1963: May UFO & Alien Sightings

Date: May, 1963: A Gigantic ‘Cigar’ Over the Atlantic

Date: May 1 1963
Location: Honolulu, NC
Time: 2000 Duration: 20 min
Summary: This was in Honolulu. Our whole street was outside watching and when we called the radio station, the DJ swore at us because so many people were reporting this and it was clogging the lines. The radio station was K-POI. We watched the craft do a ballet for us. They were showing off. They went slowly chugging across the sky then one shot out to space in a blink of the eye. As in straight out! We watched the other two wait patiently, just hanging there in front of us. Then suddenly, the third one reappeared from the right and slowly meandered back to his companions. This display went on for some time. My father was a Yale graduate and a first mate on a vessel in WW2. I asked him what he thought and a man who knew everything refused to commit on this. The discs were tri colored with lights along the rim. I believe they were orange blue and yellow or red. I remember thinking the colors were rather unattractive and clashed a bit. I was about 11 or thirteen. Very young but I do remember thinking they were so close we could count the lights. I’m afraid I cant tell you an approximation of how big but they weren’t small. Hawaii is a huge military outpost. I think the Honolulu Advertiser had a small blurb the next day about venus reflecting swamp gas. etc.. No of observers: 1000
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 1 1963
Location: Jackson, OH
Time: 2000 Duration: 30 minutes
Summary: In late May 1963 my younger brother came running into the house yelling, “There’s a UFO outside!” Our whole family went running outside and up in the sky, perhaps 200 feet, we saw an oval-shaped disc hovering up and to the right of our section of homes. Daddy told my other brother to run inside and get his binoculars for a better look. The sun was setting and so what I observed looked like a glowing red/orange disc, while my brother saw a silver disc. I attribute this discrepancy as my seeing the setting sun mirrored in the shiny surface of the disc. A large group of neighbors came out to watch as the object just sat there for several minutes. Finally, the thing zoomed off at a terrific speed, doing an amazing zig zag across the sky before flying out of sight. Subsequently, in 2017, a local author wrote about this incident in a local history book. No of observers: 20
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 1 1963
Location: Hazel, SD
Time: 2100
Summary: I can corroborate certain elements of the UFO sighting spoken of on your program which aired on 29 June 2018 which occurred in Goodwin, South Dakota. I lived in Hazel, South Dakota, at that time… about 35 miles East-Southeast of Goodwin. I was living with my grandmother, my father, and mother and we were all watching TV in our living room. I was 9 years old at the time and sitting much too close to the TV, as kids do, when suddenly my parents and grandmother JUMPED out of their seats and bolted to the window as fast as their feet would carry them and exclaiming, “What WAS that?”. They were nearly in shock, very shaken by what they had seen. An exceedingly bright light had lit up the sky for perhaps 1 second, maybe less than that. But it was exceedingly bright. Like daylight according to them, which was what made it so scary. Unfortunately I was sitting so close to the TV that I saw nothing… (the window was behind me and I was inches away from the TV screen), but there was no doubt as to what my parents and grandmother had witnessed. There was no way to tell which direction the object (or whatever it was) was coming from or which direction it was headed. It could have been going in ANY direction as far as we knew, or no direction at all. It was just a blindingly bright white light that made it look like daylight outside for a very brief moment. But if you draw a straight line from Goodwin to Hazel and follow that line another 5 miles to the East-Southeast, you end up just south of Naples South Dakota and that was where my Uncle & aunt and 5 cousins lived on a farmstead. They all saw the bright light too. My Dad called them and they said they had seen it too and they were just as shaken as he was. Immediately after the incident, we had ALL gone outside to see if we could see anything, but there was nothing, no sign of it at all. There was no sound of any kind. No sonic boom, no vapor trail, no engine noise…. nothing. We were completely baffled by the phenomenon and I remain so to this day. I am of course disappointed that I was sitting so close to the TV that night, otherwise I might have seen the bright light myself. But let there be NO DOUBT that this light was witnessed by the people I have mentioned. And there’s no way they would fake something like that. I remember very clearly how shaken they all were. It was an OMG! OMG! OMG! moment. You don’t forget stuff like that. If that object was traveling along the straight-line trajectory I have mentioned, it would have had to have been going many thousands of miles per hour for it to only be visible for that brief amount of time. That’s about all the information I can provide. I didn’t see any space aliens (LoL!)….but there was something going on there that I can’t explain. I will remember that night as long as I live. It happened. No of observers: 8
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 4 1963
Location: Hazel, SD
Time: 2100
