1960s: declassified UAP incidents — timeline.
34 UAP cases
The 1960s account for 34 UAP cases in this archive — 21 documents, 5 images, and 8 audio recordings — released by CIA, Department of State, Department of War, and 3 more agencies under the PURSUE program. Reported locations from the decade include Low Earth Orbit, Moon, and North Atlantic Ocean, among others; some incidents carry no usable location and are excluded from the map. Every year below links to the cases reported in it, and years with enough declassified material get their own dedicated timeline page, linked from the heading. Use the interactive map to see where these incidents cluster, or the knowledge graph to follow a witness, mission or aircraft type across the rest of the archive.
1969 — 8 UAP cases
UFO audio: Apollo 12 medical debriefing, tape 12, 1969
This is an audio recording of a NASA medical debriefing session with the Apollo 12 crew — Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard "Dick" Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean — discussing light flashes and streaks t
UFO Files: NASA Apollo 12 Air-to-Ground Transcript, 1969
This is an excerpt from the NASA Apollo 12 air-to-ground transcript (tape pages 742, 743, 748 and 778), covering ground elapsed times from 5 days 19:14 to 6 days 00:23. It involves Mission Control (CC), the Command Module Pilot in Yankee Cl
UFO Files: Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing, 1969
This is an 11-page excerpt of NASA's 'Apollo 11 Technical Crew Debriefing' dated July 31, 1969 (Mission Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division), originally marked CONFIDENTIAL and later reclassified to unclassified. It contains the
UFO Photo from Apollo 12, Lunar Surface, 1969
Apollo 12 lunar surface photograph with a teal-tinted black sky above the grey regolith. The long shadow of an astronaut and equipment stretches across the foreground. A yellow callout box in the upper area magnifies a faint elongated blue-
UFO Photo from Apollo 12, Lunar Surface, 1969
Apollo 12 lunar surface image showing grey regolith and the long shadow of an astronaut. Two yellow callout boxes labelled Area 1 and Area 2 magnify faint specks located in the dark teal sky above the lunar horizon.
UFO Photo from Apollo 12, Lunar Surface, 1969
Apollo 12 photograph of the lunar surface with a bright regolith field and a prominent astronaut shadow. A yellow callout box magnifies a single small white point of light in the dark sky above the horizon.
UFO Photo from Apollo 12, Lunar Surface, 1969
Apollo 12 lunar surface photograph with long shadows cast across grey regolith and a glowing bright area near the horizon. A yellow callout box in the upper left magnifies a faint white point in the dark sky.
UFO Photo from Apollo 12, Lunar Surface, 1969
Apollo 12 lunar image annotated with five yellow callout boxes labelled Area 1 through Area 5, each magnifying a faint mark in the dark sky. The largest inset shows an elongated fuzzy white blob. Below, the grey lunar surface shows rocks an
1968 — 1 UAP case
UFO sightings in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan, 1968
CIA-UAP-016 is a CIA Information Report (distributed 11 April 1968; country India/Nepal/Bhutan/China; period of information February-March 1968) titled "Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects in Ladakh, Nepal, Sikkim and Bhutan," preceded
1967 — 2 UAP cases
Air Force committee review of Project Blue Book UFOs, 1966
An 85-page file of USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) records on its Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project Blue Book, with 63 pages legible and the rest blank or redacted scans. The review was requested by Maj. Gen. E.B. LeBailly (Director o
CIA report on Soviet scientists' UFO views, 1967
CIA-UAP-010 is a declassified 2-page CIA Intelligence Information Report (No. OO-B-321/23490-67, distributed 18 August 1967) titled "Report on Conversations with Soviet Scientists on Subject of Unidentified Flying Objects in the USSR." Its
1966 — 1 UAP case
UFO file: NASA Gemini 9 scientific debriefing, 1966
This is a NASA Headquarters file of the Manned Flight Experiments Office (Dr. Jocelyn R. Gill; Director Willis B. Foster) on the scientific experiments of Gemini IX (June 1966, astronauts Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan). Its core is the
1965 — 9 UAP cases
CIA memos on a UFO near Puerto Rico, 1964 (USS Gyatt)
A six-page Top Secret CIA memorandum package, handled under the BYEMAN control system within the OXCART project compartment, concerns an unidentified object tracked by radar and observed visually near Puerto Rico during 18-24 November 1964,
UFO file: NASA Gemini 4 crew debriefing, Part I, 1965
NASA-UAP-D016 is a 340-page "Preliminary GT-4 Flight Crew Debriefing Transcript, Part I," prepared by the Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated June 16, 1965, documenting the raw, verbatim, speaker-attributed pos
UFO file: NASA Gemini 4 crew debriefing, Part II, 1965
This is the complete Part II of the preliminary crew debriefing transcript for Gemini 4 (GT-4), prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated June 18, 1965, from a debrief conducted aboard the recovery
UFO file: NASA Gemini 4 experiment debriefing, 1967
This 224-page NASA file on the Gemini 4 (GT-4) mission bundles several kinds of material. The first part is the Mission Operation Report M-913-65-04 (24 May 1965) with a June 1965 memorandum on added flight activities: an extravehicular act
