USAF · 1947 to 1969

Project Blue Book Case Files

The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.

StateOH 371 CA 274 TX 242 NY 167 FL 110 NM 92 MI 90 WA 89 IL 81 PA 78 MD 73 CO 72

Year1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

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3 cases in CA from 1963 · page 1 of 1

Los Angeles, CA
1963 · unidentified
On February 11, 1963, a civilian in Los Angeles, California, reported a strange vapor trail in the sky. The sighting was made between 5:49 and 5:55 p.m. local time. The observer wa…
San Bernardino, CA
1963 · unidentified
On the night of March 18, 1963, a man living three miles northwest of Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California, reported seeing an unidentified object fly over his home.…
San Diego, CA
1963 · unidentified
On March 11, 1963 (about 9:15 p.m. local time by Greenwich time of March 12), two Air Force officers in an aircraft near San Diego, California, reported an orange flame or light wi…

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1947 51 1948 90 1949 236 1950 167 1951 124 1952 471 1953 326 1954 350 1955 344 1956 417 1957 559 1958 359 1959 268 1960 340 1961 408 1962 346 1963 123

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