Project Blue Book Case Files

On a night in 1959, about 8 miles east of Rapid City, an observer reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record…

On the night of September 22 to 23, 1959, a bright white light appeared in the sky eight miles east of St. George, Utah. The light was constant and as bright as the anti-collision…

On November 7, 1959, a civilian drill rig operator working in a rock quarry about eight miles north-northwest of San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The obser…

On the night of September 26, 1959, a civilian near Adna, Washington, saw three objects. The witness was a railroad section hand, rated unreliable in the report. The objects were r…

This case file is heavily damaged and partially illegible, which significantly limits the usefulness of a full summary. The OCR has captured fragmentary information across multiple…

On January 2 to 3, 1959, two civilian guards at the Anniston Ordnance Depot in Bynum, Alabama, reported a light in the night sky. The object was under observation for about 7 minut…

# Summary In April 1959, radar operators and a fighter pilot tracked multiple unidentified objects over Wisconsin. The objects appeared as red and green lights with a bright white…

# Assonet, Massachusetts - July 1959 A civilian in Assonet, Massachusetts reported seeing an unidentified object in the northeastern sky on July 30, 1959 at 2:30 a.m. The object w…

On the night of October 21, 1959, a Navy seaman aboard a picket ship in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles east of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, saw a light. The man was on th…

On the night of November 4, 1959, a military observer, an assistant air attache and pilot, saw an object over Baghdad, Iraq, near 33 degrees north and 44 degrees east. The sighting…

On February 4, 1959, a civilian at Balboa Basin in the Canal Zone reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was about 5:20 a.m. local time (1020Z) and lasted about 12…

On April 1, 1959, civilians in Batesville, Arkansas, reported seeing a round, transparent, egg-shaped object with a silver color rising straight up. The sighting lasted about two h…

On a night in February 1959, someone in Belaire, New York saw a bright blue flashing light pass directly overhead in a matter of just two or three seconds. The observation was made…

On July 29, 1959, around dusk, an observer in Bellingham, Washington, reported a bright object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record…

On the evening of February 16, 1959, an observer in Benghazi, Libya, spotted an unusual object in the sky at 9:30 p.m. local time. The object was round with a dome shape and had ve…

On the evening of April 22, 1959, a 14-year-old boy in Big Spring, Texas, saw an object moving rapidly across the sky. The boy watched from the central part of town as the object t…

On April 5, 1959, at about 1300Z (about 7 p.m. local), two civilians in Big Spring, Texas, reported an object in the night sky. The witnesses were a 33-year-old man, a petroleum ma…

On April 1, 1959, near Bitburg, an unidentified object was observed. The witness reported a large object of papparently brilliant white, with a brilliant white, extending white mat…

On May 1959, radar operators at the Boston Air Defense Sector near Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire detected an unusual cluster of blips on their screens. Around 0023Z (just a…

In February 1959, a photographer standing on Flagstaff Mountain near Boulder, Colorado, took what he thought was an ordinary scenic picture. When the film was developed, a white bl…

On the evening of January 8, 1959, two Air Force pilots flying a C-45 aircraft from Phillipsburg to Brookville, Pennsylvania, spotted something unusual in the night sky. At 6:14 p.…

On the morning of October 8, 1959, military and civilian observers near Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana spotted a bright white light in the sky. The object appeared circular…

On September 13, 1959, control tower personnel at Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana spotted an unusual object high in the sky. It was first reported by a civilian pilot flying…

On the evening of December 19, 1959, two girls walking in the country near Burgoon, Ohio, saw an object at about 5:15 p.m. as the sun was setting in freezing weather. The witnesses…

On the evening of March 18, 1959, a resident of Caldwell, New Jersey named Wilber Price watched an unusual sight in the night sky. At 8:40 p.m. EST, he and several other observers…

On the night of September 18, 1959, six to eight objects were seen from Camp Kinser, a Marine base on Okinawa. The witnesses were Marines on the ground. Each object appeared singly…

On the night of June 17, 1959, military personnel at Camp Lucas, Michigan, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses were members of an anti-aircraft artillery battery ne…

On September 30, 1959, a Marine observer at Camp Pendleton, California reported seeing a bright, silvery-blue object moving across the sky at twice the speed of a jet aircraft. The…

# Summary On October 29, 1959, a military observer at North Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, watched a circular or oval object move from horizon to horizon in 10 to 15 minutes.…

# Summary On January 10, 1959, a B-52 aircraft commander flying at 36,000 feet near Alvord, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the bright morning sky. The object was elongated an…

On October 19, 1959, a Colombian Navy vessel near Cartagena, Colombia, reported a sighting using a sextant. The position was about 10 degrees north and 75 degrees west. The card no…

On October 1, 1959, in Castorville, Texas, witnesses reported an orange fire-colored, cigar-shaped object with grapefruit-sized feathery edges. The object was oriented vertically a…

On August 28, 1959, military crews flying over the Charlotte Islands, Canada, reported seeing a mysterious object on radar and through visual observation. The sighting lasted about…

On March 15, 1959, near Cheshire, Ohio, a civilian reported seeing strange lights at night. The account was submitted on a tape recording. The witness was walking across a hill in…

On June 21, 1959, in Chesterland, Ohio, a witness reported seeing two white lights in the sky forming a tail. The object had no sound. It was flying in a bed looking out a window,…

On July 9, 1959, a civilian in Chicago, Illinois reported seeing a round, orange object about the size of a pinhead. The object was observed from a ground location at approximately…

On a cold, clear night in late November or early December 1959, a couple in Clarkston, Michigan saw a bright object in the sky and took a photograph. The object was egg-shaped, abo…

Between March and April 1959, residents of the Coburn and Wise areas in southwestern Virginia reported seeing strange lights in the night sky. The sightings sparked immediate inter…

In August 1959, a man in Coeburn, Virginia took a photograph he believed showed three unidentified flying objects. He had been on a hilltop behind the local schoolhouse on a clear…

On the evening of January 19, 1959, two separate sightings occurred near Coleville, Washington. The first happened at 2030 (8:30 p.m.) when a farmer saw a cigar-shaped object about…

On August 9, 1959, near Columbus, Ohio, a man reported an object in the sky. The witness was a civilian. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying objec…

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 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 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 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…

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 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 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…

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…