Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 27, 1956, a civilian observer in Fort Pierce, Florida reported seeing one bright object during a 30-minute observation. The object was round and sometimes cigar-shaped,…

On February 8, 1956, a Ground Observer Corps spotter on duty in the Ft. Pierce and Lutz, Florida area watched an unidentified object for about 15 minutes. The object appeared as a…

On August 4, 1956, at approximately 10 p.m., a Naval Officer sighted an unidentified flying object near Keystone Heights, Florida. The object traveled horizontally with several sma…

On March 7, 1956, a civilian on Ground Observer Corps duty at Lutz, Florida, reported two lights at 2116 (9:16 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offi…

On January 9, 1956, a witness saw a glowing object over Miami, Florida. The local time was about 1849 (6:49 p.m.). The Greenwich time was 2340Z. The observer was a civilian. The we…

On March 10, 1956, at 10:09 a.m., a 14-year-old civilian student in Miami, Florida, reported seeing one round, small object. The object appeared as a small glow, white in color, ab…

On February 20, 1956, a person in Miami, Florida saw a wingless, silver object that resembled a blimp through binoculars. The object appeared very high in the sky. It traveled from…

On September 13, 1956, a person in Naples, Florida saw an object in the night sky that caught their attention. The object appeared to be oblong in shape, roughly three times as lon…

On December 3, 1956, a witness in the control tower saw one object from NAS Key West, Florida. The object was in view for only a few seconds. The report described one bright flash…

On October 28, 1956, military and civilian witnesses in Panama City, Florida, reported seeing four red-orange cigar-shaped objects. The objects were about 90 feet long. They starte…

On July 23, 1956, two round objects smaller than a star were reported in Pensacola, Florida. The objects appeared as a constant yellow-orange glow. They were close together for abo…

On August 1, 1956, a military witness in Shalimar, Florida, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0155Z and lasted about six seconds. The witness described one ro…

On the morning of Saturday, September 22, 1956, in St. Petersburg, Florida, an employee at MacDill Air Force Base reported seeing what he described as a "flying saucer." The observ…

On September 29, 1956, in West Palm Beach, Florida, a civilian witnessed several objects in the sky. The observer reported seven objects arranged in a square formation, with three…

On January 6, 1955, at about 9:00 p.m., three military airmen near Bradenton, Florida, reported a sighting. The men were driving on a highway two or three miles south of Bradenton…

On June 25, 1955, near Holt, Florida, civilian and military witnesses reported an object for about five to ten minutes. Three observers said they saw it just above the tree tops. T…

On March 8, 1955, over Lake Okeechobee, Florida, bright, flare-like objects were reported drifting toward the ground. Three B-47 type aircraft had been on a night photo mission in…

On May 17, 1955, a civilian near MacDill Air Force Base, Florida reported a sighting at night. The observer believed he saw a flying saucer. It looked like a large square glow in t…

On July 1, 1955, near Palm Beach, Florida, a civilian witness reported a single conical, white light with a tail. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its officia…

In late January 1955, an observer near San Mateo, Florida, reported a bright object in the sky. The witness said it looked like a burning, meteor-like object. It flashed across the…

On July 9, 1955, at Tampa, Florida, a military witness, a medical doctor, reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground. The duration was unknown. The object was oval…

On January 5, 1955, military and civilian witnesses near Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted a few seconds. The object moved toward…

On January 28, 1955, around 12:15 p.m. (1215Z reported), a civilian near West Palm Beach, Florida, reported one object. The witness had gone outside to look at some birds in the ya…

On the night of October 30, 1955, a city police officer in Williston, Florida was making his rounds when he spotted several bright lights in the sky. He drove a few miles out of to…

On June 30, 1954, civilian witnesses at a flight station near Bagdad, Florida, reported an object in the sky. It appeared shiny silver, turning to blue, and looked about three time…

On April 25, 1954, at dawn, around 6:45 a.m. local time, in Coral Gables, Florida, a reliable observer reported about three white, round objects in formation. The objects reflected…

On the night of June 21, 1954, witnesses at Delray Beach, Florida, reported a bright object over the ocean. The sighting lasted about 12 seconds. Two civilians, described as reliab…

On February 8, 1954, at 9:01 a.m., a Pan Am Airlines flight crew near Key West, Florida reported an unidentified object in flight. The object was observed at 20,000 feet, traveling…

On November 30, 1954, a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky over the southeastern United States. Multiple observers in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama saw the fla…

On July 23, 1954, a civilian in Miami, Florida reported observing a circular object with a flat bottom. The object was initially red with yellowish edges. It made a sound and moved…

On March 8, 1954, near Panama City, Florida, two housewives observed an unidentified object for approximately five minutes. The first observer called the second's attention to what…

On June 15, 1954, an airman at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida reported seeing a bright, glowing object hanging in the sky near a local flying field. The object was roughly the s…

Between June 13 and June 16, 1954, several witnesses near Vero Beach, Indialantic, and Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, reported strange lights over the Atlantic coast. The witness…

In 1954, a witness near West Palm Beach, Florida, reported a bright glow in the sky. The card describes a very bright glow with no clear shape and erratic movements. Later informa…

In July 1953, a witness near Key West, Florida, reported an object in the night sky. The report was made on the Air Force technical information sheet. The object appeared low abov…

On the night of July 24, 1953, a Navy student at Key West watched an object move rapidly across the sky. It appeared as bright as a star and roughly the same size. Beginning in the…

On the evening of June 19, 1953, three people fishing from a small boat near Key West, Florida saw something bright and unusual streak across the twilight sky. The main witness was…

On the night of October 26, 1953, the co-pilot of a National Airlines flight saw something unusual in the sky near Melbourne, Florida. At 6:35 p.m., while flying at 18,000 feet abo…

On the morning of November 19, 1953, an assistant fire chief at the U.S. Naval Marine Countermeasures Station in Panama City, Florida, noticed a bright glare in the sky overhead. L…

On the evening of April 9, 1952, a man in Fort Lauderdale, Florida saw an unusual object in the night sky. He was taking a walk when something caught his attention. The object appe…

On the night of April 5, 1952, an amateur astronomer and his nine-year-old son watched four circular dark objects pass across the face of a nearly full moon near Miami, Florida. Th…

On the night of December 25, 1952, a civilian man and woman in Miami, Florida observed a very bright light moving slowly across the western sky. The man, an experienced amateur ast…

On August 5, 1952, multiple witnesses in the Orlando, Florida area reported seeing a bright, silver, ball-shaped object moving at extraordinary speeds over the city. The sightings…

On August 7, 1952, at 0956 hours (9:56 a.m.), an unidentified object was observed over Pinecastle Air Force Base near Orlando, Florida. An observer working on the flight line saw a…

On a night in December 1952, someone in St. Augustine, Florida saw an object streaking across the sky. The witness described a silver saucer with five or six lit windows, a spinnin…

On July 13, 1950, in the afternoon, a crowd of civilians at the courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida, watched a shiny object high in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the…

On May 4, 1949, a 60-year-old public health nurse named Miss Sherman saw a bright, shining object in the sky from the front porch of her home in Limona, Florida, near Tampa. Her tw…

On June 14, 1949, around 2015 (8:15 p.m.), a man, his wife, and his children saw two objects in the sky while lying on the beach at Miami Beach, Florida. The night was clear with s…

On April 23, 1949, a civilian in Sarasota, Florida reported seeing a frosty white light in the sky. The observer watched the object for about one minute before it vanished. The sig…

On the evening of June 5, 1949, a bright object trailing white smoke appeared in the sky over Tampa and spread across central Florida, drawing thousands of eyewitnesses and dozens…