Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 9, 1957, near Parkersburg, West Virginia, a pilot of a KC-97 aircraft on a refueling mission reported sighting a bright object moving across the horizon at very high vel…

On the evening of June 24, 1957, a resident of Villa Grove, Colorado spotted an unusual object in the sky while standing near a highway. The witness described the object as round a…

On October 12, 1957, at about 2025 (Greenwich time) in Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, a civilian saw one opaque sphere about five feet across. The object hovered for about 90 secon…

On Sunday, April 14, 1957, at 3 p.m., two women walking near Vins-sur-Caramy in southern France saw a metallic cone-shaped object land about 100 meters from them. The object was ro…

On September 23, 1957, in Virginia Beach, Virginia, a round, silver-white object approximately 1/3 feet in diameter was sighted by several civilians. The object lit up periodically…

On the morning of January 4, 1957, a caretaker at Shady Lanes Rest Home in Wadena, Minnesota saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness used binoculars to observe what he descri…

On November 6, 1957, at 1152 hours (11:52 a.m.), a civilian in Walden, New York reported an oblong object about the size of a blimp. The object appeared rosy at first, then faded t…

On the evening of September 5, 1957, near Wales, North Dakota, an object or objects were seen in the sky. The case file is made up of letters. A university man wrote to his senator…

On November 5, 1957, at 11:55 p.m., a civilian in Walworth, Wisconsin reported seeing a small, round object that was red and white with a flashing light. The object was first stati…

On January 18, 1957, a civilian in Washington, D.C. reported observing one round bluish-green object about half a dollar in size. The object appeared as a star except for its color…

On May 1, 1957, an object described as "one bright electric blue round object with tail" was observed in the sky above Washington, D.C. The object moved from east to west in a stra…

On June 2, 1957, in Waterloo, Iowa, one object of unknown shape and pan-colored pink was sighted at 3:09 a.m. The object was stationary below the horizon with no maneuvers observed…

On December 21, 1957, near Waverly, Iowa, an observer reported two round white objects in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 45 seconds. The objects were said to be the size…

On November 8, 1957, at 12:01 a.m. in Waverly, Illinois, a civilian witness reported seeing an object larger than an airplane with white and green coloring. The object had fuzzy or…

On the late afternoon of November 26, 1957, the U.S. Air Force picked up a damaged object in Wayne, Michigan. According to the case file, it had fallen from the sky the night befor…

On November 9, 1957, at 1505 (3:05 p.m.), a person in Waynesville, Ohio saw a bright white object in the sky. The object was round and about the size of a baseball. It looked like…

On November 1, 1957, a ground-visual sighting was reported in Westbury, Long Island, New York. A civilian witness observed an object described as baseball-white in color traveling…

On December 17, 1957, near dusk in Westchester, New York, a civilian witnessed an object described as a good sized balloon with a bowl shape on top and bottom. The object traveled…

On the morning of December 3, 1957, a man driving home from work near Saratoga, New York, saw a large brilliant bluish-green object with an orange tail falling through the sky towa…

On September 10, 1957, at 10:30 p.m. local time, a military observer at Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya reported a spherical object the size of a pea with a yellowish orange color.…

At about 1 p.m. on November 4, 1957, James Stokes, an electronic warfare engineer at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, was driving south on U.S. Highway 54 toward El Paso w…

On November 11, 1957, around 5:15 to 5:20 p.m. GMT, a civilian and his family reported an object while driving on U.S. Route 60 near the West Virginia state line, headed toward Whi…

Multiple unidentified objects were tracked on radar at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on November 6, 1957. The objects appeared on both search radar and precision radar equipm…

On August 30, 1957, at 0037 (Greenwich time) near Wichita, Kansas, a military air crew reported one object. The aircraft, Braniff 48, estimated the object at 25,000 feet, heading a…

On July 22, 1957, civilians near Wild Rice, North Dakota reported observing a star-like object that was blue to firey brown in color. The object appeared longer than its width and…

On November 5, 1957, at Williams Bay Air Force Station in Wisconsin, military personnel observed a small, round, red object that flashed red and white light. The object was station…

On July 31, 1957, two people in Wilmington, Delaware saw a round, dime-sized object that appeared white or silver in color. A friend called their attention to it because the object…

On November 7, 1957, at 7:24 p.m. local time, a civilian in Winston Salem, North Carolina reported seeing a disc-shaped object the size of a silver dollar, white in color, with stu…

On November 5, 1957, at approximately 11:51 p.m., a civilian observer near Wintzville, Missouri, reported sighting a very long object longer than any known aircraft. The object was…

