Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 17, 1961, a witness near Troy, Ohio reported seeing a light that moved across the night sky in an unusual pattern. The object came from the north, traveled south, then r…

Someone saw an unidentified object in the sky about four miles northwest of Springfield, Ohio, in July 1961. The Air Force investigated the sighting as part of Project Blue Book, i…

On the evening of October 25, 1961, in Akron, Ohio, multiple witnesses saw a formation of bright objects in the night sky. The objects appeared as bluish-white lights resembling br…

On March 30, 1961, a civilian in Akron, Ohio, reported an object about 6 p.m. local time. The object was dark in color and gave off sparks. It traveled slowly to the west. The sigh…

On the night of January 21, 1961, several residents of the Akron, Ohio area reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses described it as a red-orange circular or pla…

On February 22, 1961, a civilian in Akron, Ohio reported seeing a sharply outlined silvery object pass close overhead during the daytime. The object came within 600 feet of the obs…

On the evening of September 13, 1961, a woman in Belmont, Ohio called the local Air Force office to report that she had seen a light high in the sky. The witness said she observed…

On the evening of September 13, 1960, a woman in Bucyrus, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky from her home. The object was bright, transparent, and had what she described as "tw…

On the morning of October 17, 1961, in Canton, Ohio, a civilian witness observed several objects flying in formation across the sky. The objects appeared as silver-green lights mov…

On a November evening in 1961, a civilian observer in Canton, Ohio reported seeing a disc-shaped object hovering low overhead for three to five minutes. The object was silent excep…

On May 11, 1961, a civilian saw an object near Centerville, Ohio, in the morning hours. The sighting lasted about 5 to 10 minutes. The object moved toward the east. The object was…

On a June evening in 1961 in Cincinnati, Ohio, someone observed an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force investigation file contains a detailed witness questionnaire and ev…

On March 2, 1961, around 7:30 p.m. local time, witnesses in Cincinnati, Ohio, reported a white object that looked like a streak of light. It was seen for a few seconds and traveled…

On August 13, 1961, in the early afternoon, civilians in Clayton, Ohio, reported bright objects in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's o…

On August 14, 1961, residents of Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing unidentified objects moving rapidly across the sky near the sun. Multiple callers jammed telephone lines at local n…

On April 20, 1961, a man in Cleveland, Ohio, was talking with a designer by a window when he happened to glance outside and spotted an unusual object in the sky. He was looking rou…

On the night of July 5, 1961, a World War II pilot named Ernest Stadvec was flying a small aircraft near Cleveland, Ohio when he and his two passengers spotted something unusual in…

On a clear night in September 1961, a resident of Columbus, Ohio saw a bright object moving across the sky. The observer was sitting outside, smoking a cigar, when he looked up and…

On November 18, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio, two separate observers reported seeing an unusual object in the daytime sky. The first sighting occurred at 1510 (3:10 p.m.). An observer a…

On July 1, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio, a civilian reported a bright light in the sky at approximately 10:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. The 376th Command Post at Lockbourne Air Force Base rece…

On the evening of July 29, 1961, a civilian in Columbus, Ohio, reported seeing an unidentified object in the night sky. The witness described movement from northeast to southwest d…

The OCR text in this case file is too heavily garbled to support a reliable summary. While the document includes a witness questionnaire and some correspondence about a Rushville,…

On the evening of February 8, 1961, a resident of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright, shiny object in the night sky. The witness described it as resembling a large spotlight, ro…

On July 26, 1961, in Dayton, Ohio, a civilian observer reported sighting an object between 1 p.m. and 1:20 p.m. The object appeared as a round or box-shaped craft seen in a moving…

# Summary On June 4, 1961, an observer in Dayton, Ohio, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness described it as resembling aluminum with dark edges. The object a…

On a summer evening in August 1961, a resident of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright light in the sky. The object appeared to the southeast and looked brighter than the brightes…

The OCR text provided consists almost entirely of blank survey forms and form templates from Project Blue Book's standard witness questionnaire. While the cover sheet (page 1) indi…

On October 12, 1961, someone in Dayton, Ohio saw a large, bright white object moving very fast across the sky. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The Air Force received the re…

