Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 1, 1951, a civilian in Navosta, Texas reported observing a large unidentified object moving in up and down motion in the sky. The distance to the object and its height we…

On December 1, 1951, in Nebraska City, Nebraska, a civilian witness reported observing a blue light in the sky moving northwest in flight toward the southeast. The object was 10 to…

On the morning of March 15, 1951, in New Delhi, India, a cigar-shaped object was spotted by the chief aeronautical engineer of the Delhi Flying Club and about two dozen witnesses,…

On July 3, 1951, near Newport News, Virginia, two soldiers reported a strange object at about 2305 (11:05 p.m.). The two Army harbor craft company men saw the object from a park ne…

In winter 1951, a New Zealand observer reported seeing a large cloud formation about 500 yards long, 500 yards wide, and 60 yards high to the east of his location. From the norther…

On the morning of June 1, 1951, a U.S. Air Force weather officer at Niagara Falls Municipal Airport in New York witnessed an unusual object in the sky. Master Sergeant M/Sgt., who…

On October 22, 1951, a radar station at North Truro, Massachusetts, picked up an unusual object moving across its radar scope. The station's radar operators tracked the target for…

On January 16, 1951, about 9:45 p.m. local time, five civilians in a car reported a light near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official r…

In December 1951, near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a gray-white object was reported in the sky. It was smooth but not shiny and shaped roughly square. It moved at about the speed of a co…

In 1951, a witness near Oberlin, Ohio saw a silver object hanging motionless in the sky about thirty feet above some trees. The object was roughly one thousand feet away. It hovere…

On the evening of September 30, 1951, three high school boys stood atop a fifty-foot grain silo near Woodberry Forest School in Virginia and spotted something unusual in the sky. A…

On October 9, 1951, a private pilot flying from Greencastle, Indiana, to Paris, Illinois, spotted a silver object near Paris at 5,000 feet altitude. The object appeared stationary…

On October 31, 1951, around 2220 (10:20 p.m.) local time, an Alaskan National Guard observer reported a light near Point Barrow, Alaska. The light was similar to a spotlight and wa…

On the evening of July 24, 1951, a captain and corporal with the U.S. Air Force were driving north on U.S. Route 1 near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, heading toward a toll bridge. At…

On the evening of March 25, 1951, personnel at Presque Isle Air Force Base in Maine spotted a spherical light near the horizon. The observer, a weather officer at the base, first n…

On July 14, 1951, near Rensselaer, New York, civilians reported strange objects at about 2:00 p.m. A woman called the FBI and said that she and members of her family had seen two s…

On August 24, 1951, at Rhein Main Air Base in Germany, a military pilot observed a bright light that seemed to fall slowly as if suspended from a parachute, then leveled off into a…

In the early morning of November 28, 1951, Leo Swenson, an illustrator at Northrop Aircraft, was driving alone on Highway 91 between Colton and Riverside, California, when he spott…

On November 2, 1951, a green tear-drop shaped object was observed flying over Rolla, Kansas. The object had no visible means of propulsion and produced no sound. It flew at approxi…

On August 26, 1951, at 1658 (4:58 p.m.), a retired Army officer in San Antonio, Texas, reported a single object in the sky. He was reclining in his back yard when he saw it. The ob…

In September 1951, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer spotted something strange in the sky over Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The object was round, silver-colored, and m…

On July 1, 1951, at 10:50 p.m. local time, four Air Force pilots in different areas near Seoul, Korea simultaneously reported a large green ball traveling at tremendous speed. The…

On January 20, 1951, control tower operators at Sioux City Municipal Airport in Iowa watched a bright light maneuver near their field for approximately fourteen minutes. At nearly…

On January 8, 1951, south of Fort Worth, Texas, a civilian couple and other witnesses reported groups of lights in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On May 22, 1951, over Great Falls, Montana (recorded as South Falls), a civilian reported a strange object between about 1430 and 1500 (2:30 to 3:00 p.m.). The witness, a woman who…

Between September 3 and 8, 1951, multiple Air Force personnel in Spokane, Washington reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force investigated these sightings and ulti…

On May 29, 1951, over Geiger Field near Spokane, Washington, military observers reported a strange object at about 0918 (9:18 a.m.). Two pilots and two airmen saw the object with t…

# UFO Sighting Near St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin On October 10, 1951, two experienced balloon researchers saw an unusual object while tracking a weather balloon near St. Croix Falls…

On January 12, 1951, about 10 p.m. Eastern time, two Air Force officers reported a bright object near Stewart Air Force Base in New York. The report is part of Project 10073, the A…