On September 27, 1957, in the evening, a witness in West Jefferson, Ohio saw one object that looked like a red fireball. It moved on a southwest course. The object crossed from one…

On the night of November 12, 1957, a resident of West Los Angeles reported seeing a bright, round white object in the sky. The witness watched the light for about 85 minutes as it…

On the night of November 24, 1957, a 37-year-old sales clerk near Del Rio, Texas saw something odd in the sky. He described it as a round, red object about the size of a baseball.…

On August 14, 1957, at 3:04 a.m., a civilian in Woodland Hills, California reported a very large, long object twice the size of an aircraft with white coloring and two lights appea…

In early November 1957, multiple witnesses across Illinois and Wisconsin reported seeing unusual glowing objects in the sky near the state border. The Air Force received reports of…

On April 29, 1957, between about 10:05 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. local time, two civilian college students in Worcester, Massachusetts reported three separate sightings. They were watchi…

On November 5, 1957, at 8:02 p.m., a civilian in West Port Washington, Washington reported sighting a round, white, medium-sized object that remained stationary and then faded away…

A soldier at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio reported seeing a bright object in the sky in November 1957. He said the object was round and goldish white. He looked at it th…

On December 5, 1957, at 6:41 a.m. in Yonkers, New York, a civilian witness observed a streak of light about twice the size of a star while driving in a car. The object was whitish-…

On November 6, 1957, a witness at Yonkers, New York, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 30 seconds. The object was round…

On November 27, 1957, a witness in Yosemite, Kentucky saw one round orange object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was seen falling. It was in sight for about t…

On May 26, 1957, at 10 p.m., a civilian observer in Yuma, Arizona, reported seeing one object with a long, narrow shape while looking through a telescope at stars. The object was d…

On February 13, 1957, at 8:20 p.m., a civilian observer reported one object near Yuma, Arizona. The object was described as the size of a pinhead with a color that changed from red…

On November 1, 1957, at 8:22 p.m., a civilian observer in the Atlantic off the coast of North Carolina reported sighting one object. The witness described a large pink illumination…

On December 13 to 14, 1957, observers near Catalgazi-Kimli, Turkey reported a large, bright object leaving a bluish trail behind it. The object moved downward in a westerly directi…

On August 21, 1957, a white flash or three aircraft were observed over the Atlantic Ocean near JRGE 2814 by a Pan Am 377 civilian airline pilot. The sighting was instantaneous. The…

On November 26, 1957, an air crew flying at 15,000 feet near the Sea of Okhotsk in the USSR observed one object with a bluish-green trail. The object flashed from right to left in…

In mid-August 1957, people across the United States and Canada reported seeing a bright, moving object in the night sky. The sightings spanned several days and involved multiple wi…

On March 22, 1957, radar at Los Angeles International Airport and Long Beach Municipal tower tracked objects near Los Angeles, California. The case was logged under Project 10073,…

On May 20, 1957, at 8:20 p.m. local time, a round object of unknown size was sighted near Laredo, Texas. The object was reddish in color and traveled at an extremely high rate of s…

On November 8, 1957 (recorded at 11:20 p.m. GMT), two cigar-shaped objects were reported near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The sighting lasted about 3 minutes. The two objects were b…

On November 6, 1957, a witness at Long Beach, California, reported one object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation. The object was still in sight at the time of…

On November 6, 1957, multiple witnesses across the northeastern United States reported an unusual aurora display featuring red glows. The sightings occurred on the night of Novembe…

On the morning of November 13, 1957, at Crownsville State Hospital in Maryland, a hospital employee heard a popping sound in the sky. Looking up, the worker spotted what appeared t…

On October 23, 1957, at 5:00 p.m., a civilian named William Chanitz, age 22, observed a round silver object the size of a basketball at arm's length from the St. Louis Coast Guard…

On December 23, 1957, the commander of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance aircraft spotted a projectile streaking across the sky over the Sea of Japan east of Vladivostok. The object…

On February 4, 1957, an airline passenger flying over Utah reported a single object below the aircraft. The witness was on a flight from San Francisco to St. Louis. He did not repo…

On April 29, 1957, radar over the English Channel near France picked up a fast object. The report came from a news clipping, not a direct sighting. The object was tracked moving at…

On September 12, 1957, near Ne France, a military observer sighted one round object described as silver dollar-sized, light gray or white in color. An object was hanging beneath th…

On April 22, 1957, military and civilian witnesses across the southeastern United States reported three to four objects at about 11:30 p.m. The case was logged under Project 10073,…

On December 3, 1957, at 12:00 a.m., a military observer at Johnson Island AFB reported sighting one object. The object had the shape of a shooting star and was colored green. It tu…