Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of December 2, 1954, a bright light caught the attention of an observer in Banning, California. The object appeared to turn at a high rate of speed as it moved acros…

On January 22, 1954, young witnesses near Buena Park, California reported egg shaped objects. The first object was orange and about the size of a 50 cent piece held at arm's length…

On the morning of July 22, 1954, a retired Marine Corps major general at Coronado, California, reported hearing a strange object. At about 8:41 a.m. he heard the sound of an object…

On November 2, 1954, witnesses at Edwards Air Force Base, California, reported four objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about 14 minutes. The objects were described as four lo…

On May 18, 1954, a Royal Air Force Squadron Leader named Donald Higgin was piloting an F3D2 aircraft near Oceanside, California, during a routine training exercise with a second je…

On the night of July 12, 1954, a military pilot near Hamilton Air Force Base, California, reported a strange object while flying an F-86. The pilot made two sightings about three m…

On December 21, 1954, a civilian near La Habra, California, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about two hours. The object moved toward the northeast. The object…

In 1954, a round object was reported over Long Beach, California. The sighting was made from the ground during the day. There was one object, and it moved to the south. The report…

On July 3, 1954, in Long Beach, California, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, red object with no trail, apparently revolving in flight. The object passed over the obse…

On July 30, 1954, two civilian test pilots flying a B-25 about 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles, California, sighted a strange object. Both pilots saw it at the same time at about…

On the afternoon of October 28, 1954, a military aircraft mechanic at Merced Country Club was playing golf when he heard a loud jet noise and spotted an unusual object in the sky.…

In early October 1954, a man 15 miles southwest of Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, California found strips of silvery colored metal scattered on the ground. Most of th…

In March or April 1954, multicolored objects were reported near Oakland, California. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flyi…

On the evening of June 11, 1954, a husband and wife in East Pasadena, California, saw a red object in the sky. They reported it at about 9:00 p.m. The object flew at about the spee…

# Summary On the morning of February 1, 1954, a woman in Puente, California saw an unusual object hovering in the sky around 10:15 a.m. She described it as round and shiny silver,…

On May 15, 1954, at about 10:22 p.m. local time near Salinas, California, military pilots reported one object for about five seconds. They described a bright green, meteor-like obj…

On April 22, 1954, at around 2:30 p.m., a Navy serviceman named James B. Stephens Jr. was riding in a carryall vehicle on San Nicolas Island, California, when he spotted something…

On February 21, 1954, a glowing object was reported near Van Nuys, California. The sighting was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying o…

On the evening of September 22, 1954, a civilian in Venice, California saw a huge, round fireball in the sky. The object appeared yellowish-orange and later turned red. It was firs…

On September 23, 1954, at 12:33 a.m., a civilian in West Riverside, California reported seeing one object during a two-minute ground visual observation. The object was described as…

On February 4, 1953, at 1050 Pacific Standard Time, the crew of an RB-36 transport aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Blythe, California. The plane was flying a ferry mis…

# Summary In May and June 1953, two gold miners near Brush Creek, California reported seeing a small flying object land twice near their mining claim at the junction of Marble and…

On the night of March 2, 1953, four airmen stationed at the 775th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron in Cambria, California observed an unusual object over the ocean. The men we…

On January 28, 1953, at about 6:05 p.m., an airman saw a group of objects near Corona, California. The witness was a technical sergeant driving on a state highway about 5 miles sou…

On December 24, 1953, at about 8:04 a.m. local time near El Cajon, California, two Navy pilots reported ten objects in formation. The pilots were experienced aviators with over 20…

On April 28, 1953, at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.) Pacific time, a military pilot reported objects near Fontana, California. The witness was 1st Lt. Ralph R. Scowden, flying a T-6 aircr…

On September 22, 1953, a civilian in Hayward, California, observed a triangular object in the sky. The witness used a power telescope to get a closer look. The object was yellow, w…

On May 16, 1953, about 1810 (6:10 p.m.) Pacific time, civilians at the Naval Air Facility in Inyokern, California, saw flying objects. The report came from a base employee. The wi…

On May 20, 1953, a man in Los Angeles reported seeing a white stone roughly the size of a football descend toward him from the sky. The object came to rest about five feet above hi…

On January 29, 1953, Lieutenant Commander Rex Hardy Jr., a Navy pilot with approximately 5,248 hours of flying time, was piloting a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft near Malibu Beac…

On September 3, 1953, a newspaper photographer in Modesto, California set up a camera on the roof of the newspaper building after seeing an unusual yellowish-white light near the a…

