Project Blue Book Case Files

# Detroit UFO Sighting, 1963 In March or April 1966, a resident of Detroit wrote to the Air Force about a UFO he had witnessed in Chicago in 1963. The writer said he, his father,…

On April 27, 1963, at 3:50 p.m. Eastern time, a civilian in Pearl Beach, Michigan reported an unidentified flying object sighting. The witness observed an object through a telescop…

In May 1962, a child and grandmother in Coloma, Michigan witnessed a bright light moving across the night sky. The object appeared brighter than the stars and made no sound as it t…

On April 27, 1962, at 9:13 a.m. in Coloma, Michigan, a witness observed a UFO at an angle of 60 degrees from where it first appeared. The object traveled parallel to the ground and…

On December 8, 1962, a civilian in Lincoln Park, Michigan reported seeing a fast blue twinkling light moving from east to west across the sky at 11:40 p.m. The sky was clear. The w…

On November 30, 1962, a civilian in Muskegon, Michigan reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The object appeared as a bright point of light comparable to a star or mo…

On July 6, 1962, a civilian swimming at a Lake Michigan beach near Saugatuck, Michigan, reported an object. He saw it three times, at about 11:51 p.m., 12:04 a.m., and 12:32 a.m. E…

On May 12, 1961, a civilian pilot saw an object about 40 nautical miles east of Peck, Michigan. The sighting lasted about 20 minutes. The object was about the size and shape of a l…

On a July evening in 1961 near Copemish, Michigan, several people reported seeing unusual lights in the sky that moved slowly and disappeared intermittently over the course of two…

On February 27, 1961, around 10:15 p.m. local time, a housewife and her teenage daughter near Bark River, Michigan, reported a round, fiery red object about the size of a grapefrui…

On the night of June 6, 1961, an airman at Selfridge Air Force Base in Detroit watched an object move across the sky at extremely high speed. The object appeared egg-shaped at time…

On October 12, 1961, at about 1802 (6:02 p.m.) local time, civilians in Ferndale, Michigan, reported two objects in the sky. The witnesses were a school teacher and a librarian. Th…

On March 4, 1961, an aluminum alloy sheet was found in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The report noted the time as about 2:34 p.m. The sheet measured roughly 3 and 3/4 inches by 18 feet.…

On the night of October 27, 1961, military personnel at Grand Rapids Air Force Station in Michigan observed unusual lights in the sky. Two or three large white lights appeared to f…

On June 30, 1961, in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a witness observed an unidentified flying object from her bedroom around 5 a.m. The object was described as saucer-shaped, about the s…

On June 1, 1961, in Rose Center, Michigan, a witness observed what was thought to be a large trail of fire in the sky. The object appeared quickly as a ball of fire and disappeared…

On the evening of June 26, 1960, near Turtle Lake in Michigan about 20 miles south of Battle Creek, two people in a boat spotted three unusual objects in the sky. The witnesses des…

On May 28, 1960, a teenager plowing a farm near Bentley, Michigan saw a flaming object fall from the southwest at a steep angle of about 75 degrees from the ground. The object land…

On February 13, 1960, a man in Grand Blanc, Michigan photographed what he thought might be an unidentified flying object when he was taking pictures of the moon through a homemade…

On the evening of July 1, 1960, a man, his wife, and two young grandchildren were driving near Lake Nottawa, about ten miles southeast of Marshall, Michigan. Their three-year-old g…

On September 10, 1960, a resident of Lincoln Park, Michigan reported seeing a blue and white light moving across the night sky. The object traveled slightly to the left and then to…

On September 26, 1960, civilians at Silver Lake, near Traverse City, Michigan, reported an object at 2245 to 2300 (about 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. local), shortly after sunset. A man and h…

At 1:30 a.m. on March 22, 1959, a man and woman driving on a country road north of Ann Arbor, Michigan, spotted a strange object in the sky. They described it as egg shaped with a…

On a cold, clear night in late November or early December 1959, a couple in Clarkston, Michigan saw a bright object in the sky and took a photograph. The object was egg-shaped, abo…

On April 19, 1959, at about 0352Z, a witness near Detroit, Michigan, reported a bright object at night. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object…

On June 19, 1959, in Ecrose, Michigan, a witness reported seeing a blue and white object cross the sky at 11 p.m. The object moved in a quick streak and lasted less than 30 seconds…

On November 29, 1959, a motorist driving near Farmington, Michigan saw approximately eight small objects flying in formation ahead of his car. The objects were dark on top and ligh…

On the evening of November 29, 1959, near West Branch, Michigan, an observer spotted eight evenly spaced objects in the sky for about three seconds. The objects appeared to be red…

On a private twelve acre lake four miles north of Clennie, Michigan, three observers reported seeing something unusual in the water during July 1958. One observer was in a boat on…

