USAF · 1947 to 1969
Project Blue Book Case Files
The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.
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Northport, ME
1957 · unknownOn July 22, 1957, a civilian near Northport, Maine reported one red circular object. The object first appeared to be sitting still, then moved to the east. It was seen reflecting t…
Norwich, CT
1957 · unknownOn November 10, 1957, a civilian in Norwich, Connecticut reported seeing a round object the size of a basketball that was red and orange and very bright. The object moved out of si…
Norwich,
1957 · unknownOn November 1957 (recorded around 2:15 a.m. GMT), a witness near Norwich, Connecticut reported one round red and orange object the size of a basketball. The sighting lasted about 4…
Numerous sightings in area Santa Monica, CA
1957 · unknownOn the night of August 21, 1957, several people in the Santa Monica, California, area reported two round silver objects in the sky. The objects were about the size of a pea and wer…
NW of Ft. Worth, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn January 16, 1957, northwest of Fort Worth, Texas, two USAF pilots observed round objects alternating bright and dim in light, appearing to give off sparks. The objects maneuvere…
Oak Tree, NJ
1957 · unknownOn November 6, 1957, at approximately 11:55 p.m., a witness traveling west in a small town adjacent to South Liandule, Oak Tree, New Jersey, noticed a very bright spot in the upper…
Oakwood, Dayton, OH
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 11, 1957, at around noon, a resident of Oakwood, Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The observer described it as blue-white in color with a poss…
Ocean Side, Long Island,
1957 · unknownOn December 10, 1957, at 4:35 a.m. GMT near Ocean Side on Long Island, New York, a person walking a dog observed an object in the sky. The witness, who regularly watches stars, rep…
O'Fallon, IL
1957 · unknownOn December 5, 1957, observers near O'Fallon, Illinois reported a fast, fiery object. The report describes a bullet-shaped or pencil-shaped object, fiery yellow and blue-white, wit…
Ogdensberg, NY
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 12, 1957, at approximately 1 a.m., a round, bright green and blue object was observed rising and moving toward the west near Ogdensberg, New York. The object was small…
Ogdensberg, NY
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 12, 1957, a civilian near Ogdensburg, New York reported a small round object. The sighting lasted about 10 to 25 minutes, and the object was practically stationary. It…
Oklahoma,
1957 · unknownOn December 18, 1957, a civilian in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma reported seeing a round, silver object about the size of a pinhead at very high altitude. The object was stationary but…
Olean, NY
1957 · unidentifiedOn August 23, 1957, in Olean, New York, a civilian civil defense director watched one round object for about 45 minutes. The object was smaller than a star and reddish in color. It…
Oregon City, OR
1957 · unknownOn the night of November 18, 1957, a civilian observer in Oregon City, Oregon, watched a bright circular object that split apart and eventually merged back together. The witness re…
Osan Air Base,
1957 · unknownOn the night of November 11, 1957, two U.S. Air Force enlisted men standing beside a runway at Osan Air Base in Korea saw an unusual object streak across the sky. One man watched i…
Over Cincinnati, OH
1957 · unidentifiedOn December 5-10, 1957, observers in Cincinnati, Ohio reported seeing a bright white light moving across the sky. The object was described as being as bright as the moon and made n…
Overland, MO
1957 · unknownOn October 7, 1957, a civilian in Overland, Missouri reported seeing a round object about the size of a pinhead, reddish orange in color that turned white. The witness observed the…
Over Las Vegas, NV
1957 · unknownOn November 13, 1957, over Las Vegas, Nevada, a civilian reported observing one object with bright lights that was also sighted on radar. The observation method was ground-visual a…
Pacoima,
1957 · unknownOn July 31, 1957, in Pacoima, California, a person reported seeing a bright, round object about the size of a dime moving slowly across the sky from southwest to west. The object w…
Palm Springs, CA
1957 · unknownOn the night of September 29 to 30, 1957, residents of Palm Springs, California reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred i…
Palm Springs, CA
1957 · unknownOn the evening of August 31, 1957, in Palm Springs, California, an observer noticed what appeared to be a brilliant star close to the moon, brighter than the moon itself. According…
Parkton, MD
1957 · unknownOn July 2, 1957, an observer in Parkton, Maryland reported a sighting that lasted about two minutes. The witness saw one ball shaped object about the size of a half dollar. It was…
Pasadena, CA
1957 · unknownOn March 23, 1957, civilian and military witnesses at Pasadena, California, reported a single object at night. The Ground Observer Corps was on duty during the sighting. The case w…
Paso Robles, CA
1957 · unknownOn August 29 and 30, 1957, in Paso Robles, California, a civilian witness reported seeing two objects. The first was a silver circular object flying from north to west, visible for…
Pecos, NM
1957 · unidentifiedOn September 16, 1957, at about 1935 (7:35 p.m.) near Pecos, New Mexico, a civilian saw one disc-shaped object through eyeglasses. It was about the size of a grapefruit, white with…
Pennerrell AFB,
1957 · unknownOn June 21, 1957, at approximately 2030 (8:30 p.m.), an observer at Pennerrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland reported seeing a bright white light in the sky. The object appeared t…
Philadelphia, PA
1957 · unknownOn the night of August 22, 1957, two very bright objects appeared in the sky over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted only a few seconds. The objects were close togethe…
Philadelphia,
1957 · unknownOn November 8, 1957, around 11:20 p.m. GMT, a civilian near Philadelphia, Mississippi reported two bright orange cigar-shaped objects. The sighting lasted about 3 minutes. The two…
Philadelphia Airport,
1957 · unknownOn October 12, 1957, at about 1520 (Greenwich time) near the Philadelphia airport in Pennsylvania, witnesses saw one small, very brilliant object. It dived straight down from a ver…
Piedmont, MO
1957 · unknownOn October 28, 1957, a witness in Piedmont, Missouri observed a bright light in the night sky that changed color from red to white. The object moved very high and very fast across…
