Project Blue Book Case Files

On March 18, 1963 (about 9:48 p.m. local time on the 19th by Greenwich time), the crew of the ship SS Plainsman in the Atlantic Ocean near Puerto Rico reported an unknown object th…

On January 2, 1963, near Akron, Ohio, a phone report described a sighting by a resident of nearby Ravenna and three other witnesses. The report was filed under Project 10073, the A…

On March 23, 1963, at about 8 p.m., a civilian in Decatur, near Atlanta, Georgia, reported an object that seemed to float down from the sky to the northeast. The sighting lasted ab…

On the night of March 23, 1963, a fourteen-year-old in Babylon, New York saw a bright light moving across the sky. The object appeared as bright as the star Sirius and stood still…

On the evening of May 15, 1963, a resident of Beaufort, South Carolina reported seeing an unusual light in the night sky. The witness, who was aboard a boat on Battery Creek just s…

On June 22, 1963, a civilian observer in Beavercreek, Ohio watched an unusual object through binoculars for about 10 to 15 minutes. The object appeared metallic and shiny, with a h…

The OCR text for page 9 is too corrupted to read reliably. However, the earlier pages of this file contain clear, substantive information about the sighting, and I can write a full…

On the evening of March 31, 1963, a pilot flying south from Brooklyn, New York spotted something in the sky that caught their attention. The aircraft appeared to be moving with wha…

This case is dated June 27, 1963, near Budd Lake, New Jersey. A civilian wrote a letter to the President asking what an object in the area was. The matter was passed to the Air For…

In April 1963, a Washington correspondent for the Montreal Star and his wife reported seeing an unusual object in Chantilly, Virginia. The witness described it as a single object t…

On March 25, 1963, at about 10:12 p.m. local time, a civilian in Chevy Chase, Maryland, reported a bright object after watching the Echo satellite pass. The object was seen at abou…

In June 1963, a young observer in Chicago watched the moon through a telescope and saw something unexpected: approximately twenty or more small dots crossing in front of the moon.…

On January 30, 1963, a 12 year old civilian in Chicago, Illinois, reported a black rectangular object with a bright light in front of it. The object was about the size of a basketb…

On April 24, 1963 (about 10:58 p.m. local time by Greenwich time), a civilian in Cloquet, Minnesota, reported a tear shaped object about the size of a football. It was bluish, like…

On the night of January 9, 1963, a premedical student at the University of Maryland in College Park stepped outside his dormitory after hearing people shouting. He looked up and sa…

On March 17, 1963, an Air Force airman over Crestview, Florida, reported two grey, wing shaped objects in the night sky. They were seen at about 50 degrees above the horizon and lo…

Someone at Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, shot 13 slides of what looked like a flying object on June 15, 1963, sometime between 11 a.m.…

On March 24, 1963, in Dayton, Ohio, a military observer reported sighting an object at 8:30 p.m. The object was sighted at 2:30 p.m. and reported to the Department of Defense by ph…

On the evening of June 8, 1963, a woman in Dayton, Ohio, reported seeing an object in the night sky that resembled a bright star. The object appeared to fade in and out, with brigh…

# Detroit UFO Sighting, 1963 In March or April 1966, a resident of Detroit wrote to the Air Force about a UFO he had witnessed in Chicago in 1963. The writer said he, his father,…

On the evening of May 15, 1963, in Evanston, Illinois, a witness observed a solid object with lights accompanied by a low humming sound. The object appeared directly overhead and w…

On June 25, 1963, a civilian in Fairfield, Connecticut reported seeing a bright elongated object very high in the sky in inflight with pulsating white light and no sound. The objec…

On January 2, 1963, an observer at Forbes Air Force Base, Kansas, reported a bright light in the southwestern sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's officia…

On June 24 and 25, 1963, civilians reported a star-like object near Frankfort, New York. The witnesses were a husband and wife plus several other people. The case was recorded in P…

On the evening of July 1, 1963, a resident of Glen Ellyn, Illinois observed an unusual object moving across the night sky. Using a theodolite (a surveying instrument that measures…

On a July night in 1963, a man in Greensboro, North Carolina watched fireworks with a group of boys when he spotted something unusual to the north. The object was yellow or orange…

On the evening of June 14, 1963, a witness in Greensboro, North Carolina reported seeing an unusual bright light in the sky. At 11:50 p.m., the object first appeared as an extremel…

On May 24, 1963, a sighting was reported near Haleiwa, Oahu, Hawaii. The witness was Sergeant Floyd Foster, a military observer. The report was sent as a CIRVIS message and recorde…

In late April 1963, a civilian resident of Port Allen on the island of Kauai, Hawaii reported seeing a bright, star-like object moving slowly across the sky from west-southwest to…

On March 6, 1963, witnesses near Houston, Texas, reported a cylindrical object in daylight. The sighting was at about 11:55 a.m. local time. The object was light blue with an orang…

