1961: September UFO & Alien Sightings

Date: September 1 1961
Location: Fort Benning, GA
Time: 1846
Summary: a bright silvery on edge object was observed by my father with at least 3 witnesses. it was observed “hanging” in the sky over Lawson Field at Ft. Benning for several minutes. Suddenly it moved, accelerating at such a velocity that it appeared to exhibit white “steam” behind it as it moved at at least 1,000 mph toward the west until it was no longer visible due to distance. My father reported this to me one day at the dinner table. I know this to be true as he was a sceptic and said if other witnesses had not seen the same thing he saw he would’ve not accepted it as real. Several of his co-workers were with him at the time as they all viewed it together and therefore he “had” to believe that it was true. No of observers: 4
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 1 1961
Location:
Time: 2030 Duration: Several days
Summary: Web report from 10/01/1961 After reading the report about the Toledo sighting, I felt compelled to send this information about an experience I had as a child while living in Toledo, Ohio. Although I did not see the sphere as described in the report, I did have a communication encounter similar to the person in the report. Reading the report brought tears to my eyes and a chill up my spine. Born in May of 1954 (was age 7 as person in Toledo sphere sighting ). As a child time of day and days of a year were not so important as a reference while growing up. Things like school year, summer vacation, birthday, Christmas were more of a reference point for time. I did not keep a diary or journal but one experience around about the summer of 1961 seems to stand out. It seemed to last over a period of several days or even a week or more. The reason it’s not clear is because I believed that my experience was just a childhood dream. It was not until decades later that I suspected my experience was not a dream and that someone or something had given me that impression to remember the experience as a dream.

I lived with my mother and father in a ranch style house next to a large wooded area with a small pond and beyond the woods was a large field with a larger pond. My summer evenings were spent sitting in a lawn chair and watching the stars until my parents would make me go to bed. One night as I watched the sky, our dog (who lived outdoors year round ) began barking and tugged on his doghouse chain toward the woods. It was then that I noticed a glowing light (white glow not much different from that of a distant plane) that seemed to be moving over the woods at a slow speed. Soon the light was no longer in sight because of the tall trees. Our dog stopped barking. It was not unusual for the dog to bark at wildlife in the woods at night so nothing seemed to be out of the norm. My father came to the back door to let me know that it was time for bed and I went inside. Thinking about the light, it came to me that there was something odd after all, it made no sound, only a white glow, and no blinking lights like a plane would have. The next morning I went to the woods and walked along the worn path that led to the small pond. It was the same path I had walked and played along with other area children since my parents had moved here in 1959.

As I walked along on that sunny morning, a refection of something in the weeds just a few feet off the main path caught my eye. I found a rectangular metallic object about 10″x 4″x 6″, it had only a kind of dial with some lines on it, no printed words or letters, no screws. I looked for some way to open it but found none. At this point I carried the lightweight object home and put it on a living room table. Later that day when my mother came home from work and noticed the object she asked, “where did you get the new radio from?” At this point I realized the shape of the object did some what resemble a radio and I replied ” found it in the woods this morning” but I don’t think she really believed me and she made a point of telling my father when he came into the room. That evening while watching stars in the sky, I became thirsty and went into the house for a drink. It was then that I heard a strange sound coming from the object on the table and I began to walk toward it when our dog began barking. Turning I went to the back door and stepped out on to the porch. There was the white light moving over the woods just like the night before only this time a feeling came over me that the white glow knew I was watching it. I could still hear the strange sound coming from the metallic box. I watched the white light move over the woods for several minutes until it was out of sight. Once out of sight the sound from the box and the barking of our dog both stopped.

The next day would be a changing point in my routine, the last day of summer vacation. A new school year would mean early to bed, homework and little time for stargazing. That night sometime before 21:00 (bedtime school nights) while getting ready for bed, the strange sound from the metallic box in the living room was heard again. Within a short period of time, I could hear our dog barking. I went to the back door and out onto the porch. There was the white light again moving over the woods as before. The feeling that it knew I was watching came over me again and soon it was gone. Like before the metallic box sound stopped about the same time as the barking of our dog. While getting into bed, I thought that the box found in the woods had some kind of relationship to the white light moving over the woods. Maybe the light was looking for the metallic box. The same situation happened for the next night or two and I got used to the strange sound from the box. It became sort of an early warning system that the white light was near. What happened next is still hard for me to understand. While working on my homework, our dog began barking and barking.

