USAF · 1947 to 1969
Project Blue Book Case Files
The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.
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Bristol, TN
1958 · unknownOn September 28, 1958, civilian observers at the Tri-City Airport control tower near Bristol, Tennessee, reported a bright object. A highway patrol officer in the city of Bristol a…
Brookfield, OH
1958 · unknownOn August 15, 1958, at 8:55 p.m., a small white oval-shaped object was sighted near Brookfield, Ohio. The object flashed alternately while traveling southeasterly and fading in sig…
Brooklyn, NY
1958 · unknownOn the evening of November 23, 1958, a tower operator at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, looked up and saw a stationary light in the sky. The observer described it as or…
Brooklyn, NY
1958 · unknown# Brooklyn, New York, July 1958 On a clear night in July 1958, an air control engineer in Brooklyn looked up at the sky and saw something unusual. A ring of light with a dark cent…
Brooklyn, NY
1958 · unknownOn about August 29, 1958, a civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an unidentified flying object he had seen roughly ten days earlier at about 8 p.m. He wrote to the War Departme…
Burlington, IA
1958 · unknownIn April 1958, approximately 28 people called a radio station in Burlington, Iowa to report a fiery object moving across the sky. The sighting occurred on April 29th at 2107 GMT (9…
Bynum, AL
1958 · unknownOn December 6, 1958, on a clear moonlit night, a civilian guard at the Anniston Ordnance Depot in Bynum, Alabama, reported an oval object. The report reached the Air Force after se…
Cabin John,
1958 · unknownOn February 22, 1958, two separate objects were spotted over Cabin John, Maryland, according to an Air Force case file marked "unknown" in its final assessment. The first sighting…
Calliente, NV
1958 · unknownOn February 16, 1958, near Caliente, Nevada, a civilian reported seeing a bright white object about the size of a grapefruit moving slowly to the south. The object was observed for…
Camp Carson, CO
1958 · unidentifiedOn February 1, 1958, at Camp Carson, Colorado, a civilian reported seeing four distinct parallel lines burning like flares and pointing downward. The object was about the size of a…
Canton, OH
1958 · unknownOn the evening of May 12, 1958, a resident of Canton, Ohio saw an unidentified object in the sky. The object appeared as a red light moving from the northwest toward the east. It h…
Canton, OH
1958 · unknownOn May 20, 1958, at 12:11 a.m., a night watchman in Canton, Ohio reported seeing a cigar-shaped object about two to three feet in size. The object was white with a bright front and…
Caracas,
1958 · unknownOn about May 15, 1958, over Caracas, Venezuela, a formation of objects was reported as flying saucers. The report came from technicians of an air control department of a Venezuelan…
Casewell AFB, Eath,
1958 · unknownOn the night of September 25, 1958, military observers at Caswell Air Force Base near Bath, Maine spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared oval or oblong in shape,…
Chalmette,
1958 · unknownOn August 7, 1958, a family and their neighbors in Chalmette, Louisiana, reported unidentified flying objects at about 2030 and 2050 (8:30 and 8:50 p.m.). The witnesses described t…
CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE E of Selma, AL
1958 · unknownEarly on the morning of February 21, 1958, three people near Selma, Alabama observed an unusual object in the sky. Two of the witnesses were looking out windows from inside the cit…
Chingmai,
1958 · unknownOn February 9, 1958, around 6:10 p.m., near Chiengmai (in Thailand), many people reported a low-flying object moving at high speed. Witnesses, including several Americans, said it…
Cleveland, OH
1958 · unknownOn the morning of December 10, 1958, a Cleveland resident saw what he described as an oval, silvery object moving rapidly across the sky. Looking north, the witness watched the obj…
Cockburn Harbor S Caicos Island,
1958 · unknownOn May 29, 1958, near Cockburn Harbor on South Caicos Island in the Caribbean, the crew of a Coast Guard vessel reported a single bright object. The sighting lasted about 10 to 15…
Collinsville, Illinois,
1958 · unknownOn August 10, 1958, a twelve-year-old boy in Collinsville, Illinois reported seeing a flying object from his bedroom window at approximately 9:50 p.m. The object appeared about the…
