Project Blue Book Case Files

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 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…

On November 30, 1957, something bright streaked across the evening sky over Southern California. Military observers at Naval Ordnance Test Station San Clemente Island watched it pa…

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 November 6, 1957, two aircraft reported visual sightings over the Atlantic Ocean near 23 degrees north latitude and 17 degrees west. One aircraft at 13,000 feet and another at 1…

On June 13, 1957, at Wake Island, a civilian control tower operator and his wife observed an unusual aerial phenomenon at 1:44 a.m. While walking along the beach near the south edg…

On November 6, 1957, an Air Policeman at Las Cruces Air Force Station in New Mexico saw a bright light in the sky changing color from silver to red. The object appeared roughly 45…

On November 5, 1957, a white lighted unidentified flying object was sighted at an unknown location. The object traveled at a high rate of speed in a southwest direction. It was not…

On December 8, 1957, a pilot near the Canadian border reported a ball of light while flying at 40,000 feet. The pilot was going into a turn from west to south and leaving heavy con…

# Sighting Off Florida Coast, November 1957 In November 1957, the crew and passengers of a KLM airliner witnessed a brief but striking object while en route from Kingston to Miami…

In July 1957, an American tourist named Mrs. William Felton Barrett took a photograph along the Norwegian coast while on a cruise. She aimed her camera at a group of houses on a cl…

In early December 1957, witnesses across the northeastern United States reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object with a distinctive colored tail. The sightings occurred over se…

On October 22, 1957, west of Portugal, a civilian reported sighting a strange object approximately 40 degrees above the western horizon passing south to north at high speed. The ob…

Between October 12 and October 20, 1957, dozens of Americans reported seeing a bright, star-like object in the night sky. Over the course of nine days, the Air Force received sight…

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…

# Summary On August 2, 1957, at roughly 4:30 a.m., an observer at Red Bluff Air Force Station in California spotted a bright white object the size of a baseball streaking overhead…

On July 25, 1957, a man in Iran watched a bright shining object moving south. The sighting lasted over five minutes. One unidentified object was observed moving south on July 26, 1…

In June 1957, a woman in Campanero, in the Lavalleja Department of Uruguay, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. She described it as solid in appearance, round or slightly…

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 27, 1957, at night, a civilian witnessed a meteorlike object near Fontana and San Bernardino, California. The object was reddish in color with fire shooting out of the rea…

In November 1957, observers across Pennsylvania reported seeing bright lights in the night sky that the U.S. Air Force ultimately attributed to the aurora borealis, a natural atmos…

On the night of March 22 to 23, 1957, a woman in Camarillo, California called the duty officer at nearby Oxnard Air Force Base to report seeing an unusual glowing object in the nor…

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 December 3, 1957, at 7:15 p.m., Naval Air Station personnel at Cape May, New Jersey, reported a very bright object in the southern sky. The object moved slightly southwest over…

On December 2, 1957, three sightings of a light blue light were reported in the North Atlantic. The first sighting occurred at 12:50 a.m., the second at 12:57 a.m., and the third a…

On the evening of September 16, 1957, a man traveling north on U.S. Highway 93 in Nevada, about five miles south of Lincoln County, saw an unusual object in the night sky. The obje…

On November 1, 1957, at approximately 12:00 a.m., a round white object the size of a nickel was sighted near Alpine, Arizona. The object was observed on a downward course moving sl…

On August 13, 1956, a civilian reported a sighting ten miles north of Hermanville, Massachusetts. A flat-bottomed object described as silver or metallic was observed moving rapidly…

On October 1, 1956, at 1:16 a.m., military personnel observed an unidentified object ten miles west of Carey Islands, Newfoundland. Two observers in a formation of F-86D aircraft s…

On July 1, 1956, a strange object was sighted 17 miles east of Columbus, Ohio. A TWA pilot reported seeing one object traveling from north to south-southwest at 4,000 feet altitude…

On August 5, 1956, at 6:04 a.m. local time, one mile east of Denver, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing six round, pale orange colored objects flying in an approximate t…

On January 9, 1956, a light was seen about 20 miles southwest of Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. The Greenwich time was 0120Z on January 10. The sighting was made from the air at…

