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1960s

163 entries in the archive from the 1960s.

Case files (8)

1968 Congressional UFO Symposium | Exhibition

The full record of the 1968 House Science Committee UFO Symposium: twelve scientists, six hours of testimony, and the hearing that Congress buried for fifty years.

The Betty and Barney Hill Abduction | New Hampshire, 1961

On 19 September 1961, Betty and Barney Hill encountered a craft and lost two hours on a New Hampshire highway. Under hypnosis, both described being taken aboard and examined. The...

Flying Saucers Over Papua | Cruttwell Report, 1960

The 56-page Cruttwell Report bound 79 sightings across Papua New Guinea between 1953 and 1959, including the Boianai close encounter of 26 June 1959 witnessed by Father William...

The Kecksburg Incident | Pennsylvania, 1965

On 9 December 1965, a fireball streaked across six US states and Ontario before an acorn-shaped object was recovered from woods near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Military trucks...

Malmstrom AFB Nuclear Missile Shutdown | Montana, 1967

On 16 March 1967, all ten Minuteman I nuclear missiles at Malmstrom Air Force Base's Echo Flight went offline simultaneously. A guard reported a large round object overhead. Eight...

The Shag Harbour Incident | Nova Scotia, 1967

On 4 October 1967, multiple witnesses including RCMP officers saw an illuminated object crash into the waters of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia. Divers found nothing. Canadian military...

The Socorro Landing | Lonnie Zamora, 1964

On 24 April 1964, police officer Lonnie Zamora witnessed an egg-shaped craft with two small occupants land near Socorro, New Mexico. Physical traces and burned vegetation were...

The Westall UFO Encounter | Melbourne, 1966

On 6 April 1966, over 200 students and teachers at Westall High School in Melbourne watched a disc-shaped object descend into a paddock, then depart at speed. Military personnel...

Biographies (25)

Al Worden | Biography

Al Worden (1932 to 2020), United States Air Force test pilot and Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot. The 1971 mission, the deep-space EVA on the return leg, the Apollo 15 commemorative...

Art Bell | Biography

Art Bell (1945 to 2018), the Pahrump, Nevada broadcaster whose overnight radio programme Coast to Coast AM ran from 1988 to 2007 across more than five hundred American stations and...

Arthur C. Clarke | Biography

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917 to 2008), Royal Air Force radar officer, author of the 1945 paper that specified the geostationary communications satellite, novelist of Childhood's End...

Barney Hill | Biography

Barney Hill Jr., WWII US Army veteran, US Postal Service employee, NAACP legal officer, and co-experiencer in the 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 in New Hampshire. His...

Betty Hill | Biography

Eunice Elizabeth Barrett Hill, New Hampshire social worker whose 19 September 1961 encounter on US Route 3 with her husband Barney became, through the 1964 hypnosis sessions with...

Bruce Maccabee | Biography

Bruce S. Maccabee, optical physicist at the Naval Surface Warfare Center for thirty-six years who applied photographic and video analysis methods to UAP cases including...

Charles Hickson | Biography

Charles E. Hickson, Korean War US Army veteran, Jones County constable, and foreman at F. B. Walker's shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. On 11 October 1973 he and...

Coral Lorenzen | Biography

Coral Elsie Lightner Lorenzen, co-founder in January 1952 of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation, editor of the APRO Bulletin across all 258 issues and thirty-six years, and...

Credo Mutwa | Biography

Credo Mutwa (1921 to 2020), Zulu sangoma, sanusi, and one of the principal twentieth-century transmitters of southern African oral cosmology into print. Indaba My Children (1964),...

Fife Symington | Biography

John Fife Symington III, Harvard 1968, USAF captain (Vietnam-era, Bronze Star), Phoenix real estate developer, and 19th Governor of Arizona 1991 to 1997. Held the June 1997 press...

George Van Tassel | Biography

George Van Tassel, aircraft engineer turned 1950s contactee, founder of the Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention and builder of the Integratron at Landers, California.

Hal Puthoff | Biography

Harold E. Puthoff, American physicist and electrical engineer. Scientific director of the SRI remote-viewing programme 1972 to 1985. President of EarthTech International and the...

Harry Reid | Biography

Harry Reid (1939 to 2021), United States Senator for Nevada and Senate Majority Leader from 2007 to 2015. The political architect of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification...

