Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of December 18, 1962, a Red Cross nurse in Schlanders, a town in the Tirol region of northern Italy, watched a large, glowing mass fall from the sky. She was watchin…

On July 15, 1962, a man in Toledo, Spain watched an object move across the night sky with his children. Around 9 p.m., one of the children pointed out what appeared to be a star tr…

On September 9, 1962, a civilian in Topeka, Kansas, reported an object at dusk. The time was about 0040Z. The observer was on 37th Street South, around the 1200 block west. The obj…

On May 27 through 29, 1962, several witnesses near Troy, New Hampshire, reported bright objects in the sky. They were seen shortly after sunset and again about 2:00 a.m. A young o…

This case concerns a reported sighting on June 20, 1962, near Ubon, Thailand. The location and date come from a 1963 letter to the Air Force, not from a sighting report. The letter…

On August 14, 1962, an object fell to the ground in Upper Volta, Africa. The object came down during the afternoon and caused alarm among field workers. There was a loud noise and…

On April 23, 1962, observers at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado reported one pale white object, possibly with a short trail. The object moved at high speed, estimated at abo…

# Summary In May 1962, witnesses in Vandalia, Ohio observed an object in the night sky that displayed multiple colors and moved slowly toward the north. The object appeared low on…

On the morning of January 16, 1962, a woman in Vandalia, Ohio opened her window curtains and saw an unusual sight in the predawn sky. A bright trail was streaking downward in an ar…

On July 4, 1962, guests at a garden party in Veracruz, Mexico, reported an object at about 2130 (9:30 p.m.) central standard time. The sighting was reported through the State Depar…

On the night of March 17, 1962, military personnel at Wadena Air Force Station in Minnesota reported seeing an unusual object in the western sky. Seven witnesses, including Air For…

On the evening of May 26, 1962, near Westfield, Massachusetts, four young people driving along Route 25 watched a bright red object descend slowly across the sky. The object was ro…

In April 1962, a report from West Manchester, Ohio, concerned a physical object turned in to the Air Force. The report was submitted in September, after the decay of the Sputnik IV…

On the evening of May 25, 1962, multiple witnesses at Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts saw a bright object streak across the sky. The sightings included both military perso…

On July 12, 1962, at Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts, a military observer reported seeing a white object like a star that was star-sized. The object was observed in sequen…

On November 5, 1962, an observer at Westover Air Force Base, Massachusetts, reported a cigar-shaped object in the sky. The sighting was made by ground visual observation and was lo…

On November 29, 1962, a resident of West Union, Ohio reported seeing a glowing object in the night sky. The observer watched the object for approximately 30 minutes. The object dis…

On September 5, 1962, at night in Wickliffe, Ohio, a civilian witnessed an object resembling Sputnik IV that disintegrated before reaching earth. A letter dated September 25, 1962,…

On a November morning in 1962, a carpenter named Charles Kirk stood outside a building in Woburn, Massachusetts, and watched an unusual object hover in the bright daylight. He time…

On the morning of January 4, 1962, two separate observers in Xenia, Ohio reported seeing a greenish-yellow object streak across the early dawn sky. Both sightings lasted only a few…

In June 1962, a witness in southwestern Canada reported seeing an object resembling a weather balloon through 10-by-50 binoculars. The witness described the object as about the siz…

On the night of January 3, 1962, witnesses across Ohio and Indiana reported seeing bright green objects with long tails streaking across the sky. Over a period of one hour and thir…

In May 1962, an observer reported an object in the sky and held it visually for a short time. The object was white in color, bearing about 130 degrees true, and appeared to be at h…

On January 5, 1962, a Navy aircraft pilot reported a satellite in the Pacific. The sighting was made at about 1750 GMT and lasted about 5 minutes. It was seen by the pilot. The ob…

On April 21, 1962, near Wake Island, military personnel observed a round pen-sized object at 3:30 a.m. The object had no tail or sound. It rose in a 330-degree direction at 35 degr…

On October 23, 1962, the crew of an aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean, near 60.14N and a longitude later corrected to 13.36W, reported a bright light. The report came from military…

On January 29, 1962, multiple witnesses across South Carolina and Puerto Rico reported an unusual object in the sky during twilight hours. The sightings were reported from aircraft…

On April 15, 1962, the crew of a U.S. Air Force WV-2 aircraft spotted an object in the sky near Iceland (62.30°N, 08.20°W). The object appeared as a greenish white light, roughly t…

On August 29, 1962, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Matagorda reported an object in the Pacific Ocean. The position was about 35 degrees 04 minutes north and 144 degrees 10 minu…

