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.
242 cases in TX · page 3 of 5
Lubbock, TX
1956 · unidentifiedOn the night of October 27, 1956, seven people reported sighting unidentified flying objects from the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot near Crane, Indiana. Six witnesses at Crane Villag…
McKinney, TX
1956 · unidentifiedOn April 4, 1956, a civilian at McKinney, Texas, reported one object that was watched for about six hours. The witness was the local Weather Bureau observer, and an amateur astrono…
San Antonio, TX
1956 · unidentifiedOn July 23, 1956, civilians and military personnel in San Antonio, Texas reported seeing one round, very bright object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was silv…
San Antonio, TX
1956 · unidentifiedOn September 22, 1956, at about 3:45 a.m., four observers at or near Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas reported one round, intensely bright white object about the size of…
Temple, TX
1956 · unidentifiedOn July 31, 1956, around 8:20 a.m. local time, a civilian in Temple, Texas, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about one and a half to two minutes. The object was seen t…
Big foot, TX
1955 · unidentifiedOn July 11, 1955, six witnesses near Big Foot, Texas saw one object in the daytime sky. It was round and silvery white. The object appeared to have streamers coming out of it. It f…
Bigfoot, TX
1955 · unidentifiedOn July 11, 1955, near Big Foot, Texas, six civilian observers reported one object for about three hours. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was round and silvery-w…
Bryan AFB, TX
1955 · unidentifiedThree weather officers at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing an unusual glowing object circling the base in the early morning hours of June 15, 1955. The sighting lasted…
Dallas, TX
1955 · unidentifiedOn the evening of June 20, 1955, multiple witnesses in Dallas, Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The sightings lasted from roughly 2200 hours (10 p.m.) until around…
Ft Worth, TX
1955 · unidentifiedOn the morning of June 26, 1955, around 5:15 a.m., a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, observed an unusual object through a telescope while looking at the sky. The witness was a publi…
Marshall, TX
1955 · unidentifiedOn October 10, 1955, a long shaft-shaped silver object with no vapor trails was reported near Marshall, Texas. The object was observed flying in a northwest direction with very err…
Beaumont, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn September 19, 1954, at 4:30 p.m., a civilian in Beaumont, Texas reported seeing a silver object moving very slowly at an estimated altitude of 60,000 to 90,000 feet. The observe…
Beumont, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn November 19, 1954, civilian and military witnesses near Beaumont, Texas, reported objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The objects moved from the south-so…
Carswell AFB, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn the night of February 4, 1954, radar operators at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Texas, detected an unusual target heading straight toward the base. The object appeare…
Dallas, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn July 19, 1954, a witness in Dallas, Texas, reported a round object in the sky. The witness, described as a rated Air Force observer, saw the object on the ground at about 8:55 p…
Fort Worth, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn April 28, 1954, starting about 8:55 p.m., over Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, civilians and military personnel reported an object for more than two hours. A st…
Ft Worth, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn March 27, 1954, at 8:07 p.m., a civilian in Fort Worth, Texas reported observing an unidentified object. The object was comparable to a bright star with stop-and-go movement and…
Houston, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn December 29, 1954, at about 11:25 p.m. local time, a witness near Houston, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The source was a civilian. The object was round and white and f…
Houston, TX
1954 · unidentified# Houston, Texas - October 1954 A military aircrew flying over Houston in early October 1954 reported seeing an unusual object that changed colors and remained stationary below th…
Kelly AFB, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn January 14, 1954, radar operators near Kelly Air Force Base, Texas tracked unusual returns on their scope. The contacts, called blips, showed speeds ranging from about 100 to 6,…
KILLEEN, TX
1954 · unidentifiedBetween October 1 and November 20, 1954, military personnel stationed at Gray Air Force Base near Killeen, Texas reported seeing an unidentified flying object on multiple occasions…
Reese AFB, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn June 11, 1954, a military witness at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting lasted only 2 to 5 seconds. The witness saw three objects th…
San Antonio, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn the night of July 21, 1954, a civilian woman in San Antonio, Texas, saw an orange colored light in the sky. The sighting was at about 11:00 p.m. and lasted two to four seconds.…
San Antonio, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn the night of March 8-9, 1954, residents and military personnel in San Antonio, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses described a crescent-shaped group of lights,…
San Antonio, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn November 25, 1954 (Thanksgiving Day), a resident of San Antonio, Texas watched a round, greyish-white object moving slowly across the sky. The object appeared to hover briefly a…
San Antonio, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn August 6, 1954, a civilian in San Antonio, Texas, reported a small elliptical object in the sky. The man, a licensed mechanical engineer, was driving home in the evening when th…
SAN ANTONIO, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn October 13, 1954, at 9:26 a.m. in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported observing one round object with a hissing noise like escaping steam. The object first appeared…
San Marcos, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn August 15, 1954, a military observer in San Marcos, Texas reported a dark blue oblong object without discernible features. The object flew on the same course as an aircraft. It…
Texarkana, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn June 8, 1954, at about 1:00 a.m. near Hooks, Texas, a civilian arsenal employee reported one object for about two minutes. He described a circular object about the size of a was…
Victoria, San Antonio, Edna, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn the night of July 8, 1954, three separate observers in Texas reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object with a blue flame trailing behind it. An airline captain and co-pilot a…
Waco, TX
