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The latest events on the record: hearings, official reports, releases and reported encounters. Each one links to its sources.
Government1968
A draft paper titled 'UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions', from National Security Agency files, was released by the NSA in 2021 and is now in the National Archives UAP Records Collection. Its title frames UFOs as a question bearing on human survival.
Photo: National Security Agency, Public domain
MediaJan 1968
Frank Telford's 'The Bamboo Saucer' opened in Providence, Rhode Island, in late January 1968. In the film, a U.S. team and a Soviet team searching mainland China for a reported UFO find the craft hidden in a ruined church and join forces against Chinese troops.
Close encounters3 Dec 1967
Ashland police officer Herbert Schirmer said he saw a lighted, saucer-shaped craft over a highway before dawn and later could not account for about 20 minutes. The Condon Committee examined the case and said it had no confidence the experience was physically real.
Photo: Ammodramus, CC0
MediaNov 1967
Cambridge graduate student Jocelyn Bell recorded a radio source pulsing with clockwork regularity, and her team briefly weighed whether it could be another civilization. Published in Nature in February 1968, it was recognized as the first pulsar, a rotating neutron star.
Photo: Billthom, CC BY-SA 4.0
GovernmentNov 1967
Moscow Aviation Institute astronomer Felix Zigel appeared on Soviet television asking viewers for UFO reports. In November 1967 AP reported that a commission led by Air Force Gen. Stolyarov was studying UFOs; the group was closed after about five months.
MediaNov 1967
Hammer released Roy Ward Baker's film of Nigel Kneale's serial Quatermass and the Pit, titled Five Million Years to Earth in the U.S. Workers extending the London Underground uncover an ancient Martian spacecraft. The story turns on Martians having visited Earth millions of years ago.
Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Public domain
Sightings24 Oct 1967
Before dawn, Devon police constables Roger Willey and Clifford Waycott reported following a bright, cross-shaped light near Holsworthy for about 50 minutes, and a civilian motorist parked nearby said he saw it too. RAF Chivenor said it knew of no aircraft that matched.
Photo: SequenceDancer, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings4 Oct 1967
Fishermen, RCMP officers and others reported a lit object descending into the sea off Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia; boats found only yellow foam and a navy dive team found nothing. RCMP and military messages referred to an unidentified flying object, and no official explanation was ever given.
Photo: SnowyBadger, CC BY-SA 4.0
MediaOct 1967
Tsuburaya Productions' 'Ultraseven', the third entry in the Ultra Series, began airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) in October 1967 and ran until September 1968. The tokusatsu show centered on a defense force battling invaders from space.
Photo: TSUBURAYA PRODUCTIONS, Public domain
Media29 Sep 1967
Gerry Anderson's puppet series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons began airing on ATV Midlands. Set in 2068, it follows the agency Spectrum and its indestructible agent Captain Scarlet in a war of nerves with the Mysterons, unseen beings from Mars.
Photo: Chemical Engineer, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings4 Sep 1967
Six beeping metal-domed saucers were found in a line from the Isle of Sheppey to Somerset, drawing police, military and Ministry of Defence responders before they were revealed the same day as a charity stunt by Royal Aircraft Establishment apprentices.
SightingsSep 1967
A three-year-old Appaloosa called Snippy was found dead on a ranch north of Alamosa in the San Luis Valley, and claims of a missing-blood mutilation tied the case to UFOs. Sheriff's investigators and veterinarians disagreed on the cause; a shooting was among the explanations offered.
Photo: Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0
Close encounters29 Aug 1967
Two children watching cattle in Cantal said they saw four small dark figures and a bright sphere that rose away. Gendarmes visited that day. GEPAN re-investigated in 1978 and called it unexplained; skeptics have argued for a misperceived helicopter.
Photo: Sancta floris, CC BY-SA 4.0
Government7 Jun 1967
University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald presented a paper titled 'International Scientific Aspects of the Problem of Unidentified Flying Objects' to the United Nations Outer Space Affairs Group in New York.
Photo: United States Government, Public domain
Government3 Jun 1967
The town of St. Paul, Alberta built a UFO landing pad as its main Canadian centennial project. Defence minister Paul Hellyer arrived by helicopter to open it, and Guinness lists it as the first official UFO landing pad.
Photo: Line Fault, CC BY-SA 4.0
GovernmentJun 1967
University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James McDonald spent late June and early July 1967 in Australia recording interviews with UFO witnesses. Reuters reported him saying in Sydney that governments, backed by the CIA, were downplaying the subject.
Photo: United States Government, Public domain
Sightings20 May 1967
Amateur prospector Stefan Michalak said a landed craft near Falcon Lake, Manitoba, vented hot gas that set his shirt alight and left grid-shaped burns. The RCMP and RCAF investigated, a University of Colorado team studied it for the Air Force, and no definitive explanation was reached.
Photo: Jd.101, CC BY-SA 3.0
Close encounters22 Apr 1967
University of Arizona atmospheric physicist James E. McDonald told the American Society of Newspaper Editors that the UFO problem had been mishandled for years. He blamed a 1953 CIA-sponsored panel's recommendation for a debunking effort and said Project Blue Book had been downgraded.
Photo: United States Government, Public domain
Military16 Mar 1967
All ten Minuteman missiles of Malmstrom's Echo Flight went offline within about half a minute, an event recorded in declassified unit histories. Former launch officer Robert Salas and others later said guards reported glowing objects at the time; their decades-later accounts are disputed.
Photo: U.S. Air Force photo, Public domain
Government20 Feb 1967
Condon and four committee members visited the CIA's National Photographic Interpretation Center, which agreed to give technical help on UFO photos as long as the work was never identified as CIA work. In May 1967 NPIC briefed them on an analysis that debunked photos from Zanesville, Ohio.
