Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 10, 1952, a woman living near Andrews Air Force Base in Clinton, Maryland, spotted something unusual in the sky outside her home. The object was shiny and metallic wit…

On August 29, 1952, two naval pilots flying a P2V-2 patrol aircraft observed three white, disk-shaped objects near the coast of Greenland. The pilots were on a cosmic balloon track…

On April 29, 1952, near Coldwater, Ohio, a civilian and three other people reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened at 1940 (7:40 p.m.). The witness called the Air Te…

On April 24, 1952, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a civilian man reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened about 2245 (10:45 p.m.) from the back yard of a home…

On December 11, 1952, an Air Force sergeant and a civilian observed a round, aluminum-colored object flying from east to west near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The object appeared t…

# A Milestone Week for UFO Reports In July 1952, the U.S. Air Force received a surge of UFO sightings across multiple states. One particular report from Columbia, Missouri, stood…

In April 1952, near Columbus, Indiana, a large fireball was reported in the sky. Witnesses described it as fire colored and circular, with a tail. The ball of fire was said to be a…

On April 22, 1952, at 12:15 p.m. PST, a civilian female in Condon, Oregon reported three saucer-shaped objects with shiny metallic surfaces and gray-brown undersides. The objects w…

On the morning of December 4, 1952, radar operators at Congaree Air Force Base in South Carolina detected an unusual object on their radar screen. The AN/MPS-5 radar set picked up…

On the evening of April 18, 1952, a newspaper reporter in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, witnessed an unusual object in the sky while walking home from a picture show. The man saw a b…

On April 18, 1952, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, a civilian reported an unidentified flying object. The man, who worked at a local newspaper, was awakened about 0400 (4:00 a.m.) b…

On August 13, 1952, at around 12:45 p.m., a woman in Cotati, California, observed a white, flat object in the sky. According to her questionnaire responses, the object was roughly…

On the night of April 16, 1952, a woman in Dallas, Texas reported seeing multiple colored objects moving across the sky. She described five objects in total: two red ball shapes, t…

On August 15, 1952, a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a white light with a light shape. The object had no distinguishable shape, appeared larger than a navigation light,…

On December 24, 1952, a B-36 bomber flying east of Dallas, Texas detected an unidentified object on radar at 12:15 p.m. (1215 hours). The phenomenon was tracked intermittently by b…

On September 4, 1952, a resident of Danville, California saw a shiny, circular object streaking across the sky in broad daylight. The observer watched it for about thirty seconds a…

On April 25, 1952, at 9:15 p.m. near Darmstadt, Germany, an Air Force instructor pilot and his copilot in a C-47 aircraft observed a brilliant white light on a collision course wit…

On May 1, 1952, a crew flying a B-36 bomber (a long-range aircraft used during the Cold War) observed two unidentified objects near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The obj…

This report covers two sightings near Dayton, Ohio. Late on August 31, 1952, about 11:45 p.m., a base duty officer received a call from the Piqua, Ohio police about a sighting nort…

On the evening of April 29, 1952, a civilian working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, spotted an unusual object in the sky. He was looking toward the east from…

In October 1952, four civilian observers in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing two bright orange or yellow lights moving slowly through the sky together. According to the witnesses, the…

On the evening of August 7, 1952, a woman in Dayton, Ohio called to report seeing two disc-shaped objects in the sky. Her son had called her outside around 7 p.m. to look at someth…

On the evening of July 28, 1952, a technical draftsman at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky along with his wife. The man…

On May 11, 1952, in Deephaven, Minnesota, about 12 miles west of Minneapolis, a civilian reported an unidentified flying object. The witness, a former liaison pilot during World Wa…

On August 29, 1952, an astronomer at Perkins Observatory near Delaware, Ohio saw something unusual in the night sky. Using the observatory's telescope, a 5-inch refractor with 80 t…

On September 24, 1952, Technical Sergeant Billy Ross Hughes saw five or six circular objects wheeling through the sky over Aurora, Colorado, just north of Stapleton Airport. The ti…

On the evening of November 27, 1952, a housewife near DeQuincy, Louisiana, saw an unusual bright object moving toward her home. She watched it for approximately two and a half hour…

On the morning of August 7, 1952, at 12:05 a.m., a Detroit resident named Whitcomb spotted an unusual object in the sky over northern Michigan. The object appeared to be roughly th…

On April 19, 1952, at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a U.S. Air Force brigadier general reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting took place about 2120 local time (9:20 p.m.) wh…

On a date in 1952, an observer at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia, reported a spheroid shaped object in the sky. The report came through an Office of Special Investigations agent.…

