Documented sightings reported in 1969.
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.