Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of September 14, 1959, a resident of Maple Heights, Ohio, spotted an unusual object in the western sky around 7 p.m. The observer watched it for ten to fifteen minut…

On February 9 to 10, 1959, a civilian in Miami, Florida, reported lights in the night sky. The sighting was between about 11:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. local time (0430Z to 0530Z) and…

On May 1, 1959, a sighting was reported in Miami, Florida. At 11:30 a.m., a witness walking back to an apartment in Coconut Grove, a southern section of Miami, observed an object i…

On February 6, 1959, a military weather observer at Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, reported a light in the night sky. The sighting was about 6:25 p.m. local time (2325Z) and las…

In October 1959, two observers in Mobile, Alabama reported seeing an unusual object orbiting the moon over a period of more than a month. The object appeared roughly every six minu…

On the night of August 29, 1959, a motorist driving near Mobile Bay, Alabama saw a brilliant light streak across the sky. The light was bright enough to read a newspaper by. It tra…

On the night of November 5, 1959, a radar operator at Montauk Air Force Station on Long Island, New York, tracked an object on radar for about 10 minutes. The sighting was made by…

On April 12, 1959, an unidentified flying object was reported over the Montreal-Quebec area near coordinates 45 31 N - 73 25 W. The object was described as a red light that hovered…

On a July evening in 1959, members of a group at Mooseheart, Illinois saw a silvery disc-shaped object in the sky to the south, in the general direction of Aurora. The sighting occ…

On July 8, 1959, two men in Moraine, Ohio saw one object described as the burning tail section of an aircraft. The object moved toward the east. The sky was dark with no trace of d…

On the night of September 21, 1959, an object was seen both from the ground and from the air near Naha, Okinawa. Ground observers were in the control tower at Naha Air Base, and ai…

On July 2, 1959, near Needles, California, an aircraft crew reported objects in the sky around dusk. The witnesses were civilians. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's…

On the evening of July 5, 1959, a resident of New Albany, Mississippi saw an unusual object in the western sky. The object was reddish-silver in color and appeared motionless at fi…

In 1959, near New Church, Virginia, an observer reported several lights in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system. The…

On July 14, 1959, at about 9 p.m., a civilian in New Delhi, India, reported strange lights in the sky. The witness was a secretary at an embassy who later submitted the account in…

On May 19, 1959, at approximately 10:30 p.m., a witness in New Madison, Ohio observed a round haze of light with no definite shape while driving on Route 121 from Arcanum, Ohio. Th…

On the night of August 19, 1959, at around 3:45 a.m., a civilian witness at Upper Greenwood Lake in New Milford, New Jersey saw a bright light moving across the sky. The object app…

On July 21, 1959, in New Orleans, an observer reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system. The…

On an August evening in 1959, a New York City resident spotted a white object in the sky that resembled a bright, sparkling star. The witness described it as roughly the size of a…

# Summary On December 13, 1959, someone in New York City observed a round, silvery object in the sky for about two and a half minutes. The object appeared solid and moved from wes…

In July 1959, a visitor to Nitro, West Virginia reported seeing what he believed were two flying saucers. The witness described them as circular discs that gave off a luminous glow…

On January 16, 1959, civilian witnesses north of Deadwood, South Dakota, and at Mount Coolidge in Custer Park reported an object in the night sky. The sightings were about 6:30 p.m…

On October 19, 1959, two teenage boys near Poquoson, Virginia, reported seeing a glowing, circular object about four feet in diameter while they were hunting in a remote marsh area…

On the evening of March 16, 1959, a man and his family saw an unusual glowing object in the sky near Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk, Virginia. The man, his wife, and their…

On January 13, 1959, a civilian about 4 miles northeast of Norristown, Pennsylvania, reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting began about 4:55 p.m. local time (1655 EST)…

On the evening of September 24, 1959, multiple people across North Carolina and Virginia reported seeing a bright, unusual object moving across the sky. The witnesses described it…

In July 1959, a woman from Nelson, Nebraska wrote to the Air Force describing a sighting her husband and "several other" people had witnessed near Oak, Nebraska. Her husband had se…

On the night of February 13, 1959, a tower operator at Oak Harbor Naval Air Station in Whidbey Island, Washington, watched a bright green object emerge from the water around 2:50 p…

On the night of January 5, 1959, witnesses in Oakhurst, New Jersey saw eleven round white lights, each about the size of a baseball at arm's length. The lights traveled in single f…

On the night of November 1, 1959, several civilians, including state police officers, saw an object from the areas of Oakridge, Government Camp, and Eugene, Oregon. The sighting la…

