Project Blue Book Case Files

On the afternoon of September 20, 1959, a civilian housewife on the north side of Rutland, Vermont, saw a single object for about two minutes. It was a large, round, silver object.…

On July 15, 1959, in late daylight, a civilian in the southeast part of Salt Lake City, Utah, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unide…

On the evening of April 17, 1959, a mother and her adult son were driving on W.W. White Road near San Antonio, Texas when the mother pointed out an unusual object in the sky. The s…

On the evening of March 25, 1959, someone in San Antonio, Texas spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described it as bluish-white, roughly the size of a grapefru…

On the evening of October 2, 1959, military radar operators at Seattle tracked five unidentified objects on their screens. Several additional objects appeared but were not formally…

A woman driving southeast of Dayton, Ohio in July 1959 saw what she described as a big ball of fire falling toward her car. She said it appeared to explode above and in front of he…

On August 1, 1959, at about 1948Z, southeast of Madrid, Spain, an observer reported a bright object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object re…

On August 19, 1959, six people in Shelton, Connecticut reported sighting an unusual object in the evening sky. The object had the brightness and color of a first magnitude star and…

In August 1959, two residents of Silver Springs, Maryland, reported seeing three bright objects in the sky during the afternoon. Two of the objects appeared silver and shiny, while…

On the night of November 19, 1959, a civilian woodworker driving south of Crystal Springs, Mississippi, saw an object for about 5 to 6 minutes. The witness was rated reliable. The…

On March 7 to 8, 1959, a civilian about 1 mile south of Dublin, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was about 7:30 p.m. local time (0030Z) and lasted about 4 se…

On February 2, 1959, two civilians driving on the Ohio Turnpike near Sandusky, Ohio, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was about 6 p.m. local time (1100Z). The witnesses…

On September 22, 1959, at 8:00 p.m., a fourteen-year-old in South Charleston, West Virginia, saw a bright green object moving across the night sky. The object was round and about t…

On December 19, 1959, a radar station on Southern Victoria Island in Canada picked up an unidentified radar track. The radar operator tracked the object for one hour and thirty-thr…

In June 1959, crews flying reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea reported seeing unidentified objects near Macao. The sightings raised questions that Air Force investiga…

On September 27, 1959, multiple witnesses in Springfield and Fayetteville, Ohio, observed a bright object moving across the sky. The object was white in the front, blue in the midd…

On March 3, 1959, civilians in and near Stockton, California, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was between about 5:30 and 6 p.m. local time (about 0120 to 0200Z) and las…

On the evening of July 7, 1959, a doctor and his family standing on a beach near Surfside Pier, South Carolina, watched two unusual formations of lights pass overhead four times in…

On January 23, 1959, a civilian southwest of Herschel Island, Canada, reported an object low in the sky. The man was taking weather observations at a remote station. The object was…

On January 5, 1959, two airline pilots reported an object near Taft, California. The object was tracked from two aircraft on different headings. The sighting lasted about 4 to 5 se…

On August 18, 1959, at 1310 (1:10 p.m.), a person in Terre Haute, Indiana witnessed an unusual object at the zenith of its angular flight (the highest point in the sky directly ove…

On the night of October 26, 1959, a block of ice weighing 40 to 50 pounds fell from a clear sky onto a farm near Toccoa, Georgia. The ice made a loud whistling sound as it fell, si…

On the night of August 20, 1959, a civilian in the northern part of Trenton, New Jersey, watched lights in the sky for about 50 minutes. The man, a contractor and former aircraft e…

On a September evening in 1959, a resident of Trotwood, Ohio, spotted an unusual bright orange object in the night sky. The observer watched for about one and a half minutes as the…

On a clear night in August 1959, a civilian observer near Upper Greenwood Lake, New Jersey, reported seeing a moving light in the sky. The witness described the object as roughly t…

On the evening of January 5, 1959, two Air Force observers spotted an unusual bright light near Vance Air Force Base in Oklahoma. A radar operator and tower controller at the base…

On October 29, 1959, someone in Vandalia, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky. The object was blunt and white, with a fuzzy front and a tail that tapered to a sharp outline. It m…

On the evening of March 24, 1959, a resident of Vandalia, Ohio reported seeing a red and blue-green object in the night sky at 10 p.m. The witness was driving at about 20 miles per…

On February 24 to 25, 1959, a civilian about 8 miles south of George Air Force Base near Victorville, California, reported a low flying object. The sighting was about 9 p.m. local…