J. Allen Hynek | Biography

Josef Allen Hynek, astrophysicist and scientific consultant to the United States Air Force UFO programmes Project Sign, Project Grudge, and Project Blue Book from 1948 to 1969....

James Fox | Biography

James Fox (b. 1968), American documentary filmmaker. Director of UFOs: 50 Years of Denial (1997), Out of the Blue (2002), I Know What I Saw (2009), The Phenomenon (2020) and Moment...

Peter Whish-Wilson

Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania, ADFA graduate, economist, and marine conservation advocate who placed the Australian Department of Defense's unidentified aerial phenomena...

Jesse Marcel | Biography

Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. Recovered debris from the Foster Ranch on 7 July 1947 with Captain Sheridan Cavitt and was...

Jim Lorenzen | Biography

Leslie James 'Jim' Lorenzen, WWII US Army Air Forces combat radio operator, civilian engineer at Holloman Air Force Base and the Kitt Peak National Observatory, and co-founder in...

L. Ron Hubbard | Biography

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the Nebraska-born American pulp-fiction writer who served as a US Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, attended the January...

Lonnie Zamora | Biography

Dionicio Eduardo 'Lonnie' Zamora, Socorro Police Department officer whose 24 April 1964 encounter south of Socorro, New Mexico, became Project Blue Book Case 8766 and one of fewer...

Lord Hill-Norton | Biography

Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton (1915 to 2004), Chief of the Defence Staff 1971 to 1973, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1974 to 1977, and from the late 1980s...

Max B. Miller | Biography

Max B. Miller, founder and editor of Flying Saucers International and its journal Saucers, published in Los Angeles from 1953 to 1960. Organiser of the World's First Flying Saucer...

Otis T. Carr | Biography

Otis T. Carr (1904 to 1982), the Baltimore engineer and self-described Tesla student whose OTC Enterprises promoted the OTC-X1 flying-saucer prototype across the late 1950s,...

Stanton Friedman | Biography

Stanton Terry Friedman, nuclear physicist who spent fourteen years on classified nuclear propulsion programmes before lecturing publicly on UFOs from 1967. His February 1978...

Terence McKenna | Biography

Terence McKenna, ethnobotanist, philosopher, and lecturer. The 1971 La Chorrera expedition that catalysed his and his brother Dennis's published work on novelty theory. The 1992...

Newsletter coverage (109)

1967 Congress of Scientific UFOlogists

The 1967 Congress of Scientific UFOlogists was held June 23 to 25, 1967 at the Hotel Commodore in New York City, organised by James W. Moseley with Timothy Green Beckley, featuring...

Aerial Phenomena Hot Wire

Internal field-update circular distributed by Coral Lorenzen of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization to a small list of APRO field investigators. Short, fast-turnaround...

AFSCA World Report

AFSCA World Report was the monthly newsletter of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, published from Los Angeles by Gabriel Green from July 1959 as a relaunch of his...

Alternate Horizons Newsletter

Newsletter of the Foundation for Philosophic Advancement, exploring Allen Greenfield's Alternate Reality theory and the intersection of ufology, psychic research, and Fortean...

Alternate Horizons

Alternate Horizons Newsletter was the official journal of the Foundation for Philosophic Advancement, edited by Allen H. Greenfield from Atlanta, Georgia from late 1966 to 1971,...

American UFO Committee Review

The American UFO Committee Review was published twice yearly from March 1964 by three executive directors: Allen Greenfield (Atlanta), Dale Rettig (Glenview, Illinois), and Rick...

APRO Bulletin

The Aerial Phenomena Research Organization Bulletin, published 1952 to 1988, was one of the first civilian UFO research journals. The archive holds 258 issues with 1,934 indexed...

Australian Flying Saucer Review

The Australian Flying Saucer Review, published from the 1960s by the Victorian UFO Research Society, was one of Australia's earliest and most respected civilian UFO publications.

Australian Newspaper (Port Lincoln Times)

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Australian Newspaper (Tharunka)

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Australian Newspaper (The Australian Jewish News)

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Australian Newspaper (The Australian Women's Weekly)

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Australian Newspaper (The Canberra Times)

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Australian Newspaper (The Riverine Herald)

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Australian Newspaper (Victor Harbour Times)

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Australian Saucer Record

Quarterly journal of the Australian Flying Saucer Research Society, published from a house in suburban Adelaide and printed by the Hyde Park Press, covering nine years of...

