Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 5, 1959, two airline pilots reported an object near Taft, California. The object was tracked from two aircraft on different headings. The sighting lasted about 4 to 5 se…

On August 18, 1959, at 1310 (1:10 p.m.), a person in Terre Haute, Indiana witnessed an unusual object at the zenith of its angular flight (the highest point in the sky directly ove…

On the night of October 26, 1959, a block of ice weighing 40 to 50 pounds fell from a clear sky onto a farm near Toccoa, Georgia. The ice made a loud whistling sound as it fell, si…

On the night of August 20, 1959, a civilian in the northern part of Trenton, New Jersey, watched lights in the sky for about 50 minutes. The man, a contractor and former aircraft e…

On a September evening in 1959, a resident of Trotwood, Ohio, spotted an unusual bright orange object in the night sky. The observer watched for about one and a half minutes as the…

On a clear night in August 1959, a civilian observer near Upper Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, reported seeing a moving light in the sky. The witness described the object as roughly t…

On the evening of January 5, 1959, two Air Force observers spotted an unusual bright light near Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. A radar operator and tower controller at the base…

On October 29, 1959, someone in Vandalia, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky. The object was blunt and white, with a fuzzy front and a tail that tapered to a sharp outline. It m…

On the evening of March 24, 1959, a resident of Vandalia, Ohio reported seeing a red and blue-green object in the night sky at 10 p.m. The witness was driving at about 20 miles per…

On February 24 to 25, 1959, a civilian about 8 miles south of George Air Force Base near Victorville, California, reported a low flying object. The sighting was about 9 p.m. local…

In June 1959, a U.S. Navy sailor on leave at Waikiki Beach took a photograph that would catch the attention of the Air Force's UFO investigators. The sailor, who was stationed aboa…

On September 7, 1959, at 0230 (2:30 a.m.), a man in Wallingford, Kentucky, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The object was roughly 30 to 40 feet in diameter and 15 to…

Before dawn on October 21, 1959, a civilian at Warsaw, New York, saw four bright lights for about 20 to 30 minutes. The witness, a race-horse trainer, was rated reliable. The light…

A visitor from Portugal photographed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in February 1959. When he later examined the photograph, he noticed a bright spot of light in the…

On October 12, 1959, residents of Washington, Georgia noticed something strange falling from the sky. A thin, web-like substance drifted down over the town and nearby areas for nea…

On the evening of June 3, 1959, a retired Air Force officer and his wife spotted something unusual from the roof of their home in Washington, D.C., at around 11 p.m. The object app…

On July 10, 1959, at about 0335Z, an observer in the control tower at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's u…

On the evening of November 29, 1959, near West Branch, Michigan, an observer spotted eight evenly spaced objects in the sky for about three seconds. The objects appeared to be red…

On the evening of September 28, 1959, a witness in West Carrolton, Ohio saw a brilliant white object moving in a straight line toward the north across the sky. The object had no ta…

On the evening of January 27, 1959, residents across a wide area reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. In West Palm Beach, Florida, witnesses described a fiery streak that cr…

On July 3, 1959, a man vacationing at Conference Point Camp in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, was lying on the grass during a group discussion when he noticed a bright point of light in…

On May 9, 1959, at about 2313Z, at night, a witness in Wilmington, Delaware, reported a bright object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object…

On March 8, 1959, a civilian airline pilot west of Augustine Island, Alaska, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was about 4:39 a.m. (1139Z) and lasted about 3…

On February 14, 1959, military pilots west of Misawa, Japan, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was at 1000Z and the light conditions were dark. The object was…

On the night of February 11, 1959, pilots flying commercial airliners reported seeing a very bright white flash in the sky west of Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania. The flash was about t…

On February 12, 1959, pilots near Tanana, Alaska spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object was a balloon roughly 50 feet across and about 30 percent taller than it was wide,…

On September 27, 1959, a resident of Woodlawn, Ohio saw three steady lights in the sky, colored red, green, and white. The lights appeared to stay in one place while he watched the…

On September 1, 1959, in Woodlawn, Ohio, a witness reported seeing an object described as looking like an info or disc. The first object slowly disappeared on the horizon. The witn…

On two dates, the middle of summer 1958 and March 15, 1959, a civilian near Worthington, Pennsylvania, reported seeing the same object. He wrote to the Air Force after reading a bo…

In 1959, west-southwest of Meridian, an aircraft crew reported a bright light. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system. Three me…

On July 24 and 25, 1959, multiple reports came in from the Yakima, Bremerton, and Bellingham areas of Washington State of colored lights in the sky. The reports were collected thro…

