Project Blue Book Case Files

On June 18, 1960, a U.S. Navy pilot was flying near Biga, Turkey, about 15 miles north of the town. The pilot reported that the sky was lit up by a bright light. The light came fro…

On June 20, 1960, a witness north of Corvallis, Oregon saw a strange object in the sky. The sighting happened at night and lasted about 10 to 15 seconds. The object looked like a w…

On April 25, 1960, the crew of a Greek ship saw a fiery object in the sky north of Mandinga, Panama. The time was around dusk. An officer and a radio operator aboard the vessel rep…

On September 19, 1960, a civilian north of Susanville, California, reported a cucumber shaped object that seemed partly transparent. The sighting lasted 30 to 40 minutes. The objec…

On April 1, 1960, north of Worden, Oregon, a woman driving on US Highway 97 reported seeing a round silver-white object approximately five inches in diameter. The object was flying…

On the evening of March 27, 1960, people across the Nome, Alaska area reported seeing a brilliant, fast-moving object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about twenty seconds. A…

On February 14, 1960, residents of western Alaska reported seeing a mysterious bright object streaking across the sky near Nome and Unalakleet. A station manager for an airline saw…

On the night of January 4, 1960, pilots and crew members aboard two commercial airliners spotted a bright, fast-moving object with blue and yellow flames over Mormon Mesa, Nevada.…

On August 4, 1960, military witnesses at North Concord Air Force Station, Vermont saw an object at about 6:12 a.m. local time, at dawn. The sighting lasted about one minute. The ob…

On the evening of May 25, 1960, a woman in North Miami, Florida called the Air Force to report an unusual bright light in the sky. She had first spotted it around 10:35 p.m. while…

On June 4, 1960, northwest of the Azores Islands, pilots of a military aircraft observed a projectile-shaped object traveling at a speed above mach one. The object was visible for…

On the evening of July 1, 1960, several residents of Oak Hill, West Virginia saw three small, amber-colored objects moving across the sky in a V-formation. The sighting began aroun…

On April 16, 1960, two civilians saw a group of objects in the sky over Olean, New York. The time was about 11:20 p.m. One witness was a civil defense director and the other was a…

On May 24, 1960, witnesses in Orlando, Florida, saw a round object in the sky. The card lists one object seen as a light. The object looked round and star-like and was white. It f…

On May 9, 1960, a witness near Ottawa, Canada, saw an unusual light in the sky. The card lists the sighting as a ground visual observation of one object. The object was seen as a…

On March 19, 1960, the Air Attache of Finland reported observations of unidentified objects in the sky near Ousi Suomi, Finland. Reports came from a letter sent to the Air Attache…

On June 27, 1960, a pilot boat near Palm Beach, Florida reported sighting a bright red object with a luminous tail traveling northwest to southeast very high and very fast at 8:32…

On June 26, 1960, a civilian observer in the Palm Springs area saw a bright, silver object that appeared circular or disk-shaped. The object looked about the size of a quarter held…

On the morning of March 6, 1960, a woman in Parryville, Missouri saw two bright streaks of light in the sky from her home. The objects appeared golden in color, like sunlight refle…

On October 1, 1960, in Paterson, New Jersey, two civilians observed an unidentified object described as disc-shaped, about the size of a silver dollar, with orange coloration. The…

In October 1960, a resident of Paulding, Ohio reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The witness wrote to the Air Force saying that he and his relatives had spotted w…

On May 28, 1960, a witness near Penns Park, Pennsylvania, saw an orange light in the sky. The area is about 20 miles northwest of a nearby city. The card lists one object. The obj…

On July 15, 1960, at approximately 0345 (3:45 a.m.), a red hot object about three feet across was seen falling straight down into Pensacola Bay near Pensacola, Florida. The object…

On August 4, 1960, a military witness stopped at an intersection at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York saw a sudden white smoke trail in the sky at about 9:42 a.m. The sighting l…

On or about October 5, 1960, a military sergeant and his son, fishing at Point Lookout on Long Island, New York, reported an object at about 2100 (9:00 p.m.), recorded at 0200 GMT.…

On January 20, 1960, an aircraft flying near Poitiers, France observed what the pilot initially described as a missile or rocket. The object appeared approximately one and a half m…

On a date in 1960, a witness in Ponce, Puerto Rico, saw an object near the sun. The card lists one object that was so close to the sun it could only be seen by shielding the eyes.…

On September 29, 1960, a civilian in Portland, Oregon, reported an object at 0225 (about 6:25 p.m. local), at twilight. The witness saw an object about the size of a dime held at a…

On the night of August 12, 1960, between 1:05 and 2:30 a.m., several witnesses in Quincy, Massachusetts observed an unusual object in the sky while watching the Perseid meteor show…

