Project Blue Book Case Files

On an unknown date, the US Coast Guard cutter Eagle reported sighting a very bright object moving at high speed in a position 100-135 miles southeast of the Azores. The object move…

On August 1, 1958, near Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi, one object was sighted. The object was described as a shape of football, with climbing in an arc, gradually to the s…

On the afternoon of August 9, 1952, at approximately 1815 MST (6:15 p.m.), an Air Force sergeant and several other witnesses in Albuquerque, New Mexico observed an unusual aircraft…

# Summary On July 26, 1952, a Michigan couple traveling to Canada observed two bright lights moving across the sky near Forest, Ontario. The observers, who were listening to radio…

On October 31, 1947, at approximately 2:30 a.m., three enlisted men stationed at Lagens, Terceira in the Azores watched an unidentified object move rapidly through the air. The obj…

On the night of August 12, 1952, around 10:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, dozens of people at the Terrace Drive-In theater near Bakersfield, California, saw something unusual movin…

On September 21, 1952, at 0843 (8:43 a.m.), a high school student in Baltimore, Maryland saw three objects arranged in a triangle formation moving across the sky. The point of the…

On August 1, 1952, ground radar operators at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, detected an unidentified target moving southwest at about 525 miles per hour. Two F-…

On the night of August 11, 1952, multiple airmen at Tempelhof Air Base in Berlin, Germany saw unidentified objects in the sky. Around 2300 hours (11 p.m.), the Fire Department call…

In September and December 1948, a teacher in North and South Colorado observed what he described as a bright green falling star on three separate occasions. The first sighting occu…

On August 19, 1952, a 30-year-old scoutmaster named Sonny DesVergers ventured into a palmetto forest near West Palm Beach, Florida, to investigate strange lights. When he returned…

On the night of August 15, 1952, at 0003 hours (12:03 a.m.), four people at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois witnessed four unidentified objects flying in a tight "V" formation d…

In Charlottsville, Virginia, a report was received of a yellowish orange light appearing oval in shape. The object traveled from east in a presumed west direction with undulating m…

On the early morning of September 2, 1952, the radar control tower at Chicago's Midway Airport detected dozens of unidentified targets on their scopes. Starting shortly after midni…

This report describes a sighting near Columbus, Ohio. The report was sent in two years after the event happened. Because of this delay, the record gives no firm date or time. The…

On August 27, 1952, at 10:15 p.m., a Dallas, Texas resident reported seeing two orange lights moving at jet speed with no sound. One light was behind the other. They moved north fo…

On August 27, 1952, at 9:15 a.m., two U.S. Air Force personnel at David-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona, watched two brilliant blue-white objects move across the sky ne…

On September 4, 1952, near Death Valley, California, Flight Gunner Gayle L. Moreland observed a round ball of bright yellow light with an exposed gun camera film. The ball of light…

A resident near Delta, Utah reported seeing a silver object hovering about four miles south of Delta Airport around November 1952. The object wobbled and made a vapor trail, then f…

On the evening of August 8, 1952, at 7:55 p.m., a retired civilian pilot standing in the front yard of his home in Downey, California, spotted a very small object flying extremely…

On the afternoon of September 3, 1952, five witnesses in Dublin, Georgia, reported seeing five flat, round objects moving through the sky. The sightings occurred around 1730 (5:30…

On August 17, 1952, an observer near Fairfield, California, reported an object in the sky. The Air Force record card describes the object as blue in color, tubular in shape, and no…

On July 17, 1952, at 10:05 p.m. Eastern Daylight time, a colonel assigned to Air Force headquarters watched three lights from his yard in Falls Church, Virginia. One light was red…

On Friday, September 12, 1952, near Flatwoods, West Virginia, witnesses observed an unidentified object in the sky. The object traveled from about 30 degrees north of east to 30 de…

I must inform you that the OCR of this case file is too fragmentary and garbled to support a reliable summary. While the document spans 39 pages and clearly contains multiple intel…

In early December 1948, the Air Force Office of Special Investigations looked into reports of green fireballs over New Mexico. On December 5, 1948, around 2105 (9:05 p.m.), an Air…

On the night of October 15, 1948, a U.S. Air Force F-61 night fighter aircraft operating northwest of Fukuoka, Japan made repeated radar and visual contact with an unidentified air…

The OCR text is too garbled and fragmented to reconstruct a coherent case summary. While scattered pages reveal references to incident 200 near Crescent City, California on October…

Two high school students in Bell Buckle, Tennessee witnessed what the Air Force would later describe as a likely astronomical event, possibly a meteor, on an undated afternoon. The…

On September 23, 1948, two men standing near San Pablo, California witnessed an unusual aerial object at midday. One observer described it as a large, translucent, buff-gray object…

