Project Blue Book Case Files

On November 1, 1957, in Buffalo, New York, a civilian observer reported seeing one pear-shaped metallic object stationary in the sky for five minutes. The sighting was observed wit…

On November 1, 1957, at 8:22 p.m., a civilian reported sighting a circular object approximately the size of a B-25 aircraft moving southwest in the sky above Buffalo, New York. The…

On July 6, 1957, a civilian in Buffalo, New York reported a sighting that lasted about thirty seconds or less. The witness saw one yellow or orange object about the size of a bask…

On November 12, 1957, at 7:30 a.m., a civilian in Callicoon Center, New York reported seeing an oblong object about 25 feet long with bright metallic silver coloring. The object tr…

On November 1, 1957, a civilian in Canastota, New York reported a ground-visual sighting at 12:30 a.m. One object described as a flying saucer was observed moving up and down, righ…

On July 11, 1957, around dawn into day, a civilian county civil defense director in Elmira, New York reported a sighting. The observation lasted about one hour and thirty minutes a…

On October 23, 1957, a civilian reported observing an object east of Korhonkson, New York. The object had a shape and size of a star, appeared yellow with jagged edges, and faded t…

On November 6, 1957, a civilian woman driving near Farmingdale, New York, reported an object at night. She was driving north on a parkway when she saw a bright white light about 10…

On October 9, 1957, at about 2220 (Greenwich time) in Garden City, New York, a civilian housewife saw one oval bright silver object. It was about the size of a dime held at arm's l…

On December 2, 1957, at 3:30 a.m., a civilian witness in Great Neck, New York, reported seeing one round object larger than a basketball with no vapor trail. The object had spines…

On November 5, 1957, at dusk near Hilton, New York, a civilian observer reported seeing one bright flashing white light moving east on a straight course. The object was in sight fo…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian witnessed a round, disc-shaped object in Inwood, Long Island, New York. The object appeared to be about the size of a quarter and resembled a light…

On May 24, 1957, at 10:53 a.m., Edmund McCabe was working on a high-tension electrical line near Old Northport Road in Kings Park, Long Island, when he spotted an object in the sky…

On the night of February 14-15, 1957, a bright green object streaked across the sky near Kittery Point, Maine, witnessed by a couple taking down laundry in their yard. The object w…

On November 3, 1957, at 1:30 p.m., a round object was sighted in Long Beach, New York. The object appeared as bright as the head of a pin when dim, then changed brightness and emit…

On October 9, 1957, at 12:04 a.m., a civilian in Brentwood, Long Island, New York reported seeing a star-like white object about the size of a pea. The witness heard a deep roaring…

On the evening of October 31, 1957, a retired naval aviator living in Massapequa Park, New York, witnessed an extraordinarily bright object that moved rapidly across the sky. He de…

On December 5, 1957, a civilian near Newburgh, New York reported one round orange and yellow object about the size of a pea. The object appeared to be sitting still. It stayed in v…

On either September 24 or 25, 1957, at about 5:00 a.m. in New York, New York, a civilian saw a bright yellow ball of light. It was as large as the witness's fist. The light moved f…

On the evening of August 22, 1957, personnel at Niagara Falls Air Force Base and nearby military facilities reported seeing two bright objects in the western sky. One witness descr…

On November 12, 1957, a civilian near Ogdensburg, New York reported a small round object. The sighting lasted about 10 to 25 minutes, and the object was practically stationary. It…

On November 12, 1957, at approximately 1 a.m., a round, bright green and blue object was observed rising and moving toward the west near Ogdensberg, New York. The object was small…

On August 23, 1957, in Olean, New York, a civilian civil defense director watched one round object for about 45 minutes. The object was smaller than a star and reddish in color. It…

On December 17, 1957, near dusk in Westchester, New York, a civilian witnessed an object described as a good sized balloon with a bowl shape on top and bottom. The object traveled…

On December 5, 1957, at 6:41 a.m. in Yonkers, New York, a civilian witness observed a streak of light about twice the size of a star while driving in a car. The object was whitish-…

On September 20, 1956, a civilian observer in Albany, New York spotted one round white object about the size of a softball at arm's length. The object hovered and then moved southe…

On the night of April 8, 1956, Captain Ryan, an American Airlines pilot, and his first officer spotted a bright orange light while flying their aircraft between Schenectady and Osw…

On the night of March 5-6, 1956, a married couple in Bridgeport, New York, watched a bright, round object moving in the sky for about 25 minutes. The husband, a mechanic and former…

On the night of September 20-21, 1956, residents of Brooklyn, New York reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received multiple sightings from civilian witnesses…

