Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 14, 1956, at about 6:45 p.m. local time, a civilian near Batavia, Ohio reported an object that was assumed to be a jet making a vapor trail. The object was reddish orang…

On January 8, 1956, a civilian in Battlecreek, Michigan reported sighting one round reddish white object flying in straight level flight at 400 feet elevation and 150 degrees azimu…

On February 18, 1956, a civilian in Beaulieu, Minnesota reported seeing an object like a basketball that was green and red. The object descended slowly in flight toward the northea…

On the night of August 4, 1956, a resident of Beavertown, Ohio reported seeing a very bright object directly overhead at 9:45 p.m. The object appeared to be about the size of a pea…

On January 8, 1956, witnesses near Bedford, Indiana, reported three objects in the sky. The Greenwich time was 1659Z. The observers were civilians. The objects were described as c…

On March 5, 1956, a civilian at Bedford, Ohio, reported a slow-moving object at night. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified fly…

On February 12, 1956, a ground observer saw a strange object over Belleview, Florida. The Greenwich time was 0205Z on February 13. The observer was a civilian who supervised a grou…

On March 8, 1956, a 72-year-old civilian at Bellingham, Washington, reported a single object. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentif…

On March 2, 1956, in Beloit, Wisconsin, a civilian and Air Force observer reported a black oblong object of unknown size at approximately 1,000 feet altitude. The object was seen t…

On January 25, 1956, a fourteen-year-old student in Beltsville, Maryland took photographs he believed showed an unidentified flying object. The observer aimed a Zeiss Ikon camera f…

On December 2, 1956, near Belvidere, South Dakota, a civilian witness reported seeing two round objects with a 2-foot circumference. The larger object was brilliant red. A smaller…

Beginning at about 9:30 p.m. on August 13, 1956, and continuing into the predawn hours of August 14, ground-based radar at the U.S. Air Force station at RAF Bentwaters in eastern E…

On July 26, 1956, a civilian near Bernalillo, New Mexico, reported a single object in the sky. The sighting began at 0900 (9:00 a.m.) local time and was made from the ground. The…

On September 3, 1956, at dusk near Bert, Michigan, a civilian observer reported sighting one oblong bright red object at 90 degrees azimuth and 12,000 feet altitude. The object was…

In September 1956, a passenger on a commercial airline flying between Coos Bay and Portland, Oregon took a photograph from cruising altitude of what she believed to be a spacecraft…

On October 22, 1956, a civilian saw an unusual object over Beulah, Michigan. The witness was the civil defense director of Benzie County, a man with many years in law enforcement.…

On the evening of September 9, 1956, three civilians near Big Bethel, Virginia saw an unusual object in the sky. The primary witness was a man driving his sister-in-law home to Ham…

On June 5, 1956, two Air Force majors spotted an unusual object while flying near Birmingham, Alabama. Major Robert L. Oelker and Major Arnold D. Zimmerman were piloting a B-25 air…

On August 25, 1956, a civilian in Bloom, Kansas, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0313Z (night). The duration was not reported. The witness gave very little…

On the evening of September 17, 1956, six people in Crane Village, a settlement on the western edge of the Naval Ammunition Depot near Crane, Indiana, reported seeing unidentified…

# Summary On the evening of January 31, 1956, two young witnesses in Boonton, New Jersey saw two round, white objects moving across the sky. The objects appeared small, about the…

On August 22, 1956, radar operators at Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, detected several unidentified objects moving at very high speeds. The first targets appeared aro…

In May 1956, a professional photographer in the Boston area submitted photographs to the Air Force that he claimed showed unidentified flying objects. The images appeared to show t…

A high school student in Bostonia, California took a photograph in October 1956 as part of a class assignment. She aimed her simple box camera at the moon on a clear night and left…

On November 14, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Brainerd, Minnesota. The witness was a housewife and ground observer who noticed the object while driving a car. The object was…

On January 29 and 30, 1956, witnesses at Bremerton, Washington, reported a strange object in the night sky. The Greenwich time ran from about 0248Z to 0254Z on January 30, with two…

On February 11, 1956, a witness saw a strange object over Bremerton, Washington. The Greenwich time was 0745Z on February 12. The sighting was at night, and the sky ranged from cle…

On the night of March 5-6, 1956, a married couple in Bridgeport, New York, watched a bright, round object moving in the sky for about 25 minutes. The husband, a mechanic and former…

On August 12, 1956, a civilian in Brockton, Massachusetts reported seeing an oval-shaped object appearing as a brilliant light with a thin bright tail and a green light. The object…

