Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 16, 1949, at about 1420 (2:20 p.m.), a civilian Air Force police officer at McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento, California, reported seeing an object. He gave the rep…

On January 20, 1949, at about 1835 (6:35 p.m.), a soldier named Master Sergeant Ellis C. Stone saw an object in the sky near San Antonio, Texas. He was about 6.2 miles northeast of…

On the afternoon of April 7, 1949, two U.S. Air Force pilots in a T-6 training aircraft near Riverside, California spotted an unusual object while flying a radio range practice rou…

On February 28, 1949, a U.S. Air Force Reserve pilot was flying a P-11 aircraft near Sandberg Pass, about forty miles south of Bakersfield, California, when he observed an unusual…

On the morning of February 17, 1949, a Master Sergeant named John P. Mitchell was stationed at Sandia Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico. At 0552 hours (5:52 a.m.), he spotted an un…

On Monday, August 1, 1949, several witnesses aboard a commercial fishing boat near San Francisco saw unusual objects in the sky. The sightings occurred in two separate waves as the…

This file describes a December 1949 investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations into a claim made in California, not a normal sky sighting. A motion picture act…

On April 23, 1949, a civilian in Sarasota, Florida reported seeing a frosty white light in the sky. The observer watched the object for about one minute before it vanished. The sig…

In mid-August 1949, multiple observers in and around Seattle reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The first sighting came at 1:20 p.m. on August 22 when witnesses repor…

On August 15, 1949, a civilian mail carrier in Seattle, Washington, reported seeing four objects in the sky. The time was about 2:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time. He had just stepped…

On the afternoon of June 30, 1949, a civilian veterinary meat inspector standing in open country about 29 miles west and 14 miles south of Seligman, New Mexico, looked up and saw a…

During May 1949, a B-29 bomber crew flying a weather reconnaissance mission near Shamya Air Force Base in Alaska reported sighting two unidentified lights. The object was described…

On May 3, 6, and 7, 1949, residents of Sidney, Ohio reported seeing a bright, silvery object moving rapidly across the sky. An Air Force investigation was triggered by newspaper ac…

On the morning of February 5, 1949, a man driving alone south of Parkersburg, West Virginia, saw a brilliant flash of light that stopped him in his tracks. The sky first lit up whi…

On the evening of July 26, 1949, a commercial pilot in Spokane, Washington reported seeing eight disc-shaped objects in the sky. The man was at home when he heard a sound like a fo…

On the morning of April 25, 1949, two men fishing for minnows at Springer Lake, about four miles northwest of Springer, New Mexico, heard an odd sound. It resembled a high-pitched…

On June 7, 1949, at around 12:10 p.m. (1210 EDST), a writer in Springfield, Massachusetts, spotted something unusual in the sky near his home. He was watching a large airplane pass…

On the evening of June 1, 1949, observers in the Walden and Stewart Field area of New York reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The sightings occurred between about…

On the evening of May 7, 1949, a retired artist and his wife were sitting on their back lawn in St. Louis watching gulls from the Mississippi River when they spotted something unus…

On May 19, 1949, at approximately 9 p.m., multiple observers at Naval Air Station St. Louis witnessed an unusual object in the sky. A ground observer walking near the main gate saw…

On June 10, 1949, a pilot from the 58th Fighter Squadron at Otis Air Force Base near Falmouth, Massachusetts, spotted a white tubular object flying southwest of Boston at around 08…

On July 28, 1949, at about 2131 (9:31 p.m.), a civilian near Tallman, New York, reported seeing objects. The report was sent by an Army message and recorded on an incident form. Th…

On the evening of June 5, 1949, a bright object trailing white smoke appeared in the sky over Tampa and spread across central Florida, drawing thousands of eyewitnesses and dozens…

On August 7, 1949, a pilot flying from Mexico City to Tampico, Mexico observed a mysterious object near Valles while traveling east toward Tampico at about 7:10 p.m. The object app…

On July 9, 1949, a civilian employee at a survey camp on Tigvariak Island, Alaska, heard a loud whistling sound that he compared to a high-powered shell or projectile. Within secon…

In the afternoon of June 9, 1949, a farm hand working near Tioga, Colorado spotted five brownish, round objects flying in formation at roughly 20,000 feet. The witness, who had ser…

On April 9, 1949, a teenager in Toledo, Ohio reported seeing three flying discs. The boy, identified in newspaper accounts as 15-year-old Henry Jordan of Whitford Road, told the To…

On May 11, 1949, several people near Watertown, New York reported seeing a silvery, slow-moving object in the sky that left a smoke trail before gradually disappearing. The sightin…

