Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 12, 1961, at about 1802 (6:02 p.m.) local time, civilians in Ferndale, Michigan, reported two objects in the sky. The witnesses were a school teacher and a librarian. Th…

On January 16 to 17, 1961, a shop owner at Fitchburg, Massachusetts reported four objects. The main object looked as large as a dime held at arm's length, while three smaller objec…

On the evening of August 16, 1961, a resident of Flushing, New York, spotted a shiny, silvery object in the night sky at approximately 9:03 p.m. The witness described it as brighte…

In August 1961, someone in Fontana, California submitted three photographs to the U.S. Air Force, claiming they showed a flying saucer. The Air Force's Foreign Technology Division…

On the night of January 30 and 31, 1961, observers at three Air Force bases and a civilian in Missouri reported seeing bright, fast-moving objects streak across the sky. The sighti…

On July 1, 1961, an unidentified flying object was reported near Fernandina Beach, Florida. A witness observed a red, very bright object moving from north to south at a slow speed.…

On February 6, 1961, between about 2105 and 2135 (9:05 to 9:35 p.m.) local, an observer at Forsyth, Montana reported a round, bright white object that turned red as it got farther…

On January 9 through 15, 1961, multiple witnesses at and near Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The case file primarily focuses on a sigh…

# Four UFO Sightings Reported by a Fort Worth Teenager in 1961 In the summer of 1961, the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base received a let…

On May 10, 1961, a military witness saw an object near Fort Bliss, Texas, around 8 p.m. (local). The sighting lasted about 38 minutes. The object's course varied. The object first…

On the night of February 28, 1961, radar operators at Fort George G. Meade detected an unusual target on their screen at 2245 EST (Eastern Standard Time). The object appeared on gr…

On March 23 through 29, 1961, residents across the Fort Pierce, Florida area reported seeing unusual white lights in the western sky. These sightings sparked a series of UFO report…

A Wyoming rancher found a strange metal ornament in his field in February 1961. The object prompted an investigation that would eventually reach the FBI and several U.S. Air Force…

On September 20, 1961, in the evening, a civilian in Gaithersburg, Maryland, reported an object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's o…

On October 16, 1961, military witnesses at Gettysburg Air Force Station, South Dakota, reported an object at about 10:05 a.m. local time. The object was about the size of a basebal…

At 5:00 p.m. on December 29, 1961, two people traveling south on US Route 31W near Goodlettsville, Tennessee spotted what they believed were strange objects in the sky. The witness…

On December 13, 1961, the crew of American Airlines Flight 14 reported an object over Goshen, Indiana. The sighting was made at about 1955 GMT and lasted about 6 seconds. The objec…

On September 25, 1961, at about 0340 (3:40 a.m.) local time, a civilian near Grafton, North Dakota, reported an object in the sky while driving. The report was filed on the Project…

On the night of October 19 to 20, 1961, military witnesses on Grand Cayman Island in the West Indies reported an object. The witnesses were weather technicians. They described an e…

On October 8, 1961, two military witnesses about ten miles west of Grand Forks, North Dakota, reported an object at about 7:00 p.m. local time. The men were driving a car when they…

On the night of October 27, 1961, military personnel at Grand Rapids Air Force Station in Michigan observed unusual lights in the sky. Two or three large white lights appeared to f…

On March 4, 1961, an aluminum alloy sheet was found in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The report noted the time as about 2:34 p.m. The sheet measured roughly 3 and 3/4 inches by 18 feet.…

On March 2, 1961, a witness near Great Falls, Montana, reported a bright object in the sky. The sighting was made from a car around dusk while the person watched the sunset. The ob…

On September 18, 1961, in the Greenway, Wisconsin area, a radar target was reported. It first showed up like a normal target at a high altitude and a fairly low speed. It appeared…

On October 25, 1961, a witness in Greenwich, Connecticut, reported an object at about 9:05 p.m. local time. The witness was a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, judged reliable.…

On June 30, 1961, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a witness observed an unidentified flying object from her bedroom around 5 a.m. The object was described as saucer-shaped, about the s…

Reported from Hammond, Indiana, in September 1961, this case came from a letter about a large object seen over San Diego. A woman said she saw the object and stressed it was not he…

On April 21, 1961, radar operators at Hanna City Air Force Station, Illinois, tracked an object about 2 miles west of Hanna City. The radar contact lasted about 3 hours and 4 minut…

In June 1961, a woman in Haverhill, Massachusetts reported seeing an unidentified object while driving. The sighting was brief, lasting only about 30 seconds, and the Air Force eva…

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 January 15, 1961, at night, a man and four passengers in a car entering Holt, Minnesota reported a round, blue-white object the size of a basketball. The whole countryside seeme…

