Project Blue Book Case Files

# 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…

In July 1959, a visitor to Nitro, West Virginia reported seeing what he believed were two flying saucers. The witness described them as circular discs that gave off a luminous glow…

On January 16, 1959, civilian witnesses north of Deadwood, South Dakota, and at Mount Coolidge in Custer Park reported an object in the night sky. The sightings were about 6:30 p.m…

On October 19, 1959, two teenage boys near Poquoson, Virginia, reported seeing a glowing, circular object about four feet in diameter while they were hunting in a remote marsh area…

On the evening of March 16, 1959, a man and his family saw an unusual glowing object in the sky near Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Virginia. The man, his wife, and their…

On January 13, 1959, a civilian about 4 miles northeast of Norristown, Pennsylvania, reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting began about 4:55 p.m. local time (1655 EST)…

On the evening of September 24, 1959, multiple people across North Carolina and Virginia reported seeing a bright, unusual object moving across the sky. The witnesses described it…

In July 1959, a woman from Nelson, Nebraska wrote to the Air Force describing a sighting her husband and "several other" people had witnessed near Oak, Nebraska. Her husband had se…

On the night of February 13, 1959, a tower operator at Oak Harbor Naval Air Station in Whidbey Island, Washington, watched a bright green object emerge from the water around 2:50 p…

On the night of January 5, 1959, witnesses in Oakhurst, New Jersey saw eleven round white lights, each about the size of a baseball at arm's length. The lights traveled in single f…

On the night of November 1, 1959, several civilians, including state police officers, saw an object from the areas of Oakridge, Government Camp, and Eugene, Oregon. The sighting la…

On August 12, 1959, at night, an observer near Ocean Beach reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system…

In July 1959, multiple ships and observers across the Caribbean and near Jamaica reported seeing a bright, rocket-like object moving across the night sky. The sightings spanned sev…

On the night of March 2, 1959, multiple aircraft and ground observers spotted unusual objects over the northeastern United States. A Pan American Airlines dispatcher reported seein…

In May 1959, a photographer at O'Hara Air Force Base in Chicago captured a photograph during an Armed Forces Day air show held on May 17. The photographer reported seeing a streak…

On January 9, 1959, a civilian in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, reported dark spots in the sky. The man was an electronic technician. He watched the objects from sunrise to sunset (the…

On October 21, 1959, a 79-year-old civilian in Olcott, New York observed a small, round, silver object in the sky for five hours. The object looked to the observer like the head of…

On a January night in 1959, a man in Omaha, Nebraska happened to be looking out his kitchen window with binoculars when he spotted something unusual in the sky. The object appeared…

On March 10, 1959, near Oro Grande, California (about 5 miles northwest of Victorville), a civilian woman reported an unusual object in the night sky. The sighting happened around…

In September 1959, a person in Ottawa, Ohio reported watching a very bright object in the night sky. The object flickered and changed colors, shifting between rose, blue, green, an…

On February 20 to 21, 1959, a military pilot flying over Cincinnati, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was about 9 p.m. local time, near 0200Z to 0620Z, and t…

On October 19, 1959, a pilot flying near Plainville, Kansas spotted a bright light in the night sky. The light resembled a star the size of Venus and appeared to be heading directl…

On October 28, 1959, an object was watched for about seven hours near Ozona, Texas. Both civilians and military personnel observed it, from about 1300Z to 2000Z. They measured its…

On February 16, 1959, a resident of Palacios, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky around 2:40 a.m. The witness described a bright red object glowing with what he called a…

On June 2, 1959, a witness at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland saw a strange object in the sky. It was roughly 2:28 p.m. (in Eastern Daylight Time) when the observer, a…

On the night of May 15, 1959, a Philadelphia resident watching the sky from his home near the Pennsylvania Turnpike Bridge saw a bright orange object that looked like an inverted d…

On the evening of September 15, 1959, a civilian observer near Philadelphia reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The observer first spotted what he thought was a fal…

On September 15, 1959, Pittsburgh police investigated a loud explosion heard near Squirrel Hill in Frick Park. During their search, they found a yellow plastic cone-shaped object a…

On January 10, 1959, a civilian near Plymouth, North Carolina, reported an exploding object in the sky. The witness was a truck driver doing volunteer satellite watching duty. The…

On November 11, 1959, around 2:00 p.m., a Portland, Maine resident saw a round white object moving across the southern sky toward the north in broad daylight. The observer said the…

