Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 10, 1958, a civilian in Green Castle, Indiana, reported seeing two silver objects flying together in formation. The witness described them as roughly the size of a mediu…

On October 9, 1958, at 7:40 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, three men were stuck in a pickup truck on a remote road near the Green River Lakes area in northwestern Wyoming when they s…

In April 1958, a resident of Greens Fork, Indiana contacted the U.S. Air Force about rock fragments he believed were remnants of a meteor strike. Over several letters written betwe…

On October 15, 1958, a civilian at Greenwood Lake, New Jersey reported seeing an orange, star-shaped object about the size of a pinpoint traveling south to north in a wavering fash…

On July 20, 1958, at 9:00 p.m., a civilian in Gryder Buff, New York reported seeing five objects that were yellow and orange in color. Two were large and three were small. The obje…

On the evening of April 13, 1958, a driver near Hamilton, Ontario, Canada saw a brilliant object light up the sky as he was traveling at 50 miles per hour. The object was blue-whit…

On the night of February 25, 1958, a civilian aeronautical engineer working at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton, Virginia, witnessed two separate sightings of unusual lights in qu…

On February 19, 1958, radar operators at a U.S. Air Force site in Hokkaido, Japan, detected an unusual radar return over the Sea of Japan, approximately 80 nautical miles off the R…

On March 6, 1958, at 9:52 p.m., an airdrome officer at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico called a tower operator's attention to an object in the sky. The witness described a sp…

On the night of October 10, 1958, a civilian missile engineer reported an object near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in the Alamogordo area. He viewed it through binoculars f…

On the night of January 3, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian and his wife reported a single star-like object low in the northwestern sky. They saw it slowly descending near a bri…

On the night of January 14, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian reported four oval-shaped objects in the night sky. He was in his backyard about 10:30 p.m. using a telescope. He sa…

On September 29, 1958, a civilian doctor in Houston, Texas, reported a bright object in the sky. He had gone to his back yard to feed his dogs when he noticed it. A second person a…

On May 26, 1958, at 8:34 p.m., a civilian in Hubbard, Ohio reported seeing a round orange object traveling at 600 knots at 5,000 feet. The object moved from southeast to northwest.…

On September 15, 1958, two color slides were taken near Huerfano Mesa, New Mexico, by a civilian. The photos showed a rainbow-like object in the sky. The case is part of Project 10…

On the evening of January 2, 1958, in Huntsville, Alabama, two civilians reported a single bright object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 2 seconds. They described a very brig…

On September 22, 1958, at 6:03 p.m., a witness in Indianapolis, Indiana observed a round, multi-colored object the size of grapefruit in the east-northeast sky. The object appeared…

On April 11, 1958, near Indio, California, a civilian witness reported seeing a round, red object that appeared to fall and explode. The witness was outside loading an automobile w…

In March 1958, fishermen off the coast of Taichung, Taiwan found an unidentified object in the sea and handed it over to the Chinese Nationalist Air Force. The object was then loan…

On April 15, 1958, a woman near Broager in southern Jutland, Denmark reported seeing a large black object flying low overhead. She described it as a "spaceship" with a white and ye…

On March 10, 1958, in Kalamazoo, Michigan, a witness observed an object at 40 degrees in the northwest sky. The object moved from 20 degrees to 20 degrees west in 30 seconds. It th…

On the evening of August 21, 1958, a man and woman standing in their yard in Kansas City, Kansas, witnessed a series of bright flashes moving across the night sky. The man, an arti…

On June 4, 1958, a civilian in Kansas City, Missouri reported seeing a small to large circular object that moved erratically and then disappeared behind trees. The sighting lasted…

On October 21, 1958, at 5:55 p.m. local time, two military pilots saw a glowing object in the sky near Karlsruhe, Germany. The main observer was a flight commander flying an F-100…

In April 1958, four Air Force pilots flying F-86 Sabre jets from Turner Air Force Base in Georgia spotted an unusual object during a nighttime training flight. The sighting occurre…

This case is from Kettering, Ohio in 1958. A civilian witness reported a flashing object with a dim green light, seen at night. The record card is badly damaged by poor scanning, s…

On September 23, 1958, at Kindley Air Force Base, Bermuda, an airman on control tower duty reported sighting a reddish light within 10 miles of the airport at an altitude of approx…

On May 17, 1958, near Kisalon on Mindanao in the Philippines, a civilian, a Catholic priest, reported a single object in the night sky. The sighting lasted less than one minute. Th…

On June 22, 1958, Major General Carl A. Brandt, the Vice Commander of Air Transport Command, sighted an unidentified object while flying in a T-29 military transport plane over Ten…

On the evening of October 21, 1958, people in the Korrville-Valverde area of Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received two separate sightings from th…

