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31 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the 1960s, 1960 to 1969: 13 disputed, 8 unresolved, 7 explained, 3 identified. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Red Bluff — California Highway Patrol sighting 13 August 1960 · Red Bluff area, Tehama County, California EXPLAINED Betty and Barney Hill 19 September 1961 · U.S. Route 3, Franconia Notch to Indian Head, New Hampshire DISPUTED Bahía Blanca and Espora air base sightings 11 May 1962 · Bahía Blanca and Espora Naval Air Base UNRESOLVED Trancas — lights over the Moreno farm 21 October 1963 · Finca of the Moreno family beside the Belgrano railway, Trancas, Tucumán UNRESOLVED Socorro landing (Lonnie Zamora) 24 April 1964 · Socorro, New Mexico UNRESOLVED The Solway Firth “spaceman” photograph 23 May 1964 · Burgh Marsh, near Burgh by Sands, Cumberland EXPLAINED Big Sur — Atlas "Buzzing Bee" film 15 September 1964 · Anderson Peak, Big Sur, and Vandenberg AFB, California EXPLAINED Gemini 4 — McDivitt’s “beer can with an arm” 4 June 1965 · In orbit, passing over Hawaii, on the 20th revolution of Gemini 4 DISPUTED Valensole landing 1 July 1965 · Lavender field, Valensole, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence UNRESOLVED Deception Island — the Antarctic sightings 3 July 1965 · Argentine station, Deception Island, South Shetland Islands UNRESOLVED Buenos Aires — Meteors scrambled 16 July 1965 · Buenos Aires UNRESOLVED August 1965 — lights over Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas 1 August 1965 · Oklahoma City and across Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and New Mexico DISPUTED Heflin Polaroids — Santa Ana 3 August 1965 · Myford Road near Santa Ana, California DISPUTED Incident at Exeter 3 September 1965 · Kensington, near Exeter, New Hampshire DISPUTED Kecksburg fireball 9 December 1965 · Kecksburg, Pennsylvania DISPUTED Tully "saucer nest" 19 January 1966 · Horseshoe Lagoon near Tully, Queensland DISPUTED Michigan "swamp gas" sightings 20 March 1966 · Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan EXPLAINED Westall school sighting 6 April 1966 · Westall High School, Clayton South, Melbourne DISPUTED Portage County police chase 17 April 1966 · Ravenna, Ohio → Conway, Pennsylvania DISPUTED Paulding Light 1 July 1966 · Robbins Pond Road, near Paulding, Michigan EXPLAINED The lead masks of Vintém Hill 17 August 1966 · Morro do Vintém, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Malmstrom AFB Echo Flight shutdown 16 March 1967 · Echo Flight, Malmstrom AFB missile field, Montana EXPLAINED Falcon Lake incident 20 May 1967 · Falcon Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba DISPUTED UMMO — the San José de Valderas photographs 1 June 1967 · San José de Valderas, Alcorcón, near Madrid IDENTIFIED Cussac — two children and four small black beings 29 August 1967 · Cussac, Cantal, Auvergne, France UNRESOLVED Six “flying saucers” across southern England (hoax) 4 September 1967 · A line of six sites from the Isle of Sheppey, Kent, to Clevedon, Somerset IDENTIFIED Shag Harbour crash-landing 4 October 1967 · Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia UNRESOLVED Devon "flying cross" police chase 24 October 1967 · A3072, Holsworthy to Hatherleigh, Devon EXPLAINED Zond IV re-entry — the “craft with windows” 3 March 1968 · Across the sky from Kentucky through Ohio to Pennsylvania IDENTIFIED Minot AFB — B-52 radar and missile-field sightings 24 October 1968 · Minot AFB and missile field, North Dakota DISPUTED Jimmy Carter’s light at Leary, Georgia 6 January 1969 · Outside the Lions Club meeting, Leary, Georgia DISPUTED
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