Australian UFO Bulletin

Quarterly journal of the Victorian UFO Research Society, one of Australia's oldest civilian UFO investigation groups, covering fifty years of Southern Hemisphere sighting reports,...

Bigfoot Bulletin

An early cryptozoology newsletter focused on Sasquatch and Bigfoot research, documenting sighting reports, footprint evidence, and field investigations.

BUFORA Journal

The journal of Britain's largest civilian UFO research organisation. Founded in 1962 from the merger of the London UFO Research Organisation and the British UFO Association, BUFORA...

Canadian UFO Report

Canadian UFO Report was a quarterly on UFO sightings published by John Magor from Duncan, British Columbia, from 1969 through the 1970s, drawing heavily on sightings from British...

CAPRI News

CAPRI News: the official newsletter of the Committee on Aerial Phenomena Research Investigations, founded 1 October 1967 and producing monthly reports through Volume 2 onwards,...

CDSC Reports

CDSC Reports was an irregular newsletter published by the Capitol District Saucer Council, 142 North Brandywine Avenue, Schenectady 7, New York. Edited by Anthony Rudmann with...

Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York

Publications of Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York, one of the first organisations to apply systematic investigation methods to UFO reports, operating from Manhattan from...

Clarion Call

Clarion Call, published from Prescott, Arizona in 1960, blended UFO research with metaphysical and spiritual themes in the American Southwest contactee tradition.

Congress of Scientific Ufologists

Proceedings of the 1967 Congress of Scientific Ufologists, billed as New York's first flying-saucer convention, held at the Commodore Hotel 23 to 25 June 1967 and convened by James...

Controversial Phenomena Bulletin

Controversial Phenomena Bulletin was a bimonthly fanzine published by A. A. Laprade from Worcester, Massachusetts from January 1964 to mid-1965, covering UFOs, Fortean phenomena,...

Data-Net

Data-Net was the UFO Amateur Radio Network, a ham radio-based sighting reporting and research coordination network operating from Ben Lomond, California from 1967 to 1973,...

FATE Magazine

FATE Magazine, founded in 1948, was the first mass-market publication to cover flying saucers seriously. It published Kenneth Arnold's original account and ran continuously for...

Flying Saucer News

Flying Saucer News was published by James S. Rigberg from his Manhattan bookshop across nearly three decades, beginning in 1955 and running through at least 1982, combining...

Flying Saucer Review

Flying Saucer Review, published from London between 1955 and 2003, was the international flagship of civilian UFO journalism. Editors Denis Ninham, Derek Dempster, Charles Bowen,...

Flying Saucers (Dell Comics)

Flying Saucers (Dell Comics): the short-lived 1966 to 1967 Dell Comics series treating UFO and contactee material in comic-book form, the period's mass-market pop-culture...

Flying Saucers International

Flying Saucers International was the official journal of AFSCA (Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America), edited by Gabriel Green from Los Angeles. Published quarterly from the...

Flying Saucers

Flying Saucers, published by Ray Palmer from 1957 to 1976, was one of the most widely circulated UFO magazines in America. Palmer brought the subject to newsstands nationwide.

The Hawk Researcher

The Hawk Researcher was the publication of the Hawk Research Society, a youth-founded UFO group based at 1457 Kenwood Drive, Pomona, California, active from late 1961 through 1962...

IAPA Newsletter

The newsletter of the Illinois-International Aerial Phenomena Agency, edited by Dale N. Rettig from 2007 Spruce Drive, Glenview, Illinois, with Timothy Green Beckley as Assistant...

Cosmic World

American contactee-era periodical of esoteric and metaphysical material. Preserved by the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals...

Interplanetary Intelligence Report

The Interplanetary Intelligence Report was the official publication of the Interplanetary Intelligence of Unidentified Flying Objects (IIOUFO), headquartered in Oklahoma City,...

Interplanetary News Service

Interplanetary News Service was published from New Brunswick, New Jersey by a teenage Timothy Green Beckley from 1962 to 1963, featuring an advisory board that included Gray...

Little Listening Post

The Little Listening Post was published bimonthly from 4811 Illinois Avenue N.W., Washington D.C. from 1954 to 1965, mixing Capitol insider observations with flying saucer news,...

