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All Cases: Sorted by Oldest First

Cumberland Spaceman / Solway Firth Photograph Featured Case

May, 23, 1964 - Burgh Marsh / Solway Firth, United Kingdom

"As an amateur photographer on a day-trip with my family, I took the photograph on Burgh Marsh on May 23, 1964. I took three pictures of my daughter Elizabeth in a similar pose - and was shocked when the middle picture came back from Kodak displaying what looks like a spaceman in the background."  View full report

Source: Daily Mail, London / England - December 13, 2002   ID: 385
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Alien Photograph, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Photo

Strange-looking object hovers over neighborhood homes

June, 2, 1964 - Sunnyvale, California, United States

While driving toward her home on McKinley Avenue at 10:30 p.m. (PST) on June 2, Mrs. Bruce A. Holmes, of Sunnyvale, California, saw a strange-looking object about a city block's distance from her. The UFO hovered motionless over neighborhood homes at an altitude estimated to be no more than 150 feet and appeared to be about as large as "an 18 by 24-foot living room." The main body of the object was similar to a blimp, somewhat cigar-shaped, but fatter - possibly the shape of a disc thickened at the center.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 549
Case Type: StandardCase

Close-range sighting of domed UFO

June, 15, 1964 - Lynn, Massachusetts, United States

A close-range sighting of a domed UFO occurred at Lynn, Massachusetts on the night of June 15. The object was shaped like a disc, oriented in a horizontal position, flat on the bottom and with a domed upper surface. When first noticed, the domed disc was approximately 12 feet above the pavement, so that it was seen against the wall of the building on the opposite side of the courtyard.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 550
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  E-M Effects

Giant spinning top encountered by businessman

June, 29, 1964 - Near Lavonia, Georgia, United States

Businessman Beauford E. Parham was returning home late on the evening of June 29, 1964. "I spotted a very bright light in the sky . . . coming directly toward my car," the witness said in a letter to a NICAP member. "The next instance it was directly in front of my headlights spinning like a giant top. It was shaped like a top and made a hissing sound like a million snakes."  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), 'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon Lore   ID: 565
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Physiological Effects, Physical Trace, Vehicle Interference, Portholes/Windows

Fragment of unidentified object lands in Kallavesi Lake, Finland

August, 1964 - Kallavesi Lake, Finland

Mr. Raimo Blomqvist was visiting with his parents at their summer cottage, when he suddenly noticed a strange, colourful light ball coming from the sky. The light came nearer and turned out to be an oval glowing object. While the object was hovering above the shallow water of the island he saw something falling from the object. Mr. Blomqvist recovered a 3-4 cm long piece of stone.  View full report

Source: Finnish UFO Research Association   ID: 826
Case Type: .    Features:  Artifact

Immense cone-shaped object crosses low over highway

December, 21, 1964 - Near Staunton, Virginia, United States

Horace Burns, a gunsmith in Harrisonburg, saw an immense cone-shaped object cross low over the highway ahead of him. "It was 125 feet in diameter, at least, and 80 to 90 feet high," he later reported. Its circular, sloping sides rose toward the top in six large, concentric convolutions that decreased in diameter and were surmounted by a dome.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 553
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Landing, Physical Trace

County councillor reveals sighting of dome-shaped UFO in Cornwall, UK

1965 - Karslake, Cornwall, United Kingdom

Joan Vincent, County and Restormel Borough Councillor, revealed that she and her husband Roy had observed a mystery craft late at night during 1965 in a then rural area. The matter remained "virtually a family secret" over the years because the couple feared that they would be ridiculed if they told their story. The UFO was "a large, dome-shaped object that looked as if it were made of glass," estimated to be 50-70 feet across and 30-40 feet high.  View full report

Source: Ian Shepherd, Cornish Guardian (Bodmin, England), Nov. 26, 1998   ID: 729
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo

Idaho 'Mining UFOs'

1965 - Spring Creek Ridge, Idaho, United States

Two men were camped on a bluff overlooking a valley. When they awoke in the early morning they noticed a shiny spot on the ore dump of a Spring Creek Mine across the valley. Using the scopes affixed to their rifles, they observed the "shiny object" which actually was one of four which were hovering over the ore dump. Protruding from the top of the objects were four hose-like devices which were inserted into the slag piles and were moving around.  View full report

Source: APRO Bulletin, Vol. 22 No. 2 (Sept/Oct 1973)   ID: 300
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Portholes/Windows, Multiple UFOs

