Project Blue Book Case Files

On December 3, 1953, radar personnel at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico detected four objects on ground radar. The objects appeared in a line, equally spaced, and moved east…

On January 16, 1953, at about 6:30 a.m., a U.S. Navy yeoman saw an object while driving on a highway near Honolulu, Hawaii. The witness was a Yeoman Third Class assigned to Pearl H…

On January 23, 1953, at 11:45 p.m., a military observer near Tachikawa Air Base in Honshu, Japan, reported an unidentified flying object. One object was observed for two seconds. T…

On the night of March 31, 1953, Major Eugene S. Williams was flying an F-84 jet fighter at 30,000 feet over central Honshu, Japan, when he spotted something unusual in the sky. The…

On January 10, 1953, at 11:02 a.m., a ground observer named Mr. J.L. Rittenhouse reported sighting a slow, fan-shaped object flying southwest of his home in Hopkins, Minnesota. Rit…

On January 29, 1953, two pilots and a radar observer in F-84 fighter jets spotted a gray, saucer-shaped object near Houlton, Maine. The object appeared roughly the size of a dime a…

On 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…

On December 15, 1953, at about 10:10 a.m. local time near Idaho Falls, Idaho, civilian observers reported a light. The witnesses included a guard captain and an inspector at a chem…

On the evening of November 2, 1953, a New York City police officer riding a bus from Idlewild Airport spotted six unidentified objects hovering over the airport. The man reported s…

On November 25, 1953, near Indianapolis, Indiana, a Regina Airlines pilot reported an unidentified object. The pilot saw a brightly lit object with amber and white coloring. The ob…

On May 16, 1953, about 1810 (6:10 p.m.) Pacific time, civilians at the Naval Air Facility in Inyokern, California, saw flying objects. The report came from a base employee. The wi…

On August 20, 1953, a civil aviation employee in Jamestown, North Dakota, observed an unidentified object in the evening sky. The witness described the object as looking like a lar…

On September 3, 1953, about 2300 (11:00 p.m.) local time, civilians saw an object from a beach at Jones Beach State Park, New York. The witnesses were a man and his wife standing a…

On the afternoon of May 21, 1953, an Air Force enlisted man in Kansas City, Missouri, heard a loud sound in the sky and stepped outside to investigate. Looking upward, he spotted t…

On February 3, 1953, radar operators at Keflavik Airport in Iceland detected four unidentified objects on their radar scopes. The objects appeared at various distances and bearings…

On November 27, 1953, at about 6:30 p.m. local time near Keflavik Airport, Iceland, two military pilots reported one object. The sighting was made from a C-47 aircraft. The pilot,…

On March 24, 1953, at 1329 (1:29 p.m., use of the Z time group), a civilian reported an object near Borstall, Kent, England. The report was sent by a U.S. Air Force fighter wing. O…

On the evening of June 19, 1953, three people fishing from a small boat near Key West, Florida saw something bright and unusual streak across the twilight sky. The main witness was…

On the night of July 24, 1953, a Navy student at Key West watched an object move rapidly across the sky. It appeared as bright as a star and roughly the same size. Beginning in the…

In July 1953, a witness near Key West, Florida, reported an object in the night sky. The report was made on the Air Force technical information sheet. The object appeared low abov…

On February 7, 1953, around 3 a.m., four people at King Salmon Airport in Alaska saw a strange light in the sky to the west of the airfield. The group included one U.S. Air Force o…

On February 26, 1953, an Army officer driving west on U.S. Route 1 near Kingsville, Maryland saw an unusual glowing object in the northeast sky. The object was bright, about forty…

On the evening of April 28, 1953, a civilian observer in Klamath Falls, Oregon watched a bright white object streak across the sky for about five seconds. The object appeared round…

On 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…

On August 12, 1953, near Leesburg, Virginia, two observers reported seeing an unidentified object. The sighting lasted 5 to 10 seconds. The object was described as a light or orb t…

On July 19, 1953, civilian airline personnel on the ground at La Grande, Oregon, and a Navy pilot in the air both observed an unidentified object at high altitude. The sighting las…

Three civilians in Lake Charles, Louisiana reported seeing an unidentified object in the night sky on September 28, 1953, at approximately 2100 (9 p.m.). The sighting lasted from r…

On February 12, 1953, at about 0600 (6:00 a.m.) Central time, an unidentified object was seen over Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana. The witnesses were Air Force crew membe…

On February 4, 1953, near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported sighting an unidentified flying object about 14 miles west of Lancaster. The object was described as approxim…

On January 28, 1953, approximately 60 military and civilian personnel at Larson Air Force Base near Moses Lake, Washington observed an unidentified flying object. The sighting bega…

