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Fitchburg · MA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, reported a huge, oval-shaped object with many attached lights moving slowly and silently at night for 30 to 50 seconds.
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.
Gardner Lake (Extreme northeastern US) · ME, USA
Craft desending ,from high rate of speed to a very slow speed, traveling across Gardner Lake - Landeed on east side of lake
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
In 1959, a married couple in the Bronx, New York City, reported observing an oval-shaped object for about half an hour, an experience that changed how they viewed UFOs.
Monroe · GA, USA
In August 1958, a witness in Monroe, Georgia, reported an oval-shaped object in the sky, observed for about two minutes before it moved out of view.
San Francisco · CA, USA
In 1958, a witness in San Francisco, California, reported a huge silver oval-shaped object flying low and positioning itself over their home for about two minutes.
New York City (Bronx) · NY, USA
7 brightly illuminated elliptical discs racing uniformly across the night sky were seen moving NNW to SSE equally spaced apart.
Winooski · VT, USA
In 1958, a witness in Winooski, Vermont, described an oval object that hovered, landed, then flew north at about 60 km/h; the witness said it was tracked by radar.
Winooski · VT, USA
In 1958, witnesses in Winooski, Vermont, reported an oval-shaped object described locally as a fireball, visible in the sky for about one and a half hours.
Mullens/Pineville · WV, USA
Witnesses near Mullens and Pineville, West Virginia believed USAF jets fired at or destroyed oval-shaped objects in the sky, in an incident lasting about three minutes in the late 1950s.
Green Lake · MI, USA
oval crfaft in a field glowing.
Unknown · CO, USA
In 1957 a strange oval spotted in Kansas that hovered, flew straight up, made 90 degree turn and accelerated at great speed vanished.
Fort Devans · MA, USA
I was on duty at base. Saw and heard craft.About 50 feet over building.Sound changed when moveing from low to high pitch.
Gloucester · MA, USA
A witness in Gloucester, Massachusetts reported seven motionless, bright lights arranged in an uneven row in the sky, observed for about 45 minutes in June 1956.
Petaluma · CA, USA
Objects were several thousand feet in altitude and bounced around the sky basically overhead. I was 17 years old at the time. The Pet
Woodland Park · CO, USA
Orange disk in night sky
Yucaipa · CA, USA
A witness in Yucaipa, California reported a luminous oval object in the sky in December 1954, similar to one described in Los Angeles newspapers over Inyokern Air Base.
Farmingdale · NY, USA
A witness near Farmingdale, New York reported a bright, oval-shaped object stationary in the sky above a jet factory for more than 30 minutes in 1954.
Puyallup · WA, USA
A driver near Puyallup, Washington reported an oval-shaped object hovering above the treetops just ahead on the road, for a few seconds in August 1954.
St. Louis Airport (Lambert Field) · MO, USA
A witness near Lambert Field airport in St. Louis, Missouri reported an extremely bright red oval object that suddenly accelerated and streaked over the horizon, in about 20 seconds, July 1954.
New Orleans · LA, USA
20+ ovals flying over New Orleans
Monroe · NY, USA
I was about 12 years old,walking with my dog close to a swamp at 10am all became deathly silent. I looked up to my right at an oval de
Kelso (Cowlitz Co. hills) · WA, USA
Local residents near Kelso, Washington reported three oval-shaped objects in the sky for about five minutes in June 1953; the sighting reportedly remains unexplained.
Washington · D.C., MD, USA
Said a whiteish lite around it.