On July 10, 1959, near Potsdam, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing a streak of brilliant light around 8:30 p.m. while driving with a friend. The light resembled lightning…

On the night of October 22, 1959, a pilot flying a C-119 about 10 miles west of Prescott, Arizona, reported an object. The sighting was made from the air. The object was seen as a…

On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 1953-1954, military sentries at Quantico Marine Base near Quantico, Virginia, reported seeing strange flashing red lights in the night sky. The…

On January 13, 1959, civilian witnesses in Greenland reported bright objects in the sky over several settlements, including Qutdligssat, Sarqaq, and Claushavn. The first sighting w…

On the night of October 4, 1959, two civilians driving in a car about two miles south of Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, saw a single object for about 25 minutes. One observer work…

On February 24, 1959, airline and airport witnesses over and near Rapid City, Michigan, reported a bright object in the early morning sky. The sighting was about 6:30 a.m. and last…

In July 1959, three witnesses in Red Devil, Alaska reported seeing an unidentified object. The sighting lasted about five minutes and was observed from the ground during daylight h…

On the morning of September 24, 1959, at 0400 local time, Robert Dickerson, a Redmond, Oregon police officer, spotted an extremely bright light very low on the northeastern horizon…

In May 1959, someone near Richey, Montana reported finding strips of shiny material in a field that resembled aluminum. The material was forwarded to the U.S. Air Force for analysi…

In September 1959, a resident of Ripley, West Virginia reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described an oblong shape that changed color from red to blue…

On a night in 1959 near Rockville, an object was reported by a family. A son first saw the object and then called his father and mother. The sighting was reported through the Air F…

On the afternoon of September 20, 1959, a civilian housewife on the north side of Rutland, Vermont, saw a single object for about two minutes. It was a large, round, silver object.…

On July 15, 1959, in late daylight, a civilian in the southeast part of Salt Lake City, Utah, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unide…

On the evening of March 25, 1959, someone in San Antonio, Texas spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described it as bluish-white, roughly the size of a grapefru…

On the evening of April 17, 1959, a mother and her adult son were driving on W.W. White Road near San Antonio, Texas when the mother pointed out an unusual object in the sky. The s…

On the evening of October 2, 1959, military radar operators at Seattle tracked five unidentified objects on their screens. Several additional objects appeared but were not formally…

A woman driving southeast of Dayton, Ohio in July 1959 saw what she described as a big ball of fire falling toward her car. She said it appeared to explode above and in front of he…

On August 1, 1959, at about 1948Z, southeast of Madrid, Spain, an observer reported a bright object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object re…

On August 19, 1959, six people in Shelton, Connecticut reported sighting an unusual object in the evening sky. The object had the brightness and color of a first magnitude star and…

In August 1959, two residents of Silver Springs, Maryland, reported seeing three bright objects in the sky during the afternoon. Two of the objects appeared silver and shiny, while…

On the night of November 19, 1959, a civilian woodworker driving south of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, saw an object for about 5 to 6 minutes. The witness was rated reliable. The…

On March 7 to 8, 1959, a civilian about 1 mile south of Dublin, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was about 7:30 p.m. local time (0030Z) and lasted about 4 se…

On February 2, 1959, two civilians driving on the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, Ohio, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was about 6 p.m. local time (1100Z). The witnesses…

On September 22, 1959, at 8:00 p.m., a fourteen-year-old in South Charleston, West Virginia, saw a bright green object moving across the night sky. The object was round and about t…

On December 19, 1959, a radar station on Southern Victoria Island in Canada picked up an unidentified radar track. The radar operator tracked the object for one hour and thirty-thr…

In June 1959, crews flying reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea reported seeing unidentified objects near Macao. The sightings raised questions that Air Force investiga…

On September 27, 1959, multiple witnesses in Springfield and Fayetteville, Ohio, observed a bright object moving across the sky. The object was white in the front, blue in the midd…

On March 3, 1959, civilians in and near Stockton, California, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was between about 5:30 and 6 p.m. local time (about 0120 to 0200Z) and las…

On the evening of July 7, 1959, a doctor and his family standing on a beach near Surfside Pier, South Carolina, watched two unusual formations of lights pass overhead four times in…

On January 23, 1959, a civilian southwest of Herschel Island, Canada, reported an object low in the sky. The man was taking weather observations at a remote station. The object was…