Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 31, 1954, pilots from the Fourth Fighter Interceptor Group in Korea observed an unusually large, round, shiny object while on a routine training mission. The object was w…

On June 1, 1954, at about 4:30 a.m. local time in Mississippi City, Mississippi, six civilians reported one object for about two minutes. It was round, the size of a baseball, and…

On the night of June 30, 1954, witnesses at Mobile, Alabama, reported a brilliant silver object in the sky. The sighting lasted from about 19 to 62 seconds depending on the witness…

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…

On January 17, 1954, a black object was reported near Morris, South Australia. The witness was a commercial traveler. The sighting began at 1810 (6:10 p.m.) and lasted about 15 min…

On August 19, 1954, a person traveling by car near Moundsville, West Virginia reported seeing an unusual object from the rear window of the vehicle. The observer described a disc-s…

The Air Force received photographs of an unusual flying object in June 1954 from a civilian photographer in the Lincolnwood, Illinois area. The photographer reported taking two pic…

On April 23, 1954, at about 9:08 p.m. local time near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, a ground witness reported one object for about 45 seconds. It was greenish and surrounded by a w…

On the evening of May 31, 1954, a woman attending a drive-in movie theater near Napavine, Washington, reported seeing an unusual object descending toward the ground. She described…

On January 23, 1954, a civilian in Naperville, Illinois reported seeing moving lights that made a sharp turn. The object was observed for 5 minutes traveling at an estimated 600 to…

On October 31, 1954, commercial airline pilots and observers from Nebraska and Missouri reported seeing a bright meteor. The object appeared in the night sky with a large, glowing…

On February 23, 1954, a federal employee standing near the Washington Monument reported seeing an unusual object in the sky around 1645 hours (4:45 p.m.) while waiting for a bus. T…

On September 21, 1954, at approximately 5:34 p.m., a driver traveling between Carthage, Missouri and Fayetteville, Arkansas observed an unidentified flying object near Neosho, Miss…

On August 4, 1954, a civilian in Neustadt, Germany reported observing a round, orange object with straight and circular flight pattern. The object appeared to rise at angles betwee…

On September 18, 1954, a civilian reported an object near New Baden, Illinois. The witness was a senior engineer at Scott Air Force Base who was fishing for bass in the early morni…

On July 13, 1954, in Newburgh, New York, a civilian reported seeing an unusual object. The witness, a 35-year-old male librarian attending a concert with his wife, observed a brigh…

On the afternoon of Monday, February 26, 1954, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a housewife standing in the parking lot at the rear of Newburyport High School heard a loud roaring so…

On the night of November 6, 1954, military observers reported objects over New Castle Air Force Base, Delaware. The objects were seen three times over about 3 to 4 minutes and were…

On August 22, 1954, in New York, New York, military observers reported a sighting. A tear-drop shaped object remained stationary at 20,000 feet. Two additional shiny objects moved…

On June 18, 1954, a civilian witness in New York saw a round, metallic object from the roof of a five-story building. The sighting lasted 10 to 15 seconds. The object looked oval a…

On the morning of December 24, 1954, an F-86D pilot was flying a routine combat air patrol near Nogales, Arizona when he spotted something unusual. At approximately 0519Z (5:19 a.m…

On May 14, 1954, at about 3:40 p.m. near Norwich, Norfolk, England, military pilots reported one object. It was round, the size of a dinner plate at arm's length, and silver or gra…

On July 18, 1954, in Normandy, Missouri, a greenish white object was sighted at 30 degrees elevation moving west at 30 degrees azimuth. The object disappeared to the northwest in 3…

In 1954, an object was reported near Norris, Tennessee at dawn. The sighting was made by air visual observation and filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for u…

On July 2, 1954, a resident of North Arlington, Virginia, witnessed a small, silver object in the sky for about 40 to 45 seconds. The object appeared roughly the size of a half-dol…

On the night of October 4, 1954, a civilian reported objects over North Arlington, Virginia. The witness was a housewife, and the sighting was confirmed by another person. It laste…

On the nights of December 4 and 5, 1954, a woman in Northeast, Pennsylvania reported seeing a strange object hovering near Lake Erie. She described it as bright orange, shaped like…

In 1954, a high flying object was reported near Norwich, Connecticut. The sighting was made from the ground, with reports on two dates, the 20th at about 2100 Zulu and the 29th at…

On the evening of March 5, 1954, military pilots and radar operators near Nouasseur Air Base in French Morocco reported seeing unidentified flying objects. Several aircraft in the…

