Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 19, 1952, at 8:32 p.m., witnesses in Sacramento, California observed a star-shaped object that was orange in color. The object moved overhead heading west and was visible…

# San Antonio, Texas UFO Sighting, August 20, 1952 A woman sitting in her backyard in San Antonio on the evening of August 20, 1952, spotted an unusual object in the night sky. At…

On November 5, 1952, an unusual incident was reported near Shekhalin Island. Between 10:25 a.m. and 11:25 a.m., three visual sightings of an unidentified single-engine aircraft wer…

On August 9, 1952, a Marine pilot flying near K-3 airfield in southeastern Korea reported seeing a large dark object with a ball of fire at its rear and a long streamer of flame. T…

On an evening in October 1952 near Southern Pines, North Carolina, a civilian employee observed an unusual green light moving swiftly across the sky. The object appeared elliptical…

On August 1, 1952, near Suffolk, Virginia, witnesses reported sighting three round objects with orange color in a V-formation. The objects moved weaving back and forth from southea…

The OCR scan of this case file is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the document appears to be a witness questionnaire form (ATIC Form 329) for a sighting n…

On September 3, 1952, an instructor pilot with several years of flying experience spotted an unusual object near Tucson, Arizona. The observer reported that the object was dark and…

On September 16, 1952, multiple observers near Warner Robins, Georgia reported seeing two bright white objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred around midday and early…

# Yaak, Montana UFO Sighting, September 1, 1952 On the early morning of September 1, 1952, two airmen stationed at the 630th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron near Yaak, Monta…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded and garbled to support an accurate summary. While the metadata indicates this is a Yuma, Arizona sighting, the first page is…

On April 6, 1961, an object was reported through Oregon air defense channels by a ground observer. The record card was left blank, but an attached message gives the details. The ob…

This case file is too heavily degraded by OCR errors to support an accurate summary. Pages 1 through 9 contain multiple sightings across California and Montana in July 1952, but th…

On November 29, 1952, a man in Rochester, New York sent a letter to Sampson Air Force Base describing unusual lights he had seen five days earlier from Gannett Hill, west of Canand…

On June 28, 1952, at 6:00 p.m. Central time, a man on the shore of Lake Koshkonong in Wisconsin, about five miles southwest of Fort Atkinson and 32 miles southeast of Madison, repo…

On June 27, 1952, a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and his wife witnessed a brilliant red, pulsating light in the sky south of Topeka, Kansas. The couple stood on a corner…

On June 11, 1961, at 12:12 a.m., a UFO of first magnitude brilliance was sighted near Formosa. The object moved at an estimated orbital speed in an approximate north to south direc…

In October 1958, a captain commanding a refrigerator ship observed an unusual object floating in the Gulf of Campeche, Mexico. The object was approximately 4 feet in diameter with…

On March 5, 1961, the crew of a merchant vessel reported two objects over the Atlantic at about 49 degrees 38 minutes north, 20 degrees 26 minutes west. The sighting was made at 7…

On July 1, 1961, near Hawaii, military observers reported sighting a bright object at 10:41 a.m. local time. The object appeared high in the sky with a trailing line of light visib…

At about 2:24 a.m. on September 3, 1965, eighteen-year-old Norman Muscarello was hitchhiking south on Route 150 between Amesbury, Massachusetts and his home in Exeter, New Hampshir…

In February 1965, residents of Olean, New York reported seeing an unidentified orange object traveling slowly across the sky. The object was visible for about one hour and twenty-f…

At about 5:45 p.m. on April 24, 1964, Police Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro, New Mexico Police Department was pursuing a speeding car south of town when he heard a loud roar…

On February 20, 1964, contrails were reported over Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentifi…

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…

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…

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 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 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…

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…

# 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…