Project Blue Book Case Files

On the night of January 23, 1961, multiple witnesses at and near Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama saw a bright blue or blue-white object streak across the sky. The object appeared…

On October 26, 1961, a military mission pilot near McAllen, Texas, reported an object at about 7:10 local time. The pilot was rated reliable. The object was brilliant white, with a…

On March 28, 1961, a civilian woman near Mellette, South Dakota, reported sightings to the Air Force. The report describes a letter she wrote to the Secretary of Defense, asking fo…

On May 4, 1961, a pilot reported an object over the Meridian to Jackson, Mississippi area. The sighting was made by air visual observation around 7:40 a.m. (GMT). The object was se…

In July 1961, a woman in Metuchen, New Jersey reported seeing an unidentified object in the evening sky. She initially thought it was a skywriter but became puzzled as the object a…

# Summary On a January night in 1961, a resident of Miamisburg, Ohio saw what appeared to be a star-like light moving slowly across the sky. When the object moved, the witness not…

On September 18, 1961, at 2:55 a.m., a civilian in Middletown, Ohio, observed a strange light in the sky through a window. The witness described the object as bright and strange-lo…

On the night of August 6, 1961, a resident of Middletown, Ohio noticed an unusual light in the sky. Over the next two weeks, he observed the same object roughly ten times, always o…

On October 10, 1961, a civilian in Middle Village, New York, reported an object at about 11:15 p.m. local time. The witness was at Metropolitan Avenue and Elliot Avenue in Queens,…

On March 10, 1961, an unknown light was reported in the Minot and Bismarck area of North Dakota. The light was seen about 3 to 4 miles off a runway at an altitude of about 1,600 fe…

On March 28, 1961, an object was reported near Misawa Air Base, Japan, about 10:44 a.m. local time. The object was at tremendous height and moved on an azimuth from about 110 degre…

On February 23, 1961, around 10:26 a.m. GMT, a bright light was observed in the sky west of Misawa Air Base, Japan. Several witnesses saw it, including an Air Force navigator. The…

On August 30, 1961, a fourteen-year-old in Monroe, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The witness had just watched a movie about flying saucers and believed t…

On June 9, 1961, metallic material was recovered from an area near Mount Zion, in Wood County, West Virginia. A resident found the slivers near his home and forwarded samples to th…

On the night of August 30, 1961, a military officer at Naha Air Base in Okinawa watched approximately twelve separate bright objects move across the sky over a period of five minut…

On January 10, 1961, at night, two fishermen about one mile north of Naknek, Alaska reported a single circular object about 25 feet in diameter. It glowed orange while hovering and…

On November 4, 1961, near North Cape Canaveral, Florida, a civilian witnessed two circular objects descending for about 5 seconds. The objects were very bright green and basketball…

On September 19, 1961, at North Concord Air Force Station, Vermont, observers filed a report of a round, spinning object. It was seen to the right of the North Star at about 45 deg…

On March 9, 1961, an object was reported near Heppner, Oregon. The object was round and white, about the size of a half dollar. It was first seen at about 30 degrees elevation and…

On January 20-21, 1961, multiple Coast Guard stations and light stations along the northeast coast, including Brant Point near Nantucket Island, reported seeing unidentified object…

On January 28, 1961, at 1830 (6:30 p.m.), a witness in Newark, New Jersey reported seeing an unidentified object in the night sky. The witness described it as dark gray, about the…

On August 6, 1961, near Newport News and Carrollton, Virginia, a witness reported a lighted object low to the ground. It was circular and roughly half the size of a football field.…

In August 1961, a Brooklyn resident used a Kodak Brownie camera to photograph what he believed were unidentified flying objects near the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The w…

On November 3, 1961, civilian witnesses in New York City reported an object at about 5:20 to 5:32 p.m. local time. The report came to a naval air station from city police. A police…

On March 20, 1961, a civilian north of Roswell, New Mexico, reported a star-like object about 2:20 a.m. The object had a white light and was about the size of a bright star. It app…

On March 1, 1961, around 8:50 p.m. local time, a white circular object was reported north of Spring Brook and Tioga, North Dakota. It was reported by a civilian farmer and the chie…

On the night of September 24, 1961, a geologist working for the Bureau of Land Management stopped his car about 1.39 miles south of Pine Creek Ranch on Highway 82 in Nevada's Monit…

In early July 1961, a witness in North Dayton, Ohio saw a bright, starlike object moving across the sky during the early morning hours. The witness observed the object twice, watch…

On July 28, 1961, north of Dayton, Ohio, a civilian fireman reported a light in the sky. He saw it at 2307 (11:07 p.m.) and watched it for about 2 to 5 minutes. The object looked l…

On September 27, 1961, a witness in New York City reported a flying object at about 6:30 p.m. local time. The report was made to a nearby naval air station by phone. The witness sa…

