Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 24, 1958, a civilian in Portland, Oregon, reported an unidentified flying object at about 9:30 p.m. (0529Z, July 25). The witness, a school custodian's helper, happened to…

On the morning of June 14, 1958, a weather observer at Pueblo, Colorado spotted an unusual object while tracking a pilot balloon with a theodolite (a surveying instrument used to m…

On June 9, 1958, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force was flying an F-102 interceptor at around 40,000 feet near Puget Sound, Washington, when he spotted an unusual object in t…

On July 14, 1958, at 12:30 a.m., a military observer at Pyongtaek Auxiliary Airfield in Korea reported a sighting. A round, white object about the size of a baseball appeared brigh…

On July 12, 1958, at 2:45 a.m., a control tower operator at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a single white object about the size of a pinhead through binoculars. The obje…

On August 4, 1958, several military observers at Rapid City, South Dakota, reported an unidentified flying object at 1624Z while watching aircraft. Witnesses, including housewives…

In December 1958, a civilian in Redlands, California, reported seeing an unidentified flying object, though the details of the sighting were unusual and problematic. The observer,…

Two U.S. Air Force airmen stationed on Resolution Island in northern Canada spotted an unusual light in the night sky on October 17, 1958. At around 12:15 a.m., Airman R.R. Kane an…

On August 26, 1958, a civilian woman in Ridgefield, Washington, reported an unidentified flying object at about dusk. She described a little round ball of fire, yellowish-white in…

On July 24, 1958, a streetcar driver in Riga reported an unidentified flying object at about 0030 (12:30 a.m.) local time. The witness was leaving the streetcar depot when a fellow…

In early January 1958, in River Forest, Illinois, a civilian woman reported filming an object on 8mm movie film. She was in her backyard around 1:00 to 1:30 a.m. taking pictures of…

On October 1, 1958, in Rockford, Michigan, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, silverish white object about the size of a golf ball that remained stationary. The observa…

In August 1958, residents of Rock Springs and Rawlins, Wyoming reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The sighting began early in the morning of August 1st. Ground obs…

On December 1, 1958, in Rockville Center, New York, a witness reported seeing a round, white and gray object with the size of a basketball and a defined outline. The observation wa…

On August 16, 1958, a witness at Roswell, New Mexico, reported an unidentified flying object at 0547Z (about night). The observer, described as a chief, saw a bright, intense flash…

On January 2, 1958, a civilian in Rushville, Illinois reported seeing one unidentified object at 1:33 a.m. The object was described as red and circular with no tail or exhaust, ver…

On May 11, 1958, in Saigon, Vietnam, military observers reported a single object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 2 seconds. The object was the size of the head of a pin…

On August 2, 1958, a man working in a tower at Salamanca, New York, reported seeing thousands of silver-colored objects falling from the sky at about 6:00 p.m. He described pieces…

On June 1, 1958, near 7:25 p.m. in Salt Lake City, Utah, a civilian observer in his back yard sighted an object described as bluish with a green glow, shaped like a saucer with a h…

On September 2, 1958, near San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing two unidentified objects. The first object rose vertically and appeared round with a brilliant sil…

On July 29, 1958, a civilian in San Antonio, Texas reported observing a round, flat object about the size of a basketball. The object hovered over South San Antonio and then headed…

On January 28, 1958, residents of San Bernardino, California saw a bright white light moving back and forth across the sky over their city. The light was described as round, about…

At 8:15 p.m. on March 27, 1958, a man driving near Saranac Lake, New York saw a very bright object descending steeply through the sky at low altitude, somewhere between 1,000 and 2…

On the night of January 2, 1958, six people at or near Scott Air Force Base in Illinois reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object in the sky. The observers were stationed at dif…

On September 28, 1958, a truck driver in Seaford, Long Island saw an unusual object in the night sky while standing outside his home. The object appeared at approximately 11:25 p.m…

On April 27, 1958, near Seminole, Texas, civilians reported three objects in the night sky. The sighting lasted less than one minute. The objects were egg-shaped, reddish-white, an…

In August 1958, a woman and her family observed an unusual object while driving in a car near Deering, New Hampshire. The object appeared reddish-orange in color and was shaped lik…

On November 18, 1958, near Shady Oaks, Louisiana, a civilian highway worker reported a light in the sky. The sighting lasted about 7 minutes. The location was near the village on t…

Early on the morning of September 21, 1958, a woman in Sheffield Lake, Ohio, woke to a bright light flooding her bedroom. When she looked out the window, she saw a flat, circular o…

On August 6, 1958, a civilian in Shrewsbury, New Jersey reported seeing a white object that was stationary in the sky. The object was observed for five minutes at dusk and then wen…

On October 22, 1958, a civilian in Soap Lake, Washington, reported a falling object in the sky. The witness worked as a factory service attendant. The object was round and reddish…

