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Mohave · CA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Mohave, California, reported lights overhead as their car's headlights and engine reportedly cut off, an event lasting about two minutes.
Lake Bonita · NM, USA
It landed and lit up the mountian like day. there were some sort of peoplw with lights that where they put them it wasa like daylight.
Strathmore · CA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Strathmore, California, reported a disk-shaped object in the sky, observed for about four minutes before it moved out of sight.
Castle Rock · WA, USA
In 1959, a witness in Castle Rock, Washington, reported a large cigar-shaped object with evenly spaced windows drifting silently over treetops at night, for about 30 seconds.
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
Long Beach · CA, USA
As a young man, I would lay out in the yard at night and look at the sky--I often saw an object moving at night speed, very high, no no
Alor Islands (Indonesia) · Indonesia
This incident was happened in July 1959, in Alor Islands area which located at northern of Nusa Tenggara Timur province in Indonesia. A
Nort Sutton (resort area near) · NH, USA
In July 1959, a witness near North Sutton, New Hampshire, reported a small cloud-like object with a blinking light in a clear sky, visible for about 15 seconds.
New Albany · IN, USA
Cigar shaped object hovered in the sky
Worcester · MA, USA
In July 1959, a witness in Worcester, Massachusetts, reported a strange object in the sky, with a similar sighting reported the same day on Long Island, New York.
Salem · OH, USA
In 1959, a witness in Salem, Ohio, reported four huge, white-yellow disk-shaped objects moving in a shifting pattern high in the sky at great speed, over about an hour.
Fort Lauderdale · FL, USA
In 1959, a witness in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, reported two star-like lights converging upward and appearing to merge into one, over about two to three minutes.
Allendale · KY, USA
In 1959, a witness in Allendale, Kentucky, reported a light moving very fast across the sky, an event that reportedly lasted about five minutes.
Wabash River (on) · IN, USA
Metallic object up close
Orange · CT, USA
In 1959, a witness in Orange, Connecticut, reported sighting a cylindrical craft and what appeared to be its descent toward the ground, over about an hour.
Nashville · TX, USA
In 1959, a witness in Nashville, Texas, reported an object resembling a star in the daytime sky that, when photographed, appeared triangular, over about fifteen minutes.
Sidney · OH, USA
Saw a bright light shining down. Pulled over to the side of I75 and watched it about 5 min. before it took off very quickly heading ea
Nelson · NE, USA
this was told to me from the man who seen the object. it was after a softball game in the summer of 1959. he was in the country going h
Arvada · CO, USA
In 1959, a witness in Arvada, Colorado, reported a small, round object at high altitude near the Rocky Flats site, visible in the sky for about an hour.
Monroe · MI, USA
In 1959, a witness in Monroe, Michigan, reported three objects flying at very high altitude performing unusual maneuvers, observed over about thirty minutes.
Missoula (event at Superior) · MT, USA
In 1959, a witness near Superior, Montana, described twenty consecutive nights of encounters with unidentified figures, including what they called apparent abduction attempts.
Minneapolis · MN, USA
Silver Bullet
Campbell · CA, USA
3 glowing disc shaped objects
Príncipe (Havana) (Cuba) · Cuba
In 1959, a witness in Principe, Havana, Cuba, reported a disk-shaped object briefly in the sky, visible for less than a minute, though few details were recalled.