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank Edwards, FS Serious Business, Bantam
ed., 1966, p.
48
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3497
Date: 1/20/1961
End date: 11/22/1963
Location: Washington DC
Description: President John F. Kennedy in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_600
Date: 1/22/1961
Location: Eglin AFB, FL
Description: Metallic UFO approaches, makes U-turn,
speeds away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_239
Date: 1/22/1961
Time: 16:50
Location: EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FL
Description: Metallic saucer nears Air Force Base /
Gulf. U-turn and retreats. 8mm film / businessman.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6477
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", Elev: "26", HatchDesc: "EGLIN AFB,FL:MTLC SCR NEARS AFB/GULF:UTURN+RETREATS:8mm FILM/BUSINESSMAN", LatLong: "30.483335 -86.550004", LatLongDMS: "30:29:00 N 86:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/22/1961
Time: 18:30
Location: CESTAS TO/FROM GAZINET, FR
Description: 4 professors. Saucer. Electro-magnetic
effect (EME) / auto. Possible telepathy. / Ouranos.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 515)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6478
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "CESTAS><GAZINET,FR:4 PROFESSORS:SCR:EME/AUTO:POSSIBLE TLP:/Ouranos", LatLong: "44.783335 -0.666667", LatLongDMS: "44:47:00 N 00:40:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Gironde", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1/22/1961
Location: Eglin AFB, FL
Description: An elliptical UFO, metallic looking,
approached from over the Gulf, made a U- turn and sped back over the
Gulf. Photographed on 8 mm movie film by a businessman. [NICAP UFOE,
VIII] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2492
Date: 1/22/1961
Time: 1830
Location: Cestas-Gazinet, France
Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux
University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing,
orange object. Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was
said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow
perceived the word "ZEMU" repeated twice.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 26 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_515
Date: 1/22/1961
Locations: Eglin AFB; Valparaiso, Florida
Description: 4:45 p.m. An elliptical, metallic-looking
UFO approaches Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, from over the Gulf,
makes a U-turn and speeds back over the Gulf. Harry Caslar is filming
his son on the beach with 8mm movie film and captures the UFO.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
95
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3498
Date: 1/22/1961
Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux
University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing,
orange object in Cestas-Gazinet, France at 6:30 p.m. Interference with
their car's ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a
slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word
"ZEMU" repeated twice.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 515; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving
Vehicle Interference, case 111, citing Vallee
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_411
Date: 1/22/1961
Description: A metallic UFO was filmed at 4:45 p.m. as
it approached Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, then made a U-turn and sped
away. There were at least six witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 5;
Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 95; George D. Fawcett, Flying
Saucers, September 1970, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_412
Date: 1/28/1961
Locations: Trinidad, Cuba; Havana; Escambray Mountains;
Sancti Spiritus province
Description: President Kennedy is
briefed, together with all the major departments, on the latest plan
(code-named Operation Pluto) that involves 1,000 men landed in a
ship-borne invasion at Trinidad, Cuba, about 170 miles southeast of
Havana at the foothills of the Escambray Mountains in Sancti Spiritus
province. Kennedy authorizes the active departments to report
progress.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3499
Date: 1/29/1961
Location: Netherlands
Description: Royal Dutch AF pilot in F-86 fires on UFO.
Non-US military.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_240
Date: 2/1961
Time: 22:10
Location: SOUTHWEST / LOQUEFFRET, FR
Description: Gendarme. Domed disk / 150M altitude
lights area near nuclear power station/depot/facility.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M.
Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN
(Index 36)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6479
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, NUC: Nuclear facility related
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SW/LOQUEFFRET,FR:GENDARME:DOMED DISK/150M alt LITES AREA nr NUCL.POWER Stn:", LatLong: "48.305558 -3.877778", LatLongDMS: "48:18:20 N 03:52:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finistère", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/1961
Location: Western Europe, France
Description: Disc near nuclear power station (NICAP: 01
- Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2493
Date: 2/1961
Locations: Karelia, Russia; Leningrad; St.
Petersburg
Description: Forester Vasili Brodski finds a mysterious
crater 100 feet long, 50 feet wide, and 10 feet deep on the bank of a
frozen lake in Karelia, Russia. It had not been there two days earlier.
The base is remarkably smooth, and around the edge are lumps of grass
and soil but no trace of the excavated dirt. Six investigators from
Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] arrive and find odd, crumbling black
pellets on the edge of the lake. Divers discover a 330- foot strip where
the soil has been displaced along the floor of the lake, as if something
slid along the ground and submerged, ploughing up the soil. Geologist
Vsevolod Charmov examines ice, water, and soil samples but cannot
explain a green discoloration on some of the submerged pieces of broken
ice. The pellets seem to be an inorganic substance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 61–63
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3500
Date: 2/5/1961 (approximate)
Location: PORTLAND, ME AND ENTIRE STATE
Description: Wave / night lights fireballs and
unidentified shapes / 2 days. News. / r242p138.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine
Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 437)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6480
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "240", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,ME+ENTIRE STATE:WAVE/NLTS FBLS+UID SHAPES/2 DAYS:NEWS:/r242p138", LatLong: "43.650002 -70.266670", LatLongDMS: "43:39:00 N 70:16:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 2/5/1961
End date: 2/7/1961
Location: Unknown City, ME
Description: Many reports of strange lights flashing
around in sky. Some blinked and moved up and down. (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2494
Date: 2/5/1961
End date: 2/7/1961
Locations: Maine; Portland; Brunswick
Description: Many people report strange lights flashing
around in the sky over Maine. Some blink and move up and down. A
Portland Press Herald editorial, February 9, says: “Mysterious objects
‘lit up like a ball of fire and going fast’ zoom over Portland.
Unidentified shapes with green, yellow, and red lights hover over
Brunswick, then dart away with ‘unbelievable quickness.’ Strange things
are happening. . . The military had us just about convinced that no such
objects existed. The only trouble was that many people—good, reliable
observers— continued to see these things.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
138
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3501
Date: 2/7/1961
Time: 22:30
Location: KENNEBUNKPORT, ME
Description: Business exec. Bright-red hemisphere
hovers. Going quickly east. Silent. No contrail.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 68)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6481
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "KENNEBUNKPORT,ME:BUSINESS EXEC:BRITE-RED HEMISPHERE HVRS:>>E:SLNT:NO CONTRAIL", LatLong: "43.361113 -70.477781", LatLongDMS: "43:21:40 N 70:28:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/10/1961
Time: 13:00?
Location: TIREE ISL.SCOTLAND
Description: 1 observer. Night light going quickly [to]
against wind. Lands / 2 hours. Burnt grass. / FSR'61#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES
ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6482
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "121", Elev: "11", HatchDesc: "TIREE Isl.SCOTLAND:1 OBS:NLT>>AGAINST WIND:LANDS/2hrs:BURNT GRASS:/FSR'61#5", LatLong: "56.500003 -6.916667", LatLongDMS: "56:30:00 N 06:55:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 2/16/1961
Location: Atlantic N of Bermuda, At Sea
Description: (McDonald list) High Speed Object Tracked
on APS-95 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610216
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2495
Date: 2/16/1961
Description: Rep. John W. McCormack states the Air
Force “has not been giving out all the information it has on UFOs.” A
year earlier McCormack, the Senate Preparedness Committee and the House
Science and Astronautics Committee were briefed by USAF and told no
government agency or department was withholding information on the
subject. McCormack’s comments in 1961 suggests he believed he was lied
to.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_97
Date: 2/23/1961
Location: Misawa AFB, Japan
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2496
Date: 2/26/1961
Location: Tyndall AFB, FL
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2497
Date: 2/27/1961
Location: LEWIS TO/FROM HARRIS ISLANDS, SCT
Description: Ships crew. Odd object twists and turns
and falls to sea. / FSRv17#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World
Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6483
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "LEWIS><HARRIS Isls,SCT:SHIPS CREW:ODD OBJ TWISTS+TURNS+FALLS TO SEA:/FSRv17#5.", LatLong: "57.872225 -6.744445", LatLongDMS: "57:52:20 N 06:44:40 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 2/27/1961
Time: 22:20
Location: BARK RIVER, MI
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7284. 13cm
sphere/orb/globe maneuvers slowly. Beams light ahead. Goes behind
trees.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6484
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "227", HatchDesc: "BARK RIVER,MI:BBK#7284:13cm ORB MNVRS SLOWLY:BEAMS LITE AHEAD:GOES BHND TREES", LatLong: "45.711113 -87.305560", LatLongDMS: "45:42:40 N 87:18:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/27/1961
Location: Yuma, AZ
Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Target With
Diffused Echoes (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610227
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2498
Date: 2/27/1961
Location: Ft. Meade, MD
Description: Cluster of 3 Objects Tracked at 900 Knots
(NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 610227
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2499
Date: 2/27/1961
Location: Herndon, VA
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2500
Date: 2/27/1961
Location: Bark River, MI
Description: Fiery-red, round object, preceded by light
rays (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7284)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2501
Date: 2/27/1961
Time: 10:15 PM
Location: Bark River, Michigan
Description: Witness: Mrs. LaPalm. One fiery-red, round
object, preceded by light rays, slowed and descended, while her dog
howled. Sighting lasted 10 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_458
Date: 2/27/1961
Description: A ship's crew watched an oddly shaped
flying object twist, turn, and fall into the sea between Lewis and
Harris Islands in the Western Isles off Scotland. On that night at 10:15
p.m. a red sphere with light rays projecting out ahead of it was seen by
Mrs. Lapham and her daughter for ten minutes in Bark River, Michigan.
Her dog howled during the time that the UFO was present.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Janet Gregory, FSR, September-October 1971,
p. 29; US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case #7284
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1151
Date: 2/28/1961
Location: Vietnam
Description: US military advisors first accompany South
Vietnamese troops during operations in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_601
Date: 2/28/1961
Time: 03:20
Location: LAKEVILLE, MA
Description: Blue Book. Roar. Bright-yellow ovoid / 2
passes. House lights fail. Going quickly south. / r242p139.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6485
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "6", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "LAKEVILLE,MA:BBK:ROAR:BRITE-YEL OVOID/2 PASSES:HOUSE LITES FAIL:>>S:/r242p139", LatLong: "41.850002 -70.950003", LatLongDMS: "41:51:00 N 70:57:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 2/28/1961
Location: Waverly AFB, IA
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases,
Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610228
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2502
Date: 2/28/1961
Location: Lakeville, MA
Description: House lights dimmed three times, went out
on two occasions as elongated UFO twice passed overhead (NICAP: 03 - EME
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2503
Date: 2/28/1961
Location: Lakewood, Massachusetts
Description: 3:20 a.m. Clarence Blackwood and his wife
hear a roaring sound in the sky at their home in Lakewood,
Massachusetts. They look out the bedroom window and see a fiery
cigar-shaped object moving at low altitude to the northeast. It is
bright yellow in the middle with a bright red edge and surrounded by
thin clouds of black smoke. The object rolls back and forth rapidly and
travels slowly to the southwest. It passes directly above their house,
illuminating the bedroom. The lights that they have left on in the
kitchen dim three times and go out for 4– 5 minutes. The object returns
at 3:40 and the kitchen lights repeat their previous actions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Schopick, pp.
115–117
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3502
Date: 3/1961
Location: US
Description: Article in Argosy magazine. AF Col. Tacker
used the strongest language to date in denouncing critics of the UFO
investigation. Their claims were "absolutely erroneous;" "a hoax:"
"sensational theories:" the work of "amateur hobby groups." NICAP's
evidence was "drivel," its claims "ridiculous" and it was making
"senseless accusations." In April 1961, after being associated with the
UFO project for over three years, Col. Tacker was shipped to Europe on
"routine reassignment."
Type: magazine article
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_892
Date: 3/1961
Description: In an article in Argosy, Maj. Lawrence
Tacker says that critics of the Air Force investigation are
“absolutely erroneous,” “a hoax,” “sensational theories,” and the work
of “amateur hobby groups.” NICAP’s evidence is “drivel,” its claims
“ridiculous,” and it is making “senseless accusations.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lawrence J. Tacker, “‘Flying Saucers Are
Fakes!’ ‘—U.S. Air Force,’” Argosy, March 1961, pp. 58, 125–126; UFOEv,
p.
108
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3503
Date: 3/1961
Description: House Majority Leader John W.
McCormack tells Keyhoe privately
that he has urged the Science and Astronautics Committee, headed by Rep.
Overton
Brooks (D-La.), to investigate Air Force UFO secrecy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974,
p.
76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3504
Date: 3/3/1961
Location: Ephrata, WA
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases,
Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610303
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2504
Date: 3/3/1961
Description: A white spherical UFO with a metallic
luster was seen during the day flying over Manly, New South Wales,
Australia. At 10:45 p.m. a father and son were camping near a lake at
Bowna Hume Weir, New South Wales when they saw a disc-shaped UFO with
four windows on the ground not far away. Four humanoid figures could be
seen between the object and a nearby fire. Their encounter lasted 45
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern
Hemisphere, p. 87; Bill Chalker & Keith Basterfield, Australian
Catalogue of Close Encounter Type Three Reports, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1270
Date: 3/4/1961
Location: ATLANTIC 43° 30W-42° 55N PROJECT BLUEBOOK
CASE #UNKNOWN
Description: Military observer(s). No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6486
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ATLANTIC 43°30W-42°55N BBK#UNKN:MIL OBS:NFD", LatLong: "42.916669 -43.500002", LatLongDMS: "42:55:00 N 43:30:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/6/1961
Description: In South Miami, Dade County, Florida at
10:15 p.m. a man saw a cigar-shaped object with occupants aboard.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Norbert F. Gariety, Flying Saucers,
September 1961, p. 38; Geroge D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p.
34
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1330
Date: 3/10/1961
Time: 21:10
Location: WANGARATTA AND TALLANGATTA, VCT
Description: Night light maneuvers / wide area near
Hume reservoir. No further details. / AFSR#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 516)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6487
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "WANGARATTA+TALLANGATTA,VCT:NLT MNVRs/WIDE AREA nr HUME RSVR:NFD:/AFSR#5", LatLong: "-36.383335 146.300007", LatLongDMS: "36:23:00 S 146:18:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/10/1961
Location: RAF Upper Heyford, UK
Description: (McDonald list) Slow-Moving Object Tracked
on Gnd Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610310
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2505
Date: 3/10/1961
Time: 2045
Location: Bowna, Australia
Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near
the water. They observed an object on the ground with four windows in
it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it
and the object. At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West
Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown
object in flight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Austr. FSR 5 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_516
Date: 3/10/1961
Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near
the water in Bowna, New South Wales, Australia. They observed an object
on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four
figures could be seen between it and the object. At 9:30 p.m. it had
disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and
Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight that same
evening.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 516
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1402
Date: 3/13/1961
Location: SAN DIEGO, CA
Description: Blue Book. 2 Navy men. "Satellite" going
going west makes 90° turn going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6488
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "SAN DIEGO,CA:BBK:2 NAVY MEN:"SATELLITE" GOING > W MAKES 90° TURN >>S.", LatLong: "32.733335 -117.150006", LatLongDMS: "32:44:00 N 117:09:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "9999", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/15/1961
Time: 20:50
Location: NEAR BOWNA, AUSTR
Description: 2 / camp. Flaming object / shore.
Figure(s) run to and fro. No trace. / r96#161+/ r8.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
743)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6489
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "45", HatchDesc: "nr BOWNA,AUSTR:2/CAMP:FLAMING OBJ/SHORE:FIGs RUN TO+FRO:NO TRACE:/r96#161+/r8", LatLong: "-36.033335 147.083340", LatLongDMS: "36:02:00 S 147:05:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/16/1961
Time: 18:20
Location: ADMIRALTY BAY, ANTARC
Description: Icebreaker crew. Ovoid northeast going
southwest / 12 second(s). Beams going down. Splits. / r242p53.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M.
Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN
(Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6490
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "Antarctic below 70 degrees South", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ADMIRALTY BAY,ANTARC:ICEBREAKER CREW:OVOID NE>SW/12sec:BEAMS↓:SPLITS:/r242p53", LatLong: "-62.083336 -58.416669", LatLongDMS: "62:05:00 S 58:25:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VCT", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/16/1961
Location: Unknown City, Antarctica
Description: Meteorologist observed a fireball-like
object, multi-colored, below overcast. [NICAP UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2506
Date: 3/16/1961
Location: Admiralty Bay, South Shetland Islands,
Antarctica
Description: 6:15 p.m. Brazilian meteorologist Rubens
J. Villela, on the deck of the USS
Glacier, watches a tear-shaped fireball over Admiralty Bay, South
Shetland Islands, Antarctica, in slow, level flight. It leaves a long
orange trail like a tracer bullet, then abruptly divides in two as if
exploding. It disappears after 10 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, pp.
53– 54;
James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 64–65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3505
Date: 3/16/1961
Locations: Murray River; Bowna, New South Wales
Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. F. Reynolds and his
15-year-old son Lloyd are camped in their trailer 900 feet from the
Murray River, at Bowna, New South Wales, when they see what appears to
be a huge trailer with four windows and a red light at the end standing
by the water. A fire is visible to the right of the object, and they can
see four figures moving quickly between the object and the fire.
Reynolds watches through binoculars and sees the entire array moving
sideways in a jerking manner. After 45 minutes, it is all gone from
sight. In the morning they can find no traces on the soft mud
flat.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “UFO
Landing?” Australian Flying Saucer Review, no. 5 (July 1961):
1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3506
Date: 3/17/1961
Location: Buffalo, NY
Description: USAF Col. Tacker lectures to the Aero Club
of Buffalo, N.Y.
Type: lecture
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_891
Date: 3/17/1961
Description: USAF ATIC is asked by the House Armed
Services Subcommittee how the USAF can improve UAP sightings. ATIC
states the best solution is to give its primary advisor J. Allen Hynek a
raise of $1,000 per year and purchase one new polaroid camera and one
new geiger counter for field work. It also recommends raising the count
of commissioned officers working on UAP from 1 to 2.
Note: It is questionable that these meager improvements were the best the USAF could do in response to the Congressional inquiry.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_98
Date: Spring 1961
Location: Kemah, TX
Description: Case missing (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, BB: 7321)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2507
Date: Spring 1961
Time: Time unknown
Location: Kemah, Texas
Description: Case missing from official files.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_459
Date: Spring 1961
Location: Millville, New Jersey
Description: Late evening. A couple parking in
Millville, New Jersey, watch a bright light silently moving northward.
It hovers, reverses direction, and maneuvers for 5 minutes. At one point
it races directly at a star, abruptly stops, draws a neat, right-angled,
half-box around it, and goes racing on. Finally it speeds out of sight
in about 5 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
Ballantine ed., 1974, p.
