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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5 cases in NM from 1961 · page 1 of 1

Albuquerque, NM
1961 · unknown
On the evening of September 2, 1961, a man in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, was reclining in a lounge chair at his home when he spotted something unusual in the sky. He saw wh…
Cannon AFB, NM
1961 · unknown
On January 15, 1961, three people sitting in a parked car near Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico watched a glowing sphere move across the sky for about 20 to 25 seconds. The obje…
Las Vegas, NM
1961 · unknown
On October 15, 1961, a civilian near Las Vegas, New Mexico called the U.S. Air Force to report something unusual in the sky. The observer used binoculars and looked at an object wi…
N of Roswell, NM
1961 · unknown
On March 20, 1961, a civilian north of Roswell, New Mexico, reported a star-like object about 2:20 a.m. The object had a white light and was about the size of a bright star. It app…
Roswell, NM
1961 · unknown
On October 5, 1961, an observer about two miles south of Roswell, New Mexico, reported a bright object at about 7:52 p.m. local time (0152 Zulu). The witness was a military command…

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