Summary: Corrected version of previous submission which I had submitted about two hours prior to this one… (I had the direction of flight path / city location mis-stated) I can corroborate certain elements of the UFO sighting spoken of on your program which aired on 29 June 2018 which occurred in Goodwin, South Dakota. I lived in Hazel, South Dakota, at that time… about 35 miles West-Southwest of Goodwin. I was living with my grandmother, my father, and mother and we were all watching TV in our living room. I was 9 years old at the time and sitting much too close to the TV, as kids do, when suddenly my parents and grandmother JUMPED out of their seats and bolted to the window as fast as their feet would carry them and exclaiming “What WAS that?”. They were nearly in shock, very shaken by what they had seen. An exceedingly bright light had lit up the sky for perhaps 1 second, maybe less than that. But it was exceedingly bright. Like daylight according to them, which was what made it so scary. Unfortunately I was sitting so close to the TV that I saw nothing… (the window was behind me and I was inches away from the TV screen), but ! there was no doubt as to what my parents and grandmother had witnessed. There was no way to tell which direction the object (or whatever it was) was coming from or which direction it was headed. It could have been going in ANY direction as far as we knew, or no direction at all. It was just a blindingly bright white light that made it look like daylight outside for a very brief moment. But if you draw a straight line from Goodwin to Hazel and follow that line another 5 miles to the West-Southwest, you end up just south of Naples South Dakota and that was where my Uncle & aunt and 5 cousins lived on a farmstead. They all saw the bright light too. My Dad called them and they said they had seen it too and they were just as shaken as he was.
Immediately after the incident, we had ALL gone outside to see if we could see anything, but there was nothing, no sign of it at all. There was no sound of any kind. No sonic boom, no vapor trail, no engine noise…. nothing. We were completely baffled by the phenomenon and I remain so to this day. I am of course disappointed that I was sitting so close to the TV that night, otherwise I might have seen the bright light myself. But let there be NO DOUBT that this light was witnessed by the people I have mentioned. And there’s no way they would fake something like that. I remember very clearly how shaken they all were. It was an OMG! OMG! OMG! moment. You don’t forget stuff like that. If that object was traveling along the straight-line trajectory I have mentioned, it would have had to have been going many thousands of miles per hour for it to only be visible for that brief amount of time. That’s about all the information I can provide. I didn’t see any space aliens (LoL!)…. but there was something going on there that I can’t explain. I will remember that night as long as I live. It happened.
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 4 1963
Location: Goodwin, SD
Time: 2200 Duration: 1 hour
Summary: My family was driving home on county highway 312 traveling north in a 1950 two door Hudson. A bright light flew over the car. It landed in front of the car on the highway. The car immediately stopped running and the headlights went out. My father immediately became angry and being a WWII vet. He said I will see what they want and angrily left the car and charged over to the light. A few minutes later he came back and in a subdued tone said to my Mother they want you. My mother said no way they are bullies. I suspect my Mother may have had contact with Aliens before. My Father made no effort to stop them from taking her, so I suspect they had him under mind control. Father was tough and had been a fighter when young. A few seconds later the Aliens opened her car door and pulled her out and she gave no resistance and she and my baby sister were taken to the craft. Before she left she told me and my two sisters to hide on the floor of the car and maybe they won’t see us. A few minutes later and the Aliens opened the door again and reached into the back seat and lifted me and my two sisters out like we were nothing. I remember screaming no but they were strong. I was 6 years old at the time. All I saw was there long arms . Then I blacked out. The next thing I remember I was back in the car. The lights came back on the car. But the battery was to low to turn the engine over. Dad turned the lights off and we waited half an hour for the battery to regain some power and then the engine started. I asked my Dad where the Aliens went. He said don’t ever say anything or people will think you are crazy. I never saw the shape of the craft. It was just a bright light. When it flew over us it made a buzzing noise. My sisters totally blocked the memory of the event. Also one of the my sisters is dead now and the other one old enough to remember won’t talk. I only am reporting this now because I probably am not going to be alive much longer. It is something I want to get out and recorded before I die.
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 7 1963
Location: Lynn, MA
Time: 0300 Duration: 6 hours
Summary: One of the craft landed. one remained in the air. approximate size of the landed craft, as indicated by the burned grass was 45 feet in diameter. possible abduction of one individual, returned about two hours later second individual seen by elderly lady to be walking with her mother. since her mother was with me it had to be some one else. over the years not much was thought of this. however the first possible abductee has since gone blind by a disease known to be caused by radiation poisoning. the other regressed to childhood and is in the care of a state institution. note it took twelve years for any thing to grow on the ground near landing area. and when it did it was four leave glover. after about another twelve years. grass is able to grow. site was a over flow area for veterans and their families. of which my family was one. My dad served n world war two under general MacArthur and took information as the over blow imagination of children and nothing further was ever done about it. several such visits were noted over the next ten year period. including a dream like scenario of two houses in upper state new york about 1967 &/or 68 of several children being chased down by a fleet of 4 or 5 saucers and a fly by of vietnam. with several prisoners of war being recued and subsequently abducted the children being returned home. nothing known about the former prisoners or even if this was implanted information to cover up the abduction phenomenon. No of observers: 8
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 7, 1963
Location: Kirkby Great Britain
Time: evening
Summary: Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the police that, after the house lights blacked out while watching television, they saw an object about 6 m in diameter, with two aerials and a red light flashing, emitting a low buzz, near the house. After one minute, it flew away.
Source: Magonia 569