On October 1, 1954, at Nouasseur, French Morocco, a military observer reported a single unidentified object. The witness watched for 30 seconds as a round, silver object the size o…

On the afternoon of September 17, 1954, control tower operators at Ciampino Air Base near Rome, Italy, watched a mysterious cigar-shaped object move slowly across the sky at an alt…

On October 7, 1954, at 8:05 p.m. in Oahu, Hawaii, a civilian reported two bright star-like objects. One object joined the other to fly off to the northwest. The rear object was in…

On April 16, 1954, at about 8:15 p.m. local time at Sandy Beach near Oahu, Honolulu, a civilian observer reported one object. It was a brilliant red light hovering at about 3,000 t…

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…

In 1954, a fast moving object was reported over Oak Park, Illinois. The witnesses were civilians, and the sighting was made from the ground at 0030 Zulu time. The report was filed…

On October 1, 1954, at Oceana, Virginia, a Navy pilot and ground observers reported a sighting of a single object. The object appeared as a solid trail of blue-white light with no…

On the evening of November 14, 1954, a resident of Ogden, Utah reported seeing an unusual object in the sky through a window of their home. The object appeared whitish-yellow in co…

On October 1, 1954, at 8:03 a.m., military personnel at Olmstead Air Force Base in Pennsylvania observed one object during daylight hours. The sighting lasted 3 to 5 seconds. The o…

On October 9, 1954, an observer at Olmsted Air Force Base in Pennsylvania watched a white, transparent object move across the sky for about 30 minutes. The object appeared to have…

On June 18, 1954, at 7:42 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, personnel at Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown, Pennsylvania spotted a round, silver object hovering to the southwest of th…

On January 2, 1954, at about 12:55 a.m. GMT near Omaha, Nebraska, civilian and military observers reported one object. The witnesses, including two students and an Air Force major,…

On May 11, 1954, at about 8:45 a.m. local time in Omaha, Nebraska, a civilian reported one object for about two minutes. The witness described it as flat and oval, the size of a fo…

On March 2, 1954, three objects were reported near Orangeville, Maryland. The sighting was made from the ground and lasted about 15 minutes. The report was filed under Project 1007…

On January 6, 1954, at about 3 p.m. GMT (about 8:23 p.m. local) near Oscoda, Michigan, an airman reported one object over Wurtsmith Air Force Base. It was watched for about 16 minu…

On December 19, 1954, a military witness near Palm Beach Air Force Base, Florida, reported a sighting in the sky. The observation moved toward the south. The object was described…

On March 8, 1954, near Panama City, Florida, two housewives observed an unidentified object for approximately five minutes. The first observer called the second's attention to what…

On August 30, 1954, a civilian in Paris, France, reported an object in the sky. The witness was a Paris resident. The person saw a glowing, circular object flying over the city. T…

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…

On the evening of August 21, 1954, military observers at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared as a dome projecting underneath…

On June 15, 1954, an airman at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida reported seeing a bright, glowing object hanging in the sky near a local flying field. The object was roughly the s…

In 1954, bright objects were reported over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sighting was made from the ground and filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On August 22, 1954, between 1940 and 2005 hours (7:40 p.m. and 8:05 p.m.), residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The objects wer…

On October 5, 1954, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a civilian witness reported observing eight objects in elliptical formation. The sighting occurred during daylight hours when the…

On the evening of January 16, 1954, two teenage boys in Picayune, Mississippi spotted something unusual in the sky. The young men, both students at the local high school, were stan…

On March 11 and 12, 1954, anti-aircraft artillery units stationed near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania reported an unusual radar signal that sparked one of the most complex UFO investigat…

On April 23, 1954, at about 5:32 a.m. local time in Pittsfield, Maine, two ground witnesses reported one object for about four minutes. They described a circular, saucer-shaped obj…

In December 1954, near Porto Alegre, Brazil, a foreign military officer reported objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about two hours. The report came through an attached intell…

On June 19, 1954, a civilian in Poughkeepsie, New York, observed a round object in the sky during daylight hours. The witness described the object as appearing to be made of glass,…

On February 23, 1954, in Price, Pennsylvania, a civilian witness observed a ball of fire that moved and disappeared over a hill, then started a fire. The sighting lasted 5 seconds.…

On August 29, 1954, a Dutch airline pilot flying near Prince Christian, Greenland, observed what he described as a formation of dark or lenticular (lens-shaped) objects. The pilot…