He barked for a long time but I did not pay much attention to him because there was no sound from the metallic box. Finally I decided to investigate what was troubling the dog. I stood looking over at the metallic box and noticed the dial setting had been changed. I went to the box and turned the dial to it’s marked setting. Instantly the strange sound was heard and I asked my parents “how did this dial get moved?” and my mother looked up from her newspaper and said ” I must have moved it when dusting”. I ran to the door and out onto the back porch where I was frozen with the sight of two small figures at the rear corner of our yard next to the utility pole. They seem to glow with a dim self-illuminating light and to be just as surprised to see me as I was to see them. I could also see our dog that was no longer barking but hiding in his doghouse. I could not move, speak, yell, or scream (I tried but was unable to do anything but watch). The small figure on the right seem to take a step and in a way floated up the utility pole and landed on the telephone wires near where they attach to the pole. What happens next is even more unbelievable.

The next thing I recall is standing in the hallway of our house. I am completely paralyzed but can see my parents on the living room couch reading the newspaper. They are unaware of my presence as I try to call out to them with no avail. At that point I hear the sound of my father’s table saw in the basement turn on, saw a piece of wood and then turn off. The front door opens and my mother walks in and takes off her wet shoes just as she always has done after moving the front lawn sprinkler. I hear footsteps of someone coming up the basement steps, the basement door opens and my father walks into the room. From my point of view I now can see two of my mother and two of my father but it is apparent they cannot see each other. It’s at this point where my mind is franticly trying to understand what is happening here. This is when I realize someone or something that I can not see or hear is communicating with me. The most unusual, controlling and overpowering feeling I have ever experienced in my lifetime. The communication went like this: YOUR PARENTS ARE BEING REPLACED, replaced with what? ( I thought), NOT REPLACED WITH WHAT, REPLACED IN TIME, you can’t do this I will tell, I will tell ( I thought), WHO WILL YOU TELL?, I will tell everyone ( I thought), YOU WILL NOT TELL ANYONE, THEY WOULD NOT BELIEVE YOU, THEY WILL THINK YOU ARE INSANE. The most helpless and hopeless feeling came over me. I woke the next morning in my bed. The metallic box object was gone. I never discussed this with anyone for many years and believed in my mind that it was only a dream.
Source: NUFORC

Date: September 2 1961
Location: Timpson, TX
Time: 2300 Duration: about and 45 min. to 1 hr
Shape: Light
Color: Multicolor
Estimated Size: Multicolored light covered about 1 mile diameter?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Directly above our house.
Closest Distance: The last incidence about 20 feet.
Characteristics: Possible abduction, Missing Time
Summary: Sighting #15451 returned 1/2 mile on county rd. 3408 off Hwy. 84 in Timpson, Tx. Area The first time was seen by my brother living with my grandmother when first sighted in report #15451. The lights were coming directly over the house and hundreds of the multicolored circular lights moved on the ground, never overlapping each other even under the trees in the woods. My brother wanted to go outside and look up over the house but my grandmother told him that he might not want to see what was up there. The second time they appeared was probably about 1961. My cousin and I were living with my grandmother and woke up around 2300 with a red light in our faces coming through the window of the front bedroom. We woke my grandmother, she did not get out of bed but told us not to go out side. We both got up and watched the colored lights for about an hour moving all over the ground. We did not remember going back to bed.

The third time was some time in the early 70’s during the summer. My cousin’s younger brother was visiting my grandmother and I. Again, we were woken up by the a red light at about 0200. The same scenario repeated. Again, we did not remember going back to bed. The last time was probably in about 1967 when the same cousin’s younger brother was spending the summer with our grandmother and I. A beam of red light was shining in the same bedroom window sometime during the night. This time, there were no colored lights. Outside about 30 feet from the house was a spinning red light. At first we thought it was a police car or a truck. We could not see a vehicle or hear anything coming from it and there was no knock at the door. We always wondered why we didn’t seem to be interested in what was going on outside because we went back to sleep. These were never discussed outside of the family for fear of people making light of it or thinking we were crazy. During each episode, our dogs never barked.

I was raised in the pine woods of East Texas and was never afraid to fish, hunt or walk in the woods at night. Strangely, from the last incidence until I graduated high school in 1968 and went into the Navy, at night before bed I became very uncomfortable when I went to the kitchen to throw the bolt on our back door. I always felt that something was going to walk through the door before I could lock it. I started to drive down the road to the house in 1987 to see the house one more time and became overcome with dread. At the time, it was a single lane dirt road and I backed up all the way to Hwy 85. Even today, the thought of returning to my grandmother’s home where I was raised gives me an uneasy feeling.
Source: NUFORC

Date: Sept. 2, 1961 BBU
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Time: 4:40-4:50 p.m. (MST)
Summary: Ziegler saw reflection of sun from a shiny surface moving erratically W to E from about 240° azimuth (about WSW) to 210° when it stopped and emitted several smaller silvery objects about 1/6 the size of the main object, then continued on to about 150° azimuth (about SSE) where it again stopped and emitted several silvery objects about 1/6 size then moved away and climbed to about elevation 50° until disappearance by fading.
Source: Project 1947; McDonald list; FUFOR Index

