Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 20, 1961, an Air Force T-33 jet crew sighted an oblong, cigar shaped object about 100 nautical miles west northwest of Kalispell, Montana. The aircraft was at 39,000 fe…

On January 28, 1961, at night, witnesses about 10 miles southwest of Russell and between Russell and Salina, Kansas reported a large, round, green ball. Observers included a B-47 a…

On September 26, 1961, at about 0725Z (Greenwich time), at night, a military aircrew aboard an RC-121 reported an object about 150 miles west-northwest of Ukiah, California. The re…

A couple driving west of Las Vegas on a gravel road near the Blue Diamond Mine saw an unusual object on the evening of July 17, 1961. The object approached from the south, visible…

On December 12, 1961, two military pilots about 20 nautical miles west of Junction, Texas, reported a meteor-like object. The pilots were flying a T-29 aircraft and were returning…

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…

On the night of December 4, 1961, two Air Force pilots flying a T-33 trainer jet near Vandenberg Air Force Base in California saw a bright object falling rapidly through the sky. T…

On February 3, 1961, during the day, a single witness about 2 miles northwest of Van Nuys, California reported two very bright, metallic, oval-shaped objects. Each was slightly lar…

On March 14, 1961, an observer in an aircraft reported a dark object near 38 degrees 53 minutes north, 79 degrees 51 minutes west, in the area of Elkins. The object had an orange t…

On January 20, 1961, at night, two military observers at about 38 degrees 55 minutes north in Kansas reported a round object the size of a quarter at arm's length. It was white or…

On March 2, 1961, around 7:15 p.m. local time, a civilian about three miles west of St. Albans, West Virginia, reported a blue white, oblong object. It was seen for about 15 second…

On March 15, 1961, an object was reported near Misawa Air Base, Japan, around 8:20 p.m. local time, near 40 degrees 20 minutes north, 142 degrees 10 minutes east. Three witnesses s…

On February 21, 1961, around 12:30 a.m. local time, a civilian at the Winnemucca Hotel in Winnemucca, Nevada, reported what appeared to be an aerial explosion. He reported it to th…

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…

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 August 1, 1961, near Chibougamou, Quebec, a civilian reported witnessing an explosion in the sky at about 40,000 feet, approximately 40 miles northwest of Chibougamou. The explo…

On the night of February 27-28, 1961, six to eight military personnel stationed near Herndon, Virginia, observed an unusual light in the sky for approximately one hour. The group,…

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 March 17, 1961, an object was reported about five miles south of Minden, Nevada, around 10:10 p.m. local time. The object was bright white and circular, about the size of a pea.…

On March 21, 1961, an aircraft crew reported a light about 60 miles east of Springfield, Missouri, around 2:14 a.m. The crew was flying on a heading of 340 degrees at an altitude o…

On the evening of January 15, 1961, a pilot flying near Duluth, Minnesota spotted a bright object streaking across the night sky. Lieutenant James Chapman, a pilot with the Minneso…

On November 20, 1961, a military observer aboard a T-33 jet about 60 miles west of Newport, Oregon, reported an object at about 6:35 p.m. (0235 Zulu). One object was seen, round an…

On July 22, 1961, at 7:15 p.m., a pilot and crew of a DC-8 aircraft observed a white, possibly reddish object 60 nautical miles south of Louisville, Kentucky. The object appeared s…

On the night of January 3, 1961, a driver traveling west on Big Lake Road near Cloquet, Minnesota, saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness was moving at about 45 miles per ho…

On March 2, 1961, two adult civilian women reported a strange light about seven miles south of Minot, North Dakota. They saw it around 10:15 p.m. local time while driving home from…

On July 1, 1961, seven miles southwest of Manchester, Tennessee, a UFO was sighted. The object first appeared as a line similar to an aircraft condensation trail but faded quickly…

On February 6, 1961, during the day, a weather forecaster about 8 miles east of Indian Springs, Nevada reported a shiny, half-moon shaped object about 5 feet in diameter, shadowed…