44; Michael D. Swords, “We Know Where You Live,” IUR 30, no. 2
(January 2006): 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3507
Date: 3/22/1961
Time: 21:50
Location: FORT PIERCE, FL
Description: Mayor and airmen. Fireball / fantastic
maneuvers. Big wave / all Florida to 29 March.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 275)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6491
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "16", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "FORT PIERCE,FL:MAYOR+AIRMEN:FBL/FANTASTIC MNVRS:BIG WAVE/ALL FLORIDA to 29MAR", LatLong: "27.433335 -80.333337", LatLongDMS: "27:26:00 N 80:20:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/23/1961
Location: Ft. Pierce, FL
Description: Beechcraft pilot and passenger saw an
intense bright light rise (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5,
BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610323
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2508
Date: 4/1961
Time: 20:00
Location: DRAGUIGNAN, VAR
Description: Hemisphere lands / pasture. Rises and
vanishes instantly. Busy area!
Type: sighting
Reference: FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis:
OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index
249)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6492
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "DRAGUIGNAN,VAR:HEMISPHERE LANDS/PASTURE:RISES+VANISHES INSTANTLY:BUSY AREA!", LatLong: "43.516669 6.483334", LatLongDMS: "43:31:00 N 06:29:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Var", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/1961
Locations: Pentagon; Europe
Description: Maj. Tacker is
removed from his job as Pentagon UFO spokesman and reassigned to Europe.
He is replaced by Maj. William T.
Coleman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Tacker
Replaced As Spokesman,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12 (April/May 1961):
1– 2; UFOEv, p.
108
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3508
Date: 4/2/1961
Location: PACIFIC 132° 15W-34° 34N
Description: Blue Book. US Navy boat crew. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6493
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 132°15W-34°34N:BBK:US NAVY BOAT CREW:NFD", LatLong: "34.566668 -132.250006", LatLongDMS: "34:34:00 N 132:15:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 4/4/1961
Locations: Bay of Pigs; Cuba; Trinidad
Description: President Kennedy approves
the Bay of Pigs plan (also known as Operation Zapata) for the invasion
of Cuba because it has an airfield that does not need extending to
handle bomber operations, it is farther away from large groups of
civilians than the Trinidad plan, and it is less noisy militarily, which
would make any future denial of direct US involvement more
plausible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Bay of
Pigs invasion” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3509
Date: 4/9/1961
Location: KINGSVILLE, TX
Description: Round red object descends hovers and
speeds away. No further details. / r78p188.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6494
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "KINGSVILLE,TX:ROUND RED OBJ DESCENDS HVRS+SPEEDS AWAY:NFD:/r78p188", LatLong: "27.516668 -97.855560", LatLongDMS: "27:31:00 N 97:51:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/9/1961
Location: Kingsville, TX
Description: Round red UFO descended, hovered, sped
away. [NICAP UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2509
Date: 4/11/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked Prior to
Launch of Polaris Missile (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5,
BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610411
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2510
Date: 4/12/1961
Description: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri
Gagarin becomes the first human to go into outer space when his
Vostok spacecraft completes an orbit of the earth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Yuri Gagarin”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3510
Date: 4/14/1961
Location: Marianas Islands, Asia
Description: Four Small Objects Tracked 10-15 Minutes
(NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610414
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2511
Date: 4/17/1961
Locations: Cuba; Guatemala; Nicaragua
Description: The Bay of Pigs invasion takes place in
Cuba. A counter-revolutionary military (made up of Cuban exiles),
trained and funded by the CIA, Brigade 2506 fronts the armed wing of the
Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intends to overthrow the
increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro.
Launched from bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua, the invading force is
defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces under
the direct command of Castro.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Bay of
Pigs invasion” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3511
Date: 4/18/1961
Time: 11:00
Location: EAGLE RIVER, WI
Description: Dark 5' pseudo-humans/entities / 13'
saucer ask farmer / water. Bake pancakes! / MJ#276.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
737)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6495
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, CVS: Conversation/communication, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "3", Duration: "30", Elev: "501", HatchDesc: "EAGLE RIVER,WI:DARK 5' PSHs/13' SCR ASK FARMER/WATER:BAKE PANCAKES!:/MJ#276", LatLong: "45.911113 -89.266671", LatLongDMS: "45:54:40 N 89:16:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "11"
Date: 4/18/1961
Location: Eagle River, WI
Description: CE-3 case involving ETs giving 'pancakes'
for water (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2512
Date: 4/18/1961
Time: 1100
Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin
Description: J. Simonton heard a whining sound and saw
an object, 10 m in diameter, 4 m high, with exhaust pipes around the
periphery, land near his house. A door was opened and a man appeared.
About 1.50 m tall, he wore a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white
band at the belt, and black trousers with a vertical white band along
the side. Two figures were visible inside the object. Simonton filled a
jug with water, returned it to the man, who gave him three ordinary
pancakes, and the craft took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_517
Date: 4/18/1961
Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin
Description: 11:00 a.m. Joe
Simonton hears a whining sound on his farm four miles from Eagle
River, Wisconsin, and sees a silvery object, 30 feet in diameter and 12
feet high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land nearby. A door
opens and a man appears, about 5 feet tall and wearing a black,
turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and black trousers
with a vertical white band along the side. Two other figures are visible
inside. The creature is holding a metallic jug and making gestures
suggesting he wants a drink. Simonton takes the jug into his basement,
fills it with water, and returns it to the man. Simonton notices one man
frying on a flameless grill and motions for some food. Simonton receives
four ordinary pancakes or cookies, 3 inches in diameter, perforated with
small holes. The object takes off after 5 minutes. Simonton gives one of
the pancakes to Judge Frank Wellington
Carter, who
then passes it on to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena; another he gives to J. Allen
Hynek for Project Blue Book; and the third he keeps for himself. A
thorough analysis is performed on one of the pancakes by the US
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, and the food is found to
be made of terrestrial but tasteless ingredients, including hydrogenated
oil and buckwheat flour. The Air Force concludes that Simonton is honest
but has mistakenly conflated the reality of his breakfast with a
dream.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 287; Vallée,
Magonia, pp.
23–25; Clark III 421–426; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
a History: January–June 1961, The
Author, 2003, pp. 32–34; Center for UFO Studies, [Hynek
case documents];
Center for UFO Studies, [case photos];
Center for UFO Studies, [Lex
Mebane case files]; Center for UFO Studies, [NICAP
case documents]; Jerome Clark, “The
Pancakes of Eagle River,” IUR 21, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 3–8, 27;
Joshua Cutchin, “The Great Alien Bake-Off,” Fortean Times 332 (November
2015): 42–44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3512
Date: 4/18/1961
Description: Mr. Paul Simonton, a Chicken farmer in
Eagle River, Wisconsin saw a disc-shaped carft land vertically on his
farm. A hatch opened, and when he approached he saw three human-looking
men inside. They asked him for some water. They appeared to be cooking
pancakes on a griddle, and in exchange for the water they gave him four
of the pancakes from griddle. The men were described as five feet tall
with dark hair. They wore blue knit outfits and helmets. The newspapers
had a field day with this report, but private UFO investigators who
interviewed Mr. Simonton found him to be sincere and his story
uncomplicated.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Allen Utke case files, case 6; Milwaukee
Journal, April 23, 1961; George D. Fawcett, Flying Saucers, May 1963, p.
34; NICAP UFO Investigator, May 1961, p. 8; Jacques Vallee, Passport to
Magonia, p. 23
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2112
Date: 4/19/1961
Locations: San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy; Capo
Carbonara, Sardinia, Italy
Description: 7:40 p.m. Commanding Officer C. J.
Peterson of the minesweeper HMS Maxton sees a swiftly moving object as
the ship is 33 miles off San Vito Lo Capo, Sicily, Italy. It is green
and leaves an orange trail as it moves higher and disappears to the
northwest. The ship’s crew sees a similar object on April 20 at 4:50
a.m. when it is 25 miles south of Capo Carbonara, Sardinia, Italy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: 1Pinotti 112–113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3513
Date: 4/20/1961
Location: Hanna City AFS, IL
Description: Object at 97,000' Tracked on FPS-6A
(McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610420
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2513
Date: 4/23/1961
Time: 01:50
Location: MANITOWOC, WI
Description: Newspaperman. Dull-grey disk going west
slowly. Rushing wind sound. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6496
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "197", HatchDesc: "MANITOWOC,WI:NEWSPAPERMAN:DULL-GREY DISK >W SLOWLY:RUSHING WIND SOUND:NFD", LatLong: "44.066669 -87.600004", LatLongDMS: "44:04:00 N 87:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/24/1961
Time: 03:30
Location: PACIFIC 35° 50N-125° 40W WITH SAN JOSE
Description: 2 military observer(s). Small disc / night
light paces USAF jet. / r185.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6497
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 35°50N-125°40W W/SAN JOSE:2 MIL OBS:SML DISC/NLT PACES USAF JET:/r185", LatLong: "35.833335 -125.666673", LatLongDMS: "35:50:00 N 125:40:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CLF", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/24/1961
Location: San Francisco (200 miles SW of), At Sea
Description: RC-121 Crew Tracks Object With Sextant
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 7359)
Reference: NICAP: 610424
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2514
Date: 4/24/1961
Time: 3:34 AM
Location: 200 miles SW of San Francisco, California
(35' 50' N, 125' 40 W)
Description: Witnesses: aircraft commander Capt. H.J.
Savoy and navigator lst Lt. M.W. Rand, on USAF RC-l2lD patrol plane. One
reddish-white, round object or light, similar to satellite. Observed for
8 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_460
Date: 4/25/1961
Time: 06:00:00.0
Location: 27.0000 0.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Air. Country: France
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1840
Extra Data: LatLong: "27.0000 0.0000", LatLongDMS: "27:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "BOLT", NukeType: "A"
Date: 4/25/1961
Locations: US; American
Description: US Air Force Intelligence Collection
Guidance Letter no. 4, originally classified Confidential, describes and
provides guidance for Project Moon Dust reporting. Several items of
interest appear in the document: classification level of Moon Dust
Alerts and reports, focus of Moon Dust on “foreign earth satellite
vehicles,” and destination agencies for Moon Dust reports among them.
Project Moon Dust is a covert project to exploit the discovery of Soviet
hardware when it temporarily lands in American hands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Department of the Air Force, “MOON DUST
Reporting,” Intelligence Collection Guidance Letter, no. 4, April
25, 1961; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, pp.
157–169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3514
Date: 4/27/1961
Time: ~06:00
Location: LAKE ONEGA, RUSSIA
Description: UFO breaks dirt and ice / frozen lake.
Furrows / lakebed. Crud and odd fragments.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S
from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 61)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6498
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "LAKE ONEGA,RUSS:UFO BREAKS DIRT+ICE/FROZEN LAKE:FURROWS/LAKEBED:CRUD+ODD FRAGS", LatLong: "62.033336 34.583335", LatLongDMS: "62:02:00 N 34:35:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KRL", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 4/27/1961
Description: On this morning a bluish green oval
object, the size of a jetliner, landed on Lake Onega in Karelia, Russia
and broke through the ice. It was heading toward the east when it came
down and created a trench 50 feet long and 10 feet deep in the lake bed.
There was a great deal of disturbed mud, and odd fragments were also
found at the site. The sample residue was analyzed and showed the
presence of the elements magnesium, aluminum, calcium, barium, and
titanium. There were at least 25 witnesses to the crash landing.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet
Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137, citing Felix Zigel; APRO Bulletin,
June 1976, p. 5; Xenolog, August 1976, p. 11; Ion Hobana & Julien
Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 61
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2367
Date: 4/28/1961
Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia
Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this
area.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_602
Date: 4/29/1961
Time: 16:00
Location: BAILEYS BEACH, NY
Description: Red ball floats 600' offshore. Going up
[to] 60'. Going quickly south to sea / 100mph. / r44p40.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
739)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6499
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "12", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "BAILEYs BEACH,NY:RED BALL FLOATS 600'OFFSHORE:↑60':>>S to SEA/100mph:/r44p40", LatLong: "40.866669 -72.638892", LatLongDMS: "40:52:00 N 72:38:20 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/29/1961
Locations: Bailey's Beach, Newport, Rhode Island;
Ocean
Description: Around 4:00 p.m. Contractor John P.
Gallagher is working at a home adjacent to Bailey’s Beach, Newport,
Rhode Island. He sees a red spherical object bobbing on the ocean waves
about 600 feet from the shore. Suddenly the object rises into the air to
60 feet and moves out to sea at about 100 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Head’
Floats—Flies,” APRO Bulletin, July 1961, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3515
Date: 4/29/1961
Description: Mr. Gallagher was at Bailey's Beach,
Newport County, Rhode Island at around four o'clock in the afternoon
when he noticed a red ball floating about 600 feet offshore. It then
ascended to 60 feet altitude, and flew away to the south at 100
mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 4; Ivan
T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 40, citing Flying Saucer
Review
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2407
Date: 5/1961
Location: US
Description: In the May issue of “Fate” magazine,
Master Sgt. O.D. Hill admits that we are still losing Air Force planes
to UFOs. The first case was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to
investigate an UFO that had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air
Base (name and dates classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO
heading straight for the craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to
climb at once, but it was too late. The two blips merged as one and the
UFO was tracked moving away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single
shred of the F-86 was ever found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with
crew of two merged with an UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second
Case: A radar operator was tracking a transport plane carrying 26
persons aboard when, suddenly, another blip appeared on the screen
closing at 2500 mph on the transport. Before the operator could warn the
transport the two blips emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight
up at tremendous speed. A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil
slicks on the water, although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating
around.
Type: publication
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_604
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 9/29/59
Date: 5/1961
Time: 11:00
Location: LURGAN, NORTH IREL
Description: 3 / isolated park. Noisy 4' saucer going
[to] over lake. Fades from view and quiets!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
397)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6500
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "84", HatchDesc: "LURGAN,N.IREL:3/ISOLATED PARK:NOISY 4'SCR > OVR LAKE:FADES FROM VIEW+QUIETS!", LatLong: "54.450003 -6.333334", LatLongDMS: "54:27:00 N 06:20:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Northern Ireland", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/1961
Location: Union Mills, IN
Description: First Week of May - Hemispherical UFO with
"portholes", on road; took off as car approached. [NICAP UFOE, XII]
(NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2515
Date: 5/1961
Locations: La.; Minn.; U.S.
Description: Rep. Overton
Brooks (D-La.) appoints Rep. Joseph
Karth (DFL-Minn.) head of a Subcommittee on Space Problems and Life
Sciences. Karth and two other members plan for hearings in early 1962.
The plan calls for a statement by Roscoe
Hillenkoetter. NICAP
releases a joint statement by 21 American scientists that calls for an
open investigation by UFOs without secrecy. It says the Air Force should
have a more straightforward information policy that releases all facts
on major UFO sightings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Scientists
Urge Check on AF Investigation,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 12
(April/May 1961): 7; “UFO
Inquiry behind Closed Doors: NICAP Asks Right to Question
Air Force,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 1 (July/Aug. 1961): 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3516
Date: 5/3/1961 (approximate)
Time: 22:00
Location: UNION MILLS, IN
Description: 4M saucer with portholes rests / county
road. Takes off / car nears. / r237p4.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 518)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6501
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "226", HatchDesc: "UNION MILLS,IN:4M SCR W/PORTHOLES RESTS/COUNTY Rd:TAKES OFF/CAR NEARS:/r237p4", LatLong: "41.494446 -86.855560", LatLongDMS: "41:29:40 N 86:51:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/3/1961
Time: 2200
Location: Union Mills, Indiana
Description: Approximate date. A hemispherical craft
with portholes, resting on a road, took off when a car came near it.
Estimated diameter was 4 m, height 2.5 m, bearing "fluorescent
lights."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 139, 147 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_518
Date: 5/3/1961
Description: On or about this date a hemispherical
craft with portholes was sighted resting on a road in Union Mills,
Indiana. The time was ten o'clock in the evening. It took off when a car
came close to it. Its estimated diameter was four meters, height 2.5
meters, and it bore "fluorescent lights."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 518; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p.
147
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2469
Date: 5/5/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Description: Astronaut Alan
Shepard becomes the first American in space (for 15 minutes and 22
seconds) when his Freedom
7 capsule is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, as the first
manned Project Mercury launch.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mercury-Redstone
3” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3517
Date: 5/7/1961
Time: 04:20
Location: NEAR GUNDAGAI, NSW, AUSTR
Description: 5 / plane take long exposure / huge UFO.
Saucer with nose down. Odd.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the
Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally
"The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6502
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "130", HatchDesc: "nr GUNDAGAI,NSW,AUSTR:5/PLANE TAKE LONG EXPOSURE/HUGE UFO:SCR W/NOSE DOWN:ODD", LatLong: "-35.083335 148.083340", LatLongDMS: "35:05:00 S 148:05:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/9/1961
Time: 07:30
Location: SOUTH / WELLINGTON, RSA
Description: Several observer(s). Shiny saucer hovers
over Bains Kloof. Hovers. Wobbles. Then going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
88)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6503
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Republic of South Africa", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "S/WELLINGTON,RSA:SVRL OBS:SHINY SCR HVRs OVR BAINS KLOOF:HVRS:WOBBLES:then >>E", LatLong: "-33.500002 19.100001", LatLongDMS: "33:30:00 S 19:06:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CAP", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/9/1961
Description: At 7:45 a.m. several observers watched a
shiny saucer-shaped object hover over Bains Kloof Mountain Pass near
Wellington, Western Cape, South Africa. It hovered for a minute of two,
then wobbled, and then shot off toward the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing
FSR, volume 7, number 4; newspaper clipping dated May 9, 1961
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2680
Date: 5/10/1961
Location: PACIFIC 124° 00E-22° 22N.
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. US Navy
boat observer(s). No further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6504
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 124°00E-22°22N.:BBK#UNK:US NAVY BOAT OBS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "22.366668 124.000006", LatLongDMS: "22:22:00 N 124:00:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 5/10/1961
Locations: Osakis, Minnesota; rural road south of
Osakis, Minnesota
Description: Late evening. Richard Vogt, driving on a
rural road south of Osakis, Minnesota, sees a “ball of fog approximately
3 feet in diameter” swiftly descending toward him at a 45° angle from a
clear sky. Unable to take evasive action, Vogt can only stare as the
object hits the upper part of his hood and windshield. The noisy impact
generates a tremendous amount of heat; the windshield becomes extremely
hot to the touch. The object leaves pit marks burned in the windshield,
circular tracks on the glass, and burned specks in the finish of the
hood.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: C. W. Fitch, “Monitoring
and Scanning UFOs,” APRO Bulletin, July 1963, p. 5; Clark III
716
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3518
Date: 5/14/1961
Description: At around 11:00 o'clock in the morning a
21-year-old man saw a golden disc-shaped object floating on the surface
of the water while crossing the Mississippi River near Vicksburg,
Mississippi. He got out of his car and watched it through binoculars.
The water surface was disturbed as the object ascended, making a
swishing sound. The sighting lasted about two minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: James A. Scarborough, MUFON field
investigations database, case 900315
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2827
Date: 5/15/1961
Location: PACIFIC 141° 55E-35° 26N.
