Project Blue Book Case Files

# Two Pilots Spot Silver Sphere Over Carolina Mountains On the morning of December 15, 1952, two experienced fighter pilots from Shaw Air Force Base saw an unidentified object wit…

On the night of May 13, 1952, at 2233 (10:33 p.m.) EST, four amateur astronomers gathered on the campus of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, were preparing to leave…

On April 20, 1952, at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, a civilian took photographs that appeared to show objects in the sky. The pictures were taken about an hour and a ha…

In November 1952, residents of Guanarito, Venezuela, witnessed a series of mysterious aircraft passing overhead in broad daylight. According to press reports, the whole town watche…

On August 11, 1952, a U.S. Air Force officer and his wife witnessed seven yellowish-orange flying objects near Hampton, Virginia. The first two objects appeared at approximately 9:…

# Haneda Air Base, August 1952 On the night of August 5, 1952, control tower personnel at Haneda Air Force Base in Japan watched an unusual glowing object in the sky for nearly an…

On December 1, 1952, an Air Force pilot near Hartsville, South Carolina reported observing a circular silver object about the size of a half dollar from a distance of ten miles. Th…

On August 24, 1952, Colonel Gerald W. Johnson was piloting an F-84G jet aircraft from California to Georgia when he spotted something unusual near Hermanas, New Mexico. Flying at a…

On August 17, 1952, four witnesses at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii saw a shiny metallic object hovering overhead in the middle of the day. The sighting lasted about 10 minutes a…

In October 1952, two hunters in Hickman Canyon near Tooele County, Utah reported seeing an unusual object flying toward them at about 3,000 feet altitude. The object was shaped lik…

On August 3, 1952, at 1945 (7:45 p.m.) Pacific time, a Los Angeles Police Department officer reported a very bright object over Highland Park, California. He watched it for several…

On May 13, 1952, near Niland, California, a deputy sheriff reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 0245 (2:45 a.m.). The witness described a white, bright lig…

On October 12, 1952, about 10:00 p.m. Eastern time, two Air Force majors driving east on Colbrook Drive in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, reported one unidentified object. One was a…

On the evening of August 24, 1952, a man and his wife in Tucson, Arizona saw an object they could not explain. At 5:40 p.m., a large, round, brilliant white light appeared in the s…

On April 23, 1952, at 4:30 p.m. PST, a civilian in Hinkle, Oregon reported seeing an unidentified flying object northwest of Pendleton, Washington. The witness observed a silver fl…

On December 29, 1952, a military radar base on Hokkaido Island, Japan received an unusual report from a B-26 bomber crew in the air. The crew said they had just spotted a UFO that…

On a night in 1952, an airman at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, reported a white light in the sky around 2030 (8:30 p.m.). The observer watched the light for about one hour.…

On August 25, 1952, two civilian employees at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw an unusual object in the sky. The men, Fred Lee (a utilities supervisor with six years at th…

On April 21, 1952, near Holmen, Wisconsin, a civilian woman reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened about 0405 (4:05 a.m.) while she was driving north on a hi…

On April 28, 1952, in Homewood, Illinois, two civilian women reported an unusual object in the sky. The sighting happened about 1700 (5:00 p.m.) and lasted about three minutes. Th…

On the evening of August 2, 1952, a civilian woman in Houlton, Maine, saw a group of disc-shaped objects flying in formation. She watched them for about 35 minutes between 2129 and…

On October 12, 1952, about 9:00 p.m. local time, the pilot and radar observer of an F7U Marine aircraft flying escort over the water off Hungnam, North Korea, reported a reddish-or…

On July 27, 1952, between 9:23 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., an object was observed near Hamilton Air Force Base, California. The object appeared larger than a star and brightened. Its edges…

Date and location unknown. Five diamond-shaped objects were sighted in V formation near Great Falls Air Force Base. The objects moved from north to south at supersonic speed. The s…

On September 14, 1952, a naval destroyer participating in Operation Mainbrace, a major NATO military exercise, observed three unidentified objects moving rapidly across the sky nor…

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On July 23, 1952, four U.S. Air Force pilots and radar operators flying in F-84 fighter aircraft spotted three unidentified objects stacked vertically above the Altoona, Pennsylvan…

On May 13, 1952, near Imperial, California, two deputy sheriffs reported unidentified objects. The sighting happened about 0310 (3:10 a.m.). The witnesses described objects that a…

On December 18, 1952, radar operators at Detachment #7 of the 527th Air Control and Warning Group, located in Northern Kyushu, Japan, detected an unidentified target on their radar…

On December 17, 1952, at about 7:57 a.m., an observer on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, saw a fast-moving light. The report was sent to Air Force intelligenc…

