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.
346 cases from 1962 · page 2 of 6
DAYTON & VICINITY Yellow Springs, OH
1962 · unknownOn June 9, 1962, a civilian about 100 miles south of Springfield airport, Ohio, near Yellow Springs, reported an object in the sky at night. It was in sight for about 45 seconds to…
Des Plaines, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn October 4, 1962, a housewife in Des Plaines, Illinois, reported a sighting at night. The time was about 0730Z. The witness did not actually see an object. The woman said a wind…
Dew Line, AK
1962 · unidentifiedOn September 30, 1962, an FEC employee (a civilian contractor working at the Dew Line early-warning radar station in Alaska) reported seeing five objects flying southeast of Pou De…
Donaldsville, LA
1962 · unknownOn October 17, 1962, the crew of a Coast Guard cutter anchored in the Mississippi River near Donaldsonville, Louisiana, reported a glowing object in the eastern sky. The report cam…
Duluth, MN
1962 · unknownOn July 27, 1962, a railroad switchman in Duluth, Minnesota, looked up and saw a bright star-like object in the night sky. He watched it for 10 to 15 minutes from a railroad yard a…
East Point, GA
1962 · unknownOn the evening of December 1, 1962, an amateur astronomer in East Point, Georgia, made an unusual observation. Using a six inch telescope with a Ramsden eyepiece focused on the moo…
Edgerton, WI
1962 · unknownOn July 1, 1962, a civilian reported a UFO sighting in Edgerton, Wisconsin. The object was described as oval in shape, unknown in color, with a silvery whitish tail. The sighting o…
Edwards AFB,
1962 · unknownThe OCR from this 61-page file is too fragmentary and incomplete to support an accurate summary. Pages 1-9 contain teletype messages and official correspondence related to film foo…
E Orange,
1962 · unknownOn a bright night with a full moon in March 1962, a 10-year-old in East Orange, New Jersey, heard a noise and looked up to see a light moving across the sky. The object traveled in…
Eureka, Utah,
1962 · unknownOn April 18, 1962, a brilliant fireball streaked across the night sky over Eureka, Utah and was seen across much of the western United States, from Kansas to California. The object…
Eutaw, AL
1962 · unknownOn October 19, 1962, near Eutaw, Alabama, a witness reported a rectangular object in the night sky. The object was described as four times as long as it was high, about the size of…
Evanston, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn the evening of July 14, 1962, someone in Evanston, Illinois reported seeing an unusual object in the sky that resembled a large commercial airliner with multiple bright yellow l…
Eveleth, MN
1962 · unknownOn September 20, 1962, two Air National Guard airmen flying near Eveleth, Minnesota, reported an object. The pilot and radar observer were in an aircraft at 35,000 feet. The time w…
Fairbanks, AK
1962 · unidentifiedOn August 11, 1962, an engineer for the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, reported a sighting from about 50 to 60 miles southwest of Fairbanks. The time was between about 0832Z and 0930Z,…
Fairborn, OH
1962 · unknownOn May 2, 1962, at 1:30 p.m., a worker in Fairborn, Ohio reported seeing a brilliant blue-white streak with a red tail. The witness thought it was a jet at first but phoned in an o…
Fairborn, OH
1962 · unknownOn the evening of June 27, 1962, a witness in Fairborn, Ohio watched an unusual object in the sky for about three minutes. The witness described it as fuzzy or blurred, roughly the…
Fairborne, OH
1962 · unknownOn May 26, 1962, a civilian in Fairborn, Ohio, reported an object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's official record for unidentifie…
Fairfield, IA
1962 · unknownOn a September night in 1962 near Fairfield, Iowa, an observer saw a bright light in the eastern sky that caught their attention. The object appeared brighter and larger than the s…
Farmington, UT
1962 · unidentifiedOn the evening of October 23, 1962, a duck hunter near Farmington, Utah heard a sound like a flock of ducks flying overhead. When he looked up, he saw a gray and silver ball about…
Forbes AFB, KS
1962 · unknownOn October 12, 1962, an airman at Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas, reported an object at dawn. The time was about 1100Z to 1128Z. The object was in sight for about 5 minutes. The ai…
