Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 8, 1961, a witness in Vandalia, Ohio saw an elongated, soft yellow light moving due west at an estimated speed of 3,000 miles per hour. The object remained visible for…

On February 22, 1961, around 5:00 p.m. local time, two military observers at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, reported a bright burning object. The observers were a missile o…

On February 17, 1961, a boy in Vernon, Texas, reported seeing an unidentified flying object and said he reported it to Altus Air Force Base. The information in this file comes from…

On a Sunday evening in September 1961, a driver and a passenger traveling near Raleigh, North Carolina, stopped their car to observe what they described as a "burning star" in the…

On January 22, 1961, between 2130 and 2200 (9:30 to 10:00 p.m.), a man and a woman parked about four miles north of Weston, Missouri reported an object. It flew overhead, then land…

On the night of July 30, 1961, in Vincennes, Indiana, a witness observed a white light moving across the sky from southwest to northeast between 12:30 a.m. and 12 midnight. The wit…

On the evening of December 13, 1961, a dark gray diamond-shaped object appeared in the sky above Washington, D.C., traveling from west to east at low altitude. Multiple witnesses r…

On the evening of June 13, 1961, a resident of Washington, D.C., reported seeing a light appear from behind the moon and then disappear back behind it. The witness described the ob…

On May 17, May 24, and June 1, 1961, an observer reported an object over Washington, DC, around 7 p.m. (local). The object was viewed through binoculars on three separate occasions…

On September 22, 1961, a civilian in Washington, D.C., reported observing a light in the eastern sky for 25 minutes around 7:02 a.m. The light appeared to ascend and descend. The w…

On July 11, 1961, at dusk near Washington, D.C., a civilian witness observed an unidentified object in the clear sky. The object appeared white and resembled a star. It broke into…

On November 7, 1961, a civilian in Washington, D.C., reported an object at about 6:48 p.m. local time. The witness was a student at American University. The object looked like the…

On April 30, 1961, at about 1845 (6:45 p.m.) local time, a civilian in Watchung, New Jersey, reported a silver colored object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073…

On September 29, 1961, a witness in Watertown, Connecticut, reported objects in the sky at about 7:00 p.m. local time. The witness, who was at a school, said the objects moved at e…

On the night of February 28 to March 1, 1961, radar operators at Waverly Air Force Station in Iowa detected an unidentified object on their Mark X radar (a ground-based system for…

On October 5, 1961, a civilian in Waynesville, North Carolina, reported an object at about 9:50 p.m. local time. The witness watched the object through a telescope. It was silver a…

On August 14, 1961, at about 0340 (3:40 a.m.) local time, a military observer at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The witness was the staff duty noncommis…

On February 22, 1961, around 4:03 a.m. local time, a weather detachment at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported a luminous streak in the sky. The observation was made by the detach…

On the evening of June 4, 1961, a resident of Westboro, Massachusetts reported seeing a light moving back and forth across the sky at a low angle, roughly 20 degrees above the hori…

On the evening of October 17, 1961, a resident of West Florence, Ohio watched the sky for approximately one and a half hours and observed what they described as a flashing greenish…

On January 15, 1961, several employees of a Wichita Falls television station sighted an unidentified object in the sky west of the city. The witnesses reported seeing the object at…

On February 28, 1961, around 8:24 p.m. local time, a city patrolman in Williston, North Dakota, reported a bright object in the northwest. It was first seen about 16 degrees above…

On the evening of August 25, 1961, two observers in Wilmington, Delaware, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. At about 8:00 p.m., they spotted what appeared to be a brigh…

On April 16, 1961, a civilian saw an object while driving west on a new section of Highway 90, from west of Seguin, Texas toward San Antonio. The object was in sight for about 5 mi…

On February 27, 1961, the 864th radar squadron at the Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, tracked an object on radar for about 1 hour and 48 minutes. The sighting…

On March 21, 1961, an object was reported in the Aleutian area near 54 degrees 22 minutes north, 179 degrees west, about 9:04 p.m. GMT. The object was round and reddish, with small…

On December 30, 1961, a military witness reported an object in the Pacific. The sighting was made at about 1500 GMT and lasted about 40 minutes. The object was seen from the ground…

In late July 1961, pilots and ground observers across the Midwest and Southwest reported seeing a bright, comet-like object in the early morning sky. The object was round and silve…

On March 20, 1961, an aircrew reported objects over the Pacific near 36 degrees 47 minutes north, 125 degrees 47 minutes west, about 8:12 p.m. The first object was oval. A second o…

On March 15, 1961, an object was reported in the Atlantic at about 37 degrees 35 minutes north, 9 degrees 14 minutes west. The object was at high altitude. It was measured at magni…

On December 17, 1961, a military crew reported an object in the Atlantic. The sighting was made at about 0915 GMT. It was seen by eye. The object had unknown characteristics but w…

