Project Blue Book Case Files

On June 24, 1953, at 2130 (9:30 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time, pilots flying three commercial airliners near New London, Connecticut spotted a bright flash in the sky over the ocean.…

On November 14, 1953, an artist working at the corner of Royal and Conti Streets in New Orleans, Louisiana, spotted two unusual objects in the afternoon sky. The observer described…

# Newton, Mississippi and New Orleans Area, June 1953 On the night of June 2, 1953, three U.S. Air Force pilots flying separate transport aircraft reported seeing an unusual brigh…

On October 1, 1953, near Norfolk, Virginia, a military observer reported a balloon-like object. The observer noted that all morning the sky showed other sightings of unknown craft.…

On October 3, 1953, between about 8:00 and 8:15 p.m. local time, a civilian saw an object near North Rome Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania. The information reached the Air F…

On December 3, 1953, at about 6:07 p.m. local time near North Truro, Massachusetts, military observers reported one object. It was tracked by both air radar and ground radar, and s…

On October 30, 1953, at about 0955 local time, a crew flying near Norton Air Force Base in California saw one object. The sighting came from a C-45 aircraft in flight. The crew wat…

On June 7, 1953, a resident of Norwood, Ohio, observed a small, sharply defined object in the sky for about ten to fifteen minutes during daylight hours. The object traveled first…

On July 20, 1953, two radar operators at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska detected three unidentified objects on their radar screen at 2135 (9:35 p.m.). The two airmen, both exper…

On October 13, 1953, about 0305Z, military radar operators tracked an unidentified target near Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. The witnesses were two airmen running ground radar a…

On June 21, 1953, at 1900 hours (7 p.m.), military and civilian observers on Okinawa spotted a small, metallic, spherical object moving across the sky near Naha and Kadena. The sig…

In early April 1953, a radio news report claimed that bright, fast-moving objects had been spotted and tracked on radar near Pork Chop Hill and Old Baldy Hill in western Korea duri…

On March 1, 1953, at 1104 (11:04 a.m.) Zulu time, a qualified ground observer in Olean, New York reported seeing a round, red object flying very high and heading south at great spe…

On August 5, 1953, at 8:59 a.m. in Onida, South Dakota, a strange light was sighted. The object resembled a star or the wing light of an airplane. It made several sharp turns in va…

On July 14, 1953, about 2043 (8:43 p.m.), civilians saw an object near Opportunity, Montana. The witnesses were two residents, considered reliable. They watched from their homes by…

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.…

# Summary: Unknown Radar Tracks, Pacific Northwest, May 1953 On May 13, 1953, radar operators at two U.S. Air Force stations in the Pacific Northwest detected unidentified objects…

On December 14, 1953, at about 9:53 a.m. local time over Panama City, civilians reported one object. There were many observers, including a housewife who was a military dependent.…

On March 25, 1953, at about 3 p.m. Central Standard Time, a woman sitting in her home near Panama City, Florida, looked out a window and saw a circular, shiny object flying straigh…

On the morning of November 19, 1953, an assistant fire chief at the U.S. Naval Marine Countermeasures Station in Panama City, Florida, noticed a bright glare in the sky overhead. L…

On the night of March 23, 1953, military personnel at a radar station in Pasadena, Texas reported seeing an unidentified object that made unusual maneuvers in the sky. The sighting…

On February 11, 1953, at 12:30 a.m., two airmen at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, observed a red colored object larger than Mars. The object moved in a zig zag pattern with pulsa…

On August 17, 1953, two separate incidents occurred in the Peoria, Illinois area involving unidentified flying objects observed by multiple civilians, along with radar operators at…

On September 1, 1953, at Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland, personnel sighted an unidentified aircraft visually and on radar at 10:25 a.m. A green flare was observed droppi…

On June 21, 1953, ground observers at Pepperrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland reported seeing an unidentified object hovering at about 30,000 feet. The sighting lasted roughly 45…

On February 3, 1953, between about 9:00 and 9:25 p.m., two airmen saw a low light over Torbay Airport near Pepperrell Air Force Base, in Newfoundland. The light resembled the landi…

On the night of July 25, 1953, multiple witnesses at Perrin Air Force Base in Texas and nearby civilians in Denison spotted seven unidentified objects in the sky. The sighting bega…

On February 13, 1953, at 1823 (6:23 p.m.) Eastern time, a soldier reported a fast moving object near Petersburg, Virginia. The witness was Private Rudolph Yaros, stationed at Camp…

