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Civilian, police and airline reports, from single witnesses to mass sightings seen by thousands. 305 events, newest first.
Sightings28 Sep 1969
Just before 11 a.m. a fireball broke apart over Murchison, Victoria, and residents heard a series of loud booms. They gathered fragments of a rare carbonaceous meteorite, in which scientists reported extraterrestrial amino acids in Nature in 1970.
Photo: Daderot, CC0
Sightings8 Feb 1969
A fireball at about 07:05 GMT broke up over Chihuahua and scattered about two tonnes of stones across a field roughly 48 by 7 km near Pueblito de Allende. The carbonaceous chondrite became one of the most studied meteorites in history.
Photo: H. Raab, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings18 Aug 1968
Emil Barnea, then an Army employee, reported photographing a disc-shaped object over the Hoia-Baciu forest outside Cluj around midday, with companions present. The photos became Romania's best-known UFO images; their authenticity has been debated and no official analysis is known.
Photo: Lajsikonik, CC BY-SA 4.0
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
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
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
Sightings15 Nov 1966
Two couples told police they saw a man-sized winged creature with red eyes near the TNT area outside Point Pleasant; local papers covered it for weeks. John Keel's 1975 book later tied the reports to UFOs and the Silver Bridge collapse. It remains folklore.
Photo: USACE, Public domain
SightingsSep 1966
Gemini 11 astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon reported and photographed a large tumbling object on their 18th orbit. NORAD identified it as the Soviet Proton 3 satellite, and the Condon study's review of the photos suggested several pieces of that launch.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Sightings22 Apr 1966
Several residents and two police officers in Beverly, Massachusetts reported lights and a disc-like object over the high school field, one passing low over a witness. The Condon Report (Case 6) attributed most of the long observation to Jupiter but left the close encounter unexplained.
Photo: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings17 Apr 1966
Portage County deputies Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff said they chased a bright object from near Ravenna about 85 miles into Pennsylvania before dawn; officers elsewhere reported it too. Blue Book chief Hector Quintanilla attributed it partly to Venus, an answer the deputies and others disputed.
Photo: Project Blue Book, Public domain
Sightings6 Apr 1966
Students and teachers at Westall High School in suburban Melbourne reported a silvery object that descended toward a nearby property and then left; hundreds gathered on the oval. Local papers covered it, but authorities said they knew nothing and no official explanation was given.
Photo: WestallSC, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings20 Mar 1966
Police and residents near Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan reported glowing lights over swampy ground. Air Force consultant J. Allen Hynek suggested swamp gas, drawing ridicule, and Rep. Gerald Ford called for hearings, which the House Armed Services Committee held that April.
Photo: Gerald R. Ford / US Congress, Public domain
Sightings19 Jan 1966
Queensland farmer George Pedley said a saucer rose from a lagoon near Tully, and a swirled circle of flattened reeds was found there. The story became international news; meteorologists suggested a whirlwind. It is often cited as a forerunner of crop circles.
Photo: Frances76 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings11 Jan 1966
Police, a reservoir guard, the mayor and dozens of callers in Wanaque, New Jersey reported a very bright white light over the reservoir on two evenings. The New York Times covered it, and an Air Force statement said the New Jersey sightings were probably Venus and Jupiter.
Photo: Mckdawg08, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sightings9 Dec 1965
After a fireball crossed several states, witnesses in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, said an object came down in the woods and military personnel hauled something away. A FOIA suit led NASA to a court-monitored search in 2007-2009 that found no records of a recovered object.
Photo: Ryright, CC BY-SA 3.0
Sightings4 Dec 1965
On their second orbit, Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell reported a 'bogey' and many small particles alongside their booster. The Air Force-funded Condon study listed it among a few astronaut sightings it had not adequately explained.
Photo: NASA, Public domain
Sightings23 Oct 1965
Jerry Townsend, a 19-year-old KEYL radio announcer, said his car died on Highway 27 near Long Prairie beside a tall rocket-like object and small figures. The sheriff reported odd marks on the road. Project Blue Book listed the case as 'psychological', apparently without a field investigation.
Photo: Myotus, CC BY 4.0
Sightings3 Sep 1965
Hitchhiker Norman Muscarello and Exeter police officers Eugene Bertrand and David Hunt reported a low object with bright red lights over fields near Kensington, N.H. Officers from Pease AFB investigated, and the policemen publicly disputed the Air Force's conventional explanations.
Photo: United States Air Force, Public domain
