Project Blue Book Case File
Ocean City, New JerseyJuly 1961
Summary
On a July evening in 1961, a witness in Ocean City, New Jersey reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force received the report and documented it as part of Project Blue Book, the service's official investigation into UFO sightings. An 11-page case file was compiled, containing a detailed witness questionnaire and related materials.
The OCR quality of this case file is heavily degraded. While the document clearly originated from the 127th USAF Field Activities Group at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and includes standard Project Blue Book forms, the text itself is often illegible or fragmentary. Critical details such as the exact time of the sighting, a clear description of what was observed, weather conditions at the time, and the specific circumstances of the report are either obscured or unreadable in the scanned pages.
The file's conclusion box on the first page indicates three possible evaluations were considered (balloon, aircraft, or astronomical), but the actual determination checked by investigators is not legible in this copy. Without reliable access to the witness's account or the Air Force's formal analysis, a complete summary of what was reported and concluded cannot be responsibly reconstructed.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 11 pages.
Reported location
Ocean City, New Jersey
Date of incident
July 1961
State / country
NJ / US
Page count
11 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 42