Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 15, 1962, observers in the Pacific northeast of Hawaii reported a vapor trail with a glowing object moving from east to west at very high altitude. The vapor trail was vie…

On the night of May 14, 1962, the crew of a Navy ship in the Pacific Ocean spotted an unusual object in the sky. The ship was positioned at coordinates 05.21N 157.28W, roughly midw…

On January 31, 1962, a military crew reported a possible satellite in the Pacific at about 34 degrees north and 176 degrees west. The sighting was made at about 0638 GMT on Februar…

On July 12, 1962, at 2:15 a.m. GMT near coordinates 06-09S 110-38W, a single heavenly luminous object was observed moving from south to north. The sighting lasted about one minute.…

On July 4, 1962, a UFO was sighted at sea near coordinates 11 degrees 3 minutes North, 174 degrees 52 minutes West. The object was round with a solid glow and no tail, bluish white…

On October 8, 1962, military and civilian air observers sighted a large burning object tracking 064 degrees at a location 5 miles east of 28.18N 144.26W in the Pacific. The sightin…

On March 15, 1962, the pilot of a Pan American civilian flight over the Atlantic (about 22N 67-20W) reported one object. The aircraft was enroute from San Juan to New York at 26,00…

On April 19, 1962, near coordinates 14:59 N 149:02 E, a round white object was sighted at night. The object was observed at initial elevation of 020 degrees and disappeared at 057…

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 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…

On June 15, 1962, the pilot and co-pilot of a Navy aircraft over the Pacific reported an object. The sighting was at about 0515Z and lasted about 3 to 5 seconds. The aircraft was o…

On July 5, 1962, the USS Falgout reported a UFO sighting in the Pacific. The round object was first magnitude star size, white in color. It moved 50 degrees west in relation to a s…

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…

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 23, 1962, near Midway, an object was viewed at 40 degrees elevation appearing as a star or planet. The object moved west to south with a northern declination. It disappear…

On February 3, 1962, the crew of a Navy WV-2 aircraft reported an object west of Iceland at about 65 degrees north and 28 degrees west. The sighting was made at about 2235 GMT and…

On September 18, 1962, a falling object was reported near Wake Island in the Pacific. A pilot at about 19,000 feet first saw the object in one piece, then watched it break up. The…

On September 11, 1962, the SS Illinois, a civilian ship in the South China Sea, observed an object moving from south to north that passed in front of the vessel and disappeared int…

On April 3, 1962, a civilian merchant ship in the Atlantic (about 40-90N 46-48W) reported one bright object. The object was brighter than a first magnitude star and was visible for…

On May 22, 1962, the crew of the USS Stone County in the Pacific reported an object at about 0645Z. The object was at position 25 degrees 29 minutes north, 172 degrees 52 minutes w…

On July 6, 1962, the crew of a Pan American Airlines flight over the Pacific Ocean reported a flash of light at about 1307Z. The sighting was at position 10 degrees 15 minutes nort…

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 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 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…

On February 23, 1962, a civilian weather observer on St. Croix Island in the Caribbean reported one object that looked like a large flare or rocket. The object moved from east to w…

On September 23, 1962, an observer in the Pacific Ocean reported a possible satellite. The position was about 35 degrees north and 174 degrees west. The time was about 0632Z. The o…

On February 17, 1962, a MATS aircraft crew reported an object in the Pacific at about 18 degrees north and 164 degrees east. The sighting was made at about 1418 GMT. It was seen by…

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…

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…

On November 16, 1962, the crew of a merchant vessel at sea, near 11.59N 160.49 longitude, reported a bright object breaking up in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073,…

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…

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 September 16, 1962, at 7:00 a.m. local time, a military observer at coordinates 33.05N 163.48E (Pacific) reported sighting a bright spherical object resembling the first magnitu…

On April 14, 1962, an observer in the Pacific (about 42-51N 157W) reported one object described as a satellite. The object was moving to the northeast and was described as very fas…

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…

The OCR text for this case is substantially degraded and difficult to parse reliably. The cover sheet indicates a sighting in Moraine, Ohio in July 1962 evaluated as "probably ball…

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 late February 1962, metal fragments fell across a wide area of southern Brazil, prompting investigation by U.S. military and diplomatic officials. The pieces were recovered over…

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 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 October 26, 1962, two pilots aboard a KC-135 aircraft saw a bright orange, horseshoe-shaped object near the rising moon over the Pacific Ocean. The object appeared just below th…

On the night of September 18, 1962, pilots and ground observers across a wide region from Ohio to Tennessee reported seeing unusual bright lights in the sky. The observations were…

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 September 29, 1962, the Coast Guard received several reports of an object near the Farallon Islands, off California. The time was about 0228Z. Witnesses said an object was fired…

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…

On December 3, 1962, the crew of an aircraft over the Gulf of Mexico, near 25.5N 85.4W, reported a possible rocket in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air For…

On August 3, 1962, near coordinates 28.01 degrees North, 173.15 degrees West, a military observer reported an unidentified object. The object appeared at an elevation of 40 degrees…

On July 18, 1962, observers at a Navy location in the South Pacific reported an object at about 1400Z. The sighting was at position 0 degrees 49 minutes south, 170 degrees 24 minut…

On July 19, 1962, at 9:30 p.m., a civilian in Southern France observed an object in the lower Pyrenees moving from west to east. The object moved rapidly and appeared star-like. Th…

On January 8, 1962, a Navy aircraft crew reported an object in the Pacific at about 33 degrees north and 176 degrees west. The sighting was made at about 1540 GMT. It was seen by e…

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 September 1, 1962, the crew of the Greek tanker Hyperion reported an object over the South Atlantic. The position was about 3 degrees south and 35 degrees 56 minutes west. The o…

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 September 2, 1962, at 2:19 a.m., an object like the first magnitude star was observed at 38 degrees elevation, 230 degrees azimuth, moving from 050 degrees to 230 degrees. Durat…

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 March 17, 1962, military personnel aboard the USS Estes in the Pacific northeast of Hawaii reported one object during nautical twilight. The witnesses included the commanding of…

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 October 25, 1962, two pilots aboard a commercial airliner flying the Nandi to Honolulu route, near Canton Island in the Pacific, reported an object off their aircraft. The repor…

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…

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…