Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 20, 1963, at dawn, eight Air Police officers at Lajes Air Base in the Azores watched a pale white, grapefruit-sized object move across the sky. The sighting began at 06…

On March 22, 1963, at 6:35 a.m. in Lebanon, Ohio, a civilian observer reported seeing an object moving north with a light and tail going south, then moving rapidly. The object was…

On June 17, 1963, a civilian witness in Lincolnwood, Illinois reported seeing a silver disc-shaped object with no tail at 12:25 p.m. The witness was waiting for a bus at the southw…

On June 13, 1963, at night, a civilian student reported an object near Little Rock, Arkansas. The witness was about 8 miles south of the city. The case was recorded in Project 1007…

On April 26, 1963, a civilian woman in Lorton, Virginia, reported a moon shaped object about 10 feet across. She was sunbathing and watching clouds at the Springfield Farm location…

On February 11, 1963, a civilian in Los Angeles, California, reported a strange vapor trail in the sky. The sighting was made between 5:49 and 5:55 p.m. local time. The observer wa…

On January 17, 1963, a civilian in Ludlow, Massachusetts, reported a point of light in the night sky. The witness was sitting in a car when the object appeared. It looked red, like…

On the evening of February 8, 1963, a man driving near Maysville, Kentucky spotted an unusual object through the trees on a hillside to the west of his location. He pulled over to…

In June 1963, a witness in Mesa, Arizona reported seeing an unusual object during the early evening hours. The sighting lasted approximately 25 minutes. The witness observed an el…

On June 13, 1963, at night, an air policeman reported a light near Misawa Air Base, Japan. The witness was Airman Robert J. O'Connor, a military observer with the air police. The c…

On the night of February 6, 1963, a civilian pilot flying a C-46 cargo plane spotted a bright, spherical light in the sky near Montebello, Virginia. The pilot was about 15 miles so…

On the night of April 13, 1963, someone in Moorcroft, Wyoming reported seeing a bright object that looked like a star moving through the sky to the southeast at fairly high speed.…

On the night of January 4th into the early morning of January 5th, 1963, a railroad worker at Nantucket Point on Long Island looked up from his job filling train tanks around 3 a.m…

On the evening of June 25, 1963, a civilian in New Carlisle, Ohio saw a bright object that resembled a star moving across the night sky toward the northeast. The witness watched th…

On the night of May 18, 1963, someone near New Plymouth, New Zealand saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness was at a camp when they spotted it around 10:30 p.m. local time.…

On the night of June 18, 1963, people across the Niagara Falls and Buffalo area of western New York reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The sightings were brought…

On March 17, 1963, a 14-year-old in North Andover, Massachusetts reported seeing three bright objects in the sky during the afternoon. The witness said the objects were traveling i…

On the evening of June 28, 1963, residents of North Branford, Connecticut, reported seeing a bright white object moving erratically across the night sky. The object appeared circul…

A mechanic in Albuquerque captured photographs of a flying object on June 16, 1963, claiming it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Air Force photo analysts, however, determined th…

On June 18, 1963, at about 6:41 a.m. local time, an object was reported over Oahu, Hawaii. The main witness was Major Armand Parker, a military officer. His wife and another milita…

In July 1963, someone in Oakhurst, New Jersey reported seeing a UFO traveling from northwest to southeast across the sky until it disappeared at about 15 degrees above the horizon.…

On the night of May 2, 1963, near Ocean City, Maryland, six witnesses observed a light in the sky that resembled a bright star. The object was dim white in color and made no sound.…

On March 20, 1963, a woman in Opa Locka, Florida, reported spots of light in the sky while walking home at about 4:30 p.m. The lights were bigger and brighter than stars. Some were…

On May 22, 1963, a witness in Parkersburg, West Virginia reported seeing an object fall to the ground at 10:30 p.m. The witness described the object as bright green in color and sa…

On April 27, 1963, at 3:50 p.m. Eastern time, a civilian in Pearl Beach, Michigan reported an unidentified flying object sighting. The witness observed an object through a telescop…

On February 12, 1963, a civilian in Phoenix, Arizona, reported four small round glowing dots crossing his view. The sighting was at about 10:55 p.m. local time. The man was lying i…

On June 22, 1963, in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, a civilian witness reported seeing a bright egg-shaped light that was white in color. The witness observed the object in the west,…

On January 21, 1963, a civilian near Rockport Air Force Station, Texas, reported a round, silvery white object during daylight. It looked about the size of a pinhead held at arm's…

On the evening of June 27, 1963, a person in Rockville, Maryland reported seeing a bright object in the twilight sky that resembled a half moon in appearance. The object was white…

On the evening of February 13, 1963, in Rydall, Pennsylvania, a boy and his mother saw a reddish object in the western sky just above the horizon. At first, the boy thought he was…