Huge disc shaped object with bright light around edge

January, 1965 - Dorrington, Brisbane, Australia

"The object had come below the cloud cover and we couldn't believe what we were looking at. This huge disc shaped object with very bright light around it's circumference. It was travelling very slow (about 20 miles an hour), then the noise started.It was a screaming high pitched sound which had my wife in agony, hands over her ears and crying with pain."  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (www.hbccufo.org)   ID: 449
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Witness Sketch

Sid Padrick Contact Case

January, 30, 1965 - Watsonville, California, United States

Sid Padrick described seeing a disc-shaped craft, “like two real thick saucers inverted,” some 50 feet in diameter and 30 feet from the ground. Padrick claimed that he then began to cautiously walk toward the craft. A door appeared and Padrick walked inside, and soon was conversing with a very human appearing gentleman wearing some sort of flying suit.  View full report

Source: Brent Raynes   ID: 963
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Witness Sketch, Contact, Humanoid/Occupant

James Flynn Florida Everglades Encounter

March, 12, 1965 - Everglades, Florida, United States

James Flynn was camping when he saw an object with a large cone-shaped structure hovering near the ground; it was some 75 feet wide and 25 feet high. As he approached the object a beam of light struck him in the forehead, knocking him unconscious and temporarily leaving him partially blinded. There were physical traces on trees and vegetation, and animal reactions from Flynn's dogs.  View full report

Source: UFO Casebook   ID: 23
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Physiological Effects, Animal Reaction, Landing

Planes chased by elliptical luminous object, EM effects over Japan

March, 21, 1965 - Himeji, Ieshima Islands, Japan

"Inaba was the captain of the Convair-240, with 28 passengers aboard, which encountered the oblong and luminescent object over the Ieshima Islands in the Seto Inland Sea at 7.06 p.m. on Thursday. Fearing a collision, Inaba turned the plane 60 degrees to the right, but the flying saucer made an abrupt turn and flew along with the plane for about three minutes."  View full report

Source: Tokyo Japan Times, March 21, 1965 (UPI), Mainichi Daily News (Tokyo), March 22   ID: 628
Case Type: PressReport    Features:  E-M Effects, Pilot/Aircrew

Gemini 4 / Astronaut James McDivitt sighting of cylindrical object in space

June, 1965 - 

In June 1965, Major James McDivitt saw, filmed, and photographed an object, which approached the Gemini IV (3rd June – 7th June 1965) capsule in which they were orbiting the Earth, passing over Hawaii. He stated: "It had a very definite shape - a cylindrical object - it was white - it had a long arm that stuck out on the side."  View full report

Source: Patrick Gross, UFOs at Close Sight (ufologie.net)   ID: 977
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Astronaut/Space

Valensole, France Landing (Maurice Masse Case) Featured Case

July, 1, 1965 - Valensole, Basses Alpes, France

Farmer Maurice Masse was inspecting his field of lavender when he heard a whistling sound, then noticed an egg-shaped object with six thin legs and a central pedestal standing nearby. A classic close encounter case from France. At the same time, he also saw two "small boys," humanoid-looking beings less than four feet tall, dressed in grayish-green one-piece coveralls.  View full report

Source: Michael Lindemann / Center For Extraordinary Explorations   ID: 140
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Physiological Effects, Humanoid/Occupant, Landing, Witness Photo

UFO on Australian Beach (Vaucluse Beach) Featured Case

July, 19, 1965 - Vaucluse Beach, Australia

Disc-shaped object glowed as it sat on a beach. As witness approached the object, the object lifted off from the ground, quickly climbed in the air, and disappeared. Investigation revealed landing traces and effects on the nearby plant life.  View full report

Source: UFO Casebook   ID: 27
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Physical Trace, Animal Reaction, Landing, Witness Sketch

Large cylinder-shaped object flies low over Brooklyn, NY

August, 1965 - New York City/Brooklyn, New York, United States

Form the witness: "Suddenly, as I looked to the left of me, I saw what I first mentally equated as a submarine perhaps two story's off the ground higher than the six story buildings beneath it. Here comes this thing, slow and steady and silent.... As it proceeded to float past us, we observed its right side. It is solid. It is a perfect and very long dark grey cylinder, and it just keeps coming very slowly and steadily."  View full report

Source: Brian Vike, HBCCUFO Research (hbccufo.org)   ID: 1041
Case Type: RawReport    Features:  Silent

