1961: January UFO & Alien Sightings

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Date: January 1961
Location: Staroleka, Poland
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Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: UFO Nachrichten (Veit)

Date: January 1961
Location: Irkutsk, Biryat, Russia
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Summary: Rocket on ground on four legs. two figures nearby. Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. One rocket-like object was observed by one witness in a town for two minutes. Two beings were seen.
Source: Hatch, Larry

Date: January 1961
Location: Tiller, Oregon
Time: 03:00
Summary: Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. An unidentifiable object and its occupants were observed at close range.
Source: Webb, David HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports

Date: January 1961
Location: Bridgeport, Connecticut
Time: Daytime
Summary: A daytime disc was reported (Hurlburt).
Source: NICAP

Date: January 1961
Location: Rushville, Nebraska
Time: Night
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported (Hills).
Source: NICAP

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Date: January 1 1961
Location: La Victoria Venezuela
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Summary: A government topographer, Adolfo P. Pisani, was passed by a truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A brilliant disk with the appearance of blue steel swooped down very close to the hood of the truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up nearly 1 m above the road and over- turned in a sandbank. The driver escaped with minor injuries.
Source: Magonia 514

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Date: Jan. 10, 1961
Location: Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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Summary: Hovering, maneuvering UFO tracked on radar during missile test. A disc-shaped object altered the tracking of a U.S. Navy Polaris launched from a ground pad at Cape Canaveral.
Source: NICAP UFOE, VIII; McClelland

Date: Jan. 10, 1961
Location: Atlantic bet. Cuba and Haiti BBU
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Source: McDonald list

Date:  Jan. 10, 1961
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas (not Kansas) BBU
Time: 9:18 p.m. CST.
Summary:   A round, bright, white light, with an amber-red color on its lower side was observed from a Beechcraft Debonair aircraft flying from Tulsa, Okla. to Abilene, Texas. The plane was approximately 15 miles from Wichita Falls on an outbound heading at an altitude of 6,500 feet and at a speed of 160 mph. Thinking the object was an aircraft in trouble, the pilot took up course of 268 degrees toward Benjamin, Texas, in pursuit of the object. At approximately 9:24 p.m., the object disappeared toward the ground near Benjamin. About 10 seconds later a red flash was seen on the ground. The aircraft continued toward a red glow at the point of the flash and at about 9:29 p.m. another red flash on the ground was observed. At a point about 4 1/2 miles from Benjamin, the aircraft flew directly over the area of the red glows. The two red glows were approximately 1/4 mile apart. The aircraft circled the area with its landing lights on in an attempt to guide men on the ground to the source of the glows. The aircraft ran low on fuel and the search was discontinued. Duration: Approx. 6 minutes in the air
Source: Dan Wilson, McDonald list, NICAP UFOE, V

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Date: Jan. 22, 1961
Location: Eglin AFB, Florida
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Summary: An elliptical UFO, metallic looking, approached from over the Gulf, made a U-turn and sped back over the Gulf. Photographed on 8 mm movie film by a businessman.
Source: NICAP UFOE, VIII

Date: January 22 1961
Location: Cestas-Gazinet France
Time: 1830
Summary: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object. Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word “ZEMU” repeated twice.
Source: Magonia 515