The Long John Nebel Collection

The Long John Nebel Collection: 44 archived WOR New York overnight radio broadcasts from 1957 to 1968, capturing the principal national radio venue for contactees, abductees, and...

LUFORO Bulletin

Short-lived bulletin of the London UFO Research Organisation, founded 1959 and merged in 1962 with the British UFO Association to form BUFORA. The bulletin is the surviving record...

Lumières Dans La Nuit

Lumières Dans La Nuit (Lights in the Night), published from 1958 to the early 1990s, was France's longest-running UFO research journal. The archive holds 282 issues with 2,309...

MUFON UFO Journal

The MUFON UFO Journal, published by the Mutual UFO Network from 1969 to the present, is the journal of the world's largest civilian UFO investigation organisation. The archive...

Anomaly

Anomaly: a New York metropolitan irregular newsletter founded in May 1969 with the explicit editorial decision to abandon flying-saucer terminology and study the broader category...

NICAP UFO Investigator

The NICAP UFO Investigator, journal of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena from 1957 to 1980, was the most politically connected civilian UFO publication of...

NJAAP Bulletin

The NJAAP Bulletin was the publication of the New Jersey Association for Aerial Phenomena, founded July 14, 1961 by Timothy Green Beckley from 3 Courtland Street, New Brunswick,...

Panorama

The bi-monthly journal of U.F.O.P.I.A. (Unidentified Flying Objects Phenomena Investigation Australia), published from Kilburn, South Australia as a companion to the Australian...

Planet UMMO

Archive of the UMMO correspondence: the long-running Spanish-origin contact claim in which an anonymous source mailed several thousand typewritten letters to researchers across...

Probe

Probe was a bimonthly magazine covering controversial phenomena, edited by Joseph L. Ferriere from 132 Fifth Avenue, Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with a network of state...

Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom

The Proceedings of the College of Universal Wisdom was the newsletter of George Van Tassel's College of Universal Wisdom at Giant Rock, California, published from 1953 until the...

Pursuit (SITU)

Pursuit was the quarterly journal of the Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained, founded by biologist Ivan T. Sanderson in 1965. The archive holds over 560 articles from...

Saucer News / Saucer Smear

Saucer News (later Saucer Smear), published by James Moseley from 1954 to 2012, was one of the longest-running and most irreverent UFO publications in the field.

Saucer Scoop

Monthly newsletter published from St. Petersburg, Florida as the official organ of the International Headquarters of UFO Phenomena Organization, compiling newspaper clippings,...

Saucer Smear

Saucer Smear, published by James W. Moseley from 1954 to 2012, was the longest-running UFO newsletter in history. Known for gossip, feuds, and honest commentary that spared nobody.

The Saucerian / Saucerian Bulletin

Gray Barker's Saucerian publications ran from Box 981, Clarksburg, West Virginia, beginning September 1953, mixing UFO sighting reports with the paranormal, fiction, and conspiracy...

Saucers (Max B. Miller)

Saucers, edited by Max B. Miller for Flying Saucers International from 1953 to 1960, tracks in real time the seven-year transformation of American civilian UFO research from...

Saucers, Space & Science

Saucers, Space & Science was published and edited by Gene Duplantier from Willowdale, Ontario, Canada. It ran for 20 issues from 1957 to 1961, combining UFO case reports with space...

Search Magazine

Ray Palmer's bimonthly newsstand magazine covering UFOs, the Shaver Mystery, contactee material, occult topics and other anomalous phenomena. Began life as Mystic in 1953 and was...

The Searchlight

Timothy Green Beckley's early newsletter bridging the Shaver Mystery, Hollow Earth theory, UFO sightings, cryptid encounters, and paranormal phenomena, featuring contributions from...

Skylook

Skylook, the predecessor to the MUFON UFO Journal, was published from 1967 to 1975 and became the official journal of the newly formed Mutual UFO Network in 1969.

The Spacecrafter

The monthly publication of the Spacecraft Research Association, a non-profit organisation in Phoenix, Arizona that investigated spacecraft, extraterrestrial phenomena, mysticism,...

Spaceviewer

The Spaceviewer was the newsletter of the U.F.O. Study Club of Kansas City, Missouri, edited by Dwight L. Bockman from 10915 West 57th Terrace, Shawnee, Kansas. It covered...

