Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 29, 1961, a witness in Watertown, Connecticut, reported objects in the sky at about 7:00 p.m. local time. The witness, who was at a school, said the objects moved at e…

On the night of February 28 to March 1, 1961, radar operators at Waverly Air Force Station in Iowa detected an unidentified object on their Mark X radar (a ground-based system for…

On October 5, 1961, a civilian in Waynesville, North Carolina, reported an object at about 9:50 p.m. local time. The witness watched the object through a telescope. It was silver a…

On February 22, 1961, around 4:03 a.m. local time, a weather detachment at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported a luminous streak in the sky. The observation was made by the detach…

On August 14, 1961, at about 0340 (3:40 a.m.) local time, a military observer at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The witness was the staff duty noncommis…

On the evening of June 4, 1961, a resident of Westboro, Massachusetts reported seeing a light moving back and forth across the sky at a low angle, roughly 20 degrees above the hori…

On the evening of October 17, 1961, a resident of West Florence, Ohio watched the sky for approximately one and a half hours and observed what they described as a flashing greenish…

On January 15, 1961, several employees of a Wichita Falls television station sighted an unidentified object in the sky west of the city. The witnesses reported seeing the object at…

On February 28, 1961, around 8:24 p.m. local time, a city patrolman in Williston, North Dakota, reported a bright object in the northwest. It was first seen about 16 degrees above…

On the evening of August 25, 1961, two observers in Wilmington, Delaware, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. At about 8:00 p.m., they spotted what appeared to be a brigh…

On April 16, 1961, a civilian saw an object while driving west on a new section of Highway 90, from west of Seguin, Texas toward San Antonio. The object was in sight for about 5 mi…

On February 27, 1961, the 864th radar squadron at the Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station in Yuma, Arizona, tracked an object on radar for about 1 hour and 48 minutes. The sighting…

On July 30, 1961, Navy officers aboard the USS Lansing in the Pacific reported a light in the sky. The object was round, about the size of a pinhead, and as bright as a first magni…

On February 12, 1961, a bright light was reported in the sky over Finland. The report came from four Finnair airline pilots flying above the cloud layer in different parts of the c…

On February 10, 1961, a round, white object was reported over the Pacific Ocean near 9 degrees 36 minutes north, 145 degrees 15 minutes west. The sighting came from a military sour…

On February 8, 1961, at 1957Z, the crew of the USS John S. McCain in the Pacific near 23 degrees 34 minutes north, 149 degrees 42 minutes west reported a bright white object with t…

# A Radar Sighting in the Pacific In June 1961, a U.S. Air Force radar crew flying over the Pacific Ocean detected two unidentified objects on their instruments. The crew was aboa…

On September 3, 1961, over the Pacific, a witness reported an oval object in the north northeast for about three and a half hours. The object showed blue, green, orange, and yellow…

On September 1, 1961, in the Far East, a pilot reported an unusual cloud during flight. The formation rose from the horizon to about 3 degrees above it and grew a mushroom shaped t…

In September 1961, observers using telescopes reported two objects in the sky. One object looked reddish and was about 35 degrees above the horizon. The other appeared white. The o…

On February 6, 1961, at 2320Z, the crew of a Navy WV-2 barrier aircraft over the Atlantic near 43 degrees 17 minutes north, 37 degrees 30 minutes west reported one object. Five off…

On May 22, 1961, at about 0849Z (Greenwich time), a military aircrew aboard an RC-121 radar plane reported an object near the coordinates 43 degrees north, 134 degrees west, in fli…

On January 29, 1961, at 0912Z, a ship in the Atlantic near 25 degrees 43 minutes north reported one object. It was airborne and very high, traveling very fast on a heading of about…

On January 28, 1961, at night, a pilot and co-pilot flying a landing approach to Midway Island in the Pacific reported a blue-white object with a short, bright tail. It was clearly…

On October 17, 1961, a military observer at sea in the Pacific reported an object at about 1:13 a.m. (1213 Zulu). The position was given as 33 degrees north, 177 degrees west. One…

On January 16, 1961, at about 1620 (4:20 p.m.) local, a Navy pilot near the Port Hueneme, Point Mugu, and Santa Barbara area of California reported one egg-shaped object the size o…

In September 1961, over the Pacific off the California coast, a single white object was reported. It was about the size and brightness of a first magnitude star. It was first seen…

On July 6, 1961, a brilliant meteor or satellite was observed by the chief officer and lookout of the M/V Gisna in the Pacific Ocean between Panama and Yokohama. The object appeare…

On January 10, 1961, the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt at sea in the Atlantic reported one unidentified airborne object on radar. The position was given as latitude 15…

On November 7, 1961, a military and civilian radar report came from the Arlington Heights, Illinois, area at about 7:55 a.m. The objects were tracked on radar. Three objects were r…

