Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of October 24, 1957, military personnel and commercial pilots near San Diego, California witnessed an object that maneuvered rapidly across the sky while staying jus…

On April 18, 1957, at 8:32 a.m. in San Pedro, California, two round objects were sighted. The objects were white in color and measured 49 feet in diameter. Witnesses thought the ob…

On April 21, 1957, in Santa Barbara, California, a civilian witness observed three diamond-shaped objects in a triangle formation. The objects were seen directly overhead heading n…

On November 5, 1957, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, a civilian reported seeing a red and white flashing object about the size of a silver dollar. The object was round with a white circ…

On July 30, 1957, near Santa Maria, California, six objects with a round size and basket-like color were sighted moving in a straight line. Objects were described as five balls of…

On November 25, 1957, at 1:05 p.m., a witness in Santa Rosa, Texas, observed a round object about the size of a baseball, brown in color, with binoculars. The object appeared to ha…

In July 1957, observers near Schenectady and Albany, New York reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The object was described as oval in shape, roughly the size of a dime at…

On November 5, 1957, at 5:30 p.m., a civilian in Scotia, Nebraska reported seeing an object overhead that sounded like a helicopter and smelled like burning fuel. The object looked…

# Seattle, Washington, October 1957 Two soldiers at a Nike missile battery near Seattle spotted something unusual in the sky while watching an airliner approach the airport. The t…

On April 29, 1957, at night, a husband and wife in Seattle, Washington reported a sighting while watching a comet. They were standing outside their home. The sky was clear and the…

On the night of November 26, 1957, an investigator near Seoul, Korea reported one brightly lit object hovering over a mountain. The witness, described as a trained investigator, sa…

On the night of August 7, 1957, a mysterious flying object with flashing red, blue, green, and white lights was sighted over several towns across north-central Indiana. The sightin…

On the evening of August 14, 1957, at around 7:53 p.m., two bright lights maneuvered across the sky above Severna Park, Maryland. Three witnesses, including a professional engineer…

On October 14, 1957, a witness at Sewart Air Force Base in Tennessee reported a single object in the sky. The report was made by military personnel. The sighting was a ground visua…

In July 1957, someone in Shiloh, Ohio found a large black stone and reported it as a meteorite to the Air Force. The object was sent to the Air Force Institute of Technology for ex…

On a night in November 1957, someone at Shiroi Air Base in Japan observed an object in the sky that the Air Force could not immediately explain. The object rose toward the northwes…

# Shiroi Air Base Sighting, November 1957 On the evening of November 7, 1957, military and civilian personnel at Shiroi Air Base in central Japan observed a starlike object moving…

On November 9, 1957, a civilian near Shreveport, Louisiana reported three white, brightly lighted objects with green flashing lights in close formation. One seemed to be towing an…

On the evening of August 25, 1957, a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland reported seeing a blue-white formation of luminous objects in the sky. The witness described the objects as…

On October 25, 1957, a witness south of Bismarck, North Dakota, reported one object in the sky. The witness was a civilian ground observer. The sighting was a ground visual observa…

In October 1957, a weather observer at a meteorological station south of Cajamarca, Peru reported seeing a bright, gleaming white object on multiple occasions. The observer used a…

On November 11, 1957, south of Knoxville, Tennessee, a civilian witness observed an unidentified object similar to an electric light bulb the size of a basketball. The object was y…

In March 1957, a South Bend, Indiana woman reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky on multiple occasions. In her account, she described the first sighting as occurring aro…

On June 28, 1957, at South Fork Meadow, California, a civilian witness reported seeing large white lights twice the size of stars flying in formation. Between 9:45 p.m. and 10:15 p…

On January 16, 1957, in South Laguna, California, a civilian observer reported seeing two or three objects in the sky around 5:13 p.m. The objects appeared suddenly, brightened, di…

On December 25, 1957, a civilian in South Pass, Louisiana reported seeing a round, bright white light moving slowly but faster than a star or planet. The object made no sound and f…

On a misty morning in Springfield, Ohio, two police officers saw an unusual light streak across the sky in early November 1957. The sighting lasted only about ten seconds, but it s…

On November 11, 1957, a couple near Rogersville, Missouri reported seeing a bright, egg-shaped object that approached slowly from the west, flying low over their home. The object w…

On the evening of November 6, 1957, at 8:40 p.m., a witness in Springfield, Ohio saw a very bright white light in the sky moving in a weaving pattern. The object appeared to be abo…

On November 1957, a witness at St. Albans, West Virginia, reported one object in the sky. The witness was a civilian ground observer. The object moved straight down. The object fi…

On July 28, 1957, from about 9:40 p.m. to 10:05 p.m., a civilian at the Stamford Yacht Club in Stamford, Connecticut reported a sighting. The observation lasted about 22 minutes.…

