1961: March UFO & Alien Sightings

1961: March UFO & Alien Sightings

Date:  March  1961
Location:   Oddesundbroen Sydthy, Denmark
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Summary:   An unidentified object at close range was observed by one witness.
Source:  Wegner, Willy UFO-Landinger I Danmark FUFOS, Copenhagen, 1975

Date:  March  1961
Location:   Ust Maya, Russia
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Summary:   A flying disc was observed. One disc was observed by two experienced military witnesses on a river (Orlova).
Source:  Zigel, Felix

Date:  March  1961
Location:   Tadzhikistan, Tajikistan
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Summary:   More than one object was observed.
Source:  Schoenherr, Luis

Date:  March  1961
Location:   Uzbekistan, Uzbekistan
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Summary:  More than one object was observed. 
Source:  Schoenherr, Luis

Date:  March  1961
Location:   Koge, Denmark
Time:   15:00
Summary:   An object was observed. Occupants of the craft were seen. An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by two witnesses.
Source:  Wegner, Willy UFO-Landinger I Danmark FUFOS, Copenhagen, 1975

Date:  Spring  1961
Location:   Millville, New Jersey
Time:   Night
Summary:   One object was observed by two witnesses for seven minutes (Zambone).
Source:  Hynek, J. Allen

Date: March 1,  1961 
Location: ortho thenie brazil
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Source: APRO

Date:  March  1961
Location:   Bracknell UK/England
Time:   0000
Summary:   I was born in Bracknell UK 1961. I had an experience in 1968… One-school morning I was waiting for my friend mark but he was a little late. Eventually he turned up and we made our way to school. The streets were quiet back then and all the kids were presumably at school. As we turned the corner I saw something glint in the sky. We ran up the road to take a closer look. We came to a lamppost; the inspection door was slid down. There was a strange electrical smell which I now no to be ozone. I looked up and there were 2 greyish silver disks in a stepped formation the highest craft had a long tube coming from it connecting to the lower craft, the lower craft had a long tube coming from it going to the lamp post, Mark and I were looking and waving, there was no noise just sitting there in the sky quite low down, eventually a skinny blonde haired woman came along with 2 little girls who saw the crafts, she looked frightened and ushered the girls on in a hurry. My friend mark said we better go otherwise we are going to be late for school, I replied I wanted to stay and look at these things. Mark walked off and I saw him walk around the corner and all of a sudden I felt panicky. I called after him and ran round the corner. He was nowhere to be seen. So I carried on walking to school, looking back to see if the crafts were still in the sky. When I arrived at school, my teacher told me off for being late. I looked over at marl and he had completed an activity. On the way home from school the inspection door was completely off the lamppost, and I could see everything was burnt out. Next day the council removed the lamppost and put a new one up on the other side of the road, after this event I started suffering from panic attacks and remembered things that happened during my missing time. I remember being in the highest craft with a female entity; she showed me a device that looked like a TV with rounded corners. On the TV I was shown a! clip of destruction and death. Whilst in the craft the female! entity summoned me over the far side of the craft, she made a far gesture and something like a big window appeared like the side of the craft was transparent. I hesitated as I thought she might push me out. She reassured me and I went over she pointed outside and said your house. I could see the roof of my house. I kind of remember being transported back to the ground. The female entity was small and thin, she wore a one piece hoody (onezie) but the face is blocked out. At some point I must of been in the presence of these entities another time. I remember being on a craft with them I was told I had to go as they were being intercepted. I didn’t understand what intercepted meant as I as just a kid, but could tell she was getting irritable with me because there was a sense of urgency, obviously there is more to this account than what I have mentioned as there are blocks. If you want to contact me for more details.
Source: NUFORC 

Date:  March 2 1961
Location:   Rowlands Castle, UK
Time:   21:15
Summary:   One object was observed by several witnesses.
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Date:  March 3 1961
Location:   Grace, Idaho
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Summary:   A daytime disc was reported.
Source:  Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980 ISBN:0-313-21337-2

Date:  March 3 1961
Location:   Bamford, UK
Time:   20:00
Summary:   One object was observed by one witness.
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Date: March 3, 1961                     BBU 
Location: Ephrata, Wash. 
Time: 9:48 p.m. local time
Summary: A T-33 aircraft on normal lookout at 33,000 feet flying 260 degrees observed a round bright white light the size of a pea at 2 o’clock position. The object was observed by air visual and air radar. Spokane Center was called and confirmed a target was in contact moving rapidly to the NW. Radar speed of object estimated at 1050 knots. The object disappeared instantaneously like a light being shut off. A Moon Dust Alert was involved. Length of observation was 7 minutes.
Source: Dan Wilson, Sparks, McDonald list

