Project Blue Book Case Files

# Summary On the evening of September 24, 1956, a witness in Fort Collins, Colorado saw an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round, about the size of a baseball, and…

On February 27, 1956, a civilian observer in Fort Pierce, Florida reported seeing one bright object during a 30-minute observation. The object was round and sometimes cigar-shaped,…

On February 8, 1956, a Ground Observer Corps spotter on duty in the Ft. Pierce and Lutz, Florida area watched an unidentified object for about 15 minutes. The object appeared as a…

On October 14, 1956, around 1:30 p.m., a witness in Ft. Thomas, Kentucky saw one object low in the northeast sky. It was about the size of a nickel at arm's length and gun metal gr…

On the night of December 31, 1956, a U.S. Air Force pilot in an F-86D interceptor jet spotted an unusual object over Guam while flying at about 20,000 feet. The pilot, a First Lieu…

On November 9, 1956, at 12:09 a.m., a civilian in Glen Avon, California reported seeing a long red object about the size of a dime held at arm's length. The object hovered in one s…

On the evening of March 9, 1956, a family in Glen Ridge, New Jersey reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. A woman in the household, described by the Air Force as someone de…

On the night of February 12, 1956, a person in Glenwood, Iowa reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The witness described them as two round, silver balls stacked on top of ea…

On February 13, 1956, two F-85D fighter jets were flying a routine training mission about 49 miles southeast of Goose Bay, Labrador. One pilot saw a glowing object that quickly cir…

On March 23, 1956, military aircrew reported one object near Goose Bay, Labrador. The pilot, co-pilot, and an observer aboard a flight saw it. The report was filed under Project 10…

On August 7, 1956, a civilian in Gower, Missouri reported observing one large, plane-shaped object. The object was red or orange in color and resembled a large aircraft approximate…

On the night of March 4, 1956, six observers in and around Graham, North Carolina, watched a bright object move slowly across the southern sky for ten to forty minutes. What they s…

On February 18, 1956, a ground observer near Grand Marais, Minnesota, reported an unidentified object at dusk. The sighting came through Project 10073, the Air Force's official rec…

On April 27, 1956, a civilian at Greensboro, North Carolina, reported three objects at about 9:20 p.m. The report came in by letter and was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force…

On July 14, 1956, a witness in Greenwood Lake, New York, reported seeing unidentified flying objects twice in a single day. He first spotted the object around 4:30 p.m. (1630 hours…

On September 23, 1956, a civilian in Hamilton, Ohio reported observing one object that appeared and faded like a star in continuous observation. The object was described as having…

On December 13, 1956, at 2:43 p.m. local time, a military observer at Hamilton Air Force Base in California sighted one spherical object of unknown size. The object emitted an inte…

# Hampton-Sydney College UFO Sighting, February 22, 1956 Six college students at Hampton-Sydney College in Virginia reported seeing an unusual glowing object in the night sky on F…

On September 28, 1956, a civilian near Hancock, Maine reported one object that was long and tapered, about one foot long as seen from a distance. It had a red and yellow glow. The…

On September 26, 1956, a civilian near Hanover, Kansas reported a bright light larger than a star but smaller than the moon. The card lists the time group as 0104Z. The Air Force…

Starting in late January 1956 and again on February 10 and 13, a witness near Harrisonville, Missouri, reported a strange object in the sky. The Greenwich time for the later report…

On the morning of April 6, 1956, an FBI employee and her fiance were driving north on Route 1 near Henderson, North Carolina, just before dawn when an unusual object suddenly appea…

On September 3, 1956, observers at Henderson Harbor, New York reported a circular, sphere shaped object. It was red on the inside and green on the outside. The object was first see…

On September 14, 1956, observers near Highland, North Carolina reported fourteen round objects the size of grapefruit. The colors ranged from yellow to deep red. The objects seemed…

On May 6, 1956, a civilian in Hollywood, California reported seeing one unidentified object. The object was described as the size of a dime, colored blue and white. It disappeared…

On July 23, 1956, in Hollywood, California, one observer reported seeing a circular object the size of a dime. The object was light green in color and moved very fast at approximat…

On November 5, 1956, in Hollywood, California, a civilian observer reported seeing one triangular-shaped gray and black object about the size of a jet plane. The object traveled so…

On July 16, 1956, around midnight, witnesses near Homerville, Ohio saw two objects with lights like aircraft lights. The objects made a humming sound. Each appeared about the size…

On January 1, 1956, in Honshu, Japan, observers reported brilliant white flashes lasting 1 hour and 56 minutes. The sighting involved unknown number of objects with unknown course.…