On September 21, 1961, near Oahu, Hawaii, observers reported a large lighted object. It looked like a big circular area of high intensity light with a dark outer rim, giving a doug…

# Summary In January 1961, a person in Oakland, California, observed an unusual object in the sky on three consecutive nights. The witness watched for about three hours on the fir…

On July 1, 1961, in Oakland, California, a civilian observer reported seeing a bright, silvery object flying overhead on a south-to-north course at approximately 8:13 p.m. The obje…

On February 23, 1961, a resident of Oakwood, Ohio saw a bright white object in the night sky that reminded them of a star. The object appeared in the southwest and moved toward the…

On November 21, 1961, a civilian near Oldtown, Florida, reported an object at about 7:30 p.m. local time (0030 Zulu November 22). One object was seen, round and reddish-orange, abo…

On the night of August 27, 1961, two U.S. Air Force personnel at Osan Air Base in Korea watched a bright object move across the sky for about fifteen minutes. The object appeared a…

On the night of September 14, 1961, two U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations agents stationed at Osan Air Base in Korea reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The…

On March 13, 1961, a civilian in Osgood, Indiana reported a UFO sighting. The witness observed a light object that resembled a star oscillating in brightness. The object traveled f…

On April 22, 1961, two Air Force officers reported an object over Karachi, Pakistan, around 10:30 p.m. (GMT). The report was forwarded as part of a project that tracked space objec…

The OCR text provided is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the case file metadata indicates this was a Project Blue Book investigation in Palatka, Florida…

On the night of July 25, 1961, two flying objects were observed over Palatka, Florida. The objects moved from west to east and headed north. They traveled a short distance in that…

On the evening of February 8, 1961, a person in Parkersburg, West Virginia saw an unusual light in the southern sky. The object appeared to be about seven inches in diameter and lo…

On October 22, 1961, a military pilot at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, reported an object at about 6:01 p.m. local time (2303 Zulu). The witness was a pilot with more than 3,500…

On the evening of October 18, 1961, around 6:50 p.m., a witness and a companion spotted an unusual object in the sky over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, near the intersection of City…

On the morning of August 2, 1961, near Phoenix, Arizona, several civilian witnesses reported seeing an unusual object hovering in the pre-dawn sky. The first to spot it was a child…

The witness, who lived about 1.5 miles from Grumman Aircraft, saw two separate objects on consecutive nights in late July 1961 from Plainview, New York. The first sighting occurred…

On the evening of August 30, 1961, a man in Pleasant Garden, North Carolina, spotted an orange light moving across the sky and called his son to watch it with him. The light appear…

On February 27, 1961, around 9:35 p.m. local time, a civilian in Portland, Oregon, reported a round, white object about the size of a grapefruit. It was seen for about 10 to 12 min…

On August 1, 1961, in Portland, Oregon, a civilian witness reported seeing a starlike object slightly smaller than a dime that was white to red in color. The sighting lasted five m…

On March 6, 1961, civilians in Portland, Oregon, reported a star-shaped object about 7 p.m. local time. The object was about the size of a dime, white, and much brighter than a sta…

On the evening of February 5, 1961, a bright object streaked across the skies over Maine, Vermont, and Massachusetts, attracting the attention of military personnel, state police,…

On the night of March 18, 1961, at 2120Z (9:20 p.m.), a control tower operator at RAF Station Upper Heyford in England saw a very bright white or yellowish circular object in the s…

Several people near an Atlas missile site in Reardon, Washington, reported seeing bright lights in the sky on the nights of January 13 and 14, 1961. The witnesses described the obj…

On August 28 and 29, 1961, in Redondo Beach, California, a 14-year-old civilian observed a bright and shiny unidentified flying object. The object moved south by southwest at an es…

On the evening of August 5, 1961, a newspaper worker in Richmond, Virginia saw a brightly lit object moving across the night sky from east to west. As he was walking across his bac…

On June 1, 1961, in Rose Center, Michigan, a witness observed what was thought to be a large trail of fire in the sky. The object appeared quickly as a ball of fire and disappeared…

On October 5, 1961, an observer about two miles south of Roswell, New Mexico, reported a bright object at about 7:52 p.m. local time (0152 Zulu). The witness was a military command…

On October 2, 1961, around noon, a pilot named Waldo J. Harris was preparing for takeoff at Utah Central Airport in Salt Lake City when he spotted a large, gray disc-shaped object…

On February 16, 1961, a civilian in San Angelo, Texas, reported a reflective light in the sky for about 15 minutes. The witness was a 35 year old petroleum geologist described as v…

On May 16, 1961, a civilian saw an object near San Antonio, Texas, by ground visual observation. The object was circular, about the size of a half dollar, and brilliant white. It a…