Project Blue Book Case Files

On June 12, 1958, at dawn, Captain Eugene H. Richards was aboard a B-52 bomber flying about ten miles west of Huntsville, Texas. He was using a sextant, a navigation tool, to take…

On September 15, 1958, at 12:02 a.m., a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported a star-like object about the size of a pen that was white, pink, red, and blue. Four objects with no form…

On April 10, 1958, five miles west of Pecos, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing a diamond-shaped object in an upright position. The object was fifty feet wide and seventy-fi…

On July 11, 1958, at Amarillo Air Force Base in Texas, a military observer reported a silver and shiny object that looked like a jet aircraft tumbling and over end. The object stra…

On January 10, 1958, near Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, radar operators reported multiple objects. The sighting on radar lasted about 5 minutes. Between 8 and 11 objects…

On June 24, 1958, near Dallas, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing two pinkish-red objects about the size of a pea through binoculars. The objects were observed for 40 minute…

On July 8, 1958, a civilian observer near Devils River, Texas reported seeing a round, white object about the size of a basketball with a long tail. The observer was looking for ai…

On the evening of January 23, 1958, an attorney and lay astronomer in Fort Worth, Texas stepped into his driveway to observe the scheduled passage of Sputnik II. He had brought his…

On August 30, 1958, military radar operators at Gray Air Force Base near Killeen, Texas, reported an unidentified radar target at 1845Z, during daytime. The senior director and a s…

On September 29, 1958, a civilian doctor in Houston, Texas, reported a bright object in the sky. He had gone to his back yard to feed his dogs when he noticed it. A second person a…

On the night of January 14, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian reported four oval-shaped objects in the night sky. He was in his backyard about 10:30 p.m. using a telescope. He sa…

On the night of January 3, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian and his wife reported a single star-like object low in the northwestern sky. They saw it slowly descending near a bri…

On the evening of October 21, 1958, people in the Korrville-Valverde area of Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received two separate sightings from th…

On October 11, 1958, the AN/FPS-17 radar at the Laredo Test Site in Laredo, Texas detected a mysterious target while searching for the Russian satellite Sputnik 3. The radar captur…

On August 9, 1958 (10/0458Z), an American Airlines pilot over Trent, Texas, reported an unidentified flying object from a DC-6 aircraft at about 15,000 feet. The pilot described a…

On July 12, 1958, at 2:45 a.m., a control tower operator at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a single white object about the size of a pinhead through binoculars. The obje…

On July 29, 1958, a civilian in San Antonio, Texas reported observing a round, flat object about the size of a basketball. The object hovered over South San Antonio and then headed…

On September 2, 1958, near San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing two unidentified objects. The first object rose vertically and appeared round with a brilliant sil…

On April 27, 1958, near Seminole, Texas, civilians reported three objects in the night sky. The sighting lasted less than one minute. The objects were egg-shaped, reddish-white, an…

On November 19, 1957, a GOC observer near Corpus Christi, Texas, reported an object with the appearance of a bright star with a tail, about the size of a pea and silver in color. T…

On July 9, 1957, during the day, a civilian sewage plant operator in Amarillo, Texas reported a sighting. The sky was clear. Two men were watching a B-36 aircraft fly over when th…

On November 1957, military witnesses near Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas reported two or three red lights. A bright light on the bottom looked like a searchlight or flood light, an…

On July 22, 1957, a Trans World Airlines pilot flying from Chicago to Tucson spotted an unidentified object in the sky near Amarillo, Texas. The pilot reported that the object sudd…

On a November evening in 1957, a woman in Boerne, Texas looked out at her backyard and spotted something unusual hanging in the air. She described it as egg or football-shaped, yel…

On November 23, 1957, in Centerville, Texas, a woman reported that the windows of her house lit up in a flash of light and she heard a loud roar. The observation lasted only second…

On December 8, 1957, a civilian observer in Comfort, Texas reported seeing twelve round objects about the size of a pinhead with bright lights. The objects stood still and remained…

On March 12, 1957, at 1:05 a.m., a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported seeing two round white objects about the size of a pea at arm's length. The objects moved as a pair, first see…

On the evening of December 12, 1957, a woman in Duncanville, Texas saw a bright object in the night sky. She watched it for two hours, from about 6:15 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. central tim…

On February 27, 1957, military and civilian ground observers at Ellington Air Force Base, Texas, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's…