On October 21, 1960, observers at Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico and nearby locations reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sighting lasted between one and thirty…

On the evening of September 16, 1960, multiple witnesses across Puerto Rico and the surrounding ocean reported seeing a bright object with a tail streaking across the sky. The sigh…

Two military weather observers at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas watched a bright, glowing object streak across the sky on the morning of December 5, 1960. The object appeared wh…

On August 13, 1960, just after 11:40 p.m., two California Highway Patrol officers spotted what they thought was an aircraft about to crash near Red Bluff. The object appeared sudde…

On the evening of May 7, 1960, military personnel at and near Regina, Canada, spotted two white points of light moving across the sky. The objects traveled north, stopped, then pro…

On the night of April 13, 1960, an airman at Rhein Main Air Base in Germany reported seeing a round, yellow object about the size of a grapefruit moving at high speed across the sk…

On May 20, 1960, several observers in Rhodesia saw an object in the sky, including staff from the Civil Aviation Department. The object was seen as a point of light only. The obje…

On April 17, 1960, military observers saw a glowing object in the night sky at Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri. The time was about 8:30 a.m. local time, given as 1429 to 1…

On the evening of July 3, 1960, a young witness in Richfield, Idaho saw a shiny, metallic object in the sky that appeared very large but distant. He watched it for about 15 minutes…

On the night of October 24, 1960, multiple witnesses across Virginia and North Carolina reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings began around 11:32 p.m. and last…

A family in Ridgecrest, California, reported seeing an unusual object four separate times on the evening of September 10, 1960, between 9:52 p.m. and 11:02 p.m. The family, which i…

On February 18, 1960, at 10 a.m., a resident of Rockledge, Florida reported seeing six slow-moving white objects at high altitude heading southward. The objects appeared in a V for…

On the night of February 27, 1960, at about 2327 (11:27 p.m.), a civilian near Rome, New York, and military personnel at nearby Griffiss Air Force Base watched an unusual glowing o…

On September 28, 1960, two civilian city police officers in Roswell, New Mexico, reported an object at 1025 (about 5:15 a.m. local), at night. Driving east on East 3rd Street, they…

On December 28, 1960, at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.), several people near Rushville, Nebraska reported a round object the size of a basketball at arm's length. It was white and trailed…

On September 16, 1960, a T-33 pilot flying in the Salina, Kansas area reported a sighting at around 1 a.m. The pilot observed a flash and streak of light at one o'clock high with m…

On the evening of August 6, 1960, two men in Sandersville, Georgia, saw an unusual object in the sky. One observer was from the town of Tennell, about three miles away, and another…

On April 14, 1960, a falling object changing color from red to reddish white was observed from San Diego, California. The object was observed from 26 degrees at 280 degrees and dis…

On December 4, 1960, in San Diego, California, a military witness reported an extremely bright blue object. The witness looked up while getting out of a car and saw the object. It…

On the evening of May 12, 1960, a man sat on the north ledge of the east entrance of Mark Keppel High School in San Gabriel, California, waiting before church. At around 8:40 p.m.,…

# San Jose Sound Scare, February 1960 On February 15, 1960, residents across the central and eastern parts of Santa Clara Valley heard a loud cracking sound moving from north to s…

On the evening of February 26, 1960, a geologist in San Juan, Puerto Rico saw a bright red object streak across the sky. The object was ball-shaped and about the size of a large pe…

On June 7, 1960, a witness near Sault Ste Marie, Ontario, Canada, was taking motion pictures of contrails in the sky when an image appeared on the film. Four still enlargements fro…

On the evening of September 5, 1960, a resident of Scranton, Pennsylvania, wrote to the U.S. Air Force to report seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness described a light…

On November 6, 1960, in Seattle, Washington, a civilian reported two white circular objects. One object was above the other, with a size of street light. The objects had a bunch of…

On May 6, 1960, a civilian in Seattle sent a letter to the U.S. Air Force with four photographs he claimed showed unidentified flying objects. He said he had taken the pictures bet…

On the evening of February 10, 1960, a resident of Sebring, Florida saw an unidentified object in the night sky. The witness described it as a white light glowing like an automobil…

# Summary In April 1960, a civilian observer near Roswell, New Mexico witnessed an unusual object in the sky for about three seconds. The object appeared two to three times bright…

On a summer evening in August 1960, people in Shawano, Wisconsin saw something unusual in the sky. They described an oval object that was brownish in color, with three lights arran…

On April 25, 1960, a woman living eight miles west of Shelby, Montana reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. She said she had actually witnessed five separate sightings over t…

On September 26, 1960, civilians at Silver Lake, near Traverse City, Michigan, reported an object at 2245 to 2300 (about 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. local), shortly after sunset. A man and h…