Project Blue Book Case Files

On December 17, 1955, an unusual high speed track appeared on ground radar at Mount Laguna, California. The local time was about 0945 (9:45 a.m.). The observers were USAF radar ope…

In August 1955, a young man driving near Mulberry Corners, Ohio reported an extraordinary encounter. According to his account, he saw what he thought was a shooting star around 1:3…

# Mulberry Corners, Ohio - July/August 1955 In late July or early August 1955, a couple in Willoughby, Ohio reported seeing a large, circular object hovering near their home north…

On January 24, 1955, a woman in Murrieta, California saw a shiny, aluminum-colored object in the sky around 1635 hours (4:35 p.m.). The object appeared solid and round, resembling…

On about August 26, 1955, in Muscatine, Iowa, civilians at a Ground Observer Corps post reported a star-shaped object. Witnesses included a state worker, a salesman, and a paint st…

On September 4, 1955, before dawn near Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, military witnesses saw an object. The observers were a pilot and a weather forecaster. The Air Force time stam…

On September 30, 1955, near Cedar City, Utah, four civilians reported an object. The sighting lasted about two hours. The Air Force time stamp was 1800Z. The witnesses described o…

On August 23, 1955, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a civilian who was watching the stars saw small objects in the sky. The observer was about five miles north of Rockville Bridge.…

On May 17, 1955, a civilian near MacDill Air Force Base, Florida reported a sighting at night. The observer believed he saw a flying saucer. It looked like a large square glow in t…

On February 11, 1955, near Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands, the crew of a military C-124 transport reported an object. It was yellow or amber in color and shaped like a jack-o-lanter…

On August 9, 1955, near Saginaw, Michigan, a ground observer reported one rectangular, white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for…

On September 4, 1955, near Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, military witnesses reported an object. The observers were a pilot and a weather forecaster. The Air Force time stamp was 1…

On July 12, 1955, a civilian in Newark Valley, New York reported seeing one or two objects that appeared close together. The objects were round, clear plastic in color, and similar…

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# New Orleans, Louisiana - February 1955 During Mardi Gras celebrations in February 1955, four people in New Orleans saw an object in the sky that caught their attention. The obje…

On July 21, 1955, in Newport, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a shapeless, white object that flashed off and on. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its offici…

On July 21, 1955, in Newport, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a shapeless, yellow and white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for…

On July 9, 1955, at Newport Beach, California, a civilian reported one object. The duration was unknown. The object moved from the witness's location toward San Diego. The object…

On May 3, 1955, a civilian in New York, New York saw a single object. The witness watched from the seventh floor of a New York City apartment building. The sighting lasted about tw…

On a morning in March 1955, an elderly woman in New York City looked out her window and saw something strange in the sky. She described a white, oval-shaped object floating in the…

In early March 1955, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard area in New York, a housewife and two marines reported an object near the George Washington Bridge. It appeared as a white flickering…

On Sunday, May 15, 1955, at 4 p.m., a television technician named Warren Siegmond was on the roof of a Chelsea public housing building in Manhattan with a young French woman, Jeann…

On September 4, 1955, at 4:05 a.m. in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, eight civilian witnesses observed a round object like a light bulb, colored white-yellow and extremely bright. The…

On the night of August 17, 1955, into the early morning, a civilian woman saw a strange light while driving northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. She was an elementary school teacher who…

On April 9, 1955, a civilian in Oakland, California reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting happened in the evening, around 8:20 p.m. local time. The witness was driving…

On September 1, 1955, in Oakland, California, a civilian observer reported seeing a ball-shaped object with a dark blue color and a tail on fire. The object was observed for 60 sec…

In 1955, in the Oakland Bay area of California, a ground observer on duty reported a round object. It was about the size of a pin head held at arm's length and silver in color. A B…

On December 17, 1955, many people across Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma reported strange objects in the sky. The Greenwich time was 0334Z on December 18. The reports came from ci…

In August 1955, a man in Old Greenwich, Connecticut shot what he believed to be a color photograph of a flying saucer. The object appeared as a small, bright blue-white point of li…

On May 13, 1955, a civilian near Old Town and Bradley, Maine saw a single object at night, around 11:45 p.m. local time. The witness was a barber who worked at Dow Air Force Base.…

On June 10, 1955, a civilian housewife in Ontario, California saw a single object in daylight. The sighting lasted about two minutes. The object appeared to be falling. The object…

