Project Blue Book Case Files

On December 26, 1956, both civilian and military witnesses near DeFuniak Springs, Florida, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's offici…

On August 4, 1956, a civilian about six miles southwest of Fargo, near Delamero, North Dakota, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1726Z and lasted about forty-f…

On November 14, 1956, a civilian saw four objects over Delano, California. The report came from a ground observer post. The objects were watched for one to two minutes. The witnes…

On the evening of December 31, 1956, a resident of Denver, Colorado watched two round objects in the night sky through binoculars and a telescope. Both objects were tiny, about the…

On August 21, 1956, at about 11:50 a.m., a civilian in Denver, Colorado observed one object in the sky. The object was oval or shaped like a coffee saucer and appeared white. At fi…

On September 1, 1956, a civilian in Denver, Colorado, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0310Z and lasted about one hour and ten minutes. The witness described…

On October 4, 1956, a civilian near Denver, Colorado reported one round, red object about the size of a pen held at arm's length. The object was seen to the west of the observer at…

On November 9, 1956, around 2 a.m., a military observer near Destin, Florida sighted one long narrow-shaped object. The object appeared as large as or larger than a B-36 bomber. It…

On August 27, 1956, at 8:02 p.m., a civilian in Detroit, Michigan reported observing a round, baseball-sized object that was yellow-white in color. The witness was walking in a yar…

On August 19, 1956, a civilian in Donora, Pennsylvania, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0340Z (night) and lasted about one hour and thirty-five minutes, exce…

On September 6, 1955, a civilian in Dorchester, Massachusetts reported a round object seen for about five minutes. The OCR of the description is unclear, but the object was watched…

On August 1, 1956, at 12:06 a.m. local time, a civilian housewife in East Danville, Illinois reported seeing a bright glowing object with a red hue. The object was described as bas…

On March 24, 1956, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member at East Gary, Indiana, reported three objects. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record f…

On September 19, 1956, near dawn, a military observer in East Rochester, New Hampshire reported four circular white objects about the size of a penny held at arm's length. The obje…

On August 1, 1956, at 8:05 p.m., a civilian observer in Eaton, Ohio reported a bright orange light that was stationary and observed for five minutes. The light was positioned 110 d…

On September 21, 1956, a civilian in Ellwood, Pennsylvania reported seeing a cube-shaped object about three feet square at an estimated 3,000 feet altitude. The object moved up and…

On January 18, 1956, a control tower operator at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska, saw a strange object in the night sky. The Greenwich time was 0442Z on January 19. The observer w…

On the night of November 11 and into the morning of November 12, 1956, radar operators and pilots at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in California tracked a series of unidentified…

On the evening of June 13, 1956, someone in the Encanto neighborhood of La Mesa, California saw an unusual glowing object in the sky. The observer reported the object as oval in sh…

On October 28, 1956, a fourteen-year-old boy in Englewood, Ohio, observed a solid pink object in the western sky at twilight. The boy estimated the object to be about 50 miles away…

On July 6, 1956, in Euclid, Ohio, a spherical object described as large and white in color was observed by civilian and military witnesses. The object appeared to be revolving slow…

On July 5, 1956, near Fairbanks, Alaska, civilian observers reported one object at about 11:07 a.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for 30 minut…

On December 29, 1956, three observers near Fairbanks, Alaska, reported a single object. The witnesses included a control tower operator and two airline pilots. The case was logged…

On October 12, 1956, a witness in Fairview, New Jersey saw one reddish and orange object with jagged edges. It looked about the size of the head of a pin at arm's length and seemed…

On August 6, 1956, at 5:21 a.m. GMT, military observers at Fallon Navy Station, Nevada, reported a white and silver object with a distinctive shape. The object had knobs on its sur…

On the night of October 15-16, 1956, a resident of Fernley, Nevada saw a bright, cigar-shaped object in the sky. The observer watched it through binoculars for 40 to 45 minutes as…

On September 5, 1956, a civilian in Flint, Michigan reported observing one object at 5:40 a.m. local time. The object had a triangular to umbrella shape, was about the size of a ba…

On March 17, 1956, prisoners on Ground Observer Corps duty at Folsom Prison, California, reported one object. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official reco…

On August 22, 1956, a civilian in Fountain, Colorado, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1050Z and lasted about thirty-five minutes. It disappeared after sunris…

On the evening of November 16, 1956, a 14-year-old boy in Fox River Grove, Illinois reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The boy watched for 73 minutes as the object chang…

