Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 1, 1958, at Camp Carson, Colorado, a civilian reported seeing four distinct parallel lines burning like flares and pointing downward. The object was about the size of a…

On May 20, 1958, at 12:11 a.m., a night watchman in Canton, Ohio reported seeing a cigar-shaped object about two to three feet in size. The object was white with a bright front and…

On the evening of May 12, 1958, a resident of Canton, Ohio saw an unidentified object in the sky. The object appeared as a red light moving from the northwest toward the east. It h…

On about May 15, 1958, over Caracas, Venezuela, a formation of objects was reported as flying saucers. The report came from technicians of an air control department of a Venezuelan…

On the night of September 25, 1958, military observers at Caswell Air Force Base near Bath, Maine spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared oval or oblong in shape,…

On August 7, 1958, a family and their neighbors in Chalmette, Louisiana, reported unidentified flying objects at about 2030 and 2050 (8:30 and 8:50 p.m.). The witnesses described t…

Early on the morning of February 21, 1958, three people near Selma, Alabama observed an unusual object in the sky. Two of the witnesses were looking out windows from inside the cit…

On February 9, 1958, around 6:10 p.m., near Chiengmai (in Thailand), many people reported a low-flying object moving at high speed. Witnesses, including several Americans, said it…

On the morning of December 10, 1958, a Cleveland resident saw what he described as an oval, silvery object moving rapidly across the sky. Looking north, the witness watched the obj…

On May 29, 1958, near Cockburn Harbor on South Caicos Island in the Caribbean, the crew of a Coast Guard vessel reported a single bright object. The sighting lasted about 10 to 15…

On August 10, 1958, a twelve-year-old boy in Collinsville, Illinois reported seeing a flying object from his bedroom window at approximately 9:50 p.m. The object appeared about the…

On February 1, 1958, a civilian truck driver near Colorado Springs, Colorado reported a sighting at 12:53 a.m. The witness observed one round object with a short trail of fire, des…

On August 1, 1958, a civilian and three or four others sighted three or four flying saucers over Concord, California. The sighting time was not reported. A report was called to Ham…

On April 19, 1958, the crew of a B-47 bomber flying near Syracuse, New York, spotted a round, silver object in the sky above them. The pilots and crew were at an altitude of 32,000…

On February 1, 1958, multiple reliable phone callers reported seeing a strange object in the sky over Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio between 9:20 p.m. and 9:26 p.m. EST. The object was cigar…

In April 1958, a farmer in Cuzick, Kentucky observed a fiery object fall from the sky and land on his property. The next day he found a cone-shaped object resembling a missile nose…

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…

In early October 1958, three men working near a tungsten mill at Railroad Danby, California noticed a strong, bright glow in the northwest sky near the Clipper Mountains. When they…

On March 21, 1958, around 8:20 a.m. in Dayton, Ohio, three youths on their way to school observed a spherical object moving slowly away in the sky. The object was reported as movin…

On December 4, 1958, at about 11:30 p.m., a civilian woman in Dayton, Ohio, reported flashes of light and an object. It was raining at the time. She and her husband were in bed whe…

On the night of June 7, 1958, an observer in Dayton, Ohio saw a small, reddish object in the sky that looked similar to a star. The sighting occurred around 11:32 p.m. local time.…

On July 13, 1958, a civilian and two other observers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported seeing an unidentified flying object near the zenith (almost directly overhead). The object…

In April 1958, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a silvery, circular object in the sky. The object was small, about the size of a pinhead when viewed from a distance, and…

In August 1958, a resident of Dayton, Ohio observed a yellow-white object about the size of a golf ball at 5:00 p.m. local time. The witness watched it for approximately two hours…

On September 20, 1958, in the evening, witnesses in Dayton, Ohio saw three objects. There was one white object and two red objects, each about the size of a pea at arm's length. Th…

In early January 1958, a woman in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing three objects that resembled helicopters with red blinking lights. She believed they were arranged in a row and told…

On a night in October 1958, a witness in Dayton, Ohio saw one blue-green object that looked like a flame. It changed brightness and was about the size of a dime. The object travele…

On March 6, 1958, people across the Dayton, Ohio area reported seeing a small, round, reddish object moving slowly through the early morning sky around 5:30 to 6:00 a.m. The object…

On the evening of January 8, 1958, someone in Deland, Florida, saw a round, fuzzy-edged object in the night sky that glowed with an orange and rosy tint, possibly tinged with yello…

