Project Blue Book Case Files

On 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…

On a cloudy night in August or September 1961, a witness in Englewood, Ohio saw a round object that glowed yellow-orange in the sky. The object appeared as bright as a star, only m…

On September 11, 1961, a resident of Englewood Hills, Ohio reported seeing two lights in the northwestern sky. The witness watched them for approximately two hours. One of the ligh…

On the evening of January 5, 1961, a person east of Dayton, Ohio saw a bright light streak across the sky. The witness described it as cream-colored, about the size of a quarter, a…

On August 6, 1961, a civilian in Fairborn, Ohio reported seeing a round, white, shiny object in the sky. The object appeared overhead in the northeast and was larger than a star. T…

On July 16, 1961, in Fairborn, Ohio, a civilian witnessed a stationary object in the daytime sky. The observer watched it for about twenty minutes, using binoculars to get a closer…

On January 11, 1961, at 1930 (7:30 p.m.), a military observer at Fairborn, Ohio reported a bright object. It was seen at about 45 degrees elevation in the southeast. A duty office…

On the evening of September 14, 1961, a woman driving near Hilliard, Ohio with her four sons saw a bright object hanging low over the road ahead of them. She was traveling west on…

On May 13, 1961, at about 0100 (1:00 a.m.), a military observer in Kettering, Ohio, reported a bright object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the…

# Summary On a January night in 1961, a resident of Miamisburg, Ohio saw what appeared to be a star-like light moving slowly across the sky. When the object moved, the witness not…

On September 18, 1961, at 2:55 a.m., a civilian in Middletown, Ohio, observed a strange light in the sky through a window. The witness described the object as bright and strange-lo…

On the night of August 6, 1961, a resident of Middletown, Ohio noticed an unusual light in the sky. Over the next two weeks, he observed the same object roughly ten times, always o…

On August 30, 1961, a fourteen-year-old in Monroe, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The witness had just watched a movie about flying saucers and believed t…

In early July 1961, a witness in North Dayton, Ohio saw a bright, starlike object moving across the sky during the early morning hours. The witness observed the object twice, watch…

On July 28, 1961, north of Dayton, Ohio, a civilian fireman reported a light in the sky. He saw it at 2307 (11:07 p.m.) and watched it for about 2 to 5 minutes. The object looked l…

On February 23, 1961, a resident of Oakwood, Ohio saw a bright white object in the night sky that reminded them of a star. The object appeared in the southwest and moved toward the…

On the evening of September 1, 1961, a witness in Sandusky, Ohio observed an ascending object that caught fire and burned for two to five minutes during twilight hours. The object…

On the night of September 5, 1961, an observer in Sidney, Ohio, spotted a bright object in the sky while looking to the southwest. When viewed through binoculars, the object appear…

On a September evening in 1961, a person in Springfield, Ohio watched a bright light in the sky for about an hour. The object appeared as bright as the brightest stars and was roug…

On March 2, 1961, residents in Springfield, Dayton, and Cincinnati, Ohio, along with an observer in Richmond, Indiana, reported seeing a bright glowing object streak across the eve…

On a September evening in 1961 in Troy, Ohio, a witness saw two unusual objects moving across the sky in rapid succession. The first object resembled a satellite with a bright whit…

On January 7, 1961, a resident of Troy, Ohio saw a bright, shiny white object in the sky around 1645 (4:45 p.m.). The object made no sound. The witness described it as similar to a…

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 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 September 2, 1960, a woman and her two children in Akron, Ohio, witnessed a series of unusual aerial objects. The main object was shiny, silver, and cigar-shaped. It moved from…

A driver traveling between Warren and Toledo, Ohio saw seven lights arranged in a "V" formation on April 15, 1960 at 0300 (3 a.m.). The lights appeared to be the size of a pea held…

On the evening of August 27, 1960, a person lying in a hammock in Centerville, Ohio, noticed an object in the southern sky that appeared to be a star. The object seemed to move fro…

On December 18, 1960, civilians in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported two objects at 2220 (about 5:20 p.m. local). The witnesses saw two objects moving very fast from southeast to northwes…

On April 28, 1960, six children in Cincinnati, Ohio reported seeing colored lights in the sky over a fifteen-minute period. The sightings occurred at various times and locations ar…

In 1960, a civilian in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported seeing an object in the sky. The witness filled out the Air Force technical information sheet for Project 10073, the Air Force's o…