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Military
observer(s). No further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6505
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 141°55E-35°26N.:BBK#UNK:MIL OBS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "35.433335 141.916673", LatLongDMS: "35:26:00 N 141:55:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 5/15/1961
Location: Dominican Republic
Description: An order approved by President Kennedy results
in the dispersal of four machine guns to insurgents in the Dominican
Republic. President Rafael
Trujillo dies from gunshot wounds on May 30. In the aftermath, Robert Kennedy writes
that the CIA has succeeded where it has failed many times in the past,
but in the face of that success, it is caught flatfooted, having failed
to plan what to do next.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Rafael
Trujillo”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3519
Date: 5/16/1961
Location: ATLANTIC 37° 00W-43° 46N
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Military
observer(s). No further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6506
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ATLANTIC 37°00W-43°46N:BBK#UNK:MIL OBS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "43.766669 -37.000002", LatLongDMS: "43:46:00 N 37:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 5/19/1961
Time: 15:50
Location: LONG BEACH, CA
Description: Sonic booms. 12 metal objects play / sky.
Vanish as jets near. / APRO 5'61.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6507
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "105", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "LONG BEACH,CA:SONIC BOOMS:12 MTL OBJS PLAY/SKY:VANISH AS JETS NEAR:/APRO 5'61", LatLong: "33.800002 -118.150006", LatLongDMS: "33:48:00 N 118:09:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 5/19/1961
Location: Bay Minette (About 7 miles W of), AL
Description: Silver-like object with tapered edges
reflecting sunlight to the NNE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2516
Date: 5/19/1961
Location: Long Beach, CA
Description: Twelve shiny UFOs maneuvered erratically
over the area at 3:50 p.m., with an odd fluttering motion; then two loud
"skyquakes" were heard. [NICAP UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2517
Date: 5/20/1961
Time: 02:50
Location: TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7417. Pilots and
many. RADAR's / 2 days. Coin disk spins. / MJ#277+/ r59.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6508
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "64", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "TYNDALL AFB,FL:BBK#7417:PILOTS+MANY:RDRs/2 DAYS:COIN DISK SPINS:/MJ#277+/r59", LatLong: "30.072224 -85.577782", LatLongDMS: "30:04:20 N 85:34:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/20/1961
Location: Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL
Description: Dime-Shaped Object Observed / Weather
Radar Tracked? (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R,
Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610520
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2518
Date: 5/20/1961
Location: Tyndall AFB, FL
Description: Gnd Radar Tracks Object Chased By Fighter
& Heli Pilots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610520
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2519
Date: 5/22/1961
Location: Tyndall AFB, FL
Description: Big silver-dollar disc hover and revolve,
then disappear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7417)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2520
Date: 5/22/1961
Time: 4:30 PM
Location: Tyndall AFB, Florida
Description: Witnesses: Mrs. A.J. Jones and Mrs. R.F.
Davis. One big silver dollar disc hovered and revolved, then suddenly
disappeared after 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_461
Date: 5/22/1961
Description: Over 20 high qualified witnesses including
several doctors watched a 30 meter long metallic ovoid object maneuver
at low altitude in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela and then land at 10:30
a.m. A total of three objects were seen, manuevering silently in and out
of the nearby hills and dodging trees and a low speed. Flattened grass
was found at the landing site.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, September 1961; Coral E.
Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from
Outer Space, p. 185; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #5930
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3032
Date: 5/22/1961
Description: That same afternoon in Texas a stationary
silver disc hung in the air over Tyndall Air Force Base. It was seen by
two married women, Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Davis, at 4:30 p.m. The object
appeared to be revolving as it hovered. After 15 minutes it finally rose
higher and higher into the air and disappeared. A Project Blue Book
"unknown."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7417; Lloyd Mallan, Science & Mechanics, December
1966, p. 36; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 22; Richard H.
Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 95
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3033
Date: 5/23/1961
Time: 15:20
Location: NAPIER, NZ
Description: 1 observer. Round silver 'bowl' going
south slow. Reaches airdrome and vanishes in place.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
739)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6509
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "NAPIER,NZ:1 OBS:ROUND SLVR 'BOWL' >S SLOW:REACHES AIRDROME+VANISHES in place.", LatLong: "-39.516669 176.933342", LatLongDMS: "39:31:00 S 176:56:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/23/1961
Location: Bronson and Cross City, FL
Description: Oval Tracked By AN/FPS-6A (NICAP: 09 -
RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 610523
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2521
Date: 5/23/1961
Description: A round, silver bowl-shaped object flew
slowly to the south over Napier, New Zealand in Hawke's Bay at a few
minutes after 3:15 p.m. It was witnessed by a Mrs. Church for two
minutes. It reached a position over the local aerodrome and then
vanished in place.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3045
Date: 5/25/1961
Time: 22:10
Location: SHEPPERTON, ENG
Description: Girl / 16. 8M Derby-hat saucer going
northwest / 30kph 150M away. Dome glows. 3 portholes.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6510
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SHEPPERTON,ENG:GIRL/16:8M DERBY-HAT SCR >NW/30kph 150M AWAY:DOME GLOWS:3 PORTS", LatLong: "51.400002 -0.450000", LatLongDMS: "51:24:00 N 00:27:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/25/1961
Location: Shepperton, Middlesex, UK
Description: Domed UFO with "portholes." [NICAP UFOE,
XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2522
Date: 5/28/1961 (approximate)
Location: NORTHEAST / FLORIANOPOLIS, BRAZIL
Description: Airmen. Luminous disk circles / sea level.
Going up [to] and circles and paces DC3 going northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
743)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6511
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "NE/FLORIANOPOLIS,BRZL:AIRMEN:LUMn.DISK CCLS/SEA Lvl:↑+CCLs+PACES DC3 >NE", LatLong: "-25.500001 -45.833336", LatLongDMS: "25:30:00 S 45:50:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/28/1961
Description: A luminous disc was seen by airmen
circling below at sea level northeast of Florianopolis, Brazil on this
night. It climbed to the altitude of the DC-3 and circled the plane,
then paced the aircraft as it flew to the northeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1961
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3132
Date: 5/29/1961
Location: Newark, OH
Description: Boy filmed unidentified light. [NICAP
UFOE, VIII] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2523
Date: 5/31/1961
Time: 12:00
Location: WYALONG TO/FROM TOOMPANG, AUS
Description: 7 observer(s). Large sphere/orb/globe
hovers. 4 small delta/triangle/box-like crafts exit and maneuver and
return. / r2p147.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
293)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6512
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "WYALONG><TOOMPANG,AUS:7 OBS:LRG ORB HVRS:4 SML DLTS EXIT+MNVR+RETURN:/r2p147", LatLong: "-33.900002 147.288896", LatLongDMS: "33:54:00 S 147:17:20 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/31/1961
Description: At noon on this day over Toompang, New
South Wales, Australia five men watched a large object hover in the sky
while four delta-shaped objects exited and maneuvered around it for over
an hour. They finally rejoined it and the large craft flew away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p.
151; FSR, March 1979, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3181
Date: 6/1961
Location: US
Description: The outspoken new policy, if that is what
it was, apparently backfired. Angered by USAF Col. Tacker's attitude,
NICAP members and other citizens deluged Congress with requests for an
investigation of the Air Force project. Congressional hearings were
contemplated but never came about. Instead, Air Force Congressional
Liaison personnel briefed key Congressional committees in private.
Type: congressional briefings
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_893
Date: 6/1961
Time: 23:50
Location: BARABON, QLD, AUS
Description: 4 observer(s) / car. Classic saucer
passes. Car engine quits. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING
VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1
CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf
(Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6513
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BARABON,QLD,AUS:4 OBS/CAR:CLASSIC SCR PASSES:CAR ENGINE QUITS:NFD", LatLong: "-20.833334 143.466674", LatLongDMS: "20:50:00 S 143:28:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/2/1961
Time: 22:20
Location: MIYAKO JIMA AFS, JAPAN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7437. Several
observer(s). Blue-white night light maneuvers erratically / 5
minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS;
(FUFOR). (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6514
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "MIYAKO JIMA AFS,JAPAN:BBK#7437:SVRL OBS:BLU-WHT NLT MNVRS ERRATICALLY/5min", LatLong: "34.716668 135.550006", LatLongDMS: "34:43:00 N 135:33:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 6/2/1961
Location: Tampa, FL
Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked At 34,000'
/F-102 Scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 3, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610602
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2524
Date: 6/2/1961
Location: Miyako Jima Air Station, Japan
Description: Blue-white light fly erratic course at
varying speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7437)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2525
Date: 6/2/1961
Time: 10:17 PM
Location: Miyako Jima, Japan
Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. R.N. Monahan and
Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D.W. Mattison. One
blue-white light flew erratic course at varying speed, in an arc-like
path for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_462
Date: 6/2/1961
Description: On Miyako Jima, Japan at 10:17 p.m. Lt. R.
N. Monahan and Hazeltine Electric Co. technical representative D. W.
Mattison, sighted a blue-white light that flew an erratic course at
varying speeds, in an arc-like path for five minutes. A radar contact
with visual confirmation of the UFO occurred on the same day in Tampa,
Florida.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7437; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3225
Date: 6/3/1961
Time: 06:40
Location: OFF SAVONA, ITL
Description: Sea boils. Glowing-saucer emerges. Going
quickly northeast / fast. / FSRv9#4p11+/ r70p3-73+/ r8.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri
Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6515
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off SAVONA,ITL:SEA BOILS:GLO-SCR EMERGES:>>NE/FAST:/FSRv9#4p11+/r70p3-73+/r8", LatLong: "44.250002 8.516667", LatLongDMS: "44:15:00 N 08:31:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SV", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 6/3/1961
Time: 0635
Location: Savona, Italy
Description: Off this town, four people in a boat were
suddenly shaken by growing waves and saw the sea swelling like an
enormous bubble 1 km away. An object emerged, hovering at 10 m altitude
for a brief time, its underside glowing, and it left obliquely at high
speed toward the northeast. Its shape was similar to a cone resting on a
disk.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6,63 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_519
Date: 6/3/1961
Location: Savona, Italy
Description: 6:35 a.m. Giacomo Barra, Giuseppe Pordoi,
Filippo Marin, and Silvano Guardinfante are in a motorboat off Savona,
Italy, when the boat begins to roll badly. More than one-half mile away,
they notice the surface of the sea is “bulging like an enormous ball,
with long billows going out.” An object emerges from the sea and stops
still for a few seconds at a height of 30 feet and rocks slightly. A
halo forms around the base and it shoots away quickly across the sea and
vanishes towards the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs,
a History: January–June 1961, The
Author, 2003, p. 50; 1Pinotti 117–118
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3523
Date: 6/3/1961
Locations: Mercury, Nevada; Nellis AFB
Description: A civilian weather observer sees an object
through a theodolite at Mercury, Nevada. It remains in sight for 2 hours
at an altitude of 80,000–120,000 feet. Project Blue Book evaluators
correctly identify the object as a probable U-2 aircraft flying out of
Nellis AFB.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “The U-2 Spy Plane and Blue
Book: Another Look,” IUR 27, no. 3 (Fall 2002): 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3524
Date: 6/3/1961
Description: In the sea off the town of Savona, Italy
four people who were taking a ride in a small motorboat were suddenly
rocked by growing waves. They stood up and noticed the sea swell up like
an enormous bubble a kilometer away, with large waves widening into a
circle. A few seconds later an object emerged and hovered at 10 meters
altitude above the waves for a brief time. Its lower part was similar to
an upside down plate and the upper part was shaped like a cone. As it
was emerging from the water the object seemed to push it as if there was
an air pillow. After it had emerged completely, the object stopped for a
few seconds in the air at about 10 meters above the surface. After a few
sways, a mark around the base formed and the object rapidly departed
following a trajectory oblique to the sea surface and disappeared
towards the northeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,
case 519; Marco Bianchini, USOCAT: Italian Center for UFO Studies
(CISU), www.cisu.org; Thomas M.
Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 122, citing Flying
Saucer Review, July-August 1963, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3243
Date: 6/4/1961
Time: ~14:00
Location: BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT, PA
Description: Several small saucers streak to big ovoid.
Going quickly NNW. Very fast. / r242p71.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6516
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "408", HatchDesc: "BLUE RIDGE SUMMIT,PA:SVRL SML SCRS STREAK to BIG OVOID:>>NNW:VFAST:/r242p71", LatLong: "39.733335 -77.472226", LatLongDMS: "39:44:00 N 77:28:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/4/1961
Location: Blue Ridge Summit, PA
Description: A cigar-shaped or long elliptical UFO with
a cluster of smaller UFOs was observed by a librarian. First motionless,
the smaller objects then streaked across the sky to the large UFO and
all vanished behind trees. [NICAP UFOE, VIII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2526
Date: 6/4/1961
Location: Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania
Description: Mrs. James W. Annis, a librarian, sees a
large, narrow, elliptical object hovering low in the sky to the north of
Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania. Farther to the east, a cluster of
smaller objects is hovering. She then watches the smaller objects streak
across the sky to the larger one. All then move out of sight behind
trees to the north- northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
71; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29,
no. 2 (Summer 2004): 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3525
Date: 6/5/1961
Location: Rodovia Anchieta highway 30 miles northwest
of Santos, São Paulo, Brazil
Description: 2:30 a.m. Patrolman Jaime de Miranda and
Astrogildo de Medeiros are called to the scene of a sighting on the
Rodovia Anchieta highway 30 miles northwest of Santos, São Paulo,
Brazil. When they arrive, they find about 20 cars stopped along the road
and people watching a luminous disc-shaped object maneuvering in the
area. The patrolmen try to signal the object by shining a spotlight on
it, but they get no response. When they focus a red light on it, the
object moves toward the cars at high speed. They take cover. Another
responder, Marshal José Otavia Leite, is about to shoot at the object
but other police prevent him. After 3 hours, the object gets dimmer. At
5:30 a.m., it is still visible through binoculars when it lands on the
ground some distance from the highway. By daybreak it is no longer
visible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet,
1969, pp. 227–228
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3526
Date: 6/9/1961
Location: Mississisauga, Ontario
Description: A second USAF/NASA flight evaluation of
the Avrocar is conducted on a modified second prototype at the Avro
facility in Mississisauga, Ontario. During these tests, the vehicle
reaches a maximum speed of 20 knots and shows the ability to traverse a
ditch 6 feet across and 18 inches deep. Flight above the critical
altitude proves dangerous if not nearly impossible due to inherent
instability. The flight test report further identifies a range of
control problems.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Avro
Canada VZ-9 Avrocar” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3527
Date: 6/11/1961
Time: 23:00
Location: VILLANUEVA DE RIO Y M., SP
Description: 12+observer(s). 5M saucer maneuvers. All
animals affected. Going quickly west. / r50p7.
Type: sighting
Reference: FSR CASE HISTORIES. Bimonthly/London.
Supplements 2 - 18 (final issue) (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6517
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "10", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "VILLANUEVA de RIO y M.,SP:12+OBS:5M SCR MNVRS:ALL ANIMALS AFFECTED:>>W:/r50p7", LatLong: "37.655557 -5.716667", LatLongDMS: "37:39:20 N 05:43:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/11/1961
Locations: Fuenteluega Estate; Sevilla, Spain
Description: 11:00 p.m. José-Gregorio Darnaude y Rojas
Marcos, 28, is lying in a hammock in the front of his house on the
Fuenteluega Estate in Sevilla, Spain, when he feels a peculiar pricking
sensation throughout his whole body but particularly in his head. His
dogs are cowering, the sheep go completely crazy, and the crickets and
cicadas become silent. Suddenly, a luminous disc about 15 feet in
diameter appears from behind the house, flying from northeast to
southwest. It makes an abrupt 90° turn and moves directly toward him,
hovering about 400 feet away from him and 80 feet in the air, changing
colors from white to orange to red to purple several times. Darnaude
runs inside, but the disc turns bright white and shots away at enormous
speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, “Twelfh Night:
And a UFO,” Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, no. 18 (September
1974): 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3528
Date: 6/11/1961
Description: Jose Darnaude, age 28, of Villanueva del
Rio y Minas, Spain felt a strange prickling sensation all over his body
but especially on his head when he next saw a spinning luminous object
approach rapidly from the northeast. The disc-shaped UFO dropped down at
a 90-degree angle, and stopped to hover at 20-30 meters altitude, 250
meters away. It changed color from white to orange to red to purple to
white again. Over a dozen other people witnessed it for several minutes
before it rose vertically at great speed and flew towards the southwest.
Horses in the area went crazy with fear, sheep broke loose, and dogs
cowered in silence. Mr. Darnaude has degrees in law, economics, and
business management, and at the time was the manager of his family's
agricultural and cattle breeding business, on whose estate the incident
occurred.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of
200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, pp. 7-8.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3418
Date: 6/12/1961
Description: A smoke ring was seen in the presence of a
UFO at 6:30 p.m. in Waynesville, Ohio.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, July-August 1961, p. 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3438
Date: 6/13/1961
Time: 15:40
Location: BETHUNGRA, AUS
Description: 4 / railroad/railway
station/depot/facility. 25cm disk just over phone lines. Whistles. Lines
tangled.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6518
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BETHUNGRA,AUS:4/RR Stn:25cm DISK JUST OVR PHONE LINES:WHISTLES:LINES TANGLED", LatLong: "-34.766668 147.866674", LatLongDMS: "34:46:00 S 147:52:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/13/1961
Description: At 3:35 p.m. a 25 cm wide disc flew just
above some telephone lines at a railroad station in Bethunga, New South
Wales, Australia. It made a whistling noise. The telephone became
entangled by its passage.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Luis Schoenherr, computerized catalogue,
case #1451
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3456
Date: 6/17/1961
Location: PACIFIC 148° 10W-26° 03N PROJECT BLUEBOOK
CASE #UNKNOWN
Description: Military observer(s). No further details
[in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
65)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6519
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 148°10W-26°03N BBK#UNK:MIL OBS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "26.050001 -148.166674", LatLongDMS: "26:03:00 N 148:10:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 6/19/1961
Location: EXETER, ENGL
Description: Large bright shiny object hovers 50k' over
airport/apartment. RADAR's track. / r242p139+/ r28p437.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6520
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDR: Radar traces/blips
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "60", Elev: "26", HatchDesc: "EXETER,ENGL:LRG BRITE SHINY OBJ HVRS 50k'ovr Apt:RDRs TRACK:/r242p139+/r28p437", LatLong: "50.733336 -3.550000", LatLongDMS: "50:44:00 N 03:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 6/19/1961
Location: Exeter, UK
Description: Exeter, England; Edinburgh, Scotland, G,V
(NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2527
Date: 6/19/1961
Location: Exeter, Devon, England
Description: A flying object hovers for more than an
hour above an airport at Exeter, Devon, England. Officials say: “We do
not know what it is. It was seen on the radar screen and we have had it
under observation for some time. We think it is pretty big. It appears
to be shining brightly and is about 50,000 feet up.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, pp.
