Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 16, 1956, around midnight, witnesses near Homerville, Ohio saw two objects with lights like aircraft lights. The objects made a humming sound. Each appeared about the size…

On January 1, 1956, in Honshu, Japan, observers reported brilliant white flashes lasting 1 hour and 56 minutes. The sighting involved unknown number of objects with unknown course.…

On August 1, 1956, a civilian observer in Hosperus, Colorado reported seeing one yellowish funnel-shaped object. The observation was ground-visual. The object appeared stationary a…

On June 25, 1956, near Howell, Utah, two civilian observers aged 16 and 17 reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about four seconds. The…

On December 2, 1956, near Hugo, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing three white to yellowish lights. The objects appeared as one object that graduated in size from pea to…

On April 27, 1956, a civilian at Huntington, California, reported one object at 2110 (9:10 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On August 26, 1956, in Hyattsville, Maryland, a civilian observer reported seeing one object with the appearance of a conical shredded parachute. The object had a reddish to whitis…

On January 5, 1956, a pilot and his passenger flying an Aero Commander aircraft near Indianapolis, Indiana reported seeing a very bright, intermittent light while cruising at 5000…

On December 17, 1956, two U.S. Air Force pilots were practicing radar intercept maneuvers near Itazuke Air Base in Japan when one of them detected an unusual radar signal. The lead…

On October 24, 1956, a civilian saw several objects over Jackson, Mississippi. The witness happened to glance up while driving a car. The objects were in sight for about 13 to 15 s…

On July 3, 1956, a civilian in Jackson, Mississippi reported seeing two round objects about the size of a silver dollar. The objects were blue-white in front with a reddish flame t…

On August 28, 1956, a civilian in Juniata, Pennsylvania, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0255Z and lasted about three minutes. The witness described one cir…

On the night of August 27 to 28, 1956, a witness in Juniata, Pennsylvania saw one circular object with a clear dome on top. It looked about two to three feet across and had a very…

On the evening of November 27, 1956, several residents of Kadoka, South Dakota, reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky. The witnesses included a housewife, a bank clerk,…

In the pre-dawn hours of September 4, 1956, a bright object appeared in the sky near Kalispell, Montana. Multiple observers, including a county supervisor, a civil defense director…

On February 7, 1956, observers at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, saw a cluster of objects. The Greenwich time was 1400Z. The objects were seen from the ground, from the air,…

On June 25, 1956, in Kelso, Washington, a civilian observer reported seeing one small round object with a green flare and white light. The object moved back and forth for 51 minute…

On August 27, 1956, a military ground observer in Kent, Ohio, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1750Z (day) and lasted about two minutes. The witness, a 14-ye…

On August 4, 1956, at approximately 10 p.m., a Naval Officer sighted an unidentified flying object near Keystone Heights, Florida. The object traveled horizontally with several sma…

On July 3, 1956, an Army observer in Kingston, Washington reported seeing one object the size of a dime at arm's length with unknown shape. The object appeared in the east-southeas…

On August 19, 1956, a strange light was reported over Kuopio, Finland. The information came from a Helsinki newspaper article rather than a direct witness report. The light was see…

On January 30, 1956, a civilian in Lake Andes, South Dakota reported observing a silver object about the size of a half dollar held at arm's length. The object remained stationary…

# Lake Charles AFB Sighting, February 1956 On a February evening in 1956, an observer at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana saw an unusual object in the sky just after sunse…

In late March 1956, residents in and around Lake Leelanau, Michigan reported seeing a bright object in the night sky. The sightings occurred on March 26 and 27, with at least fifte…

On May 11, 1956, a civilian at Lake Leelanau, Michigan, reported one object that was watched for more than an hour. The witness was a car and live-bait dealer. The report was filed…

On July 22, 1956, near Lakeport, California, a civilian reported two objects. It was a ground visual sighting. The objects were observed for three to four seconds. The two objects…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the index cards on pages 1 and 11 provide metadata, indicating two separate sightings,…

In the evening of January 30, 1956, a 13-year-old Boy Scout in Seattle, Washington first spotted what he thought was an unusual object in the southeastern sky near his home. The ob…

On October 3, 1956, a military aircrew near Lamesa, Texas saw one bright metallic gold object. It looked round or oblong, about the size of a dime at arm's length, and had an exhau…

On November 25, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Lexington, Kentucky. The report came from a ground observer post. The witness described one object that appeared to divide int…

