Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 21, 1960, east of Formosa, a military witness aboard an ocean mail ship observed an object at 2:14 a.m. The object was described as a terrific large white flame leaving…

On May 8, 1960, observers in southern Norway saw a long-lasting object in the sky. The report was handled as a multiple-witness case. The object stayed visible for almost 30 minute…

In early October 1960, military pilots and civilian observers across Arkansas spotted a bright orange object moving through the sky. What appeared to be a mysterious sighting would…

On May 10, 1960, observers saw a bright object in the sky west-southwest of the Hawaiian Islands. The card lists one object moving in a descending path. The object looked like a m…

On July 24, 1960, three men in a fishing boat near Patta Island in Truk Atoll spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses were Pentam Wale, age 19, Alfred Afechuong, age 37…

On April 1, 1960, in the vicinity of the Hawaiian Islands, a military pilot and copilot sighted an object similar to a shooting star, only much brighter and bigger than usual. The…

On December 29, 1960, the crew of a Pan American Boeing 707 flying from Sydney to Nandi reported one object. The sighting was over the ocean at about 23 degrees south, 173 degrees…

On September 28, 1960, four military aircrew aboard an aircraft over the Pacific Ocean (about 29.32N, 125W) reported an object at 0552 (5:52 a.m.) GMT. They saw a fast moving brill…

On January 13, 1960, an aircraft flying over the Gulf of Mexico detected an unidentified object on radar. The plane's radar picked up the object at an estimated distance of 60 naut…

On July 5, 1960, pilots of seven military aircraft saw an object in the Texas and Louisiana area. The planes were near Galveston, Texas, DeQuincy, Louisiana, and Lake Charles, Loui…

On October 12, 1960, three military officers aboard a destroyer in Egypt sighted an unidentified object bearing 120 degrees at 5 degrees elevation. The object moved rapidly across…

On the evening of March 7, 1960, people across the eastern United States reported seeing brilliant lights streak across the sky. The sightings stretched from Maine to Florida and w…

In the early morning hours of June 25, 1960, multiple ships and aircraft in the West Indies reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object traveling from west to east. Seven independ…

On August 6, 1960, a military observer at sea, near 29 degrees north and 75 degrees west in the Atlantic, reported a sighting at about 7:00 p.m. The object was a white-colored flar…

On January 10 to 11, 1960, a crew member aboard a U.S. Navy transport plane saw an unusual light over the Pacific Ocean, near 30 degrees North and 139 degrees West. The plane was f…

On September 26, 1960, military observers aboard a ship northeast of Bermuda reported a falling object at 0527 (5:27 a.m.) GMT. The object was yellowish-green and described as a fa…

On April 19, 1960, the crew of a Norwegian motor vessel called the Luxsefjell reported seeing a flaming object in the sky northwest of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship's…

On December 29, 1960, the crew of a T-33 aircraft over Japan reported one object near the Miho radio beacon. The object had an indefinite shape, about the size of a basketball at a…

On September 23, 1960, two ships off the north coast of Labrador reported seeing a large cylinder-shaped object descend toward the ocean. The witnesses were crew members aboard the…

On September 28 and 29, 1960, witnesses on Okinawa reported an object on two days, around 1015 GMT and 0950 (dusk). The object looked the same size and color as a star. It was firs…

On June 25, 1960, the crew of a British West Indies Airways Viscount airliner saw an object over the Caribbean Sea. The plane was flying from San Juan, Puerto Rico, toward Barbados…

On May 27, 1960, an object was reported in the sky near Midway Island. The card lists one object. The object was sighted about 10 miles from Midway, bearing between about 300 and…

On the night of October 25, 1960, three U.S. Marine Corps officers at Camp Hague on Okinawa saw a bright orange object in the sky. Major Charles R. Burroughs, Major Otto Svensson J…

On December 19, 1960, near SE Guam, military personnel observed an object of first magnitude brightness. The object was picked up at 15 degrees elevation and 335 degrees bearing. I…

On July 29, 1960, a Cincinnati resident watched a shiny object cross the sky for about twenty minutes. The observer described it as looking like a star, except that it gave off two…

On December 17, 1960, at 1:15 p.m. local time, a military observer north of Midway Island sighted one bright yellow shining object with a white horizon traveling east-southeast and…

On December 6, 1960, a military observer at Riddle Army Airfield near Cirvis reported a bright flash in the sky. The object appeared at a bearing of 245 degrees from the observer's…

On October 19, 1960, northeast of Bermuda, a bright light was observed in the sky bearing 010 degrees from a military vessel. The light was controlled by Capella, a star in the Cap…

On December 6, 1960, near Misawa, Japan, a white object with a tail was sighted at night. The object was roughly the size of a baseball with a tail about as wide as a baseball. It…

