1961: January UFO & Alien Sightings
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
Date: January 1 1961
Location: Kendallville, IN
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Summary: It was a clear Indiana day and I saw something fascinating. I was standing in front of my home in Kendallville at approximately 11 years of age and looked to the easter skyline and saw a craft moving slow from North to south and then change direction to a 45 degree up angle and speed off out of sight. I never reported it before but it is something that has stayed with me for all these years. Duration: 30 seconds; Shape: Circle
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Date: January 1 1961
Location: Santa Clara, CA
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Summary: Stationary circular object 12 o’clock high. I was in kindergarten at the time, it was lunch when the bell rang for us to return to our class room. Right before i was to enter the room something made me to stop and look straight up, in the blue of the sky ,i could make out a round object blended into the blue of the sky..the object had some dots the were in a circle in the center. I was like in trance looking at this object ..when the teacher told me to come in. i didn’t think anything of it till i got home…and looked straight up before i entered the house and the object was still there 3 hours later….It was not the moon or a blimp.
Source: NUFORC
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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 BBU
Location: Atlantic bet. Cuba and Haiti
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Source: McDonald list
Date: Jan. 10, 1961 BBU
Location: Wichita Falls, Texas (not Kansas)
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: January 15 1961
Location: Stockbridge, MA
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Summary: My neighbor and I were sliding across the road where we grew up. I was about 7-8. We saw a silver craft fly overhead at a distance and believed it to be a plane. When we reached the bottom of the hill the craft was hovering over the lake about 1/2 mile away. I told my friend it was a helicopter. When we reached the top of the hill, we looked up and about 20 feet above us was a silver saucer shaped vehicle. I clearly saw the undercarriage. In the middle there looked to be red hot coals with a “florescent” tube surrounding it. There was fluid rotating in the tube and it turned colors, green, blue, turquoise as it moved. I felt a tugging on my solar plexus and realized I was looking down at my friend who was screaming and running, saying he was getting his gun. I don’t know how but I was standing inside the ship in front of a magnificent Being. He was tall and thin, blue, enlarged head with delicate features, larger than human eyes but not huge, and he was blue. He wore a floor length blue robe. He was amazingly kind and I felt peaceful and unafraid in his presence. He asked if I would like to see his ship, which I agreed to. There was nothing in this ship. As we continued to walk, even at my young age, I remember thinking the ship is not that big on the outside yet here I am walking what seemed to be forever. Eventually we ended up back where we started. I told him the snow in my boots had melted and I needed to return home. I found myself at the end of my parent’s driveway. I walked into the house and announced to my mother I had a fun ride in a very nice blue man’s ship. I walked away from her hurtful words. The very next weekend my brother and six friends were playing in the same area. My brother, breathing hard from running fast, burst into the house screaming about a silver craft that hovered over them. My brother to this day, will not talk about what happened but I have a feeling he met my nice Blue Man too.
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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
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