Project Blue Book Case Files

In July 1959, a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas filmed what they believed was an unidentified flying object during daylight hours. The film showed a bright image that appeared co…

In March 1959, a man's uncle and cousin near Corsica in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, spotted an odd-shaped object hovering in the sky. The uncle watched it from his porch for abou…

On April 5, 1959, in Dallas, Texas, a witness reported a bright object in the sky around the evening hours. The observer was watching a B-47 aircraft when the object was noticed.…

On August 1, 1959, in Dallas, Texas, a civilian reported observing a round, white object slightly larger than a pea. The object was observed during daylight hours at 2300Z (4:00 p.…

On the evening of February 18, 1959, in Dayton, Ohio, a woman spotted an unusual object in the night sky that resembled a bright star. The object was round, with red and blue color…

On June 24, 1959, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a very bright, white colored object moving rapidly across the sky from south to northeast. According to the witness, t…

On a July evening in Dayton, Ohio, a civilian observer reported seeing a white light that resembled a bright star, with a slight wavering motion. The object appeared below the clou…

On October 20, 1959, two separate sightings of unusual lights were reported in Dayton, Ohio. Both witnesses filed detailed observation forms with the U.S. Air Force, and the case w…

In August 1959, multiple observers in the Denver, Colorado area reported seeing a bright object streak across the daytime sky. The object appeared light blue to white in color and…

On April 19, 1959, at about 0352Z, a witness near Detroit, Michigan, reported a bright object at night. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object…

# Dodge City, Kansas – January 1959 On January 3, 1959, a person driving a car near Dodge City, Kansas saw a bright object move rapidly across the sky through the windshield. The…

On August 17, 1959, at Donaldson Air Force Base in South Carolina, a ball or streak of fire was observed for 10 seconds at 8:32 p.m. The object exploded and faded out. Before the e…

On October 15, 1959, at 11:01 p.m., two air traffic controllers at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware saw a white fireball with a colored tail streak across the sky from the control…

In January 1959, a person in Dryden, Washington, reported seeing a large silver object hanging motionless in the sky at 0920 (9:20 a.m.). The witness described the object as round…

On November 17, 1959, at 3:19 p.m., a resident of Duncanville, Texas, observed what he described as a flying saucer while looking southwest from his home near a Navy base. The obje…

On a late afternoon in October 1959, a resident of Eastbourne, England saw an object in the sky that changed shape as he watched it. He described it as round when he first spotted…

On January 5, 1959, a witness east of Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported a strange object in the night sky. The sighting happened about 5:13 p.m. local time (2213 GMT) and lasted aro…

On June 19, 1959, in Ecrose, Michigan, a witness reported seeing a blue and white object cross the sky at 11 p.m. The object moved in a quick streak and lasted less than 30 seconds…

On an August night in 1959 in Elburn, Illinois, a witness reported seeing a string of three or four white lights in the sky. Before they vanished, the lights appeared to form into…

This case file concerns a civilian at Elko, Nevada, who said he photographed an unidentified flying object on October 12, 1959. The file consists mostly of extensive correspondence…

In July 1959, a metal object about 17 inches long and 5 inches wide turned up on a farm near Emmons, Minnesota, in Albert Lea County. The farmer who found it reported it to the she…

On January 14, 1959, an Air National Guard aircrew and a ground observer reported a bright light near Farewell, Alaska. The sighting was at night and lasted about one hour. The air…

On November 29, 1959, a motorist driving near Farmington, Michigan saw approximately eight small objects flying in formation ahead of his car. The objects were dark on top and ligh…

On October 8, 1959, observers at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and in nearby Lawton spotted a small, round object in the sky that changed color as the sun set. The object began as blue-whit…

On January 13, 1959, a witness near Frederikshaab, Greenland, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was about 3 a.m. local time (0800Z) and lasted about 4 minutes. The report…

On May 5, 1959, civilian witnesses near Freiburg, Germany, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was about 10:29 p.m. (2229 GMT) and the duration was not given. T…

On the morning of October 5, 1959, a man and his family driving near Garretson, South Dakota, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witness reported seeing a yellowish-white ba…

On January 9, 1959, near Golden Valley, Minnesota, a civilian reported seeing two round objects about the size of a nickel. One object was blue, orange, and red. The other object w…

On the night of August 13, 1959, Flight Lieutenant M.S. Mowat, a 32-year-old rated pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force at Goose Air Force Base in Labrador, spotted an unusual b…

A farmer near McHenry, North Dakota reported seeing an unusual object on the evening of April 1959, roughly 60 miles southeast of Grand Forks Air Force Base. The sighting occurred…