On February 22, 1959, civilian crewmen aboard a Dutch merchant ship about 60 miles east of Puerto Rico reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was about 1:38 a.m. (0538Z)…

On August 17, 1959, at about 0921Z, an aircraft crew reported an object over the ocean, east of North Carolina toward the West Indies. The sighting was reported from the air throug…

On the night of October 28, 1959, a military pilot saw a light from a C-118 aircraft over the Pacific, midway between Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, and Wake Island. The aircraft w…

On the night of September 16, 1959, a military pilot over the Atlantic near the Azores, at about 39 degrees north and 34 degrees west, saw a fireball. The aircraft was a C-124 flyi…

On the night of November 24, 1959, an object was reported from the ship Santa Monica in the Atlantic Ocean, near 11 degrees north and 73 degrees west. The witness was described as…

On the night of November 3, 1959, military pilots in a T-33 jet over Utica, New York, saw an object for 10 to 15 minutes. The aircraft was at 30,000 feet. The object was round and…

On April 1, 1959, near Patroon and Norwood in New York, a civilian reported observing a fiery ball traveling south to north on a curved track. The object was very large. The observ…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. While the file contains a Project Blue Book record card and witness questionnaire forms from…

A weather observer at Koon-Ni Range in South Korea watched a crescent-shaped silver object through a surveying telescope on the night of October 19, 1959. The object appeared to be…

On the evening of September 29, 1959, military personnel at RAF Station Kirknewton in Scotland observed an unusual light in the sky. The first sighting occurred at approximately 20…

On July 21, 1959, a crew member aboard the USS Robidoux, a Navy destroyer operating off the coast of Florida, reported seeing an unusual aerial object. The witness observed a brigh…

On November 13, 1959, two B-52 bomber pilots from the 99th Bomb Wing spotted a small, silver, round object while flying east of Resolution Island in the Canadian Arctic. The sighti…

On the afternoon of October 26, 1959, a civilian mortician in Mobile, Alabama, saw a single object for about three seconds. He was looking over some trees near Government Street an…

On November 7, 1959, north of the Hawaiian Islands, a civilian aboard a ship observed a bright object that struck the water and made a low arc while emitting at least three flashes…

On September 9, 1959, a crew aboard a U.S. Air Force C-97 cargo plane spotted an unusual sight near Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. The aircraft was flying at 6,000 feet, heading…

A pilot at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., and five other witnesses watched a white light cross the night sky on August 2, 1959. The sighting lasted seven minutes. The…

On the night of Monday, July 13, 1959, three professional astronomers in Rio de Janeiro watched an unusual object cross the sky through their telescope at the University of Brazil'…

# A Missionary's Encounter: The Boianai UFO Sightings, New Guinea, June 1959 In late June 1959, a missionary and teacher in Papua, New Guinea reported a series of extraordinary si…

On June 18, 1959, just after 2:15 a.m., a United Airlines pilot flying over the Pacific Ocean spotted what he believed was a rocket firing. His aircraft was at 19,000 feet near the…

On May 1, 1959, in Plumas County, an unusual white glow was sighted from three ships at sea. The object was first spotted off Port Bow at twenty-five degrees, positioned twenty-fou…

On April 1, 1959, at 7:43 a.m. near Limatuontauri, a witness reported seeing what appeared to be a rocket traveling from east to west at coordinates 40 degrees 35 minutes north, 46…

On the night of March 26, 1959, a B-52 bomber flying at 32,000 feet near the Montana-Canada border picked up an unidentified object on radar. The B-52 crew, led by Captain John W.…

On the evening of February 24, 1959, an American Airlines pilot near Bradford, Pennsylvania, reported seeing three mysterious lights that paced his aircraft for about 40 minutes. T…

In August 1959, radar operators at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts detected seven separate blips on their radar screens during a single night. The blips appeared to be about o…

On Saturday, January 24, 1959, at around 12:15 p.m., a man was walking in Prospect Park near the Music Grove in Brooklyn with a friend. The sky was perfectly clear, and he noticed…

On September 7, 1959, a military pilot reported a sighting south of the Aleutian Islands over the Pacific, near 52 degrees north and 172 degrees west. The pilot first saw a bright…

On March 10, 1959, near Walingabad, Illinois, a witness reported seeing several fireballs that appeared every night for a week. Only one was observed at a time. The objects were fi…

On January 10, 1959, a witness in Baltimore, Maryland, reported a glowing object in the sky. The sighting was made about 6:45 p.m. local time (2345 GMT) and lasted about one minute…

On November 1, 1959, a bright object was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean at coordinates 31.14 North, 61.57 West. An observer aboard the M/V Rio de Laplata reported seeing a bright ob…