Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 29, 1948, police in Rouen, France investigated reports of mysterious white balls of light, airplane flights, and parachute descents in the neighborhood. A newspaper clip…

On August 1, 1948, a male civilian in Salt Lake City, Utah reported observing an object in the afternoon. The object was described as silver or reflected sun in color. It was blue…

A science teacher in San Francisco watched a glowing yellow light streak across the night sky on November 29, 1948. The man was studying constellations in his backyard using binocu…

# San Simeon, California, September 1948 In late September 1948, a security guard at San Simeon, California reported witnessing an unusual aerial object near the estate known as "…

On September 23, 1948, an experienced pilot in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, spotted an unusual object in the sky while watching another aircraft. The object appeared brilliant wh…

On June 20, 1948, an incident occurred in Belleville, Illinois near Scott Air Force Base. An unidentified object was sighted. The Air Force investigation concluded that the inciden…

# South Knoxville, Tennessee, June 1948 In June 1948, a witness in South Knoxville, Tennessee saw an object that fit the description of a fireball. The object was orange in color…

On the evening of March 7, 1948, military personnel at Smyrna Air Force Base in Tennessee observed a yellow-orange object that resembled a flare hovering near the horizon. The obje…

On July 23, 1948, someone in Springfield, Ohio reported seeing an unusual bright object in the early morning sky. The observer described it as an intense yellow color and said it a…

On April 30, 1949, a resident of Sun Valley, California reported seeing what appeared to be an object or objects hunting through the sky during late night and early morning hours.…

On the evening of June 29, 1948, around 11 p.m., several people in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, reported seeing strange objects moving across the sky. Mrs. Margaret Hollar, Charles Sch…

On the evening of July 21, 1948 (corrected from the initial July 22 report), a clear, stationary object appeared in the sky above Van Nuys, California, drawing the attention of mul…

On February 7, 1948, three men working in a field near Vejle, Denmark spotted a shining object moving rapidly across the sky. The object traveled from southeast to northwest at an…

On November 6, 1948, a radar operator at a U.S. Air Force base near Wakkanai, Japan detected an unidentified aircraft circling directly above the radar station. The object appeared…

On July 7, 1948, several people sitting on a porch in West Rindge, New Hampshire noticed thin curls of smoke rising from a lawn. When they investigated, they found small burned spo…

# Wildwood, N.J., January 1948 (Incident #50) On the evening of January 10, 1948, a woman in Wildwood, New Jersey, told the U.S. Air Force she had witnessed an unusual aerial obje…

On January 7, 1948, military personnel at Clinton County Army Air Field near Wilmington, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the sky for about 35 minutes. Control tower operators a…

On the evening of July 30, 1948, a man in Worthington, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky from his home. He first spotted it at 2015 hours (8:15 p.m.) in the southwest direction…

On November 17, 1948, a bright orange object shaped like an egg with a pointed tail was spotted near Peace River, Alberta, Canada, about 250 miles northwest of Edmonton. The sighti…

On May 6, 1948, Captain Floyd Barnes was piloting an aircraft between Kwajalein Island in the Marshall Islands and Hickam Field in Hawaii when he spotted something unusual. Flying…

On June 30, 1948, a man driving on Route 212 between Watertown and Webster in South Dakota observed an unusual object in the sky that remained visible for approximately two hours a…

On December 8, 1948, at 6:46 p.m., a bright round object was sighted near Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois by a professional weather observer. The object appeared roughly 15 feet…

On February 20, 1948, several people in and around Asuncion, Paraguay reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings all occurred around 0700 hours (7 a.m.) and shared…

In November 1948, Colonel S. of the New Mexico Military District reported seeing an unusual glowing object near Vaughn, New Mexico on two separate occasions, both times around 2130…

On April 30, 1948, at approximately 10:15 a.m., Lieutenant Commander Marcus L. Lowe of the U.S. Navy was piloting an aircraft near Anacostia Naval Air Station in Washington, D.C. H…

On April 18, 1948, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter patrolling the North Atlantic detected an unidentified target on radar. The ship, positioned at an ocean weather station about 620 mile…

On March 14, 1948, near Moose Factory in Northern Ontario, Canada, a witness employed by the Hudson's Bay Company saw a bright blue ball of flame streak across the sky. The object…

On May 17, 1948, a bright light was reported in the northwest sky near Plevna, Montana. The investigator noted that Venus was at its greatest brilliance that night with a magnitude…

On 29 March 1948 in Germany, a civilian scientist reported observing a white point of light moving at fast speed with no sound and no trail at an approximate height of 14 kilometer…

On July 1, 1948, a bright yellow-white light was sighted near Gahanna, Ohio. The object moved slowly in the sky and was visible for two or three seconds. Witnesses described it as…