On September 24, 1960, in Columbus, Ohio, a civilian witness reported seeing a large ball of fire moving from south to north at about 60 degrees elevation on a straight level fligh…

On the night of July 24, 1960, several residents in and around Columbus, Ohio saw a bright object streak across the sky. The object had a brilliant white tail and moved from east t…

On a May evening in 1960, a resident of Dayton, Ohio spotted a peculiar light in the sky. The witness described it as a round, steady golden light that resembled a star. The object…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the document is identifiable as a Project Blue Book questionnaire and witness report f…

In December 1960, a resident of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness described it as starting with a silver glow that changed to a reddish glow, w…

On April 18, 1960, someone in Dayton, Ohio saw a bright white light in the sky that gave off two red balls before coming to a sudden stop. The light then dimmed and disappeared. Th…

The OCR text for this case is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the document appears to be a complete Project Blue Book case file from August 1960 in Dayto…

On July 21, 1960, someone in Dayton, Ohio saw a bright object moving across the sky. The witness watched it for about three to four seconds as it traveled from northwest to east, p…

On July 2, 1960, a civilian in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky around 9:20 a.m. The witness described it as cone or tube-shaped, with a tail and two blue…

On February 20, 1960, a resident of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a very bright pinkish white object in the sky. The object was about the size of a basketball and disappeared behind…

On the evening of September 3, 1960, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, called in a sighting of an unusual object in the sky. The observer watched a green object with a red light revolving…

On the evening of June 6, 1960, a witness in Dayton, Ohio saw a bright bluish-green glow appear in the northeastern sky. The object was moving toward her while descending at an ang…

On September 16, 1960, east of Cincinnati, Ohio, a pilot reported a sighting at 10:30 a.m. The object was blue in color, very dense, and nearly dissipated in six minutes. It had a…

On August 16, 1960, at 2:00 a.m. local time, an observer in Fairborn, Ohio, spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The object appeared as a bluish-white to faded yellow light…

In February 1960, a person in Fletcher, Ohio saw an object that briefly caught their attention. The object appeared as a white light with a solid center and blurred edges, roughly…

A woman living near Fort Seneca, Ohio, reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky on multiple occasions between sunset and midnight throughout October 1960. She described the…

On July 2, 1960, at 2:30 a.m., a witness in Kettering, Ohio saw a round, bluish-white ball of fire in the sky. The object became brighter and more intensely blue as the witness wat…

On a December evening in 1960, a man in Kettering, Ohio, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. According to the witness questionnaire in the Air Force file, the object appe…

On the evening of July 8, 1960, someone in suburban Mason, Ohio reported seeing a bright light in the sky. The observer watched it for about thirty minutes, describing it as resemb…

On a night in August 1960, a witness in McComb, Ohio saw a bright object with a greenish tinge streaking across the sky. The object appeared round and large, and it moved at very h…

On the night of August 23, 1960, a resident of Miamisburg, Ohio saw a cigar-shaped object that appeared to be burning. The object was small, roughly one-quarter the size of a regul…

On the evening of September 17, 1960, a resident of New London, Ohio saw a bright white light move rapidly across the sky from southwest to northeast. The observer said the object…

On the night of June 27, 1960, a bright object was observed from Newton, Ohio. The witness sat in a parked car and watched the object for about one and a half hours. It appeared as…

In October 1960, a resident of Paulding, Ohio reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The witness wrote to the Air Force saying that he and his relatives had spotted w…

On a Friday evening in July 1960, a 15-year-old boy in Springfield, Ohio was playing baseball in his front yard when a friend pointed out an unusual object in the sky. The boy imme…

On August 25, 1960, near Uniontown, Ohio, a local resident and three children watched two shiny, metallic objects in the afternoon sky. The objects appeared round and roughly the s…

On December 7, 1960, in Vandalia, Ohio, a civilian reported seeing a single, round, white light on a photograph. The sighting was observed locally at 2:15 p.m. (GMT 08/01:15Z, Dece…

On December 12, 1960, near Waynesville, Ohio, a civilian reported seeing a moving light in the sky around 1 p.m. local time. The object appeared to move from east to south to west…

On the morning of January 9, 1960, a civilian in West Alexandria, Ohio, saw a bright light in the southeast at about 6:00 a.m. The witness watched it for about 25 minutes, until ro…

On an October night in 1960, a witness at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio reported seeing an unusual object moving through the sky. The object appeared to have a fire or gl…