Project Blue Book Case Files

On the night of October 8, 1954, a civilian in Imperial, Illinois saw a bright object streak across the sky. The witness described it as round, about the size of a fifty-cent piece…

On June 15, 1954, in the evening near Indialantic and Vero Beach, Florida, military and civilian witnesses reported lights. One civilian saw an intense white beam, brighter than a…

On June 25, 1954, at 1705 Eastern Daylight Time (5:05 p.m.), a civilian witness near Indian Lake, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified aerial object. The observer was outdoors in o…

On the night of September 20, 1954, amateur astronomers reported objects in the sky over Ionia, Michigan. The two civilian witnesses told civil defense officials what they saw, and…

On October 1, 1954, a civilian witness on the Island of Terceira in the Azores observed one object for four to five minutes. The object was described as a stove pipe with a bulge i…

On April 25, 1954, at 2:30 p.m., military personnel at Kadena Air Force Base in Okinawa observed an unidentified object for 5 seconds from the ground. The object was described as b…

On August 7, 1954, a lieutenant stationed at Kaiserslautern, Germany saw an unusual object through a window while looking up at the sky. The object appeared to change shape as he w…

On May 23, 1954, a civilian in Kansas City, Missouri reported seeing two shimmering objects moving in a westerly direction. The sighting lasted four minutes. No sound was heard. Th…

On April 12, 1954, around 0135 (about 1:35 a.m.) in Kansas City, Missouri, a civilian reported a single object. The witness watched it for about 20 minutes from the ground. The obj…

On October 1, 1954, a civilian in Karachi, Pakistan reported sighting a ball of fire. The report was based on an article that appeared in the Karachi Newspaper on October 29, 1954.…

On the night of February 27, 1954, three airmen at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The witnesses were Joseph D. Johnson (Airman…

On 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,…

On the evening of September 27, 1954, a civilian employee of the Marine Corps in Kensington, Maryland, spotted an unusual yellowish amber light in the sky through a screened window…

On October 1, 1954, at 1:30 p.m. in Kew Gardens, New York, a civilian observer reported seeing one circular, blue object through a telescope and compass. The object stood still for…

On February 8, 1954, at 9:01 a.m., a Pan Am Airlines flight crew near Key West, Florida reported an unidentified object in flight. The object was observed at 20,000 feet, traveling…

Between 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…

On the morning of September 18, 1954, military personnel at Kimpo Air Base in Korea spotted a bright, round object in the sky. The object appeared to shine like polished aluminum r…

On October 1, 1954, in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, a civilian observer reported fifty objects in the sky. The objects were observed on three separate occasions, flying in a V-shaped form…

On June 30, 1954, a British Overseas Airways Corporation pilot named Captain J.R. Howard was flying a Stratocruiser across the Atlantic near Labrador when he spotted something unus…

In August 1954, someone found a mysterious metal object in an abandoned gravel pit near Lafayette, Indiana. The object was about 3 inches high, 4 inches long, and 2 inches wide. It…

On December 21, 1954, a civilian near La Habra, California, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about two hours. The object moved toward the northeast. The object…

On the evening of August 17, 1954, several people reported a glowing object over the Hampton and Newport News area of Virginia. The witnesses included two newspapermen, two other c…

# Summary On May 23, 1954, a civilian in La Porte, Indiana saw a bright yellow light moving across the sky for about 45 seconds. The object climbed from the northwest toward the n…

On May 30 and 31, 1954, near Larson Air Force Base and the city of Moses Lake, Washington, several witnesses, including military personnel and a civilian, reported objects at night…

On a clear January night in 1954, a trained observer at White Sands Proving Ground in Las Cruces, New Mexico saw a bright light that pulsed in a regular pattern. The observer was p…

On September 18, 1954, pilots and ground observers in New Mexico and Oklahoma witnessed a bright white object leaving a visible vapor trail that persisted for approximately thirty…

On September 7, 1954, in Las Vegas, Nevada, a military observer reported a sighting lasting less than one minute. The object had a rounded nose and came to a point at the tail. It…

On May 30, 1954, at about 4:46 p.m. local time near Las Vegas, Nevada, two Air Force pilots in a C-47 on a cross-country flight reported one object for about 10 seconds. They descr…

On January 10, 1954, a spherical object was seen over Las Vegas, Nevada. The witness was a civilian rancher who noticed the object while tending livestock. He described one white o…

The OCR text on pages 5 through 7 is too heavily degraded to reliably extract the substantive details of this case. While the cover page and early forms indicate a sighting near Le…

