Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 15, 1962, a civilian witness reported an object near Las Cruces, New Mexico. The sighting was made at about 1224 GMT and lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. The witness, who w…

On June 1, 1962, in Laurel, Maryland, an elderly woman reported a sighting to Scott Carpenter of an unidentified object. The witness described seeing a large object with lights lik…

On August 12, 1962, at about 2511Z, at night, an observer in Lincoln, Nebraska, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying…

On December 8, 1962, a civilian in Lincoln Park, Michigan reported seeing a fast blue twinkling light moving from east to west across the sky at 11:40 p.m. The sky was clear. The w…

On April 23, 1962, a resident of Lincoln Park, Michigan reported seeing a bright object in the western sky. The witness watched the light move slowly toward the horizon over the co…

On November 5, 1962, a civilian reported a bright star-colored elongated object about three feet long with a vapor trail above it near Little Rock, Arkansas. The sighting lasted ab…

On February 23, 1962, a civilian airline pilot near Little Saba in the Caribbean Sea reported one bright object. The pilot thought it was a meteor falling into the sea. The object…

On July 12, 1962, a civilian housewife in North Hollywood, California, about four miles southwest of the Lockheed Air Terminal, reported two objects. She saw them separately, one a…

On August 1, 1962, near Los Cruces, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing a UFO. The object was flat and black with a dome in the center and vertical fins around the outs…

On the night of January 17, 1962, a witness in Lynn, Massachusetts saw a bright object moving across the sky. The witness described the object as resembling a light that changed in…

On the night of March 31, 1962, a KC-135 tanker aircraft was flying at 44,000 feet near Mackenzie Bay, Alaska when the co-pilot spotted a bright white light in the sky. The light a…

On September 10, 1962, a resident of Macon, Georgia reported seeing a brief, unexplained light in the sky. The witness observed a yellow, solid object that appeared as a light in t…

On September 11, 1962, police and Civil Defense officials in Madisonville, Kentucky received reports of a strange substance falling from the sky. Witnesses described it as resembli…

In July 1962, witnesses in Malden, Massachusetts reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared oval in shape and white in color, with a bright light on its fron…

On September 9, 1962, U.S. Air Force aircraft crews observed a bright, burning object breaking apart high above Wisconsin. The spectacle lit up the night sky across a wide region,…

In April 1962, a resident of Mayer, Arizona, found some shiny metal strips and reported them to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a possible UFO sighting. The person wondered…

On an August night in 1962 in Maywood, Illinois, a witness watched a bright yellow object moving slowly across the sky, passing behind clouds as it traveled from west to southwest.…

On the evening of July 10, 1962, a 14-year-old amateur astronomer in Meredith, New Hampshire, was setting up his telescope to observe Venus when he noticed an unusual object in the…

On the evening of November 1, 1962, a couple driving home along Veteran's Highway in Metairie, Louisiana spotted what looked like sky writing in the distance. The husband was drivi…

On July 19, 1962, around 4:30 p.m., a witness at the beach in Metuchen, New Jersey, spotted unusual lights in the hazy evening sky. The objects looked like bright stars that were m…

In March 1962, an amateur astronomer in Miami, Florida, photographed mysterious lights that moved across the sky in just 17 seconds. The observer had actually seen similar objects…

# Miami UFO Sighting, January 1962 On the evening of January 25, 1962, five young members of the Miami Astronomical Association gathered at a private home in southwest Miami to ob…

On the evening of February 14, 1962, four people sat by the swimming pool at the Key Biscayne Hotel in Miami, Florida, and saw a bright light moving across the clear night sky. The…

On December 28, 1962, two high school girls in Miamisburg, Ohio sighted an object in the eastern sky at 3:30 a.m. The object was brighter than a star and appeared to move around, g…

In May 1962, a resident of Millsap, Texas reported seeing an unusual object in the sky that moved quickly across the area. The sighting lasted only five to ten seconds, but the obs…

On February 19, 1962, several witnesses near Mobile, Alabama, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was made at about 2400 GMT (around sunset) and was observed for up to abou…

On January 15, 1962, witnesses in Monroe, Louisiana, reported objects in the sky. The sighting was made at about 1058 GMT, before dawn. It was seen from the ground by civilians. T…

In early October 1962, military personnel at Larson Air Force Base in Washington observed glowing objects in the sky during two separate incidents. The witnesses were three airmen…

On November 20, 1962, at about 0620Z (Greenwich time), in the early morning, a civilian in Montevideo, Minnesota, reported an object in the sky. The witness saw it from a bedroom w…