On August 12, 1959, at night, an observer near Ocean Beach reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system…

In July 1959, multiple ships and observers across the Caribbean and near Jamaica reported seeing a bright, rocket-like object moving across the night sky. The sightings spanned sev…

On the night of March 2, 1959, multiple aircraft and ground observers spotted unusual objects over the northeastern United States. A Pan American Airlines dispatcher reported seein…

In May 1959, a photographer at O'Hara Air Force Base in Chicago captured a photograph during an Armed Forces Day air show held on May 17. The photographer reported seeing a streak…

On January 9, 1959, a civilian in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, reported dark spots in the sky. The man was an electronic technician. He watched the objects from sunrise to sunset (the…

On October 21, 1959, a 79-year-old civilian in Olcott, New York observed a small, round, silver object in the sky for five hours. The object looked to the observer like the head of…

On a January night in 1959, a man in Omaha, Nebraska happened to be looking out his kitchen window with binoculars when he spotted something unusual in the sky. The object appeared…

On March 10, 1959, near Oro Grande, California (about 5 miles northwest of Victorville), a civilian woman reported an unusual object in the night sky. The sighting happened around…

In September 1959, a person in Ottawa, Ohio reported watching a very bright object in the night sky. The object flickered and changed colors, shifting between rose, blue, green, an…

On February 20 to 21, 1959, a military pilot flying over Cincinnati, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was about 9 p.m. local time, near 0200Z to 0620Z, and t…

On October 19, 1959, a pilot flying near Plainville, Kansas spotted a bright light in the night sky. The light resembled a star the size of Venus and appeared to be heading directl…

On October 28, 1959, an object was watched for about seven hours near Ozona, Texas. Both civilians and military personnel observed it, from about 1300Z to 2000Z. They measured its…

On February 16, 1959, a resident of Palacios, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky around 2:40 a.m. The witness described a bright red object glowing with what he called a…

On June 2, 1959, a witness at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland saw a strange object in the sky. It was roughly 2:28 p.m. (in Eastern Daylight Time) when the observer, a…

On the night of May 15, 1959, a Philadelphia resident watching the sky from his home near the Pennsylvania Turnpike Bridge saw a bright orange object that looked like an inverted d…

On the evening of September 15, 1959, a civilian observer near Philadelphia reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The observer first spotted what he thought was a fal…

On September 15, 1959, Pittsburgh police investigated a loud explosion heard near Squirrel Hill in Frick Park. During their search, they found a yellow plastic cone-shaped object a…

On January 10, 1959, a civilian near Plymouth, North Carolina, reported an exploding object in the sky. The witness was a truck driver doing volunteer satellite watching duty. The…

On November 11, 1959, around 2:00 p.m., a Portland, Maine resident saw a round white object moving across the southern sky toward the north in broad daylight. The observer said the…

On July 10, 1959, near Potsdam, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing a streak of brilliant light around 8:30 p.m. while driving with a friend. The light resembled lightning…

On the night of October 22, 1959, a pilot flying a C-119 about 10 miles west of Prescott, Arizona, reported an object. The sighting was made from the air. The object was seen as a…

On New Year's Eve and New Year's Day 1953-1954, military sentries at Quantico Marine Base near Quantico, Virginia, reported seeing strange flashing red lights in the night sky. The…

On January 13, 1959, civilian witnesses in Greenland reported bright objects in the sky over several settlements, including Qutdligssat, Sarqaq, and Claushavn. The first sighting w…

On the night of October 4, 1959, two civilians driving in a car about two miles south of Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, saw a single object for about 25 minutes. One observer work…

On February 24, 1959, airline and airport witnesses over and near Rapid City, Michigan, reported a bright object in the early morning sky. The sighting was about 6:30 a.m. and last…

In July 1959, three witnesses in Red Devil, Alaska reported seeing an unidentified object. The sighting lasted about five minutes and was observed from the ground during daylight h…

On the morning of September 24, 1959, at 0400 local time, Robert Dickerson, a Redmond, Oregon police officer, spotted an extremely bright light very low on the northeastern horizon…

In May 1959, someone near Richey, Montana reported finding strips of shiny material in a field that resembled aluminum. The material was forwarded to the U.S. Air Force for analysi…

In September 1959, a resident of Ripley, West Virginia reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described an oblong shape that changed color from red to blue…

On a night in 1959 near Rockville, an object was reported by a family. A son first saw the object and then called his father and mother. The sighting was reported through the Air F…