On the night of July 8, 1954, civilian witnesses aboard a moving train near Lock, Nevada, saw a round object about the size of a grapefruit. The sighting lasted about 7 minutes. Th…

On the night of September 27, 1954, a civilian reported an object over Loudonville, Ohio. The witness, an employee of a local company, watched the object from his car while driving…

On July 3, 1954, in Long Beach, California, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, red object with no trail, apparently revolving in flight. The object passed over the obse…

In 1954, a round object was reported over Long Beach, California. The sighting was made from the ground during the day. There was one object, and it moved to the south. The report…

On December 2, 1954, a civilian near Long Beach, California, reported two objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The objects moved toward the west. The object…

On October 1, 1954, a civilian in Long Beach, California reported observing one round and oblong bright white object with no sound. The object was heading northeast at 15,000 to 20…

On February 25, 1954, two round objects were reported over Long Island, Kentucky. The sighting was made by air visual observation and lasted about 40 to 60 seconds. A second witnes…

On July 30, 1954, two civilian test pilots flying a B-25 about 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles, California, sighted a strange object. Both pilots saw it at the same time at about…

On the afternoon of Friday, November 12, 1954, people across Louisville, Kentucky, and surrounding areas looked up to see a gleaming white object hanging motionless at an estimated…

On July 9, 1954, military and civilian witnesses near Lowry Air Force Base in Denver, Colorado, reported shining specks high in the sky. The sighting lasted about 35 minutes. Witne…

On September 2, 1954, a bright light was reported over Machinato, Okinawa. The report came from civilian and military sources. The object was round and gave off a brilliant light.…

On June 22 or 23, 1954, a civilian woman near Madeira, Ohio, watched an object she thought was the same as one reported in newspapers from a Columbus sighting. She saw it at about…

On January 15, 1954, two separate objects were reported in South Australia, and both were forwarded to United States Air Force intelligence. The reports were handled under Project…

On June 8, 1954, at night near Manassas, Virginia, a civilian reported one object for about six minutes. It was round, like a coffee saucer, and yellow. The object first appeared s…

On July 9, 1954, a military witness aboard an aircraft near Manston, England, saw a round white object through the aircraft window. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. The object…

On October 11, 1954, near Marloboro, Maryland, a civilian observer reported seeing one object for ten minutes. The object appeared to be the size of a baseball, yellow in color, ch…

On September 22, 1954, two employees of the Webster Gas Company were driving near Marshfield, Missouri when they witnessed an unusual object in the sky. The men were returning from…

On October 22, 1954, students and teachers at Jerome Elementary School in Marysville, Ohio, saw what they described as a bright, shiny, cigar-shaped object in the afternoon sky. Af…

On the night of August 11, 1954, personnel at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama watched a bright object move across the sky and change colors for about 35 minutes. The object start…

On January 1, 1954, at about 12:15 a.m. GMT near Melbourne, Australia, a civilian airline pilot reported one object. The pilot saw it from his house in a suburb of Melbourne. The o…

On the night of June 13, 1954, a ground witness near Memphis, Tennessee, saw a glowing object in the sky north of the city. The sighting lasted 15 to 20 minutes. The object had an…

On the afternoon of October 28, 1954, a military aircraft mechanic at Merced Country Club was playing golf when he heard a loud jet noise and spotted an unusual object in the sky.…

On November 30, 1954, a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky over the southeastern United States. Multiple observers in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and Alabama saw the fla…

On July 23, 1954, a civilian in Miami, Florida reported observing a circular object with a flat bottom. The object was initially red with yellowish edges. It made a sound and moved…

On October 23, 1954, two people in different locations in Ohio saw what the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation would later label an unidentified object. One witness was in…

On April 26, 1954, an aluminum sphere about the size of a beach ball fell to earth near RAF Station Mildenhall in England. The object was hollow, weighed only six ounces, and measu…

On July 23, 1954, at 2:40 p.m., a silver circular or spherical object was sighted in the sky near Milford, Ohio. The object was observed at approximately 45 degrees elevation in th…

On January 8, 1954, at about an evening hour near Millbrook, Alabama, civilians reported one object. The witnesses, a husband and wife, saw it between Millbrook and Prattville. The…

In November 1954, a civilian near Millville, New Jersey, reported objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about three minutes. The objects moved toward the north. The objects were…

In 1954, a moving light was reported over Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The witness was a civilian, and the sighting was made from the ground and filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's…