80, 139
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3529
Date: 6/21/1961
Time: ~15:00
Location: RYBINSK, RS
Description: 100M saucer / 20km altitude. Small saucers
all over/all about. Missiles fired. Electric out. / r211p31.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick
& Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index
227)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6521
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "25", HatchDesc: "RYBINSK,RS:100M SCR/20km alt:SML SCRS ALLO:MISSILES FIRED:ELEC.OUT:/r211p31", LatLong: "58.033336 38.866669", LatLongDMS: "58:02:00 N 38:52:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "7"
Date: Summer 1961
Location: Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia
Description: Near Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia,
crews are setting up new missile batteries as part of Moscow’s defensive
network. A huge disc-shaped object allegedly appears at an estimated
altitude of 12.5 miles, surrounded by a number of smaller objects. A
nervous battery commander panics and gives unauthorized orders to fire a
salvo at the disc. All the missiles explode at an estimated distance of
1.2 miles from the target. A third salvo is not fired, because at that
point the smaller objects stall the electrical apparatus of the entire
missile base. After the smaller disc rejoin the big UFO, the electrical
systems return.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, pp.
227–228; Flying Saucers, no. 47, May 1966, pp. 6–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3520
Date: Summer 1961
Locations: Travis AFB; Fairfield, California;
Sacramento Valley
Description: Capt. Robert
Filler and Lt. Phil Lee, based with the 82d Fighter Interceptor
Squadron at Travis AFB in Fairfield, California, are scrambled in their
F-102 Delta Dagger jets to intercept a radar target that has been
hovering at 50,000 feet for 30 minutes. They get a radar lock-on 20
miles out above the Sacramento Valley. The target is still stationary
until they are 5 miles away, then the target moves quickly several times
to a higher altitude. Filler estimates it is moving at 36,000 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, pp.
245–246
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3521
Date: Summer 1961
Location: Beloit, Ohio
Description: Day. Glenn E. Bradley watches a group of
six metallic discs pass over his farm near Beloit, Ohio, at a low
altitude. They are traveling in single file at about 30 mph and are
spaced 1–2 miles apart. The objects are each about 60 feet in diameter
at the bottom with a 30-foot dome on top. Within a transparent section
in the center he can see two figures on each side. The objects begin
banking to the left about 200–300 feet away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Soup
Bowls over
Ohio,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 6, no. 1 (Feb./March 1985): 4,
6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3522
Date: 6/25/1961
Location: Pacific Ocean, At Sea
Description: (McDonald list) Two Blips At 4800 Knots
(NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610625
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2528
Date: 6/28/1961
Description: An alleged one page memo from President
Kennedy (not using auto signature) to DCI states he requests a review of
MJ-12 operations as they related to Cold War psychological warfare
plans.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_99
Date: 6/30/1961
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Description: 2:00 p.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, see
a large, luminous, roughly spherical, slowly moving object in the sky.
It supposedly remains visible for more than 8 hours.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 29–31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3530
Date: 7/1961
Alternate date: 8/1961
Location: Lacul Roşu, Romania
Description: Dusk. Florin Gorănescu is staying at a
villa in Lacul Roşu, Romania. He and two colleagues notice on top of a
nearby high cliff an intensely red light that remains motionless until
it begins moving slowly northeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Romania 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3531
Date: 7/1/1961
Description: ATIC is removed from USAF Intelligence and
added to the new Air Force Systems Command. Its name is changed to the
Foreign Technology Division. Project Blue Book is included in the
reorganization.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, pp. 12–13;
Wikipedia, “National
Air and Space Intelligence Center”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3532
Date: 7/1/1961
Locations: Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training
Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado; Hanscom Field, Bedford,
Massachusetts
Description: A new squadron that will become the 1st
Aerospace Surveillance and Control Squadron becomes operational under
the USAF Air Defense Command at Ent AFB [now the US Olympic Training
Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado, part of NORAD’s Space Detection and
Tracking System. The first squadron commander is Col. Robert Miller. The
Space Track organization at Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts,
assumes a backup role for squadron operations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “1st
Space Operations Squadron”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3533
Date: 7/3/1961
Time: 00:20
Location: RYDE, WIGHT, ENG
Description: 2 women. Domed saucer going north from
sea. Hovers 20M over trees. Silent. Going quickly south. / r8.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
90)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6522
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "RYDE,WIGHT,ENG:2 WOMEN:DOMED SCR >N from SEA:HVRS 20M OVR TREES:SLNT:>>S:/r8", LatLong: "50.716669 -1.266667", LatLongDMS: "50:43:00 N 01:16:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/3/1961
Time: 0015
Location: Ryde, Great Britain
Description: An object resembling a hovercraft, having
five windows through which an orange light was shining, hovered about 20
m above the trees. It left suddenly at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_520
Date: 7/3/1961
Description: An object resembling a hovercraft was seen
at fifteen minutes after minute in Ryde, England. It had five windows
through which a bright orange light was shining, and it hovered about 20
meters above the trees. It left suddenly at high speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings,
case 520
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3802
Date: 7/4/1961
Time: 22:20
Location: AKRON, OH
Description: Private pilot and ground RADAR.
Glowing-object dives at plane. Back 5 July. No further details. /
r28p437.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 43)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6523
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "310", HatchDesc: "AKRON,OH:PVT PILOT+GND RDR:GLOW-OBJ DIVES AT PLANE:BACK 5JLY:NFD:/r28p437", LatLong: "41.116669 -81.616671", LatLongDMS: "41:07:00 N 81:37:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/4/1961
Location: Akron, OH
Description: Object Dives At Plane, Climbs Away At
Tremendous Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 610704
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2529
Date: 7/7/1961
Location: MUSKEGON, MI
Description: 3+observer(s). Metallic double-bowl
saucer. Light flashes. Going up [to] slow and going quickly [to] very
fast. Police report.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6524
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "MUSKEGON,MI:3+OBS:MTLC DOUBLE-BOWL SCR:LITE FLASHES:↑ SLO+>>VFAST:police rept.", LatLong: "43.216669 -86.266671", LatLongDMS: "43:13:00 N 86:16:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/7/1961
Time: 23:00
Location: COPEMISH, MI
Description: BBK7491. 2+2+2 observer(s). Large
sphere/orb/globe splits into 4 small ones. Drop going down [to]
trees.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6525
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "246", HatchDesc: "COPEMISH,MI:BBK7491:2+2+2 OBS:LARGE ORB SPLITS INTO 4 SMALL ONES:DROP ↓ TREES", LatLong: "44.466669 -85.911115", LatLongDMS: "44:28:00 N 85:54:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 7/7/1961
Location: Copemiah, MI
Description: A large ball fly slow, split into 4 after
45 mins flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7491)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2530
Date: 7/7/1961
Time: 11 PM
Location: Copemish, Michigan
Description: Witness: waitress Nannette Hilley. One
large ball flew slow, split into four after 45 minutes. Four flew close
formation, descended and flew away to the west. Total sighting lasted 1
hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_463
Date: 7/7/1961
Description: In Copemish, Michigan at 11 p.m. waitress
Nannette Hilley saw a large flying ball of light slow down and split
into four parts after 45 minutes. The four lights flew in close
formation, descended and flew away toward the west. The sighting lasted
a total of one hour.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3903
Date: 7/8/1961
Time: 22:10
Location: FAIRBORN, OH
Description: Observer(s) = Wilson. Blue Book.
Orange-yellow saucer / 10 minute(s). Going southwest. Inverted mushroom
2 SEPT61.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
220)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6526
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "252", HatchDesc: "FAIRBORN,OH:OBS=WILSON:BBK:ORG-YEL SCR/10min:>SW::INVERTED MUSHROOM 2SEPT61", LatLong: "39.822224 -84.027782", LatLongDMS: "39:49:20 N 84:01:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/8/1961
Time: 23:10
Location: BEULAH, MI
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7491. 4
observer(s). 2-3 saucers maneuver. Different color(s). 1 has rotating
beacon.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6527
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "38", Elev: "181", HatchDesc: "BEULAH,MI:BBK#7491:4 OBS:2-3 SCRS MNVR:DIFF.CLRS:1 HAS ROTATING BEACON.", LatLong: "44.644447 -86.088893", LatLongDMS: "44:38:40 N 86:05:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 7/8/1961
Description: In Beulah, Michigan a bluish-white light
with a faint rotating beacon inside was sighted at 11:00 p.m. It had
three red and three white lights inside. It descended to tree top level,
and then went behind the trees. Soon, a red light followed by a white
object emerged from behind the trees; they flew low over the ground, and
then the two lights merged together.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p.
29
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3925
Date: 7/10/1961
Location: Golden, CO
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2531
Date: 7/11/1961
Time: 19:40
Location: SPRINGFIELD, OH
Description: Ex-airman and others. Bright metallic
round object overhead / 20 minute(s). No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS;
(FUFOR). (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6528
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "SPRINGFIELD,OH:EX-AIRMAN+OTHERS:BRITE MTLC ROUND OBJ OVHD/20min:NFD", LatLong: "39.916669 -83.800004", LatLongDMS: "39:55:00 N 83:48:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/11/1961
Location: Springfield, OH
Description: Round bright light like shiny aluminum,
pass overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7499)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2532
Date: 7/11/1961
Time: 7:45 PM
Location: Springfield, Ohio
Description: Witnesses: ex-air navigator G. Scott, Mrs.
Scott, and neighbors. One round, bright light like shiny aluminum,
passed overhead in 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_464
Date: 7/11/1961
Location: Paris Observatory in Meudon, France
Description: 10:35 p.m. Jacques Vallée and others at
the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France, see a mystery satellite as part
of Project Moonwatch. The following day the director of the project
confiscates all their data and destroys it, apparently in fear of being
laughed at by the press, scientific colleagues, and the Americans.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacques Vallée, Forbidden Science, North
Atlantic, 1992, pp.
41–42; Michael D. Swords, “Gazing at the Moons,” IUR 32, no. 4
(October 2009): 11–12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3534
Date: 7/11/1961
Description: In Springfield, Ohio at 7:45 p.m. Mr. and
Mrs. Scott and their neighbors sighted a round, bright light like shiny
aluminum pass overhead. Their sighting lasted 20 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3991
Date: 7/17/1961
Time: 02:00
Location: US91 NORTHEAST / LAS VEGAS, NV
Description: Saucer circles car. Rush / cold air! Big
military investigation/investigators. No traces. P282.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 521)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6529
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "625", HatchDesc: "US91 NE/LAS VEGAS,NV:SCR CIRCLES CAR:RUSH/COLD AIR!:BIG MIL INV:NO TRACES:p282", LatLong: "36.333335 -114.933339", LatLongDMS: "36:20:00 N 114:56:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "4", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/17/1961
Location: Las Vegas (Bonnie Springs? near), NV
Description: 2 in/car saw in mirror a low-flying object
that overtook their car (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2533
Date: 7/17/1961
Time: 0200
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Description: One mile north of Bonny Spring Ranch, on
U.S. Highway 91, two civilians in a car observed in the rear-view mirror
a low-flying object that overtook their car, followed by a rush of cold
air. It stopped, circled the vehicle, flew off and was lost to sight
behind the mountains, where it may have landed. In the course of an
exceptionally complete investigation by military authorities, however,
no evidence of a landing was discovered.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_521
Date: 7/17/1961
Locations: Bonnie Springs Ranch; Red Rock Canyon
National Conservation Area, Nevada
Description: 2:00 a.m. Two people driving about one
mile north of Bonnie Springs Ranch [now the Ranch at Red Rock] in the
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, see in the rear-view
mirror a low-flying object that overtakes their car, followed by a rush
of cold air. It stops, circles the vehicle, flies off, and is lost to
sight behind the mountains, where it might have landed, but an
investigation by the military finds no trace.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Vallée, Magonia, p.
282; Sparks, p. 288
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3535
Date: 7/20/1961
Time: 08:00?
Location: OVER BAYTOWN, TX
Description: DC3 crew ground and air RADAR's. 2 vibrant
bright saucer-fireballs over port Arthur. / r185.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6530
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "ovr BAYTOWN,TX:DC3 CREW GND+AIR RDRS:2 VBRITE SCR-FBLS OVER PORT ARTHUR:/r185", LatLong: "29.900001 -93.983338", LatLongDMS: "29:54:00 N 93:59:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/20/1961
Location: Houston, TX
Description: Pilot in DC3 saw 2 bright white lights fly
in formation (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
7510)
Reference: NICAP: 610720
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2534
Date: 7/20/1961
Time: 8 AM
Location: Houston, Texas
Description: Witnesses: Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V.
Beather, flying DC-3, plus vague report from ground radar. Two very
bright white light or objects flew in trail formation for 30
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_465
Date: 7/20/1961
Description: While flying in a DC-3 over Houston, Texas
at eight o'clock in the morning Trans-Texas Airlines Capt. A.V. Beather
sighted two very bright white lights or objects. They flew in trail
formation for 30 minutes. There is a vague report from ground radar that
the UFOs were picked up on radar.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4233
Date: 7/21/1961
Location: US
Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4
Mission — Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second
American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
Type: aerospace
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_605
See also: 1/27/67
Date: 7/24/1961
Time: 22:00?
Location: ILHA GRANDE, BRZ
Description: Vasp pilot. Fireball maneuvers all
over/all about. Responds to radio message? / r242p120.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6531
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, HQO: High-quality observer(s), FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ILHA GRANDE,BRZ:VASP PILOT:FBL MNVRS ALLO:RESPONDS to radio message?:/r242p120", LatLong: "-23.283334 -44.416669", LatLongDMS: "23:17:00 S 44:25:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RDJ", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/24/1961
Location: Ilha Grande, Brazil
Description: An intensely luminous UFO maneuvered
sharply around a VASP Airlines plane. [NICAP UFOE, X] (NICAP: 11 -
Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2535
Date: 7/25/1961
Time: ~22:00
Location: PALATKA, FLA
Description: 1 object splits into 2. Both maneuver and
rejoin. Fly off. Type unknown. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
212)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6532
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "22", HatchDesc: "PALATKA,FLA:1 OBJ SPLITS INTO 2:BOTH MNVR+REJOIN:FLY OFF:TYPE UNK:NFD", LatLong: "29.650001 -81.638893", LatLongDMS: "29:39:00 N 81:38:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/30/1961
Time: 01:30
Location: SAN BERNARDINO, CA
Description: Several observer(s). 100' arrowhead with
vertical shaft hovers. Quickly going up [to] then going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
741)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6533
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "25", Elev: "360", HatchDesc: "SAN BERNARDINO,CA:SVRL OBS:100'ARROWHEAD W/VERTICAL SHAFT HVRS:↑↑ then >E", LatLong: "34.133335 -117.300006", LatLongDMS: "34:08:00 N 117:18:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1961
Location: NEAR TOBOLSK, RS
Description: Plane and 7 lost. Found intact / small
clearing! 7 men gone! / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) Dec'62.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick
& Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index
228)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6534
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "200", HatchDesc: "nr TOBOLSK,RS:PLANE+7 LOST:FOUND INTACT/SML CLEARING!:7 MEN GONE!:/FSR Dec'62", LatLong: "58.000003 68.500003", LatLongDMS: "58:00:00 N 68:30:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "UFA", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 8/1961
Location: Area 51 in Nevada
Description: Construction of essential facilities is
completed at Area 51 in Nevada; three surplus Navy hangars are erected
on the base’s north side. The original U-2 hangars are converted to
maintenance and machine shops. Facilities in the main cantonment area
include workshops and buildings for storage and administration, a
commissary, control tower, fire station, and housing. The Navy also
contributes more than 130 surplus Babbitt duplex housing units for
long-term occupancy facilities. Older buildings are repaired, and
additional facilities are constructed as necessary. A reservoir pond
surrounded by trees serves as a recreational area one mile north of the
base. Other recreational facilities included a gymnasium, a movie
theater, and a baseball diamond.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Area 51”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3536
Date: 8/4/1961
Locations: Virginia; Washington D.C.
Description: Rep. Thomas N.
Downing (D-Va.) advises NICAP that the House Science and
Astronautics Committee is considering hearings on UFOs by a three-man
subcommittee headed by Rep. Joseph Karth.
Meanwhile, Rep. Overton
Brooks meets privately with Hillenkoetter and
Keyhoe,
asking them to prepare the best cases and proof of official censorship
for a meeting on August 24.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
139; Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974, pp.
77–78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3537
Date: 8/5/1961
Locations: Mount Hale shearing station; Meekatharra,
Western Australia
Description: 8:20 a.m. John Lee-Steere sees a “snowy
white meshlike substance” float to the ground from 12 white metallic
discs traveling in pairs over the Mount Hale shearing station, 50 miles
northwest of Meekatharra, Western Australia. Sheep-shearing contractor
Edwin C. Payne picks up the material and it fades away in his
hands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Discs
Trail White Fibrous Stuff,” APRO Bulletin, January 1962, p. 1; Loren
E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman
of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: July–December 1961, The Author,
2003, p. 23; Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,”
IUR 27, no. 1 (Spring 2002): 7; Clark III 324
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3538
Date: 8/6/1961
Location: PACIFIC 175° 19E-22° 27N PROJECT BLUEBOOK
CASE #UNKNOWN
Description: Observer(s) = Freytag. (SE / midway
island). No further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
65)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6535
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 175°19E-22°27N BBK#UNK:OBS=FREYTAG:(SE/MIDWAY ISL):NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "22.450001 175.316675", LatLongDMS: "22:27:00 N 175:19:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 8/6/1961
Time: 03:30
Location: MEEKATHARRA, WEST AUST
Description: 12 observer(s). 12 white-metal disks /
pairs / 6 hours. Angel hair going down. / r114p41.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
745)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6536
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "104", HatchDesc: "MEEKATHARRA,W.AUST:12 OBS:12 WHT-MTL DISKS/PAIRS/6hrs:ANGEL HAIR↓:/r114p41", LatLong: "-26.500001 118.633339", LatLongDMS: "26:30:00 S 118:38:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/6/1961
Time: 23:00
Location: MENDOZA, ARG
Description: Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape
with 2 wings makes dull shhh sound. Plane? camouflage?
Type: sighting
Reference: BANCHS, Rodolfo: LAS EVIDENCIAS de los OVNI;
Rudolfo Alonso Editor, Argentina. 1976 (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6537
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "824", HatchDesc: "MENDOZA,ARG:SVRL OBS:CGR W/2 WINGS MAKES DULL SHHH SOUND:PLANE? CAMOUFLAGE?", LatLong: "-32.866668 -68.816670", LatLongDMS: "32:52:00 S 68:49:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MND", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/6/1961
Description: In Meekatharra, Western Australia
beginning at 3:30 a.m. 12 white metallic disc-shaped objects flew over
the countryside in pairs for six hours. They left an angel hair residue,
a snowy-white mesh like material.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, 19620101; Thomas M. Olsen,
The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 123; Richard F.
Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 41
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4723
Date: 8/7/1961
Time: 09:00?
Location: HEATON MOOR, ENGL
Description: 20-30 odd silver objects exit odd cloud.
