1962: September UFO & Alien Sightings

Date: September 1962
Location: Orland California
Time: 2145
Summary: A. T. Gray, a dairy rancher, thought some lights in a field were those of a car. When coming nearer, he realized the object was oblong with blunt edges and hovered about 7 m above the ground, making no noise. When Gray was 50 m away, the object came toward him, rose, and took off toward the southwest.
Source: Magonia 544

Date: September 1 1962
Location: San Juan Island (100 miles North of Seattle), WA
Time: 1200
Summary: I am only writing in the hopes that you will pass this along to the person riding a jet from Vancouver to LA and had basically passed over my residence when he-she saw a strange craft and has always wondered if it was a ‘sun dog’. Please relate this factual series of events. I lived on an island in the Washington (US) Sa Juan Islands. My folks had gone to the mainland shopping for school clothes and I stayed home. Late in the morning, almost noon I was going to go check on our cattle and then take the dog down to the beach and throw sticks for him (he loved to swim after sticks). As I rounded the back of the house for some reason I looked up and rather than the usual eagle or hawk that triggers the peripheral vision response, I saw something a bit out of the ordinary no jet although they were always to be seen flying far overhead, rather I saw a huge disk shaped object (relatively slowly meandering across the sky. Of course I was fascinated and started to run through my mental inventory of what kind of aircraft it could be when it suddenly traveled south at such a speed as to boggle ones senses (I knew about G forces and such and I couldn’t equate that anything could move so fast from a near motionless state (no flames of rocket or contrail or such). Well it disappeared over the horizon to the south and I just stood there staring, my dog bumped my leg and he was staring too. (He liked to chase anything in the air, a would run around underneath birds, stare at planes and such…a Spaniel with a natural affinity for airborne creatures. So just as we started down the drive the ‘thing’ reappeared moving fairly rapidly back toward us (northerly direction) when it was about halfway toward us a flight of jets came over the horizon in pursuit. I surmised they were from the Whidbey Island naval Air Station. This slightly dull silverish/gray disk got almost directly overhead at a fair height I guestimate 20,000 to 25,000 ft when the jets almost (within a mile or two) reached the object. It then went straight up an! d dwindled to the size of a pin just before it vanished in the stratosphere. The jets had hit their afterburners and were climbing in chase on long tails of flame. It was really quite spectacular. Then when the thing disappeared and the jets reached their ceiling, they banked off to the south presumably to return to Whidbey Island.
I’ve only mentioned it to a few people over the years more as an anecdote than to any purpose, because I don’t personally care what people believe as long as they don’t try to shove theirs down my mental craw. So please…I’ve always believed in them because of this event…but tell the person who is living in doubt, tweren’t no sun dog or St Elmo’s fire or a curious behaving weather balloon, Alice. It was a large disk shaped object that performed aerial maneuvers that even today would be impossible for humans to match. (We’d have been splattered all around the inside of the thing). And since there was no evident mode of propulsion one would have to presume that the drive was gravitational They’d have to have control over gravity to negate the g forces. So such is life, sorry no abduction or strange probings, no photos and my dog, Thumper, the only other witness is long since in that happy field and stream in the sky. So now you have it and my conscience is clear and free. Oh, I forgot to mention it was completely noiseless although many seconds later the sound of the jets reached us. The object traveled very quietly, wouldn’t that make airports nicer to live near?
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 1 1962
Location: Seattle, WA
Time: 1200
Summary: This event occurred many years ago when I was eight. I have never spoken publicly of it, but now, at the age of 45, I am interested in finding out exactly what I saw. My mother, father and I were returning from our native Vancouver, Canada, back to LA aboard a United Airlines prop (a DC?). We were seated in the tail, port side, and over the US-Canada border area. I looked out the window as we flew through bright gaps in the clouds. The day was otherwise bright, despite the clouds. I observed a circular object, totally metallic with a rim completely around it, a mini silver Saturn, if you will. It was approx. 20-30 ft. in diameter and hovering near the the fuselage, between the wing and tail. It rotated, and it reflected our airliner on its–the UF0’s–own surface. It was silent. I motioned to my father, who momentarily looked grim. He dismissed it as something, but sounded suspiciously evasive. I don’t recall a reaction from my mother or anyone else aboard. The craft was silent and remained in view for several minutes. My parents have been deceased for more than 30 years and thus can’t add more to what I have stated. There was only one object. It appeared to tilt and spin as it hovered by the fuselage of the United Airlines’ prop airliner. The sky was a bright blue. I viewed the object as our a/c passed through an expanse of clouds. I was excited; my father was uncharacteristically quiet, subdued. We never spoke of the incident ever again, though my father later in life evinced a belief in UFO’s. My mother thoroughly dismissed the phenomenon. I sighted the object as a child. I am now 45 years of age. I am a teacher, with a Master’s in English. I am currently working on my Ph.D in psychology. My father was a factory employee, a personnel manager. My mother was a typist. I don’t know if my report is of any value to you, being nearly 40 years old and such. I offer it to you for what it’s worth. The incident is etched onto my brain. I still wonder whether I saw a true UFO or what is called a “sun dog.”
