Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 25, 1962, two Air Force officers aboard a T-33 aircraft about 10 miles northwest of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, reported an object. The object was in sight for about…

On February 23, 1962, a crew aboard a U.S. Navy ship off Luzon in the Philippines (16-32N 119-31E) reported a bright white object in the night sky. The sighting was a military grou…

On April 12, 1962, near Kunia, Hawaii (about 22-02N 160-40W), an object was reported on ground radar. The radar return was below 25,000 feet and showed a high rate of closure, with…

On July 11, 1962, five people about 30 miles north of Kankakee, Illinois, on U.S. 54 reported objects at about 2020 (8:20 p.m.). The objects were in sight for about 15 minutes. Th…

On October 14, 1962, a ship captain on the Mississippi River reported seeing an unidentified flying object near 6 Mile, SW Pass. Captain [name redacted], a river pilot, observed th…

On July 7, 1962, a witness in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw an unusual object rise from the south and move northward. As the object climbed overhead, it flashed brightly. At that mom…

On May 24, 1962, observers near Albuquerque and Las Vegas, New Mexico, reported an object in the sky. It was first seen in daytime by both ground witnesses and an airborne aircraft…

On the evening of August 24, 1962, a resident of Alexandria, Virginia spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described it as an egg-shaped object with a red light…

On May 1, 1962, a civilian in west central Alexandria, Louisiana, reported a bright light in the night sky. The sighting began about 2205 (10:05 p.m.) local time and lasted about 3…

On October 29, 1962, around 1:20 p.m. Pacific time, four people standing outside the Sheriff's Building in Altadena, California, reported a bright object in the sky. The group incl…

On September 1, 1962, near Antigo, Wisconsin, a civilian reported observing a cylindrical object about 50 feet in diameter and 100 feet long. The object was fluorescent bluish gree…

On December 1, 1962, in Arlington, Massachusetts, a witness reported an object shaped like a frankfurter in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offic…

On the night of September 25, 1962, military police officers stationed near Arlington Heights, Illinois saw something that puzzled them. The witnesses described a large, saucer-sha…

On a night in July 1962, a resident of Ashland, Wisconsin saw brief flashing lights through a bedroom window. The sighting lasted only a short time. The observer reported seeing fi…

On December 12, 1962, in Ashland, Oregon, a witness reported round objects in the northern sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for…

On August 26, 1962, at 1845 (6:45 p.m.), just after sunset, a man reported an object over Del Mar Park in Aurora, Colorado. The witness was in the Marine Corps recruiting service.…

On June 29, 1962, civilians near Ayoayo, Bolivia, about 35 nautical miles south of La Paz, reported an object. It was seen falling between noon and 1:00 p.m. Three witnesses descr…

On August 3, 1962, at 1:15 p.m., two teenage students in Azuza, California reported seeing a bright oval spot of light moving northeast at approximately 3 degrees per second. They…

On April 25, 1962, observers near Baker Lake in northern Canada reported a bright object in the night sky at about 11:00 p.m. local time. The sighting lasted a very short time. The…

The witness in Baldwinsville, Massachusetts watched an unusual object in the night sky on February 18, 1962, at 21:15 (9:15 p.m.). Through a telescope, the object appeared sharply…

On the evening of August 23, 1962, observers near Baltimore, Maryland watched what they initially thought was a satellite pass overhead multiple times. The main sighting, called "A…

On November 7, 1962, in the early morning, a civilian cab driver near Baltimore, Maryland, reported a pink object in the sky to the south of the city. The witness sent the account…

On July 6, 1962, a Navy control tower operator at Chase Field near Beeville, Texas, reported an object at about 2030Z. The object was in sight for about 3 to 5 seconds. The object…

In late June 1962, residents of Beloit, Wisconsin reported seeing bright, burning objects in the sky over a two-day period. The sightings began on June 28 and continued into June 2…

On January 28, 1962, a witness near Bethel, Alaska, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was made at about 0203 GMT on January 29, during the day, and lasted about 30 second…

On the night of August 30, 1962, a youth in Bickmore, West Virginia saw what he described as a flying saucer. The object was oval in shape, solid, and dull red in color. It moved a…

On the night of June 9, 1962, a technical sergeant stationed at Keesler Air Force Base near Biloxi, Mississippi saw something unusual in the sky. While fishing off a pier about ten…

Two eleven year old boys found plastic debris in Bristol, Rhode Island on October 20, 1962, after seeing a gray object fall from the sky with a whooshing sound. One of the boys sai…

On July 6, 1962, in British Honduras, a civilian observed a brilliant object moving southeast across the sky. The witness reported seeing the object at 8:30 p.m. for about one and…