On July 4, 1955, near 4:02 p.m. local time, witnesses in Orlando, Florida reported a single round, large, white object. The report came in under Project 10073, the Air Force's offi…

On July 26, 1955, the pilot of a B-47 reported one round, white object while over Kansas City, Kansas. This was a military air-visual sighting. The Air Force recorded the report un…

On the morning of October 3, 1955, a school bus driver and civilian pilot near Oxford, Pennsylvania saw an unusual object in the sky. The man, standing beside his car on the northe…

On June 8, 1955, a civilian near Paine Air Force Base, Washington saw a single object at night. The object moved on an erratic course and was still being watched when the report wa…

On August 25, 1955, a round silver object the size of a baseball was sighted in Paisley, Oregon. The object was seen by civilian and military observers (GOC) and appeared very high…

On July 1, 1955, near Palm Beach, Florida, a civilian witness reported a single conical, white light with a tail. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its officia…

On July 14, 1955, at 3:12 a.m., a military observer at Palm Beach, Florida reported a sighting. One conical white light with tail exhaust was observed moving smoothly to point and…

On September 13, 1955, at 1:01 a.m. near Palmdale, California, a civilian witnessed an object with a flat top and bottom with rounded ends. The object had a diameter equal to a sil…

# Summary On the evening of February 19, 1955, a group of people on a beach near San Diego, California saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness who filed the report was Paul…

On a June morning in 1955, the captain, first officer, and radio operator of a Dutch tanker observed an oblong object in the sky above the Mediterranean Sea near Pantelleria Island…

In March 1955, Eugene Metcalf of Paris, Illinois reported witnessing what he described as a jet aircraft being abducted by an unidentified flying object. According to Metcalf's acc…

On June 4, 1955, near Parker, Arizona, a civilian on the ground and a military pilot flying overhead reported seeing an unusual object in the evening sky. The civilian watched thro…

A Ground Observer Corps spotter near Parksburg, Pennsylvania watched the night sky on March 3, 1955, and reported seeing many red objects that expanded to between 6 and 8 feet wide…

Mrs. Anne Chamberlin, a 42-year-old Ground Observer Corps volunteer in Penbrook, Pennsylvania, reported seeing unidentified flying objects on two separate occasions in July 1955. O…

On July 12, 1955, at Penbrook, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about three minutes. The object was saucer-shaped and…

On July 12, 1955, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported five objects over a period of about twenty minutes, each visible from five to fifteen seconds. The sighting was…

On July 12, 1955, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, civilian witnesses reported five objects over a period of about twenty minutes, each visible from five to fifteen seconds. The sigh…

On July 23, 1955, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a civilian ground observer reported one round, light-colored object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its offic…

In January 1955, residents of Pittsfield and Detroit, Maine, reported seeing a bright blue-white object in the sky that resembled a four-foot circular saw with sharply outlined edg…

On January 31 through February 8, 1955, a civilian reported observing a bright blue-white star-like object near Pittsfield and Detroit, Maine. The object appeared about the size of…

On August 1955 in Platte County, Missouri, a civilian witness reported seeing a strange light over more than two hours after dark. The light moved up and down like a rotating aircr…

In April 1955, near Plattsburg, New York, an observer reported an object to the east at about 1:51 a.m. (0651Z). The object then disappeared and reappeared at about 3:34 a.m. (0834…

On October 11, 1955, from about 2100Z to 2330Z, two civilians saw an object near Point Lookout, Maryland, at Cornfield Harbor. The men were from West Hyattsville, Maryland; one wor…

On October 2, 1955, Captain E. N. Wood was piloting a Colonial Airlines DC-3 aircraft about five miles west-northwest of Poughkeepsie, New York, when he spotted an unusual object.…

On June 22, 1955, a civilian in Poulsbo, Washington saw three objects at night. They were seen to the southwest of a Ground Observer Corps station. The sighting lasted about one ho…

On June 22, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps chief observer in Poulsbo, Washington saw objects in the sky at night. The chief observer was on duty at a Ground Observer Corps…

On December 1, 1955, near Pueblo, Colorado, a man and his wife saw a strange object while driving about 29 miles south of Pueblo. The time was about 1500 (3:00 p.m.). There were no…

On January 11, 1955, at 11:21 p.m., a civilian in Queens, New York City reported seeing two objects moving south at high altitude. The objects were circular in shape and moved slig…

On the evening of July 31, 1955, a man standing in his backyard in Rego Park, Queens, saw four spherical objects that reminded him of glowing light bulbs. They appeared to be about…