On the evening of August 12, 1953, multiple witnesses near Oxnard Air Force Base in Ventura, California, reported seeing an unidentified bright light moving rapidly across the sky.…

On February 1, 1953, two Air Force pilots on a practice bombing run sighted an unidentified object near Pittsburg and Stockton, California. The pilots observed a bright light with…

On January 28, 1953, a civilian observer stationed at Point Mugu, California, spotted a white disk-shaped object traveling at high speed over the Pacific coast. The observer, who w…

On the evening of June 30, 1953, three control tower operators at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento saw a red light in the sky west of their station. The light appeared to be a…

On the evening of February 13, 1953, four members of a Ground Observer Corps post on top of Mount Sutro in San Francisco watched an unidentified flying object for about twenty minu…

On December 31, 1953, at about 10:45 a.m. local time between Palm Springs and Riverside, California, a Marine pilot reported one object. The pilot was flying an F9F jet at about 22…

On the evening of August 28, 1953, a Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post operator in San Rafael, California spotted an unusual formation in the sky. At 11:25 p.m., the observer used b…

Two experienced Air Force pilots flying a KC-97 tanker aircraft over Santa Ana, California, on the evening of January 9, 1953, observed a formation of blue lights approaching them…

On January 10, 1953, at around 11:45 p.m., a retired Air Force colonel and a federal security officer observed an unusual object in the sky near Sonoma, California. The two men wer…

On the night of August 12, 1953, four civilians fishing off the seaward end of the Ventura public pier in California spotted an unusual light in the western sky around 9:05 p.m. (2…

On the early morning of May 30, 1952, a man driving on Highway 99 about seventeen miles south of Fresno, California spotted an unusual object in the sky at around 0400 (4 a.m.). Th…

On August 3, 1952, in Chico, California, a large round white glowing object was observed moving slowly at low altitude. The object made no sound and was watched from 2:50 p.m. for…

On August 13, 1952, at around 12:45 p.m., a woman in Cotati, California, observed a white, flat object in the sky. According to her questionnaire responses, the object was roughly…

On September 4, 1952, a resident of Danville, California saw a shiny, circular object streaking across the sky in broad daylight. The observer watched it for about thirty seconds a…

On May 29, 1952, around 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, two disc-shaped objects were seen over the northern part of Edwards Air Force Base, California. Seven known observers watched them.…

On May 13, 1952, an F-9-F pilot taking off from El Centro NAS, California reported seeing a meteor-shaped object diving at a 60-degree angle. The sighting occurred at approximately…

On August 11, 1952, two military pilots at George Air Force Base in California reported seeing unidentified flying objects. Both sightings took place on the same morning but under…

On May 9, 1952, military personnel at George Air Force Base in California observed an unusual object in the sky. A round, silver object was spotted both by ground observers and by…

Five white, disc-shaped objects flew over George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, on May 1, 1952. Multiple military witnesses observed the objects for about fifteen to th…

On May 13, 1952, near Niland, California, a deputy sheriff reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 0245 (2:45 a.m.). The witness described a white, bright lig…

On the evening of August 24, 1952, a man and his wife in Tucson, Arizona saw an object they could not explain. At 5:40 p.m., a large, round, brilliant white light appeared in the s…

On May 13, 1952, near Imperial, California, two deputy sheriffs reported unidentified objects. The sighting happened about 0310 (3:10 a.m.). The witnesses described objects that a…

On August 31, 1952, between 4 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. PDT, a small light colored red, blue, and white was sighted near Loomis, California. The object moved up and down and emitted no so…

On July 28, 1952, a man and his wife observed an unusual flying object in the sky near Los Angeles International Airport around 12:15 p.m. local time. The witness initially thought…

On August 15, 1952, at 2650 PDT (approximately 2:50 p.m.), a man stationed at a Ground Observer Corps post in Los Gatos, California, watched a group of circular objects move across…

On August 14, 1952, at approximately 10:25 p.m., a civilian observer in Lake Charles, Louisiana watched a bright, moving light hover and maneuver over the Mathieson Chemical Corpor…

On the evening of May 13, 1952, an engineer living in National City, California, observed an unusual aerial object in the sky. The object first appeared as a red trail of light mov…

On the evening of September 7, 1952, a couple sitting on their front porch in Needles, California noticed a single object moving silently across the night sky from north to south.…

On the morning of September 23, 1952, a 62-year-old woman in Newport Beach, California saw two glowing objects in the sky. The first sighting occurred at 2:35 a.m., and she reporte…