Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 22, 1960, a civilian pilot reported a sighting 10 miles north of Fort Mill, South Carolina. The pilot observed an object approximately the size of a C-47 fuselage that…

On September 9, 1960, a military pilot in a T-33 jet flying about 60 to 111 miles east of Kansas City, Missouri, reported a bright sighting at 2121 (9:21 p.m.) at 35,000 feet. The…

On September 30 and again between October 28 and 31, 1960, military personnel at Melrose Gunnery Range, thirteen nautical miles south-southeast of Melrose, New Mexico near Cannon A…

On June 24, 1960, a military observer reported sighting an object 15 miles southwest of Lead, South Dakota. The object was described as oblong and colored variable red, green, oran…

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 31, 1960, observers near Braidwood and Joliet, Illinois spotted a bright object in the night sky. The main witness, a local official with strong credibility, watched a brill…

# Summary On July 14, 1960, aircrews flying near Miho Air Base in Japan reported seeing a bright, oblong object traveling at extremely high speed. The object appeared pale yellow…

On January 9, 1960, a science teacher from Underwood, Indiana saw a shiny, cigar-shaped object that appeared to rotate slowly in the western sky. The sighting occurred around 10:30…

On August 14, 1960, a civilian aboard a Pacific Northwest Airlines flight observed a round, bright yellow object 30 miles south of Ketchikan, Alaska. The object was larger than sta…

On February 25, 1960, a UFO was sighted from three aircraft over Japan at coordinates 34N 1130-30E, 35N 1149E, and 35-12N 1144-25E. The object appeared at an altitude of 5,700 feet…

On September 21, 1960, a military pilot about 39 miles south of San Angelo, Texas, reported a sighting at 1922 (7:22 p.m.). Flying an F-102A at about 38,000 feet, the pilot saw a r…

On August 20, 1960, a civilian in Concord, California, three miles northwest of town, reported a white object with red and white lights at star size. The object had no noticeable t…

On December 13, 1960, a military pilot about 240 nautical miles east-southeast of Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, reported an object at 1840 (6:40 p.m.). Flying an RC-121D at 8,00…

A T-33 pilot flying east of Grand Junction, Colorado saw a bright object in the night sky in September 1960. The object appeared straight ahead at 30 degrees above the horizon and…

On July 21, 1960, a civilian and his family on a back porch about 4.5 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas saw an object at night. The sighting happened at about 9:40 p.m. and last…

On April 17, 1960, two Air Force air policemen saw a bright object in the night sky about 4.5 nautical miles southwest of Bitburg Air Base, Germany. The night was clear with a full…

On May 19, 1960, residents near Dillingham, Alaska saw an unusual object in the sky that caught the attention of multiple witnesses. The object appeared silver and metallic, roughl…

On November 12, 1960, a civilian pilot for Eastern Airlines reported sighting an unidentified object 50 nautical miles north of Louisville, Kentucky, at 12:13 a.m. The pilot descri…

On the evening of April 8, 1960, two people driving near Lake Ocoee in eastern Tennessee saw a bright, round object with a long trailing tail moving slowly across the sky. The obje…

On July 8, 1960, a civilian about 5 miles northwest of Big Delta, Alaska saw an object while driving on the highway. The sighting lasted about 5 to 10 seconds during the day. The o…

On December 16, 1960, three men driving separately on roads near Hutchinson, Kansas, saw a bright bluish-white object move across the sky. All were on their way to work at Hutchins…

On the night of April 10, 1960, two men in a car on a road seven miles north of Dover, Delaware, saw what they described as a cluster of three bright yellow lights moving across th…

# Summary In December 1960, residents of the Seminole area in West Texas began reporting an unusual object in the sky. The sightings prompted an investigation that would eventuall…

On September 28, 1960, a civilian near Agness, Oregon, reported an incident at 2200 (about 2:00 p.m. local), in daylight. The witness said he saw a large jet type aircraft flying n…

On September 2, 1960, a woman and her two children in Akron, Ohio, witnessed a series of unusual aerial objects. The main object was shiny, silver, and cigar-shaped. It moved from…

On February 23, 1960, two U.S. Air Force officers in Alexandria, Louisiana, reported seeing unusual lights in the sky. The cases were submitted separately, but the Air Force review…

On the night of July 24-25, 1960, multiple witnesses in Alexandria, Louisiana reported seeing bright flashes of light in the sky. The sightings occurred between 11:53 p.m. on July…

On September 27, 1960, military and civilian witnesses at Alamogordo, Las Cruces, White Sands, and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico reported a bright object at 0905 (about 6:0…

On August 26, 1960, a civilian, his wife, and three children saw an object from their yard in Andover, Massachusetts, at about 7:30 p.m., during sunset. The sighting lasted about t…

