Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of February 7, 1950, in the San Jose area and over Alameda Naval Air Station near Oakland, California, multiple witnesses reported seeing an unusual cone-shaped obje…

On March 28, 1950, at 2:30 p.m., a military observer returning from the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile noticed numerous people looking at the sky. The observer went to the roof of…

On January 27, 1950, a civilian near Scullville, New Jersey, reported an object in the sky. The time was about 5:15 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, as he returned home from work in Atl…

On the evening of March 9, 1950, military personnel at Selfridge Air Force Base near Detroit observed something unusual in the sky and on radar that the Air Force could not explain…

On the night of March 9, 1950, radar operators at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan detected an unusual object on their radar scopes. First Lieutenant Francis B. Parker and Firs…

On April 1, 1950, in Shelby, North Carolina, civilians reported sighting an unidentified object. According to a newspaper report from the Raleigh News and Observer dated April 11,…

On March 30, 1950, three civilian witnesses in Sioux City, Iowa reported observing one unidentified object through field glasses for about 10 minutes. The object appeared as a stra…

On 10 November 1950, radar operators at Heston Airdrome near London picked up an unusual object on their SCR-584 radar screen (an air search radar set used to detect aircraft). The…

On the night of July 22, 1950, near Spartanburg, South Carolina, a young couple at a drive in movie reported a strange object. The witnesses were a civilian couple, Vernon and Bett…

On September 3 and 8, 1950, military personnel at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane, Washington observed unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force investigated all three sighti…

On the evening of July 31, 1950, several witnesses at and near Pepperrell Air Force Base in St. John's, Newfoundland saw a fast-moving object cross the sky in about ten to sixteen…

On March 13, 1950, the pilot of a Piper Cruiser light plane reported an object near St. Johns, Michigan, about 15 miles north of Lansing. The pilot was flying at 3,500 feet and saw…

On the evening of July 30, 1950, multiple witnesses near St. John's, Newfoundland reported seeing an unusual object streak across the sky around 8:15 p.m. The sightings took place…

On April 3, 1950, around 4:30 p.m., a 77-year-old woman in Summerville, South Carolina, reported an object over her house. She described a round, saucer shaped metal object, very s…

On the night of February 8, 1950, near Tampa, Florida, multiple aircraft crews reported seeing an unidentified object moving at extremely high speed. The sighting occurred at appro…

On September 17, 1950, a geologist working for Amerada Petroleum Corporation reported seeing an unusual glowing object while driving a truck to a wildcat oil well near Tatum, New M…

On February 5, 1950, witnesses at the Falmouth Airport in Teaticket, Massachusetts, reported two unusual objects in the western sky. The time was about 5:10 p.m. Eastern Standard T…

On June 27, 1950, at about 7:50 a.m., two workers at the Red River Arsenal near Texarkana, Texas, saw a shiny object in the sky. The men were riding in a federal truck when a passe…

On September 18, 1950, about 9:52 p.m. local time, a military weather sergeant reported an unidentified object over Tinker Air Force Base and Midwest City, Oklahoma. The report is…

On June 23, 1950, at 1 p.m., a newspaper editor in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, reported a telephone call about a sighting. Twenty to thirty people saw a flaming red cross moving slowly ac…

On the morning of December 6, 1950, a man standing in his yard in West Springfield, Massachusetts heard an unusual whistling sound. He looked up and spotted a silvery, half-moon-sh…

On the night of July 7, 1950, near Wiesbaden, Germany, radar operators tracked unidentified targets. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for u…

On a Saturday in April 1950, an Air Force officer at Williams Air Force Base in Arizona saw something unusual cross the sky in broad daylight. The man was lying on an Army cot in h…

On the night of May 16, 1950, near Wilmette, Illinois, just north of Chicago, a man and his wife saw a strange object over Lake Michigan. The report says they were sitting in their…

On December 13, 1950, about 9 p.m., witnesses over Lake Champlain near Winooski, Vermont, opposite Burlington, reported an object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Forc…

On the morning of March 8, 1950, multiple observers at and near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright, unusual object in the sky. The sighting la…

On May 4, 1961, a co-pilot aboard a military transport plane spotted an unidentified object in the night sky roughly 100 miles northwest of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. The pl…

On July 27, 1950, near Wiesbaden, Germany, an airman reported a bright object in the western sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for unid…

In September 1950, a man near Agana, Guam reported seeing a circular, flat object about 600 to 1000 feet wide hovering roughly half a mile offshore. He said the object was about 30…

In November 1950, a serviceman stationed on Okinawa reported seeing an unidentified object that fell into the sea near the island. The witness, playing cards at an outpost, heard a…

On Christmas Eve 1950, military personnel and civilians in Hawaii witnessed a bright, fast-moving object streaking across the night sky. The sighting sparked official Air Force int…

On October 31, 1950, four men flying a Beechcraft Bonanza aircraft over Cuba spotted an unusual object in the sky. The pilot was a Cuban businessman named Alejandro Suero Falla. Hi…

On the evening of November 20, 1950, in South-Central Alaska, witnesses across a vast region saw a brilliant blue-white flash light up the sky like daylight for just a few seconds…

Two Air Force officers at March Air Force Base in Southern California observed an unusual bright object in the sky on the morning of October 14, 1950. One was a navigator and the o…

On July 13, 1950, at about 5 p.m., a man at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, saw an object in the sky. The witness, an employee connected to a signal office, was on the rear porch of the…

On October 1, 1950, residents in the Masabuka district of Northern Rhodesia were awakened at 4:15 a.m. by a loud explosion that shook several buildings. A bright flash was seen in…

On the night of January 12, 1950, a B-29 bomber flying over the Gulf of Mexico at coordinates 24 degrees north, 85 degrees west encountered something unusual on its radar. At 2325…

On April 19, 1950, near Boregord, North Carolina, an Army letter observer reported a sighting at 1:30 p.m. The object was described as rectangular in shape, measuring 10 feet long…

On January 24, 1950, three Air Force officers flying a C-45 transport aircraft from Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina to Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., spotted an…

On March 15, 1950, three crew members from TACA Airlines reported seeing three to four shiny, metallic objects flying over Guatemala City Airport in Guatemala. The witnesses were s…

On the evening of January 6, 1950, two employees of Bendix Aviation in Kansas City punched out at 1926 hours (7:26 p.m.) and stepped into the parking lot. Looking toward the southw…

On June 23, 1950, near Mobile, Alabama, a witness reported an aerial sighting. A light was observed descending in a spiral pattern and fading at 8 p.m. local time. The sighting las…

On April 27 and 28, 1950, two Air Force pilots flying F-80C jet fighters near Misawa Air Base in Japan reported seeing unidentified objects while flying at altitudes between 18,000…

This Air Force intelligence report covers five reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in the United States between March 29 and April 17, 1950. One main account is from…

# Flying Flare Over Alaska, February 1950 In February 1950, a U.S. Air Force pilot flying near Bering Strait, Alaska, saw a bright object fall from the sky. First Lieutenant J. J.…

On March 20, 1950, photographers at Underhill Studio in New York took a night photograph of Manhattan from the Queensboro Bridge looking south and southwest. The image showed an un…

On May 19, 1950, two F-84 fighter pilots spotted an unidentified object in the sky 100 miles east of Honshu, Japan. Ground radar had first detected something in the area, and the p…