Most go going west. No further details. / r2p212.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
90)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6538
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "70", HatchDesc: "HEATON MOOR,ENGL:20-30 ODD SLVR OBJS EXIT ODD CLOUD:MOST GO >W:NFD:/r2p212", LatLong: "53.416669 -2.183333", LatLongDMS: "53:25:00 N 02:11:00 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/7/1961
Description: On this day in Heaton Morr, England near
Manchester a cigar-shaped cloud was seen to release 20 or more smaller
objects as it passed overhead.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon,
Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1965, p. 155
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4760
Date: 8/8/1961
Time: 03:30
Location: WETASKIWIN, ALTA
Description: 2+1 observer(s). 2 small humanoids (or
Greys) / bedroom. Telepathy = "they're waking". 25' sphere/orb/globe
going north. / r43p30.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
278)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6539
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "758", HatchDesc: "WETASKIWIN,ALTA:2+1 OBS:2 OIDS/BEDROOM:TLP="THEY'RE WAKING":25'ORB >N:/r43p30", LatLong: "52.966669 -113.366672", LatLongDMS: "52:58:00 N 113:22:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/8/1961
Description: The witness awoke at 3:30 a.m. in
Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada to see two beings in her bedroom, one at
each end of her bed. They were four feet tall and dressed in green
tunics and trousers. They wore transparent helmets with the visors open.
A neighbor saw a blue globe take off from the lawn with a swishing
sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Brent Musgrave, FSR, August 1977, p.
26; APRO Bulletin, April 1977, p. 6
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4771
Date: 8/12/1961
Time: 21:00
Location: KANSAS CITY, KS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7579. 130' ovoid
with lights over road / 4 minute(s). Shoots going up [to] and going
quickly east. / v70p3-73.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 144)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6540
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "225", HatchDesc: "KANSAS CITY,KS:BBK#7579:130'OVOID W/LITES OVR ROAD/4min:SHOOTS↑+>>E:/v70p3-73", LatLong: "39.116669 -94.633338", LatLongDMS: "39:07:00 N 94:38:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/12/1961
Location: Kansas City, KS
Description: Oval object with/fin extending from one
edge to the center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7579)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2536
Date: 8/12/1961
Time: 2100
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Two Drake University students saw a large
object shaped like an oval with "running boards" bearing a series of
lights. It hovered for about 4 min at tree-height, shot straight up,
climbed away toward the east, then disappeared from view in five sec or
so.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_522
Date: 8/12/1961
Time: 9 PM
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: Witnesses: college seniors J.B. Furkenhoff
and Tom Phipps. One very large oval object with a fin extending from one
edge to the center; like a sled with lighted car running boards. Hovered
at 50' altitude for 3-5 minutes, then flew straight up and east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_466
Date: 8/12/1961
Locations: Old Mission High School; Kansas City,
Missouri
Description: 9:00 p.m. College seniors J. B. Furkenhoff
and Tom Phipps see a large oval object with a fin extending from one
edge to the center, like a sled with lighted car running boards, near
Old Mission High School on 50th Street in Kansas City, Missouri. It
hovers at 50 feet altitude for 3–5 minutes, then flies straight up,
disappearing in about 5 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Patrick Gross, “Kansas
City 1961, a Blue Book ‘Unknown’”; Sparks, p. 289
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3539
Date: 8/12/1961
Description: In Kansas City, Kansas at 9:00 p.m. two
21-year-old witnesses saw a yellowish white oval-shaped UFO with an
off-centered dome hovering only 50 feet above a road near Drake
University. It stayed there for three to five minutes, then shot
straight up, and climbed away sharply towards the east. It was gone from
view in five seconds. A U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book "unknown" case.
"
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7579; Lloyd Mallan, Official Guide to UFOs, p. 18;
Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, p. 124; Richard
Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 98; UNICAT case # 640, citing James E.
McDonald, A.A.S. 1968 Symposium Proceedings, p. 13; Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 522
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4939
Date: 8/14/1961
Time: ~22:00
Location: GLENVILLE, RHD
Description: Air Traffic Controller / car and separate
observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going west / 600M altitude. Sudden
green flame / rear and away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
90)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6541
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Zimbabwe & Zambia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GLENVILLE,RHD:ATC/CAR+SEP.OBS:CGR >W/600M alt:SUDDEN GRN FLAME/REAR+AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "-20.100001 28.566668", LatLongDMS: "20:06:00 S 28:34:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHD", Strangeness: "6"
Date: Mid 8/1961
Location: ATIC in Dayton
Description: House Committee staff consultant Richard
P. Hines visits ATIC in Dayton, where Col. Robert
Friend, Hynek, and other
officials give him a tour, tell him that Project Blue Book has the UFO
problem at hand, and that Rep. McCormack has
been pressured by NICAP to hold hearings. Hines leaves ATIC “favorably
impressed.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet
ed., 1976, pp.
160–161; Swords 293 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3540
Date: 8/16/1961
Location: Japan
Description: George
Hunt Williamson, now going by the name of Michel d’Obrenovic,
arrives in Japan at the invitation of the Cosmic Brotherhood Association
and its contactee leader Yusuke
Matsumara.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Zirger and Martinelli, The Incredible Life
of George Hunt Williamson, Verdechiari, 2016, pp. 129–130
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3541
Date: 8/16/1961
Description: In Admiralty Bay, Antarctica four members
of the crew of an icebreaker sighted an oval fireball that flew from the
northeast to the southwest for 12 seconds at 6:15 p.m. The object split
in two.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968, p.17;
UNICAT, case # 142, citing James E. McDonald
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5076
Date: 8/17/1961
Location: STILLWATER, MN
Description: V formation / night lights or delta /
running lights passes behind trees. Low altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6542
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "275", HatchDesc: "STILLWATER,MN:VFORM/NLTS or DELTA/RUNNING LITES PASSES BEHIND TREES:LO ALT.", LatLong: "45.055558 -92.805560", LatLongDMS: "45:03:20 N 92:48:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "3"
Date: 8/17/1961
Location: Stillwater, MN
Description: A V-formation of yellowish lights (or
V-shaped UFO with body lights) passed behind trees at low altitude.
[NICAP UFOE, II] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2537
Date: 8/17/1961
Description: On this night five people on a farm in
Stillwater, Minnesota observed a group of UFOs arranged vertically in a
V formation. The V formation of nocturnal lights, or a boomerang-shaped
object with running lights, passed behind some trees flying at a low
altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I),
p. 139; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 6096
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5111
Date: 8/22/1961
Description: Adm. Roscoe
Hillenkoetter signs a NICAP letter to Congress urging “immediate
congressional action to reduce the dangers from secrecy about UFOs,
including accidental war and the Russians falsely claiming UFOs are
Soviet weapons.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974,
p.
85
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3542
Date: 8/23/1961
Time: 22:00
Location: LADAPEYRE, FR
Description: Numerous observer(s). Huge starfish shape.
Absolute(ly) black. Edges glow. Eclipses stars!
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6543
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "LADAPEYRE,FR:NMRS.OBS:HUGE STARFISH SHAPE:ABS.BLACK:EDGES GLOW:ECLIPSES STARS!", LatLong: "46.233336 2.050000", LatLongDMS: "46:14:00 N 02:03:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Creuse", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/25/1961 (approximate)
Location: TOULOUSE, FR
Description: 5 / car. 8M luminous-yellow sphere /
windows. Quickly going up [to] as car nears town. / r120p228+/ r8.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M.
Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN
(Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6544
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "TOULOUSE,FR:5/CAR:8M LUM-YEL SPHERE/WINDOWS:↑↑ as CAR NEARS TOWN:/r120p228+/r8", LatLong: "43.633335 1.433333", LatLongDMS: "43:38:00 N 01:26:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/25/1961
Location: Toulouse, France
Description: Approximate date. Five persons observed a
luminous, yellow sphere, 8 m in diameter, flying about 10 m above the
road. Horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone gave the impression
of "windows." The object flew up very fast when the car reached
town.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_523
Date: 8/25/1961?
Location: Toulouse, France
Description: Five people at Toulouse, France, see a
luminous, yellow object, 24 feet in diameter, flying about 30 feet above
a road. The object has horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that
give the appearance of “windows.” The UFO flies upwards very quickly
when the car reaches town.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Vallée, Magonia, p.
282
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3543
Date: 8/25/1961
Description: On or about this date five persons riding
in a car near Toulouse, France observed a luminous, yellow sphere, 8
meters in diameter, that was flying about 10 meters above the road. It
had horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone that gave the
impression of windows. The UFO flew up and away very fast when the car
reached town.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, case 523
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5316
Date: 8/28/1961
Description: Rep. Karth writes a
harsh letter to Keyhoe and
attacks him for trying to defame and ridicule the Air Force. He had
thought Keyhoe would be proving the existence of spaceships, but he
knows now he cannot do this. Therefore, he is no longer interested in
holding hearings. He tells a newspaper reporter that he will not be part
of Keyhoe’s “cheap scheme to discredit the Air Force.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobs, UFO Controversy in America, Signet
ed., 1976, pp. 161–162
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3544
Date: 8/31/1961
Location: USOVO, RUSSIA
Description: 2 silver objects hover / railroad/railway
crossing. Cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Only start / takeoff. /
r120p228.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6545
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "USOVO,RUSS:2 SLVR OBJs HVR/RR CROSSING:CARS EME:ONLY START/TAKEOFF:/r120p228", LatLong: "55.733336 37.211113", LatLongDMS: "55:44:00 N 37:12:40 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/31/1961
Description: On this night two silver UFOs hovered over
a railroad crossing in Usovo, Russia near Moscow. Several car engines
stopped, and would only start up again when the UFOs took off.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, April 1981
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5524
Date: 9/1961
Description: A National Intelligence Estimate concludes
that the USSR has no more than 25 ICBMs and will not possess more in the
near future, effectively discrediting the missile gap myth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Missile gap”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3545
Date: 9/1/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 16KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1115
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "16"
Date: 9/2/1961
Time: 23:40
Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Description: Several silver saucers zigzag going east.
Small objects (1 / 16 size) exit saucers twice.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
220)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6546
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "1490", HatchDesc: "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:SVRL SLVR SCRS ZIGZAG >E:SML OBJs (1/16 SIZE) EXIT SCRS TWICE", LatLong: "35.083335 -106.666672", LatLongDMS: "35:05:00 N 106:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 9/2/1961
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: Object stops twice and emits several small
silvery objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2538
Date: 9/2/1961
Location: northeast section of Albuquerque, New
Mexico
Description: 4:40–4:50 p.m. A man named Ziegler is
reclining outside his home in the northeast section of Albuquerque, New
Mexico, when he sees a shiny round white object moving erratically to
the west. At two different times it emits several small silvery objects
about one-sixth the size of the main object. It fades out of sight to
the south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Silver Object and Smaller Ones
Emitted”; Sparks, p. 289; Herbert
S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 (Summer
2004): 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3546
Date: 9/4/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 9KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1116
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "9"
Date: 9/5/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 16KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1117
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "16"
Date: 9/6/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1.1KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1118
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1.1"
Date: 9/6/1961
Location: 48.56956 45.90346
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 11KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1119
Extra Data: LatLong: "48.56956 45.90346", LatLongDMS: "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "11"
Date: 9/6/1961
Location: Chantilly, Virginia
Description: The National Reconnaissance Office is
officially launched with headquarters in Chantilly, Virginia. It
designs, builds, launches, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of
the federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several
government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the
National Security Agency, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the National
Geospace-Intelligence Agency, and measurement and signature intelligence
(MASINT) to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Its existence remains top
secret until September 18, 1992. The move creates a protocol that
requires the CIA deputy director and the undersecretary of the Air Force
to co-manage all space reconnaissance and aerial espionage programs. The
public face of the NRO is the Office of Space Systems.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “National
Reconnaissance Office”; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp.
168–169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3547
Date: 9/7/1961
Location: CAPE CANAVERAL, FL
Description: UFO moves going up [to] going down /
tracking scope during missile launch. Military observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT;
Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 44)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6547
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "CAPE CANAVERAL,FL:UFO MOVES ↑↓/TRACKING SCOPE DURING MISSILE LAUNCH:MIL OBS", LatLong: "28.700001 -80.633337", LatLongDMS: "28:42:00 N 80:38:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/7/1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, FL
Description: (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44) Object Moves
Vertically During Missile Launch (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R,
Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610907
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2539
Date: 9/8/1961
Location: LAVERTON RAAF, VIC
Description: Air Force men. Disk spins over radar hill.
Going up / 90 second(s). Going down. Going up. / APRO Nov'61.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
97)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6548
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "LAVERTON RAAF,VIC:AF MEN:DISK SPINS OVR RADAR HILL:↑/90sec:↓:↑:/APRO Nov'61", LatLong: "-37.861113 144.738896", LatLongDMS: "37:51:40 S 144:44:20 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/8/1961
Description: Disc was seen spinning over the radar hill
at Laverton Royal Australian AFB, Victoria, Australia. It make an ascent
for 90 seconds, then hovered while spinning again, and finally ascends
and leaves.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1961
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5756
Date: 9/9/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .38KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1120
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".38"
Date: 9/10/1961 (approximate)
Time: 23:40
Location: NORTH / MADRAS, OR
Description: 2 / car. Blinding light / US97. No likely
source. Goes out when car stops.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6549
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "692", HatchDesc: "N/MADRAS,OR:2/CAR:BLINDING LITE/US97:NO LIKELY SOURCE:GOES OUT WHEN CAR STOPS", LatLong: "44.733335 -121.066672", LatLongDMS: "44:44:00 N 121:04:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 9/10/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 12KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1121
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "12"
Date: 9/10/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .88KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1122
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".88"
Date: 9/10/1961
Time: 09:00:09.2
Location: 74.2000 52.5000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 2700KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1123
Extra Data: LatLong: "74.2000 52.5000", LatLongDMS: "74:12:00 N 52:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "2700"
Date: 9/11/1961
Time: 21:00
Location: SAN DIEGO, CA
Description: Blue Book. Amateur astronomers and
more/others. Night light circles all over/all about border area.
Crescent going quickly south. / r55p78.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6550
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "SAN DIEGO,CA:BBK:AM.ASTRONs++:NLT CCLS ALLO BORDER AREA:CRESCENT >>S:/r55p78", LatLong: "32.700002 -117.150006", LatLongDMS: "32:42:00 N 117:09:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 9/11/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .3KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1124
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".3"
Date: 9/12/1961
Time: 10:08:15.3
Location: 74.2000 52.1000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1125
Extra Data: LatLong: "74.2000 52.1000", LatLongDMS: "74:12:00 N 52:06:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1150"
Date: 9/13/1961
Time: 04:00
Location: CRAWFORDSVILLE, IN
Description: 3 observer(s). Orange saucer east going
quickly west. Stops and hovers / 5 minute(s). Shoots into
distance.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6551
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "6", Elev: "244", HatchDesc: "CRAWFORDSVILLE,IN:3 OBS:ORG SCR E>>W:STOPS+HVRS/5min:SHOOTS INTO DISTANCE", LatLong: "40.050002 -86.866671", LatLongDMS: "40:03:00 N 86:52:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/13/1961
Location: Crawfordsville, IN
Description: 4:00 a.m. Three people reported a round,
orange UFO which moved rapidly east to west, stopped and hovered for 5
minutes, then accelerated rapidly disappearing in the distance. [NICAP
UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2540
Date: 9/13/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .001KT YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1126
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".001", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 9/13/1961
Location: 70.8700 53.3300
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 6KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1127
Extra Data: LatLong: "70.8700 53.3300", LatLongDMS: "70:52:12 N 53:19:48 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "KHRISTOFOROV", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "6"
Date: 9/14/1961
Time: 19:20
Location: OSAN AIR FORCE BASE, KOREA
Description: White saucer maneuvers / 10 minute(s).
Turns red. Elude jet / 90° turns. Continues going ESE.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
220)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6552
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Korea(both sides)", Credibility: "10", Duration: "12", HatchDesc: "OSAN AFB,KOREA:WHT SCR MNVRS/10min:TURNS RED:ELUDE JET/90°TURNS:CONTINUES >ESE", LatLong: "37.183335 127.066673", LatLongDMS: "37:11:00 N 127:04:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SKO", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/14/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .4KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1128
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".4"
Date: 9/14/1961
Time: 09:56:16.7
Location: 74.6000 51.1000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1200KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1129
Extra Data: LatLong: "74.6000 51.1000", LatLongDMS: "74:36:00 N 51:06:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1200"
Date: 9/15/1961
Time: 17:00:00.1
Location: 37.1879 -116.2078
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Antler” Yield: 2.6KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_196
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1879 -116.2078", LatLongDMS: "37:11:16 N 116:12:28 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.40", NukeMb: "4.70", NukeName: "Antler", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: "2.6"
Date: 9/16/1961
Time: 19:45:00.1
Location: 37.0484 -116.0328
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Shrew” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_197
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0484 -116.0328", LatLongDMS: "37:02:54 N 116:01:58 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.10", NukeName: "Shrew", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 9/16/1961
Time: 09:08:13.7
Location: 74.0000 51.9000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 830KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1130
Extra Data: LatLong: "74.0000 51.9000", LatLongDMS: "74:00:00 N 51:54:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "830"
Date: 9/16/1961
Description: Rep. Overton
Brooks dies of a heart attack; the August 24 meeting about UFO
evidence has not taken place. He is replaced on the House Science and
Astronautics Committee by Rep. George Paul
Miller (D-Calif.) who indicates he will not order UFO
hearings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, Signet ed., 1974,
p.
78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3548
Date: 9/17/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 20KT YieldMax: 150KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1131
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "20", NukeYMax: "150"
Date: 9/18/1961
Location: IND. OCEAN
Description: White object descends to sea. Submerges.
Water and sky lit up / minutes after.
Type: sighting
Reference: SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World
Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6553
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "18", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "IND.OCEAN:WHITE OBJ DESCENDS TO SEA:SUBMERGES:WATER+SKY LIT UP/MINUTES AFTER.", LatLong: "5.000000 75.000004", LatLongDMS: "05:00:00 N 75:00:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/18/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .004KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1132
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".004"
Date: 9/18/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .75KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1133
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".75"
Date: 9/18/1961
Time: 07:59:36.8
Location: 74.0000 52.0000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1000KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1134
Extra Data: LatLong: "74.0000 52.0000", LatLongDMS: "74:00:00 N 52:00:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1000"
Date: 9/18/1961
Location: Indian Ocean
Description: Fourth Officer G. Gendall of the cargo
ship Queensland
Star, in the Indian Ocean, sees a white UFO through a cloud
formation. It vanishes into the clouds and then reappears, dropping
toward the sea. The water in the surrounding area grows intensely
bright. Particles of white matter continue to fall into the sea after
the object disappears, and the sky and water are illuminated for several
minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sanderson, InvRes, pp.
47–48
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3549
Date: 9/19/1961
End date: 9/20/1961
Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire
Description: Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident
in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster,
New Hampshire: Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or
planet, which seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to
Betty… As the object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see
occupants inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited.
They climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would
vanish into oblivion.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_606
Date: 9/19/1961
Time: 22:00
Location: US3 NORTH / LINCOLN, NH
Description: Betty and Barney hill abducted. See
drawings / NICAP April'72.