Pigua, OH
1957 · unidentifiedOn September 29, 1957, an observer in Piqua, Ohio reported seeing an object high in the sky that looked and behaved like an aircraft. The sighting lasted about five to seven second…
Polk County, FL
1957 · unidentifiedOn October 23, 1957, civilian pilots and ground observers in Polk County, Florida, reported seeing a round, silver object with a red light on one side hovering overhead. The object…
Port Columbus, OH
1957 · unidentifiedThe OCR text on pages 10 and 11 is too heavily garbled to support reliable transcription. However, the structured portions of the case file are readable enough to provide a summary…
Portland, OR
1957 · unknownOn September 10, 1957, at about 0815 (8:15 a.m.) in Portland, Oregon, a civilian saw one oblong object against a bright blue sky. The object was the color of an electric light seen…
Porto Alegro,
1957 · unknownOn December 5, 1957, a report from Porto Alegre, Brazil was forwarded to the Air Force as a newspaper article attached to an intelligence report. The article said Brazilian militar…
Presque Isle,
1957 · unknownOn October 8, 1957, at Presque Isle, Maine, a civilian witness reported seeing a silver object with the appearance of an aircraft flying at 45 to 60 degrees above the horizon in a…
Pueblo, CO
1957 · unidentifiedOn August 22, 1957, around 2320 (11:20 p.m.) local time at the Pueblo Airport in Pueblo, Colorado, a control tower operator saw two round white objects through binoculars. Each was…
Quincy, OH
1957 · unidentifiedOn December 11, 1957, a witness near Quincy, Ohio reported one oval yellowish-orange object about the size of a cigar. The object moved from southeast to northwest. It stayed in vi…
Radium Springs, NM
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 6, 1957, witnesses at Radium Springs, New Mexico, reported one object in the sky. The witnesses were military and civilian. The sighting was a ground visual observation…
Random Lake, WI
1957 · unknownOn January 16, 1957, a civilian housewife in Random Lake, Wisconsin reported seeing an object like two white barrels floating in the air. The witness observed it for 5 minutes trav…
Rapid City, SD
1957 · unknownOn March 1, 1957, at approximately 12 a.m. MST in Rapid City, South Dakota, a military witness reported seeing strange lights in the sky. The rays from the lights formed a circular…
Red Durham,
1957 · unknownOn November 7, 1957, a civilian in Red Durham, North Carolina reported two red oblong objects at around 1:45 a.m. One object was behind the other. They were about the size of baseb…
Redlands, CA
1957 · unknownOn December 9, 1957, a civilian in Redlands, California reported an oval object about the size of a half dollar that was bright white and stationary, then faded out. A small red li…
Red Oak, GA
1957 · unidentifiedOn October 25, 1957, a witness near Red Oak, Georgia, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about two minutes. The object was white. It was about the size and shape…
Reese AFB, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 13, 1957, at Reese Air Force Base in Texas, a civilian and military observer reported sighting an object that changed shape from round to egg-like. The object was descr…
Regina, NM
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 5, 1957, in Regina, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing a star-like object the size of a baseball that was red-blue in color and made a whistling sound. The…
Reseda, CA
1957 · unknownOn April 5, 1957, a civilian at Reseda, California, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying objec…
Rhinelander, WI
1957 · unknownOn January 19, 1957, a civilian night watchman in Rhinelander, Wisconsin reported observing a round, white object the size of a basketball heading south. The object was observed 20…
Ringgold, GA
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 7, 1957, a civilian witness at Ringgold, Georgia, reported one object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 30 minutes. The object…
Ringgold,
1957 · unknownOn the morning of April 25, 1957, a civilian driving near Ringgold, Louisiana reported seeing a large, crescent-shaped object glowing bright red or scarlet descend slowly from the…
Roanoke Rapids, NC
1957 · unknownOn November 10, 1957, a military observer near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina reported a round object about five times the magnitude of a star. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes…
Roslyn AFS,
1957 · unknownOn November 6, 1957, at Roslyn Air Force Station in New York, a civilian observer reported seeing a round, red object moving back and forth for five minutes. The sighting was obser…
Rothwesten,
1957 · unknownOn November 14, 1957, radar operators at a U.S. Air Force station in Rothwesten, Germany detected three separate radar signals, or blips, traveling at extraordinarily high speeds.…
Rydal, GA
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 6, 1957, near Rydal, Georgia, a civilian witness observed an unidentified object for approximately 15 minutes. The witness reported a bright light similar to a star tha…
San Antonio, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn July 28, 1957, in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing six objects about the size of a quarter with orange lights arranged in a V formation. The objects were s…
San Antonio, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn September 14, 1957, at about 0045 (Greenwich time) in San Antonio, Texas, a witness saw seven circular blue-white objects through a six-power telescope. Two were about the size…
San Antonio, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn March 28, 1957, a civilian near San Antonio, Texas, reported a single object around dusk. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentifi…
San Antonio, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn November 7, 1957, a civilian woman at San Antonio, Texas, reported one object in the sky. A neighbor had called and told her to watch it. The sighting was a ground visual observ…
San Antonio, TX
1957 · unidentifiedOn October 5, 1957, at 1:15 p.m. in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped aluminum object about the size of a fountain pen. The object was sighted o…
San Diego, CA
1957 · unknownOn November 5, 1957, a civilian in San Diego, California reported observing a round object with red, green, and white lights for one and a half hours. The object moved left to righ…
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