On November 9, 1961, a military observer aboard a ship in the Pacific reported an object at about 6:30 (0630 Zulu). The position was near 30 degrees north, 175 degrees east. The ob…

On November 11 or 12, 1961, a military observer aboard a ship in the Pacific reported an object at about 4:31 (0431 Zulu). The position was near 23 degrees north, 163 degrees west.…

On November 15, 1961, a military observer aboard an aircraft over the Pacific reported an object at about 1:27 a.m. (1327 Zulu). The position was near 36 degrees north, 173 degrees…

On November 15, 1961, a civilian merchant ship reported an object at about 10:32 p.m. (2232 Zulu). The ship's position was near 28 degrees north, 65 degrees west. One cone-shaped o…

On July 10, 1961, near Atlantic at coordinates 30.30N 76.25W, a UFO sighting was reported. The object was diamond-shaped with one light at each point. It had two red and two white…

On November 18, 1961, a military observer over the Pacific reported an object at about 5:24 (0524 Zulu). The position was near 40 degrees north, 173 degrees west. One object was se…

In late July 1961, pilots and ground observers across the Midwest and Southwest reported seeing a bright, comet-like object in the early morning sky. The object was round and silve…

On November 28, 1961, a military crew aboard the USS Mills reported a very bright object over the Gulf of Aden area. The sighting was made at 1626 GMT and lasted about 20 minutes.…

On March 7, 1961, a civilian in British Columbia, Canada, near 120 degrees 08 minutes west, 55 degrees 43 minutes north, reported a small object about 5:50 p.m. local time. The obj…

On the night of March 8, 1961, two Air Force transport planes flying over the Pacific Ocean witnessed what the military suspected was a space vehicle burning up as it reentered Ear…

On December 15, 1961, a military crew aboard the USS Lansing reported an object in the Pacific. The sighting was made at about 1825 GMT and lasted about 5 minutes. It was seen by t…

On December 17, 1961, a military crew reported an object in the Atlantic. The sighting was made at about 0915 GMT. It was seen by eye. The object had unknown characteristics but w…

On December 20, 1961, the crew of the USS Durant reported an object in the Pacific Ocean. The sighting was made at dawn at about 1825 GMT and lasted about 7 minutes. It was seen by…

On February 12, 1961, the crew of an RC-121 early warning aircraft spotted a bright white, round object west of Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean. The object appeared as small…

On December 30, 1961, a military witness reported an object in the Pacific. The sighting was made at about 1500 GMT and lasted about 40 minutes. The object was seen from the ground…

On December 20, 1961, a C-97 transport plane flying from Van Nuys, California, and a C-124 cargo plane flying from Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii both observed a bright, burning o…

In late November 1961, someone aboard a ship or aircraft in the Pacific Ocean reported seeing a bright object low on the southern horizon. The sighting occurred at coordinates 40 d…

# Summary On September 25, 1961, military observers on Guam saw two separate bright objects streak across the sky in rapid succession. Both sightings lasted only a few seconds and…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the metadata indicates a June 1961 sighting in the Bahama Islands that the Air Force e…

On September 27, 1961, at about 1557Z (Greenwich time), a military radar operator aboard an AEW&C aircraft off the Pacific coast reported objects on radar. The report was filed on…

On May 21, 1961, near Okinawa, an aircraft crew observed an object in the night sky. The crew sighted what appeared to be a satellite at 9:22 p.m. The object was traveling northwes…

In October 1961, a U.S. Air Force officer flying near Johnson Island took motion pictures of the island from the air. He saw nothing unusual during the flight. But when he develope…

On January 8, 1961, a civilian observer on Tarawa Island in the Pacific reported a very bright green fireball object with a red tail. The object crossed the island from east to wes…

On August 18, 1961, at 4:00 p.m., a vapor trail was sighted from east to west on the horizon near position 24 degrees 53 minutes north, 150 degrees 22 minutes west in the Pacific O…

On February 8, 1961, at 8:00 p.m. local time, a huge bright object like a shooting star was sighted from position 20N 134E in the Philippine Sea. The object appeared to travel nort…

On February 27, 1961, near Guam, a spherical object was observed by military personnel. The object was white, then turned reddish, and had a trail approximately 30 times its diamet…

On April 1, 1961, near North 125 4E West, Fort Massachusetts, two military observers reported an unidentified object. First Lieutenant Mark W. Rand and Captain Harry J. Savoy sight…

On May 5, 1961, a bright white object with a blue-green cast was sighted near coordinates 16053 17130W in the SAMOA area. The object moved to the left and behind the observer's pos…

On May 11, 1961, at 8:05 p.m. near the Med Sea at coordinates 3742N 0042E, military observers sighted a very bright fast-moving object. The object had the intensity of the star Sir…

On June 1, 1961, near Ocean Station Victor at coordinates 34-02N 164-17E, military personnel observed a star-like object brighter than a star. The object was sighted by Dushe, Alio…