On February 28, 1961, three pilots in Honolulu, Hawaii reported seeing a fine contrail (a thin trail of condensation) that broke apart into three separate pieces and burned out. Th…

On July 20, 1961, a Trans Texas Airways pilot and crew member spotted two unusually bright objects while flying a DC-3 aircraft from Houston to Jefferson County Airport near Port A…

In September 1961, a woman in Huntington, Indiana, wrote to the U.S. Air Force describing a bright light she had observed multiple times in the western sky. The object appeared aro…

On May 11, 1961, a weather observer at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas, Nevada, spotted a crescent-shaped silver object using a theodolite (an optical instrument used to trac…

On three nights, August 14, 15, and 16, 1961, civilians in Inwood, New York, reported flashes of light in the sky. The flashes were seen between about 2100 and 2300 (9:00 p.m. and…

On October 16, 1961, a civilian pilot flying a Piper Comanche observed three unidentified objects near Jensen, Utah. The pilot was en route from Rangeley, Colorado to Salt Lake Cit…

On September 18, 1961, at about 1230Z (Greenwich time), the crew of a military patrol aircraft reported an object near Johnston Island in the Pacific. The report was filed on the P…

On April 28, 1961, an Air Force pilot saw an object about 2 miles west of Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, around 10:40 p.m. (GMT) at night. The pilot, a lieutenant colonel and assistant…

On the night of October 29, 1961, a reconnaissance pilot at Kadena Air Base in Naha, Okinawa looked up at the dark sky and saw a bright white object with a white tail. The object w…

On July 23, 1961, a civilian reported an object near Kane, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes. The object appeared on the northwest horizon and disappeared on the s…

On August 12, 1961, in Kansas City, Kansas, a witness reported an object in level flight. It was elliptical and a dull grey metallic color. It gave off a blast of greenish white ex…

In the spring of 1961, a woman in Kemah, Texas reported seeing two strange objects in the sky. The first was white, spider-web-like material floating down. The second was a round m…

On the evening of August 3, 1961, two observers in Kentland, Indiana were watching Jupiter and Saturn through a small telescope when they spotted an unusual object moving northeast…

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…

On the evening of November 26, 1961, a resident of Kew Gardens, New York, watched an unusual object from his home. He was indoors watching television when he heard a noise on the f…

On November 17, 1961, military and civilian witnesses in Lake Charles, Louisiana, reported objects at about 6:00 a.m. local time (1200 Zulu). One bright object, about the size of a…

On August 13, 1961, an object was reported over Lake Charles, Louisiana at 8:30 p.m. The object was recovered on August 14, 1961 at 3:00 p.m. and identified as an M-131 parachute f…

On the evening of May 25, 1961, a civilian employee at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada reported seeing a formation of unusual aircraft near his home northwest of Las Vegas. The man…

On March 4, 1961, a weather observer at Lakenheath, England, reported an object falling toward earth. It was seen about 11:52 p.m. at an elevation of about 62 degrees and an azimut…

On March 5, 1961, a civilian in Lanett, Alabama, reported a fast moving object at 12:21 p.m. Eastern time. The witness was sitting in a backyard swing facing north and looked up at…

On August 6, 1961, in Las Vegas, Nevada, a civilian reported a satellite passing overhead at 2230 (10:30 p.m.). The object was seen at about 65 degrees above the horizon and moved…

On October 15, 1961, a civilian near Las Vegas, New Mexico called the U.S. Air Force to report something unusual in the sky. The observer used binoculars and looked at an object wi…

On February 7 to 8, 1961, from dusk to dark, an Air Force weather observer at Laurence G. Hanscom Field in Massachusetts reported a white object the size of a half dollar. It was f…

In September 1961, residents of Lincoln, New Hampshire observed an unusual light in the night sky that puzzled them for about thirty minutes. The sighting occurred around midnight…

In 1961, a civilian writer in the Los Angeles area reported a brief object sighting in a letter sent to a senior Air Force general. The reported event lasted only about half a seco…

On the night of November 20, 1961, two men plowing a field near Mackinaw, Illinois noticed a bright white light in the southwest sky. The men were jet engine mechanics attached to…

On September 21, 1961, a 26-year-old student in Madison, Wisconsin reported seeing a small, round object with yellow and gold coloring. The object was observed during daylight hour…

# Summary A farmer near Manning, North Dakota reported seeing a bright, shining object in the sky for about three hours on each of three consecutive mornings: November 11, 12, and…

On the afternoon of May 22, 1961, two women sitting on a back patio at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida spotted an unusual object in the sky. One of the witnesses, Mrs. S., notice…