# Declassified Government UFO Case Files This document collection contains five separate UFO sighting investigations conducted by the U.S. Air Force between October and November 1…

This case file is too heavily damaged by scanning artifacts and OCR errors to support a reliable summary. The OCR'd text, particularly on pages 1-2, is largely unintelligible noise…

On 11 August 1952, a civilian observer in Phoenix, Arizona reported seeing an unidentified flying object between 0055Z and 0110Z. The witness observed two lights from his home porc…

The OCR text in this file is too heavily degraded and fragmented to support a reliable summary. While incident number 189 can be identified as occurring on September 22, 1948, near…

On October 13, 1948, around 11:45 a.m., two office workers at the Studebaker Corporation in South Bend, Indiana saw an unusual object in the sky while at their desks. The first wit…

This OCR'd case file is too heavily garbled and incomplete to support a reliable summary. The scanned document (77 pages, held at the National Archives on Microfilm T1206, Roll 11)…

On September 2, 1952, at about 7:09 p.m. local time, an unknown flying object was reported in northwest Illinois. The witnesses were civilians. The object was red and yellow, like…

On July 27, 1952, between about 1500 and 1700 (3:00 to 5:00 p.m.), a man reported seeing two objects over Triton Beach, Maryland. He called the FBI, which passed the information to…

On the evening of December 13, 1949, a special agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations witnessed an unusual object while driving southwest of Alamogordo, New Mexi…

# Summary On July 7, 1947, a man walking along U.S. Highway 92 about one mile east of Lakeland, Florida heard a loud swishing noise with a shrill whine. He looked up and saw five…

On October 20, 1948, multiple observers across Minneapolis, Winona, and Britton, South Dakota reported seeing a bright object with a burning tail moving rapidly through the early m…

The OCR text in this case file is substantially degraded and garbled throughout. While there are some legible sections, particularly the witness statement forms and the official in…

On the evening of August 29, 1952, near Lake Charles, Louisiana, three separate witnesses reported seeing an unusual aircraft-like object with bright white lights. Two women drivin…

On August 19, 1952, a civilian observer near Lancaster, Pennsylvania reported seeing an unidentified flying object from his observation post about two miles north of the town. The…

On the night of August 24, 1952, two people in Macon, Georgia saw an unusual object in the sky. The first observer, a 58-year-old employee at a local radio station, noticed a glowi…

On September 9, 1952, at around 11:47 p.m., observers near Martic Forge, Pennsylvania reported seeing an unidentified flying object at high altitude. The object appeared as a brigh…

On September 12, 1952, a worker at Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown, Pennsylvania, saw a bright white light while on duty. The observer described it as resembling an automobile…

On September 10, 1952, near Hyattsville, Maryland, an oval-shaped object with a luminous red and blue light was observed northeast of Langley Park. The object was estimated seven t…

On September 26, 1952, a C-124 transport plane flying from Newfoundland to the Azores encountered two distinct green lights while cruising at 6,000 feet in clear weather. The light…

On September 15, 1952, at 0945 hours (9:45 a.m.), a person at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts reported a white circular object of light in the sky over western Illinois. The o…

On the evening of October 5, 1953, a physics professor and planetarium lecturer near Norton, Connecticut was observing the night sky through 7x50 binoculars when a faintly glowing…

On October 25, 1958, a couple in Oklahoma City saw a fast-moving light cross the night sky. The object appeared as bright as a star and was no larger than the head of a pin. It tra…

The OCR for this document is substantially degraded in critical sections, making reliable summary impossible. The first 10 pages contain a mostly legible observer questionnaire fro…

On the night of July 26, 1952, multiple witnesses in the Palm Springs, California area reported seeing unidentified flying objects moving across the sky over several hours. The sig…

# Platteville, Wisconsin UFO Sighting On June 28, 1952, a civilian observer near Platteville, Wisconsin reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness, whose background…

On the afternoon of July 21, 1952, a woman in Converse, Texas spotted an unusual aircraft near Randolph Air Force Base. The object was elongated with a pointed nose, no wings, and…

# Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, July 17, 1952 On the night of July 17, 1952, at 10:20 p.m., an experienced military observer at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing…

On August 17, 1952, at 1615 (4:15 p.m.) Pacific time, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post near Richmond, California, reported a single silver object. The report came from a 2…

On July 27, 1952, in Ripley, New York, two sightings of unidentified objects were reported to the Buffalo Filter Center. The first sighting was made by a qualified ground observer…

This file covers a sighting near Ripley, New York, reported by an Air Force radar and warning squadron. The object was tracked and an F-47 aircraft was sent to intercept, but the i…