Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 25, 1952, Captain John D. Musick of the 1st Strategic Support Squadron at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas was photographing a rainbow from his home when he notic…

On the night of September 14-15, 1952, a civilian engineer and three witnesses near El Paso, Texas observed six separate groups of luminous spheres moving rapidly across the sky in…

On a Monday evening in February 1952, a young man driving through Shiner, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky that appeared to vanish into what looked like a ball of fire. The s…

On August 14, 1952, at 3:45 p.m., seven civilian employees and one airman at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas watched a round, metallic object fly slowly across the sky for roughly th…

Before daybreak on September 17, 1952, about 4:48 a.m. local time, an Army military police corporal on sentry duty at Killeen Base, Killeen, Texas, reported an object directly over…

On April 1, 1952, at 10:15 p.m. local time, an airman at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas observed a white, sphere-shaped object during a one to two second sighting. The observer w…

# Leveland, Texas, August 1952 On August 24, 1952, between 9:30 p.m. and midnight, two unidentified flying objects were sighted near Leveland, Texas. The objects were spherical in…

On August 2, 1952, a man in Lubbock, Texas watched a spherical, metallic object hanging motionless in the sky for six minutes. The object was about 24 inches across and had no visi…

On April 6, 1952, at about 1959 (7:59 p.m.) local time, a civilian near Miller-Graughan Air Force Base in Temple, Texas, reported an object for about 3 minutes. The object was gray…

On April 24, 1952, a Texas couple driving toward Seguin on Highway 3 spotted an unusual aircraft near Oak Forest. They watched it for fourteen to fifteen minutes as it traveled eas…

On the night of June 12, 1952, military personnel stationed at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a series of unidentified aerial objects moving erratically across the sky n…

The OCR text for this case is severely degraded throughout pages 2 through 12, making it impossible to extract reliable factual details beyond what appears on page 1. While the cov…

On October 26, 1952, a civilian couple in a car saw a bright object near Roanoke, Texas, on U.S. Highway 77, about 18 miles north of Fort Worth. The driver's wife pointed it out an…

On May 19, 1952, a B-36 bomber crew flying near San Angelo, Texas, spotted seven unusual white objects arranged in a vertical column ahead of their aircraft. The sighting lasted ab…

On the evening of May 29, 1952, a military pilot standing on his front porch in San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The pilot was with his wife and a civilian…

On September 7, 1952, at 10:50 p.m., a couple in San Antonio, Texas witnessed an unusual flash of light in the eastern sky. The man and his wife were leaving friends' house when th…

On August 7, 1952, beginning about 9:00 p.m. Central time, a civilian woman in San Antonio, Texas, watched four objects over about an hour and ten minutes. She first went outside w…

On December 21, 1952, a driver in San Antonio, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky while traveling on Freese-Tilden Highway. The witness was alone in his car when he notic…

On April 2, 1952, at 2045 (8:45 p.m.) local time, Air Force personnel near Temple, Texas, reported a large fireball. It was seen for about 10 to 40 seconds. The object was green wi…

On the night of December 29, 1952, two U.S. Air Force captains flying a B-26 bomber from Perrin Air Force Base in Texas spotted an unidentified bright object in the sky near Vega,…

On April 15, 1952, 2nd Lt. Edward F. Gaucher watched a group of 15 to 20 round objects move across the night sky above Waco, Texas. He was sitting at the Joy Drive-In Theatre with…

On August 17, 1952, Captain James H. Perry was flying an Air Force T-6 trainer aircraft from Dallas to Webb Air Force Base near Big Spring, Texas, when he spotted an unusual object…

Early on the morning of May 2, 1952, a retired Army sergeant in Wichita Falls, Texas reported seeing an unusual disc shaped object flying overhead. The witness, a 56 year old man w…

On March 11, 1951, near Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, a Military Air Transport Service crew reported a strange object at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.) while flying at 30,000 feet. The cre…

On the night of August 26, 1951, at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas, three military witnesses reported seeing bright yellow lights in the sky. The sightings occurred a…

On the evening of October 2, 1951, a 29-year-old physicist watching from a parking lot at The Ohio State University in Columbus saw something strange in the sky. The man was sittin…

In October 1951, a husband and wife driving near Gonzales, Texas, saw an unusual object in the sky while traveling on Highway 3, about a mile north of town. As they crested a small…

On August 31, 1951, two women driving north of Matador, Texas spotted an unusual object near U.S. Highway 70. The driver, Mrs. Anna Sheffield, first noticed it about 150 feet ahead…

On August 1, 1951, a civilian in Navosta, Texas reported observing a large unidentified object moving in up and down motion in the sky. The distance to the object and its height we…

