Project Blue Book Case Files

On 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…

On 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…

On 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 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

In 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

A 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…

On 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…

On 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…

A 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

In 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…

The 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,…

On 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…

On 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…

In 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…

On 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…

On 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…

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 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…

The 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…

On 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…

In 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…

In 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…

# 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On the night of November 1, 1961, two neighbors in Diboll, Texas observed a bright object moving across the western sky at approximately 8:00 p.m. CST. One witness received a phone…

On April 18, 1961, at 11 a.m., Joe Simonton, a 60 year old plumber living near Eagle River, Wisconsin, heard a loud whining sound outside his home. Looking out the window, he saw a…

On July 16, 1961, at approximately 2100 hours (9 p.m.), an observer in Eatonton, Georgia reported seeing a bright light in the night sky. The light appeared roughly like Venus to t…

On April 29, 1961, civilian witnesses saw an object near Edgerton, Wisconsin. The sighting lasted about 5 minutes, around 7 p.m. (GMT). The object was described as low and about th…

On January 15, 1961, El Portal, Florida police reported a bright object with blinking lights. It was traveling fast toward the northwest over the northern part of Dade County, Flor…

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…

# Summary Three people driving west on a highway near Monticello, Illinois, in July 1961 saw lights in the sky that appeared to keep pace with their car. The observers reported se…

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 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…

In May 1961, an observer in Falls Church, Virginia reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The witness claimed to have watched the phenomenon over several nights. When…