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 1 1962
Location: Hopewell, VA
Time: 1500
Summary: Fast high altitude sunlit object made sharp 90 degree turn before going out of sight. I remember the weather was warm, the day sunny. I’m guessing September 1963. The sun was about 3pm. I was about 13 yrs. old. My brother who had been in the Air Force, my Dad, and I watched a bright sunlight object high in the sky and moving fast. My Mom may have been present. My brother made the observation as to altitude and speed. The object made a sharp 90 degree turn while flying. I’m guessing it lasted less than 5 minutes, and then it went out of sight.
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 4 1962
Location: St. Louis, MO
Time: 1530 Duration: 1 Hour plus
Summary: Observation of spherical white colored craft in geostationary position for 1 hour plus. The altitude at a guess at 2,000 feet high. This was seen on September 4, 1962 at 3:30 pm Central Standard Time. Location of sighting was 2.6 miles south of St. Louis Lambert airport. The sky was clear and wind was calm. My mother was hanging clothes out to dry, and called out to me to come out and see the object. I rejected her offer for some time, but she insisted that it was something I should see. When I finally went out and saw the object we talked and she asked if it could be Venus? I told her that it could not be because of the time of day and direction was eastward. I was a member of the St. Louis Astronomical Society at this time. My mom said I should get my telescope and take a look. At the age of 15 I wasn’t totally coordinated yet, and I broke the front glass out of the front screen door. Trying to get the telescope out the door. I’m adding for the time frame. It took a bit of work to gather the broken glass up before a got the telescope to the back yard. Setting up the telescope. It was a Tasco refractor 60 mm objective lens, with a alt-azimuth mount. I first used the wide angle eyepiece to spot the object. I found it magnified well, but still rather small. I let my mom look through the scope and by this time we had the next door neighbors over also. So now we have our own star party. Three adults and one kid. I let everyone take there time and look. Of course they all asked if I could get it bigger. I set the 3 X barlow and the strongest eyepiece. This set the magnification of 525 power. When I looked at the object it nearly filled the entire field of view. I can only explain that I had it focused perfect! It looked like a cue ball. No markings. Perfectly smooth and rather off white, not shiny. It did not give any glow off. No sense of spinning motion, and no noise at all. This is important. This object has not moved one nanometer in an hour of time. Nothing in the heavens or earth can do that! When you view the moon at full power with that telescope it’s like a big train moving by. This didn’t move. I expected it to move and was in total disbelief at what I was seeing. I let my mom and the neighbors husband and wife both take long looks at the object and we all agreed that it was not moving. I kept saying this can’t be happening! No one is going to believe me at the next Astronomical meeting. But I got witnesses! Better yet I’ve done lunar eclipse photos, and said I will be getting my camera and special eye mount for it and I’ll be back. Never had a chance to move. When we look back at the time in history, it was as one of the worst in nuclear confutations. The “Cuban missile crisis” was happening. I no sooner said that I was going to get the camera when I hear a very load jet aircraft take off. Living for many year near the airport we grew accustomed to the different sounds of the commercial, and air force aircraft flying and even crashing near by as a F-86 did a mile down the road. This was the sound of afterburners and full throttle. As soon as the plane came above the tree line I spotted it as a B-47. She was doing a tight circle as we literality turned our bodies around as it circled and climbed for altitude. On the second sweep around I was beginning to wonder if it had something to do with our visitor in the sky above. I was a lucky hunch, because at that very moment I scream! Look it moved! What had been stationary for an hour did a sudden straight vertical movement to twice the altitude in a split second and stopped. The B-47 was still in hot pursuit with all engines at full throttle. It kept a circular pattern as she climbed up toward the object. After about the fourth revolution around the B-47 chase was over. I saw the object go from that second position to ascend straight up out of sight. My mom insisted that I report this to the Air Force base at Lambert Field. I looked up a few numbers that sounded official and dialed them. When I mentioned I wanted to report a UFO, they responded I could get in a lot of trouble doing this. Did my parents know I was doing crank calls to the US Government? The last call I made I did get through to an Air Force official and said I wanted to report a UFO and it was being chased by a B-47. He said that’s ridicules there’s no B-47 aircraft in the air. I said if you don’t believe me look out your window. He hung up quickly. No report was ever made to the papers that I could ever recall. I would like to know if anyone in the St. Louis area saw this object also.
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 5 1962
Location: Mount Manfre Italy
Time: night
Summary: Second observation by Mr. Siragusa, who saw two figures over 2.10 m tall. The light from their belts prevented him from seeing them in detail. A large, spinning object, 25 m wide, top-shaped, hovered nearby. “From the under part, a metallic cylinder over 3 m long reached down almost to touch the road, with a small door, a sort of lift.”
Source: Magonia 545