On the afternoon of May 9, 1949, a U.S. Air Force staff sergeant stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base near Tucson, Arizona, saw two shiny, disk-shaped objects pass overhead wh…

A round object the size of a tennis ball caught the attention of a Tucson resident on the morning of May 8, 1949. The main witness was lying in bed when he spotted the white object…

On April 28, 1949, a civilian in Tucson, Arizona saw a large, sausage-shaped object in the sky. The observer was standing near the corner of East Hedrick Drive when he noticed the…

On the evening of April 21, 1949, a civilian observer near Unity, Maryland, about 25 miles north of Washington, D.C., saw an unusual light in the southern sky. At 10:15 p.m., the o…

On June 28, 1949, at 1745 (5:45 p.m.), a ball of fire with a trailing flame was spotted moving from west to east across the sky near Urbana, Ohio. The sighting happened in daylight…

On the night of July 20, 1949, a man in Valdosta, Georgia reported seeing a strange flaming object in the sky. The witness was a World War II veteran and local engraver who first s…

On the morning of July 7, 1949, a woman in Valdosta, Georgia saw a bright, reddish object hovering in the sky. She described it as shaped like an electric light bulb, with the narr…

On April 24, 1949, four Navy enlisted men conducting weather observations near White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico spotted a rapidly moving whitish spherical object in the sky.…

# Vicksburg Triangle, April 1949 On the night of April 22, 1949, just after midnight, a man in Vicksburg, Mississippi saw a strange object in the sky. The observer, a carpenter wh…

# Watertown, New York, May 1949 On May 11, 1949, three separate groups of people driving near Watertown, New York observed an unusual object moving slowly across the sky over the…

In June 1949, multiple people in West Walden, New York, reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky. The sightings occurred over several days and involved witnesses in differe…

On April 18, 1949, a brilliant greenish-blue flash of light appeared in the sky near Williams, Arizona. The object resembled a fireball or meteor and traveled in a straight line fo…

In October 1949, a resident of Wilson, North Carolina reported seeing a fireball in the sky on the 12th of the month. According to his account, the object appeared first as roughly…

# Window Rock, Arizona, March 1949 On March 7, 1949, at 1810 hours (6:10 p.m.), an Indian trader driving near Window Rock, Arizona, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witne…

On July 8, 1949, between about 6:30 and 7:00 a.m., a civilian man and his wife saw objects while fishing on Shoshone Lake in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The man's written a…

On July 29, 1949, a military pilot reported seeing smoke over the Chaplina area of northeastern Siberia. The pilot was flying at about 2,000 feet at a position over the Pacific lis…

An aircraft crew spotted an unusual light mass south of Bermuda on January 24, 1949. Flying at about 1,500 feet, the crew of a B-29 bomber first noticed a dark red glow on the hori…

On Friday, May 27, 1949, an experienced civilian pilot flying a private aircraft near Hart Mountain, Oregon made an unusual sighting. At 1425 hours (2:25 p.m. Pacific Standard Time…

On December 1, 1949, an unidentified object was detected southeast of Newfoundland during a routine training mission from Bermuda. An RAF aircraft (No. RB-29 42-94113) approached t…

On January 5, 1949, a radar sighting was reported from See Course. The object was observed by FEAF radar operators. The sighting lasted 4 minutes. The object's course was 45 degree…

On May 18, 1949, a woman sitting in her backyard in New Orleans watched an unusual disc-shaped object move slowly from east to west. She sat watching for about ten minutes while it…

On June 8, 1949, two crew members aboard a military aircraft near Guam spotted something unusual in the sky. They were flying at 16,500 feet on a 30-degree heading when they saw wh…

On March 7, 1949, an experienced airline pilot flying from Toledo to Cleveland, Ohio encountered an unusual object near Vermilion at about 1445 (2:30 p.m.). He was cruising at 2,50…

In August or September 1949, a civilian in Oak Park reported seeing an unusual object flying over his house at regular intervals. The witness timed the appearances and observed the…

On August 2, 1949, the crew of a U.S. Air Force weather plane spotted an unusual cloud formation over the Pacific Ocean about 400 miles west of Eureka, California. Three officers s…

Several witnesses across northern Utah saw a fiery ball streak across the sky on April 5, 1949, around 1000 (10 a.m.) mountain standard time. The object descended rapidly, leaving…

# Fireball Reports from the Southwest, July-August 1949 Between July 11 and August 10, 1949, military personnel in the Southwest reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky.…

In February 1949, officers aboard the merchant ship S.S. Antigua reported seeing three unidentified aerial objects near the San Andres Islands in the Caribbean. The sightings occur…