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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4 cases in PA from 1962 · page 1 of 1

Philadelphia, PA
1962 · unknown
On April 27, 1962, at approximately 8:20 p.m. E.S.T., a flying object was sighted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The object was roughly shaped like a Mercury Capsule with a sphere…
Philadelphia, PA
1962 · unknown
On May 23, 1962, a man in Philadelphia reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. He watched it move several times over a period of about forty-five minutes, observing it throug…
Philadelphia, PA
1962 · unknown
# Philadelphia UFO Sighting, October 1962 On the evening of October 18, 1962, a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania saw a white object in the southeastern sky that disappeared…
Reynoldsville, PA
1962 · unknown
# Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania, August 1962 In August 1962, an observer in Reynoldsville, Pennsylvania reported seeing three bright objects in the sky over the course of two hours…

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Philadelphia, PA

Philadelphia, PA

Reynoldsville, PA