On the night of March 18, 1963, a man living three miles northwest of Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, reported seeing an unidentified object fly over his home.…

On March 11, 1963 (about 9:15 p.m. local time by Greenwich time of March 12), two Air Force officers in an aircraft near San Diego, California, reported an orange flame or light wi…

On the night of May 1, 1963, a fifteen-year-old boy in Silver Grove, Kentucky reported seeing two unidentified objects moving southward through the sky at 10:15 p.m. He watched for…

On June 8, 1963, at about 9:30 p.m., a witness saw a bright object on the Edens Highway between Skokie and Highland Park, Illinois. The observer was a civilian, an 11-year-old who…

On the morning of April 3, 1963, around 3:20 to 3:30 a.m., a bright object streaked across the sky above Fiji, spotted by military personnel, police, and civilians across the islan…

On the evening of November 18, 1962, a resident of Tampa, Florida, and his wife observed three unusual lights from their front porch. The objects approached from the northeast, gro…

On the night of June 26, 1963, a resident of Texarkana, Texas watched two round white-to-orange objects move slowly across the northern sky. The witness noticed the objects while l…

On the evening of June 24, 1963, a farmer near Versailles, Missouri saw an unusual object in the sky. The man, age 47, observed a round white object that appeared as a moving light…

On June 27, 1963, in daylight, a civilian reported an object near Von Ormy, Texas, about 2 miles north of the town. The witness worked at Kelly Air Force Base. The case was recorde…

On June 13, 1963, at night, a civilian reported an object near Washington, D.C., about 5 miles north of the Pentagon. The witness was a voluntary worker at the National Institutes…

On the evening of January 9, 1963, someone in West Carrolton, Ohio, saw a yellow and white light fall to the ground behind a tower. The witness reported the sighting to the U.S. Ai…

On the night of June 25-26, 1963, two separate incidents were reported in the Weymouth area of Massachusetts. One involved a photograph taken by newspaper reporter Richard Pothier,…

On May 6, 1963 (about dusk by Greenwich time of May 7), Air Force tower operators at Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, reported a circular white or light orange light. It was firs…

On February 14, 1963, civilians about 2 miles east of Wilmington, North Carolina, reported a bright white object with a blue tint. The object looked round, about the size of a base…

On February 28, 1963, hundreds of people across Arizona, New Mexico, and California saw an unusual luminous ring-shaped cloud near sunset. The object appeared near Winslow and Flag…

On the night of June 9, 1963, a man lying in his backyard in Xenia, Ohio, saw a series of bright blue flashes moving across the sky. The observer, who was looking straight up from…

A military aircraft flying over the Pacific Ocean spotted a bright, star-like object moving at high speed on March 18, 1963. The sighting occurred near coordinates 47.20 North lati…

On May 3, 1963, Ocean Station Victor, a stationary weather platform in the Pacific Ocean about 140 degrees west longitude and 29.5 degrees north latitude, spotted a large silver-co…

In April 1963, a pilot on a flight southeast of Iceland reported seeing a round, star-shaped object glowing as bright as a second-magnitude star. The sighting occurred at 0821 GMT…

On February 24, 1963 (local time February 25 by Greenwich time), two airline crews over the Pacific Ocean reported a brilliant white object entering the atmosphere. The first repor…

On March 28, 1963, an observer on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean at coordinates 35 degrees North, 48 degrees West sighted a fast-moving object in the night sky. The object was first…

On the evening of March 15, 1963, sailors aboard the USS Durant spotted a white blinking light in the Pacific Ocean at coordinates 03.45 South, 168.19 West. A lookout saw the light…

On March 1, 1963, a military aircraft crew over Germany reported a sharp, long rectangular object in flight. The object was bright white with a bluish green tinge and was 2 to 3 ti…

On June 15, 1963, an observer in the Indian Ocean at coordinates 14.27 degrees North, 69.57 degrees East saw a luminous disc. The object appeared at an elevation of 30 degrees in t…

On April 21, 1963, a military aircraft crew over the Pacific Ocean reported a bright light at high altitude. The position was about 42.20 degrees north, 173 degrees west. The crew…

On April 22, 1963, an Air Force duty officer near Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, logged a fourth hand report of a bluish light moving up and down. The report came through a major…

On May 29, 1963, at 0741 GMT (approximately 1:41 p.m.), a UFO sighting was reported in the central Pacific Ocean east of the Hawaiian Islands, at coordinates 30.50 degrees North la…

On June 26, 1963, an aircraft crew over the Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii reported seeing a pinhead-sized white light at 20 degrees elevation (roughly 20 degrees above the hori…

In May 1963, a military aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean detected three unusual radar contacts moving at identical speeds of 1,400 miles per hour. The radar operator at Dow Air For…

On February 5, 1963, a military aircraft crew over the Pacific Ocean reported an object moving south. The aircraft was at about 10,000 feet, on top of a cloud layer, in clear condi…