Foreman, AR
1962 · unknownOn the evening of May 3, 1962, a civilian observer and her father in Foreman, Arkansas, saw a bright object moving in the eastern sky. The witness initially thought it was a satell…
Fork Union, VA
1962 · unidentifiedOn September 21, 1962, at 10:15 p.m., a civilian at Fork Union, Virginia observed a red object with a stationary red light on top and two red flashing red lights on the bottom. The…
Fort McKinley, OH
1962 · unknownOn the evening of August 20, 1962, a witness at Fort McKinley, Ohio, observed a solid object in the western sky that appeared dimmer than the brightest stars. The object remained v…
Ft. Banning (Lawson Fla) Columbus, GA
1962 · unknownOn June 19, 1962, military and civilian observers west of Columbus, Georgia, near Fort Benning, reported a star-like object. It was first seen about 1950 (7:50 p.m.) and viewed for…
Ft Bragg, SC
1962 · unknownOn September 18, 1962, military personnel near Fort Bragg, North Carolina, reported a bright light during a night exercise. The time was about 0855Z. The light was in sight for abo…
Ft. Worth, TX
1962 · unknownAn amateur astronomer and his sons observed an unusual object in the sky near Fort Worth, Texas on the night of April 28-29, 1962. The man, a nuclear engineer, spotted the object t…
Ganado, AZ
1962 · unknownThe OCR text provided is too garbled and illegible on the final page to support an accurate summary of the case details. While the first 29 pages contain witness questionnaires and…
Goose Bay, Labrador,
1962 · unknownOn April 2, 1962, near Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada, an object was tracked on radar with no visual sighting. The object was picked up on three separate ground radars and by 16 milit…
Granby, Quebec,
1962 · unknownOn October 14, 1962, at about 3:00 p.m. local time, a senior engineering technician in Granby, Quebec, Canada, reported three objects. The time was about 1900Z. The sky was bright…
Grandview, MO
1962 · unknownIn March 1962, a witness at Grandview, Missouri, reported one object that passed directly overhead. It looked like a saucepan with a tail pointing one way and seemed much bigger th…
Greenfield, CA
1962 · unknownIn the early morning hours of December 14, 1962, law enforcement officers across central California reported seeing a brilliant glowing object in the sky. A Greenfield police patro…
Greenville, ME
1962 · unknownOn August 10, 1962, a civilian pilot near Greenville, Maine, reported an unidentified object. He was at Upper Wilson Pond, about four miles east of Greenville. The time was 0815Z.…
Greenwich, CT
1962 · unknownOn September 15, 1962, at 11:20 to 11:30 p.m., a witness and a friend observed an unidentified flying object from a dock at the end of Steamboat Road in Greenwich, Connecticut. The…
Hague, NY
1962 · unidentifiedOn August 2, 1962, at 10:35 p.m., a resident of Hague, New York spotted two flying objects directly overhead. The observer watched them move from southwest to northeast across the…
Hallett Station,
1962 · unknownOn July 7, 1962, personnel at Hallett Station in Antarctica reported an intense bright light at about 1115Z. The first observer, on the roof of a building, thought a flare had been…
Hallott Station,
1962 · unknown# Summary On June 7, 1962, around 1:05 a.m., the commanding officer at Hallett Station in Antarctica observed a bright white light in the southwestern sky. The light appeared roug…
Hanksville, UT
1962 · unidentifiedOn September 6, 1962, pilots on several airline flights reported a shiny silver object over Hanksville, Utah. The first report came from a Trans World Airlines pilot who saw the ob…
Harvey Mountain,
1962 · unknownOn August 24, 1962, a forest lookout at Harvey Mountain, California, reported objects falling from the sky. The location was about 40 miles northwest of Susanville. The time was ab…
Hatchville, MA
1962 · unidentified# Hatchville, Massachusetts, August 1962 On the night of August 18, 1962, a woman on vacation in Hatchville, Massachusetts woke up and looked out at the night sky. She saw a white…
Hutchison, KS
1962 · unknownOn July 2, 1962, a civilian reported a sighting over Hutchinson, Kansas. The witness, described as an employee of the city, observed a round object about the size of a dime at arm'…