Date: Sept. 8, 1962
Location: Floresta, Argentine
Time:
Summary: “Burnished metal” lens-shaped UFO sighted by Argentine Navy pilot.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence, X, XII

Date: September 9 1962
Location: Phenix City, AL
Time: 2033
Summary: My cousin an I were playing putt putt golf in the evening. As I was waiting for him to play I was looking at the stars when from my left moving from left to right.a bright light moving across the horizon on a straight line for approximately 5 to 10 seconds at a high velocity and stopped. It remained stopped for about 3 to 5 seconds. At that point it shot straight up and out of sight in just a couple seconds. This was when I was 16 years old in 1962.
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 13 1962
Location: Overfield Great Britain
Time: 2320
Summary: Myra Jones was driving
between Overfield and Norris Hill when she saw a luminous, gray object, larger than a car with a dome on top. It was flying at the altitude of the Phone poles, slowly spinning. Dark spots were visible on the underside. It nearly touched the car, then gave a whistling sound and flew away.
Source: Magonia 546

Date: September 14 1962
Location: Wisconsin (rural), WI
Time: 1730 Duration: 30min.
Summary: we were walking home after a day of hunting and an orange light came from nowhere and shined down on us. it followed us and we shot at it,you could hear the pellets hit the craft,it was that close. we were walking across a wooded area,and this orange light came from nowhere. the light shined down on us and followed us until we were a half mile or so from my parents house,the disk was very close to us as we took some shots at it with shot guns,you could hear the pellets hit the craft. it did nothing but follow us for about a half hour as we ran through the woods.it also made no sound,it just kept us in the middle of the light.you could see an outline of a round craft,with the orange light in the middle. the time was dusk when the light first appeared,and dark when it left,
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 15 1962: Disc landing in reservoir, in New Jersey BBU

Date: September 15 1962
Location: Puerto Rico, PR
Time: 0700 Duration: Hour and a Half
Summary: During the Cuban Missile Crisis, I was stationed at Ramey Air Force Base. It housed KC-135 tankers, B-52 and U-2 hangars, and 8 nuclear storage bunkers with 500 pound bombs. I held a top secret clearance; I was a member of the Combat Defense Force and Sentry Dog Handler. We were working twelve hour shifts during the crisis, it was near relief time when I looked out towards the sunrise, off into the calm, blue, orange sky and saw something strange. There was one small cloud with flashing lights moving inside of it, and he cloud was moving towards the no-fly-area.\ We K-9 units wanted to know what it was. We took a truck across the runway to the flight crews Quarters. Everyone was looking at the cloud as it slowly approached, making no noise, red, blue, yellow lights revolved inside the bubbling, boiling cloud like a carousel. It was now 30 feet above the ground and it seemed to be roughly 20 feet deep. While staring at this spectacular object, I sincerely hoped no one would fire on it because we were all armed at the time. I went off duty for three days and came back to silence. Nobody talked about it. And nobody told me not to talk about it; except my mother. A strike on our facility would have been even more catastrophic for the United States than an attack on the east coast from Russia or Cuba.
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Date: Sept. 15, 1962
Location: W. Newark (Oradell), NY
Time: 6 p.m.
Summary: A ex-Navy electronics officer, J. J. McVicker reported two “silver dollars” apparently revolving as they passed over W. Nyack, N.Y. At about 7:55 p.m., five boys reported a disc which hovered over the Oradell reservoir, touched down on it, then took off silently at high speed. Later, two other boys said they had seen a very bright light moving back and forth over the edge of the reservoir, following which a loud explosion was heard.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: September 15 1962
Location: Severn Northampton UK/England
Time: 1400 Duration: 15 minutes
Summary: I was driving at highway speed across rural North Carolina in a car that was only a year old, when the car stopped running as if I had turned the ignition off. I coasted to a stop and tried to restart the car, but it was as if the battery had been removed. Nothing electrical was working. I tried the lights and radio, but not even the interior dome lamp would come on. I looked under the hood for a loose battery cable, but everything was as it should be. I waited about ten minutes, again tried the starter, and the car started immediately, with all electrical equipment working. The day was clear and bright, and there was no other traffic of any kind in the vicinity, no noise of any kind, and nothing unusual was seen.
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Date: September 18 1962
Location: Barcelos Brazil
Time:
Summary: Three men working in a rubber plantation saw a large, disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was of silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that period and blamed on the same cause.
Source: Magonia 548

