◆ CASE FILEThe facts, corroborated
The Eureka Blackout
On the evening of 18 April 1962 a glowing red object was tracked westward from Oneida in New York across several states, and later accounts say it landed near Eureka in Utah and knocked out a power station for forty-two minutes. Fighters were scrambled and Project Blue Book filed the case. Blue Book attributed it to a bolide, a bright meteor, and NICAP disputes that. This is the record of what was reported and tracked, not a verdict on what crossed the sky.
◆ THE SHORT VERSION
- The Eureka Blackout is a reported UAP case in Eureka, Utah, USA, 18 April 1962.
- Later accounts say a glowing red object landed near Eureka, Utah on 18 April 1962 and knocked out a power station for forty-two minutes, details that trace to a 1966 book by Frank Edwards.
- Records of the 18 April 1962 Eureka object say it was tracked westward from Oneida, New York, that fighters were scrambled from Luke Air Force Base and that radar at Nellis Air Force Base followed it.
- Project Blue Book attributed the 1962 Eureka object to a bolide, a bright meteor; NICAP disputes this and quotes an internal note calling it no meteor and unidentified.
- The public record places the end of the 1962 Eureka object over the Mesquite area of Nevada near Las Vegas, not near Reno as one video telling says.
- For this case Fractured Realities holds 1 distinct source and 2 distinct claimants on its resolved list.
- The archive grades it L3 · MULTI-SOURCE — multiple independent sources attest to it.
Counts are resolved totals of what sources say, computed 2026-10-03; the reported details above are claims in the record, not findings. A record of reports, not a verdict on what happened.
EVENT DATE
18 April 1962
LOCATION
Eureka, Utah · USA
COORDS
39.95°N 112.12°W
INDEPENDENCE
L3 · MULTI-SOURCE
SOURCES
1 distinct
CLAIMANTS
2
STATUS
Multi-source testimony
NUMBERS COMPUTED 2026-10-03 · RESOLVED COUNTS, NOT A VERDICT