Date:  March 3 1961
Location:   Wolfsburg, Germany
Time:   21:00
Summary:   One object was observed by several witnesses (Meller).
Source:  UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Meggen, Luzern, Switzerland
Time:   00:02
Summary:   A hovering flying disc was observed. Multiple independent witnesses. One disc was observed by one witness.
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Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Kirchberg, Germany
Time:   06:15
Summary:   Nocturnal lights were reported (Raab).
Source:  UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Weidenau, Germany
Time:   12:02
Summary:   One object, the size of the moon, was observed by two witnesses (Angerer; Guhr).
Source:   UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Rosenheim, Germany
Time:   18:45
Summary:   One object, the size of a star, was observed by two witnesses (Egeler; Niedermeier).
Source:  UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Salzburg, Austria
Time:   19:50
Summary:  One object was observed by a male witness. 
Source:  UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Weidach, Austria
Time:   19:53
Summary:   Nocturnal lights were reported (Lachermaier).
Source:  UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 4 1961
Location:   Virginia 
Time:   Night
Summary:   An abduction of a witness was reported. Telepathic phenomena were said to have occurred. An abduction by alien entities was reported by one male witness (Monroe).
Source:  Monroe

Date:  March 5 1961
Location:   Throckley, UK
Time:   00:45
Summary:   Several objects were observed by one witness.
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Date:  March 6 1961
Location:   Kyushu, Japan
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Summary:   Objects were observed and photographed. More than one object was observed.
Source:  Flying Saucers Magazine

Date:  March 6 1961
Location:   Rotenburg, Germany
Time:   18:15
Summary:   An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object was observed by one witness in a forest (Warmuth).
Source:  UFO Nachrichten

Date:  March 7 1961
Location:   Nashville, Tennessee
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Summary:   Objects were observed and photographed. More than one object was observed.
Source:  Flying Saucers Magazine

Date:  March 7 1961
Location:   Hackensack, New Jersey
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Summary:   Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source:  Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980 ISBN:0-313-21337-2

Date:  March 8 1961
Location:   Kolding, Vejle, Denmark
Time:   16:05
Summary:   One object was observed by one witness.
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Date:  March 8 1961
Location:   Arhus, Denmark
Time:   21:40
Summary:   Two objects were observed by one witness
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Date: March 10, 1961                       BBU 
Location: RAF Upper Heyford, England, UK 
Time: 9 p.m. local time
Summary: A very bright white or yellowish circular object was observed in the sky at about a 45 degree angle and appeared to be stationary. All the observers indicate that the light/object was very bright. The object was also picked up on ground radar and the radar observer said the object was moving very slowly. The object was described as orange size to basketball size. The object was observed visually for approximately 10 minutes and observed on radar for approximately 20 minutes. There was no air traffic or known balloon release in the vicinity. Among the observers were two Air policemen and a Contol Tower Operator.
Source: Dan Wilson, Brad Sparks, McDonald list

Date: March 10 1961
Location: Bowna (Australia)
Time: 2045
Summary: . F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water. They observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight.
Source: Magonia 516

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Date: March 11, 1961
Location: JapanTime:
Summary: Object was snapped by a young Japanese who happened to have his camera ready on March 11, 1961.
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Date:  March 12 1961
Location:    McGuire AFB, NJ
Time:   2100            Duration: 3 hours
Summary:   Peter, this is FYI since the sightings don’t come first hand. These are the ones I remember from my year’s in service. Any others weren’t worth remembering. Thanks for the help when I gave my report on the radio. I noticed that when I sent the last sighting to you, the “replay” did not show the breakdown into paragraphs. Hope you have a way of decoding the message into paragraphs as it was written. Also, the time of the sighting requires one to place an exact time a time even if the exact time is not known. I did not check “I would like to be contacted by an investigator”, but you may call any time you wish.
Source: NUFORC