On the evening of June 14, 1963, a man and his wife were stargazing from atop Addicks Dam, just west of Houston, Texas. At 9:57 p.m., they spotted what looked like a star positione…

On April 15, 1963, a university professor and four colleagues spotted an unusual bright object in the sky while on a camping trip high in the mountains of northern Lebanon. The obj…

In April 1963, a resident of Joliet, Illinois reported seeing an object in the night sky that he described as breaking apart into seven separate pieces and performing various maneu…

On April 22, 1963, a civilian resident of Port Allen on the island of Kauai, Hawaii reported seeing a reddish light in the night sky. The object was about the same size and color a…

On an April evening in 1963, someone in Kettering, Ohio observed an extremely bright object in the night sky moving from northwest to southeast. The witness watched it for three to…

On July 3, 1963, at night, civilians reported an object near Klamath Falls, Oregon. The witnesses were a husband and wife; the man was an ex-pilot. The case was recorded in Project…

On February 20, 1963, at dawn, eight Air Police officers at Lajes Air Base in the Azores watched a pale white, grapefruit-sized object move across the sky. The sighting began at 06…

On March 22, 1963, at 6:35 a.m. in Lebanon, Ohio, a civilian observer reported seeing an object moving north with a light and tail going south, then moving rapidly. The object was…

On June 17, 1963, a civilian witness in Lincolnwood, Illinois reported seeing a silver disc-shaped object with no tail at 12:25 p.m. The witness was waiting for a bus at the southw…

On June 13, 1963, at night, a civilian student reported an object near Little Rock, Arkansas. The witness was about 8 miles south of the city. The case was recorded in Project 1007…

On April 26, 1963, a civilian woman in Lorton, Virginia, reported a moon shaped object about 10 feet across. She was sunbathing and watching clouds at the Springfield Farm location…

On February 11, 1963, a civilian in Los Angeles, California, reported a strange vapor trail in the sky. The sighting was made between 5:49 and 5:55 p.m. local time. The observer wa…

On January 17, 1963, a civilian in Ludlow, Massachusetts, reported a point of light in the night sky. The witness was sitting in a car when the object appeared. It looked red, like…

On the evening of February 8, 1963, a man driving near Maysville, Kentucky spotted an unusual object through the trees on a hillside to the west of his location. He pulled over to…

In June 1963, a witness in Mesa, Arizona reported seeing an unusual object during the early evening hours. The sighting lasted approximately 25 minutes. The witness observed an el…

On June 13, 1963, at night, an air policeman reported a light near Misawa Air Base, Japan. The witness was Airman Robert J. O'Connor, a military observer with the air police. The c…

On the night of February 6, 1963, a civilian pilot flying a C-46 cargo plane spotted a bright, spherical light in the sky near Montebello, Virginia. The pilot was about 15 miles so…

On the night of April 13, 1963, someone in Moorcroft, Wyoming reported seeing a bright object that looked like a star moving through the sky to the southeast at fairly high speed.…

On the night of January 4th into the early morning of January 5th, 1963, a railroad worker at Nantucket Point on Long Island looked up from his job filling train tanks around 3 a.m…

On the evening of June 25, 1963, a civilian in New Carlisle, Ohio saw a bright object that resembled a star moving across the night sky toward the northeast. The witness watched th…

On the night of May 18, 1963, someone near New Plymouth, New Zealand saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness was at a camp when they spotted it around 10:30 p.m. local time.…

On the night of June 18, 1963, people across the Niagara Falls and Buffalo area of western New York reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The sightings were brought…

On March 17, 1963, a 14-year-old in North Andover, Massachusetts reported seeing three bright objects in the sky during the afternoon. The witness said the objects were traveling i…

On the evening of June 28, 1963, residents of North Branford, Connecticut, reported seeing a bright white object moving erratically across the night sky. The object appeared circul…

A mechanic in Albuquerque captured photographs of a flying object on June 16, 1963, claiming it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Air Force photo analysts, however, determined th…

On June 18, 1963, at about 6:41 a.m. local time, an object was reported over Oahu, Hawaii. The main witness was Major Armand Parker, a military officer. His wife and another milita…

In July 1963, someone in Oakhurst, New Jersey reported seeing a UFO traveling from northwest to southeast across the sky until it disappeared at about 15 degrees above the horizon.…

On the night of May 2, 1963, near Ocean City, Maryland, six witnesses observed a light in the sky that resembled a bright star. The object was dim white in color and made no sound.…

On March 20, 1963, a woman in Opa Locka, Florida, reported spots of light in the sky while walking home at about 4:30 p.m. The lights were bigger and brighter than stars. Some were…

On May 22, 1963, a witness in Parkersburg, West Virginia reported seeing an object fall to the ground at 10:30 p.m. The witness described the object as bright green in color and sa…