1956 Sightings

Four-panel 1950s press-photo collage: a Venom jet with a light behind it over Lakenheath, an RCAF pilot photographing a disc over the Rockies, an Eastern Airlines DC-4 with a pulsating light at the window, and a Bornholm radar scope with four returns.

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1956 Sightings

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 5, 2016 | Updated: September 26, 2026

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive On the night of August 13-14, 1956, a radar contact first picked up by the Ground Controlled...

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September 1956 UFO Sightings Archive Collage

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1956 Sightings

1956: September UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: October 27, 2013 | Updated: September 28, 2026

1956: September UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive September 1956 is a diverse month in the archive — lighter on confirmed Blue Book military radar...

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Three-panel 1950s military press-photo collage: an F-86D in afterburner over Libya with a radar scope showing solid returns but no visual, a GCA radar operator at RAF Weathersfield tracking B-36-sized targets, and two F-86s in afterburner pursuing a luminous elliptical shape through clouds at Castle AFB California.

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1956 Sightings

1956: October UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 5, 2016 | Updated: September 28, 2026

1956: October UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive October 1956 is a compact month in the archive, but two of its entries belong in any...

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Three-panel 1950s press-photo collage: Capital Airlines Flight 77 cockpit with a brilliant light ahead, El Toro MCAS radar scope showing merging and splitting returns over 8 hours, and a South Dakota state police car with spotlight aimed at a light in the night sky.

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1956 Sightings

1956: November UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 5, 2016 | Updated: September 28, 2026

1956: November UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive November 1956 is the heaviest month of the year’s final quarter by both volume and evidentiary weight....

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Three-panel 1950s press-photo collage: an F-86D radar scope showing ECM jamming interference at Itazuke AFB Japan, a Valley City North Dakota police officer with a dead radio watching a hovering red-orange object, and an F-86D in a hard turn trying to follow a round white object over Guam on December 31 1956.

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1956 Sightings

1956: December UFO & Alien Sightings

Published: June 5, 2016 | Updated: September 29, 2026

1956: December UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive December 1956 closes the year with the most technically sophisticated intercept in the twelve-month record. On December...

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Four-panel 1950s international press-photo collage: two French gendarmes pinned against a barn wall by a hovering disc with colored rays and circling silhouettes at Barre-des-Cévennes, gray figures by a Fort Bragg helicopter, a disc with oval portholes and figures inside at Aveley Essex, and a close-up of a stopped wristwatch.

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1956 Sightings

1956: Unknown Date UFO & Alien Sightings

Published: October 27, 2013 | Updated: September 29, 2026

1956: Unknown Date UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive Not every 1956 case came with a calendar date attached. This page collects the year’s undated...

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1956 Sightings

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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1956: December UFO & Alien Sightings

1956: Unknown Date UFO & Alien Sightings

From the Archive

1950: Oak Ridge, Tennessee — A Bright Light Over the Turnpike and a Radar Paint Fourteen Minutes Later

1950: NAS Lakehurst, New Jersey — A Flashing White Light and One Tight Turn Over the Airship Field

1950: Fort Myers, Florida — A 75-Foot Silver Disc With Four Jets Over the North Side

1950: West Springfield, Massachusetts — A Half-Moon Object, a Whistle and a Radar That Was Down