Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 13, 1952, four airmen stationed near Moriarity, New Mexico, reported seeing a silver, disc-shaped object flying at high speed with erratic movements. The observers were fa…

On May 25, 1952, at 0958 (9:58 a.m.) local time, radar operators at the 767th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron near Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, detected an unusual target on…

In August 1952, a family driving near Tularosa, New Mexico, witnessed what the U.S. Air Force could not explain. On the evening of August 31st, shortly after passing through a tunn…

On May 12, 1952, about 40 to 50 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico, an Air Force technical sergeant reported an unidentified object. The sighting began about 2045 (8:45 p.m.) and la…

A high-ranking government executive traveling in a military aircraft near Zuni, New Mexico, on October 15, 1952, observed an illuminated object performing unusual maneuvers. The ex…

On May 24, 1952, a pilot flying a T-6 trainer aircraft near Zuni, New Mexico, spotted two unusual objects in the sky. The pilot, identified in the file as Glenn Bras, was cruising…

On the evening of August 25, 1951, a Sandia Base security guard and his wife observed what they described as a large flying wing type aircraft passing over their trailer home in ea…

On March 6, 1951, at approximately 2:30 p.m., four personnel from Los Alamos and two pilots from Kirtland Air Force Base observed a very bright object crossing the sky near Albuque…

On August 12, 1951, near Corona, New Mexico, a witness reported a fast moving object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 10 seconds. The object was round and looked about the siz…

On September 17, 1951, near Tatum, New Mexico, a civilian reported an object in the sky. It was orange-red and shaped like a ball. The witness said it looked larger than any aircra…

On the night of February 24, 1950, Corporal Lertis E. Stanfield, an Air Police officer stationed at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, spotted an unusual bright o…

On the night of February 25, 1950, a university student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported a single bright object. The time was about 9:15 p.m. He was sitting in a living room lo…

On the evening of January 7, 1950, a Captain stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw something unusual while driving south of Corona. The object appeared as a bright…

On the morning of May 24, 1950, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, military camera crews photographed objects in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's of…

On March 11, 1950, at 11:08 a.m., military personnel at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico observed an unidentified object. The sighting was documented as a ground visual observ…

On December 21, 1950, about 7:40 a.m., a civilian reported a bright object near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for uni…

On the evening of January 9, 1950, three scientists at Los Alamos, New Mexico watched a bright object streak across the sky. The sighting lasted only about two seconds. All three o…

On September 17, 1950, a geologist working for Amerada Petroleum Corporation reported seeing an unusual glowing object while driving a truck to a wildcat oil well near Tatum, New M…

On December 4, 1949, at 1935 (7:35 p.m.) Mountain time, several people in New Mexico reported a green fireball. A New York Life Insurance salesman in Albuquerque saw a green fireba…

On December 4, 1949, at 1935 hours MST, a civilian in Albuquerque, New Mexico observed a green fireball in the northeastern sky. The object's duration, speed, and other details are…

This file is a U.S. Air Force intelligence record from 1949 and 1950 that was marked 'No Case, Information Only.' It preserves a press account headlined 'The Flying Saucers Are Bac…

On April 22, 1949, a civilian near Cliff, New Mexico watched a single aluminum-colored object move across the sky. The witness described it as round, flat, and shaped like a thin d…

On June 5, 1949, at 1950 hours (7:50 p.m.), a U.S. Army captain serving as Post Engineer at Wingate Ordnance Depot near Gallup, New Mexico observed an unusual object in the sky. He…

On the evening of May 12, 1949, a Harvard Observatory astronomer driving near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico spotted something unusual in the eastern sky. The observer, who…

On the night of June 27, 1949, a clerk-typist working in the Security Division at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico spotted something unusual from a second-floor barracks windo…

On the evening of March 8, 1949, at 1835 hours (6:35 p.m.), three observers at Los Alamos, New Mexico saw an unusual flying object. Two were security guards, and one was an inspect…

Shortly after midnight on June 2, 1949, a security inspector driving near Los Alamos, New Mexico saw a green ball of light in the sky. His attention was drawn by its bright light a…

On the evening of June 11, 1949, a security inspector at Los Alamos, New Mexico, spotted an unusual light in the clear night sky at 8:57 p.m. The object appeared as a bright star o…

On the evening of June 20, 1949, a security inspector at Los Alamos, New Mexico was standing outdoors near the center of the mesa when a bright light caught his attention. The time…

This case began with an explosion in remote mountainous country near Rodeo, New Mexico on March 31, 1949. A Border Patrol officer named Mr. Corning reported hearing a very heavy ex…

On the afternoon of June 30, 1949, a civilian veterinary meat inspector standing in open country about 29 miles west and 14 miles south of Seligman, New Mexico, looked up and saw a…

On the morning of April 25, 1949, two men fishing for minnows at Springer Lake, about four miles northwest of Springer, New Mexico, heard an odd sound. It resembled a high-pitched…