On February 14, 1957, an Air Force detachment at Stead Air Force Base, Nevada, reported a single object. The witnesses included a control tower operator and a weather observer. The…

On December 13, 1957, at 2:22 a.m., a civilian driving west on Page Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri, observed an oblong object with a tail, about the size of a baseball bat, yello…

On September 17, 1957, at about 1100 (11:00 a.m.) central time in St. Louis, Missouri, a civilian graduate student saw one disc-shaped object. It was metallic gray and estimated at…

On November 11 and 12, 1957, in Sudehobamba, Peru, a civilian worker reported observing an object with the appearance of a balloon, although too high to identify. The object was vi…

On the evening of November 10, 1957, military observers near Tokyo, Japan reported seeing a bright object moving across the dusk sky. Lieutenant Colonel Marshall E. Bailey and Spec…

On November 12, 1957, around 1:00 a.m. GMT, a civilian near Tallassee, Alabama reported a tear-shaped object in a horizontal position. The object had a fluorescent appearance and m…

On a day in 1957, civilians in Tallmadge, Ohio reported a sighting. The observation lasted about ten minutes. Witnesses saw two or three objects that were round and black. The obj…

On November 6, 1957, witnesses at Tampa, Florida, reported one object in the sky around 9:15 p.m. The witnesses were civilians, including several family members and neighbors. One…

On October 23, 1957, in Tehran, Iran, a consistent American observer with wife and servant watched for one and a half hours as a high vapor trail formed above the city going east t…

On April 9, 1957, a sonic boom woke residents of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. Later that morning, ten-year-old Pat Murphy discovered a strange cone-shaped hole in…

On December 3, 1957, a civilian in Tensleep, Wyoming, reported seeing a round, white object brighter than a star at 4:45 a.m. The object appeared at a 45-degree angle from the grou…

On May 31, 1957, someone in Terre Haute, Indiana, looked up and saw an object shaped like a quarter moon, about the size of a basketball, colored light orange. It hung in the sky w…

On December 5, 1957, near Texarkana, Texas, a civilian reported seeing six white lights with no visible shape traveling northwest to southeast for ten to twelve minutes. The lights…

On October 10, 1957, at about 1140 (Greenwich time) near Thermopolis, Wyoming, a civilian saw one round white object about the size of a quarter held at arm's length. The object fl…

On the night of October 10-11, 1957, a bright fireball streaked across the sky over northeastern Utah and Wyoming, spotted by military pilots, ground observers, and civilians acros…

On July 23, 1957, at 12:30 p.m. in Thompson, Iowa, a student witnessed three oblong and flat silver objects moving in a straight line across the sky. The sighting lasted 13-20 seco…

On the night of February 13, 1957, radar operators at Tierra Amarilla Air Force Station in northern New Mexico detected two unidentified objects in the sky. According to the case f…

A science teacher from Tiffin, Ohio reported seeing a flash of light while driving home from work on November 17, 1957. The following day, he returned to the area and found a spher…

On the evening of December 8, 1957, a U.S. Navy intelligence officer driving between Tiflet and Monor, Morocco, spotted a bright light in the southwestern sky. The object appeared…

A tower operator at Tocumen International Airport in Panama scanned the night sky on October 5, 1957, and spotted what looked like a bright white object about 20 inches across. The…

On November 12, 1957, around 1:30 a.m. GMT, a civilian near Torrance, California reported a round white object like a bright star, the size of a quarter. The object moved at a high…

On November 5, 1957, at Travis County Prison in Georgia, a civilian observer reported sighting an unidentified object at approximately 12:22 a.m. local time. The object was describ…

On November 9, 1957, a civilian near Tullahoma, Tennessee reported one ball-shaped object. The object was bright silvery white and appeared to be descending. The length of the sigh…

On January 17, 1957, at 6:30 p.m. in Twenty-Nine Palms, California, a civilian witness observed a round, pea-sized yellow object with a yellow rod in its appearance. The object mov…

On the night of August 21, 1957, near Uzundzhovo Airfield in Bulgaria, a foreign military officer driving through the country saw a lighted object in the sky. The sighting lasted a…

On June 20, 1957, in Vandalia, Ohio, an observer reported a round object slowly climbing northward to ATIC Command Post. The sighting was confirmed by a local U.S. weather bureau s…

On May 21, 1957, in Ventura, California, a school teacher and approximately 20 students observed a round, silver or white object in the sky at 8:30 a.m. The object made a loud nois…

The Levelland sightings began around 10:50 p.m. on November 2, 1957, when truck driver Pedro Saucedo called the Levelland Police Department to report a strange experience on a rura…

# Case Summary In December 1957, residents near Nome, Alaska reported seeing bright, fast-moving objects in the night sky over a period of about thirty minutes. Multiple witnesses…