Project Blue Book Case Files

On the night of January 11, 1956, control tower operators at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan noticed an unfamiliar orange, circular object hovering near the runway approach. T…

On October 22, 1955, a civilian in Battle Creek, Michigan reported seeing an object described as the large end of a pencil held at arm's length. The object appeared in the south at…

On October 22, 1955, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 13-year-old high school student observed one oval object about the size of a half dollar held at arm's length. The object was whit…

On July 6, 1955, near Gulliver, Michigan, a mother and daughter reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about two minutes. The object was oblong and…

On September 9, 1955, at about 0340Z, a civilian ground observer watching for aircraft saw a light near Lowell, Michigan. The contractor observer reported the object for about thre…

On January 24, 1955, a civilian in Macomb County, Michigan reported observing a round, bright red stationary object for three hours. The object was viewed through binoculars. Air F…

On August 9, 1955, near Saginaw, Michigan, a ground observer reported one rectangular, white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for…

In April 1955, a man in Roscommon, Michigan noticed an unusually bright object moving across the night sky. The object appeared at least four times larger than any star visible in…

On October 9, 1955, a civilian in Traverse City, Michigan reported observing an unidentified object between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. The witness described the object as resembling…

On July 15, 1954, in Bath, Michigan, a civilian reported observing eight to ten elongated objects in a V formation traveling backward. The sighting lasted six seconds. The objects…

On the night of January 13, 1954, personnel at Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda, Michigan saw an unusual object streak across the sky. The observers described a small, circular…

On the night of September 20, 1954, amateur astronomers reported objects in the sky over Ionia, Michigan. The two civilian witnesses told civil defense officials what they saw, and…

On January 6, 1954, at about 3 p.m. GMT (about 8:23 p.m. local) near Oscoda, Michigan, an airman reported one object over Wurtsmith Air Force Base. It was watched for about 16 minu…

On June 5, 1954, at 2:25 a.m. EST in Three Oaks, Michigan, a civilian observer reported seeing one unidentified object. The object appeared bright as Saturn and had no running ligh…

On a July afternoon in 1953 in Adrian, Michigan, a witness observed a group of unusual objects in the sky that the U.S. Air Force ultimately classified as unidentified. The witnes…

On the evening of March 23, 1953, a civilian astronomer in Bay City, Michigan saw something unusual cross his bedroom window. At 11:32 p.m., while lying in bed, he noticed a greeni…

On the night of June 10, 1953, an Air Force ROTC cadet at Wayne University in Detroit saw something in the sky that he could not explain. The cadet, Robert L. Alvey, was leaving a…

# A Shiny Object Moves Silently Over Michigan On the afternoon of September 28, 1953, a lumber operator from Bay City, Michigan, was loading beans onto a wagon near Harrisville wh…

On October 1, 1953, a civilian observer near Harrisville, Michigan, spotted a highly reflective, silvery object in the early morning sky. The sighting occurred at approximately 033…

On the morning of August 7, 1952, at 12:05 a.m., a Detroit resident named Whitcomb spotted an unusual object in the sky over northern Michigan. The object appeared to be roughly th…

On April 27, 1952, near Grand Rapids, Michigan, a civilian who worked as a controller for the Civil Aeronautics Administration reported an unusual flying object. The sighting happe…

On April 27, 1952, near Roseville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, four civilian men with previous military backgrounds reported several unconventional objects. The sighting lasted…

On April 27, 1952, over Royal Oak, Michigan, a civilian man reported an unconventional object. The sighting happened at 1100 hours (11:00 a.m.). The witness saw one small white ob…

On October 1, 1951, a civilian pilot flying a Navion aircraft near Battle Creek, Michigan, encountered a disk-shaped, highly polished object while cruising at approximately 4,000 f…

On March 13, 1950, the pilot of a Piper Cruiser light plane reported an object near St. Johns, Michigan, about 15 miles north of Lansing. The pilot was flying at 3,500 feet and saw…

On the morning of April 28, 1949, a dairy employee in Homer, Michigan, was sitting in his office when he noticed six silver, disc-shaped objects in the sky. At first, he thought th…

On the evening of July 25, 1949, a bright object fell from the sky near Vandercook Lake in Jackson, Michigan. The object struck the pavement in front of a house and burned a hole i…

On April 21, 1949, two high school students in Ludington, Michigan reported seeing a white object that looked like a comet with a long tail. The students, sophomores at Ludington H…

On June 21, 1949, at about 0924 (9:24 a.m.), a civilian reported seeing an object directly over Monroe, Michigan. The witness made the report, and a similar report came from a loca…

On May 31, 1949, a farmer found two metal discs stuck in the ground of his cornfield near Parma, Michigan. One disc had purple plastic clinging to it. The discs were about nine inc…