Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of March 8, 1949, at 1835 hours (6:35 p.m.), three observers at Los Alamos, New Mexico saw an unusual flying object. Two were security guards, and one was an inspect…

# Los Alamos Sightings, October-November 1949 During October and November 1949, personnel at Los Alamos, New Mexico, a major U.S. atomic energy installation, reported multiple sig…

On the evening of June 20, 1949, a security inspector at Los Alamos, New Mexico was standing outdoors near the center of the mesa when a bright light caught his attention. The time…

On March 3, 1949, at 1:59 a.m., an Atomic Energy Security Service inspector sitting outside a building at Los Alamos, New Mexico saw a bright green light drop almost straight down…

On the evening of June 11, 1949, a security inspector at Los Alamos, New Mexico, spotted an unusual light in the clear night sky at 8:57 p.m. The object appeared as a bright star o…

Shortly after midnight on June 2, 1949, a security inspector driving near Los Alamos, New Mexico saw a green ball of light in the sky. His attention was drawn by its bright light a…

On January 6, 1949, at 3:10 a.m., a civilian employee in Los Alumes, New Mexico, reported observing a bright green object in the sky. The object appeared overall in shape and moved…

On April 8, 1949, at around 1400 (2:00 p.m.), three city employees in the Los Angeles area observed an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses worked for the City Park and Recreat…

On July 27, 1949, in Louisville, Kentucky, a civilian reported sighting one spherical object. The object was comparable in size to a large star and had a reddish glow. Its color va…

On April 21, 1949, two high school students in Ludington, Michigan reported seeing a white object that looked like a comet with a long tail. The students, sophomores at Ludington H…

On the morning of August 8, 1949, a man near Manitou Springs, Colorado, reported an unidentified object above a ridge between Cameron's Cone and Mount Arthur, west of Colorado Spri…

On May 3, 4, and 6, 1949, residents of Sidney and Maplewood, Ohio reported seeing a bright silver disc-shaped object moving rapidly through the sky. The sightings prompted an Air F…

On August 25, 1949, residents of McDonald, Ohio, reported shiny objects high in the sky. Witnesses said the objects glittered and flopped in the sun. According to one young witness…

On August 8, 1949, at around 11:30 a.m., airfield personnel near Medford, Oregon sighted shiny objects moving across the sky at high speed. A member of the Airways detachment at Me…

# Memphis UFO Sighting, April 1949 On the early morning of April 7, 1949, multiple residents of Memphis, Tennessee reported seeing a shiny, oval-shaped object moving erratically a…

On June 24, 1949, a man in Mesa, Arizona, watched four metallic disc-shaped objects hover over the desert for about thirty minutes. While he was changing a tire on his car, he noti…

On June 14, 1949, around 2015 (8:15 p.m.), a man, his wife, and his children saw two objects in the sky while lying on the beach at Miami Beach, Florida. The night was clear with s…

On August 23, 1949, at 1530 (3:30 p.m.), four experienced U.S. Air Force pilots standing on the front steps of the 47th Fighter Group Operations Building at Misawa Air Force Base i…

On July 26, 1949, a physician driving south on the edge of Mitchell, Nebraska saw a bright light flash in his eyes. He stopped to look and spotted a metallic-silver object shaped l…

On June 21, 1949, at about 0924 (9:24 a.m.), a civilian reported seeing an object directly over Monroe, Michigan. The witness made the report, and a similar report came from a loca…

On June 18, 1949, a woman driving near Montgomery, Alabama spotted a cluster of flying objects in the sky. She saw 20 to 25 saucer-shaped objects that looked about the size of a di…

On March 15, 1949, a man in Morgantown, West Virginia saw something strange in the night sky. He was standing in his backyard around 9 p.m., doing what he did most evenings: checki…

On March 15, 1949, at about 2100 (9:00 p.m.), a civilian witness near Morgantown, West Virginia, reported seeing an object in the sky. He described it to an Air Force Office of Spe…

On the night of March 15, 1949, a civilian in Morgantown, West Virginia reported a single round, flat object that he compared to the lid of a garbage can. He was outside checking t…

In the summer of 1949, a German prisoner of war held in a labor camp near Moscow reported seeing an unusual object in the sky on two separate occasions. Both times, the man was wor…

On the morning of May 23, 1949, military personnel at Moses Lake Air Force Base in Washington reported a single silver object high in the sky. Witnesses said it looked very small f…

On the afternoon of May 21, 1949, radar operators at Hanford Atomic Plant in eastern Washington spotted what they believed was a flying saucer and called Moses Lake Air Force Base…

On July 21, 1949, at about 2013 (8:13 p.m.), an Air Force pilot reported two objects about 10 miles east of Mount Pleasant, Utah. The plane was at 9,000 feet on a flight from Spoka…

# Mt Home, Idaho: Seven Delta-Shaped Objects Over the Desert (July 1949) On July 24, 1949, a private pilot named Clark was flying his Piper Clipper airplane near Mt Home, Idaho, w…