On the night of September 20-21, 1956, residents of Brooklyn, New York reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received multiple sightings from civilian witnesses…

On October 1, 1956, a civilian in Brooklyn, New York reported one round, white object about the size of the head of a pin held at arm's length. The object came from the southwest,…

On September 28, 1956, military observers at Brooks Air Force Base, Texas reported two round, white objects about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The objects were not in fo…

On November 5, 1956, a witness saw one object over Bucyrus, Ohio. The object was watched for about fifteen minutes. The report described one round white object the size of a dime…

# Buffalo, New York, September 1956 On a single night in Buffalo, one observer saw an unusual object in the sky. The sighting was brief in substance, though it prompted a swift Ai…

On the evening of February 29, 1956, residents and observers in the Buffalo, New York area spotted bright lights in the sky that puzzled local authorities enough to scramble an Air…

This case concerns a UFO photograph received from Cairo, Egypt, in July 1956. The film showed seven light images. The Air Force studied the film for photo analysis. No written repo…

On August 1, 1956, witnesses in Camden, Alabama observed a bright object in the night sky that seemed to hover and float in the air. The object appeared at approximately 38 degrees…

On March 27, 1956, a civilian and Air Force Ground Observer Corps personnel at Canton, Ohio, reported one object at 1230 (about 12:30 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 1007…

On November 7, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Canton, Ohio. The object was watched for about fifteen minutes. The witness described one red-orange, pencil shaped object abou…

On August 24, 1956, in Canton, Ohio, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, silver object the size of a golf ball. The object had no movement or sound and appeared as a bri…

On May 7, 1956, a round object about the size of a half dollar was sighted near Canton, Alliance, and Springfield, Ohio. The object was held at arm's length by the observer and dri…

On the evening of July 31, 1956, three witnesses in Carrollton, Ohio reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The sighting lasted approximately one and a half hours. The ob…

On August 2, 1956, a civilian in Cartersville, Virginia reported observing one round object that was orange and red in color. The object remained stationary at an altitude of appro…

On April 5, 1956, at 8:15 p.m., two reports described a fiery object over Casablanca, Morocco. An employee at the meteorological station reported a round, orange fiery ball with a…

On October 1, 1956, at Castle Air Force Base near Merced, California, an oval-shaped object was sighted. The object was not described as having any discernible features except for…

On February 27, 1956, at 4:10 a.m. local time, a civilian in Cedar Hill, Texas reported observing an egg-shaped object with golden yellow coloring. The object moved straight up and…

On April 3, 1956, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member at Cedar Key, Florida, reported one object. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for…

On July 22, 1956, at 10:05 a.m. near Challange, California, a civilian witness reported observing one round object the size of a dime, colored red and green, seen through 7x binocu…

On December 8, 1956, an observer near Chandler Air Force Station, Minnesota, reported a single round object. The sighting was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official r…

On June 28, 1956, at approximately 7:30 p.m. local time, a civilian in Charleston, West Virginia reported seeing a half-moon shaped object the size of a nickel held at arm's length…

On August 26, 1956, a person near Cheyenne, Wyoming, spotted a round silver object about 15 feet in diameter traveling northwest at high speed during dusk. The observer saw a brigh…

On March 14, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, a civilian and military observer reported a sighting. A round object of unknown size and white color was seen at an unknown altitude. The o…

On August 1, 1956, in Chicago, Illinois, a civilian witness reported seeing a round, very large white object. The object was stationary and still in sight at the time of report. It…

On July 28, 1956, a bright object appeared in the sky near Chilton, Wisconsin, and was watched for over three hours as dawn approached. A caller reported seeing a solid object abou…

On about October 3, 1956, near 10:20 p.m. local time, a civilian near China Lake, California reported luminous objects in the sky. The objects were seen for about nine seconds and…

On the morning of June 21, 1956, at 0836 (8:36 a.m.), two meteorologists and an electronics engineer were watching a radar scope at a facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were monito…

On July 7, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a civilian ground observer reported one object at about 12:20 a.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object had been watched fo…

On November 3, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Cincinnati, Ohio. The object was watched for three to six seconds. The witness described one round, bright white, glowing objec…

On September 25, 1956, a housewife in Cincinnati, Ohio noticed a white, fibrous substance floating down into her yard. The material was curled and delicate. She collected some of i…

On October 14, 1956, an astronomer in Cincinnati, Ohio submitted three photographs and five negatives to the Air Force. He said he had taken them while photographing the moon throu…