UFO Analysis & Research Bulletin

The UFO Analysis & Research Bulletin was published and edited by Patrick A. Budge from 72 Jefferys Drive, Newport News, Virginia 23601. Dedicated to the scientific investigation of...

UFO Encounter

UFO Encounter was the bimonthly journal of UFO Research Queensland Inc., established 1956 and publishing from PO Box 15222, City East, QLD 4002. The archive holds issues from the...

UFO International

UFO International was the official journal of the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA), edited by Gabriel Green from international headquarters at 2004 N. Hoover...

UFO Magazine

Small-press quarterly from the Congress of Scientific Ufologists network, published from a house on West 119th Street in Cleveland by Rick Hilberg and Allen Greenfield, spanning...

UFO Sighter

UFO Sighter was a quarterly journal published in Atlanta, Georgia by Allen H. Greenfield, featuring sighting reports, congressional interviews, community debate, and contributions...

UFOIC Newsletter

Newsletter of the Sydney-based Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation Centre, running from 1964 to 1977 and covering Australian and international sightings alongside the...

Washington Saucer Intelligence

Single surviving issue, October to November 1964, of a Washington DC-area civilian-research bulletin operating in the same period as Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York. The...

Wonders

Wonders covered cryptozoology and anomalous phenomena with contributions from Mark A. Hall and other researchers, spanning material from the 1870s through the 1990s.

1965

Aerial Phenomena Hot Wire, 1965. 1 article in this issue.

1968

Alternate Horizons Newsletter, 1968. 3 articles in this issue.

October 1961

APRO Bulletin, October 1961. 8 articles in this issue.

January 1962

APRO Bulletin, January 1962. 3 articles in this issue.

1962

APRO Bulletin, 1962. 8 articles in this issue.

September 1963

APRO Bulletin, September 1963. 3 articles in this issue.

May 1964

APRO Bulletin, May 1964. 2 articles in this issue.

July 1965

APRO Bulletin, July 1965. 2 articles in this issue.

March 1965

APRO Bulletin, March 1965. 2 articles in this issue.

May 1965

APRO Bulletin, May 1965. 4 articles in this issue.

January 1966

APRO Bulletin, January 1966. 1 article in this issue.

July 1966

APRO Bulletin, July 1966. 3 articles in this issue.

March 1966

APRO Bulletin, March 1966. 3 articles in this issue.

May 1966

APRO Bulletin, May 1966. 2 articles in this issue.

April 1967

APRO Bulletin, April 1967. 5 articles in this issue.

July 1967

APRO Bulletin, July 1967. 5 articles in this issue.

May 1967

APRO Bulletin, May 1967. 5 articles in this issue.

September 1967

APRO Bulletin, September 1967. 3 articles in this issue.

April 1968

APRO Bulletin, April 1968. 2 articles in this issue.

January 1968

APRO Bulletin, January 1968. 4 articles in this issue.

July 1968

APRO Bulletin, July 1968. 3 articles in this issue.

March 1968

APRO Bulletin, March 1968. 3 articles in this issue.

May 1968

APRO Bulletin, May 1968. 3 articles in this issue.

November 1968

APRO Bulletin, November 1968. 1 article in this issue.

September 1968

APRO Bulletin, September 1968. 2 articles in this issue.

January 1969

APRO Bulletin, January 1969. 2 articles in this issue.

July 1969

APRO Bulletin, July 1969. 2 articles in this issue.

March 1969

APRO Bulletin, March 1969. 2 articles in this issue.

May 1969

APRO Bulletin, May 1969. 2 articles in this issue.

November 1969

APRO Bulletin, November 1969. 1 article in this issue.

September 1969

APRO Bulletin, September 1969. 7 articles in this issue.

1966

Flying Saucers (Dell Comics), 1966. 1 article in this issue.

1967

Flying Saucers Comics (Dell), 1967. 1 article in this issue.

1961

Flying Saucers Magazine, 1961. 1 article in this issue.

1966

Journal of UFO History, 1966. 4 articles in this issue.

1967

UFO Newsclipping Service, 1967. 2 articles in this issue.

1969

UFO Newsclipping Service, 1969. 1 article in this issue.

1969

UFORAN, 1969. 7 articles in this issue.

1964

Washington Saucer Intelligence, 1964. 1 article in this issue.