On August 9, 1956, near Liberty, Indiana, a civilian reported seeing three objects in a trail formation. The objects were about the size of a half-dollar and appeared to have a tra…

On April 1, 1956, a 14-year-old witness at Liberty, Missouri, reported many objects near the planet Venus. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record…

On August 1, 1956, in Lindsay, California, a civilian supervisor at a government facility observed an object during daylight hours. The object was described as half a dollar in siz…

On July 16, 1956, a civilian in Long Beach, California reported seeing a round object about the size of a pea with white and red flashes. The object was observed at an angle of 45…

On the afternoon of January 18, 1956, a resort operator driving home near Long Beach on Long Island noticed an unusual object in the sky. At first he thought it might be a crescent…

On September 20, 1956, near Long Island, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing two white cigar-shaped objects about the size of a small cloud. The objects were seen visually…

On August 3, 1956, a civilian on Long Island, New York reported seeing one star-like object with white color traveling east. The object wavered in flight, then continued on a strai…

On the morning of August 18, 1956, two civilians and one military observer near Longview, Washington watched a small, round, orange object move through the sky for about 48 minutes…

On May 16, 1956, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was watched for about 20 minutes, and the observer used bin…

On July 16, 1956, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian reported one object at about 11:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for several min…

On the night of October 27, 1956, seven people reported sighting unidentified flying objects from the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot near Crane, Indiana. Six witnesses at Crane Villag…

On the evening of May 23, 1956, a resident of Lumberton, Ohio saw a bright blue-white light moving across the sky. At 9:12 p.m. EST, the observer was walking in the driveway of his…

On February 3, 1956, a civilian observer in Luther, Michigan reported seeing a round object bright silver in color about 4 feet across. The object moved in a straight and level cou…

On March 7, 1956, a civilian on Ground Observer Corps duty at Lutz, Florida, reported two lights at 2116 (9:16 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offi…

On July 26, 1956, a civilian in Macon, Georgia, reported a single object in the sky. The sighting was recorded at 0230Z (in the early morning hours). The witness described one rou…

On August 29, 1956, a civilian observer in Marshalltown, Iowa reported seeing three round objects about the size of a pea at arm's length. The objects had red and green lights revo…

On the early morning of January 21, 1956, a resident of Maywood, New Jersey saw an unusual object in the sky while looking out a window. The witness was near a company yard at arou…

On January 23, 1956, at 4:00 p.m. local time, a circular disc-shaped object was sighted at McChord Air Force Base in Washington. The object measured one and a half feet in diameter…

On November 2, 1956, civilians saw three objects over McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The main witness worked at a steel company. About 25 people watched the objects for roughly four min…

On April 4, 1956, a civilian at McKinney, Texas, reported one object that was watched for about six hours. The witness was the local Weather Bureau observer, and an amateur astrono…

On the morning of July 27, 1956, a resident of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, saw an unusual object in the sky around 0400 (4 a.m.). The witness described it as resembling a flat-shaped ligh…

On December 8, 1956, an airline crew saw one object over Medford, Oregon. The sighting was made from a commercial airliner flying at about 20,000 feet. The object was in view for a…

On July 19, 1956, four separate witnesses in northern Maine reported seeing a fast-moving, flaming object pass across the sky in broad daylight. All four sightings occurred around…

A Maine housewife reported seeing a glowing green disc-shaped object near her children's swing on the evening of December 21, 1956. The woman, who lived about two miles outside the…

On January 9, 1956, a witness saw a glowing object over Miami, Florida. The local time was about 1849 (6:49 p.m.). The Greenwich time was 2340Z. The observer was a civilian. The we…

On March 10, 1956, at 10:09 a.m., a 14-year-old civilian student in Miami, Florida, reported seeing one round, small object. The object appeared as a small glow, white in color, ab…

On February 20, 1956, a person in Miami, Florida saw a wingless, silver object that resembled a blimp through binoculars. The object appeared very high in the sky. It traveled from…

On April 19, 1956, AF Major and dependents in Minneapolis, Minnesota reported seeing one octangular object from 8:20 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The object had plane surfaces the size of a q…

In December 1956, a man in Martinsdale, Montana wrote to the Air Force claiming he had found an unusual object that contained a self-powered unit activated by an unknown mineral. H…

On the night of May 22, 1956, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer near Monroe, Louisiana reported an extraordinary encounter with an unidentified object. First Lieu…