Grand Blanc, Michigan UFO Sighting (March 5, 1960) — FBI Files
A cold war / blue book era case from Grand Blanc, Michigan. An individual named Perry, who owns a restaurant and photographs the moon as a hobby, contacted the Detroit FBI office claiming two of his photos depicted flying saucers.
Background
On March 5, 1960, in Grand Blanc, Michigan, U.S. government investigators recorded an unidentified-object incident later released to the public on May 8, 2026 as part of the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters (PURSUE). The incident is a Cold War-era case investigated under the Air Force’s Project Blue Book or its predecessors. The case was filed with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, whose Knoxville, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, and other field offices routed UFO reports to headquarters under the Bureau’s standing protocols for the protection of vital installations.
What the document records
An individual named Perry, who owns a restaurant and photographs the moon as a hobby, contacted the Detroit FBI office claiming two of his photos depicted flying saucers. FBI agents reviewed the film and passed it on to Air Force OSI representatives. No further investigation was conducted by the Bureau, despite a newspaper report to the contrary.
The number of witnesses is not specified in the released document.
Verbatim from the file
““two of his pictures showed a foreign object which he believed to be Jiying saucers”“
Type of case
The case includes photographic or video evidence of the unidentified object.
Status
All records released under the PURSUE program are designated unresolved by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) by default. The federal government has not concluded that the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of this period include experimental aircraft, weather balloons (especially the Project Mogul series in the late 1940s), atmospheric optical phenomena such as sundogs and lenticular clouds, and astronomical objects including Venus, the Moon, and meteors near the horizon.