Documented sightings from the 1960s, sorted from most recent.
Apollo 12 photographs of bright unidentified objects above the lunar horizon were re-classified by the Department of War on May 8, 2026 from 'photographic artifact' to 'potentially the result of a physical object.'
On Labor Day 1969, multiple western Massachusetts witnesses reported a large craft, missing time, and on-board encounters - the only UFO case ever formally entered into a US state historical commission's record (Great Barrington, 2015).
Apollo 11 crew observed a luminous object pacing their spacecraft during translunar coast; the apocryphal 'they're warning us off' Armstrong transmission is the most-repeated UFO claim of the lunar era.
U.S. Embassy officials and numerous residents of Tunis observed a full-moon-sized green-blue two-part flying object that exploded into a greenish circular cloud over the Tunisian capital.
Future U.S. President Jimmy Carter and ten witnesses observed a color-changing luminous object over Leary, Georgia, making it the only confirmed UFO sighting by an American president.
A B-52 crew and ground personnel at Minot AFB simultaneously tracked a large luminous object on radar that disrupted UHF communications near nuclear missile sites.
Multiple witnesses including RCMP officers saw an illuminated object crash into Shag Harbour; official Canadian government documents call it a 'UFO.'
Stefan Michalak was burned by a landed disc at Falcon Lake, leaving a distinctive grid-pattern burn; later honored by a Canadian commemorative coin.
A glowing UFO hovered over Malmstrom AFB while 10 Minuteman nuclear missiles simultaneously went offline with no technical explanation found.
Four police officers across two states chased a luminous UFO for 86 miles; Blue Book's 'Venus' explanation was rejected by its own scientific consultant.
Over 200 students and teachers at a Melbourne school witnessed a silvery disc land in an adjacent field before authorities allegedly suppressed the story.
Queensland farmer George Pedley saw a saucer rise from a swamp, leaving a 32-foot swirled-reed 'nest' that the RAAF investigated - a foundational trace-evidence case predating European crop circles by over a decade.
A brilliant light repeatedly hovered over Wanaque Reservoir, witnessed by police, officials, and hundreds of residents over several weeks.
A controlled fireball landed near Kecksburg, PA; witnesses described an acorn-shaped craft with hieroglyphics before the Army removed it under secrecy.
A teenager and two police officers independently witnessed a massive silent craft with pulsating red lights near Exeter, NH, forming the basis of an influential book.
Lavender farmer Maurice Masse encountered a landed craft with two beings who paralyzed him with a device; the landing left lasting physical traces in his field.
An Air Force tracking-station film of a 1964 Atlas-F missile test reportedly captured a disc-shaped object firing four light-flashes that knocked the dummy warhead off-trajectory - one of the foundational nuclear-UAP-interaction cases.
A photograph taken of a young girl on a marsh appeared to show a figure in a white spacesuit behind her. Kodak verified the negative was genuine and unaltered.
Police officer Lonnie Zamora witnessed a landed egg-shaped craft with two figures that left physical traces investigated by the FBI and Project Blue Book.
The first widely publicized alien abduction case in the US, featuring missing time, hypnotic regression, and the iconic Betty Hill star map.