1960: March UFO & Alien Sightings
Date: March 1960
Location: New Paltz, New York
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Summary: An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by several witnesses.
Source: Webb, David HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports
Date: March 1960
Location: Dungeness Bay, Washington
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Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported on the ocean.
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980 ISBN:0-313-21337-2
Date: March 1960
Location: Gordonsville, Virginia
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Summary: Huge object, fuselage without wings and windows. A cigar-shaped object was observed. One fuselage-shaped object, of huge size, was observed by two experienced male witnesses.
Source: Weinstein, Dominique Aircraft UFO Encounters Project ACUFOE, Paris, 1999
Date: March 2 1960
Location: Wien (Vienna), Austria
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Summary: An object was observed and photographed. One luminous round object was observed by one male 36-year-old witness for 12 seconds. A noise was heard
Source: NICAP
Date: March 2 1960
Location: Labs Uttendorf, Austria
Time: 01:30
Summary: Mr. Schedelbauer, a 36-year-old newsman, was driving his car near La Uttendorf, Austria at 1:30 a.m. when he had a close encounter with a round, glowing aerial object. He was able to take a photograph of the luminous UFO, but he also received burns on his face and hands from the encounter. Physiological effects were reported. One luminous round object was observed by one male 36-year-old witness on a highway for 12 seconds (Schedelbauer). A noise was heard.
Source: Project Bluebook
Date: March 2 1960
Location: La Garriga, Barcelona, Spain
Time: Afternoon
Summary: A daytime disc was reported.
Source: Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan
Date: March 4, 1960 BBU 6667
Location: Dubuque, IA
Time: 5:50 – 5:57 p.m.
Summary: Witness Morris (flying instructor) saw 3 elliptical-shaped objects in in-line formation make a slight climb. Film exposed during sighting showed no images of the objects. Three silver oval objects, about 300 feet across, were observed by a photographer for four minutes.
Source: NICAP UFOE, V; Berliner
Date: March 6 1960
Location: Norrtalje, Sweden
Time: 05:15
Summary: Objects were observed and photographed. Three objects, the size of a star, were observed by one experienced male witness (Jansson)
Source: Schoenherr, Luis
Date: March 7 1960
Location: Anderson, South Carolina
Time: Around 2000
Summary: An unidentified object was sighted by multiple independent witnesses. One object was observed.
Source: Flying Saucers Magazine (Palmer)
Date: March 7 1960
Location: Columbia, South Carolina
Time: After 2000
Summary: An unidentified object was sighted by multiple independent witnesses. One object was observed.
Source: Flying Saucers Magazine (Palmer)
Date: March 9 1960
Location: Port Angeles, Washington
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Summary: Nautical UFO. Unidentified objects were sighted by multiple witnesses, that had an unusual appearance or performance. Physiological effects were noted. More than one object was observed by two witnesses. Truck Drivers incident.
Source: Sanderson, Ivan T. Invisible Residents World, New York, 1970
Date: March 9 1960
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
Time: 19:15
Summary: More than one object, twice the size of the moon, were observed by three witnesses (Ayers).
Source: NICAP
Date: March 10, 1960: APU UFO Contact
Date: March 15 1960
Location: La Garriga, Barcelona, Spain
Time: Afternoon
Summary: A daytime disc was reported.
Source: Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan
Date: March 16 1960
Location: Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada
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Summary: A flying disc was observed. One disc, about 600 feet across, was observed by numerous witnesses in a forest (Athabascas).
Source: FSR
Date: March 16 1960
Location: Hume Weir, Victoria, Australia
Time: 20:45
Summary: Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and occupants. Multiple independent witnesses. One object was observed by two male witnesses on a river for 45 minutes (Reynolds).
Source: Lorenzen, Coral E. UFOs: The Whole Story Signet T3897, New York, 1969
Date: March 17 1960
Location: Ontario, California
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Summary: Objects were observed and videotaped. Animal reactions to the objects were reported. A group of multi-colored objects was observed by more than one male witness, one of them an experienced observer, for 80 minutes (Wiggins, D).
Source: Flying Saucers Magazine (Palmer)
Date: March 17 1960
Location: Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia
Time: Around 1900
Summary: One orange flare-like was observed by two witnesses, a married couple (Cooper).
Source: Hervey, Michael UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere Robert Hale, London, 1975 ISBN:0-7091-4724-4
Date: March 17 1960
Location: Waitara & Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Time: Night
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported.One object was observed (Storey).
Source: Hervey, Michael UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere Robert Hale, London, 1975 ISBN:0-7091-4724-4
Date: March 18 1960
Location: Lakewood, California
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Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported (Wilkinson).
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980 ISBN:0-313-21337-2
Date: March 18 1960
Location: Virginia
Time: Night
Summary: An abduction of a witness was reported. Telepathic phenomena were said to have occurred. An abduction by alien entities was reported by one male witness (Monroe).
Source: Robert, Monroe
Date: March 19 1960
Location: Coimbra, Centro, Portugal
Time: 22:30
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: Ballester Olmos, Vicente-Juan
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Date: March 23, 1960 BBU 6691
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Time: 3:35 a.m.
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Larsen saw a series of balls, arranged like an “x” with one diagonal line. Note: Little data on the case in the files. At 3:35 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Larsen sighted an object over their residence in Indianapolis, Indiana that looked like a kite made up of little metallic balls. The object or objects moved in an arc through the sky to the west, then made a 180-degree turn, and finally rose and departed vertically. It made no sound. Listed as a U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book unidentified report. One metallic kite-like object, about 80 feet across, was observed by two witnesses, a married couple, in a residential area for ten minutes (Larsen, E). No sound was heard.
Source: Berliner
Date: March 25 1960
Location: Vichel, Auvergne, France
Time: 15:00
Summary: Making a noise like a gas turbine, a cylindrical UFO hovered over Vichel at around 3 p.m. in Puy-de-Dome department, France for more than five minutes, then shot away to the southeast, traveling sideways like an arrow.
Source: Hatch, Larry
Date: March 25 1960
Location: Vestbirk-Sandvad, Denmark
Time: 22:15
Summary: An unidentified object at close range was observed by two witnesses.
Source: Wegner, Willy UFO-Landinger I Danmark FUFOS, Copenhagen, 1975
Date: March 26 1960
Location: Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Time: 12:10
Summary: Large metallic “mother ship” accompanied by four smaller satellite objects orbiting it, sphere shaped. Objects appeared to be intelligently controlled. 2000 mph speed. Cigar-shaped objects were observed. Five metallic cigar-shaped objects, of huge size, were observed.
Source: Hervey, Michael UFOs Over the Southern Hemisphere Robert Hale, London, 1975 ISBN:0-7091-4724-4
Date: March 31 1960
Location: east northeast of Hawaii
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Summary: A meteor-like object was observed. Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: Project Bluebook
Date: March 31 1960
Location: New York, New York
Time: Around 1900
Summary: One object was observed by one experienced male witness on the ocean for over three minutes.
Source: NICAP
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