On a December day in 1959 near Greenville, Mississippi, a military link instructor saw something unusual in the sky while an F-100 fighter jet was passing overhead. The observer wa…

On February 20, 1959, at 1345Z (approximately 1:45 p.m.), multiple observers at remote DEW Line stations (a chain of radar sites stretching across the Arctic) in the Northwest Terr…

On April 11, 1959, a person in Herford, Germany reported seeing an oval-shaped object that was bright white and had a tail. The object appeared in the southern sky at high altitude…

On the night of August 19, 1959, a witness at the FAA station in Hoquiam, Washington saw four or five lights, bronze to reddish in color. There was no sound and no trail. The light…

On July 7, 1959, a sighting was reported in Houstontown, Pennsylvania. A metallic object about the size of a 45 RPM record was observed. The object moved 100 yards to the south dur…

On the evening of August 26, 1959, people in a boat on Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin watched nine glowing objects move across the sky in two separate groups. The first group of six l…

On July 5, 1959, at approximately 2000 to 2030 hours (8:00 to 8:30 p.m.), a witness in Irondequoit, New York, saw an unidentified object in the sky. The object was brownish-black w…

On the evening of February 7, 1959, someone in Jackson, Tennessee reported seeing an object fall from the sky near a railroad yard. The object was described as about 35 feet long.…

Just before daybreak on September 17, 1959, a civilian driving a car near Jamaica, Long Island, New York, saw a single object for one to three minutes. It was a gray-white sphere d…

On the night of September 14, 1959, radar operators and visual observers at several U.S. Air Force bases in Okinawa reported seeing unidentified objects moving across the sky durin…

On February 25, 1959, a civilian driver near the Kansas City Viaduct in Kansas City, Missouri, spotted something unusual while driving south. The witness saw a round, orange object…

On the evening of October 1, 1959, a witness at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The object appeared to be about the size of…

In September 1959, a witness in Kettering, Ohio observed six bright red objects in the evening sky. The objects were sharply outlined and made no sound. They moved upward, downward…

On January 1, 1959, two witnesses in Kilburn, South Australia reported seeing two dull white objects traveling together across the sky. The objects had an eerie, misty appearance a…

On April 16, 1959, at Kunsan Air Base, Korea, observers reported two objects in the night sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record s…

On January 18, 1959 (reported as around 6 a.m. on January 13, 1959, in news accounts), witnesses in and near La Crosse, Wisconsin, reported a fast moving light in the sky. Many peo…

On April 12, 1959, a civilian witness in Lemoore, California, observed three disc-shaped aircraft flying in a southerly direction. The witness, who had military experience, saw the…

On September 7, 1959, near Lexington, Kentucky, a civilian reported seeing one to five objects on and off during a 25 minute period. The objects were round and about the same size…

On the night of October 7, 1959, a family in southeast Lincoln, Nebraska saw something strange in the sky. The father, mother, and their son, who had been studying astronomy, were…

On January 16, 1959, police and other witnesses near Litschau, Austria, reported a flying object close to the Czechoslovak border. The sighting happened around noon and lasted abou…

On October 23, 1959, multiple witnesses reported seeing unidentified objects near Loring Air Force Base in Maine. The sightings began early in the morning and spread across several…

On the evening of June 14, 1959, a resident of Novinger, Missouri, about six miles south and west of Kirksville Air Force Station, observed an unusual object while looking around o…

On March 2, 1959, at 0030 hours (12:30 a.m.), an unidentified object was observed on the weather radar scope at Lowry Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The sighting p…

In June 1959, a woman in Lyons, Colorado, reported seeing an unusual bright orange object in the sky. The witness described the object as circular with sharp, clearly defined edges…

On August 16, 1959, around 1620 hours (4:20 p.m.), four civilians in the Hillcrest section of Macon, Georgia reported seeing an unusual object falling from the sky. The object appe…

On February 23, 1959, around 9:17 p.m., a witness in Madisonville, Kentucky saw one bright, burning white light. It moved parallel to the horizon in a straight path and disappeared…

On the night of September 5, 1959, numerous people near Malden, Missouri, watched a light in the sky for over an hour. The object changed color from white to red to green. It moved…

In June 1959, radar operators at the 649th Radar Squadron near Manassas, Virginia, detected an unknown number of objects traveling in formation on their radar scope. The operators…

On February 12, 1959, a civilian in Mansfield, Ohio, reported unusual lines in the sky and took photographs. The sighting was about 4:15 p.m. (1134Z) and lasted less than a minute.…

On October 25, 1959, at 6:38 p.m., a witness near Mansfield, Pennsylvania observed a long white streak in the sky traveling from south-southwest to west. The streak lasted about te…