In November 1961, people in the Dayton, Ohio area reported seeing a light moving in circles over the city. The light moved in a clockwise direction and reportedly passed over the a…

On a September evening in 1961, a witness in Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual light in the sky. The object appeared as red, blue, and green colors and was visible for only about one and…

In late December 1961, witnesses in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright object in the night sky. They observed it for about five minutes and described it as appearing stationary…

On a cloudy night in August or September 1961, a witness in Englewood, Ohio saw a round object that glowed yellow-orange in the sky. The object appeared as bright as a star, only m…

On September 11, 1961, a resident of Englewood Hills, Ohio reported seeing two lights in the northwestern sky. The witness watched them for approximately two hours. One of the ligh…

On the evening of January 5, 1961, a person east of Dayton, Ohio saw a bright light streak across the sky. The witness described it as cream-colored, about the size of a quarter, a…

On July 16, 1961, in Fairborn, Ohio, a civilian witnessed a stationary object in the daytime sky. The observer watched it for about twenty minutes, using binoculars to get a closer…

On January 11, 1961, at 1930 (7:30 p.m.), a military observer at Fairborn, Ohio reported a bright object. It was seen at about 45 degrees elevation in the southeast. A duty office…

On August 6, 1961, a civilian in Fairborn, Ohio reported seeing a round, white, shiny object in the sky. The object appeared overhead in the northeast and was larger than a star. T…

On the evening of September 14, 1961, a woman driving near Hilliard, Ohio with her four sons saw a bright object hanging low over the road ahead of them. She was traveling west on…

On May 13, 1961, at about 0100 (1:00 a.m.), a military observer in Kettering, Ohio, reported a bright object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the…

# Summary On a January night in 1961, a resident of Miamisburg, Ohio saw what appeared to be a star-like light moving slowly across the sky. When the object moved, the witness not…

On September 18, 1961, at 2:55 a.m., a civilian in Middletown, Ohio, observed a strange light in the sky through a window. The witness described the object as bright and strange-lo…

On the night of August 6, 1961, a resident of Middletown, Ohio noticed an unusual light in the sky. Over the next two weeks, he observed the same object roughly ten times, always o…

On August 30, 1961, a fourteen-year-old in Monroe, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The witness had just watched a movie about flying saucers and believed t…

In early July 1961, a witness in North Dayton, Ohio saw a bright, starlike object moving across the sky during the early morning hours. The witness observed the object twice, watch…

On July 28, 1961, north of Dayton, Ohio, a civilian fireman reported a light in the sky. He saw it at 2307 (11:07 p.m.) and watched it for about 2 to 5 minutes. The object looked l…

On February 23, 1961, a resident of Oakwood, Ohio saw a bright white object in the night sky that reminded them of a star. The object appeared in the southwest and moved toward the…

On the evening of September 1, 1961, a witness in Sandusky, Ohio observed an ascending object that caught fire and burned for two to five minutes during twilight hours. The object…

On the night of September 5, 1961, an observer in Sidney, Ohio, spotted a bright object in the sky while looking to the southwest. When viewed through binoculars, the object appear…

On a September evening in 1961, a person in Springfield, Ohio watched a bright light in the sky for about an hour. The object appeared as bright as the brightest stars and was roug…

On March 2, 1961, residents in Springfield, Dayton, and Cincinnati, Ohio, along with an observer in Richmond, Indiana, reported seeing a bright glowing object streak across the eve…

On January 7, 1961, a resident of Troy, Ohio saw a bright, shiny white object in the sky around 1645 (4:45 p.m.). The object made no sound. The witness described it as similar to a…

On a September evening in 1961 in Troy, Ohio, a witness saw two unusual objects moving across the sky in rapid succession. The first object resembled a satellite with a bright whit…

On September 8, 1961, a witness in Vandalia, Ohio saw an elongated, soft yellow light moving due west at an estimated speed of 3,000 miles per hour. The object remained visible for…

On the evening of October 17, 1961, a resident of West Florence, Ohio watched the sky for approximately one and a half hours and observed what they described as a flashing greenish…