Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 16, 1956, a civilian in Long Beach, California reported seeing a round object about the size of a pea with white and red flashes. The object was observed at an angle of 45…

On the afternoon of January 18, 1956, a resort operator driving home near Long Beach on Long Island noticed an unusual object in the sky. At first he thought it might be a crescent…

On September 20, 1956, near Long Island, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing two white cigar-shaped objects about the size of a small cloud. The objects were seen visually…

On August 3, 1956, a civilian on Long Island, New York reported seeing one star-like object with white color traveling east. The object wavered in flight, then continued on a strai…

On the morning of August 18, 1956, two civilians and one military observer near Longview, Washington watched a small, round, orange object move through the sky for about 48 minutes…

On July 16, 1956, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian reported one object at about 11:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for several min…

On May 16, 1956, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was watched for about 20 minutes, and the observer used bin…

On the night of October 27, 1956, seven people reported sighting unidentified flying objects from the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot near Crane, Indiana. Six witnesses at Crane Villag…

On the evening of May 23, 1956, a resident of Lumberton, Ohio saw a bright blue-white light moving across the sky. At 9:12 p.m. EST, the observer was walking in the driveway of his…

On February 3, 1956, a civilian observer in Luther, Michigan reported seeing a round object bright silver in color about 4 feet across. The object moved in a straight and level cou…

On March 7, 1956, a civilian on Ground Observer Corps duty at Lutz, Florida, reported two lights at 2116 (9:16 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offi…

On July 26, 1956, a civilian in Macon, Georgia, reported a single object in the sky. The sighting was recorded at 0230Z (in the early morning hours). The witness described one rou…

On August 29, 1956, a civilian observer in Marshalltown, Iowa reported seeing three round objects about the size of a pea at arm's length. The objects had red and green lights revo…

On the early morning of January 21, 1956, a resident of Maywood, New Jersey saw an unusual object in the sky while looking out a window. The witness was near a company yard at arou…

On January 23, 1956, at 4:00 p.m. local time, a circular disc-shaped object was sighted at McChord Air Force Base in Washington. The object measured one and a half feet in diameter…

On November 2, 1956, civilians saw three objects over McKeesport, Pennsylvania. The main witness worked at a steel company. About 25 people watched the objects for roughly four min…

On April 4, 1956, a civilian at McKinney, Texas, reported one object that was watched for about six hours. The witness was the local Weather Bureau observer, and an amateur astrono…

On the morning of July 27, 1956, a resident of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, saw an unusual object in the sky around 0400 (4 a.m.). The witness described it as resembling a flat-shaped ligh…

On December 8, 1956, an airline crew saw one object over Medford, Oregon. The sighting was made from a commercial airliner flying at about 20,000 feet. The object was in view for a…

On July 19, 1956, four separate witnesses in northern Maine reported seeing a fast-moving, flaming object pass across the sky in broad daylight. All four sightings occurred around…

A Maine housewife reported seeing a glowing green disc-shaped object near her children's swing on the evening of December 21, 1956. The woman, who lived about two miles outside the…

On February 20, 1956, a person in Miami, Florida saw a wingless, silver object that resembled a blimp through binoculars. The object appeared very high in the sky. It traveled from…

On January 9, 1956, a witness saw a glowing object over Miami, Florida. The local time was about 1849 (6:49 p.m.). The Greenwich time was 2340Z. The observer was a civilian. The we…

On March 10, 1956, at 10:09 a.m., a 14-year-old civilian student in Miami, Florida, reported seeing one round, small object. The object appeared as a small glow, white in color, ab…

On April 19, 1956, AF Major and dependents in Minneapolis, Minnesota reported seeing one octangular object from 8:20 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. The object had plane surfaces the size of a q…

In December 1956, a man in Martinsdale, Montana wrote to the Air Force claiming he had found an unusual object that contained a self-powered unit activated by an unknown mineral. H…

On the night of May 22, 1956, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer near Monroe, Louisiana reported an extraordinary encounter with an unidentified object. First Lieu…

On July 12, 1956, near Monrovia, Indiana, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for thirty seconds. The object was round and oran…

On the night of August 29, 1956, military observers in Montgomery, Alabama spotted a bright white object moving slowly across the sky. The object appeared larger than any star or p…

On November 21, 1956, at about 9:05 p.m. local time, a civilian saw one stationary light over Muehlheim, Germany. The witness was a pedestrian. The light stayed in view for about 3…

