Project Blue Book Case Files

# 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 February 20, 1961, the crew of the ship SS Erihio reported a bright object over the Atlantic Ocean, about 150 nautical miles east of Cape Canaveral, near 28 degrees 15 minutes n…

On November 11 or 12, 1961, a military observer aboard a ship in the Pacific reported an object at about 4:31 (0431 Zulu). The position was near 23 degrees north, 163 degrees west.…

On February 12, 1961, the crew of an RC-121 early warning aircraft spotted a bright white, round object west of Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean. The object appeared as small…

On November 18, 1961, a military observer over the Pacific reported an object at about 5:24 (0524 Zulu). The position was near 40 degrees north, 173 degrees west. One object was se…

On September 1, 1961, in the Far East, a pilot reported an unusual cloud during flight. The formation rose from the horizon to about 3 degrees above it and grew a mushroom shaped t…

On July 26, 1961, near 26N 175W in the Pacific Ocean, a Navy aircraft crew reported sighting an object falling into the atmosphere with a bright, burning green and white appearance…

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 January 30, 1961, two Air Force pilots spotted a bright silver object in the sky near the Atlantic while flying at 20,000 feet in an F-89D jet. The object appeared as small as a…

On April 2, 1961, a source reported an object over the Pacific near 34 degrees 31 minutes north, 132 degrees 15 minutes west. The object was elongated and was presumed to be a miss…

On September 27, 1961, at about 1557Z (Greenwich time), a military radar operator aboard an AEW&C aircraft off the Pacific coast reported objects on radar. The report was filed on…

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 July 6, 1961, a brilliant meteor or satellite was observed by the chief officer and lookout of the M/V Gisna in the Pacific Ocean between Panama and Yokohama. The object appeare…

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 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 September 3, 1961, over the Pacific, a witness reported an oval object in the north northeast for about three and a half hours. The object showed blue, green, orange, and yellow…

On July 29, 1961, a single bright light was reported by a military source over the Lavaca area. The light was about as bright as a second magnitude star. It passed overhead and fad…

On July 30, 1961, an airline pilot flying from Shannon to Gander to McGuire reported an object over the ocean. The pilot saw what looked like a rocket cone or a basketball coming d…

On January 19, 1961, at 0905Z, a Navy pilot flying near 42 degrees 39 minutes north, 42 degrees 12 minutes west over the Atlantic reported one object. He was flying at 6,000 feet a…

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 July 30, 1961, Navy officers aboard the USS Lansing in the Pacific reported a light in the sky. The object was round, about the size of a pinhead, and as bright as a first magni…

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…

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 January 13, 1961, an unidentified flying object with great brilliance was reported in the Pacific Ocean near coordinates 33.33N, 152.02W. The object was first sighted bearing 25…

On November 9, 1961, a military observer aboard a ship in the Pacific reported an object at about 6:30 (0630 Zulu). The position was near 30 degrees north, 175 degrees east. The ob…

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 April 14, 1961, four military observers aboard a Navy ship reported an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 28 degrees 50 minutes north and 131 degrees 45 minutes east. The sight…

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 8, 1961, at 8:00 p.m. local time, a huge bright object like a shooting star was sighted from position 20N 134E in the Philippine Sea. The object appeared to travel nort…

On July 20, 1961, two pilots aboard an aircraft saw an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 38 degrees 30 minutes north and 125 degrees 58 minutes west. The object's course was to t…

On the evening of January 16, 1961, a pilot flying about 40 miles west of Santa Rosa Island, California, spotted a round object roughly the size of a basketball. The object had a b…

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 February 12, 1961, a bright light was reported in the sky over Finland. The report came from four Finnair airline pilots flying above the cloud layer in different parts of the c…

On February 23, 1961, an object was sighted over the North Pacific Ocean near 47 degrees north, 173 degrees west. The sighting was reported by aircraft from Navy unit 43212 as a vi…

On May 11, 1961, at 8:05 p.m. near the Med Sea at coordinates 3742N 0042E, military observers sighted a very bright fast-moving object. The object had the intensity of the star Sir…

On July 24, 1961, the crew of a ship in the Pacific Ocean reported a strange light. The report came from the ship's navigator and three others on the bridge. They were civilians. T…

On February 6, 1961, at 11:00 a.m., a military radio officer at position 20 North 134 West (Pacific) observed a huge bright object resembling a shooting star. The object moved nort…

On June 17, 1961, a military observer reported an object over the Pacific Ocean, near 20 degrees 2 minutes north and 148 degrees 10 minutes west, around 11:52 a.m. (GMT). The sight…

On November 7, 1961, a military and civilian radar report came from the Arlington Heights, Illinois, area at about 7:55 a.m. The objects were tracked on radar. Three objects were r…

On August 18, 1961, at 4:00 p.m., a vapor trail was sighted from east to west on the horizon near position 24 degrees 53 minutes north, 150 degrees 22 minutes west in the Pacific O…

On October 21, 1961, a U.S. Air Force C-97 transport plane was flying over the Atlantic Ocean when its crew spotted an unusual object. The aircraft was at 8,000 feet altitude near…

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…

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 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 April 11, 1961, the crew of a SAC KC-97 aircraft saw an object over Goose Bay, Labrador. The report puts the plane about 25 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, flying at 13,0…

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 November 28, 1961, a military crew aboard the USS Mills reported a very bright object over the Gulf of Aden area. The sighting was made at 1626 GMT and lasted about 20 minutes.…

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 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 February 27, 1961, near Guam, a spherical object was observed by military personnel. The object was white, then turned reddish, and had a trail approximately 30 times its diamet…

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…

In late November 1961, someone aboard a ship or aircraft in the Pacific Ocean reported seeing a bright object low on the southern horizon. The sighting occurred at coordinates 40 d…

On August 3, 1961, near Guam, military personnel reported a sighting. A round object the size of a pea and bright as a first magnitude star was observed. It moved and changed brigh…

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…

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 February 28, 1961, the crew of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Barataria reported an unidentified flying object over the Atlantic Ocean near 52 degrees 40 minutes north, 34 degrees…

On the night of March 8, 1961, two Air Force transport planes flying over the Pacific Ocean witnessed what the military suspected was a space vehicle burning up as it reentered Ear…

On February 23, 1961, an explosion was observed in the sky over Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, near Dhahran. The report came from a military weather detachment and other observers, incl…

On May 14, 1961, a military pilot saw an object over the Atlantic area near 14 degrees 10 minutes north and 95 degrees west, around 2 a.m. (local). The sighting lasted about 5 minu…

On February 10, 1961, a round, white object was reported over the Pacific Ocean near 9 degrees 36 minutes north, 145 degrees 15 minutes west. The sighting came from a military sour…