Date: May 15, 1963
Location: Yvrac-Maille France
Time:
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. D., of Carignan, saw an object on the ground to the left of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille. They stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of their trip.
Source: Magonia 570

Date: May 15 1963
Location: New York City (Brooklyn), NY
Time: 0700 Duration: 10 Minutes
Summary: In the early morning, as I was waiting for my sister to come out of the bathroom so that I could get ready for work, I was lying on the bed in my room (which used to be a porch)- because there were low windows, all I had to do was lift my head up to look outside. Directly across from my vision, in my two story house, hanging soundlessly and dead-center over the hip joint of my neighbor’s roof, was a light tan, about 3 feet in height, water-tower (a round top with symmetrical legs) appearing object. No lights, no sound, no movement. As I looked, I called my mother in and she also said “what the hell is that?” I had an 8 mm Kodak Brownie movie camera that I always used and ran for it. No film. My mother and I watched as this object as it began to movie slowly, silently and perfectly straight up about 30 fee and just hang there. A couple of moments later, it started to move to the right about 30 feet also, stopped a few moments, and then go back to the center line over the house and down to the original position; waited only a few seconds this time and went straight up about 30 feet again and then to the left and slowly, slowly moved above all the 2 story houses on the block where it moved behind the trees and into the sunlight coming from the east. I then lost sight of it. I must stress that it was perfectly symmetrical and its movements were perfectly aligned with no wobbling, no lights and no sound. It was absolutely suspended in mid-air. At first we thought it was some kind of kite, but, boy-oh-boy, it sure wasn’t.
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 15 1963
Location: Towson, MD
Time: 1400 Duration: 20 seconds
Summary: It was a beautiful sunny day in May of 1963. I was 10 years old and my family had moved two blocks away to a larger house. I was visiting my old neighborhood to play with friends when we noticed a bright object streaking through the sky. I remember that I was facing North and the object was moving very rapidly from East to West. It arched slightly to the Southwest and as it did so it glinted in the sun. To me this looked as if it were made of metal. I was standing with a group of other kids and we yelled to some adults across the street and the man said that it was a shooting star, but even at 10 years of age I didn’t buy that. It was some kind of craft moving very fast and as best as I can remember it was silent. I have wondered all of these years if anyone else saw it and whether or not it was reported. No of observers: 5
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 15 1963
Location: Tishomingo, OK
Time: 2200 Duration: 3 hours
Summary: As a teenager in Boy Scouts, I was doing my OA (Order of the Arrow) “Ordeal” which is an overnight solo camping experience. You are dropped off in the woods at night with just your pack and sleeping bag. As I lay looking at the sky, a variable number of different colored orbs appeared in the sky at a relatively high altitude. For hours, I watched as the objects sped up, slowed down, maneuvered around each other. The objects exhibited different colors and appeared to change colors. These were red, green, blue , yellow but I never recall seeing white. Being alone didnt bother me as they seemed a great distance and rather “playful”. On Saturday after the solo campout, all new OA candidates must remain silent until the evening meal. At that meal, one of the adult participants at my table started talking about the lights he had seen in the sky the night before. He said he was an air traffic controller at the Ardmore, Oklahoma airport and that it was unlike anything he had ever seen. This started a conversation that involved many of the overnight campers who had witnessed the same light show. No of observers: 6
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 18, 1963 BBU 8360
Location: New Plymouth, New Zealand
Time: 10:30 p.m.
Summary: C. S. Chapman, 15, saw a white, fuzzy, flashing light hover and dart around.
Source: Berliner