On April 2, 1956, military observers at site N-31 near Pepperrell Air Force Base, Newfoundland, reported one object. Several airmen saw it. The report was filed under Project 10073…

On September 13, 1956, a person in Naples, Florida saw an object in the night sky that caught their attention. The object appeared to be oblong in shape, roughly three times as lon…

On December 3, 1956, a witness in the control tower saw one object from NAS Key West, Florida. The object was in view for only a few seconds. The report described one bright flash…

On July 2, 1956, at 3:01 a.m., a military pilot at Naval Air Station North Island, California, reported sighting one object with a teardrop shape and tapered end at the bottom. The…

On May 26, 1956, near Murmansk in the USSR, a round, disc-like object was observed at 1000 meters altitude by seammen from the Norwegian press. The object remained still briefly, t…

On August 6, 1956, a civilian near New Rochelle, New York, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about twenty-five minutes and the object moved in an erratic path. The wit…

On November 13, 1956, a civilian saw one object near Nekoosa, Wisconsin. The witness was a supervisor at a local store. The object was watched for about one minute. The report des…

In December 1956, a Coast Guard apprentice in Newberryport, New Hampshire, spotted a red and green blinking light in the night sky. The object appeared star-shaped and roughly the…

On the evening of October 13, 1956, a civilian in Newburgh, New York reported seeing a circular white object with a red light. The observer described the object as roughly the size…

On August 22, 1956, a man in Newburgh, New York used a Polaroid camera to photograph what he believed were unidentified objects in the sky. The camera was equipped with a half-stop…

On October 13, 1956, civilians at Newburgh and Unionville, New York reported sightings on the same night, at about 10:15 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. local time. They described one circular…

On November 16, 1956, a civilian and military observer in Newport, Oregon reported sighting one round red object about the size of a pillow held at arm's length. The object was fir…

On April 5, 1956, a civilian at Newport, Rhode Island, reported one object. The report came in by letter and was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

In October 1956, a civilian witness in New York City reported seeing two small, white or silver disc shaped objects flying together in the sky. Each object had what the witness des…

In February 1956, a woman in New York City, New York, saw a strange object at about 3:00 a.m. The report was sent to the Air Force about two years after the event. The observer was…

On August 4, 1956, civilian witnesses near Norfolk, Virginia, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0630Z (night). The object was seen by four airline pilots. The…

On February 2, 1956, a staff sergeant named Richard L. Walker, stationed at Camp Irwin in California's Mojave Desert, watched a flying object move across the sky from north to sout…

On October 15, 1956, north of Ontario, Canada, military observers reported one object appearing round and burning. A light green color glowed very intensely. The object appeared as…

On October 7, 1956, in Norwalk, Ohio, a civilian witness reported seeing one oval-shaped object smaller than a dime. The object was colored orange to green to red to orange and mov…

# Summary On the night of September 6, 1956, residents of Pasadena, California saw a bright white light moving across the sky for about 41 minutes. The object appeared as large as…

In early May 1956, three separate witnesses in the Oklahoma City area reported seeing an unusual orange-colored object in the sky. All three accounts were investigated by the U.S.…

On September 28, 1956, a resident of Oklahoma City reported seeing a round or oval object that appeared white or luminous yellow in color. The object was spotted in the southwest,…

On November 26, 1956, a military airman saw one object over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The witness happened to glance out a window. The object was watched for about three seconds. T…

On May 29, 1956, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The report came in by letter on June 5, 1956. The object was watched f…

On July 16, 1956, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a civilian ground observer reported three lights. The report came in by letter from the commander of a Ground Observer squadron. The l…

On the evening of April 28, 1956, a man and his wife were sitting on their front porch in Old Bridge, New Jersey, when they noticed a bright light in the sky to the northeast. For…

On August 30, 1956, a civilian in Omaha, Nebraska reported seeing one circular object about the size of a pea with a bright yellow-white light. The object orbited thirty degrees fr…

On March 15, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska, a civilian witness reported observing one round object about the size of a basketball with red and dark coloring. The object appeared to be h…

On April 16, 1956, an Air Force pilot reported one object near Fairfield, Utah, at about 1950 (7:50 p.m.). The pilot was flying a T-33 at 37,000 feet on a night flight. The report…

On December 23, 1956, military and civilian observers at Oxnard Air Force Base, California, reported a single object. The sighting was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's o…