On the evening of August 31, 1958, a civilian businessman in Denver, Colorado saw three reddish-orange objects about the size of a baseball moving in an almost straight line across…

On March 6, 1958, in Denver, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing a bright object described as a ball bigger than a full moon. The object displayed a green flash and red t…

Between September 18 and October 20, 1958, a civilian in Derby, Colorado, took a 35mm color slide of a B-47 vapor trail in a southwest direction from his home. When he later projec…

On the morning of September 29, 1958, at 4:25 a.m., a duty sergeant at a Nike missile battery near Derwood, Maryland, stepped outside and heard a whirring sound. He looked up to se…

On July 18, 1958, three brothers, ages 14, 16, and 19, reported an unidentified flying object over downtown Detroit, Michigan, at about 2130 to 2150 (9:30 to 9:50 p.m.). They watch…

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…

# Summary In April 1958, multiple witnesses near Donaldsville, Louisiana reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object streak across the sky. According to the case file, the object…

On the evening of May 16, 1958, a woman in Drummond, Wisconsin reported seeing a bright object in the sky. She described it as round and white, about the size of a nickel, moving b…

On September 18, 1958, a civilian in East Meadow, Long Island, New York observed an unusual object at night. The object was more than round, one foot to eighteen inches long, very…

In late October 1958, observers in three Nebraska towns reported seeing strange rotating lights in the night sky. The first sighting occurred around 1500 (3 p.m.) local time on Oct…

On September 28, 1958, two Air Force lieutenants at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, reported an unidentified flying object at 0305Z (night). The witnesses, Lt. Dwyer and Lt…

On October 22, 1958, in the evening, a crew member on a Norwegian ship reported a fast-moving object over the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was sailing from Norway toward Brazil. The re…

In November 1958, someone near Columbus, Ohio saw an object fall from the sky in broad daylight. The witness described it as round and green, about the size of a pin head held at a…

On September 1, 1958, east of Hastings, Michigan, two round objects were sighted by civilians. The objects were yellowish red in color. They moved back and forth and disappeared. T…

On August 24, 1958, the master of the M/V Urania, a Liberian tanker sailing east of Norfolk, Virginia, watched a bright white light streak across the night sky. The object appeared…

On August 11, 1958, near Erie, Pennsylvania, a civilian witness observed a red and white object about the size of a twelve-inch dinner plate for fifteen minutes during twilight hou…

On August 17, 1958, near Essex, Maryland, a civilian witness reported observing a circular object with no sound or exhaust that was apparently powered. The object was self-illumina…

On the night of July 11, 1958, military weather observers at Etain Air Force Base in northeastern France saw an unusual object in the sky. The object was egg-shaped, about the size…

On May 14, 1958, a civilian in Farmington, New Mexico reported seeing a bright yellow object about the size of a half dollar. The object was observed through ground-visual observat…

On May 3, 1958, military personnel at Flagstaff, Arizona reported observing an object with the appearance of an elongated balloon, white in color and comparable in size to a basket…

A bright fireball was spotted across Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia on October 28, 1958, over a period of just a few seconds. Multiple witnesses on the ground and in the air…

On August 18, 1958, at 7:52 p.m., a bright orange object about the size of a pinhead was observed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The object had a round shape similar to the head of…

In May 1958, a local farmer near Frenchman's Bayou, Arkansas, found a rock-like object weighing about 40 pounds in a field 32 miles north of Memphis, Tennessee. The object lay in g…

On the night of May 16, 1958, at 0257 hours (just after 2:30 a.m.), two military officers at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, observed an unidentified object in the sky. One witness was…

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 the night of February 25, 1958, a former Canadian Air Force serviceman living near Glenwood, Newfoundland, called military authorities to report a glowing disc falling from the…

On February 25, 1958, radar operators at Gander Air Force Base in Newfoundland detected an object moving erratically from the southeast to the northwest. The object appeared on rad…

On September 27, 1958, military observers at the control tower of Glasgow Air Force Base, Montana, reported a light in the sky. The object was seen on three nights in a row. The o…

On the evening of February 25, 1958, a man named Mr. Colbourne in Glenwood, Newfoundland reported seeing a disc-shaped object fall from the sky with a bright fire. He said it lande…

# Grand Rapids UFO Sightings, July 1958 Between July 11 and 14, 1958, multiple witnesses across Michigan, Ohio, Texas, and France reported seeing unusual lights in the night sky.…

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…