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.
10 cases in IL from 1962 · page 1 of 1
30 N of Kankakee, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn July 11, 1962, five people about 30 miles north of Kankakee, Illinois, on U.S. 54 reported objects at about 2020 (8:20 p.m.). The objects were in sight for about 15 minutes. Th…
Arlington Heights, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn the night of September 25, 1962, military police officers stationed near Arlington Heights, Illinois saw something that puzzled them. The witnesses described a large, saucer-sha…
Chanute AFB, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn March 19, 1962, several witnesses at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, reported one object in the west-northwest sky. The object was orange and about one fifth the size of the m…
Chicago, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn October 10, 1962, at 11:03 p.m., a civilian in Chicago, Illinois reported an illuminated object with the appearance of a star in flight moving from west to east. The sighting la…
Chicago, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn August 21, 1962, several people in Chicago, Illinois, reported an object in the night sky. The time was about 0410Z. A housewife was the main observer, and four other people, in…
Chicago, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn the night of April 25, 1962, a civilian observer in Chicago used a telescope to spot a bright, glowing object moving across the sky. The observer described the object as white a…
Des Plaines, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn October 4, 1962, a housewife in Des Plaines, Illinois, reported a sighting at night. The time was about 0730Z. The witness did not actually see an object. The woman said a wind…
Evanston, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn the evening of July 14, 1962, someone in Evanston, Illinois reported seeing an unusual object in the sky that resembled a large commercial airliner with multiple bright yellow l…
Maywood, IL
1962 · unidentifiedOn 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.…
Naperville, IL
1962 · unidentifiedIn March 1962, two women driving near Naperville, Illinois, spotted mysterious red blinking lights in the evening sky. The women, returning from a card game, watched the strange ob…
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