On a clear, windy night in February 1953, two observers near Laurel, Montana reported seeing a strange object moving slowly across the sky. One man spotted it first around 11:04 p.…

On September 22, 1953, about 2055 (8:55 p.m.), a military officer and civilians saw an object over Lawton, Oklahoma. The witness was an Army captain, along with several unidentifie…

In August 1953, a woman in Lewisdale, Maryland reported seeing a mysterious round white light moving across the night sky on multiple occasions. According to her account, the objec…

On the evening of October 31, 1953, a couple near Logansville, Ohio saw a bright, moving object in the night sky. The husband noticed it first and called his wife outside to look.…

On May 20, 1953, a man in Los Angeles reported seeing a white stone roughly the size of a football descend toward him from the sky. The object came to rest about five feet above hi…

On the evening of October 19, 1953, four airmen at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado reported seeing an unidentified bright object moving across the sky. The witnesses were statione…

On March 3, 1953, Captain Roderick D. Thompson was leading a flight of three F-84 fighter jets on a simulated combat mission near Luke Air Force Base in Arizona when he and his fel…

On March 30, 1953, a civilian observer in Lyle, Washington saw a bright object moving through the sky at 1505 PST (3:05 p.m.). The observer watched the object move southward from t…

On December 28, 1953, at about 12:35 a.m. local time near Madison, Connecticut, one observer reported an object. It was watched for about 30 seconds at an angle of about 30 degrees…

On August 15, 1953, about 2045 (8:45 p.m.) Central time, civilians saw an object near Janesville and Madison, Wisconsin. The witnesses were a husband and wife driving north on a hi…

On January 29, 1953, Lieutenant Commander Rex Hardy Jr., a Navy pilot with approximately 5,248 hours of flying time, was piloting a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft near Malibu Beac…

On November 17, 1953, a pilot and amateur astronomer spotted a silver, disk-shaped object in the sky near Manitowoc, Wisconsin. The witness, who had been flying since 1922 and held…

On November 20, 1953, at about 3:30 a.m. near Marietta, Ohio, three civilians reported one object. They were driving west on US Route Alternate 50, about ten miles west of Marietta…

On March 28, 1953, at about 1430 (2:30 p.m.) Central time, a civilian reported an object near Mascoutah, Illinois, while driving east on Highway 15 about five miles east of town. T…

On February 4, 1953, at about 9:45 p.m., military personnel saw two objects over Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. The main witness was an Air Force captain, and the s…

On the night of October 26, 1953, the co-pilot of a National Airlines flight saw something unusual in the sky near Melbourne, Florida. At 6:35 p.m., while flying at 18,000 feet abo…

On December 31, 1953, at about 7 p.m. local time near Miami, Florida, a civilian pilot reported one object. The sighting was made from an aircraft in flight at about 6,500 feet, he…

On July 3, 1953, around 3:15 to 3:30 p.m., two civilian witnesses in Middletown, New York spotted an unusual object from Fancher Davidge Park on the north side of town. The witness…

Three research engineers employed by General Mills Aeronautical Laboratories in Minneapolis observed an unidentified object on October 15, 1953, while tracking a weather balloon ov…

# Minneapolis UFO Sighting, November 1953 On the night of November 30, 1953, three witnesses in Minneapolis reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The sighting began…

On February 12, 1953, at about 10:32 p.m. local time, an observer reported a light near Nemuro, in northern Japan, in a report from an aircraft control and warning squadron near Mi…

On February 10, 1953, at about 6:45 p.m. local time, radar operators tracked unidentified targets near Misawa Air Force Base, Japan. The report came from the commanding officer of…

On January 9, 1953, at Misawa Air Base in Japan, an Air Force pilot observed a light that continuously changed color from red to white to green. No aerodynamic features or means of…

On the evening of March 1, 1953, two U.S. Air Force servicemembers stationed at Misawa and Northwest Hokkaido, Japan spotted an unusual bright object in the sky. Radar Operator Gor…

On January 28, 1953, at around 10:35 p.m., several residents of Long Island, New York, and one observer in Pennsylvania witnessed a bright, fireball-shaped object traveling from no…

On September 3, 1953, a newspaper photographer in Modesto, California set up a camera on the roof of the newspaper building after seeing an unusual yellowish-white light near the a…

On March 27, 1953, near Mt Taylor, New Mexico, military personnel observed one circular object. The sighting lasted four minutes. The object was bright orange and did not change or…

A resident of Mt. Vernon, New York reported seeing a bright, ringed object through a telescope during the summer of 1953 around 5 p.m. The witness observed the object for about thr…

In the summer of 1953, a man employed by the U.S. Post Office in Tulsa, Oklahoma took a photograph of an unidentified flying object near Muskogee. He had been walking near a restau…

On 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…