In June 1959, a U.S. Navy sailor on leave at Waikiki Beach took a photograph that would catch the attention of the Air Force's UFO investigators. The sailor, who was stationed aboa…

On September 7, 1959, at 0230 (2:30 a.m.), a man in Wallingford, Kentucky, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The object was roughly 30 to 40 feet in diameter and 15 to…

Before dawn on October 21, 1959, a civilian at Warsaw, New York, saw four bright lights for about 20 to 30 minutes. The witness, a race-horse trainer, was rated reliable. The light…

On October 12, 1959, residents of Washington, Georgia noticed something strange falling from the sky. A thin, web-like substance drifted down over the town and nearby areas for nea…

On the evening of June 3, 1959, a retired Air Force officer and his wife spotted something unusual from the roof of their home in Washington, D.C., at around 11 p.m. The object app…

A visitor from Portugal photographed the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C. in February 1959. When he later examined the photograph, he noticed a bright spot of light in the…

On July 10, 1959, at about 0335Z, an observer in the control tower at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's u…

On the evening of November 29, 1959, near West Branch, Michigan, an observer spotted eight evenly spaced objects in the sky for about three seconds. The objects appeared to be red…

On the evening of September 28, 1959, a witness in West Carrolton, Ohio saw a brilliant white object moving in a straight line toward the north across the sky. The object had no ta…

On the evening of January 27, 1959, residents across a wide area reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. In West Palm Beach, Florida, witnesses described a fiery streak that cr…

On July 3, 1959, a man vacationing at Conference Point Camp in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, was lying on the grass during a group discussion when he noticed a bright point of light in…

On May 9, 1959, at about 2313Z, at night, a witness in Wilmington, Delaware, reported a bright object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object…

On March 8, 1959, a civilian airline pilot west of Augustine Island, Alaska, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was about 4:39 a.m. (1139Z) and lasted about 3…

On February 14, 1959, military pilots west of Misawa, Japan, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was at 1000Z and the light conditions were dark. The object was…

On the night of February 11, 1959, pilots flying commercial airliners reported seeing a very bright white flash in the sky west of Phillipsburg, Pennsylvania. The flash was about t…

On February 12, 1959, pilots near Tanana, Alaska spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object was a balloon roughly 50 feet across and about 30 percent taller than it was wide,…

On September 27, 1959, a resident of Woodlawn, Ohio saw three steady lights in the sky, colored red, green, and white. The lights appeared to stay in one place while he watched the…

On September 1, 1959, in Woodlawn, Ohio, a witness reported seeing an object described as looking like an info or disc. The first object slowly disappeared on the horizon. The witn…

On two dates, the middle of summer 1958 and March 15, 1959, a civilian near Worthington, Pennsylvania, reported seeing the same object. He wrote to the Air Force after reading a bo…

In 1959, west-southwest of Meridian, an aircraft crew reported a bright light. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record system. Three me…

On July 24 and 25, 1959, multiple reports came in from the Yakima, Bremerton, and Bellingham areas of Washington State of colored lights in the sky. The reports were collected thro…

On November 7, 1959, north of the Hawaiian Islands, a civilian aboard a ship observed a bright object that struck the water and made a low arc while emitting at least three flashes…

On the afternoon of October 26, 1959, a civilian mortician in Mobile, Alabama, saw a single object for about three seconds. He was looking over some trees near Government Street an…

On the evening of September 29, 1959, military personnel at RAF Station Kirknewton in Scotland observed an unusual light in the sky. The first sighting occurred at approximately 20…

On March 13 and 14, 1959, military pilots and ground radar operators near Duluth, Minnesota reported seeing an unidentified flying object in the western sky. The object was describ…

On the early morning of July 11, 1959, over the North Pacific near Hawaii, multiple commercial airline pilots reported seeing an unusually bright light that moved at high speed and…

On September 9, 1959, a crew aboard a U.S. Air Force C-97 cargo plane spotted an unusual sight near Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. The aircraft was flying at 6,000 feet, heading…

On July 21, 1959, a crew member aboard the USS Robidoux, a Navy destroyer operating off the coast of Florida, reported seeing an unusual aerial object. The witness observed a brigh…

A pilot at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., and five other witnesses watched a white light cross the night sky on August 2, 1959. The sighting lasted seven minutes. The…

In January 1959, a ship at sea approximately one thousand miles southwest of the Azores Islands reported observing an intensely bright object in the sky. The object pulsated throug…

A weather observer at Koon-Ni Range in South Korea watched a crescent-shaped silver object through a surveying telescope on the night of October 19, 1959. The object appeared to be…