On March 16, 1961, military observers reported an object over the Mediterranean Sea near 41 degrees 27 minutes north, 5 degrees 52 minutes west, about 7:30 p.m. The object was mete…

On January 10, 1961, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt at sea in the Atlantic reported one unidentified airborne object on radar. The position was given as latitude 15…

On May 15, 1961, the crew of a C-121 aircraft saw an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 35 degrees 28 minutes north and 141 degrees 55 minutes east, around 3:54 p.m. (GMT). The ai…

On March 7, 1961, a civilian in British Columbia, Canada, near 120 degrees 08 minutes west, 55 degrees 43 minutes north, reported a small object about 5:50 p.m. local time. The obj…

On February 6, 1961, at 2320Z, the crew of a Navy WV-2 barrier aircraft over the Atlantic near 43 degrees 17 minutes north, 37 degrees 30 minutes west reported one object. Five off…

On December 14, 1961, the crew of the USNS General W. O. Darby reported an object over the North Atlantic, off the coast of England. The sighting was made at about 0040 GMT. It was…

On August 12, 1961, a military observer in the Far East (coordinates 31.53 North, 129.3 East) spotted what he believed was an artificial satellite. The object appeared in the south…

On March 12, 1961, an object was reported over Australia about 8 p.m. local time. The object was bright white at first, then turned a brighter green, and burned out in a line of or…

On March 13, 1961, an object was reported near Guard Island, in the vicinity of Ketchikan, Alaska, about 6:10 a.m. GMT. The object was brilliant white and circular, between a grape…

On September 22, 1961, near Kotzebue, Alaska, a Cessna 180 pilot reported sighting an unusual object. The pilot noticed a reflection or glow on high overcast skies to the west of h…

On January 29, 1961, at 0912Z, a ship in the Atlantic near 25 degrees 43 minutes north reported one object. It was airborne and very high, traveling very fast on a heading of about…

On April 1, 1961, at Clark Air Force Base, Philippines, multiple witnesses including CO, OCD, JOOD, and Lookout observed a white object of second magnitude. The object moved on an…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the metadata indicates a June 1961 sighting in the Bahama Islands that the Air Force e…

On September 13, 1961, Navy personnel and civilians along the U.S. East Coast reported seeing a strange and spectacular light show in the sky. The most detailed account came from…

# Summary On September 25, 1961, military observers on Guam saw two separate bright objects streak across the sky in rapid succession. Both sightings lasted only a few seconds and…

On September 21, 1961, at about 1700Z (Greenwich time), military aircrews reported an object over the Pacific Ocean. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air…

In October 1961, a U.S. Air Force officer flying near Johnson Island took motion pictures of the island from the air. He saw nothing unusual during the flight. But when he develope…

On November 15, 1961, a military observer aboard an aircraft over the Pacific reported an object at about 1:27 a.m. (1327 Zulu). The position was near 36 degrees north, 173 degrees…

On July 10, 1961, near Atlantic at coordinates 30.30N 76.25W, a UFO sighting was reported. The object was diamond-shaped with one light at each point. It had two red and two white…

On May 11, 1961, six officers and four crew members aboard a ship in the Atlantic Ocean spotted a white, round object resembling a bright star. The ship was located at coordinates…

On January 16, 1961, at about 1620 (4:20 p.m.) local, a Navy pilot near the Port Hueneme, Point Mugu, and Santa Barbara area of California reported one egg-shaped object the size o…

On March 29, 1961, a bright object traveling at high speed was sighted in the Atlantic area near coordinates 23 degrees 36 minutes North, 75 degrees 43 minutes West. A military obs…

On February 16, 1961, an Air Force RC-121D aircraft based at Otis Air Force Base, Massachusetts, picked up an unusual radar track over the Atlantic Ocean near 36 degrees 35 minutes…

On May 22, 1961, at about 0849Z (Greenwich time), a military aircrew aboard an RC-121 radar plane reported an object near the coordinates 43 degrees north, 134 degrees west, in fli…

On May 2, 1961, military observers in the Pacific area reported an object, with the exact location not given. The sighting lasted about 2 minutes. The object moved on a course towa…

On April 25, 1961, the pilot of an RC-121D aircraft saw an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 42 degrees 50 minutes north and 134 degrees 11 minutes west. The sighting took place…

On May 3, 1961, a Navy ship reported an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 9 degrees north and 174 degrees west. The report came in as a routine sighting message around 7:58 a.m.…

On December 20, 1961, the crew of the USS Durant reported an object in the Pacific Ocean. The sighting was made at dawn at about 1825 GMT and lasted about 7 minutes. It was seen by…

In September 1961, over the Pacific off the California coast, a single white object was reported. It was about the size and brightness of a first magnitude star. It was first seen…