On March 3, 1956, a civilian near Fredrick, Oklahoma, reported a group of lights in the night sky. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for uni…

On September 23, 1956, an observer near Freeport, Michigan reported one object with a round shape about the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length. Its color ranged from silv…

In August 1956, a resident of Fresno, California reported seeing an unusual flying object to local authorities. The witness described a gray, saucer-shaped object that moved slowly…

# Summary On the evening of September 24, 1956, a witness in Fort Collins, Colorado saw an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round, about the size of a baseball, and…

On February 27, 1956, a civilian observer in Fort Pierce, Florida reported seeing one bright object during a 30-minute observation. The object was round and sometimes cigar-shaped,…

On February 8, 1956, a Ground Observer Corps spotter on duty in the Ft. Pierce and Lutz, Florida area watched an unidentified object for about 15 minutes. The object appeared as a…

On October 14, 1956, around 1:30 p.m., a witness in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky saw one object low in the northeast sky. It was about the size of a nickel at arm's length and gun metal gr…

On the night of December 31, 1956, a U.S. Air Force pilot in an F-86D interceptor jet spotted an unusual object over Guam while flying at about 20,000 feet. The pilot, a First Lieu…

On November 9, 1956, at 12:09 a.m., a civilian in Glen Avon, California reported seeing a long red object about the size of a dime held at arm's length. The object hovered in one s…

On the evening of March 9, 1956, a family in Glen Ridge, New Jersey reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. A woman in the household, described by the Air Force as someone de…

On the night of February 12, 1956, a person in Glenwood, Iowa reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The witness described them as two round, silver balls stacked on top of ea…

On February 13, 1956, two F-85D fighter jets were flying a routine training mission about 49 miles southeast of Goose Bay, Labrador. One pilot saw a glowing object that quickly cir…

On March 23, 1956, military aircrew reported one object near Goose Bay, Labrador. The pilot, co-pilot, and an observer aboard a flight saw it. The report was filed under Project 10…

On August 7, 1956, a civilian in Gower, Missouri reported observing one large, plane-shaped object. The object was red or orange in color and resembled a large aircraft approximate…

On the night of March 4, 1956, six observers in and around Graham, North Carolina, watched a bright object move slowly across the southern sky for ten to forty minutes. What they s…

On February 18, 1956, a ground observer near Grand Marais, Minnesota, reported an unidentified object at dusk. The sighting came through Project 10073, the Air Force's official rec…

On April 27, 1956, a civilian at Greensboro, North Carolina, reported three objects at about 9:20 p.m. The report came in by letter and was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force…

On July 14, 1956, a witness in Greenwood Lake, New York, reported seeing unidentified flying objects twice in a single day. He first spotted the object around 4:30 p.m. (1630 hours…

On September 23, 1956, a civilian in Hamilton, Ohio reported observing one object that appeared and faded like a star in continuous observation. The object was described as having…

On December 13, 1956, at 2:43 p.m. local time, a military observer at Hamilton Air Force Base in California sighted one spherical object of unknown size. The object emitted an inte…

# Hampton-Sydney College UFO Sighting, February 22, 1956 Six college students at Hampton-Sydney College in Virginia reported seeing an unusual glowing object in the night sky on F…

On September 28, 1956, a civilian near Hancock, Maine reported one object that was long and tapered, about one foot long as seen from a distance. It had a red and yellow glow. The…

On September 26, 1956, a civilian near Hanover, Kansas reported a bright light larger than a star but smaller than the moon. The card lists the time group as 0104Z. The Air Force…

Starting in late January 1956 and again on February 10 and 13, a witness near Harrisonville, Missouri, reported a strange object in the sky. The Greenwich time for the later report…

On the morning of April 6, 1956, an FBI employee and her fiance were driving north on Route 1 near Henderson, North Carolina, just before dawn when an unusual object suddenly appea…

On September 3, 1956, observers at Henderson Harbor, New York reported a circular, sphere shaped object. It was red on the inside and green on the outside. The object was first see…

On September 14, 1956, observers near Highland, North Carolina reported fourteen round objects the size of grapefruit. The colors ranged from yellow to deep red. The objects seemed…

On July 23, 1956, in Hollywood, California, one observer reported seeing a circular object the size of a dime. The object was light green in color and moved very fast at approximat…

On November 5, 1956, in Hollywood, California, a civilian observer reported seeing one triangular-shaped gray and black object about the size of a jet plane. The object traveled so…

On May 6, 1956, a civilian in Hollywood, California reported seeing one unidentified object. The object was described as the size of a dime, colored blue and white. It disappeared…