On April 5, 1960, a large orange object fell in southern Argentina, moving slower than a meteor and different in color. The object was sighted by the President of the Bahia Blanca…

On March 1960, the Air Force's Project Blue Book received reports of an unusual object seen from a ship in the Hawaiian Islands area. According to the initial case summary, the obj…

In October 1960, a resident of northern Ohio submitted photographs to the U.S. Air Force, claiming they showed a strange object near the moon. The witness said the pictures were ta…

On December 13, 1960, three pilots observed four unidentified flying objects at different times over the Atlantic Ocean west to north of their position. The pilots were conducting…

On July 27, 1960, a Navy aircraft crew saw an object near Flores Island in the Azores at about 10:21 p.m. The sighting lasted about five seconds. The plane was on a heading toward…

On October 17, 1960, in Indonesia, a report stated that meteorites or a satellite decay was in possession of the Indonesian Government. The brief summary notes decay of objects occ…

On May 27, 1960, observers saw a bright object in the sky east of Japan, near 42 degrees 15 minutes North and 157 degrees 25 minutes East. The card lists one object. The object wa…

On September 17, 1960, a military observer north of Midway Island reported sighting one elliptical-shaped object the size of a football with a tail length equal to the body. The ob…

On December 8, 1960, near Wallops Island, Maryland, a military observer reported sighting a very bright light the size of a basketball with an orange center and blue rim. The objec…

On September 26, 1960, at 07:00 GMT (7 a.m.), a military aircraft crew flying south of the Midway Islands spotted an unusual object in the sky. The crew first saw it from their lef…

On the evening of April 16, 1960, multiple witnesses across New Mexico and Texas saw a bright object streak across the sky. An Air Force F-100 pilot flying over the area reported s…

On March 9, 1960, the USCGC Cutter Cahone in the Gulf of Mexico reported a sighting of a possible missile reentry. A military observer reported a bright light flash with a trailing…

On September 9, 1959, a witness near Miami, Florida reported observing an object appearing to be a two-stage rocket at high altitude traveling northwest true. The object was whitel…

On the evening of January 4, 1959, a laboratory technician driving north on U.S. Highway 285 near Clines Corner, New Mexico, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The sighting occu…

On the night of December 23, 1959, observers west of Albuquerque, New Mexico spotted three objects in a line formation painted on radar and visible to the naked eye. The objects de…

On September 1, 1959, two military pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer aircraft over the Monterey Peninsula, California spotted an unusual light in the eastern sky. Major John W. Sher…

On the early morning of September 13, 1959, a resident near Gills Rock, Wisconsin, reported witnessing an unusual object rising rapidly into the night sky. The witness, who was out…

On the night of July 19-20, 1959, a woman driving south on Highway 77 near Ceresco, Nebraska saw a strange light in the sky that she described as looking like a bright star with ra…

On August 21, 1959, a piece of red-tinted glass fell from the sky near Marysville, Ohio. The glass landed on the roof of a house about 17 miles northwest of town, then tumbled to t…

On February 6, 1959, a civilian about one mile south of Dinwiddie, Virginia, reported objects in the sky. The sighting was about 3:45 p.m. local time (2045 GMT) and lasted about on…

On January 22, 1959, a civilian about 20 miles east of Richmond, Virginia, reported lights in the sky. The sighting was about 8:45 p.m. local time (0145 GMT) and the lights were in…

Early on the morning of November 3, 1959, Robert L. James, a used car dealer from Taylorsville, North Carolina, reported seeing a glowing object that seemed to chase his car for ab…

On October 15, 1959, a pilot saw a bright object about 25 miles west of Galena, Alaska. The sighting was reported through Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for…

On February 27, 1959, two military pilots about 29 miles west of Oceanside, California, reported an object high in the sky. The sighting was about 10:45 a.m. (1845Z) and lasted up…

A bright object caught the attention of a motorist near Centerville, Ohio in March 1959. The witness was driving in a car about two miles north of town when they spotted what they…

On January 10, 1959, a civilian about 4 miles south of Eagle Springs, North Carolina, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was made on the ground and lasted abou…

On May 18, 1959, at about 0830Z, about 4 miles west of Greenbush, Kansas, a driver reported a close encounter with a glowing object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force…

At 1:30 a.m. on March 22, 1959, a man and woman driving on a country road north of Ann Arbor, Michigan, spotted a strange object in the sky. They described it as egg shaped with a…

On February 11, 1959, at 11 a.m., a civilian reported a sighting five miles south of Rockingham, North Carolina. The witness observed a round object two to three hundred feet in di…

On the night of October 9, 1959, an object was reported from the yacht Intermezzo south of Miami in Biscayne Bay, Florida. The sighting lasted about 20 to 30 seconds. The object w…

On the night of February 11, 1959, an airman at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina saw a bright object streaking across the sky. The object appeared as a round ball with a tail,…