Project Blue Book Case File
Vejla, Denmark, February 1948 - Incident Number: 120February 1948
Summary
On February 7, 1948, three men working in a field near Vejle, Denmark spotted a shining object moving rapidly across the sky. The object traveled from southeast to northwest at an altitude of about 200 meters (roughly 650 feet) and remained visible for only three seconds before disappearing.
The sighting came to the attention of U.S. intelligence through a report in the Danish newspaper Aftenbladet. A U.S. military attaché in Denmark forwarded the account to Air Force intelligence on February 12, 1948. The report included basic details about the object's speed, direction, and duration, but little else about how it looked or behaved.
The Air Force made no attempt to verify the sighting with the three witnesses or any other sources in Denmark. In an internal note, the intelligence officer assigned to review the case wrote simply: "No verification received of the above." The case file offers no conclusion about what the three men saw.
The full case file is reproduced below as held by the National Archives, consisting of 6 pages.
Reported location
Vejla, Denmark, February 1948 - Incident Number: 120
Date of incident
February 1948
State / country
? / XX
Page count
6 scanned pages
USAF evaluation
unknown
Microfilm
T1206, Roll 2