Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 15, 1962, a military crew aboard the SS President Van Buren reported objects in the Atlantic at about 38 degrees north and 74 degrees west. The sighting was made at abou…

In late February 1962, metal fragments fell across a wide area of southern Brazil, prompting investigation by U.S. military and diplomatic officials. The pieces were recovered over…

On April 23, 1962, near Midway, an object was viewed at 40 degrees elevation appearing as a star or planet. The object moved west to south with a northern declination. It disappear…

On July 29, 1962, the first officer of the Norwegian ship M.S. Ferngate reported a sighting over the North Atlantic Ocean. The time was 2117Z and the position was about 31 degrees…

On April 19, 1962, a military crew in the Pacific (about 33-00N 170-00W) reported one possible satellite. The object was described as space-borne and very fast, heading northeast.…

On September 2, 1962, at 2:19 a.m., an object like the first magnitude star was observed at 38 degrees elevation, 230 degrees azimuth, moving from 050 degrees to 230 degrees. Durat…

On June 15, 1962, the pilot and co-pilot of a Navy aircraft over the Pacific reported an object. The sighting was at about 0515Z and lasted about 3 to 5 seconds. The aircraft was o…

On June 1, 1962, at 1:17 a.m., a military observer at Matthews in position 23.8N 105.3E sighted an extremely bright star-like object on the horizon with intensity much greater than…

In March 1962, a military pilot near Ramstein Air Base, Germany, reported one silver object that moved like a very fast aircraft. It first appeared at the pilot's 8 o'clock positio…

On November 8, 1962, the crew of an aircraft over the Pacific Ocean, near 20N 179W, reported seeing a flare. The report asked whether other ships or aircraft were in the area. It w…

In June 1962, a witness in southwestern Canada reported seeing an object resembling a weather balloon through 10-by-50 binoculars. The witness described the object as about the siz…

On April 11, 1962, a crew aboard a ship in the Atlantic (about 31-11N 65-43W) reported one bright white object moving at about 1,000 miles per hour. The object appeared to burn up…

On October 23, 1962, the crew of an aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean, near 60.14N and a longitude later corrected to 13.36W, reported a bright light. The report came from military…

On February 20, 1961, an Air Force T-33 jet crew sighted an oblong, cigar shaped object about 100 nautical miles west northwest of Kalispell, Montana. The aircraft was at 39,000 fe…

On January 28, 1961, at night, witnesses about 10 miles southwest of Russell and between Russell and Salina, Kansas reported a large, round, green ball. Observers included a B-47 a…

On September 26, 1961, at about 0725Z (Greenwich time), at night, a military aircrew aboard an RC-121 reported an object about 150 miles west-northwest of Ukiah, California. The re…

A couple driving west of Las Vegas on a gravel road near the Blue Diamond Mine saw an unusual object on the evening of July 17, 1961. The object approached from the south, visible…

On December 12, 1961, two military pilots about 20 nautical miles west of Junction, Texas, reported a meteor-like object. The pilots were flying a T-29 aircraft and were returning…

On January 17, 1961, a witness near Troy, Ohio reported seeing a light that moved across the night sky in an unusual pattern. The object came from the north, traveled south, then r…

On the night of December 4, 1961, two Air Force pilots flying a T-33 trainer jet near Vandenberg Air Force Base in California saw a bright object falling rapidly through the sky. T…

On February 3, 1961, during the day, a single witness about 2 miles northwest of Van Nuys, California reported two very bright, metallic, oval-shaped objects. Each was slightly lar…

On March 14, 1961, an observer in an aircraft reported a dark object near 38 degrees 53 minutes north, 79 degrees 51 minutes west, in the area of Elkins. The object had an orange t…

On January 20, 1961, at night, two military observers at about 38 degrees 55 minutes north in Kansas reported a round object the size of a quarter at arm's length. It was white or…

On March 2, 1961, around 7:15 p.m. local time, a civilian about three miles west of St. Albans, West Virginia, reported a blue white, oblong object. It was seen for about 15 second…

On March 15, 1961, an object was reported near Misawa Air Base, Japan, around 8:20 p.m. local time, near 40 degrees 20 minutes north, 142 degrees 10 minutes east. Three witnesses s…

On February 21, 1961, around 12:30 a.m. local time, a civilian at the Winnemucca Hotel in Winnemucca, Nevada, reported what appeared to be an aerial explosion. He reported it to th…

On May 12, 1961, a civilian pilot saw an object about 40 nautical miles east of Peck, Michigan. The sighting lasted about 20 minutes. The object was about the size and shape of a l…

Someone saw an unidentified object in the sky about four miles northwest of Springfield, Ohio, in July 1961. The Air Force investigated the sighting as part of Project Blue Book, i…

On August 1, 1961, near Chibougamou, Quebec, a civilian reported witnessing an explosion in the sky at about 40,000 feet, approximately 40 miles northwest of Chibougamou. The explo…