Rex Heflin UFO Photographs Featured Case

August, 3, 1965 - Santa Ana, California, United States

Rex Heflin, an Orange County highway inspector, was at work in a county vehicle at 12:37 P.M when he saw a hat-shaped (disc with dome) object hovering above the road. He grabbed his Polaroid camera and took three photographs of the metallic-appearing object and a fourth of a black "smoke ring" left behind by the object.  View full report

Source: STUDIOVNI   ID: 253
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Photo

Football shaped UFO hovers near milk barn, scares animals

August, 19, 1965 - Cherry Creek, New York, United States

Sixteen year old Harold Butcher was milking the cows in his father's barn in Cherry Creek, N.Y. Harold heard one of the bulls outside make a noise "like I have never heard come from an animal before." Simultaneously he saw a metallic-looking, football-shaped UFO about 50 feet long and approximately 20 feet thick hovering just above the trees an estimated 450 feet from the barn.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), 'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon Lore   ID: 572
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Animal Reaction, E-M Effects, Physical Trace

The Incident at Exeter (Muscarello Case)

September, 3, 1965 - Exeter, New Hampshire, United States

Norman Muscarello, a teenage Navy recruit, was walking down a quiet country highway at night, when suddenly, a huge object loomed above him. Thus began the "Incident at Exeter," a series of sightings officially qualified as "unidentified." The encounters that night took special precedence over other UFO sightings because of the credibility of two Exeter police officers who also saw the UFO, as well as that of the dispatcher and supervising officer who first heard Muscarello's account.  View full report

Source: The Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH), Sept. 2, 2005   ID: 426
Case Type: MajorCase    Features:  Police, Animal Reaction, Witness Photo

Patrol Car Illuminated by UFO

September, 3, 1965 - Damon, Texas, United States

Purple and blue lights were attached to opposite ends of an enormous object, hovering about 150 feet from witnesses at about a 100-foot altitude. Object appeared to be triangular shaped, about 200 feet wide and 40-50 feet thick in the middle, tapering off toward both ends.  View full report

Source: FUFOR, U.S. Air Force-Project Blue Book, Donald Keyhoe 'UFOs A New Look'   ID: 38
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Police, Witness Photo

The Langenhoe Incident (Motorcyclist encounters UFO)

September, 14, 1965 - Mersea island, Essex, United Kingdom

"I could make out some sort of an outline and an enormous object spun into view, looming up large and uncanny out of the sky. It resembled the upper half of a large spinning top and was about the size of a gasometer. There appeared to be a dome on top, inside of which was flashing a strange blue light."  View full report

Source: Dr. Bernard E. Finch, FSR Nov-Dec 1965   ID: 631
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Humming, Sound, Physiological Effects, Animal Reaction, Scientist/Engineer, Vehicle Interference

South African constables observe disc-shaped object resting on highway

September, 16, 1965 - Pretoria, South Africa

On the night of September 16 two Pretoria, S. Africa, constables came upon a disc-shaped object resting on the highway. The headlights of their police van illuminated the copper-colored object which appeared to be about 30 feet in diameter. On top of the UFO was a small dome. In seconds the UFO suddenly lifted off the road, emitting tongues of flame.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon),   ID: 555
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Police, Physical Trace, Landing

Saucer-shaped UFO with dome seen in Western Pennsylvania

October, 1965 - Pennsylvania, United States

"I saw this saucer shaped disc with a dome on top about 500 to 800 feet up in the sky in front of me. It was silver yellow in color and about 30 feet in diameter. It went vertical for about 1000 feet, then made a sharp angle and disappeared at a high rate of speed, 2 or 3 seconds, no noise."  View full report

Source: UFOEvidence.org   ID: 765
Case Type: RawReport

Canadian Navy seaman witnesses object on beach

November, 30, 1965 - Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canada

Seaman Ian Kinsey, of Her Majesty's Coastal Service, was on his 2-4 a.m. watch at the Cornwallis station. When he looked out towards the shoreline, he saw a sharply oval, yellow object resting on the beach. The UFO was "lit up," but not glaring. Five minutes later a sliding door on the object's side opened and a smaller, cigarette-shaped UFO entered the larger object through the door. A similar sighting took place a few hours before in Springhill, about 125 miles from Cornwallis.  View full report

Source: NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon), 'Strange Effects from UFOs', by Donald Keyhoe and Gordon Lore   ID: 581
Case Type: StandardCase    Features:  Military, Landing, Humming, Portholes/Windows
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