The OCR text from pages 4 through 7 is too heavily garbled to support reliable reconstruction of the investigative details. While page 1 provides basic case metadata and pages 2 an…

On October 1, 1956, a civilian airline captain observed unusual lights about 20 miles west of Punk City, Texas. The witness reported two white and bright trailing lights that emitt…

On July 5, 1956, between Skagway and Juneau, Alaska, a military observer reported one object at about 1:35 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting made by a member of an A…

On November 1, 1956, two Air Force officers saw one object about 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri. The men were aboard a T-33 jet flying at 35,000 feet on a flight from Springf…

On December 12, 1956, a civilian found a balloon in a roadside ditch about 7 miles west of Cedar Falls, Iowa. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official reco…

On November 24, 1956, an airline pilot saw one object near Aberdeen, Maryland. The witness had flown as an airline pilot for about 20 years. The object was watched for about five m…

On May 20, 1956, near Akpatok Island, off Newfoundland, the pilot and co-pilot of a Royal Canadian Air Force DC-4 reported one object. It was an air visual sighting at about 12:10…

On January 28, 1956, a military witness saw a strange object near Albany, Georgia. The Greenwich time was 0051Z on January 29. The weather was clear with about 15 miles visibility.…

On September 20, 1956, a civilian observer in Albany, New York spotted one round white object about the size of a softball at arm's length. The object hovered and then moved southe…

On May 30, 1956, near Alberton, Montana, a civilian reported two objects. It was a ground visual sighting. The report came in on an Air Force Form 112. The objects were in view for…

On February 9, 1956, a ground observer saw a strange object near Alger, Michigan. The Greenwich time was 0200Z on February 10. The night was clear with about seven miles visibility…

On May 3, 1956, at 2:48 a.m. in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, civilian and Air Force witnesses reported a sighting of seven silver objects in a V formation moving south at an estimated…

On July 23, 1956, near Alpena, Michigan, a civilian reported one object at about 4:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about 7 minutes.…

On September 15, 1956, a military observer at Altus, Oklahoma reported one round, white object about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The object had a bluish tail right behi…

On the night of August 1, 1956, observers near Amarillo, Texas reported seeing a bright trajectory in the sky about ten miles to the southeast. The sighting lasted two hours and fi…

On August 1, 1956, at 0400 (4 a.m.), a Dallas man named J.G. Kirby was driving back to Dallas from Colorado Springs via Amarillo, Texas, when he and his wife and two children obser…

On October 25, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Anita, Iowa. The report came from a ground observer post. The object was watched for two minutes. The witness described one bri…

In July 1956, a cemetery worker named Luna in the town of Aranda, Colombia reported finding pieces of metal after a series of loud explosions. The worker said the explosions happen…

On February 12, 1956, a civilian reported a round object like a tire or hub-cap with red and yellow rotating lights near Aripeka, Florida. The sighting lasted approximately ten min…

On the morning of July 18, 1956, residents across central Kansas reported seeing strange glowing objects in the sky. In Arkansas City, two witnesses who had been fishing, along wit…

On the night of September 20, 1956, the control tower at Manston Air Force Base in England received two phone calls about unidentified flying objects. The witnesses were British ci…

On August 23, 1956, at approximately 7:00 p.m., a civilian observer in Atlanta, Georgia reported seeing a small jet-like object. The object moved straight up and down, then went ou…

On July 21, 1956, near Auburn, California, civilian observers reported one object at about 1:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for two to…

On March 26, 1956, civilian Ground Observer Corps members at Avon Park, Florida, reported many objects in daylight. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offici…

On the night of April 8, 1956, Captain Ryan, an American Airlines pilot, and his first officer spotted a bright orange light while flying their aircraft between Schenectady and Osw…

On August 10, 1956, near Bakersfield, California, a civilian witness reported seeing a round, bright object with a grapefruit shape. The object was red, white, and yellow in color.…

On June 7, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland, an observer reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about five minutes. The object was circular a…

On the evening of June 18, 1956, a witness in Bandera, Texas saw several glowing objects in the sky. The witness was indoors looking out a window when the first object appeared. Ov…