Project Blue Book Case Files

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…

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 June 16, 1963, a sailor aboard the USS Lansing saw a bright object in the night sky while the ship was stationed in the Pacific Ocean about 300 miles south of Hawaii. The object…

On the night of March 11, 1963, hundreds of people across the Hawaiian Islands reported a glowing object moving from east to west at high altitude and high speed. It was described…

A pilot flying over the Pacific Ocean spotted what appeared to be an orbiting satellite on April 28, 1963 at around 1224 hours (12:24 p.m.). The aircraft, call sign 8874, was near…

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 June 13, 1963, the crew of the USS Chautauqua reported an object in the Pacific near 24 degrees North, 164 degrees East, at Ocean Station Victor. The witnesses were military obs…

On May 26, 1963, the crew of the tug Sandra reported an object over the Gulf of Mexico near 29 degrees 14 minutes North, 93 degrees 25 minutes West. The witnesses were Coast Guard…

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 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…

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 17, 1963, a crew member aboard the USS Lansing, a naval ship in the Pacific Ocean at coordinates 28.00N 162.00W, spotted an unidentified object in the sky. The object appea…

On March 12, 1963, a Northwest Airlines pilot over the Pacific Ocean reported a bright flash in the sky. The sighting was at about 3:07 p.m. local time (Greenwich time 15:07). The…

On May 21, 1963 (about 8:10 p.m. by Greenwich time), the crew of the ship USS Gearing in the Atlantic Ocean reported a flying object that appeared to be rocket powered. The positio…

On June 16, 1963, at 11:20 a.m. GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), the crew of the USS Tetela and the Coast Guard Cutter Chautauqua reported observing a flying object in the North Pacific…

On June 11, 1963, the British cargo ship M.V. Box Hill spotted something unusual in the Gulf of Mexico about 450 miles south-southeast of the Louisiana coast. The ship's crew saw w…

On April 26, 1963, at 0613 hours (6:13 a.m.), a civilian Northwest Airlines flight crew reported a satellite-like object traveling north to south over the Pacific Ocean at coordina…

On May 17, 1963, the crew of a Military Air Transport Service C-135 aircraft over the Pacific Ocean reported a bright greenish white flare. The position was about 46 degrees north,…

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 May 15, 1963, several witnesses in Louisiana reported a V shaped or triangular object with a ball of light at its tip and a faint contrail. The first observers, on the ground ne…

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 8, 1963, the crew of a military aircraft over the Pacific Ocean reported a radar contact followed by a visual contact. The position was about 58 degrees north, 169 degrees w…

On February 17, 1963, at 12:00 p.m. GMT, an Iranian border post near the Caspian Sea reported sighting an unidentified flying object. The object was shaped similar to a rocket and…

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 July 2, 1963, military observers reported objects over the North Atlantic near 55 degrees North, 35 degrees West. The report came in as a CIRVIS message and was recorded in Proj…

On June 20, 1963, a bright object was observed at location 33.12N 168.33E in the Pacific Ocean. A military observer reported seeing an object as bright as a first magnitude star in…

On January 31, 1963, witnesses over the Atlantic Ocean reported a bright flash or explosion in the sky. The reports came from several aircraft and from the ship USS Dunkirk. The si…

On July 25, 1962, two Air Force officers aboard a T-33 aircraft about 10 miles northwest of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, reported an object. The object was in sight for about…

On February 23, 1962, a crew aboard a U.S. Navy ship off Luzon in the Philippines (16-32N 119-31E) reported a bright white object in the night sky. The sighting was a military grou…

On April 12, 1962, near Kunia, Hawaii (about 22-02N 160-40W), an object was reported on ground radar. The radar return was below 25,000 feet and showed a high rate of closure, with…

On July 11, 1962, five people about 30 miles north of Kankakee, Illinois, on U.S. 54 reported objects at about 2020 (8:20 p.m.). The objects were in sight for about 15 minutes. Th…

On October 14, 1962, a ship captain on the Mississippi River reported seeing an unidentified flying object near 6 Mile, SW Pass. Captain [name redacted], a river pilot, observed th…

On July 7, 1962, a witness in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw an unusual object rise from the south and move northward. As the object climbed overhead, it flashed brightly. At that mom…

