United States

A civilian in Osgood, Indiana, reported in March 1961 having observed a luminous object resembling a star that flickered between brightness and dimnes…

In March 1961, an observer at Guard Island near Ketchikan, Alaska, reported a bright circular object moving slowly in a straight line. The object, the…

In March 1961, a co-pilot of Eastern Airlines reported an object in the night sky over Elkins, West Virginia. The aircraft was heading west when the o…

A Florida Highway Patrol officer spotted an object near the star Sirius in West Hollywood, Florida, on March 14, 1961. The object was moving rapidly f…

In March 1961, a military unit in Chelveston, England, reported the observation of an unidentified object. The object was seen for 90 seconds, traveli…

A very large object fell from the sky near Misawa Air Base in Japan on March 15, 1961. Three witnesses, including an airborne pilot, observed it. The …

On March 16, 1961, an officer observed a bright object in the Mediterranean sky. The object left a smoke trail visible for about five minutes. The upp…

In March 1961, a U.S. Air Force officer reported the observation of two mysterious objects in the Pacific. The first had an oval shape, while the seco…

A 36-year-old man observed an object that appeared as a fixed star on the dark rim of the moon on March 21, 1951. The object emitted white light and r…

In March 1961, a pilot and a crew member of a P2V-7 aircraft reported a luminous phenomenon over the Pacific. The object, described as round and reddi…

In March 1961, multiple witnesses in Fort Pierce, Florida, reported a bright white light in the sky, three times brighter than the brightest stars. So…

In March 1961, a witness in Gulkana, Alaska, spotted a rectangular object tapering to a point. He described it as the size of a baseball, with a brigh…

In March 1961, an observer at Misawa Air Base in Japan sighted an unidentified object traveling from south to north. The object appeared at an azimuth…

In March 1961, an observer in the Atlantic reported a bright object traveling at high speed from southwest to northeast. The sighting was recorded as …

In March 1961, a witness in Akron, Ohio, reported seeing an object emitting sparks and appearing dark in color. The observation lasted between 10 and …

A report from Project 10073 describes a UFO sighting in the Pacific near California on March 31, 1961. Three military aircraft—ETHAN 29, 46, and 31—re…

In April 1961, three military personnel in Guantanamo, Cuba, observed a bright yellow object trailing black smoke. The object descended for two minute…

In 1961, an observer in Reno, Nevada, reported an object in the sky that was initially considered to be a balloon, an aircraft, or even an astronomica…

In April 1961, a report was recorded about an unidentified object observed near Yokota, Japan. The indicated coordinates place the event at a specific…

In April 1961, four Taiwanese pilots reported observing a bullet-like object with a flaming tail in the sky near Taiwan. The object, described as blue…

In April 1961, an unidentified flying object was detected on radar near Cape Canaveral, Florida, prior to the launch of a Polaris missile. Three exper…

In April 1961, a witness in Pebble Beach, California, observed an object described as a very bright star, three times larger than normal, with red and…

In April 1961, a crew of a U.S. Air Force KC-97 reported an unidentified object that appeared ahead and above their aircraft. The object split into tw…

In April 1961, a witness near Seguin, Texas, observed a triangular glowing object while driving. The object, described as approximately 300 to 400 fee…

In April 1961, a young witness in Silver Grove, Kentucky, observed two unidentified aerial objects traveling south. The first was followed by another …

In April 1961, a witness in Cleveland, Ohio observed an object descending steadily with apparent heat emission. The object was seen for two minutes fr…

In April 1961, a woman in Sheridan, Wyoming, reported an unusual sound she attributed to her own relief after a meeting. According to the report, the …

In April 1961, an air base in Illinois recorded an unidentified object at high altitude using radar. The object appeared at around 97,000 feet and slo…

In April 1961, two U.S. officers stationed in Pakistan reported a mysterious sighting of an unidentified object over Karachi. According to the air mes…

A surveillance aircraft spotted a bright object resembling a planet, but it was not a known satellite. The observers, a navigator and a commander with…

In April 1961, a pilot reported a bright object with a tail seven times longer than its body. The sighting occurred at night and lasted between 1 and …

In April 1961, a witness in Alaska described a glowing object shaped like a ball of fire with a red triangular tail. The object was seen for 15 second…

A pilot reported a white star-shaped object, the size of Polaris, at an estimated altitude of 60-80 miles. The object moved in a straight and steady p…

In April 1961, a Pan Am Airways aircraft suffered a mysterious impact while flying at 31,000 feet, approximately 1,000 miles east of Yokota, Japan. Th…

In April 1961, the USS Eversole reported observing a bright object in the sky. The report details that an officer and several crew members saw a white…

In October 1961, a U.S. Air Force officer at Kadena, Okinawa, reported an object with a bright tail that disintegrated after a descending trajectory. …

In April 1961, a witness in Derry, Massachusetts, observed a luminous object traveling east to west. They described an intense blue light resembling a…

A boy from Florida described a silver object that appeared and vanished in the sky on April 28, 1961. Although he thought it could be a plane, he was …

In April 1961, two witnesses in Edgerton, Wisconsin, reported seeing a bright descending object. One claimed it landed, while the other said it disapp…

In April 1961, a witness in Watchung, New Jersey, reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting occurred late at night and lasted several minut…

In May 1961, a 15-year-old in Wantagh, New York, observed a delta-winged object moving from north to south. The witness described it as having two red…

In May 1961, multiple observers in Japan reported a luminous object with a tail, moving in a descending arc. It was a white, flaming object with a tai…

In May 1961, an 18-year-old in South Hadley, Massachusetts, observed a bright silver object the size of a pea. The object appeared at about 80 degrees…

In May 1961, a U.S. Air Force pilot reported an unidentified flying object (UFO) during a mission near Hawaii. The aircraft was at an altitude of 16,0…

In May 1961, an observer on land spotted a bright object 45 degrees above the horizon. The object was moving northeast at five degrees per minute befo…

In May 1961, a pilot reported a bright object between second and third magnitude, observed near Meridian and Jackson, Mississippi. The initial report …

An object was observed in Kettering, Ohio, on May 7, 1961. The witness described it as a bright object that appeared in the sky, brighter than the sta…

A U.S. Navy officer reported in 1961 observing a bright white round object, the size of a pinhead, near the coordinates 22°22'N 124°00'E. The sighting…

A military observer in Texas reported a comet-like object that appeared and disappeared in the sky. The object was notably large, bigger than a blimp,…

In May 1961, an observer in Juneau, Alaska, reported the sighting of a bright object that appeared to be in orbit. The witness, a marine surveyor with…