On the night of February 27-28, 1961, six to eight military personnel stationed near Herndon, Virginia, observed an unusual light in the sky for approximately one hour. The group,…

On a July evening in 1961 near Copemish, Michigan, several people reported seeing unusual lights in the sky that moved slowly and disappeared intermittently over the course of two…

On March 17, 1961, an object was reported about five miles south of Minden, Nevada, around 10:10 p.m. local time. The object was bright white and circular, about the size of a pea.…

On March 21, 1961, an aircraft crew reported a light about 60 miles east of Springfield, Missouri, around 2:14 a.m. The crew was flying on a heading of 340 degrees at an altitude o…

On the evening of January 15, 1961, a pilot flying near Duluth, Minnesota spotted a bright object streaking across the night sky. Lieutenant James Chapman, a pilot with the Minneso…

On November 20, 1961, a military observer aboard a T-33 jet about 60 miles west of Newport, Oregon, reported an object at about 6:35 p.m. (0235 Zulu). One object was seen, round an…

On July 22, 1961, at 7:15 p.m., a pilot and crew of a DC-8 aircraft observed a white, possibly reddish object 60 nautical miles south of Louisville, Kentucky. The object appeared s…

On the night of January 3, 1961, a driver traveling west on Big Lake Road near Cloquet, Minnesota, saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness was moving at about 45 miles per ho…

On March 2, 1961, two adult civilian women reported a strange light about seven miles south of Minot, North Dakota. They saw it around 10:15 p.m. local time while driving home from…

On July 1, 1961, seven miles southwest of Manchester, Tennessee, a UFO was sighted. The object first appeared as a line similar to an aircraft condensation trail but faded quickly…

On February 6, 1961, during the day, a weather forecaster about 8 miles east of Indian Springs, Nevada reported a shiny, half-moon shaped object about 5 feet in diameter, shadowed…

On February 28, 1961, around 7:30 p.m. local time, military observers at Adair Air Force Station, Oregon, reported a white, star like object. The witnesses were three Air Force off…

On the evening of October 25, 1961, in Akron, Ohio, multiple witnesses saw a formation of bright objects in the night sky. The objects appeared as bluish-white lights resembling br…

On the night of January 21, 1961, several residents of the Akron, Ohio area reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses described it as a red-orange circular or pla…

On March 30, 1961, a civilian in Akron, Ohio, reported an object about 6 p.m. local time. The object was dark in color and gave off sparks. It traveled slowly to the west. The sigh…

On February 22, 1961, a civilian in Akron, Ohio reported seeing a sharply outlined silvery object pass close overhead during the daytime. The object came within 600 feet of the obs…

On October 7, 1961, civilian witnesses in Albany, New York, reported an unidentified flying object. The report came in a letter that was first sent to the President and then passed…

On the evening of September 2, 1961, a man in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, was reclining in a lounge chair at his home when he spotted something unusual in the sky. He saw wh…

# Amityville, New York, December 1961 On the evening of December 14, 1961, three high school boys in Amityville, New York, spotted an unusual object in the sky near the local bath…

On October 6, 1961, a civilian in Arlington, Virginia, reported objects at about 6:30 p.m. local time, near dusk. The witness described two elliptical objects, each about 1,000 fee…

On January 24, 1961, three ships in the same general area of the Atlantic reported a single object. One ship saw an illuminated body at about 300 degrees and 60 degrees altitude th…

On May 13, 1961, a civilian saw two lights near Atmore, Alabama, in the early morning hours. One light went west to east and passed overhead around 6:10 a.m. (GMT). A similar light…

On March 3, 1961, military observers at Aviano Air Base, Italy, reported a bright object in the night sky. A tower observer saw it first and pointed it out to tower operators. The…

On October 24, 1961, in the evening, a civilian in Baltimore, Maryland, reported an object in the sky. The witness was riding in a car. The report was filed on the Project 10073 re…

On February 22, 1961, around 2:30 a.m. local time, the pilot of a United DC-8 airliner reported a point of light near Baltimore, Maryland. The aircraft was at 31,000 feet on a head…

On February 27, 1961, around 10:15 p.m. local time, a housewife and her teenage daughter near Bark River, Michigan, reported a round, fiery red object about the size of a grapefrui…

On a December evening in 1961, a witness in Bartlett, Illinois saw an unusual object in the sky as the sun was setting. The witness described it as an elongated, cloud-like shape t…

On May 19, 1961, a civilian saw an object near Bay Minette, Alabama, around 10:10 a.m. (GMT). The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. The object's course was toward the south southwe…

On June 14, 1961, a resident of Bedford, Massachusetts reported seeing a bright light in the sky. The object appeared to be roughly the size of the full moon held at arm's length.…

On the evening of September 13, 1961, a woman in Belmont, Ohio called the local Air Force office to report that she had seen a light high in the sky. The witness said she observed…

On the night of February 13, 1961, four people in a car saw a colored light on the highway between Sterling City and Garden City, Texas, about 27 miles southeast of Webb Air Force…