On December 11, 1952, several people in the Karachi area, in Pakistan, reported seeing objects in the sky. The sightings happened during the morning, at varying times between about…

On the night of August 2, 1952, at approximately 1920 (7:20 p.m.), Airman First Class Gerald T. McCabe was walking near the base supply area at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississipp…

On August 10, 1952, at approximately 0210 (2:10 a.m.) Central Standard Time, two men stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi spotted something unusual in the sky. One ob…

On August 14, 1952, at 3:45 p.m., seven civilian employees and one airman at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas watched a round, metallic object fly slowly across the sky for roughly th…

On October 5, 1952, at 5:12 p.m., a former Royal Air Force officer standing on the deck of the Cunard liner Caronia saw a round, brilliant white object in the sky off the coast of…

On May 12, 1952, near Kenton, Ohio, a civilian commercial pilot and former Navy pilot reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened at 2116 (9:16 p.m.). The witness called…

Before daybreak on September 17, 1952, about 4:48 a.m. local time, an Army military police corporal on sentry duty at Killeen Base, Killeen, Texas, reported an object directly over…

On the afternoon of May 23, 1952, officers at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico saw a bright silver object hanging in the western sky. Multiple Air Force personnel watched it f…

# UFO Sighting at Kirtland Air Force Base, August 1952 On August 28, 1952, an observer at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported seeing a strange triangula…

# Summary On the night of September 23, 1952, an unidentified flying object was observed over Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The sighting occurred around 2200 hours (10 p.…

On July 30, 1952, at 11:15 p.m. MST, a young boy in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a bright white circular object traveling from east to west at varying speeds. The object appeared to…

On August 3, 1952, at 3:20 a.m. local time, three oblong translucent objects were sighted near Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The objects flew in an inverted V formation and…

On October 21, 1952, about 1 to 2 minutes long, a weather observer at the Weather Bureau Airport Station in Knoxville, Tennessee, reported six white objects while tracking a pilot…

On March 13, 1952, radar operators at Keflavik Airport in Iceland detected a series of unidentified objects on their ground control approach (GCA) radar scopes. The first object ap…

Around early September 1952, a farmer near Kutztown, Pennsylvania, reported photographing a shiny, disc-shaped object he said was flying over his fields. The Air Force learned of t…

On April 1, 1952, at 10:15 p.m. local time, an airman at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas observed a white, sphere-shaped object during a one to two second sighting. The observer w…

On April 14, 1952, near LaCrosse, Wisconsin, an airline pilot reported unidentified flying objects. The Air Force record lists the time as about 1838 (6:38 p.m.). The witness desc…

On the night of December 8, 1952, two U.S. Air Force pilots spotted an unidentified light near Ladd Air Force Base in Alaska. The pilots, First Lieutenant Donald A. Dickman (pilot)…

On a September day in 1952 near Lake Charles, Louisiana, a witness reported seeing an unidentified object. The sighting occurred around 7:30 to 7:35 a.m. The observer was outdoors…

On the morning of August 9, 1952, an airman stationed at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana saw an unusual flying object while walking to work. The object appeared to be sphe…

At approximately 0130 hours on September 6, 1952, a T/Sergeant stationed at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana observed an unusual object in the sky northeast of the base. Th…

On October 6, 1952, around 2120 (9:20 p.m.) Central Standard Time, three Air Force mechanics working on the flight line at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana spotted an unusu…

On April 7, 1952, a military officer on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada, with his wife and a friend spotted a large silver object in the sky. The object appeared between 0200 a…

On the night of August 1, 1952, sheriff's deputies in the Lancaster and Leona Valley areas of California observed two brilliant red lights hovering in the southern sky. The objects…

On the night of July 19-20, 1952, two lights were observed moving across the sky near Lavalette, New Jersey, by a group of civilians on a boat in the area. At approximately 12:20 a…

# Leveland, Texas, August 1952 On August 24, 1952, between 9:30 p.m. and midnight, two unidentified flying objects were sighted near Leveland, Texas. The objects were spherical in…

On August 5, 1952, a commercial pilot and crew members sighted a formation of three flying disc-shaped objects over Lima, Peru at approximately 3 p.m. The objects hovered at high s…

On the morning of May 21, 1952, a spherical glass object struck a mailbox at a home in Lombard, Illinois. The impact happened around 5:30 a.m. and dented the rounded corner of the…

On August 31, 1952, between 4 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. PDT, a small light colored red, blue, and white was sighted near Loomis, California. The object moved up and down and emitted no so…

On the night of December 30, 1952, a security inspector with the Atomic Energy Commission was standing on the sidewalk in front of his home in the residential section of Los Alamos…