USAF · 1947 to 1969
Project Blue Book Case Files
The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.
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Bloomington, IL
1961 · unknownOn June 18, 1961, in Bloomington, Illinois, a civilian reported observing a shiny round star-like object in the early evening. The witness was lying on grass near a swimming pool w…
Bothell, WA
1961 · unidentifiedOn the morning of January 9, 1961, a resident of Bothell, Washington saw two unusual objects in the sky from the kitchen window of his ranch home, located about five and a half mil…
Bronson,
1961 · unknownOn the night of May 23 to 24, 1961, three civilians driving south on U.S. Highway 19 near Bronson, Florida, spotted a strange light in the sky ahead of them. The object appeared su…
Brooklyn, NY
1961 · unknownOn the morning of February 6, 1961, an indirect report said that a civilian witness at Brooklyn, New York had observed an unidentified flying object. The Air Force forwarded a que…
Brooklyn, NY
1961 · unknownOn October 11, 1961, at 7:55 p.m., a civilian in Brooklyn, New York reported seeing two self-luminous, transparent objects moving north and east. The objects had no clearly defined…
Brooklyn, NY
1961 · unknownOn July 30, 1961, two friends in Brooklyn spotted a moving object crossing the sky in a northeasterly direction at approximately 9:36 p.m. The object was white and dull, similar in…
Bryan, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn November 16, 1961, a military pilot near Bryan, Texas, reported an object at about 11:37 a.m. local time (1737 Zulu). The pilot was flying a T-33 jet at about 3,200 feet, headin…
Buchyrus & Bellevue, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn the evening of September 13, 1960, a woman in Bucyrus, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky from her home. The object was bright, transparent, and had what she described as "tw…
Buhl, MN
1961 · unknownOn January 14, 1961, at about 2100 (9:00 p.m.), a civilian at Buhl, Minnesota reported a round object the size of a tennis ball at arm's length. It was white with some red coloring…
Bunker Hill AFB, IN
1961 · unknownOn June 21, 1961, an Air Force pilot saw an object near Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana, around 3 a.m. (GMT). The pilot was watching for an F-126 making a pass on his aircraft…
Cambridge, MA
1961 · unknownOn February 1, 1961, just before sunset, a civilian at Cambridge, Massachusetts reported a round, bright silver object. It was between the size of a pea and a head of a pin at arm'…
Cannon AFB, NM
1961 · unknownOn January 15, 1961, three people sitting in a parked car near Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico watched a glowing sphere move across the sky for about 20 to 25 seconds. The obje…
Canton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn a November evening in 1961, a civilian observer in Canton, Ohio reported seeing a disc-shaped object hovering low overhead for three to five minutes. The object was silent excep…
Canton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn the morning of October 17, 1961, in Canton, Ohio, a civilian witness observed several objects flying in formation across the sky. The objects appeared as silver-green lights mov…
Cape Canaveral, FL
1961 · unidentifiedOn September 8, 1961, a tracking telescope at Cape Canaveral, Florida picked up an unexpected image during a Titan missile launch. The object appeared in the telescope's field of v…
Cape Canaveral,
1961 · unknown# Cape Canaveral and Cuba UFO Sightings, August 1961 In the early morning hours of August 23, 1961, military personnel at Cape Canaveral, Florida and in the Leeward Point area of…
Cape Canaveral, FL
1961 · unidentifiedOn April 11, 1961, experienced radar operators at Cape Canaveral tracked an unidentified flying object on their FPS-8 radar screen for more than 30 minutes. The object appeared as…
Cape Thompson, AK
1961 · unknownOn July 26, 1961, near Cape Thompson, Alaska, a civilian weather observer saw a red flash in the sky. It happened around 1225 (about 12:25 p.m.) at dusk. The observer was taking a…
Capevay,
1961 · unknownOn September 30, 1961, multiple Coast Guard stations and light houses along the New Jersey coast reported seeing unusual lights in the sky near Cape May and Atlantic City. The sigh…
Carswell AFB, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn March 12, 1961, observers at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, reported round, bright silver objects. The objects were the size of nickels and appeared side by side. They were see…
Catalina Island, CA
1961 · unknownIn November 1961, someone on Santa Catalina Island, California, found an object that had come down by parachute. They reported it to the Air Force for identification. The Air Forc…
Centerville, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn May 11, 1961, a civilian saw an object near Centerville, Ohio, in the morning hours. The sighting lasted about 5 to 10 minutes. The object moved toward the east. The object was…
Chanute AFB, IL
1961 · unknownOn the evening of March 9, 1961, five military members at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The witnesses described it as roun…
Charleston,
1961 · unknownOn the evening of May 13, 1961, a sales engineer standing four miles south of Kanawha County Airport near Charleston, West Virginia, spotted an unusual light in the sky. The object…
Charleston, WV
1961 · unknownOn September 25, 1961, at about 0517Z (Greenwich time), at dawn, a civilian in Charleston, West Virginia, reported an object in the sky. The witness was a chemical plant worker. Th…
Chelveston,
1961 · unknownOn March 15, 1961, at 3:19 a.m. GMT near Chelveston, England, a military witness reported observing an unidentified object in the sky for 90 seconds. The object traveled west overh…
Chicago,
1961 · unknownOn December 26, 1961, a witness reported an object over Chicago, Illinois. The sighting was made at 2110 local time (9:10 p.m.) and lasted about 35 minutes. It was seen from a vaca…
Chicago, IL
1961 · unknownA woman in Chicago reported seeing an unusual object in the sky in September 1961. She described it as medium dark in color, tan or cocoa colored, and about the size of a car. She…
Chicago, IL
1961 · unknownOn December 13, 1961, in Chicago, Illinois, a civilian observer reported seeing an orange to bright white sphere about half the size of the moon. The object was observed from the g…
Chippewa Falls, WI
1961 · unknownA student in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, reported several sightings of unusual objects in the sky between late August and early September 1961. The first sighting occurred about fou…
Cincinnati, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn March 2, 1961, around 7:30 p.m. local time, witnesses in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported a white object that looked like a streak of light. It was seen for a few seconds and traveled…