Type: sighting
Reference: Book: FULLER, John G.: INTERRUPTED JOURNEY;
1966. Dell Books PB 1987. (Betty & Barney Hill. Entire book.)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6554
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, CVS: Conversation/communication, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", Elev: "260", HatchDesc: "US3 N/LINCOLN,NH:BETTY+BARNEY HILL ABDUCTED:see drawings/NICAP April'72", LatLong: "44.077780 -71.677781", LatLongDMS: "44:04:40 N 71:40:40 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "12"
Date: 9/19/1961
Location: Indian Head, NH
Description: Betty & Barney Hill Case (NICAP: 07 -
Entity Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610919
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2541
Date: 9/19/1961
Location: Lincoln (Pease AFB), NH
Description: Radar Tracks Object Before & After
Hill Abduction (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 610919
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2542
Date: 9/19/1961
Time: 2200
Location: Indian Head, New Hampshire
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hill saw a lenticular object
with a double row of portholes and half-a-dozen dark figures working at
control panels inside, when they stopped to investigate a light
following their car. They became afraid and drove away. A "beeping
sound" enveloped the car, and they felt a prickling sensation before
losing consciousness. When they came to, they were driving near Ashland.
A series of nightmares and medically controlled hypnosis brought back
what apparently was the memory of their abduction by the occupants of
the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fuller; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_524
Date: 9/19/1961
Location: White Mountains, NH
Description: Barney and Betty Hill vehicle encounter,
abduction case
Type: sighting
Reference: The
UFO Evidence by Richard H. Hall
Source: HallUFOEvidence2, ID:
HallUFOE2_8
Date: 9/19/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .03KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1135
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".03"
Date: 9/19/1961
Locations: North Concord Air Force Station; East
Mountain, Vermont
Description: 5:22 a.m. The North Concord Air Force
Station [now closed] at East Mountain, Vermont, picks up an unidentified
radar target at 62,000 feet for 18 minutes. It moves at a slow speed on
an erratic course.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Radar Tracks Object
before and after Hill Abduction” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_3550
Date: 9/19/1961
Description: Keyhoe has
smoothed things over with Rep. Karth, who writes:
“Now that we better understand each other, I would hope we could
properly proceed with a hearing early next year—providing the new
chairman [Miller]
authorizes hearings.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Majority
Leader Support Indicates Early Congressional Action: Chairman
Karth Backs
Open Hearings,” UFO Investigator 2, no. 2 (October 1961): 1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3551
Date: 9/19/1961
End date: 9/20/1961
Locations: Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Quebec; US
Highway 3; Groveton, New Hampshire; Twin Mountain; Franconia Notch; Old
Man of the Mountain; Indian Head (north of Lincoln)
Description: 10:30 p.m. Barney
and Betty Hill are driving home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from a
vacation in Quebec, going south on US Highway 3. Near Groveton, New
Hampshire, Betty sees a bright light moving upward and erratically,
growing larger. Later, Barney stops the car at a scenic picnic area
south of Twin Mountain. Through binoculars, Betty sees a solid object
against the moon that “appeared to be flashing thin pencils of different
colored lights.” Barney thinks it’s a plane, though it might be “playing
games” with them. Barney drives slowly through Franconia Notch, watching
the object. At one point it passes near the Old Man of the Mountain.
About one mile south of Indian Head (north of Lincoln), the object
rapidly descends toward their vehicle, causing Barney to stop in the
middle of the highway. The huge, silent craft hovers approximately
80–100 feet above the Hills’ 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air and fills the entire
field of view in the windshield. It reminds Barney of a huge pancake.
Carrying his pistol in his pocket, he steps away from the vehicle and
moves closer to the object. Using the binoculars, Barney claims see
about 8–11 humanoid figures who are peering out of the craft’s windows,
seeming to look at him. In unison, all but one figure move to what
appears to be a panel on the rear wall of the hallway that encircles the
front portion of the craft. The one remaining figure continues to look
at Barney and communicates a message telling him to “stay where you are
and keep looking.” Barney has a recollection of observing the humanoid
forms wearing glossy black uniforms and black caps. Red lights on what
appears to be bat-wing fins begin to telescope out of the sides of the
craft, and a long structure descends from the bottom of the craft. The
UFO approaches to within 50–80 feet overhead and 300 feet away from him.
Barney tears the binoculars away from his eyes and runs back to his car.
In a near hysterical state, he tells Betty, “They’re going to capture
us!” He sees the object again shift its location to directly above the
vehicle. He drives away at high speed, telling Betty to look for the
object. She rolls down the window and looks up. Almost immediately, the
Hills hear a rhythmic series of beeping or buzzing sounds which seem to
bounce off the trunk of their vehicle. The car vibrates and a tingling
sensation passes through them. At this point in time they experience the
onset of an altered state of consciousness that leaves their minds
dulled. A second series of beeping sounds return them to full
consciousness. They find that they have traveled nearly 35 miles south,
but have only vague, spotty memories of this section of road. They
recall making a sudden, unplanned turn, encountering a roadblock, and
observing a fiery orb in the road. At 5:00 a.m., they arrive home, about
two hours later than expected. Barney feels compelled to examine his
genitals, and they both take long showers. Betty notices a pinkish
powder and a tear in her dress. There are shiny, concentric circles on
their car’s trunk that were not there the previous day. Betty and Barney
experiment with a compass, noting that when they move it close to the
spots, the needle whirls rapidly. But when they move it a few inches
away from the shiny spots, it drops down.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Betty
and Barney Hill”; NICAP, “The Betty and
Barney Hill Case”; Clark III 577–581; Sparks, p. 289;
John G. Fuller, The
Interrupted Journey, Dial,
1966; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp.
178–184; Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR
19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 4–6, 23–24; Robert H. Coddington, “The
Hill Experience,” IUR 19, no. 3 (May/June 1994): 18–19; Michael D.
Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for
UFO Research, 2005, p. 143; Greg Sandow, “The Hill Case and the Limits
of Ufology,” IUR 31, no. 4 (March 2008): 3–7, 19–28; Stanton Friedman
and Kathleen Marden, Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience,
Weiser, 2007; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO
Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 (Spring 1999): 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3552
Date: 9/19/1961
Description: In perhaps the most famous UFO abduction
story ever reported, Betty and Barney Hill, a biracial married couple
active in the Civil Rights movement, were driving home from Montreal to
their home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire late on this evening. When they
reached Colebrook they noticed a bright lighted object in the sky that
seemed to be pacing their car, and they continued to observe it as the
drove along a desolate section of U.S. Route 3 through the White
Mountains. Around Indian Head, New Hamsphire they stopped by the side of
the road to take a closer look, and saw through binoculars a lenticular
object with a double row of portholes and half a dozen dark figures
working at control panels inside. One of the occupants seemed to stare
directly at them. They became frightened and drove away. A "beeping
sound" enveloped their car, and they felt a prickling sensation before
losing consciousness.
When they came to, they were driving
near Ashland, New Hampshire. They arrived home in Portsmouth unable to
account for about two hours. A series of nightmares and then a series of
hypnosis sessions performed by a psychiatrist in Boston brought back
memories of their abduction experience by the occupants of the UFO. They
encountered six five-foot-tall entities with large eyes and heads. One
acted as their guide or interpreter, and he communicated with them by
telepathy. They were separated, stripped for a medical exam during which
a needle was inserted in Betty Hill's navel and Barney's dentures were
removed and examined. There was also a map of the stars seen at one
point, and Betty asked to take an artifact as evidence of their
experience, but was refused.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Fuller, The Interrupted Journey, New
York: Dial, 1966; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO
Reports, case 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of
Landings, case 524; UNICAT, case 328
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6083
Date: 9/20/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 4.8KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1136
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "4.8"
Date: 9/20/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 150KT YieldMax: 1500KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1137
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "150", NukeYMax: "1500"
Date: 9/20/1961
Locations: Pease AFB; Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Description: 2:14 a.m. Pease AFB [now Pease Air
National Guard Base] in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, picks up an
unidentified radar blip 4 miles away from the base, with no visual
contact.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Radar Tracks Object
before and
after Hill Abduction” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3553
Date: 9/21/1961
Time: 05:00
Location: NORTHEAST / MIDWAY ISLAND
Description: Airliners and ship. 2X moon-size object
going quickly southeast over ship / 10 minute(s). Ray shoots going
down.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6555
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "NE/MIDWAY ISL:AIRLINERS+SHIP:2X MOONSIZE OBJ >>SE OVR SHIP/10min:RAY SHOOTS ↓", LatLong: "31.500002 -175.500008", LatLongDMS: "31:30:00 N 175:30:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/21/1961
Time: 05:10
Location: NEAR WAKE ISLAND
Description: BOAC and PAA liners and military ship.
Bright white ring. Seen / Oahu / 72 min. / MJ#160.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6556
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "72", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr WAKE Isl:BOAC+PAA LINERS+MIL SHIP:BRITE WHT RING:SEEN/OAHU/72 min:/MJ#160", LatLong: "19.300001 166.633341", LatLongDMS: "19:18:00 N 166:38:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WAK", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/21/1961
Location: Pacific Ocean near, Wake Island
Description: Airline pilots, ship, reported a bright
white circular UFO. [NICAP UFOE, X] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2543
Date: 9/21/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .8KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1138
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".8"
Date: 9/21/1961
End date: 9/22/1961
Location: Pease AFB
Description: Betty
Hill calls Pease AFB and reports her UFO incident (without
mentioning the figures). Maj. Paul W. Henderson of the 100th Bomb Wing
calls back with a few questions.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3554
Date: 9/21/1961
Description: On this day at around five o'clock in the
afternoon the passengers and crew of two Boeing 707 airliners, a BOAC
flight and a Pan Am flight, witnessed a bright white UFO with a halo
while flying over the Pacific Ocean northeast of Midway Island.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, November 1961, p. 1;
Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1991, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6180
Date: 9/22/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 260KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1139
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "260"
Date: Autumn 1961
Locations: Neamț Monastery; Târgu Neamț, Romania
Description: Evening. Emanoil Manoliu, son of the
prominent novelist Mihail
Sadoveanu, is at the Neamț Monastery west of Târgu Neamț, Romania,
when he sees a blinding, multicolored light. After a few seconds it
rises quickly and he can see it looks like a disc with a concave base
about 20–23 feet long and 10 feet broad. It vanishes “like a tornado in
the air” and he feels the rush of wind. The next day he goes to the site
with a priest and finds an area of singed grass and a light imprint in
the soil.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 167–168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3559
Date: 9/24/1961
Time: 23:40
Location: MONITOR VALLEY, NV
Description: Geologist. 2 large night lights. 1 shines
100' wide beam going down / monitor mountains.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6557
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "1700", HatchDesc: "MONITOR VALLEY,NV:GEOLOGIST:2 LRG NLTS:1 SHINES 100' WIDE BEAM ↓/MONITOR MTNs", LatLong: "38.916669 -116.666672", LatLongDMS: "38:55:00 N 116:40:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 9/24/1961
Time: 23:40
Location: LEBSKO BAY, POLAND
Description: 1 observer. Big noise. Odd 5M funnel shape
rises / sea. Silent. Going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: CATHIE, Bruce: HARMONIC 33. A. & A.
Reed, Wellington, NZ (Index 153)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6558
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "LEBSKO BAY,POLAND:1 OBS:BIG NOISE:ODD 5M FUNNEL SHAPE RISES/SEA:SLNT:>>N", LatLong: "54.733336 17.400001", LatLongDMS: "54:44:00 N 17:24:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PMR", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 9/26/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1.2KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1140
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1.2"
Date: 9/26/1961
Description: Betty
Hill writes to Donald E.
Keyhoe (mentioning the figures Barney remembers seeing) and asks for
more information. She mentions that she and Barney are considering
hypnosis.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill
Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 4–6, 23–24; Michael
D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR
29, no. 4 (July 2005): 15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3555
Date: 9/27/1961
Location: Pacific Coast, At Sea
Description: (McDonald list) Uncorrelated Targets on
APS-95 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610927
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2544
Date: 9/27/1961
Description: Allen
Dulles resigns as director of central intelligence; John A.
McCone replaces him.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3556
Date: 9/27/1961
Location: California coast
Description: 7:57 a.m. The radar operator on a USAF
Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft off the California coast
spots five targets on his scope. Four of the objects are on a heading of
90°, and all of them are moving at a high rate of speed. They soon
disappear into sea clutter. Three minutes later, two objects appear
heading 70° then also disappear into sea clutter. The speed of one of
the objects is measured at about 2,070 mph over a distance of 230 miles.
While the two objects are on the scope, a single stationary object also
appears. After remaining stationary for about two minutes, it moves on a
heading of 265° at 70 mph and is lost in the sea clutter. The objects
can only be painted with the IFF on. The radar is an APS-95.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Uncorrelated
Targets on APS- 95”; Sparks, p. 290
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3557
Date: 9/29/1961
End date: 10/3/1961
Location: Barney
Description: Betty
Hill has a series of intensely vivid dreams in which she and Barney
encounter a strange roadblock and are approached by a group of men. She
loses consciousness and awakes on board a craft where they are given a
medical examination by “intelligent, humanoid beings.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 581–583
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3558
Date: 9/30/1961
Time: 22:00
Location: SOUTH / LA PORTE, IN
Description: Large red sphere rises / road.
Observers(16) scared off bicycle. / Hartle.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 525)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6559
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "250", HatchDesc: "S/LA PORTE,IN:LRG RED SPHERE RISES/ROAD:OBS(16) SCARED OFF BICYCLE:/Hartle", LatLong: "41.522224 -86.727782", LatLongDMS: "41:31:20 N 86:43:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/30/1961
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: (McDonald list) Object Tracked and
Observed For 45-Mins (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 610930
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2545
Date: 9/30/1961
Time: 2200
Location: La Porte, Indiana
Description: Eight km south of La Porte, 16-year-old
Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on
the road. He was so frightened that he lost control of his bike and left
the road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 158 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_525
Date: 9/30/1961
Description: At around 9:04 a.m. local time, a weather
observer at Indian Springs AFB, Nevada saw several objects on a 20 power
theodolite at 133.4 degrees azimuth, 55 degrees elevation. The observer
first saw one object that was white or metallic in color, round in
shape, and the size of the head of a pin. Four smaller objects,
traveling very fast, then came out from the first object. The Las Vegas
AFS tracked a UFO on radar 45 miles southeast of Nellis AFB. The object
was tracked for approximately 45 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case 1961-466, James E. McDonald files; www.nicap.org
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6441
Date: 9/30/1961
Description: At ten o'clock in the evening 16-year-old
Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light on the road while
riding his bicycle four miles south of La Porte, Indiana. It rose up
into the sky while still ahead of him. He was so frightened that he lost
control of his bike and ran off the road.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Hartle Orvil R. Hartle, A Carbon Experiment,
p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case
# 525
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6442
Date: 10/1961 (approximate)
Time: 20:00?
Location: NEAMT MONESTARY, ROM
Description: Fall / 61. 6-7M saucer rises / hill. Wind
on takeoff. Crop circles.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S
from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index
167)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6560
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "NEAMT MONESTARY,ROM:FALL/61:6-7M SCR RISES/HILL:WIND ON TAKEOFF:CROP CIRCLES", LatLong: "46.933336 26.383335", LatLongDMS: "46:56:00 N 26:23:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NMT", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 10/1/1961
Time: 22:30:00.1
Location: 37.0483 -116.0345
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Boomer” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_198
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0483 -116.0345", LatLongDMS: "37:02:54 N 116:02:04 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.10", NukeName: "Boomer", NukeSource: "AEC", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 10/1/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 3KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1141
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "3"
Date: 10/1/1961
Description: The Defense Intelligence Agency, created
at the request of Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara to integrate all military intelligence operations, begins
work with a handful of employees in borrowed office space. Its mission
is the continuous task of collecting, processing, evaluating, analyzing,
integrating, producing, and disseminating military intelligence for the
Department of Defense and related national stakeholders. Other
objectives include more efficiently allocating scarce intelligence
resources, more effectively managing all DoD intelligence activities,
and eliminating redundancies in facilities, organizations, and
tasks.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Defense Intelligence
Agency” Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3560
Date: 10/2/1961
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Description: Disc-shaped UFO maneuvered away from
investigating aircraft. [NICAP UFOE, I] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2546
Date: 10/2/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 250KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1142
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "250"
Date: 10/2/1961
Locations: Utah Central Airport [now closed] in
Granger, Utah; Hill AFB near Ogden; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio
Description: Around 12:00 noon. Waldo
J. Harris, private
pilot and real-estate broker, is getting ready to take off in a Mooney
M20A from Utah Central Airport [now closed] in Granger, Utah, when he
sees a bright spot in the sky. After he takes off, he notices that the
light is still in the same location. He flies toward the object to get a
better look, and sees that the UFO has no wings or tail and is hovering
with a slight rocking motion. He later estimates the diameter at 35–50
feet, with a thickness of about 4 feet, and the appearance of
sand-blasted aluminum. Harris estimates he has approached within 2 miles
of the object before it rises abruptly and zooms away for 10 miles
before it resumes a rocking hover. He approaches again, but it departs
in about 2–3 seconds. Several other people, including airport controller
Jay
Galbraith, also
see the UFO from the airport. Investigators from Hill AFB near Ogden
arrive quickly. Airport attendant Russell M. Woods tells them he thinks
the object was at 2,500 feet altitude. On October 9, Douglas
M. Crouch forwards the Hill AFB official report, including
transcripts of interviews, to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, saying “No
unusual meteorological or astronomical conditions were present to
account for the sighting.” Nonetheless, Blue Book wanders from Venus to
a research balloon to a sundog (an assessment James E.
McDonald calls “nonsensical”) as explanations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1025–1028; UFOEv, pp.
1–2 ; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 49–50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3561
Date: 10/2/1961
Description: A pilot in flight and seven witnesses on
the ground observed a lens-shaped disc of brightly polished aluminum
over the Utah Central Airport in Salt Lake City, Utah at noon. It was
seen against the mountains as a backdrop, and had an estimated diameter
of 50-60 feet. It moved out of sight in seconds, covering a distance of
70 degrees, with a speed "beyond any known jet.."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October
1991, p. 22; UNICAT, case # 531, citing James E. McDonald, 1968
Proceedings of the Scientific Subcommittee Hearings of the U.S.
Congress, p. 49
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6494
Date: 10/3/1961
Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya
Description: Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test,
the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield,
Novaya Zemlya archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in
WW2 combined, heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd
degree burns at 100km distance.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_607
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 50
Date: 10/3/1961 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: CHINGOLA NORTH RHODESIA
Description: Troops / helicopter photograph silent
shiny metallic saucer. Very fast over horizon.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 104)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6561
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "Zimbabwe & Zambia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CHINGOLA N.RHODESIA:TROOPS/COPTER FOTO SILENT SHINY MTLC SCR:VFAST OVR HORIZON", LatLong: "-12.533334 27.866668", LatLongDMS: "12:32:00 S 27:52:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NRH", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/3/1961
Time: 12:10
Location: PROVO, UT
Description: Many ground and air observer(s). 50'
metallic saucer / thousands / MPH. Going up [to] and going quickly west.