On October 1, 1956, a civilian in Brooklyn, New York reported one round, white object about the size of the head of a pin held at arm's length. The object came from the southwest,…

# Buffalo, New York, September 1956 On a single night in Buffalo, one observer saw an unusual object in the sky. The sighting was brief in substance, though it prompted a swift Ai…

On the evening of February 29, 1956, residents and observers in the Buffalo, New York area spotted bright lights in the sky that puzzled local authorities enough to scramble an Air…

On July 14, 1956, a witness in Greenwood Lake, New York, reported seeing unidentified flying objects twice in a single day. He first spotted the object around 4:30 p.m. (1630 hours…

On September 3, 1956, observers at Henderson Harbor, New York reported a circular, sphere shaped object. It was red on the inside and green on the outside. The object was first see…

On the afternoon of January 18, 1956, a resort operator driving home near Long Beach on Long Island noticed an unusual object in the sky. At first he thought it might be a crescent…

On September 20, 1956, near Long Island, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing two white cigar-shaped objects about the size of a small cloud. The objects were seen visually…

On August 3, 1956, a civilian on Long Island, New York reported seeing one star-like object with white color traveling east. The object wavered in flight, then continued on a strai…

On August 6, 1956, a civilian near New Rochelle, New York, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about twenty-five minutes and the object moved in an erratic path. The wit…

On the evening of October 13, 1956, a civilian in Newburgh, New York reported seeing a circular white object with a red light. The observer described the object as roughly the size…

On August 22, 1956, a man in Newburgh, New York used a Polaroid camera to photograph what he believed were unidentified objects in the sky. The camera was equipped with a half-stop…

In October 1956, a civilian witness in New York City reported seeing two small, white or silver disc shaped objects flying together in the sky. Each object had what the witness des…

In February 1956, a woman in New York City, New York, saw a strange object at about 3:00 a.m. The report was sent to the Air Force about two years after the event. The observer was…

On June 26, 1956, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post in Plattsburg, New York, reported seeing a round, glowing object about the size of a two-engine aircraft. The object app…

On May 31, 1956, a student at Queens College in Flushing, Long Island saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness described it as white and roughly half the size of an airliner.…

On December 4, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Ridgewood, New York. The witness was a teacher and stood near City College in New York. The object was seen for about one half t…

On the night of July 13, 1956, a woman in Saugerties, New York saw two bright lights in the sky. One light was red and the other was white. The lights appeared stationary, about fi…

On August 5, 1956, in the early evening, a witness in South Salem, New York saw one object during bright twilight. It was bullet shaped, about the size of a half dollar at arm's le…

On the night of January 17 or 18, 1956, a warehouse employee at Stewart Air Force Base near Walkill, New York, spotted what looked like a very bright star in the northwest sky. The…

On the evening of March 10, 1956, at around 11:25 p.m., three people in Watertown, New York saw a bright object in the western sky. A high school student first noticed the light wh…

On May 20, 1955, a civilian near Laguardia Airport, New York saw a single object at dusk. The observer used binoculars. The report was described as very scant. The object was roun…

On July 6, 1955, at Manhasset (Roslyn), New York, a civilian reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about ten to twelve seconds. The object was a si…

On July 5, 1955, a bright light was sighted over Manhasset, New York, crossing the sky from west to east at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet. A civilian witness observed the ob…

On July 12, 1955, a civilian in Newark Valley, New York reported seeing one or two objects that appeared close together. The objects were round, clear plastic in color, and similar…

On May 3, 1955, a civilian in New York, New York saw a single object. The witness watched from the seventh floor of a New York City apartment building. The sighting lasted about tw…

In early March 1955, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard area in New York, a housewife and two marines reported an object near the George Washington Bridge. It appeared as a white flickering…

On Sunday, May 15, 1955, at 4 p.m., a television technician named Warren Siegmond was on the roof of a Chelsea public housing building in Manhattan with a young French woman, Jeann…

In April 1955, near Plattsburg, New York, an observer reported an object to the east at about 1:51 a.m. (0651Z). The object then disappeared and reappeared at about 3:34 a.m. (0834…

On October 2, 1955, Captain E. N. Wood was piloting a Colonial Airlines DC-3 aircraft about five miles west-northwest of Poughkeepsie, New York, when he spotted an unusual object.…

On the evening of July 31, 1955, a man standing in his backyard in Rego Park, Queens, saw four spherical objects that reminded him of glowing light bulbs. They appeared to be about…

On July 30, 1955, in Rego Park, New York, a civilian reported four spherical objects. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified fl…