REPORT: In late 1960, I was assigned to the 30th Air Transport Squadron operating from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey. I had my navigator’s wings, but every command had its own types of aircraft, methods, and secrets of navigating, so I was provided with an instructor until I was ready to be checked out by a flight examiner. We were flying in Douglas C-118s, mostly the 1953 model, but with some 1951 models. The C-118 is the same as the DC-6B, but with a reinforced floor (higher floor loading) for carrying cargo on occasion. Usually, we carried passengers. The 30th Squadron was one of several who comprised a group which was part of the 1611th Air Transport Wing.
The first sighting of interest that we spoke of when I was in the Air Force came from an F-106 pilot who was the next door neighbor of the man who related the details to me. In chronological order, this is what happened.
On the night of March 12, 1961, two ocean station vessels found an object hovering off the east coast of the U.S. By way of explanation, an ocean station vessel at that time was a ship which was kept at a particular latitude and longitude off one of our coasts or in mid-ocean.
They acted as picket ships with early warning radar during this cold war period and as rescue vessels if a plane needed to ditch near them.
When two of them off the coast of New Jersey picked up the hovering object on radar, they were able to calculate its precise altitude and geographic location. This information was fed to NORAD (North American Air Defense) and to the ADC (Air Defense Command) contingent at McGuire AFB where I was stationed. Consequently, two F-106 interceptors were scrambled.
They climbed to the altitude of the hovering object and closed on it. As they closed, they both picked up the object on their airborne radar sets and saw it visually as a glowing green ball. As they closed, the object began to move straight upward. The F-106s followed.
In a very short time, the interceptors were left behind and the object disappeared in the distance.
There was a mandatory form we all had to fill out (an intelligence report) when certain things were witnessed (things such as encounters involving electronic “warfare” with Russian trawlers, Soviet ground stations, etc.). At the debriefing, the 106 pilots were required to fill out and sign this form (one form for each of them). This process could take a long time, especially after a tiring mission (something I discovered later on). The debriefing officer kept insisting that (1) their radar sets were malfunctioning, (2) that the lead pilot saw an reflection in his windscreen, and (3) that the second pilot saw the exhaust of the first F-106. Since, the pilots were honest individuals who hated to be pushed around, they refused to recant what had happened and filled out the forms and signed them correctly.
The base housing at McGuire at that time largely consisted of units in a row with one “apartment” wall being the same wall for the adjacent “apartment”. A navigator named John Gargus (confidential information) who was part of the 1611th Air Transport Wing lived in one of these apartments. One of the F-106 pilots lived in one of the two next door to John. After the 106 pilots were released, the one next door to John (who was friend of John’s) came over to complain bitterly about the incident and his subsequent treatment.
On March 13, Neil (my instructor) and I left with John and the rest of the aircrew on a mission to Rhein Main Air Base near Frankfurt, Germany. We landed at Rhein Main on the 14th. After we had checked in to our quarters and were cleaning up (about 3:15 PM local time), I overheard John talking to Neil. I asked for John to repeat what he was telling Neil and he did so. The story he told is the one related above.
No one seemed to be particularly amazed at this story, but took it matter of factly. There was some sympathy for the F-106 pilot that was forced to disclose this sighting. From this and other indications, I realized that there was danger to one’s career should one happen to ever mention seeing certain things in the sky. In the years that followed, it was evident that the Air Force “first line troops” had an underground that knew about certain supposed visitors while the top brass did all they could to sweep things under the rug.
I have no idea where to find John Gargus at this time and no idea whether or not he would be willing to tell where the F-106 pilot is – and odds are he may not know. However, I will try to see if I can discover anything without going to excessive trouble. At that time, John was a first lieutenant assigned to wing headquarters.
The second sighting I would like to mention was related by my flight examiner navigator, then a Captain, later a Major, named Jordan W. Grant. We called him “Pappy Grant” and he was probably in his forties at the time.
On December 5, 1962, I was given a line check from Pappy, again to Rhein Main.
During our two-day crew rest in Germany, we had several meals together and at one of them, Pappy related the following story.
It was during a mission in over the Pacific and Pappy was navigating. It was daylight and Pappy had the LORAN set on as well as the radar (which was always on when it was working correctly). Suddenly the display on the LORAN scope and the display on the radar scope shrunk, leaving only a dot in the middle of each scope. The compasses began to gyrate wildly.
Pappy stuck his head into the cockpit and found the pilots gibbering incoherently and looking fearfully back as best they could from their side windows. Pappy asked what had happened. Finally, they calmed down enough to tell him. One told him that a flaming red ball had just nearly hit them head-on and that he was afraid that it might return. The second said the same thing but claimed that there were four balls instead of just one. The ball or balls had been at the same altitude as the airplane and flying straight and level.
Eventually, the radar, the LORAN set, and the compasses returned to normal.
Chances are Pappy is no longer alive. He had a master’s degree in marine biology and worked on his own blueberry farm with his wife between missions. He would eat two large steaks whenever he could and enjoyed good food perhaps more than he should have. If you have any suggestions on how to find either John or Pappy, please let me know. A search on line might help. Pappy was more than just a flight examiner with a higher rank than most of us. He was a valuable friend to us all.

Date: March 16, 1961
Location: Antarctica
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Summary:  Meteorologist observed a fireball-like object, multi-colored, below overcast
Source:. NICAP UFOE, VI

Date: Spring 1961                     BBU 7321
Location: Kemah, Texas     
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Summary: Case missing.
Source: Berliner 

Date: March 23-29, 1961                       BBU                         
Location: Fort Pierce, Florida 
Time: 9:45 p.m.
Summary:  Beechcraft pilot and passenger saw an intense bright light rise from 8,000 to 20,000 ft and accelerate.
Several witnesses over several days reported seeing a strange bright light in the sky, sometimes hovering, sometimes moving rapidly from the hours around 10:10 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. local time. The light was seen to bob up and down at times. Length of observation varied from 5 minutes to 1 hour. Type of observations: Ground-Visual, Air-Visual, and Ground-Radar.  
Source: Dan Wilson; McDonald list; cf. Project 1947

Date:  March  1961
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