Hutchison, KS
1962 · unknownOn February 12, 1962, three sources reported an object over Hutchinson, Kansas. The sighting was made at about 1019 GMT and lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. It was seen from the groun…
Hyattsville, MD
1962 · unknownOn the evening of July 3, 1962, someone in Hyattsville, Maryland reported seeing a bright object in the sky. The witness described it as looking like lightning, solid in appearance…
Hyde Park,
1962 · unknownIn March 1962, a civilian witness at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, was watching a jet plane and its vapor trail when three objects appeared above the plane and the trail. At first the…
Indian House Lake,
1962 · unknownOn the night of April 30 and early morning of April 31, 1962, a civilian weather watch officer at the Indian House Lake radio station in Labrador, Canada spotted an unusual object…
Israel, Cairo,
1962 · unknownOn the evening of September 26, 1962, observers across Israel, Egypt, and the Middle East watched a brilliant fireball streak across the sky, leaving behind a long, glowing trail o…
Jackson, MN
1962 · unknownOn September 2, 1962, an 11-year-old child in Jackson, Minnesota reported seeing a UFO in the sky north of town at about 50,000 feet. The object hovered in one spot for a while, th…
Jacksonville,
1962 · unknownOn July 1, 1962, a civilian witness six and one-half miles north of Jacksonville, Florida reported seeing an object shaped like a star and comparable to the planet Venus. The objec…
Joplin, MO
1962 · unknownOn September 4, 1962, a civilian in Joplin, Missouri, reported objects in the night sky. The time was about 2000 (8:00 p.m.) local time, near 0150Z. The objects were reported in vi…
Kadena,
1962 · unknownOn April 23, 1962, military observers near Kadena, Okinawa (about 20-21N 120-12E) reported one star-like object the size of the North Star and white in color. The object moved acro…
Kansas City, MO
1962 · unknownIn May 1962, a person driving a car near Kansas City, Missouri saw a red light in the center of heavy thunderstorm clouds. The light blinked on and off. The observer was struck by…
Kansas City, MO
1962 · unknownOn September 6, 1962, an 11-year-old girl in Kansas City, Missouri, reported objects in the night sky. The time was about 0345Z, with a second object seen about an hour later near…
Keller, WA
1962 · unknownA man in Keller, Washington, reported seeing an unusual object cross the night sky on three consecutive nights in July 1962. On Tuesday night around 10:15 p.m., he first spotted wh…
Kettering, OH
1962 · unknownIn August 1962, someone in Kettering, Ohio saw a bright light on the western horizon that caught the Air Force's attention. The object appeared about the size of a bright star, but…
Kettering, OH
1962 · unknown# Summary of UFO Sighting Near Kettering, Ohio, June 1962 On a night in June 1962, a civilian observer in the Kettering, Ohio area reported seeing an unidentified object in the sk…
Kindley AFB,
1962 · unknownOn August 14, 1962, observers at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda reported a streak of light. The source was military. The time was about 0343Z. The light was in sight for about 1…
Kirksville AFS, MO
1962 · unknownOn the evening of May 6, 1962, school children in Kirksville, Missouri spotted two round, white objects in the western sky just after dusk. The objects appeared to be about the siz…
Klamath, CA
1962 · unknownOn the night of November 22-23, 1962, two observers in northern California reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. A U.S. Forest Service fire spotter located about five miles…
Knollwood, OH
1962 · unknownOn June 16, 1962, in Knollwood, Ohio, a civilian witness reported seeing an object that looked like a star with a color described as white. The object was circling in two large cir…
Kotzebue, AK
1962 · unidentifiedOn February 26, 1962, near Kotzebue, Alaska, several witnesses reported two round lights in the night sky. The witnesses included six civilians plus an Army private, and the report…
La Puente,
1962 · unknownThree witnesses in La Puente, California observed an unusual object in March 1962. The object was described as aircraft-like, with white lights on top and bottom and red lights in…
Browse sightings by state
Browse sightings by year