Project Blue Book Case Files

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 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…

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 the evening of September 14, 1959, a resident of Maple Heights, Ohio, spotted an unusual object in the western sky around 7 p.m. The observer watched it for ten to fifteen minut…

On May 1, 1959, a sighting was reported in Miami, Florida. At 11:30 a.m., a witness walking back to an apartment in Coconut Grove, a southern section of Miami, observed an object i…

On February 9 to 10, 1959, a civilian in Miami, Florida, reported lights in the night sky. The sighting was between about 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. local time (0430Z to 0530Z) and…

On February 6, 1959, a military weather observer at Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, reported a light in the night sky. The sighting was about 6:25 p.m. local time (2325Z) and las…

In October 1959, two observers in Mobile, Alabama reported seeing an unusual object orbiting the moon over a period of more than a month. The object appeared roughly every six minu…

On the night of August 29, 1959, a motorist driving near Mobile Bay, Alabama saw a brilliant light streak across the sky. The light was bright enough to read a newspaper by. It tra…

On the night of November 5, 1959, a radar operator at Montauk Air Force Station on Long Island, New York, tracked an object on radar for about 10 minutes. The sighting was made by…

On April 12, 1959, an unidentified flying object was reported over the Montreal-Quebec area near coordinates 45 31 N - 73 25 W. The object was described as a red light that hovered…

On a July evening in 1959, members of a group at Mooseheart, Illinois saw a silvery disc-shaped object in the sky to the south, in the general direction of Aurora. The sighting occ…

On July 8, 1959, two men in Moraine, Ohio saw one object described as the burning tail section of an aircraft. The object moved toward the east. The sky was dark with no trace of d…

On the night of September 21, 1959, an object was seen both from the ground and from the air near Naha, Okinawa. Ground observers were in the control tower at Naha Air Base, and ai…

On July 2, 1959, near Needles, California, an aircraft crew reported objects in the sky around dusk. The witnesses were civilians. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's…

On the evening of July 5, 1959, a resident of New Albany, Mississippi saw an unusual object in the western sky. The object was reddish-silver in color and appeared motionless at fi…

In 1959, near New Church, Virginia, an observer reported several lights in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system. The…

On July 14, 1959, at about 9 p.m., a civilian in New Delhi, India, reported strange lights in the sky. The witness was a secretary at an embassy who later submitted the account in…

On May 19, 1959, at approximately 10:30 p.m., a witness in New Madison, Ohio observed a round haze of light with no definite shape while driving on Route 121 from Arcanum, Ohio. Th…

On the night of August 19, 1959, at around 3:45 a.m., a civilian witness at Upper Greenwood Lake in New Milford, New Jersey saw a bright light moving across the sky. The object app…

On July 21, 1959, in New Orleans, an observer reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system. The…

# Summary On December 13, 1959, someone in New York City observed a round, silvery object in the sky for about two and a half minutes. The object appeared solid and moved from wes…