Colo Springs,
1958 · unknownOn February 1, 1958, a civilian truck driver near Colorado Springs, Colorado reported a sighting at 12:53 a.m. The witness observed one round object with a short trail of fire, des…
Concord, CA
1958 · unidentifiedOn August 1, 1958, a civilian and three or four others sighted three or four flying saucers over Concord, California. The sighting time was not reported. A report was called to Ham…
Conway, NH
1958 · unknownOn April 19, 1958, the crew of a B-47 bomber flying near Syracuse, New York, spotted a round, silver object in the sky above them. The pilots and crew were at an altitude of 32,000…
Cuyahoga, Falls, OH
1958 · unknownOn February 1, 1958, multiple reliable phone callers reported seeing a strange object in the sky over Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio between 9:20 p.m. and 9:26 p.m. EST. The object was cigar…
Cuzick, KY
1958 · unknownIn April 1958, a farmer in Cuzick, Kentucky observed a fiery object fall from the sky and land on his property. The next day he found a cone-shaped object resembling a missile nose…
Dallas, TX
1958 · unknownOn June 24, 1958, near Dallas, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing two pinkish-red objects about the size of a pea through binoculars. The objects were observed for 40 minute…
Danby, CA
1958 · unidentifiedIn early October 1958, three men working near a tungsten mill at Railroad Danby, California noticed a strong, bright glow in the northwest sky near the Clipper Mountains. When they…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn December 4, 1958, at about 11:30 p.m., a civilian woman in Dayton, Ohio, reported flashes of light and an object. It was raining at the time. She and her husband were in bed whe…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownIn early January 1958, a woman in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing three objects that resembled helicopters with red blinking lights. She believed they were arranged in a row and told…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn the night of June 7, 1958, an observer in Dayton, Ohio saw a small, reddish object in the sky that looked similar to a star. The sighting occurred around 11:32 p.m. local time.…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownIn August 1958, a resident of Dayton, Ohio observed a yellow-white object about the size of a golf ball at 5:00 p.m. local time. The witness watched it for approximately two hours…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn September 20, 1958, in the evening, witnesses in Dayton, Ohio saw three objects. There was one white object and two red objects, each about the size of a pea at arm's length. Th…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn a night in October 1958, a witness in Dayton, Ohio saw one blue-green object that looked like a flame. It changed brightness and was about the size of a dime. The object travele…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownIn April 1958, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a silvery, circular object in the sky. The object was small, about the size of a pinhead when viewed from a distance, and…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn July 13, 1958, a civilian and two other observers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported seeing an unidentified flying object near the zenith (almost directly overhead). The object…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn March 21, 1958, around 8:20 a.m. in Dayton, Ohio, three youths on their way to school observed a spherical object moving slowly away in the sky. The object was reported as movin…
Dayton vicinity, OH
1958 · unknownOn March 6, 1958, people across the Dayton, Ohio area reported seeing a small, round, reddish object moving slowly through the early morning sky around 5:30 to 6:00 a.m. The object…
Deland, FL
1958 · unknownOn the evening of January 8, 1958, someone in Deland, Florida, saw a round, fuzzy-edged object in the night sky that glowed with an orange and rosy tint, possibly tinged with yello…
Denver,
1958 · unknownOn March 6, 1958, in Denver, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing a bright object described as a ball bigger than a full moon. The object displayed a green flash and red t…
Denver, CO
1958 · unidentifiedOn the evening of August 31, 1958, a civilian businessman in Denver, Colorado saw three reddish-orange objects about the size of a baseball moving in an almost straight line across…