On the evening of July 30, 1949, multiple airline pilots and air traffic controllers near Portland, Oregon reported seeing an unidentified object displaying two red lights and one…

# Mt. Palomar Observatory, November 1949 On October 14, 1949, an astronomer at Mt. Palomar Observatory in California saw a formation of 16 to 18 shiny objects flying northwest at…

On January 25, 1949, a pale white to yellow red object was reported in Nakagori Village, Japan. The sighting occurred between 1949 and 1950 and lasted approximately one and a half…

On the morning of July 30, 1949, an assistant biologist for the Idaho Fish and Game Department was driving east on Highway 30, about six miles outside Nampa, Idaho. At 10:12 a.m.,…

On the night of August 13, 1949, a metal object fell to the pavement at the intersection of Canal and Bourbon Streets in New Orleans, Louisiana. The object was roughly pie-shaped a…

On the evening of July 17, 1949, a civilian observer in New Orleans spotted a large, luminous gray object moving across the sky. The witness saw it from the second floor gallery of…

On the morning of July 7, 1949, a man driving in New Orleans observed something unusual in the sky. The object appeared round or oval in shape, was moving north, and had a bright,…

In August 1949, residents of Nogales, Arizona, reported seeing unidentified flying objects over their town on at least three separate nights. The sightings drew the attention of th…

On July 1, 1949, a doctor and his wife driving north on Highway 70 near Fort Francis, Ontario, Canada, spotted what they believed was a flying saucer. They were roughly 50 to 75 mi…

On June 19, 1949, three unidentified objects flew over Oak Ridge, Tennessee at around noon. Two witnesses, a husband and wife, first spotted them. They described two of the objects…

On the morning of January 31, 1949, something unusual moved across the skies near Orlando, Florida. Multiple witnesses, including military personnel and civilians, reported seeing…

On the evening of June 29, 1949, a civilian observer near Osborn, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The sighting occurred around 8:30 to 9 p.m., just after du…

On June 20, 1949, an architect in Paget, Bermuda sighted an unusual object in the afternoon sky. The object was spherical and brilliantly silver in color. It first appeared roughly…

On May 31, 1949, a farmer found two metal discs stuck in the ground of his cornfield near Parma, Michigan. One disc had purple plastic clinging to it. The discs were about nine inc…

On July 22, 1949, at about 2045 (8:45 p.m.), three civilians near Peekskill, New York, saw two objects while walking on a country road. A local man wrote to the Air Force describin…

On the night of June 26, 1949, around midnight (0005 hours), several observers in Pennsylvania and Ohio saw what appeared to be an unusually large and bright meteor streaking acros…

On July 15, 1949, objects were reported over Pineville, Louisiana, and nearby Libuse and Colfax. The reports appeared in the Pineville News newspaper that day. An Air Force Office…

On the evening of July 3, 1949, at about 10:20 to 10:30 p.m., a Pittsburgh resident saw what he described as a strange aircraft traveling across the sky. The object appeared about…

On July 22, 1949, at 10:00 p.m. in Pocatello, Idaho, a civilian observer reported seeing one circular object in the sky for about 30 seconds. The object appeared to be a blob trave…

In July 1949, weather station personnel at Point Barrow, Alaska spotted a bright light in the sky while they were tracking a weather balloon. The light moved slowly from east to we…

Early on August 2, 1949, Coast Guard crew members at the Port O'Connor Lifeboat Station in Texas sighted a single object in the sky. The time was about 8:45 p.m. local time the eve…

On the night of July 31, 1949, a woman in Portsmouth, Virginia, reported seeing six flying discs over the area near the U.S. Naval Hospital. She watched them between 9 p.m. and 10…

On July 13, 1949, at about 1430 to 1500 (2:30 to 3:00 p.m.), four civilian workers saw three objects near Pullman, Washington. They were at the Union Pacific railroad yards. An Air…

On the afternoon of July 17, 1949, a woman in Pullman, Washington saw an unusual object in the sky. The wife of a College of Washington professor reported watching it for about fiv…

On July 27, 1949, at about dusk, a military-connected witness reported an object near Puyallup, Washington. The witness operated a small airstrip and did crop dusting, and had been…

On the afternoon of March 4, 1949, four employees of Watson Laboratories in Red Bank, New Jersey, spotted an unusual object in the sky while watching a B-29 bomber pass overhead. T…

The OCR text is too severely garbled to support an accurate summary of substantive case details. While the first few pages show discernible references to unusual lights observed ne…

At approximately 8 p.m. on May 12, 1949, multiple people across the Roanoke, Virginia area reported seeing a mysterious object moving through the sky. The object appeared as a long…

This case began with an explosion in remote mountainous country near Rodeo, New Mexico on March 31, 1949. A Border Patrol officer named Mr. Corning reported hearing a very heavy ex…

On May 24, 1949, at about 1700 (5:00 p.m.), a civilian woman and four other people saw an object while fishing on the Rogue River near Gold Beach, Oregon. She was interviewed by an…

On the night of August 31, 1949, two U.S. Air Force officers stationed at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento, California, witnessed an unusual aircraft near their homes about fi…