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 February 17, 1953, military personnel at Port Austin, Michigan, witnessed something unusual in the night sky. At 10:04 p.m. (2204 EST), two officers and an airman spotted a glow…

On August 23, 1953, a Department of Civil Aviation official in Port Moresby, New Guinea, was near the Marine Base Workshops when he noticed a cloud forming in a south-westerly dire…

On October 16-17, 1953, radar operators at Presque Isle Air Force Base in Maine detected approximately 25 unidentified objects on their radar screens. The objects first appeared on…

On February 1, 1953, at about 9:00 p.m., a civilian saw a light in the sky near Quarryville, Pennsylvania. The witness, a farmer, was interviewed and the report was filed by an Air…

On February 23, 1953, between 0120 and 0125 (about 1:20 a.m.) Eastern time, a civilian man reported an unidentified light over Queens, New York. The case was investigated by the Of…

A crew of three experienced Air Force pilots watched something unusual while flying over Rabat, Morocco, on the night of March 25, 1953. What they saw changed course several times…

On February 16, 1953, at about 1630 (4:30 p.m.) local time, two civilian men reported an unidentified object near Raimer, Alabama. They were watching an Air Force B-47 bomber when…

On the night of June 30, 1953, at approximately 11:45 p.m., at least ten military personnel at the 912th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron in Ramore, Ontario, Canada, observed…

On the morning of May 25, 1953, five U.S. Air Force airmen near Ramore, Ontario, Canada, spotted an orange, round object in the sky. The men were driving back to their base around…

On the night of August 16, 1953, seven airmen stationed near Ramore, Ontario saw a bright orange object in the sky that hovered low on the western horizon. The first witness, Techn…

On February 3, 1953, a city woman in Ramsey, New Jersey, reported an unusual aerial object. She observed an oval object almost half the size of the moon, positioned near tree tops…

On the evening of September 15, 1953, near Rapid City, South Dakota, three separate witnesses reported seeing an unusual glowing object in the sky. The first sighting occurred arou…

On the night of August 5 into August 6, 1953, multiple witnesses reported seeing unusual lights in the sky over the Rapid City and Bismarck areas of South Dakota and North Dakota.…

On July 3, 1953, two civilians sat on a lawn near East 9th and Lake Streets in Reno, Nevada, and spotted a white, pinpoint-like object high in the sky. The observer's wife noticed…

On July 15, 1953, a man in Richland, Washington reported spotting an unusual object in the sky while entertaining guests from Portland. The witness was an engineer with professiona…

On February 10, 1953, in the early morning, several civilian guards reported objects over the Richmond Quartermaster Depot in Richmond, Virginia. The sightings happened at varying…

On December 29, 1953, near Rock Springs, Wyoming, a military air observer reported one object observed for 7 minutes. The object changed color from red to white like heated metal a…

This is an operations report from Project Blue Book covering March 16 to 21, 1953. Project Blue Book was the Air Force program that kept the official records of unidentified flying…

On December 11, 1953, four civilian witnesses in Rome, New York, observed a bright ball of light moving from east to west across the sky. The object brightened and then faded out.…

On February 6, 1953, a B-36 bomber flying near Spokane, Washington encountered something that would puzzle its crew for years. Around 9:13 a.m., Major Leo J. Moffatt, piloting the…

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 morning of October 9, 1953, a woman living in quarters near Sampson Air Force Base Hospital in Geneva, New York, heard an unusual loud roaring noise coming from the northeas…

On January 26, 1953, at 1:20 p.m., an airman at Sampson Air Force Base in Geneva, New York, saw a large rectangular object glowing in the sky. The object was roughly 150 feet long…

An undetermined number of lights appeared over San Antonio, Texas, on the evening of March 25, 1953, moving in unusual patterns that neither radar nor conventional explanations cou…

On the night of February 26 and 27, 1953, military personnel at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas observed one or more bright lights moving rapidly across the sky. The fi…

On the evening of January 9, 1953, three women in San Antonio, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky while driving home. They were stopped at a traffic light at the intersecti…

On August 5, 1953, at 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time, four civilians working near San Antonio, Texas saw an elliptical-shaped silvery object hovering silently in the sky. The obj…

On the night of June 2, 1953, a husband and wife in San Antonio, Texas witnessed something unusual in the sky. Around 10:20 p.m., the wife was hanging clothes in the backyard when…

# San Antonio UFO Sighting, May 7, 1953 On the evening of May 7, 1953, a civilian employee at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky.…

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…