Date: Sept. 7, 1961 BBU
Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Time: 8:37 p.m. local time.
Summary: Object moving vertically in tracking scope during missile launch. Military source. AF evaluation: “…star Gamma Piscium.”. (Hynek UFO Rpt p. 44) Hynek: “Gamma Piscium is a relatively faint star, and quite stationary. It is absurd to think that a person professionally qualified to track missile launches would be puzzled by one particular star out of a great many.”
Source: Brad Sparks, Dan Wilson

Date: Sept. 13, 1961
Location: Crawfordsville, Indiana
Time: 4:00 a.m.
Summary: Three people reported a round, orange UFO which moved rapidly east to west, stopped and hovered for 5 minutes, then accelerated rapidly disappearing in the distance.
Source: NICAP UFOE, XII

Date: September 15 1961
Location: Wahoo, NE
Time: 2000 Duration: 5 minutes
Summary: I am documenting this on behalf of my late wife, who directly participated in the event described. For ease of reading, I will proceed using ‘first person’ format. I and my brother were sitting outside our house on an acreage located about a mile south and west of Wahoo, Nebraska. It was early evening, we were looking east ward, and I noticed what appeared to be a bright star. As my brother and I watched, the ‘star’ increased in brightness, then we suddenly realized it was not a ‘star’, but an object of some kind that appeared to be coming downward…toward us. There was no noise of any kind, and no other lights, such as an airplane usually has. When it got near enough to the ground for us to see, it was clearly egg-shaped and shiny. My brother got scared and ran for the house, calling out to Mom (I was about 14 at the time and he was 7 or 8). I just watched as it settled closer to the ground. The object looked, to me, as if it were the size of a Volkswagen Beetle. It hovered a bit, and I had the distinct feeling that it was aware of my presence and was observing me. Then, without warning, it zoomed upward and away. I watched it disappear out of sight. Just after it left, my brother and mother showed up. Of course, she didn’t see anything. My brother was hysterical and ended up sleeping in my mother’s room that night…and a lot more to follow.
Source: NUFORC

Date: Sept. 19, 1961
Location: North Concord AFS, Vermont
Time: 5:22 local time
Summary: A return was picked up on an AN/MPS-14 height finder radar at 62,000 feet at 196 degrees at 84 miles. The target was the size of a large aircraft and appeared as a normal target. Contact was lost at 199 degrees at 80 miles going NW then south. Length of observation was 18 minutes. The target moved at a low speed on an erratic course. The location of observers was at 5 miles east of Claremont, New Hampshire.
Source: Dan Wilson

Date: Sept. 19, 1961
Location: Pease AFB, New Hampshire
Time: 2:14 a.m.
Summary:
Pease AFB has unidentified radar contact
Source: Dan Wilson, Vallée Magonia 524, etc., NICAP UFOE, XIV

Date: Sept. 19-20, 1961: ABDUCTION OF BETTY & BARNEY HILL BBU

Date: Sept. 21, 1961
Location: Pacific Ocean, nr. Wake Island
Time:
Summary: Airline pilots, ship, reported a bright white circular UFO.
Source: NICAP UFOE, X

Date: Sept. 27, 1961 BBU
Location: Pacific Coast
Time: 7:57 a.m. local time.
Summary: Post landing CIRVIS Report by a AEW&C aircraft. Radar Operator sighted five objects on his scope. Four of the objects were on a heading of 90 degrees and while the other object was heading of (80 degrees?). All the objects were moving at a high rate of speed, and disappeared into sea clutter Three minutes later, two objects appeared heading 70 degrees and moved across the scope and also disappeared into sea clutter. Speed of one of the objects was measured at 1800 knots over a distance of 200 NM. While these two objects were on the scope a single stationary object appeared. After remaining stationary for approx. two minutes it moved on a heading of 265 degrees at 60 knots and was lost in the sea
Source:

Date: Sep 30, 1961
Location: La Porte Indiana
Time: 2200
Summary: Eight km south of La Porte, 16- year-old Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on the road. He was so frightened that he lost control of his bike and left the road.
Source: Magonia 525

Date: Sept. 30, 1961 BBU
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Time: around 9:04 a.m. local time
Summary: A weather observer at Indian Springs AFB, Nevada, saw objects on a 20 power theodolite at 133.4 degrees azimuth, 55 degrees elevation. The observer first saw one object white or metallic in color, round in shape and the size of the head of a pin. Four smaller objects traveling very fast came from the first object. The 865th AC&W Squadron, Las Vegas AFS, tracked a UFO on radar 45 miles SE of Nellis AFB. Picked up on AZ scope only. Object was tracked for approximately 45 minutes.
Source: McDonald