On February 28, 1961, around 7:30 p.m. local time, military observers at Adair Air Force Station, Oregon, reported a white, star like object. The witnesses were three Air Force off…

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 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 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 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 October 7, 1961, civilian witnesses in Albany, New York, reported an unidentified flying object. The report came in a letter that was first sent to the President and then passed…

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…

# Amityville, New York, December 1961 On the evening of December 14, 1961, three high school boys in Amityville, New York, spotted an unusual object in the sky near the local bath…

On October 6, 1961, a civilian in Arlington, Virginia, reported objects at about 6:30 p.m. local time, near dusk. The witness described two elliptical objects, each about 1,000 fee…

On January 24, 1961, three ships in the same general area of the Atlantic reported a single object. One ship saw an illuminated body at about 300 degrees and 60 degrees altitude th…

On May 13, 1961, a civilian saw two lights near Atmore, Alabama, in the early morning hours. One light went west to east and passed overhead around 6:10 a.m. (GMT). A similar light…

On March 3, 1961, military observers at Aviano Air Base, Italy, reported a bright object in the night sky. A tower observer saw it first and pointed it out to tower operators. The…

On October 24, 1961, in the evening, a civilian in Baltimore, Maryland, reported an object in the sky. The witness was riding in a car. The report was filed on the Project 10073 re…

On February 22, 1961, around 2:30 a.m. local time, the pilot of a United DC-8 airliner reported a point of light near Baltimore, Maryland. The aircraft was at 31,000 feet on a head…

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 a December evening in 1961, a witness in Bartlett, Illinois saw an unusual object in the sky as the sun was setting. The witness described it as an elongated, cloud-like shape t…

On May 19, 1961, a civilian saw an object near Bay Minette, Alabama, around 10:10 a.m. (GMT). The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. The object's course was toward the south southwe…

On June 14, 1961, a resident of Bedford, Massachusetts reported seeing a bright light in the sky. The object appeared to be roughly the size of the full moon held at arm's length.…

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 night of February 13, 1961, four people in a car saw a colored light on the highway between Sterling City and Garden City, Texas, about 27 miles southeast of Webb Air Force…

On June 18, 1961, in Bloomington, Illinois, a civilian reported observing a shiny round star-like object in the early evening. The witness was lying on grass near a swimming pool w…

On the morning of January 9, 1961, a resident of Bothell, Washington saw two unusual objects in the sky from the kitchen window of his ranch home, located about five and a half mil…

On the night of May 23 to 24, 1961, three civilians driving south on U.S. Highway 19 near Bronson, Florida, spotted a strange light in the sky ahead of them. The object appeared su…

On the morning of February 6, 1961, an indirect report said that a civilian witness at Brooklyn, New York had observed an unidentified flying object. The Air Force forwarded a que…

On October 11, 1961, at 7:55 p.m., a civilian in Brooklyn, New York reported seeing two self-luminous, transparent objects moving north and east. The objects had no clearly defined…

On July 30, 1961, two friends in Brooklyn spotted a moving object crossing the sky in a northeasterly direction at approximately 9:36 p.m. The object was white and dull, similar in…

On November 16, 1961, a military pilot near Bryan, Texas, reported an object at about 11:37 a.m. local time (1737 Zulu). The pilot was flying a T-33 jet at about 3,200 feet, headin…

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 January 14, 1961, at about 2100 (9:00 p.m.), a civilian at Buhl, Minnesota reported a round object the size of a tennis ball at arm's length. It was white with some red coloring…

On June 21, 1961, an Air Force pilot saw an object near Bunker Hill Air Force Base, Indiana, around 3 a.m. (GMT). The pilot was watching for an F-126 making a pass on his aircraft…

On February 1, 1961, just before sunset, a civilian at Cambridge, Massachusetts reported a round, bright silver object. It was between the size of a pea and a head of a pin at arm'…

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…

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…