On August 26, 1951, at 1658 (4:58 p.m.), a retired Army officer in San Antonio, Texas, reported a single object in the sky. He was reclining in his back yard when he saw it. The ob…

On January 8, 1951, south of Fort Worth, Texas, a civilian couple and other witnesses reported groups of lights in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On March 11, 1950, at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, military personnel reported observing one unidentified object. The object was round, about the size of a quarter, and…

On April 18, 1950, a Northrop Aircraft test pilot flying near Memphis, Texas, spotted an unidentified object in the sky. The pilot, Max Stanley, had been asked to investigate after…

On the morning of March 6, 1950, two Army officers at Fort Bliss, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky. First Lieutenant Philip W. Arant and Corporal Johnnie L. Adams were in…

In April 1950, Ira Maxey, a former Air Force radar bombardier, reported photographing strange objects in the sky near Fort Worth, Texas. According to news accounts, Maxey had calle…

On March 4, 1950, a male civilian in Grass Plains, Texas reported seeing four or five objects at 1 p.m. CST. The objects were flat and elliptical in shape, white to silvery in colo…

On June 27, 1950, at about 7:50 a.m., two workers at the Red River Arsenal near Texarkana, Texas, saw a shiny object in the sky. The men were riding in a federal truck when a passe…

On May 23, 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood, Texas reported seeing unusual lights in the sky during four separate observation periods that day and night. The sightings involved multiple…

On the night of April 28, 1949, soldiers stationed at Camp Hood, Texas spotted unusual lights in the sky. The sightings began around 8:30 p.m. and continued for several hours, with…

On the evening of April 27, 1949, soldiers stationed at Camp Hood, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. The first sighting occurred at 9:20 p.m. (2120) when four Army personne…

On the evening of July 11, 1949, a sergeant with the 42nd Armored Infantry Battalion at Camp Hood, Texas, saw something unusual streak across the sky. He was lying in a prone posit…

On the evening of May 6, 1949, a lieutenant at Camp Hood, Texas, watched an unusual glowing object for fifty minutes. The object appeared about the size of a half dollar at first,…

On June 13, 1949, military observers at Camp Hood, Texas reported seeing an unusual bright light moving through the night sky. The Air Force investigated this sighting along with e…

On May 8, 1949, military personnel at Camp Hood, Texas reported a single diamond-shaped object in the night sky. Witnesses described it as a brilliant light that changed color from…

On the evening of June 6, 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood, Texas observed unusual lights in the sky that sparked an Air Force investigation. Two separate groups of military observers…

On the night of May 7, 1949, military personnel at Camp Hood, Texas spotted unusual lights in the sky. Using artillery observation equipment and binoculars, observers tracked diamo…

On August 15, 1949, two women in Dallas, Texas observed bright, metallic disc-shaped objects moving slowly across the sky in formation. The first observer, standing on her home por…

On the evening of May 21, 1949, multiple witnesses in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a group of unusual objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred between approximately 8…

On May 30, 1949, at 1:32 p.m., a soldier at Sunrise Acres near El Paso, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the clear daytime sky. The soldier was watching a fighter plane when som…

On January 30, 1949, at 1800 (6 p.m.), witnesses across El Paso, Texas and parts of New Mexico saw a bright green fireball moving slowly across the sky. The object appeared to trav…

On the evening of April 15, 1949, observers traveling by car about 40 miles east of El Paso, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The main witness was Captain B. J. Walsh J…

On the morning of June 22, 1949, a military officer at Fort Bliss, Texas, stood on the steps of Building 4100 and noticed several small, silvery objects moving through the air to t…

On the morning of May 19, 1949, soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas saw a flashing silver object in the sky near the Hueco Mountains. The object appeared about the size of a th…

At Fort Bliss, Texas, on May 5, 1949, military officers on a firing range spotted two unidentified objects in the sky. The witnesses were reliable military personnel with clean rec…

Two Air Force officers at Fort Worth, Texas sighted an unidentified flying object on April 13, 1949, at approximately 2105 (9:05 p.m.). First Lieutenant Robert A. Francis and Capta…

On July 7, 1949, a military pilot standing on the horizontal stabilizer of a B-36 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The…

On July 20, 1949, a man reclining in a beach chair on Galveston Public Beach saw a bright, round object moving across the sky. The sighting lasted less than thirty seconds. The obj…

On August 31, 1949, two civilians in Houston, Texas, reported seeing a single object in the sky. The time was about 11:40 p.m. local time. The men were on duty at a power plant and…

On the early morning of August 20, 1949, a rancher near Llano, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky for more than two hours. The man reported that around 3:00 a.m., while standin…

Early on August 2, 1949, Coast Guard crew members at the Port O'Connor Lifeboat Station in Texas sighted a single object in the sky. The time was about 8:45 p.m. local time the eve…