/ r242p139+/ APRO and Flying Saucer Review (FSR) 1'62.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6562
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "15", Elev: "1365", HatchDesc: "PROVO,UT:MANY GND+AIR OBS:50'MTLC SCR/1000s/MPH:↑+>>W:/r242p139+/APRO+FSR 1'62", LatLong: "40.233335 -111.655561", LatLongDMS: "40:14:00 N 111:39:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/4/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 13KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1143
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "13"
Date: 10/4/1961
Time: 07:30:54.8
Location: 73.7000 53.8000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1500KT YieldMax: 10000KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1144
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7000 53.8000", LatLongDMS: "73:42:00 N 53:48:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1500", NukeYMax: "10000"
Date: 10/4/1961
End date: 10/5/1961
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Two IBM engineers, C. D. Jackson and Robert
E. Hohmann, have lunch in Washington, D.C., with Donald Keyhoe, who shows
them the letter from Betty
Hill.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from
Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005):
15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3562
Date: 10/6/1961
Time: 23:00
Location: SANTA RITA, VNZ
Description: Large UFO going south over lake. Fishermen
dive. 1 drowns. / r47p71+/ APRO 9'61.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6563
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: "Venezuela", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "SANTA RITA,VNZ:LRG UFO >S OVR LAKE:FISHERMEN DIVE:1 DROWNS:/r47p71+/APRO 9'61", LatLong: "9.916667 -72.216670", LatLongDMS: "09:55:00 N 72:13:00 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MAR", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/6/1961
Location: 48.56956 45.90346
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 40KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1145
Extra Data: LatLong: "48.56956 45.90346", LatLongDMS: "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "40"
Date: 10/6/1961
Time: 07:00:12.2
Location: 74.3000 51.6000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 4000KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1146
Extra Data: LatLong: "74.3000 51.6000", LatLongDMS: "74:18:00 N 51:36:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "4000"
Date: 10/8/1961
Location: US
Description: Privately circulated letter from Manhattan
Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over
his concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological
warfare.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_608
Date: 10/8/1961
Time: ~03:00
Location: CHARLESTON, SC
Description: Ovoid zigzags back and forth / coastline.
Dome-lights top and bottom.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6564
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "36", HatchDesc: "CHARLESTON,SC:OVOID ZIGZAGS BACK+FORTH/COASTLINE:DOME-LITES TOP+BOTTOM", LatLong: "32.750002 -79.916670", LatLongDMS: "32:45:00 N 79:55:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/8/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 15KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1147
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "15"
Date: 10/10/1961
Time: 18:00:00.1
Location: 37.1943 -116.2070
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Chena” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_199
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1943 -116.2070", LatLongDMS: "37:11:39 N 116:12:25 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.26", NukeName: "Chena", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 10/11/1961
Time: 07:39:59.9
Location: 49.7727 77.9950
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USSR Yield: 1KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1148
Extra Data: LatLong: "49.7727 77.9950", LatLongDMS: "49:46:22 N 77:59:42 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "BOCHAROV", NukeType: "NUCS", NukeY: "1"
Date: 10/12/1961
Time: 20:10
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: F. Edwards and hundreds. Advertising
plane(?) going south. / r70p376+/ APRO 11'61.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6565
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "10", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:F.EDWARDS+100s:ADVERTISING PLANE(?) >S:/r70p376+/APRO 11'61", LatLong: "39.766669 -86.116671", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 86:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "3"
Date: 10/12/1961
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Description: Spherical UFO with a row of pulsating
lights viewed from many angles by different observers. [NICAP UFOE, XII]
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2547
Date: 10/12/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 15KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1149
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "15"
Date: 10/14/1961
Time: 17:00
Location: OFF TWO HARBORS, MN
Description: 200M and object going down [to] into Lake
Superior. Floats. Going up [to] and flies going southeast. /
r44p266.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
743)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6566
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "off TWO HARBORS,MN:200M+ OBJ ↓ into Lk.SUPERIOR:FLOATS:↑+FLIES>SE:/r44p266", LatLong: "47.000002 -91.650004", LatLongDMS: "47:00:00 N 91:39:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 10/14/1961
Time: 17:30
Location: SUNSET, UT
Description: 4 observer(s). 2 odd clouds going east. 2
saucers follow. Clouds back / 15 October. / APRO Mar'62.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6567
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1392", HatchDesc: "SUNSET,UT:4 OBS:2 ODD CLOUDS >E:2 SCRS FOLO:CLOUDS BACK/15OCT:/APRO Mar'62", LatLong: "41.133335 -112.027783", LatLongDMS: "41:08:00 N 112:01:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/14/1961
Locations: Two Harbors, Minnesota; Lake Superior; Lake
County
Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. Erwin Riley, a summer
resident in Two Harbors, Minnesota, sees a large object slide into the
water of Lake Superior about one mile from shore and bob about on the
surface. She summons a neighbor, Jack Ray, and they both watch through
binoculars, but they can’t make out what it is. At dusk, the Lake County
Sheriff responds to their call, but he can’t see much due to swells on
the lake surface. He calls the Air Force and Coast Guard to make sure
it’s not part of a training exercise. Shortly afterward, Riley sees the
object rise into the air and travel southeast at about the speed of a
car. A Coast Guard search the next day turns up only a floating
log.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying
Log?” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3563
Date: 10/14/1961
Location: Sunset, Utah
Description: 5:30 p.m. Mayor Michael Burson and his
wife watch two pairs of UFOs move to the east above Sunset, Utah. The
first pair looks like puffy cotton joined together by “stringy stuff,”
and the second pair are metallic discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More
Discs in Utah,” APRO Bulletin, March 1962, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3564
Date: 10/14/1961
Description: At 12:15 p.m. a 200 meter long object
descended onto Lake Superior near Two Harbors, Minnesota. It floated on
the water for three minutes, then ascended and flew off toward the
southeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3; Coral
& Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 230; Jay Rath, The
M-Files: True Reports of Minnesota's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 50
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6835
Date: 10/15/1961
Locations: Marquette, Michigan; Hurley, Wisconsin
Description: 5:00 p.m. Mrs. John P. Vanicky and Norine
Gribble are driving from Marquette, Michigan, to Hurley, Wisconsin, when
they see a brown cigar-shaped object spouting fire from its rear and
moving southeast. They stop the car and watch for 20 minutes until it
disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Duluth (Minn.) News-Tribune, October 19,
1961; “Flying
Log?” APRO Bulletin, November 1961, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3565
Date: 10/17/1961
Time: 18:10
Location: TONAWANDA, NY
Description: Several observer(s). 2 round objects
maneuver all over/all about B58 bomber. Chase futile. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6568
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "174", HatchDesc: "TONAWANDA,NY:SVRL OBS:2 RND OBJs MNVR ALLO B58 BOMBER:chase futile:NFD", LatLong: "43.022224 -78.883337", LatLongDMS: "43:01:20 N 78:53:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/17/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 6.6KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1150
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "6.6"
Date: 10/19/1961
Location: GRAND CAYMAN ISLAND, CAYMANS, WEST
INDIES
Description: Observer(s) = Baker and Ralston. No
further details. Project Bluebook Case #unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6569
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "GRAND CAYMAN ISL,CAYMANS,WEST INDIES:OBS=BAKER+RALSTON:NFD:BBK#UNK", LatLong: "19.250001 -81.250004", LatLongDMS: "19:15:00 N 81:15:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CAY", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 10/19/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .001KT YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1151
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".001", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 10/19/1961
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Description: NICAP secretary Richard H.
Hall writes to Walter N.
Webb at Hayden Planetarium in Boston, Massachusetts, and asks him to
talk to Betty
and Barney Hill.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 578–579
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3566
Date: 10/20/1961
Time: 08:07:02.0
Location: 73.8000 53.2000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1450KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1152
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.8000 53.2000", LatLongDMS: "73:48:00 N 53:12:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1450"
Date: 10/21/1961
Time: 02:00
Location: US60 / DATIL, NM
Description: 2 / car. Fireball buzzes car. Splits / 4
night lights. Maneuvers and paces. Quickly going up / town. /
r24v2#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
745)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6570
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "2238", HatchDesc: "US60/DATIL,NM:2/CAR:FBL BUZZES CAR:SPLITS/4 NLTS:MNVRS+PACES:↑↑/TOWN:/r24v2#3", LatLong: "34.144446 -107.855561", LatLongDMS: "34:08:40 N 107:51:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 10/21/1961
Location: Datil (near), NM
Description: Four lights paced car, maneuvered, shot
away upward. [NICAP UFOE, II] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2548
Date: 10/21/1961
Locations: US Highway 60; Datil; Pie Town, New
Mexico
Description: 2:00 a.m. A brilliant fireball flashes in
front of Richard and Rhonda DuBois’s car on US Highway 60 as they are
driving between Datil and Pie Town, New Mexico. It then veers into the
sky. Later, as they approach a canyon they see that the light is
traveling along in front of them. It breaks into four lights that move
along with the car, even as DuBois drives at 100 mph, until they stop at
a roadside motel. The lights then zoom straight up and disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Woman Says Flying Objects Chase Car,”
Garden Grove (Calif.) News, October 23, 1961; Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole
Story, Signet, 1969, p. 231; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History:
July–December 1961, The
Author, 2003, p. 97
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3567
Date: 10/21/1961
Description: Webb, initially
skeptical, winds up interviewing the Hills for
6 hours. He finds that their amnesia concerning some parts of the
episode has unsettled them, and Betty tells him she had vivid nightmares
for six straight nights a couple weeks after the incident.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 581
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3568
Date: 10/23/1961
Location: PACIFIC 143° 55W-58° 14N
Description: Blue Book. Military observers. No further
details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6571
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 143°55W-58°14N:BBK:MIL OBSERVERS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "58.233336 -143.916674", LatLongDMS: "58:14:00 N 143:55:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 10/23/1961
Time: 08:31:22.1
Location: 73.9000 53.8000
Description: Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 4.8KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1153
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.9000 53.8000", LatLongDMS: "73:54:00 N 53:48:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NWCS", NukeY: "4.8"
Date: 10/23/1961
Time: 10:30:48.0
Location: 70.7030 54.60
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 12500KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1154
Extra Data: LatLong: "70.7030 54.60", LatLongDMS: "70:42:11 N 54:36:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.05", NukeSource: "KHRISTOFOROV", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "12500"
Date: 10/25/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 300KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1155
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "300"
Date: 10/25/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .5KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1156
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".5"
Date: 10/26/1961
Description: Walter Webb’s
report to NICAP concludes that the Hills are
telling the truth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Walter N. Webb, “A Dramatic
UFO Encounter in the White Mountains, N.H., September 19–20, 1961,”
NICAP Massachusetts Subcommittee, October 26, 1961; Clark III 581; Mark
Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2
(March/April 1994): 4–6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3569
Date: 10/27/1961
Location: 48.56956 45.90346
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1.2KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1157
Extra Data: LatLong: "48.56956 45.90346", LatLongDMS: "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1.2"
Date: 10/27/1961
Location: 48.56956 45.90346
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 1.2KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1158
Extra Data: LatLong: "48.56956 45.90346", LatLongDMS: "48:34:10 N 45:54:12 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "1.2"
Date: 10/27/1961
Time: 08:30:26.0
Location: 70.7000 54.6700
Description: Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 16KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1159
Extra Data: LatLong: "70.7000 54.6700", LatLongDMS: "70:42:00 N 54:40:12 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "KHRISTOFOROV", NukeType: "NWCS", NukeY: "16"
Date: 10/28/1961
Time: ~08:00
Location: KAIFENG, HENAN, CH
Description: Several observer(s). Ovoid maneuvers / 7
minute(s). Photographs poorly copied. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR)
v26#5p6.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
218)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6572
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "9", Duration: "7", HatchDesc: "KAIFENG,HENAN,CH:SVRL OBS:OVOID MNVRS/7min:FOTOS poorly copied:/FSR v26#5p6", LatLong: "34.800002 114.366672", LatLongDMS: "34:48:00 N 114:22:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HEN", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/29/1961
Time: 18:30:00.1
Location: 37.0486 -116.0311
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Mink” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_200
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0486 -116.0311", LatLongDMS: "37:02:55 N 116:01:52 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.19", NukeName: "Mink", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 10/30/1961
Time: 00:20
Location: DERRY, PA
Description: Engineer. 4 blue luminous/glowing saucers.
Windows / edges? / r70p3-77+/ r114p89.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6573
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "358", HatchDesc: "DERRY,PA:ENGINEER:4 BLU LUMn SCRS:WINDOWS/EDGES?:/r70p3-77+/r114p89", LatLong: "40.333335 -79.300004", LatLongDMS: "40:20:00 N 79:18:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/30/1961
Location: Ligonier, PA
Description: Engineer observed four luminous blue discs
with bands of lights or "portholes" on outer periphery. [NICAP UFOE, I]
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2551
Date: 10/30/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .09KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1160
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".09"
Date: 10/30/1961
Time: 08:33:27.8
Location: 73.8000 53.5000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 50000KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1161
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.8000 53.5000", LatLongDMS: "73:48:00 N 53:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "50000"
Date: 10/30/1961
Locations: Sukhoy Nos Cape of Severny Island, Novaya
Zemla, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia; Finland
Description: The Soviet RDS-202 hydrogen bomb, the
50-megaton Tsar Bomba, is supposedly the most powerful nuclear weapon
ever tested. It is detonated at the Sukhoy Nos Cape of Severny Island,
Novaya Zemla, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It flattens entire villages in
surrounding areas and breaks windows in Finland 1,000 miles away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Tsar Bomba”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3570
Date: 10/31/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 150KT YieldMax: 1500KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1162
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "150", NukeYMax: "1500"
Date: 10/31/1961
Time: 08:29:17.2
Location: 73.6000 56.2000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 5000KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1163
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.6000 56.2000", LatLongDMS: "73:36:00 N 56:12:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "5000"
Date: 11/1961 (approximate)
Time: 17:30
Location: BRAY-SUR-SEINE, FR
Description: Saucer just over ground.
Cylinder/cylindrical object / bottom bigger inside than out! Going
quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
314)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6574
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "5", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "BRAY-sur-SEINE,FR:SCR JUST OVR GND:CYL/BOTTOM BIGGER INSIDE THAN OUT!:>>S", LatLong: "48.416669 3.233333", LatLongDMS: "48:25:00 N 03:14:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine-et-Marne", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 11/1/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 2.7KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1164
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "2.7"
Date: 11/1/1961
Locations: National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Green
Bank, West Virginia
Description: At a small, informal conference on SETI at
the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s facility in Green Bank, West
Virginia, astronomer Frank
Drake writes this equation on a chalkboard: N = R fp ne fl fi fc L.
The equation, the Green Bank Formula, summarizes the main concepts that
scientists must contemplate when considering the question of
extraterrestrial life capable of communicating by radio across space. It
is more properly thought of as an approximation rather than as a serious
attempt to determine a precise number.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Drake
equation”; Lee Billings, “The
Alien-Life Summit,” Slate, September 27, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3571
Date: 11/2/1961
Time: 14:30
Location: SANTA CRUZ, CA
Description: 2 boys / bus. Classic saucer with
transparent dome. Plane chases.. too fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
745)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6575
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "SANTA CRUZ,CA:2 BOYS/BUS:CLASSIC SCR W/XPRNT DOME:PLANE CHASES..too fast", LatLong: "36.983335 -122.050006", LatLongDMS: "36:59:00 N 122:03:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/2/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 120KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1165
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "120"
Date: 11/2/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 280KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1166
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "280"
Date: 11/2/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .6KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1167
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".6"
Date: 11/3/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 0KT YieldMax: .001KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1168
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "0", NukeYMax: ".001"
Date: 11/3/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .9KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1169
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".9"
Date: 11/3/1961
Location: Eyres Monsell, Leicester, England
Description: 4:30 p.m. Mr. E. Adkins observes a
brilliant object with an orange center flying south over Eyres Monsell,
Leicester, England, at an estimated 600 mph. It is triangular in shape
and about 300 feet wide.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Triangular
Object over
Eyres Monsell,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 (March/April 1962):
24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3572
Date: 11/4/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 15KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1170
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "15"
Date: 11/4/1961
Location: 73.7500 54.7500
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 6KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1171
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7500 54.7500", LatLongDMS: "73:45:00 N 54:45:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "6"
Date: 11/4/1961
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: .2KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1172
Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: ".2"
Date: 11/4/1961
Time: 07:20:19.7
Location: 73.7000 55.7000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country:
USSR Yield: 150KT YieldMax: 1500KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1173
Extra Data: LatLong: "73.7000 55.7000", LatLongDMS: "73:42:00 N 55:42:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeSource: "PDE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "150", NukeYMax: "1500"
Date: 11/6/1961 (approximate)
Location: VUKOVAR, CROATIA
Description: Electric power surge. Radio
station/depot/facility malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic
effects). Odd grey cloud going quickly. Sodium lamps glow.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S
from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index
202)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6576
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Former Yugoslavia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "12", HatchDesc: "VUKOVAR,CROATIA:ELEC.PWR SURGE:RDO STN EMES:ODD GREY CLOUD>>:SODIUM LAMPS GLOW", LatLong: "45.344447 19.000001", LatLongDMS: "45:20:40 N 19:00:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CRO", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 11/7/1961
Location: Arlington Heights, IL
Description: (McDonald list) Sharp Radar Returns at
4000 Knots (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 611107
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2549
Date: 11/7/1961
Time: 11:29:59.9
Location: 24.0571 5.0521
Description: Nuclear test: Underground. Country: France
Name: “agate”
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_1841
Extra Data: LatLong: "24.0571 5.0521", LatLongDMS: "24:03:26 N 05:03:08 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "France", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "agate", NukeSource: "BOLT", NukeType: "U"
Date: 11/8/1961
Time: 07:20
Location: NEAR POPLAR GROVE, IL
Description: 2 observer(s). 3 metallic discus saucers
going [to] over 1200M clouds in sequence.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6577
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "273", HatchDesc: "nr POPLAR GROVE,IL:2 OBS:3 MTLC DISCUS SCRS > ovr 1200M CLOUDS in sequence", LatLong: "42.366669 -88.833338", LatLongDMS: "42:22:00 N 88:50:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/8/1961
Time: 15:00
Location: CHADRON, NE
Description: Farmer. 4' sphere/orb/globe going [to]
overhead. Drops thin metallic fibers. / MJ#283+/ APRO Jan'62.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6578
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1005", HatchDesc: "CHADRON,NE:FARMER:4'ORB > OVHD:DROPS THIN MTLC FIBERS:/MJ#283+/APRO Jan'62", LatLong: "42.827780 -103.000005", LatLongDMS: "42:49:40 N 103:00:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 11/10/1961
Location: NORTHEAST BALTIMORE, MD
Description: Many observer(s). Metallic disk maneuvers
/ low altitude. Spins. Lights / edge and portholes / bottom.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6579
Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "NE BALTIMORE,MD:MANY OBS:MTLC DISK MNVRS/LO alt:SPINS:LITES/EDGE+PORTS/BOTTOM", LatLong: "39.316669 -76.583337", LatLongDMS: "39:19:00 N 76:35:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/13/1961
Locations: Ent AFB; Colorado Springs, Colorado
Description: The AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy letter (Betz
Memo) is prepared by Lt. Col. Norman
M. Rosner for Col. Ward
Reid Betz. Among other things, it specifies three peacetime
functions of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron at Ent AFB [now
the US Olympic Training Center], Colorado Springs, Colorado: UFO
investigations, Project Moon Dust (an exploitation program to locate,
recover, and deliver descended foreign space vehicles), and Operation
Blue Fly (to facilitate delivery to the Foreign Technological Division
of Moon Dust and other items of great technical intelligence interest).