UFO file: NASA Gemini 5 technical debriefing, Part I
Preliminary technical debriefing transcript, Part I, of the Gemini 5 (GT-5) crew — Command Pilot L. Gordon Cooper and Pilot Charles 'Pete' Conrad — recorded August 30-September 1, 1965 at Cape Kennedy following their eight-day, 120-orbit mi
UFO file: NASA Gemini 5 technical debriefing, Part II
This is the complete Part II of the preliminary Gemini 5 (GT-5) technical debriefing transcript, prepared by NASA's Spacecraft Operations Branch, Flight Crew Support Division, dated September 2, 1965, from a debrief conducted August 30-Sept
UFO file: NASA Gemini 7 technical debriefing, 1965
Full preliminary transcript (222 pages) of the Gemini 7 (GT-7) technical debriefing of Command Pilot Frank Borman and Pilot Jim Lovell, conducted December 19-21, 1965 at Crew Quarters, Cape Kennedy, following their 14-day mission, which als
UFO Files: NASA Gemini 7 Flight Transcript, 1965
NASA Gemini VII/VI flight transcript excerpt (Tape T-00763, 1965), introduced by a Public Affairs Officer (P.A.O.) as containing 'references to sighting not only some particles but as well as an unidentified object plus the booster'. Comman
UFO Files: NASA Gemini 7 Audio of Astronauts, 1965
This recording is a NASA Public Affairs replay of air-to-ground audio from the Gemini 7 mission, played back for the press after a mechanical/line failure delayed the original tape. Roughly 4 hours 24 minutes into the flight, near Antigua,
1963 — 7 UAP cases
Memo on recovering space fragments (UFO files), 1963
This is a one-page memorandum dated 29 May 1963, addressed to "Dr. Welsh" titled "Conference with Frutkin -- Fragments." The writer reports meeting Frutkin of NASA and his assistant Marvin Robinson for over an hour on 28 May about a project
State Dept cable on a UFO in Bahia, Brazil, Nov 14, 1963
An unclassified U.S. Department of State incoming telegram, sent November 14, 1963 from the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Secretary of State and to the American Consulate in Salvador (Salvador 94, Dept 1054), from Science Attaché Simonpi
State Dept cable on a UFO in Bahia, Brazil, Nov 20, 1963
This unclassified U.S. Department of State airgram (A-628), sent November 20, 1963, from the Embassy in Rio de Janeiro to the Department of State with an information copy to the Consulate in Salvador, reports on an inquiry into a UFO report
NASC inquiry into the Bahia UFO crash report, 1963
This is a one-page declassified (Authority: NND 968063) wire transcript, item "FBIS 03," of a Portuguese-language Radio Tupi broadcast from Rio de Janeiro at 2330 on 8 November 1963. The text reports that in the municipality of Conde, in "B
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 9, Cooper's "fireflies", 1963
This short air-to-ground audio excerpt captures Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr., roughly one hour and 21 minutes into the final and longest Project Mercury flight, describing what he calls "John's fireflies" — a referen
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 9, luminous particles, 1963
This Mercury-Atlas 9 (Faith 7) air-to-ground audio excerpt begins with Pilot L. Gordon Cooper Jr. narrating orbital sunrise — the brilliant blue band of light beneath the atmospheric haze layer as seen from orbit — and reporting small, lumi
UFO files: Space Council policy memo, 1963
A 6-page "Official Use Only" memorandum dated 18 July 1963 from the Executive Office of the President, National Aeronautics and Space Council, addressed to Mr. Robert F. Packard of the Office of International Scientific Affairs, State Depar
1962 — 5 UAP cases
UFO files: US space fragments policy letters, 1962-1964
This 72-page file from the LBJ Library collects U.S. government correspondence from 1962 to 1964 on how to handle fragments of space vehicles that fall to Earth. Most of it comes from the National Aeronautics and Space Council in the Execut
UFO file: NASA Mercury astronaut debriefings, 1962-63
NASA-UAP-D015 is a 216-page 1962-1963 NASA compilation of verbatim scientific debriefings and internal technical analyses following the visual observations reported by Mercury-program astronauts, rather than a single UAP encounter. It cover
UFO audio: Walter Cronkite interviews Gordon Cooper, 1962
This is an excerpt from a November 1962 television interview in which journalist Walter Cronkite questions Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper about unidentified flying objects. Cronkite notes Cooper's previously expressed interest in the topic
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 8, Schirra sees white objects
This is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 8 (Sigma 7), recorded October 3, 1962. The single speaker is pilot Walter M. "Wally" Schirra Jr., transmitting observations during orbital flight as the spacecraft approaches sunset. Sch
UFO audio: Mercury-Atlas 7, Carpenter's particles, 1962
This is an in-flight audio excerpt from Mercury-Atlas 7 (Aurora 7), recorded May 24, 1962, capturing radio communication between pilot Scott Carpenter and ground control (CapCom) during the mission's second orbital pass. Carpenter reports n
1961 — 1 UAP case
UFO audio: Mercury-Redstone 4 recovery, Liberty Bell 7
This very brief audio excerpt comes from the recovery operation for Mercury-Redstone 4 (Liberty Bell 7), the second crewed Mercury flight, recorded July 21, 1961. The single line captured is a recovery-team radio transmission discussing an