Project Blue Book Case File
Boundbrook, New JerseyNovember 1959
Summary
On the evening of November 26, 1959, someone in Boundbrook, New Jersey, reported seeing an unidentified object in the night sky. The witness described it as red-orange in color and resembling a bright star. The object moved across the sky from the southeast to the northwest, traveling at what the witness said was extreme speed. The entire sighting lasted about two minutes.
The Air Force received a letter about the incident addressed to President Eisenhower. Because the letter contained too little detail, the Air Force mailed the witness a detailed questionnaire to gather more information. The OCR of the questionnaire pages is heavily garbled, making it difficult to extract specific answers about the object's size, exact direction, or other characteristics from the witness's responses.
The case file includes an analysis section on the final page, but the handwritten notes and OCR degradation make the full text unreadable. What is legible suggests that investigators considered various explanations, including aircraft and satellites. The form itself notes a preliminary conclusion that the object was "probably a high flying Jet type a/c" (aircraft), though the OCR quality prevents confirmation of any final determination stated in the file.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, comprising 15 pages.
Reported location
Boundbrook, New Jersey
Date of incident
November 1959
State / country
NJ / US
Page count
15 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 37