These three functions involve “employment of qualified field
intelligence personnel on a quick reaction basis to recover or perform
field exploitation of unidentified flying objects, or known Soviet/Bloc
aerospace vehicles, weapons systems, and/or residual components of such
equipment.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Paul Dean, “The
Rejuvenated ‘Betz Memo,’” UFOs: Documenting the Evidence, May 8,
2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3573
Date: 11/13/1961
Description: USAF document “AFCIN-1E-0 Draft Policy”
written by Lt. Col. Norman M. Rosner to Col. Betz writes that
intelligence team personnel are needed to support Air Force
Projects Moon Dust, Blue Fly and
“UFO,” and other quick reaction projects. The document gives
the 1127th Field Activities Group at Ft. Belvoir responsibility for UAP
“collection responsibilities,” and importantly, divorces these
responsibilities from Moon Dust and Blue
Fly, described as projects to locate, retrieve and deliver
foreign space vehicles.
The document also distinguishes crashed UAP from Soviet/Bloc vehicles, and describes the need for quick reaction recovery teams. For decades after, the USAF continued to rely on the conclusions of Special Report No. 14 to debunk UAP, which stated no compelling physical evidence had ever been recovered from UAP, despite debris collection teams existing.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_100
Date: 11/18/1961
Description: A strange flying object streaked across
the skies above the Theodore Goff farm on the afternoon of the 18th and
left behind it a mysterious substance that defied explanation. The
strange, seemingly metallic substance, came off the UFO in thin fibers
and settled to earth, draping itself like a finely-knit shroud over
Goff's fields, trees, machinery, and power lines. The farm is located
near Chadron, Nebraska.
"It was about three o'clock," Goff
related, "and I had been working in my shed. I came outside and happened
to look up and see this strange ball flying through the air. It was kind
of rough and seemed to be rolling as it sped through the air. It was
going faster than any airplane I ever saw and it just disappeared from
sight when it got out of the sunlight. It made absolutely no
noise."
"Big chunks of it broke off and these fibers began
settling down on everything. The ball was about as big around as a
tractor tire, four feet in diameter or so and it came out of the
southwest going northeast. At first I thought it was an airplane but
when I really looked, I just didn't know what to think. It's hard to say
how high up it was, maybe a thousand feet or more. The fibers cannot be
seen with the naked eye except when they are in direct sunlight. Then,
and only then, can you see them glistening ghostlike in the sun. They
can be felt on the skin like spider webs, but they are much smaller in
diameter than a spider web. A human hair seems like a rope compared to
the fibers."
"I didn't really notice the fibers much that day,
but the next morning my fields and trees just glowed with the stuff when
the sun hit them. You can pick one up, but you can't really tell if you
have one unless the sun hits it just right. It's the strangest stuff I
ever saw." Attempts to break the weird strings were to no avail. They
seemingly could not be broken apart, but, when a hot cigarette was
applied to one of the strings, it did break. The string did not,
however, burst into flame or seem to burn. "They're so fine you just
can't tell when you've got one," Goff said. "You can feel it, but you
can't see it."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bob Gribble, Looking Back November 1961,
National UFO Reporting Center website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7730
Date: 11/21/1961
Time: 19:30
Location: OLDTOWN, FL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7741. Huge saucer
goes going up. Seen closely. 2 observer(s). Also similar recent
reports.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6580
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "OLDTOWN,FL:BBK#7741:HUGE SCR GOES↑:SEEN CLOSELY:2 OBS:+SIMILAR RECENT REPORTS", LatLong: "29.600001 -82.983337", LatLongDMS: "29:36:00 N 82:59:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 11/21/1961
Location: Oldtown, FL
Description: Round, red-orange object fly straight up
and fade. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7741)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2550
Date: 11/21/1961
Time: 7:30 PM
Location: Oldtown, Florida
Description: Witnesses: C. Locklear and Helen Hatch.
One round, red-orange object flew straight up and faded after 3-4
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_467
Date: 11/21/1961
Description: On this night in 1961 six to eight
crescent-shaped objects were seen entering an isolated cloud over
Adelaide Hills, South Australia around 6:15 p.m. They did not
re-emerge.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hervey, UFOs over the Southern
Hemisphere, p. 171
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7769
Date: 11/21/1961
Description: That same evening at 7:30 p.m. EST in
Oldtown, Florida two witnesses, C. Locklear and Helen Hatch, watched a
round, reddish-orange object ascend straight up into the night sky. It
faded away after 3-4 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7770
Date: 11/22/1961
Time: 19:00
Location: GRAFTON, ND
Description: Metallurgist and 1. Grey metallic
cylinder/cigar-shape hovers. Portholes / side. / r78p190+/
r242p54.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6581
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "251", HatchDesc: "GRAFTON,ND:METALLURGIST+1:GRY MTLC CGR HVRS:PORTHOLES/SIDE:/r78p190+/r242p54", LatLong: "48.416669 -97.411116", LatLongDMS: "48:25:00 N 97:24:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 11/22/1961
Location: Grafton (near), ND
Description: Metallurgist observed a hovering, grayish
cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes". [NICAP UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2552
Date: 11/22/1961
Location: Edwards AFB, California
Description: US Navy pilot Robert G.
Robinson reaches an airspeed of 1,606 mph in a McDonnell-Douglas
F4H-1F Phantom II over Edwards AFB, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Robert G.
Robinson” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3576
Date: 11/22/1961
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Vagle were driving in
Grafton, Wisconsin with their son at 7:00 p.m. when they saw a red light
in the sky and stopped. Lights in the sky then joined together. Next,
they sighted a large cigar-shaped object hovering at a sharp angle over
a plowed field; it had a bright white light on each tip and the lower
one was blinking. It also had square ports or windows along the
side.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jay Rath, The W-Files: True Reports of
Wisconsin's Unexplained Phenomena, p. 70
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7795
Date: 11/23/1961
Location: Sioux City, IA
Description: Bright red star fly straight and level
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7742)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2553
Date: 11/23/1961
Time: 9:30 PM
Location: Sioux City, Iowa
Description: Witness: F. Braunger. One bright red star
flew straight and level for 15 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_468
Date: 11/23/1961
Description: In Sioux City, Iowa at 9:30 p.m. F.
Braunger saw a bright red "star" fly straight and level for 15
seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7742; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7840
Date: 11/25/1961 (approximate)
Time: 21:30
Location: PINHAL, RGS, BRZ
Description: Man compelled to walk to beach. 2 hour
abduction / 2 small humanoids (or Greys). Amnesia and missing
time.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER
OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 199)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6582
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "7", Duration: "120", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "PINHAL,RGS,BRZ:MAN COMPELLED TO WALK TO BEACH:2hr ABD/2 OIDS:AMNESIA+MST: ", LatLong: "-30.250001 -50.233336", LatLongDMS: "30:15:00 S 50:14:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RGS", Strangeness: "10"
Date: Late 11/1961
Locations: Harvey, North Dakota; Martin, North
Dakota
Description: Evening. A group of four friends are
hunting on a Sunday in the area of Harvey, North Dakota. As they are
returning in the car, the two men in the front seat notice a descending
glowing object in the sky ahead of them. Assuming they are witnessing a
plane crash, they rush to the scene of its landing, where they find at
150 yards distance, a “silo-appearing craft which was sticking in the
ground with this glow around it.” The men shine a hand spotlight and
shine it on the object, whereupon they see four human-looking
individuals standing around it. At this point they seem to hear an
explosion and “everything went out.” The principal witness wakes up from
dozing in the back seat as the car is negotiating soggy ground looking
for the craft and crew. They return to the spot where the landing takes
place, and they see the figures again, wearing white coveralls and
standing 5 feet high. They get out of the car and one figure waves them
away. Eventually, the men agree to return to a small town, possibly
Martin, North Dakota, 11 miles away, where they find a police officer,
who listens to the story and agrees to accompany them back to the site.
They see red lights moving in the field and both cars go in pursuit of
them. The lights go out, the police officer drives away, and the four
men resume driving home. Two miles down the highway, the silo-like
object reappears, landing gently 150 yards away with two of the figures
watching them. Two of the men get out of the car again and shine the
spotlight on the craft. One of the men is carrying a rifle; he drops on
the ground and shoots, apparently hitting one of the figures in the
right shoulder. The figure spins around, goes down on his knees, gets
help from the other figure, then yells, “Now what the hell did you do
that for?” Weirdly, as soon as the men return to the car, the two who
have remained inside insist the rifle had not been removed and no shot
was fired. The primary witness (who remains in the car) has no
recollection of what happened to the craft and figures. By the time they
get home, dawn is breaking, and their wives are waiting for them. They
all know it has taken longer than it should have to return. A few hours
later, around 12:00 noon, the principal witness is at work when three
well-groomed, official-looking men visit him. He presumes they are Air
Force intelligence officers who say they have a “report” about the
previous night’s event. They ask him what clothes he was wearing and
what the object looked like, but they never ask about the shooting.
Later, they show up at his house and ask to see his hunting gear and
boots. They tell him not to say anything more about the incident. In
January 1968, US Border Patrol agent [later BATF agent] Donald E.
Flickinger manages to interview the primary witness, who works as a
supervisor at Minot AFB hospital, and two of the others, one a
small-town high school superintendent and the other an active-duty Air
Force sergeant. They all are “extremely reliable and responsible,”
Flickinger says.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience,
Ballantine ed., 1974, pp.
164–165; Clark III 825–827
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3574
Date: Late 11/1961
Locations: Balneário Pinhal, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil;
Beach House
Description: 9:30 p.m. Real estate agent Cavalheiro
Mendes is walking along the beach in Balneário Pinhal, Rio Grande do
Sul, Brazil, when he sees a huge light 900 feet away. As he walks toward
it, he sees it is a huge disc resting on the sand. He feels compelled to
approach it and sees two helmeted figures come from behind the object.
They seem to be telling him telepathically not to resist. Mendes finds
he is completely unable to move. He feels one of them scratching his
forearm with an instrument, then he blacks out. When he wakes up, he is
nearly back to his beach house and it is 11:30 p.m. After a few weeks he
feels anxious and sad for no apparent reason. He refuses to be
hypnotized.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, Signet,
1967, pp.
199–200
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3575
Date: 11/25/1961
Description: IBM engineers C. D. Jackson and Robert
E. Hohmann interview the Hills.
One of them expresses surprise at how long the drive took. They are
mysteriously interested in whether nitrates or chemicals containing
nitrates are in their car. For the first time, Barney and Betty realize
that there are two hours they cannot account for. Also present is a
friend of the Hills, retired USAF Maj. James McDonald, a former
intelligence officer. He suggests that Betty and Barney consult a
hypnotist.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 583; Mark Rodeghier, “Hypnosis and
the Hill Abduction Case,” IUR 19, no. 2 (March/April 1994): 6, 23–24;
Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty
Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 (July 2005): 15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3577
Date: 11/26/1961
Time: ~02:00
Location: WNW / MARTIN, ND
Description: 4 hunters. Silo / ground and 2 5' men.
Observer(s) shoots 1. See / r72 #1+/ r249p353.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK & VALLEE: The EDGE of REALITY, A
Progress Report, Chicago, Regnery 1975. 301pp 24cm (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6583
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", Elev: "495", HatchDesc: "WNW/MARTIN,ND:4 HUNTERS:SILO/GND+2 5' MEN:OBS SHOOTS 1:see /r72 #1+/r249p353", LatLong: "47.850002 -100.166671", LatLongDMS: "47:51:00 N 100:10:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 11/28/1961
Location: Langley, Virginia
Description: President Kennedy presides
over the dedication of the new CIA headquarters in Langley,
Virginia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “George
Bush Center for Intelligence”; CIA History Staff, 50
Years in Langley: Recollections of the Construction
of CIA’s Original Headquarters Building, 1961–2011, January
2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3578
Date: 11/29/1961
Location: PACIFIC 173° 00W-40° 00N
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Military
observer(s). No further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6584
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 173°00W-40°00N:BBK#UNK:MIL OBS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "40.000002 -173.016675", LatLongDMS: "40:00:00 N 173:01:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 11/30/1961
Locations: White House; Bay of Pigs Invasion;
Cuba
Description: Covert operations against Fidel Castro are
officially authorized by President Kennedy after
being given the name Operation Mongoose at a White House meeting on
November 3. The operation is led by USAF Gen. Edward
Lansdale and goes into effect after the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion.
A document from the Department of State confirms that the project aims
to “help Cuba overthrow the Communist regime,” including Castro, and it
aims “for a revolt which can take place in Cuba by October 1962.” One of
Lansdale’s ideas is to project a huge image of the Second Coming of
Christ above the island, spread the word that Castro is the anti-Christ,
shoot starburst shells from a submarine into the air, and hope far an
uprising. US policymakers want to see “a new government with which the
United States can live in peace.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation
Mongoose”; Kremlin 131– 133
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_3579
Date: 12/1961
Location: US
Description: Project 1794, a secret program to build a
flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers, was
cancelled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer-like
design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable
at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).
Type: secret project
Type: declassified documents
Reference: Mike
Colangelo
Reference: livescience.com:
Flying saucers to mind control: 24 declassified military & CIA
secrets
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_817
See also: Late 2012
Date: 12/1961
Description: Funding runs out for the Avrocar and it
and related WS-606A supersonic VTOL programs are officially cancelled by
the US military.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Avro
Canada VZ-9 Avrocar” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_3580
Date: 12/3/1961
Time: 23:04:59.6
Location: 37.0459 -116.0277
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Fisher” Yield: 13.4KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_201
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0459 -116.0277", LatLongDMS: "37:02:45 N 116:01:40 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.36", NukeName: "Fisher", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: "13.4"
Date: 12/10/1961
Time: 19:00:00.0
Location: 32.2636 -103.8658
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Gnome” Yield: 3KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_202
Extra Data: LatLong: "32.2636 -103.8658", LatLongDMS: "32:15:49 N 103:51:57 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.36", NukeName: "Gnome", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: "3"
Date: 12/13/1961
Time: 17:10
Location: WASHINGTON, DC
Description: Project Bluebook Case #7754. 3
observer(s). 10' diamond / 1200' altitude going [to] overhead. Pulsing
light beneath.
Type: sighting
Reference: SCIENCE & MECHANICS (eds.) OFFICIAL
GUIDE to UFO'S; Ace Books, NY. 1968. (Index 167)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6585
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "WASHINGTON,DC:BBK#7754:3 OBS:10'DIAMOND/1200'alt >OVHD:PULSING LITE BENEATH", LatLong: "38.900002 -76.983337", LatLongDMS: "38:54:00 N 76:59:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WDC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 12/13/1961
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Dark diamond-shaped object w/bright tip
fly straight and level (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 7754)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID:
NICAP_DB_2554
Date: 12/13/1961
Time: 5:05 PM
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Witnesses: C.F. Muncy, ex-U.S. Navy pilot
W.J. Myers, and G. Weber. One dark diamond-shaped object with a bright
tip flew straight and level for 1-3 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_469
Date: 12/13/1961
Time: 18:00:00.2
Location: 37.1266 -116.0488
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Mad” Yield: .5KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_203
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.1266 -116.0488", LatLongDMS: "37:07:36 N 116:02:56 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.18", NukeMb: "3.40", NukeName: "Mad", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeY: ".5"
Date: 12/13/1961
Description: At 5:05 p.m. over Washington, D.C. three
people witnessed a sharply defined diamond-shaped object that had a
brownish-orange glow centered beneath it in a diamond shape, one-third
the total size of the object. It pulsated rapidly and made no sound. The
sighting lasted three minutes. A Project Blue Book unexplained
case.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 7754; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p.
101; Lloyd Mallan, The Official Guide to UFOs, p. 28
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8370
Date: 12/14/1961
Location: ATLANTIC 17° 30W-50° 31N PROJECT BLUEBOOK
CASE #UNKNOWN
Description: Military observer(s). No further details
[in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6586
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ATLANTIC 17°30W-50°31N BBK#UNK:MIL OBS:NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "50.516669 -17.500001", LatLongDMS: "50:31:00 N 17:30:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 12/15/1961
Location: PACIFIC 174° 00W-40° 00N
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Military
observer(s) (usn ship). No further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6587
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC 174°00W-40°00N:BBK#UNK:MIL OBS (USN SHIP):NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "40.016669 -174.000008", LatLongDMS: "40:01:00 N 174:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 12/15/1961
Description: A Mr. Torri took a photograph of a UFO in
Riccione, Italy at 10:40 a.m. The photograph was published in an Italian
newspaper.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Roberto Pinotti, Flying Saucers,
January-February 1966, p. 55
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8408
Date: 12/16/1961
Location: ATLANTIC 06° 45W-61° 15N PROJECT BLUEBOOK
CASE #UNKNOWN
Description: Military observer(s) (usn ship). No
further details [in] at all.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFOCAT CATALOG: Assorted Printouts. Donald
A. Johnson Ph.D (CUFOS). P.O. Box 446, Concord, NH 03302-0446 (Index
66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6588
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ATLANTIC 06°45W-61°15N BBK#UNK:MIL OBS (USN SHIP):NFD AT ALL", LatLong: "61.250003 -6.750000", LatLongDMS: "61:15:00 N 06:45:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 12/17/1961
Time: 16:35:00.1
Location: 37.0432 -116.0253
Description: Nuclear test: Underground, confirmed.
Country: USA Name: “Ringtail” YieldMax: 20KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Reference: "archive.org:
Worldwide Nuclear Explosions", by Yang, North, Romney, and
Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID:
NukeExplosions_204
Extra Data: LatLong: "37.0432 -116.0253", LatLongDMS: "37:02:36 N 116:01:31 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.36", NukeName: "Ringtail", NukeSource: "SPRINGER", NukeType: "NUCU", NukeYMax: "20"
Date: 12/21/1961
Time: 16:40
Location: NEAR MT. ASO, JAPAN
Description: 1 / JAL Flt#307. 2 cloud-cigars maneuver.
1 emits sphere/orb/globe / paces DC4. Photographs.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983
UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 300)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6589
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