On July 28, 1960, a civilian woman in Ankara, Turkey saw a strange object from her home balcony at about 9:45 p.m. local time. The sighting lasted only about 1.5 to 2 seconds. The…

On April 9, 1960, a man in Arcata, California, was taking photographs of the setting sun through an 8-inch telescope when an unusual object appeared on the negative. When the film…

On December 25, 1960, a civilian in Arlington Heights, Illinois reported seeing an unidentified object at 5:15 p.m. local time. The object was oval to round in shape, approximately…

# Summary On July 31, 1960, a witness at Kinney Lakes near Arnold, California reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The observer and two children were at a picnic area wh…

On September 27, 1960, a civilian in Aurora, Colorado, reported objects at 0422 (about 9:22 p.m. local), at night under bright moonlight. The witness saw six round, red or maroon o…

On a date in June 1960, a single witness near Bad Godesberg, Germany, saw a group of lights in the sky. The card lists the sighting of multiple lights. The witness reported nine s…

On December 5, 1960, at 0935 (9:35 a.m.) local time, an observer on Banks Island in Canada spotted an object in the sky moving toward the southwest. The object had a round body wit…

On the evening of May 2, 1960, at 8:40 p.m., a witness in Bayonne, New Jersey, observed a luminous object flying from east to west and descending toward the north. The object made…

On May 24, 1960, witnesses near Bear Lake, Florida, saw a star-like object in the sky. The card lists one object seen as a point of light. The object looked round and star-like an…

On the night of June 6, 1960, at approximately 1:30 a.m., multiple witnesses in the Beckley, West Virginia area reported seeing a bright, glowing object streak across the sky. The…

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 December 22, 1960, an observer at Bentwaters in England reported a single round object. It was about the size of a half dollar held at arm's length. The center was bright green…

A driver traveling between Warren and Toledo, Ohio saw seven lights arranged in a "V" formation on April 15, 1960 at 0300 (3 a.m.). The lights appeared to be the size of a pea held…

On September 23, 1960, a truck driver traveling east between Wendover and Salt Lake City, Utah, spotted an unusual object in his rear view mirror. He first saw it as a pear-shaped…

On the morning of March 25, 1960, three U.S. Air Force sentries standing guard at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, witnessed an unusual flying object traveling at extremely…

On September 23, 1960, military personnel at Bitburg Air Base in Germany reported a luminous streak at 0119 (1:19 a.m.). The object looked like a shooting star, red and yellow in c…

On August 29, 1960, a civilian in Blackwood, New Jersey reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The object was brighter and dimmer than a star and was observed in flight fro…

On January 11, 1960, at almost exactly 7:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, a resident of Bloomfield, Connecticut stepped out of his home and spotted an unusual light in the northweste…

On November 30, 1960, a woman in Bothell, Washington, saw something unusual while standing at her kitchen window. She described a brilliant white object, very large, that seemed to…

On September 30, 1960, a civilian in Boulder, Colorado, reported an object at 0840 (about 9:40 p.m. local), at night under a bright, clear sky. The witness, who had radar and elect…

On the evening of July 27, 1960, a woman in Boyce, Louisiana looked out her window while preparing for bed and spotted an unusual object in the sky. She watched it for three hours…

In February 1960, someone reported that a mysterious spacecraft had crashed in a remote, heavily forested area of British Columbia, Canada near the town of Aggassis. The report cam…

On June 24, 1960, a witness at Brookley Air Force Base near Mobile, Alabama saw a bright object in the sky. The sighting happened at twilight, about 6:48 p.m. local time, and laste…

On the evening of December 22, 1960, a resident of Buckingham, Iowa witnessed an unusual aerial phenomenon. The object first appeared in the northeast sky at 1750 hours (5:50 p.m.)…

On September 26, 1960, six observers near Camp Irwin, California, reported a large object at about 1000 (10:00 a.m.) GMT, during night hours local. They described a sphere the size…

On the evening of August 27, 1960, a person lying in a hammock in Centerville, Ohio, noticed an object in the southern sky that appeared to be a star. The object seemed to move fro…

On June 7, 1960, a photographer in Champaign, Illinois filmed what turned out to be one of Project Blue Book's more unusual cases: an unidentified bright object that moved across t…

On September 22, 1960, two young civilians near Champaign, Illinois, reported an object northwest of the city at about 0007 (just after midnight, local). They described a yellowish…

On the night of July 27, 1960, an airman stationed at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois saw something bright and unusual cross the sky. Airman Stelle, a weather observer, was on d…

On the morning of July 2, 1960, multiple witnesses at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois reported seeing unusual lights in the sky over a five-hour span. The first two observers, a…

On April 6, 1960, an airman stationed near Chicago wrote to the U.S. Air Force to report that he had witnessed what he believed was the disintegration of the Soviet satellite Sputn…