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1947 — 1969, as the files stand
What was found: Fort Wayne's documented contact with Project Blue Book, in the sources reachable for this section, consists of three touches. First, the 7 February 1955 American Airlines Flight 266 report, which survives at summary level as a Blue Book-era case, its original file not located (see the 1955 entry). Second, the 8 September 1966 Federal Building case, which survives as a full file with the conclusion "Aircraft (possible)" (see the 1966 entry). Third, the 3 September 1966 observation, which survives only as the project chief's letter judging the information received insufficient for evaluation. No other Fort Wayne or Allen County Blue Book case file was reached from the free online record.
What the unknowns list shows: The Air Force's list of cases officially carried as "Unknown" — reproduced by NICAP from the published list, 564 cases of the 701 the Air Force claimed — contains no Fort Wayne case. Indiana's entries on that list are Indianapolis (29 and 31 July 1948), Kokomo (8 April 1950), Terre Haute (9 October 1951 and 26 June 1952), Rockville (22 July 1952) and South Bend (23 July 1952). Fort Wayne's absence from the list is consistent with the conclusions on the Fort Wayne files that do survive: the one fully documented local case was closed as a possible aircraft. This section states the limit of the check plainly: the Blue Book case files at the National Archives are arranged chronologically, not by place, and no complete, place-indexed sweep of the 12,618 cases for Allen County was possible from the free online sources. A systematic sweep — through the Fold3/NARA microfilm index (publication T-1206) read by place — remains an open route, and any cases it surfaces belong in this section by update.
Sources:
- "Complete List of Project Blue Book's Unsolved Cases" (the Air Force's "Unknown" list as published, via parascope.com), reproduced at nicap.org — searched for Fort Wayne and for all Indiana entries, 10 November 2026.
- National Archives, Project BLUE BOOK reference report — the chronological arrangement of the case files (microfilm T-1206) that limits a place-based sweep.
- The case files and summaries cited in the 1955 and 1966 entries of this section.