UFO Sightings in the 1950s
591 UFO sightings reported during the 1950s, peaking in 1957 (91 reports); most often described as disk.
- Total sightings
- 591
- Span
- 1950–1959
- Peak year
- 1957 (91 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Disk
1950–1959 · peak 1957 (91 reports)
Los Angeles · CA, USA
Silent, Extreme Bright White Disc of Light, approx. 100 foot diameter Hovered approx. 10 minutes then "Switched Off". Small white ligh
Tehachapi · CA, USA
White fireball hitting ground.
Del Mar · CA, USA
Aircraft flying silently from west to east over Del Mar, CA. stops and stays in the same place for several minutes.
Starke · FL, USA
UFO OVER JACKSONVILLE
Lafayette · IN, USA
Observed white object for about 20 minutes in Nov. 1959 which approached and then flew away.
New York City (Manhattan) · NY, USA
A round object the shape of a bubble hovered by a window of a four or five story building. The object was silent. Some 20 feet os so ov
Jacksonville · IL, USA
Late 1959, bright lights from a hovering object of unknown shape making a zed-zid zed-zid electrical sound.
Fitchburg · MA, USA
? Huge round/oval object, many attached lights, no sound, very slow moving night time sighting.
Duluth · WI, USA
Single saucer shaped craft observed from Duluth Mn. skies over Lake Superior-first stationary, then NW movement.
Duluth · WI, USA
Bright light observed over Lake Superior near Duluth MN. in 1958 or 59. Stationary but then moved and changed colors. Then disappeared.
Rock Hill · SC, USA
WE LOST A HOUR OF OUR LIFE WE WERE STANDING ON THE ROAD THE CAR WAS OVER A HILLMy mom told me that when she was young (I guessed a
Marysville · WA, USA
UFO Over Golf Course
Four States · WV, USA
MYSTERIOUS RED LIGHTS IN NORTHERN WEST VIRGINIA
Boston · MA, USA
See Boston Globe newspaper of that sighting and my version.
Fallon · NV, USA
I was an Air Force radar operator at Fallon Navel Air Station, in the year of 1959 I was working the day shift on that day.
Goldfield · NV, USA
The object hovered over the pick-up, and raised it from the sand
Dayton · OH, USA
formation of 6 saucers moving from Wright Paterson east to Dayton Ohio
Desert Hot Springs · CA, USA
I saw a bunch of lights in strange formation near fault line where lights are not normally seen.
Golden · TX, USA
children see flying saucer in small East Texas town
Mexico City (Mexico) · Mexico
Direction: West to East Seven lights type foo fighter (intense white neon light) in triangle formation, never ever seen speed. Due to t
Reseda · CA, USA
The saucer was roof high and I observed it very closely for at least 3 to 5 minutes
Troy · NY, USA
Single star like light zigging and zagging in night sky
Jewett · NY, USA
Tumbling zig zag pattern of a shooting "star" observed in the Catskill Mountains, NY
Roswell · NM, USA
The experience left everyone in a quandry, and had the effect of trauma suffered.
Mohave · CA, USA
Lites over head cut car lights and motor off.