On July 18, 1958, three brothers, ages 14, 16, and 19, reported an unidentified flying object over downtown Detroit, Michigan, at about 2130 to 2150 (9:30 to 9:50 p.m.). They watch…

On September 1, 1958, east of Hastings, Michigan, two round objects were sighted by civilians. The objects were yellowish red in color. They moved back and forth and disappeared. T…

# Grand Rapids UFO Sightings, July 1958 Between July 11 and 14, 1958, multiple witnesses across Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and France reported seeing unusual lights in the night sky.…

On March 10, 1958, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a witness observed an object at 40 degrees in the northwest sky. The object moved from 20 degrees to 20 degrees west in 30 seconds. It th…

On September 10, 1958, at 11:02 p.m. local time, a civilian in Lovells, Michigan reported sighting one object in the sky. The object was round and white, slightly larger than a sta…

On April 12, 1958, north of Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan, a civilian witness observed unidentified objects during daylight hours. Two large objects and six small objects we…

On July 20, 1958, in Nunica, Michigan, a witness reported seeing an unidentified flying object at about 8:35 a.m. The object was round and shaped like an apple, colored white and r…

On October 1, 1958, in Rockford, Michigan, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, silverish white object about the size of a golf ball that remained stationary. The observa…

On September 15, 1958, at 3:05 p.m., a civilian in St. Joseph, Michigan reported seeing one object. The object was round and the size of a baseball at arm's length. It was gold in…

On August 17, 1958, a civilian business machine repairman in Warren, Michigan, spotted an extremely bright object in the daylight sky near his home. At first he saw what appeared t…

On July 8, 1958, west of Boreland, Michigan, a civilian witness observed a red, bright white object with a smoke track behind it for one second. The object moved east. The Air Forc…

On May 30, 1957, a military radar operator at a site near Detroit, Michigan, observed a well-defined blip on radar scope. The object appeared about two jet aircraft in size and fad…

On April 29, 1957, around 8:20 p.m. local time, a civilian salesman in Ferndale, Michigan reported seeing objects in the sky. The night was described as very clear. The witness was…

On November 12, 1957, a civilian near Grand Rapids, Michigan reported one round white object the size of a baseball. The object was seen at dusk for about 40 minutes. The Air Forc…

On the night of July 16, 1957, five moving lights appeared in the sky near Hastings, Michigan, startling several witnesses. The first object came into view from the west and looked…

On the late afternoon of November 26, 1957, the U.S. Air Force picked up a damaged object in Wayne, Michigan. According to the case file, it had fallen from the sky the night befor…

On February 9, 1956, a ground observer saw a strange object near Alger, Michigan. The Greenwich time was 0200Z on February 10. The night was clear with about seven miles visibility…

On July 23, 1956, near Alpena, Michigan, a civilian reported one object at about 4:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about 7 minutes.…

On January 8, 1956, a civilian in Battlecreek, Michigan reported sighting one round reddish white object flying in straight level flight at 400 feet elevation and 150 degrees azimu…

On September 3, 1956, at dusk near Bert, Michigan, a civilian observer reported sighting one oblong bright red object at 90 degrees azimuth and 12,000 feet altitude. The object was…

On October 22, 1956, a civilian saw an unusual object over Beulah, Michigan. The witness was the civil defense director of Benzie County, a man with many years in law enforcement.…

On August 27, 1956, at 8:02 p.m., a civilian in Detroit, Michigan reported observing a round, baseball-sized object that was yellow-white in color. The witness was walking in a yar…

On September 5, 1956, a civilian in Flint, Michigan reported observing one object at 5:40 a.m. local time. The object had a triangular to umbrella shape, was about the size of a ba…

On September 23, 1956, an observer near Freeport, Michigan reported one object with a round shape about the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length. Its color ranged from silv…

On May 11, 1956, a civilian at Lake Leelanau, Michigan, reported one object that was watched for more than an hour. The witness was a car and live-bait dealer. The report was filed…

On February 3, 1956, a civilian observer in Luther, Michigan reported seeing a round object bright silver in color about 4 feet across. The object moved in a straight and level cou…

On March 3, 1956, at 3:07 a.m. local time, a civilian witness in Paradise, Michigan reported observing a round object that was bright red in color and approximately 40 to 50 feet i…

On February 15, 1956, a ground observer saw two objects over Pontiac, Michigan. The Greenwich time was 2325Z. The observer was a civilian at a ground observer post. The sky was com…

On March 27, 1956, a civilian at Saginaw, Michigan, reported one object at 1105 (about 6:05 a.m. local). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record fo…

On April 18, 1956, a civilian in Traverse City, Michigan, reported seeing one object in the western sky. The object was described as a deep yellow round object with a red tail that…

On August 2, 1956, a witness in Van Dyke, Michigan, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about five hours and thirty minutes. The witness described one round object the s…