Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 25, 1958, a U.S. Navy officer stationed at Midway Island, in the Pacific Ocean, witnessed an unusual light in the sky that he observed for roughly twenty minutes. The witn…

On the night of July 20, 1958, a medical officer stationed at Oklahoma City Air Force Station reported seeing a round, bright white object hovering above Midwest City, Oklahoma. Th…

On the morning of September 29, 1958, witnesses across a wide area from Washington, D.C., to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported seeing a bright, fiery object moving rapidly across…

On the night of September 25 to 26, 1958, a bright object with an irregular tail of fire was observed moving across the sky over a four-state area including Mississippi, Alabama, G…

On November 19, 1958, a radar operator at Montauk Air Force Station in New York detected an unidentified object on his scope. The operator, Airman James A. Frey, worked at the stat…

On October 15, 1958, at 1025 (10:25 a.m.), multiple people in Montevideo, Uruguay saw a bright ball of fire cross the sky. The object was followed by an opaque, whitish trail of sm…

On the night of December 7, 1958, a man in Montevideo, Uruguay saw seven flying saucers pass silently overhead. The observer was standing in a high, dark location in the city at 11…

In October 1958, several witnesses near Montevideo, Uruguay, reported an object in the sky. The report reached the Air Force through an air attache and was studied by the Air Techn…

On September 16, 1958, a civilian observer lying in his back yard near Montgomery Field in San Diego, California, saw two circular objects in the afternoon sky. The objects were ab…

On September 16, 1954, at 4:52 p.m., a civilian witness at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia reported seeing a red object the size of a pin with a white bottom and bluish-green light…

On July 25, 1958, a red, shiny object was reported over Mt. Holly and Riverside, New Jersey. The sighting lasted 25 minutes. Civilian and military observers witnessed the object mo…

In the early morning of August 12, 1958, a woman living on a farm near Beebeetown, Iowa, was awakened by a bright light shining through her bedroom window. She described it as roun…

On the night of September 11, 1958, a U.S. Air Force officer aboard a surface vessel approaching the port of Hopa, Turkey observed an unusual series of events from the deck. While…

On October 13, 1958, at about 6:40 p.m., a man in Germany watched a bright object move across the sky near Kleinostheim, southeast of Aschaffenburg. He did not see it himself, but…

On August 14, 1958, a red, starlike object glowing very bright was sighted near New Port, Arkansas. The object was described as half the size of a dollar and disappeared instantane…

On October 17, 1958, at about 11:35 p.m., a civilian in New York City reported a round object in the sky. He telephoned an investigating office the next day to describe what he saw…

On September 28, 1958, at dusk near New York, NY, a red and blue-white object was sighted traveling west. The object broke into three parts and disappeared instantly. The observati…

On October 26, 1958, two men driving near Loch Raven Dam north of Baltimore, Maryland spotted a large, flat, egg-shaped object hovering between 100 and 150 feet above a bridge. As…

On November 23, 1958, at about 3:15 a.m., observers near Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, reported a falling object. A civilian ground observer about 12 miles west of DeFuniak Spring…

On a December 1958 night near Halsningberg, Sweden, two men claimed they had encountered and fought with alien beings who landed in a spacecraft. According to the report card, the…

On April 28, 1958, just north of Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, a civilian reported a single object in the daytime sky. The sighting lasted about 10 to 15 minutes. The object was…

# UFO Sighting North of New Orleans, January 1958 In early January 1958, a man and his two nephews traveling north of New Orleans reported seeing what they believed was the Soviet…

On June 8, 1958, just after midday, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a single object in the daytime sky. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes. The object wa…

On September 10, 1958 (11/0729Z), a civilian woman north of San Bernardino, California, reported an unidentified flying object at night. She described two objects, a large one in f…

On April 12, 1958, north of Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan, a civilian witness observed unidentified objects during daylight hours. Two large objects and six small objects we…

On June 28, 1958, near Nome, Alaska, several civilians reported a single bright object in the daytime sky. The sighting lasted about 1 to 2 seconds. Witnesses described a ball-shap…

On July 1, 1958, about 7:20 p.m., in Norfolk, Virginia, a civilian and several neighbors reported a single bright object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 29 minutes. The objec…

# North Turner, Maine, Summer 1958 In the summer of 1958, a family in North Turner, Maine reported seeing two silver-grey objects floating in the sky for more than five minutes. T…

On July 20, 1958, in Nunica, Michigan, a witness reported seeing an unidentified flying object at about 8:35 a.m. The object was round and shaped like an apple, colored white and r…

On the evening of January 10, 1958, a civilian resident of O'Fallon, Missouri reported seeing a bright object in the sky. The observer described it as star-like in appearance but n…