Cincinnati, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn a June evening in 1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio, someone observed an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force investigation file contains a detailed witness questionnaire and ev…
Clayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn August 13, 1961, in the early afternoon, civilians in Clayton, Ohio, reported bright objects in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's o…
Cleveland, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn the night of July 5, 1961, a World War II pilot named Ernest Stadvec was flying a small aircraft near Cleveland, Ohio when he and his two passengers spotted something unusual in…
Cleveland, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn April 20, 1961, a man in Cleveland, Ohio, was talking with a designer by a window when he happened to glance outside and spotted an unusual object in the sky. He was looking rou…
Cleveland, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn August 14, 1961, residents of Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing unidentified objects moving rapidly across the sky near the sun. Multiple callers jammed telephone lines at local n…
Collins, Ontario,
1961 · unknownOn November 15, 1961, a civilian in Collins, Ontario, Canada, reported an object at about 8:42 p.m. local time. The witness was skating on a pond about a half mile from town when h…
Columbus, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn July 1, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio, a civilian reported a bright light in the sky at approximately 10:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The 376th Command Post at Lockbourne Air Force Base rece…
Columbus, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn the evening of July 29, 1961, a civilian in Columbus, Ohio, reported seeing an unidentified object in the night sky. The witness described movement from northeast to southwest d…
Columbus, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn November 18, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio, two separate observers reported seeing an unusual object in the daytime sky. The first sighting occurred at 1510 (3:10 p.m.). An observer a…
Columbus, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn a clear night in September 1961, a resident of Columbus, Ohio saw a bright object moving across the sky. The observer was sitting outside, smoking a cigar, when he looked up and…
County Darmstadt near Frankfurt,
1961 · unknownIn March 1961, a civilian witness in the Darmstadt area near Frankfurt, Germany reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness observed it through 12-by-50 binoculars an…
Cuyahoga Falls, OH
1961 · unidentifiedThe OCR text in this case file is too heavily garbled to support a reliable summary. While the document includes a witness questionnaire and some correspondence about a Rushville,…
Cyprus Gardens, FL
1961 · unidentifiedOn August 9, 1961, a civilian witness in Cyprus Gardens, Florida, observed a bright orange object that appeared star-like and grew larger as the night went on. The witness thought…
Dallas, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn the morning of March 9, 1961, a Dallas resident doing amateur satellite watching saw a bright object streak across the sky from northeast to southwest in just 2 to 5 seconds. Th…
Danbury,
1961 · unknownIn October 1961, a boy and his father observed a glowing object near Danbury, Connecticut. The witnesses described it as round and pinkish-orange in color, roughly five to eight fe…
Dawson City,
1961 · unknownOn the evening of November 16, 1961, two carpenters in Dawson City, Canada, watched a bright object move across the sky. The object traveled from south to north in an arc and left…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedIn late December 1961, witnesses in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright object in the night sky. They observed it for about five minutes and described it as appearing stationary…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentified# Summary On June 4, 1961, an observer in Dayton, Ohio, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness described it as resembling aluminum with dark edges. The object a…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedThe OCR text provided consists almost entirely of blank survey forms and form templates from Project Blue Book's standard witness questionnaire. While the cover sheet (page 1) indi…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn October 12, 1961, someone in Dayton, Ohio saw a large, bright white object moving very fast across the sky. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The Air Force received the re…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedIn November 1961, people in the Dayton, Ohio area reported seeing a light moving in circles over the city. The light moved in a clockwise direction and reportedly passed over the a…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn the evening of February 8, 1961, a resident of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright, shiny object in the night sky. The witness described it as resembling a large spotlight, ro…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn July 26, 1961, in Dayton, Ohio, a civilian observer reported sighting an object between 1 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. The object appeared as a round or box-shaped craft seen in a moving…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn a September evening in 1961, a witness in Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual light in the sky. The object appeared as red, blue, and green colors and was visible for only about one and…
Dayton, OH
1961 · unidentifiedOn a summer evening in August 1961, a resident of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright light in the sky. The object appeared to the southeast and looked brighter than the brightes…
Denver, CO
1961 · unknownOn November 25, 1961, a witness near Denver, Colorado, reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting happened at 1828 Zulu time, which was night. The object was large and irre…
Derry, MA
1961 · unknownOn April 28, 1961, a civilian saw an object near Derry, Massachusetts, about 9:15 p.m. (local). The witness was driving north on Route 28, a few miles south of Derry. The report ca…
Detroit, MI
1961 · unidentifiedOn the night of June 6, 1961, an airman at Selfridge Air Force Base in Detroit watched an object move across the sky at extremely high speed. The object appeared egg-shaped at time…
Detroit Lakes, MN
1961 · unknownOn September 25, 1961, at about 0018Z (Greenwich time), at dusk just before sunset, a civilian near Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, reported an object in the sky while driving. The repor…
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