Derby, CO
1958 · unidentifiedBetween September 18 and October 20, 1958, a civilian in Derby, Colorado, took a 35mm color slide of a B-47 vapor trail in a southwest direction from his home. When he later projec…
Derwood, MD
1958 · unidentifiedOn the morning of September 29, 1958, at 4:25 a.m., a duty sergeant at a Nike missile battery near Derwood, Maryland, stepped outside and heard a whirring sound. He looked up to se…
Detriot, MI
1958 · unidentifiedOn July 18, 1958, three brothers, ages 14, 16, and 19, reported an unidentified flying object over downtown Detroit, Michigan, at about 2130 to 2150 (9:30 to 9:50 p.m.). They watch…
Devils River, TX
1958 · unknownOn July 8, 1958, a civilian observer near Devils River, Texas reported seeing a round, white object about the size of a basketball with a long tail. The observer was looking for ai…
Donaldsville,
1958 · unknown# Summary In April 1958, multiple witnesses near Donaldsville, Louisiana reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object streak across the sky. According to the case file, the object…
Drummond, WI
1958 · unknownOn the evening of May 16, 1958, a woman in Drummond, Wisconsin reported seeing a bright object in the sky. She described it as round and white, about the size of a nickel, moving b…
East Meadow,
1958 · unknownOn September 18, 1958, a civilian in East Meadow, Long Island, New York observed an unusual object at night. The object was more than round, one foot to eighteen inches long, very…
Eddyville, Broken Bow & Miller, NE
1958 · unknownIn late October 1958, observers in three Nebraska towns reported seeing strange rotating lights in the night sky. The first sighting occurred around 1500 (3 p.m.) local time on Oct…
Ellsworth AFB, SD
1958 · unknownOn September 28, 1958, two Air Force lieutenants at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota, reported an unidentified flying object at 0305Z (night). The witnesses, Lt. Dwyer and Lt…
E Of Brazil,
1958 · unknownOn October 22, 1958, in the evening, a crew member on a Norwegian ship reported a fast-moving object over the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was sailing from Norway toward Brazil. The re…
E Of Columbus, OH
1958 · unknownIn November 1958, someone near Columbus, Ohio saw an object fall from the sky in broad daylight. The witness described it as round and green, about the size of a pin head held at a…
E of Hastings, MI
1958 · unidentifiedOn September 1, 1958, east of Hastings, Michigan, two round objects were sighted by civilians. The objects were yellowish red in color. They moved back and forth and disappeared. T…
E Of Norfolk,
1958 · unknownOn August 24, 1958, the master of the M/V Urania, a Liberian tanker sailing east of Norfolk, Virginia, watched a bright white light streak across the night sky. The object appeared…
Erie, PA
1958 · unidentifiedOn August 11, 1958, near Erie, Pennsylvania, a civilian witness observed a red and white object about the size of a twelve-inch dinner plate for fifteen minutes during twilight hou…
Essex, MD
1958 · unidentifiedOn August 17, 1958, near Essex, Maryland, a civilian witness reported observing a circular object with no sound or exhaust that was apparently powered. The object was self-illumina…
Etain AFB,
1958 · unknownOn the night of July 11, 1958, military weather observers at Etain Air Force Base in northeastern France saw an unusual object in the sky. The object was egg-shaped, about the size…
Farmington,
1958 · unknownOn May 14, 1958, a civilian in Farmington, New Mexico reported seeing a bright yellow object about the size of a half dollar. The object was observed through ground-visual observat…
Flagstaff, AZ
1958 · unknownOn May 3, 1958, military personnel at Flagstaff, Arizona reported observing an object with the appearance of an elongated balloon, white in color and comparable in size to a basket…
Fla, S.C., Ga,
1958 · unknownA bright fireball was spotted across Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia on October 28, 1958, over a period of just a few seconds. Multiple witnesses on the ground and in the air…
Fort Monmouth, NJ
1958 · unknownOn August 18, 1958, at 7:52 p.m., a bright orange object about the size of a pinhead was observed at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The object had a round shape similar to the head of…
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