On February 4, 1958, two hunters found an object made of half plastic and half fiber in the Ohio River in Indiana. The hunters brought it to the OSI (Office of Special Investigatio…

On July 18, 1958, a civilian witness in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma reported seeing two white or silver, round disc-shaped objects about the size of a baseball. The objects were statio…

On January 3, 1958, a civilian in Old Westbury, Long Island, New York reported seeing a round object with the appearance of a cloud or end ball. The object was white, traveling ver…

On August 11, 1958, a civilian near Olean, New York, reported an unidentified flying object at 1945Z, during daytime. The witness described one round, silver object about the size…

On July 15, 1958, a draftsman in Oliver Springs, Tennessee, west of Knoxville, spotted an unusual object in the sky during the daytime. The object appeared as a small white dot, ab…

On December 11, 1958, two civilian observers and one military observer near Omaha, Nebraska, reported an object. The object was in sight for about two hours and ten minutes. A staf…

On July 16, 1958, in Oregon City, Oregon, a civilian witnessed a round object with a blurred edge on one side. The object was nickel-sized, red with a yellow halo, then turned whit…

On April 10, 1958, over Birmingham, Alabama, two Foxtrot 50 pilots flying west at 31,000 feet spotted a long slender silver object ahead of their flight path approximately 50 miles…

On May 7, 1958, over Fresno to San Francisco, California, military observers reported three bluish-white triangular objects similar to a star. The objects seemed to be stationary a…

On August 5, 1958, at 8:22 p.m., Captain J. S. Morrison, a pilot with the 9th Transport Squadron at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, reported a UFO sighting while flying over…

On August 9, 1958 (10/0458Z), an American Airlines pilot over Trent, Texas, reported an unidentified flying object from a DC-6 aircraft at about 15,000 feet. The pilot described a…

On November 18, 1958, a pilot flying over Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The object was oblong or cigar-shaped, about the size of a rolled-…

On August 26, 1958, a civilian and his wife in the Park Ridge, Illinois, area (home in Tinley Park, Illinois) reported an unidentified flying object between 9:58 and 10:05 p.m. The…

On May 16, 1958, a civilian witnessed a bright light in Parma, Ohio. The object remained stationary until an aircraft flew over it from west to east. When the aircraft passed the o…

On February 16, 1958, at 8:30 p.m. CST, a civilian airline pilot reported a sighting near Paynesville, West Virginia. The witness observed one object that was very bright, round, a…

On January 12, 1958, two women returning home from church near Sterling Avenue and Albany Avenue in Peoria, Illinois, spotted an unusual object hovering above electric light poles…

On July 2, 1958, just after midnight, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a single object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 6 to 8 seconds. The object look…

In August 1958, a photograph was submitted to the U.S. Air Force for evaluation from Phoenix, Arizona. The image showed what appeared to be an unidentified phenomenon. According to…

On a November morning in 1958 near Piqua, Ohio, a witness spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round and dirty white, roughly the size of a basketball, and see…

On August 4, 1958, a civilian woman and her 11-year-old son near Ponca City, Oklahoma, reported an unidentified flying object at 1015Z (about night). They described one round objec…

On November 3, 1958, between about 9:03 p.m. and 9:23 p.m., military observers at the air traffic control tower at Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina, reported an object. They wat…

On July 24, 1958, a civilian in Portland, Oregon, reported an unidentified flying object at about 9:30 p.m. (0529Z, July 25). The witness, a school custodian's helper, happened to…

On the morning of June 14, 1958, a weather observer at Pueblo, Colorado spotted an unusual object while tracking a pilot balloon with a theodolite (a surveying instrument used to m…

On June 9, 1958, a first lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force was flying an F-102 interceptor at around 40,000 feet near Puget Sound, Washington, when he spotted an unusual object in t…

On July 14, 1958, at 12:30 a.m., a military observer at Pyongtaek Auxiliary Airfield in Korea reported a sighting. A round, white object about the size of a baseball appeared brigh…

On July 12, 1958, at 2:45 a.m., a control tower operator at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a single white object about the size of a pinhead through binoculars. The obje…

On August 4, 1958, several military observers at Rapid City, South Dakota, reported an unidentified flying object at 1624Z while watching aircraft. Witnesses, including housewives…

In December 1958, a civilian in Redlands, California, reported seeing an unidentified flying object, though the details of the sighting were unusual and problematic. The observer,…

Two U.S. Air Force airmen stationed on Resolution Island in northern Canada spotted an unusual light in the night sky on October 17, 1958. At around 12:15 a.m., Airman R.R. Kane an…

On August 26, 1958, a civilian woman in Ridgefield, Washington, reported an unidentified flying object at about dusk. She described a little round ball of fire, yellowish-white in…