Date: May 18, 1963
Location: Beachport, SA
Time: 0700 hrs
Summary: A man, a carrier by occupation, was driving along a road when a soundless, red and blue, round to oval shape was seen directly above the vehicle. He watched it for about two minutes as it travelled from east to west. He noted that the sound from his radio cut out.
Source: UFORSA

Date: May 20, 1963
Location: Glencoe Australia
Time: evening
Summary: A 17-year-old witness, who wishes anonymity for fear of ridicule, saw what he first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the road. He came within 20 m of it, then was blinded by a strong light as his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The light was as intense as that of a welder’s torch. The witness’s father testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified.
Source: Magonia 571

Date: May 21, 1963
Location: Nr. Mt. Gambler, Australia
Time:
Summary: Unconfirmed report that a brilliant light followed a car. A youth stated the object was at side of road, rose suddenly as he approached, hovered overhead, then followed car. The Dominion. Adelaide, reported May 22 this was “the second report of such an occurrence in a week.”
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Date: May 22, 1963 BBU 8363
Location: Pequannock, New Jersey
Time: 10:45 p.m.
Summary: Myra Jackson saw 4 pink wheels spin or roll very fast from E to W in succession, each about 1 sec.
Source: Berliner

Date: May 23, 1963
Location: Sunnyvale, Calif.
Time:
Summary: Bluish disc observed hovering and circling slowly, apparently at tree-top height; rose vertically and disappeared.
Source: Report via Bay Area NICAP Subcommittee.

Date: May 30 1963
Location: Emporia, KS
Time: 1730 Duration: 60 seconds
Summary: After supper on the (approximate evening of 5-30) about 5:20pm when I was 12 yrs old, I went to get the newspaper in the front of our house (facing south). As I was bent over, I FELT something up and to the right of me. I then HEARD a faint whoosh as a satin black (not gloss or flat) craft flew over the middle of our field, traveling east to west at about 25 mph, and about 150 ft up. I was perhaps 150-200 ft away. The sun had not yet set, so there was ample light. The rectangular craft was about 6-7 ft tall, 30 ft wide, 50 ft long without colors or markings. I was able to see good detail – there were no seams anywhere. There were no outside lights or FRONT windows. The front and back of the craft angled out 2-3 degrees at the base (pylon). There were no sharp corners, the edges were rounded and smooth. There were 3 round (portholes) windows approximately 2.5 ft in diameter evenly spaced on the side I could see. Instead of racing to get a camera, I stayed to observe. Feeling scared, I looked into the windows which were emitting a dark yellow (not amber or orange) light from the far interior of the craft. I saw no people, aliens etc. Relieved, I assumed it was military and headed to Fort Riley (Junction City, Ks). I would just like to know if anyone, anywhere has seen this same craft?
Source: NUFORC

Date: May 31, 1963 BB
Location: 44N 49W (Atlantic)
Time: 2:03 p.m. local time.
Summary: Three radar tracks were detected at a speed of 1400 mph by an airborne radar. There was no visual sighting although the targets were indicated at ranges of 2, 3 1/2 and 5 miles. Two of the targets were following identical paths. The length of the observation was 3 minutes.
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