On March 1, 1958, off Kunashiri Island, Japan, fishermen reported two luminous objects in the night sky. At 8:34 p.m. they saw a glowing body that disappeared after about 10 minute…

On December 1, 1958, military observers at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska, reported a brief object in the morning sky. A pilot acting as intelligence officer made the report. The obj…

In October 1958, several witnesses near Put In Bay, Ohio, on Lake Erie reported seeing an unusual object in the sky over the course of several weeks. The object appeared as a round…

On the night of February 22, 1958, observers in Minnesota and Wisconsin reported seeing a bright, falling object streaking across the sky. One witness claimed the object impacted L…

On September 14, 1958 (15/0310Z), a civilian observer in Lakewood, Ohio, near Cleveland, reported an unidentified flying object at night. The witness, who was looking at the stars,…

On October 11, 1958, the AN/FPS-17 radar at the Laredo Test Site in Laredo, Texas detected a mysterious target while searching for the Russian satellite Sputnik 3. The radar captur…

On July 25, 1958, a leading astronomer near Las Cruces, New Mexico, reported an extremely bright object at 8:27 p.m. Mountain Time. He described an object far brighter than any pla…

On the evening of January 3, 1958, two schoolteachers driving on Louisiana highways near LeCompte and Forest Hill saw an oval-shaped object with four glowing pointed rays extending…

On the evening of December 14, 1958, a man in Levittown, New York, was taking family photographs on his front lawn when he noticed an unusual glowing light to the east around 4 p.m…

On August 26, 1958, in Lexington, Kentucky, witnesses spotted a cigar-shaped object with a copper color at 6:15 p.m. local time. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes, and two objec…

In February 1958, observers in Lexington, Kentucky reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. According to the Air Force case file, there were at least three separate sightings de…

On July 11, 1958, a woman in Lincoln, Nebraska filmed what she believed was an unidentified flying object. She shot the footage on a Brownie camera in bright sunlight, though she c…

On December 11, 1958, at about 9:12 p.m., a military observer in the southeast part of Lincoln, Nebraska, reported a bright object. The witness was a captain and rated Air Force na…

On December 6, 1958, a military weather observer at the control tower at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, reported a falling object. The observer was already looking in the di…

On November 15-17, 1958, a resident of Loa, Utah observed a cylindrical object in the southwestern sky during daytime. The object circled overhead for about ten minutes or longer a…

On October 31, 1958, two people in Long Beach, New York saw unusual objects in the evening sky. The first object was round and yellow, appearing almost directly overhead. The secon…

On the evening of August 13, 1958, a civilian observer in Ponca City, Oklahoma watched a bright orange object streak across the night sky. The man, described as a calm and reliable…

On September 10, 1958, at 11:02 p.m. local time, a civilian in Lovells, Michigan reported sighting one object in the sky. The object was round and white, slightly larger than a sta…

On April 3, 1958, shortly after sunset near Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado, two experienced Air Force officers spotted an unusual object moving smoothly across the northwestern s…

In April 1958, a Major with the U.S. Air Force spotted an unusual object while flying a C-47 transport plane near Lynchburg, Virginia. The Major was at the controls, traveling on a…

On August 12, 1958, at 12:09 a.m., civilians in Madras, Oregon reported seeing a large explosion followed by a bright flash and three falling objects with a light trail heading sou…

On the night of August 4, 1958, an airman on roving patrol at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness described it as shaped like a flying…

On the night of April 12, 1958, two nuns at Holy Family Convent near Manitowoc, Wisconsin reported seeing two mysterious lights in the sky. One was described as a large white light…

On January 4, 1958, at dawn, near Mankato, Kansas, a civilian and his wife reported a single object while driving on a highway. The sighting lasted several minutes, possibly five.…

On the night of May 9, 1958, a man in Marietta, Ohio reported seeing five lights in the sky moving from east to west near Parkersburg, West Virginia. He described four amber-white…

On June 3, 1958, between about 9:00 and 9:30 p.m., in Marshalltown, Iowa, an object struck the roof of a trailer home. A civilian reported that when it hit, it sounded like a loud…

On July 9, 1958, two observers near Massillon, Ohio, reported an unidentified flying object at about 11:21 p.m. local time. One witness was a civilian and one was a military ground…

On December 1, 1958, at about 4:37 p.m., three civilian engineers near Matawan, New Jersey, reported an object. The men worked for an industrial machine company. The object was und…

On April 1, 1958, in Miami, Florida, a civilian witness reported observing two objects. The first object was described as a green flare that hovered over Miami Beach for one second…

On July 17, 1958, a Miami police sergeant named Regan reported seeing a bright light in the sky at around 9:45 a.m. The object appeared about twenty times brighter than an ordinary…