On March 23 and 24, 1962, two witnesses in the Bronx observed what appeared to be white smoke trailing behind an object traveling across the sky at high speed. The first witness r…

On December 10, 1962, the ferry Gayhead reported seeing a flashing red light and radar blips near Little Gull Point Light in Long Island Sound, about one mile away and roughly 308…

On September 29, 1962, a 17-year-old civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an object in the night sky. The time was about 0030Z. It was at about 2,000 feet, moving west at about…

On October 2, 1962, an observer on the hills above Christiansted reported a sighting near Buck Island in the Virgin Islands. The report came by phone to a flight service station. T…

# Burlington, Massachusetts, May 1962 In May 1962, a witness in Burlington, Massachusetts reported seeing an unusual object and submitted photographs taken during the sighting. Th…

On December 1962, in Cambria, California, a witness reported a bright object in the sky that was viewed for about two hours through binoculars. The report was filed under Project 1…

On the evening of July 18, 1962, at about 10:30 p.m., a 20-year-old man observing stars as a hobby saw two bright objects moving across the sky above Camp Carmel near Dunbar, Penns…

On February 11, 1962, military and civilian witnesses near Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was made at 2220 local time (10:20 p.m.) and…

On the evening of August 26, 1962, a resident of Casper, Wyoming saw a light flash on and off in the sky for just 1 to 2 seconds. The object passed out of view when an oil storage…

A resident of Cato, New York reported seeing an unusual object in the sky in September 1962. The witness described the object as having a brightness comparable to a moderately brig…

On July 18, 1962, a civilian in Centerville, Ohio, reported an object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's official record for unident…

On March 19, 1962, several witnesses at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, reported one object in the west-northwest sky. The object was orange and about one fifth the size of the m…

On the evening of July 6, 1962, an observer in Cheverly, Maryland saw a bright light moving across the night sky around 2305 (11:05 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time. The object appeared…

On October 10, 1962, at 11:03 p.m., a civilian in Chicago, Illinois reported an illuminated object with the appearance of a star in flight moving from west to east. The sighting la…

On the night of April 25, 1962, a civilian observer in Chicago used a telescope to spot a bright, glowing object moving across the sky. The observer described the object as white a…

On August 21, 1962, several people in Chicago, Illinois, reported an object in the night sky. The time was about 0410Z. A housewife was the main observer, and four other people, in…

On May 14-15, 1962, a witness in Chicago, Illinois, reported seeing an object described as round and about the size of a golf ball held at arm's length. The sighting took place bet…

On October 26, 1962, a farmer in Corpus Christi, Texas reported that a piece of translucent material had fallen from the sky and struck his plow. He kept the material and reported…

On a May evening in 1962, an observer in Clinchco, Virginia, watched several round, whitish objects moving slowly across the sky. The sighting lasted about 5 or 6 minutes and occur…

In May 1962, a child and grandmother in Coloma, Michigan witnessed a bright light moving across the night sky. The object appeared brighter than the stars and made no sound as it t…

On April 27, 1962, at 9:13 a.m. in Coloma, Michigan, a witness observed a UFO at an angle of 60 degrees from where it first appeared. The object traveled parallel to the ground and…

In June 1962, military and civilian observers in the Columbus, Georgia area reported multiple sightings of unidentified lights over the course of several days. The objects were tra…

On November 29, 1962, in Concord, Vermont, a witness reported a bright star-like object in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system…

On November 16, 1962, near Coos Bay and North Bend, Oregon, witnesses reported two objects in the sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record sys…

On November 1962, near Cora, Wyoming, a witness reported an object in the sky that was first seen after watching an aircraft. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Forc…

On July 21, 1962, near Culebra Island in the Caribbean, a crew member aboard a military aircraft observed a rocket or missile-like object traveling at high speed from west to east…

On August 12, 1962, in Danbury, Connecticut, a family observed a small bright object near the moon for seven minutes starting around 9:30 p.m. EDT. Using a 50-power eyepiece telesc…

On May 7, 1962, a civilian driving on U.S. Highway 100 between London and Danville, Kentucky, reported a bright object at about 4:00 a.m. He saw a bright red object with a long, wh…

In June 1962, residents of Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright object in the night sky. The witnesses described it as very large and estimated it moved slowly across the sky. The…

On a May day in 1962, a driver in Dayton, Ohio saw a shiny object moving across the sky from west to east. The object stayed visible for about five minutes. The witness was traveli…

On the evening of June 5, 1962, residents of Dayton and Kettering, Ohio, reported seeing a white-yellowish light moving back and forth across the sky for about twenty minutes. The…