On March 19, 1951, near Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, military observers reported a strange aircraft at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.). One officer and two enlisted men of an Ar…

On January 1, 1951, a red and green balloon-shaped object descended on the Stockton Naval Supply Depot in Stockton, California. The object exploded when it hit the ground, though p…

In June 1951, a civilian in Surrey, England reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The witness described the object as silvery zinc in color, bright, and roughly the size o…

On April 12, 1951, near Point Defiance in Tacoma, Washington, military personnel and a civilian reported a strange object at about 1940 (7:40 p.m.). Several witnesses, including ai…

Between March 11 and 14, 1951, near Tatitlek, Alaska, an Alaska Native Service station reported flares in the sky. The flares were seen to the north-northwest at various times over…

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 October 9, 1951, at 1342 (2:42 p.m.), a Chief Aircraft Communicator for the Civil Aeronautics Authority observed a silver, round object pass directly overhead at Hulman Municipa…

On June 10, 1951, near Thule, Greenland, the crew of a Military Air Transport Service C-54 reported two apparent contrails at about 0100 (1:00 a.m.). The crew saw the first contrai…

Between January 22 and 26, 1951, civilians near Unalakleet, Alaska, reported orange lights low on the horizon. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record…

On August 27, 1951, near Vandalia, Illinois, at least five people reported a bright object in the evening sky. A local pilot first noticed a big orange light of blinding intensity…

On January 9, 1951, in the vicinity of Wichita Falls, Texas, many people reported strange lights in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record fo…

On January 25, 1951, at 1824 hours (6:24 p.m.), a man at Warner Robins Air Force Base in Georgia reported seeing an unusual flying object with a bright light projecting upward from…

# White Sands, New Mexico, October 1951 On the evening of October 2, 1951, multiple employees at White Sands Proving Ground reported seeing unusual lights in the sky. The sighting…

On April 26, 1951, near Chicago, Illinois, a civilian reported a strange object at about 1825 (6:25 p.m.). The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. The witness described a bright silv…

On February 24, 1951, over the Pacific Ocean near 21 degrees north and 157 degrees west, a sailor aboard the merchant ship Natalia Logger reported a strange object at about 0244 (2…

On May 24, 1951, over Chicago, Illinois, civilians reported a strange object at about 1950 (7:50 p.m.). The main witness and his uncle, along with several neighbors, watched the ob…

On January 12, 1951, witnesses reported a bright object over Fort Benning, Georgia, starting about 11 a.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for…

On January 22, 1951, two Air Force officers flying a C-47 transport aircraft near Alamogordo, New Mexico spotted an unusual object while tracking a weather balloon for Project Goph…

On July 16, 1951, near Fairborn, Ohio, a civilian reported a strange object between about 2100 and 2115 (9:00 to 9:15 p.m.). The witness, who worked at a public information office,…

On December 22, 1951, a U.S. Air Force pilot flying an F-84C fighter jet near Columbus, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The pilot, an experienced jet fighte…

In January 1951, a radar operator aboard an airborne patrol plane detected multiple high-speed targets near Guadalupe, an American naval ship operating in the Far East. The targets…

On September 18, 1951, radar operators at Air Defense Command stations across Michigan and Wisconsin detected unusual blips moving rapidly across their screens. The objects appeare…

On August 20, 1951, near Spokane, Washington, two civilian witnesses watched an object for about 20 minutes. It was first seen around 1110 (11:10 a.m.). The object was elliptical a…

On January 25, 1951, near Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, several civilians reported a strange object in the evening sky around sunset. One witness was a former crop-dusting…

On July 19, 1951, at 4:50 p.m., a luminous disc was reported over Iberia, Peru. The object had an intense orange color and a metallic nucleus. It moved from south to north and was…

On April 23, 1951, near Gerald, Missouri, a civilian reported a strange object between about 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. The witness, an elderly retired farmer, asked the local newspaper to…

On October 21, 1951, a report described a bright flash seen over the Atlantic in the direction of the Soviet island of Novaya Zemlya. A scientist aboard an aircraft observed a brig…

On January 16, 1951, an unidentified object was sighted over Japan at coordinates 35 degrees 15 minutes north, 135 degrees 50 minutes east. The object was described as having a del…

On the evening of November 24, 1951, seven people scattered across four locations in southern Michigan reported seeing a large, bright object moving rapidly through the sky. The wi…

In October 1951, radar operators and pilots at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington spotted a mysterious object in the sky. The object appeared as a medium gray, round shap…

# Yellow Sea Sighting, October 1951 On the morning of October 18, 1951, a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft spotted an unidentified object over the Yellow Sea, roughly 140 nautical miles…