On May 24, 1962, observers near Albuquerque and Las Vegas, New Mexico, reported an object in the sky. It was first seen in daytime by both ground witnesses and an airborne aircraft…

On the evening of August 24, 1962, a resident of Alexandria, Virginia spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described it as an egg-shaped object with a red light…

On May 1, 1962, a civilian in west central Alexandria, Louisiana, reported a bright light in the night sky. The sighting began about 2205 (10:05 p.m.) local time and lasted about 3…

On October 29, 1962, around 1:20 p.m. Pacific time, four people standing outside the Sheriff's Building in Altadena, California, reported a bright object in the sky. The group incl…

On September 1, 1962, near Antigo, Wisconsin, a civilian reported observing a cylindrical object about 50 feet in diameter and 100 feet long. The object was fluorescent bluish gree…

On December 1, 1962, in Arlington, Massachusetts, a witness reported an object shaped like a frankfurter in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offic…

On the night of September 25, 1962, military police officers stationed near Arlington Heights, Illinois saw something that puzzled them. The witnesses described a large, saucer-sha…

On a night in July 1962, a resident of Ashland, Wisconsin saw brief flashing lights through a bedroom window. The sighting lasted only a short time. The observer reported seeing fi…

On December 12, 1962, in Ashland, Oregon, a witness reported round objects in the northern sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for…

On August 26, 1962, at 1845 (6:45 p.m.), just after sunset, a man reported an object over Del Mar Park in Aurora, Colorado. The witness was in the Marine Corps recruiting service.…

On June 29, 1962, civilians near Ayoayo, Bolivia, about 35 nautical miles south of La Paz, reported an object. It was seen falling between noon and 1:00 p.m. Three witnesses descr…

On August 3, 1962, at 1:15 p.m., two teenage students in Azuza, California reported seeing a bright oval spot of light moving northeast at approximately 3 degrees per second. They…

On April 25, 1962, observers near Baker Lake in northern Canada reported a bright object in the night sky at about 11:00 p.m. local time. The sighting lasted a very short time. The…

The witness in Baldwinsville, Massachusetts watched an unusual object in the night sky on February 18, 1962, at 21:15 (9:15 p.m.). Through a telescope, the object appeared sharply…

On November 7, 1962, in the early morning, a civilian cab driver near Baltimore, Maryland, reported a pink object in the sky to the south of the city. The witness sent the account…

On the evening of August 23, 1962, observers near Baltimore, Maryland watched what they initially thought was a satellite pass overhead multiple times. The main sighting, called "A…

On July 6, 1962, a Navy control tower operator at Chase Field near Beeville, Texas, reported an object at about 2030Z. The object was in sight for about 3 to 5 seconds. The object…

In late June 1962, residents of Beloit, Wisconsin reported seeing bright, burning objects in the sky over a two-day period. The sightings began on June 28 and continued into June 2…

On January 28, 1962, a witness near Bethel, Alaska, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was made at about 0203 GMT on January 29, during the day, and lasted about 30 second…

On the night of August 30, 1962, a youth in Bickmore, West Virginia saw what he described as a flying saucer. The object was oval in shape, solid, and dull red in color. It moved a…

On the night of June 9, 1962, a technical sergeant stationed at Keesler Air Force Base near Biloxi, Mississippi saw something unusual in the sky. While fishing off a pier about ten…

Two eleven year old boys found plastic debris in Bristol, Rhode Island on October 20, 1962, after seeing a gray object fall from the sky with a whooshing sound. One of the boys sai…

On July 6, 1962, in British Honduras, a civilian observed a brilliant object moving southeast across the sky. The witness reported seeing the object at 8:30 p.m. for about one and…

On March 23 and 24, 1962, two witnesses in the Bronx observed what appeared to be white smoke trailing behind an object traveling across the sky at high speed. The first witness r…

On September 29, 1962, a 17-year-old civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an object in the night sky. The time was about 0030Z. It was at about 2,000 feet, moving west at about…

On December 10, 1962, the ferry Gayhead reported seeing a flashing red light and radar blips near Little Gull Point Light in Long Island Sound, about one mile away and roughly 308…

On October 2, 1962, an observer on the hills above Christiansted reported a sighting near Buck Island in the Virgin Islands. The report came by phone to a flight service station. T…