On November 8, 1957, a civilian near Freeport, Texas reported a red ball of fire. The sighting lasted about 2 minutes. The object showed no sideways movement and made no sound. It…

On November 7, 1957, military radar operators at Harlingen Air Force Base in Texas detected an unusual target on their radar screen. The object appeared roughly ten miles to the no…

On November 6, 1957, witnesses at Hereford, Texas, reported a light in the sky around midnight. The report reached the Air Force through a letter from a local attorney. The sightin…

On November 27, 1957, near Hondo, Texas, a civilian observer reported seeing a cigar-shaped object about the size of a half dollar. The object was colored green and showed nothing…

On June 12, 1957, at night, a civilian in Houston, Texas reported a sighting. The observation lasted about one minute. The witness saw one round object about the size of a star he…

On September 2, 1957, at about 2000 (8:00 p.m.) over Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, a military witness saw one round object for 20 to 25 minutes. It was about the size of a quarter h…

On June 9, 1957, at night, a civilian near Kerrville, Texas reported a sighting. The sky was clear to partly scattered with about 15 miles of visibility. The witness saw one round…

On December 7, 1957, residents in three Texas locations reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force recorded these sightings as part of Project Blue Book, its officia…

On September 11, 1957, at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, military personnel observed seven round objects in a V formation traveling in a straight line. The objects were describe…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian near Levelland, Texas reported an unusual object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. The object looked like two basketballs, one…

On December 8, 1957, a civilian Texas oil field worker in Loving, Texas sighted a round, silver object about the size of a dime. The object faded from sight during an observation l…

A pilot and copilot flying 42,000 feet near Navy Chase, Texas on the night of September 24-25, 1957, spotted something unusual in the dark sky about 28 miles west of their position…

On January 16, 1957, northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, two USAF pilots observed round objects alternating bright and dim in light, appearing to give off sparks. The objects maneuvere…

On November 13, 1957, at Reese Air Force Base in Texas, a civilian and military observer reported sighting an object that changed shape from round to egg-like. The object was descr…

On July 28, 1957, in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing six objects about the size of a quarter with orange lights arranged in a V formation. The objects were s…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian woman at San Antonio, Texas, reported one object in the sky. A neighbor had called and told her to watch it. The sighting was a ground visual observ…

On October 5, 1957, at 1:15 p.m. in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped aluminum object about the size of a fountain pen. The object was sighted o…

On March 28, 1957, a civilian near San Antonio, Texas, reported a single object around dusk. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentifi…

On September 14, 1957, at about 0045 (Greenwich time) in San Antonio, Texas, a witness saw seven circular blue-white objects through a six-power telescope. Two were about the size…

On November 25, 1957, at 1:05 p.m., a witness in Santa Rosa, Texas, observed a round object about the size of a baseball, brown in color, with binoculars. The object appeared to ha…

On December 5, 1957, near Texarkana, Texas, a civilian reported seeing six white lights with no visible shape traveling northwest to southeast for ten to twelve minutes. The lights…

The Levelland sightings began around 10:50 p.m. on November 2, 1957, when truck driver Pedro Saucedo called the Levelland Police Department to report a strange experience on a rura…

On the night of November 24, 1957, a 37-year-old sales clerk near Del Rio, Texas saw something odd in the sky. He described it as a round, red object about the size of a baseball.…

On October 1, 1956, a civilian airline captain observed unusual lights about 20 miles west of Punk City, Texas. The witness reported two white and bright trailing lights that emitt…

On the night of August 1, 1956, observers near Amarillo, Texas reported seeing a bright trajectory in the sky about ten miles to the southeast. The sighting lasted two hours and fi…

On August 1, 1956, at 0400 (4 a.m.), a Dallas man named J.G. Kirby was driving back to Dallas from Colorado Springs via Amarillo, Texas, when he and his wife and two children obser…

On the evening of June 18, 1956, a witness in Bandera, Texas saw several glowing objects in the sky. The witness was indoors looking out a window when the first object appeared. Ov…

On September 28, 1956, military observers at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas reported two round, white objects about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The objects were not in fo…

On February 27, 1956, at 4:10 a.m. local time, a civilian in Cedar Hill, Texas reported observing an egg-shaped object with golden yellow coloring. The object moved straight up and…

On June 20, 1956, near Dallas, Texas, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about three seconds. The object was delta wing sh…

On October 3, 1956, a military aircrew near Lamesa, Texas saw one bright metallic gold object. It looked round or oblong, about the size of a dime at arm's length, and had an exhau…