On August 1, 1956, a civilian observer in Hosperus, Colorado reported seeing one yellowish funnel-shaped object. The observation was ground-visual. The object appeared stationary a…

On June 25, 1956, near Howell, Utah, two civilian observers aged 16 and 17 reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about four seconds. The…

On December 2, 1956, near Hugo, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing three white to yellowish lights. The objects appeared as one object that graduated in size from pea to…

On April 27, 1956, a civilian at Huntington, California, reported one object at 2110 (9:10 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On August 26, 1956, in Hyattsville, Maryland, a civilian observer reported seeing one object with the appearance of a conical shredded parachute. The object had a reddish to whitis…

On January 5, 1956, a pilot and his passenger flying an Aero Commander aircraft near Indianapolis, Indiana reported seeing a very bright, intermittent light while cruising at 5000…

On December 17, 1956, two U.S. Air Force pilots were practicing radar intercept maneuvers near Itazuke Air Base in Japan when one of them detected an unusual radar signal. The lead…

On October 24, 1956, a civilian saw several objects over Jackson, Mississippi. The witness happened to glance up while driving a car. The objects were in sight for about 13 to 15 s…

On July 3, 1956, a civilian in Jackson, Mississippi reported seeing two round objects about the size of a silver dollar. The objects were blue-white in front with a reddish flame t…

On August 28, 1956, a civilian in Juniata, Pennsylvania, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0255Z and lasted about three minutes. The witness described one cir…

On the night of August 27 to 28, 1956, a witness in Juniata, Pennsylvania saw one circular object with a clear dome on top. It looked about two to three feet across and had a very…

On the evening of November 27, 1956, several residents of Kadoka, South Dakota, reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky. The witnesses included a housewife, a bank clerk,…

In the pre-dawn hours of September 4, 1956, a bright object appeared in the sky near Kalispell, Montana. Multiple observers, including a county supervisor, a civil defense director…

On February 7, 1956, observers at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, saw a cluster of objects. The Greenwich time was 1400Z. The objects were seen from the ground, from the air,…

On June 25, 1956, in Kelso, Washington, a civilian observer reported seeing one small round object with a green flare and white light. The object moved back and forth for 51 minute…

On August 27, 1956, a military ground observer in Kent, Ohio, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1750Z (day) and lasted about two minutes. The witness, a 14-ye…

On August 4, 1956, at approximately 10 p.m., a Naval Officer sighted an unidentified flying object near Keystone Heights, Florida. The object traveled horizontally with several sma…

On July 3, 1956, an Army observer in Kingston, Washington reported seeing one object the size of a dime at arm's length with unknown shape. The object appeared in the east-southeas…

On August 19, 1956, a strange light was reported over Kuopio, Finland. The information came from a Helsinki newspaper article rather than a direct witness report. The light was see…

On January 30, 1956, a civilian in Lake Andes, South Dakota reported observing a silver object about the size of a half dollar held at arm's length. The object remained stationary…

# Lake Charles AFB Sighting, February 1956 On a February evening in 1956, an observer at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana saw an unusual object in the sky just after sunse…

In late March 1956, residents in and around Lake Leelanau, Michigan reported seeing a bright object in the night sky. The sightings occurred on March 26 and 27, with at least fifte…

On May 11, 1956, a civilian at Lake Leelanau, Michigan, reported one object that was watched for more than an hour. The witness was a car and live-bait dealer. The report was filed…

On July 22, 1956, near Lakeport, California, a civilian reported two objects. It was a ground visual sighting. The objects were observed for three to four seconds. The two objects…

The OCR text for this case file is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the index cards on pages 1 and 11 provide metadata, indicating two separate sightings,…

In the evening of January 30, 1956, a 13-year-old Boy Scout in Seattle, Washington first spotted what he thought was an unusual object in the southeastern sky near his home. The ob…

On October 3, 1956, a military aircrew near Lamesa, Texas saw one bright metallic gold object. It looked round or oblong, about the size of a dime at arm's length, and had an exhau…

On November 25, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Lexington, Kentucky. The report came from a ground observer post. The witness described one object that appeared to divide int…

On April 1, 1956, a 14-year-old witness at Liberty, Missouri, reported many objects near the planet Venus. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record…

On August 9, 1956, near Liberty, Indiana, a civilian reported seeing three objects in a trail formation. The objects were about the size of a half-dollar and appeared to have a tra…

On August 1, 1956, in Lindsay, California, a civilian supervisor at a government facility observed an object during daylight hours. The object was described as half a dollar in siz…