1954 · unidentifiedOn January 21, 1954, an aircrew reported a bright white light near Waco, Texas. The sighting was made at 1556 local time by four crew members. It came in as a pilot report and was…
Austin, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn January 14, 1953, at about 11:34 a.m., a civilian in the northeast section of Austin, Texas, saw an object. The witness was a high school petroleum teacher who was throwing a ba…
Bergstrom AFB, Austin, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn January 23, 1953, a radar operator at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas detected an unusual target on his scope. T/Sergeant Gerald V. Kelley was working the ground-contr…
Bracketsville, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn June 23, 1953, about 0130 (1:30 a.m.), a military member saw an object near Bracketville, Texas. The witness was a weather forecaster driving west from San Antonio with his wife…
Carswell AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the morning of February 13, 1953, a civilian witnessed three bright lights traveling across the sky near Fort Worth, Texas, at Carswell Air Force Base. The lights remained visib…
Ellington AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the evening of May 19, 1953, six Air Force personnel at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas reported seeing an unidentified yellowish-orange object moving rapidly acros…
Ft. Davis, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn April 19, 1953, at about 1320 (1:20 p.m.), a civilian reported an object near Fort Davis, Texas. The witness wrote a letter to the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Marfa, Tex…
Ft Worth, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn July 9, 1953, about 2115 (9:15 p.m.), a civilian saw an object near Fort Worth, Texas. The witness was an aircraft company employee. He had just finished a church activity and w…
Houston, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn November 27, 1953, at 2:30 p.m. in Houston, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing five metallic objects that formed the letter C in the sky. The objects appeared to move str…
Lackland AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn May 23, 1953, a radar operator at Lackland Air Force Base, near San Antonio, Texas, picked up a series of radar blips that would puzzle investigators for weeks. The radar scope…
Muster, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn June 4, 1953, about 2305 (11:05 p.m.) Central time, a civilian saw objects over Muenster, Texas, about 30 miles west of Gainesville. The witness was an aircraft engine mechanic…
Pasadena, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of March 23, 1953, military personnel at a radar station in Pasadena, Texas reported seeing an unidentified object that made unusual maneuvers in the sky. The sighting…
Perrin AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of July 25, 1953, multiple witnesses at Perrin Air Force Base in Texas and nearby civilians in Denison spotted seven unidentified objects in the sky. The sighting bega…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of June 2, 1953, a husband and wife in San Antonio, Texas witnessed something unusual in the sky. Around 10:20 p.m., the wife was hanging clothes in the backyard when…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentified# San Antonio UFO Sighting, May 7, 1953 On the evening of May 7, 1953, a civilian employee at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky.…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedAn undetermined number of lights appeared over San Antonio, Texas, on the evening of March 25, 1953, moving in unusual patterns that neither radar nor conventional explanations cou…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the evening of January 9, 1953, three women in San Antonio, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky while driving home. They were stopped at a traffic light at the intersecti…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn August 5, 1953, at 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time, four civilians working near San Antonio, Texas saw an elliptical-shaped silvery object hovering silently in the sky. The obj…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of February 26 and 27, 1953, military personnel at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas observed one or more bright lights moving rapidly across the sky. The fi…
Sheppard AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the morning of July 9, 1953, at around 12:05 p.m., an airman stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas was standing on the hospital ramp during his lunch brea…
6 miles SW Lometa, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 2, 1952, at 2039 (8:39 p.m.) local time, about 6 miles southwest of Lometa, Texas, Air Force officers and a radar team reported a large fireball. A single object was seen.…
Amarillo, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 26, 1952, a captain in the U.S. Air Force saw three pink objects flying in formation near Amarillo, Texas. The observer was standing on the ground facing roughly southwes…
BROOKS AFB, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn October 9, 1952, a captain and four enlisted airmen at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas spotted three round, silver objects in the sky over the course of about an hour. The captai…
Brownwood, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the evening of April 2, 1952, people across Texas reported seeing a bright, fiery object moving rapidly across the sky. Near Brownwood and in communities to the west of Temple,…
Bryan, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 2, 1952, near Bryan, Texas, Air Force pilots reported a large fireball. The sighting lasted about 5 to 15 seconds. The object was fire colored and circular with a tail. Th…
CANADIAN, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the evening of December 27, 1952, five people driving south on US Highway 83 near Canadian, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. CST, they saw a…
Cedar Hill, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 15, 1952, an unidentified flying object was sighted near Cedar Hill, Texas, located five to five and a half miles south of the station. A military officer from Cedar Hill…
Dallas, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 15, 1952, a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a white light with a light shape. The object had no distinguishable shape, appeared larger than a navigation light,…
Dallas, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the night of April 16, 1952, a woman in Dallas, Texas reported seeing multiple colored objects moving across the sky. She described five objects in total: two red ball shapes, t…
DALLAS, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn December 24, 1952, a B-36 bomber flying east of Dallas, Texas detected an unidentified object on radar at 12:15 p.m. (1215 hours). The phenomenon was tracked intermittently by b…
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