Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 21, 1959, a piece of red-tinted glass fell from the sky near Marysville, Ohio. The glass landed on the roof of a house about 17 miles northwest of town, then tumbled to t…

A bright object caught the attention of a motorist near Centerville, Ohio in March 1959. The witness was driving in a car about two miles north of town when they spotted what they…

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 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 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…

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 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 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…

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…

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 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 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 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…

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…

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 February 28, 1958, at 4:03 p.m., a witness three miles west of Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing a brilliant orange flaming object. When first sighted, the object separated into f…

On March 5, 1958, near Akron, Ohio, a resident spotted material floating down from the sky around 5:30 p.m. The object landed about 100 yards south of Koons Road, roughly 1 mile we…

On the morning of July 1, 1958, an observer near Springfield, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sighting lasted only five to ten seconds. The object appeared a…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

In 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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.…

In 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…

In 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…

On 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…

On 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…

On 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…

In 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…

On May 26, 1958, at 8:34 p.m., a civilian in Hubbard, Ohio reported seeing a round orange object traveling at 600 knots at 5,000 feet. The object moved from southeast to northwest.…

In October 1958, several witnesses near Put In Bay, Ohio, on Lake Erie reported seeing an unusual object in the sky over the course of several weeks. The object appeared as a round…

On September 14, 1958 (15/0310Z), a civilian observer in Lakewood, Ohio, near Cleveland, reported an unidentified flying object at night. The witness, who was looking at the stars,…

On the night of May 9, 1958, a man in Marietta, Ohio reported seeing five lights in the sky moving from east to west near Parkersburg, West Virginia. He described four amber-white…

On July 9, 1958, two observers near Massillon, Ohio, reported an unidentified flying object at about 11:21 p.m. local time. One witness was a civilian and one was a military ground…

On May 16, 1958, a civilian witnessed a bright light in Parma, Ohio. The object remained stationary until an aircraft flew over it from west to east. When the aircraft passed the o…

On a November morning in 1958 near Piqua, Ohio, a witness spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round and dirty white, roughly the size of a basketball, and see…

Early on the morning of September 21, 1958, a woman in Sheffield Lake, Ohio, woke to a bright light flooding her bedroom. When she looked out the window, she saw a flat, circular o…

On March 11, 1958, two observers reported sighting an unidentified flying object over Springfield, Ohio. Major Huke from WPAFB called the Strategic Defense Operations office at 9:3…

On the evening of September 8, 1958, a woman in Toledo, Ohio named Pamela A. Rowe noticed a bright glowing object in the sky around 6:30 p.m. The object remained stationary for abo…

On the evening of July 2, 1958, a witness west of Germantown, Ohio saw a bright white light blinking very rapidly in the sky. The observation lasted about 15 hours, with the object…

On October 14, 1958, a witness at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio observed a square object with a yellow and greenish tint. The object then exploded into pieces. The sighti…

On April 3, 1958, a resident of Xenia, Ohio reported seeing a bright light moving rapidly across the sky. The witness described the object as clear and brilliant, resembling a brig…

On a night in 1958, witnesses in Xenia, Ohio saw two pinpoints of light, brighter than a star and with a blue cast. The lights flashed together. The objects moved from east to west…