Date: Sept. 18, 1962
Location: Westwood, N. J.
Time: 4 a.m..
Summary: Two policemen reported a 7-8 second observation of a huge object, round at the top and tapering to a cone. 4:45 a.m.; Two Oradell policemen reported a brilliant light in the sky.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 18, 1962
Location: Hawthorne, NJ
Time: 7:55 p.m.
Summary: A family in Hawthorne watched a greenish disc descend low over their house.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 18, 1962
Location: Northeast Ohio
Time:
Summary: Six policemen sighted UFOs about the same time. One hovering object, two maneuvering.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence, VII

Date: Sept. 20, 1962
Location: Hawthorne, NJ
Time:
Summary: Early in the morning, a watchman, William Stock, of Hawthorne, reported a saucer-shaped object which hovered and moved from side to side as it shone bright enough to illuminate a huge area.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 21, 1962
Location: Bt. Hawthorne & North Haledon, NJ
Time: 3:40 a.m.
Summary: William Stock and four invited policemen spent a half hour watching a round object with two apparently revolving body lights. At 4 a.m., two policemen, between Hawthorne and North Haledon, watched a bright light revolving and moving up and down and from side to side for about 35 minutes.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 21, 1962 BBU 8133
Location: WSW of Biloxi, Mississippi, in Gulf of Mexico
Time: 7:37-7:50 p.m.
Summary: Fishing boat captain S. A. [Danny?] Guthrie and deck hand saw 2 objects, red and black with orange streaks, one as big as the Moon, and the other smaller and trailing [?], arcing across the sky.
Source: Mary Castner/CUFOS; Berliner

Date: Sept. 21, 1962
Location: Hawthorne, NJ
Time:
Summary: That night, 4 young persons in Hawthorne reported seeing a bright star-like object with light beams coming from it.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 23, 1962
Location: Hawthorne, NJ
Time:
Summary: In the middle of the day a Hawthorne woman and her son saw an oblong, silvery object, for about 10 seconds.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 24, 1962
Location: Hawthorne, NJ
Time:
Summary: Early in the morning, a group consisting of the head of an independent news agency, a photographer and numerous policemen watched, for 10 minutes, an object which changed from red to silver to green and back to red. In the evening, a Hawthorne patrolman watched a light approach, hover for 15 minutes and then move away.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: Sept. 28, 1962
Location: Seven counties near Hawthorne, NJ
Time:
Summary: Police from seven counties reported seeing UFOs between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m. Most reported three objects which changed color.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence

Date: September 29 1962
Location: Savannah (Hunter AFB), GA
Time: 2200
Summary: Our family had just returned from a day visit to a major department store near Savannah (could have been Sears, Montgomery Wards, or JC Penny). It was probably a Saturday with no school the next day so we were allowed to stay up late. I was 9 or 10 years old in 1962 or 1963 and at the store they were offering Mickey Mouse helium balloons. I brought one home that evening and was showing it off to the neighborhood kids on Hunter AFB in the military housing were we lived. It was probably about 9 or 10pm because the street lights had come on and the sky was dark. We decided to play a game with the balloon like this: We placed torn up pieces of paper between the ears of the Mickey Mouse balloon because the ears touched. We then let the balloon rise above the street light out of sight and then with a firm jerk on the attached kite string dislodged the pieces of paper from between Mickey’s ears, down they would float into view below the street light and whoever collected the most pieces of paper won. On the second or third round something amazing happened. The balloon was above the street light out of sight, I jerked the the string, and suddenly a luminous disk about the size of a car suddenly appeared and then zig-zagged half-a-dozen times above the street light first side to side then back and forth in a cross like pattern alternating aggressively, presumably it was checking out the balloon. Everyone stood there watching the object, while the pieces of paper floated down around us, and then as suddenly as it appeared it disappeared. We were excited and so we collected the papers in a frenzy, stuffed them between the ears, and sent the balloon back up, jerked the string and almost the exact same thing happened again. Except this time instead of disappearing after the zig-zag it took off in a straight line fast but still slow enough we could follow it into the distance. My brother ran to get my parents but by the time they came out to see it it was so distant they could not distinguish it from a star. Of course, we tried to repeat the event but it only worked twice. The disk was glowing silvery-amber, about the size of a car, no sound, complete silence, incredibly zippy, directly overhead so we could only see the underside during the zig-zag. When it traveled away the second time I did not note anything additional like lights or anything like that. Was too excited to make any additional observations.
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