On the evening of January 28, 1962, an 18-year-old college student and amateur astronomer in Morehead, Kentucky, stepped into his backyard to observe constellations through binocul…

On January 1, 1962, in Morgantown, West Virginia, a civilian witness reported seeing unidentified objects in the night sky. Two oval-shaped flying objects were observed during Janu…

On November 30, 1962, a civilian in Muskegon, Michigan reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The object appeared as a bright point of light comparable to a star or mo…

On February 2, 1962, a civilian witness near Muskwa, British Columbia, Canada, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was made at about 1641 GMT, during the day, and lasted ab…

On October 7, 1962, an observer in Naha, Okinawa, saw a bright white object moving across the night sky at an unusual angle. The object appeared first in the southwest, at an angle…

In May 1962, the crew of Qantas Flight 586 reported seeing lights from another aircraft while flying between Nandi, Fiji and Honolulu. The plane was cruising at 37,000 feet, about…

In March 1962, two women driving near Naperville, Illinois, spotted mysterious red blinking lights in the evening sky. The women, returning from a card game, watched the strange ob…

On May 19, 1962, at Navajo Ordnance Depot in Arizona, a white object with bright and dim lights was observed in the night sky from a Santa Fe train headed west between Flagstaff an…

On the night of April 19, 1962, radar operators at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada detected an unidentified blip on their scopes. The object appeared on both the search radar (a wi…

# Newark, New Jersey UFO Sightings, September 1962 On the night of September 20-21, 1962, residents across northern New Jersey reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The sigh…

On the evening of July 10, 1962, a man driving near Fords, New Jersey, spotted an unusual object in the sky at approximately 11:20 p.m. He described it as bright white-grey in colo…

In early July 1962, members of the Zoological Astronomical Terra-nautical Association reported two separate sightings in New York City that neither local experts nor newspapers cou…

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On November 10, 1962, military radar at North Star Bay, Greenland, tracked a fast-moving target. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system fo…

On October 27, 1962, at 7:44 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a civilian observer at a planetarium in the Stamford, Connecticut, area reported a faint object in the sky. He was watching…

On the night of July 30, 1962, a family near Ocean Springs, Mississippi observed a bright red object maneuvering silently over their home for about ten minutes. The witness, a sale…

On September 14, 1962, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a civilian observer reported seeing an object in the sky late in the afternoon. The object appeared to be a plane maneuvering at…

On September 15, 1962, three boys told police in Oradell, New Jersey that they had witnessed a strange object over the Oradell Reservoir. According to their account, the round obje…

On August 24, 1962, near Orcas Island, Washington, a civilian witness reported seeing four bright objects in the sky. The witness described the objects as very bright amber lights,…

On October 5, 1962, a metal object fell to the ground in Ouagadougou, Upper Volta, Africa. Field workers recovered the object. One metal piece was submitted for analysis. The Air F…

On October 20, 1962, a civilian in Pacific Grove, California reported observing a ball of light about 7 inches in diameter with a dark greenish tint. The object moved in horizontal…

On May 28, 1962, two civilian witnesses about six miles west of Palmer, Alaska, reported two objects at about 0440Z. The objects were in sight for about 2 to 4 seconds. The object…

On November 3, 1962, near Paramaribo, Surinam, in South America, a military source reported a fast-moving lighted object. The report came from Dutch military observers and was file…

# Paterson, New Jersey | July 1962 On the evening of July 9, 1962, between 10:15 and 10:26 p.m., young people in Paterson, New Jersey saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness…

On August 1, 1962, near Perrin, Texas, a witness observed an unidentified object with the naked eye. The object appeared square or rectangular, approximately 120 power Barlow Lens…

On the evening of August 7, 1962, a resident of Petersburg, Virginia reported seeing a bright object moving across the sky. The object appeared as a steady, unpulsating light with…

# Philadelphia UFO Sighting, October 1962 On the evening of October 18, 1962, a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania saw a white object in the southeastern sky that disappeared…

On April 27, 1962, at approximately 8:20 p.m. E.S.T., a flying object was sighted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The object was roughly shaped like a Mercury Capsule with a sphere…

On May 23, 1962, a man in Philadelphia reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. He watched it move several times over a period of about forty-five minutes, observing it throug…

On the night of August 30, 1962, an observer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti reported seeing an unidentified flying object in the sky. The witness used optical equipment (likely a telesco…

On August 12, 1962, at about 10:00 p.m., a civilian in Portland, Oregon, saw objects in the night sky. The witness said the sighting actually took place in San Jose, California. Th…