Project Blue Book Case Files

This file covers two sightings over Dayton, Ohio in May 1953. The first was reported about 0110 (1:10 a.m.) Eastern time on May 12. A civilian called to report a moving object over…

The OCR text from this case file is too heavily degraded and incomplete to support an accurate summary. While the metadata indicates this is a July 1953 sighting in Dayton, Ohio, t…

On November 14, 1953, Mrs. Ethel Coleman of Lebanon, Ohio was photographing a solar eclipse using an Eastman 35 mm camera equipped with infrared and red filters. The camera was mou…

On October 15, 1953, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The object was in view for a short time. The witness reported it wa…

On July 26, 1953, two civilians working at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada went on a picnic at Deer Creek Springs. While relaxing at their camp, they spotted an unusual object in t…

On the night of June 10, 1953, an Air Force ROTC cadet at Wayne University in Detroit saw something in the sky that he could not explain. The cadet, Robert L. Alvey, was leaving a…

On February 3, 1953, at about 9:53 p.m., a civilian reported an object over Dietrich, Idaho. The witness was interviewed by phone and additional witnesses were named in the report.…

On the night of October 13, 1953, a tower operator at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia noticed something strange in the sky. The object appeared as a round shape that ga…

On the night of February 8, 1953, military personnel at Dobbins Air Force Base in Georgia watched a bright white object in the sky that shifted to red and yellow colors. The object…

On February 9, 1953, at about 12:45 a.m., a control tower operator saw an object west of Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia. The witness was a tower operator at the base. The object…

On February 22, 1953, at about 2145 (9:45 p.m.) Mountain time, a civilian reported an unidentified object over Dodson, Montana. The witness was a local man, Donald H. Lee, who sent…

At Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on February 26 and 28, 1953, military personnel observed mysterious lights in the western sky. The first sighting occurred around 2130 (9:30 p.m…

On March 1, 1953, between about 2135 and 2145 (9:35 to 9:45 p.m.) Eastern time, six Air Force men reported a bright object over Dover, Delaware. Five of the six were rated officers…

# Dover Air Force Base, February 1953 On the evening of February 22, 1953, multiple witnesses at and near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware reported seeing a bright, unexplained li…

In February 1953, residents of Easton and Westfield, Maine reported seeing unusual lights in the night sky on separate occasions. The sightings occurred over roughly two weeks and…

On April 16, 1953, a man and three companions near East Prairie, Missouri, watched seven unidentified circular objects maneuver in the sky for about 25 minutes. The objects appeare…

On May 17, 1953, about 1937 (7:37 p.m.) Central time, civilians saw an object over East St. Louis, Illinois. The witnesses were four boys, ages 11 to 13, who described it to an adu…

On January 22, 1953, six women in the Eklutna Trailer Court near Anchorage, Alaska watched an unusual object in the sky for approximately two hours. The object appeared bright and…

On December 24, 1953, at about 8:04 a.m. local time near El Cajon, California, two Navy pilots reported ten objects in formation. The pilots were experienced aviators with over 20…

On the evening of May 19, 1953, six Air Force personnel at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas reported seeing an unidentified yellowish-orange object moving rapidly acros…

On March 21, 1953, at about 1505 (3:05 p.m.) Eastern time, two civilian ground observers reported objects over Elmira, New York. The witnesses were Mr. Holup and Jack O'Neil of a g…

On July 14, 1953, a witness near Fairborn, Ohio, reported lights in the night sky. The source was a civilian, and the case was tied to astronomical bodies. The sighting lasted abo…

On August 27, 1953, near Falls Church, Virginia, a civilian witness reported an unidentified object. An observer noted a UFO shaped like a star with a white light about the size of…

On May 30, 1953, at 10:00 p.m., a civilian and his wife saw an object over Florissant, Missouri. The information reached the Air Force through the FBI. The couple watched from the…

On April 28, 1953, at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.) Pacific time, a military pilot reported objects near Fontana, California. The witness was 1st Lt. Ralph R. Scowden, flying a T-6 aircr…

On the evening of July 10, 1953, residents of Forrest City, Arkansas saw a bright, silver-colored object hovering over their city for about thirty to forty-five minutes. The object…

On January 13, 1953, at about 5:50 p.m., several Army personnel saw an object in the sky near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The witnesses were soldiers at a post hospital. They were i…

On February 23, 1953, at about 2126 (use of the Z time group), a civilian woman reported an unidentified object over Fortville, Indiana, about 16 miles northeast of Indianapolis. S…

On December 16, 1953, between about 5:30 and 6:15 a.m. near Fort Belvoir, Virginia, five military members reported two objects. The witnesses were members of an engineer pipeline c…

On April 19, 1953, at about 1320 (1:20 p.m.), a civilian reported an object near Fort Davis, Texas. The witness wrote a letter to the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Marfa, Tex…