On August 7, 1952, a U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist stationed at Duluth, Minnesota spotted something unexpected while tracking a weather balloon through a theodolite (a surveyin…

On the night of July 17, 1952, a man and woman driving on State Highway 33 near Duluth, Minnesota, saw four circular disc-shaped objects flying in formation about 20 miles southwes…

On October 11, 1952, at 10:03 a.m. Central time, a civilian woman stopped at a traffic light at 7th Street and 17th Avenue in East Moline, Illinois, reported one object. She descri…

On May 29, 1952, around 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, two disc-shaped objects were seen over the northern part of Edwards Air Force Base, California. Seven known observers watched them.…

On May 13, 1952, an F-9-F pilot taking off from El Centro NAS, California reported seeing a meteor-shaped object diving at a 60-degree angle. The sighting occurred at approximately…

On September 4, 1952, around 5:10 p.m., a man standing outside Elizabethtown, Kentucky saw a disc-shaped object moving across the sky. The object appeared to be shining, as if refl…

On the evening of May 10, 1952, four civilian employees of the DuPont Company saw a series of unusual objects near the Savannah River Plant in Ellenton, South Carolina. The witness…

# Green Flash Over Long Island On January 17, 1952, a civilian observer in Flushing, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island, witnessed an unusual aerial phenomenon that he do…

On the night of September 14-15, 1952, a civilian engineer and three witnesses near El Paso, Texas observed six separate groups of luminous spheres moving rapidly across the sky in…

On February 25, 1952, Captain John D. Musick of the 1st Strategic Support Squadron at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas was photographing a rainbow from his home when he notic…

On the evening of January 20, 1952, two Air Force intelligence officers at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington witnessed an unusual object flying beneath the clouds at approxima…

On September 12, 1952, at around 8:02 p.m., a naval officer (a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy) sitting in his dining room in Fairfax, Virginia, spotted an unusual object thr…

On January 29, 1952, a USAF pilot in Falls Church, Virginia reported observing an object. The sighting occurred between 2:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. (times appear identical on record).…

On April 25, 1952, between 9 and 9:45 p.m., eight people in Moorhead, Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota reported seeing unidentified flying disks moving in the sky. According to th…

On October 31, 1952, an orange, blimp-shaped object was seen moving slowly across a highway near Fayettville, Georgia by several witnesses who stopped their car to observe. The obj…

On August 3, 1952, at 4:27 p.m., a lookout observer near Fort Bragg, California spotted an unidentified flat object about four feet in diameter at an estimated altitude of 5,500 fe…

On July 10, 1952, a very bright object was spotted from the ground near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The sighting lasted 15 to 20 minutes and occurred in daylight conditions during a…

On the evening of September 8, 1952, several people across the Fresno area of California reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings occurred between roughly 7:00 p…

On the evening of April 17, 1952, five military personnel and a family member at Fort Eustis, Virginia, observed an unusual luminous object in the sky around 9:25 p.m. (2125 hours)…

On the evening of April 9, 1952, a man in Fort Lauderdale, Florida saw an unusual object in the night sky. He was taking a walk when something caught his attention. The object appe…

On August 11, 1952, two military pilots at George Air Force Base in California reported seeing unidentified flying objects. Both sightings took place on the same morning but under…

On May 9, 1952, military personnel at George Air Force Base in California observed an unusual object in the sky. A round, silver object was spotted both by ground observers and by…

Five white, disc-shaped objects flew over George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, on May 1, 1952. Multiple military witnesses observed the objects for about fifteen to th…

On a Monday evening in February 1952, a young man driving through Shiner, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky that appeared to vanish into what looked like a ball of fire. The s…

On December 15, 1952, pilots of an F-94 fighter jet and a T-33 training aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Goose Air Base in Labrador. The object appeared bright red and…

On March 1, 1952, at 3:44 p.m. local time, an instrument instructor pilot with the 6th Air Rescue Squadron at Goose Air Base, Labrador, observed vapor trails at very high altitude…

On September 2, 1952, a radar operator at Goose Air Force Base in Labrador detected an unidentified object on radar moving southeast at approximately 25 miles per hour. The object…

On April 27, 1952, near Grand Rapids, Michigan, a civilian who worked as a controller for the Civil Aeronautics Administration reported an unusual flying object. The sighting happe…

On the night of February 13, 1952, radar operators at Granite City Engineer Depot in Granite City, Illinois tracked an unidentified object while conducting a bombing run evaluation…

On the night of September 12, 1952, several people across eastern North Carolina reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object streaking across the sky. The sightings occurred aroun…