Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 2, 1962, at 10:35 p.m., a resident of Hague, New York spotted two flying objects directly overhead. The observer watched them move from southwest to northeast across the…

On July 7, 1962, personnel at Hallett Station in Antarctica reported an intense bright light at about 1115Z. The first observer, on the roof of a building, thought a flare had been…

# Summary On June 7, 1962, around 1:05 a.m., the commanding officer at Hallett Station in Antarctica observed a bright white light in the southwestern sky. The light appeared roug…

On September 6, 1962, pilots on several airline flights reported a shiny silver object over Hanksville, Utah. The first report came from a Trans World Airlines pilot who saw the ob…

On August 24, 1962, a forest lookout at Harvey Mountain, California, reported objects falling from the sky. The location was about 40 miles northwest of Susanville. The time was ab…

# Hatchville, Massachusetts, August 1962 On the night of August 18, 1962, a woman on vacation in Hatchville, Massachusetts woke up and looked out at the night sky. She saw a white…

On February 12, 1962, three sources reported an object over Hutchinson, Kansas. The sighting was made at about 1019 GMT and lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. It was seen from the groun…

On July 2, 1962, a civilian reported a sighting over Hutchinson, Kansas. The witness, described as an employee of the city, observed a round object about the size of a dime at arm'…

On the evening of July 3, 1962, someone in Hyattsville, Maryland reported seeing a bright object in the sky. The witness described it as looking like lightning, solid in appearance…

In March 1962, a civilian witness at Hyde Park, Massachusetts, was watching a jet plane and its vapor trail when three objects appeared above the plane and the trail. At first the…

On the night of April 30 and early morning of April 31, 1962, a civilian weather watch officer at the Indian House Lake radio station in Labrador, Canada spotted an unusual object…

On the evening of September 26, 1962, observers across Israel, Egypt, and the Middle East watched a brilliant fireball streak across the sky, leaving behind a long, glowing trail o…

On September 2, 1962, an 11-year-old child in Jackson, Minnesota reported seeing a UFO in the sky north of town at about 50,000 feet. The object hovered in one spot for a while, th…

On July 1, 1962, a civilian witness six and one-half miles north of Jacksonville, Florida reported seeing an object shaped like a star and comparable to the planet Venus. The objec…

On September 4, 1962, a civilian in Joplin, Missouri, reported objects in the night sky. The time was about 2000 (8:00 p.m.) local time, near 0150Z. The objects were reported in vi…

On April 23, 1962, military observers near Kadena, Okinawa (about 20-21N 120-12E) reported one star-like object the size of the North Star and white in color. The object moved acro…

On September 6, 1962, an 11-year-old girl in Kansas City, Missouri, reported objects in the night sky. The time was about 0345Z, with a second object seen about an hour later near…

In May 1962, a person driving a car near Kansas City, Missouri saw a red light in the center of heavy thunderstorm clouds. The light blinked on and off. The observer was struck by…

A man in Keller, Washington, reported seeing an unusual object cross the night sky on three consecutive nights in July 1962. On Tuesday night around 10:15 p.m., he first spotted wh…

In August 1962, someone in Kettering, Ohio saw a bright light on the western horizon that caught the Air Force's attention. The object appeared about the size of a bright star, but…

# Summary of UFO Sighting Near Kettering, Ohio, June 1962 On a night in June 1962, a civilian observer in the Kettering, Ohio area reported seeing an unidentified object in the sk…

On August 14, 1962, observers at Kindley Air Force Base in Bermuda reported a streak of light. The source was military. The time was about 0343Z. The light was in sight for about 1…

On the evening of May 6, 1962, school children in Kirksville, Missouri spotted two round, white objects in the western sky just after dusk. The objects appeared to be about the siz…

On the night of November 22-23, 1962, two observers in northern California reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. A U.S. Forest Service fire spotter located about five miles…

On June 16, 1962, in Knollwood, Ohio, a civilian witness reported seeing an object that looked like a star with a color described as white. The object was circling in two large cir…

On February 26, 1962, near Kotzebue, Alaska, several witnesses reported two round lights in the night sky. The witnesses included six civilians plus an Army private, and the report…

Three witnesses in La Puente, California observed an unusual object in March 1962. The object was described as aircraft-like, with white lights on top and bottom and red lights in…

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 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 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 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…

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…

# 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…

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…

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…