On about May 22, 1958, around 2:00 p.m., south of Nogales, Arizona, a civilian and his wife reported a single object falling from the sky. They were driving when they saw something…

On August 9, 1958 (10/0309Z), an airline pilot south of Roswell, New Mexico, reported an unidentified flying object from a C-46 aircraft at about 6,000 feet. The pilot described on…

On June 9, 1958, at 10:35 a.m. near South Bethpage, Long Island, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing a round object with a blue and white ring traveling at a very fast rat…

On March 11, 1958, two observers reported sighting an unidentified flying object over Springfield, Ohio. Major Huke from WPAFB called the Strategic Defense Operations office at 9:3…

On September 15, 1958, at 3:05 p.m., a civilian in St. Joseph, Michigan reported seeing one object. The object was round and the size of a baseball at arm's length. It was gold in…

On December 3, 1958, two reports came in from St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. A member of the Alaska National Guard at Savoonga heard a sound and saw a light. The case was handled und…

On the night of February 28, 1958, a U.S. Air Force weather observer on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, spotted a bright light in the sky. The observer, Airman David Juggan, was takin…

On August 1, 1958, at 9:05 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri, a civilian observer reported seeing a pinpoint of light that disappeared suddenly. The initial observation placed the object…

On the afternoon of February 19, 1958, a civilian observer near Sweet Springs, Missouri noticed a moving light in the sky around 4:00 p.m. He watched an object that he estimated to…

On January 2, 1958, multiple witnesses at and near Tachikawa Air Base and Yokota Air Base in Japan reported seeing a series of unusual objects in the night sky. The sightings occur…

On January 4, 1958, a pilot and witnesses at Tachikawa Air Base and Yokota Air Base in Japan reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The sighting lasted only a couple of sec…

On the night of August 1, 1958, residents and military personnel near Tacoma, Washington reported seeing a bright, unusual object moving through the sky. Witnesses described the ob…

# A Sighting in Tacoma, June 1958 On June 26, 1958, at 16:02 (4:02 p.m.) Pacific time, a witness in Tacoma, Washington observed a circular object with a flame color traveling at e…

On October 10, 1958, a rectangular sheet of clear plastic measuring roughly seven feet by seven feet turned up at the property of a couple in Temple, Oklahoma. The plastic was fold…

On the night of July 10, 1958, a bright flaming object streaked across the sky over Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana in just a few seconds. Multiple witnesses in different location…

On September 5, 1958, a 16-year-old student near Thermopolis, Wyoming, reported an unidentified flying object at about 0432Z (night). The witness described one star-shaped object t…

On August 3, 1958, a police officer near Tioga, North Dakota, reported an unidentified flying object starting at about 0905Z. The chief of police described one vaguely spherical ob…

In early June 1958, around 10:30 p.m., over Tokmak in the Kirgiz SSR of the Soviet Union, a civilian reported a single object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about one minute…

On the evening of September 8, 1958, a woman in Toledo, Ohio named Pamela A. Rowe noticed a bright glowing object in the sky around 6:30 p.m. The object remained stationary for abo…

On the night of May 29, 1958, a photographer in Trenton, New Jersey took a series of pictures of the moon using a telescope attached to his camera. When he examined the negatives,…

On January 16, 1958, the Brazilian naval ship Almirante Saldanha was anchored off Trindade Island, about 600 miles east of Rio de Janeiro. The ship was part of Brazil's participati…

On August 6 and 7, 1958, military observers in Tripoli, Libya, reported unidentified flashes of light between 1815Z and 1830Z. The witnesses lived in adjacent apartments separated…

On the night of August 4, 1958, a couple attending a drive-in movie at Troy Hill, New Jersey saw something unusual in the sky. Around 11 p.m., the man's wife pointed out a bright,…

In January 1958, a man in Tulsa, Oklahoma found a small metallic object in a field about ten miles northeast of the city. He thought it might be a missile nose cone and reported it…

Starting in July 1958, residents of Udine, Italy, began reporting sightings of a mysterious luminous object moving across the sky. The object appeared repeatedly, sometimes multipl…

On October 27, 1958, a civilian couple in the Union Dale, Pennsylvania, area reported an object over their farm. The report reached the Air Force weeks later, on November 20, 1958,…

On January 5, 1958, in University City, Missouri, a civilian witness reported seeing a red, blue and white object the size of a silver dollar with a possible tail, falling rapidly…

On December 1, 1958, a very bright light was observed moving south to east in the sky over Vejle, Jutland, Denmark. One civilian witness reported the sighting, which lasted nine mi…

On September 18, 1958, an Air Force pilot and crew flying near Aviano Air Base, Italy, reported an unidentified flying object at 1122Z, with a second sighting at 1130Z, about eight…