On September 15, 1962, the crew of the SS Californian reported seeing a bright yellowish-green flare streak across the sky over the Pacific Ocean at coordinates 37.20 North, 124.08…

On April 22, 1960, at Bear Lake Inland, coordinates 19.06N 165.12E, a military observer reported sighting a round object the size of a pea, white with a short reddish tail. No soun…

In late July 1962, the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book received a report of a bright white object sighted at coordinates 34.00 North, 163.50 East (in the Pacific Ocean region).…

On July 29, 1962, a military observer at Ocean Station Victor in the Pacific Ocean reported a bright white object. The position was about 34 degrees 42 minutes north and 163 degree…

On September 23-29, 1962, in Iran, a civilian witness reported observing a shining object moving south to north. The object left a 500-foot trail of white smoke that persisted for…

On October 1, 1962, at 11.05 North 165.19 West in the Pacific, military personnel detected an object having starlight characteristics but moving at great speed. The object passed o…

In April 1962, observers north of the Hawaiian Islands reported a satellite-like trail very high in the sky, moving from east to west. The Air Force noted that a missile had been o…

In May and June 1962, Argentina experienced a wave of reported unidentified flying object sightings that captured widespread public attention. The American Embassy in Buenos Aires…

On January 5, 1962, at about 0512Z (Greenwich time), a military crew aboard a Navy ship reported an object while at sea near 33 degrees north, 171 degrees west in the Pacific. The…

In early April 1962, multiple observers across the Northern Hemisphere reported seeing a bright streak of light in the night sky. The object appeared as a luminous tail or plume wi…

The OCR text from pages 8, 9, and 10 is too heavily degraded to read reliably. However, the readable portions from the first seven pages describe the following case: On August 12,…

On May 28, 1962, crews of several aircraft flying over the northwestern United States, especially Montana, reported an object at about 0358Z to 0546Z. The object was reported by ai…

On April 25, 1962, observers over the Pacific Ocean near Ocean Station November reported a green object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 5 seconds. The object was described a…

On March 14, 1962, an observer about 100 miles north of Midway Island reported one object on a northerly track. The object was as bright as a first magnitude star and was watched f…

On May 1, 1962, a staff watch officer aboard a Navy vessel in the Pacific reported an object in the sky. The sighting was at about 0525Z and lasted about 25 minutes. The object wa…

On April 27, 1962, a U.S. Navy aircraft over the Atlantic Ocean reported an unidentified object. The object was first seen at 2340Z and contact was lost at 2348Z. The sighting was…

On November 22, 1962, a Navy aircrew over the Pacific Ocean, near 20.21N 174.30W, reported glowing objects in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On February 21, 1962, military personnel in the Pacific area reported a sighting. Two objects were observed. The first object, a small spherical white object, appeared above and to…

On May 1, 1962, two navigators and a quartermaster aboard a vessel in the Pacific between California and Hawaii reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was at about 0420Z…

In May 1962, multiple witnesses in southwestern Ohio observed a fast-moving object crossing the sky from west to east. The object appeared bright and multicolored, with witnesses d…

On February 22, 1962, a Navy crew reported an object in the Pacific at about 21 degrees north and 121 degrees east. The sighting was made at about 1023 GMT and lasted about 15 minu…

On February 12, 1962, a military crew aboard the USS Lansing reported an object in the Pacific at about 29 degrees north and 163 degrees west. The sighting was made at about 0732 G…

On July 30, 1962, a military observer in the Pacific Ocean reported a bright white object. The position was about 34 degrees 15 minutes north and 153 degrees 28 minutes east. The t…

On January 9, 1962, a military crew aboard the SS Mormacisle reported an object in the eastern South Pacific at about 4 degrees south and 85 degrees west. It was seen by eye. The l…

In March 1962, a military pilot near Ramstein Air Base, Germany, reported one silver object that moved like a very fast aircraft. It first appeared at the pilot's 8 o'clock positio…

In July 1962, sailors aboard the USS Wilhoite spotted what they described as a round, white object in the Pacific Ocean about 165 miles west of the Hawaiian Islands. The object res…

On December 7, 1962, a military aircrew over the Pacific Ocean, near 45.50N 173.30W, reported a white object in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's o…

On May 28, 1962, a bright multicolored object streaked across the sky over the northwestern United States and southwestern Canada. The object was green, orange, and white and moved…

On about November 1962, a witness reported an unidentified object that appeared as a long blue-green flame. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official recor…

On August 18, 1962, two men standing near a 150-foot radio tower under construction at the west end of Bermuda saw a bright white object in the sky. The men, a radio station owner…

In March 1962, a crew aboard an aircraft off the Oregon coast (about 42-27N 126-49W) reported one white object with a tail about 15 times the size of the object. The tail turned or…