On September 12, 1953, between about 0600 and 0610Z (about 1 to 2 a.m. local), military witnesses saw an object near Fort Meade, Maryland. The witnesses were two enlisted men, and…

On January 6, 1953, a civilian meteorologist saw an object in the sky near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The time was about 11:55 a.m. The witness worked at a signal laboratory and wa…

On July 9, 1953, about 2115 (9:15 p.m.), a civilian saw an object near Fort Worth, Texas. The witness was an aircraft company employee. He had just finished a church activity and w…

On April 8, 1953, at about 1955 (7:55 p.m.) local time, a military pilot reported an object near Fukuoka, Japan. The witness was a first lieutenant flying an F-94B interceptor at 3…

On January 11, 1953, roughly twenty citizens of Gadsden, Alabama reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sighting took place around 1705 (5:05 p.m.) and lasted between fi…

On March 24, 1953, a flickering light was reported near Gambell, on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. The report contains the observations of two sources. One source was about one mile…

On September 23, 1953, at 9:28 p.m. in Gathersburg, Maryland, a civilian observer reported seeing an unidentified object. The observer thought the object was in trouble. The sighti…

From September 1953 into April 1954, civilians and military witnesses reported a light over the Goat Rock area near Columbus, Georgia. An Air Force officer reported the details, an…

On July 11, 1952, a witness at Godman Air Force Base, Kentucky, reported an object in the night sky. The source was an Army officer. The object stayed in view for about three hour…

On the night of May 1-2, 1953, two separate sightings of unidentified objects occurred near Goose Air Force Base in Labrador. The first involved an F-94 fighter jet piloted by Capt…

On June 11, 1953, radar operators at Goose Air Force Base in Labrador spotted approximately 25 unidentified blips on their search radar scopes. The objects appeared on radar betwee…

On the night of January 28, 1953, a C-47 transport plane flying from Omaha to North Platte, Nebraska, encountered a bright light that changed colors repeatedly over the course of 2…

On April 19, 1953, at about 1630 (4:30 p.m.) Mountain time, a civilian woman reported an object near Grand Valley, Colorado. She was driving near an oil shale plant on her way from…

On the night of February 25, 1953, three U.S. Air Force personnel driving near Great Falls, Montana spotted an unusual object in the sky. Lieutenant Peter Marquez, Sergeant Roney M…

On February 1, 1953, near Great Falls Air Force Base in Montana, a bright white light like a star appeared in the north, turned to the east, and disappeared to the southeast. The o…

On February 21, 1953, starting around 2120 (9:20 p.m.), several people reported a colorful light in the sky near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The witnesses were varied civilian observers,…

On the evening of August 27, 1953, military personnel at Greenville Air Force Base in Mississippi reported seeing an unidentified object near the base. The sighting began at 2145 (…

On January 4, 1953, four men in the Haifa area saw an object in the sky. They were returning from work in the Haifa Bay area toward town. The time was about 4:12 p.m. The account c…

On October 29, 1953, at 8:15 p.m., a civilian in Hampton, Virginia reported observing one bright white light moving across the sky. The object traveled at an estimated 1400 miles p…

# Hampton Bays UFO Sightings, June-November 1953 On the night of June 24, 1953, a woman in Hampton Bays, Long Island, reported seeing an enormous disc-shaped craft hover above a m…

On a February afternoon in 1953, a civilian near Hamptonville, North Carolina, reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The observer reported that the object was visible…

On May 4, 1953, around 0150Z, a civilian saw an object in the sky over Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland. The witness was a Canadian woman who asked to stay anonymous. S…

# A Shiny Object Moves Silently Over Michigan On the afternoon of September 28, 1953, a lumber operator from Bay City, Michigan, was loading beans onto a wagon near Harrisville wh…

On October 1, 1953, a civilian observer near Harrisville, Michigan, spotted a highly reflective, silvery object in the early morning sky. The sighting occurred at approximately 033…

On the afternoon of December 17, 1953, Captain A. of the Trans Air Sweden company was piloting a DC-3 passenger aircraft near Hassleholm, Sweden, when he spotted a shining metallic…

On September 22, 1953, a civilian in Hayward, California, observed a triangular object in the sky. The witness used a power telescope to get a closer look. The object was yellow, w…

On May 13, 1953, about 2350 (11:50 p.m.), people saw a light in the sky over Helsinki, Finland, and Stockholm, Sweden. The report came from a newspaper article. A Helsinki paper d…

On January 21, 1953, a civilian man in Hiram, Georgia, saw a round object in the sky. The exact time of the sighting was not given in the report. The object was round with a tail…

On February 7, 1953, five U.S. Air Force personnel stationed at Misawa Air Base in Hokkaido, Japan saw an unidentified object in the night sky. The object was a bright light that c…

On October 1, 1953, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, observers witnessed an unidentified object. One UFO was sighted in a direct direction at approximately 10:17 a.m. and…