Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 28, 1956, military and civilian witnesses in Panama City, Florida, reported seeing four red-orange cigar-shaped objects. The objects were about 90 feet long. They starte…

On March 3, 1956, at 3:07 a.m. local time, a civilian witness in Paradise, Michigan reported observing a round object that was bright red in color and approximately 40 to 50 feet i…

On September 4, 1956, at about 10 p.m. local time, a civilian in Parma Heights, Ohio reported an unidentified flying object. He was observing stars from his home near Doxmere and S…

On September 6, 1956, an observer in Pasadena, California reported one round, gray object about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The object moved from east to west in a stra…

On April 7, 1956, a civilian at Passaic, New Jersey, reported one object at 8:55 p.m. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified fly…

On July 23, 1956, two round objects smaller than a star were reported in Pensacola, Florida. The objects appeared as a constant yellow-orange glow. They were close together for abo…

On June 3, 1956, near Petersburg, Indiana, observers reported one object. The reports were relayed through Indianapolis air traffic control. The sightings happened around 12:23 a.m…

On the nights of September 1, 2, and 3, 1956, observers near Peyton, Colorado reported lights in the sky starting around 7 p.m. local time. Watchers used binoculars and saw the obj…

On the evening of March 29, 1956, a bright white object with a faint orange tint appeared in the sky over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the twilight hours. The witness observed…

On August 18, 1956, a military witness in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0208Z and lasted about one hour and forty-five minutes.…

On January 29, 1956, a civilian in Pittsfield, Maine reported seeing a round object about 10 times larger than the brightest star. The object was blue with a white center and a red…

On October 19, 1956, a civilian in Plano, Illinois reported a ground visual sighting of one round, red, orange, and green object about the size of a baseball at arm's length. The o…

On June 26, 1956, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post in Plattsburg, New York, reported seeing a round, glowing object about the size of a two-engine aircraft. The object app…

On September 4, 1956, in Plymouth, New Hampshire, a civilian reported observing one bright red round object about the size of a grapefruit at arm's length in the sky. The object wa…

On October 19, 1956, at Point Arguello, California, a civilian witness observed one small round object with red, white, and green coloring. The object was initially sighted at 45 d…

On February 15, 1956, a ground observer saw two objects over Pontiac, Michigan. The Greenwich time was 2325Z. The observer was a civilian at a ground observer post. The sky was com…

On October 13, 1956, a civilian near Pottsville, Pennsylvania reported one pear-shaped, silver object about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The object appeared stationary w…

This case concerns a sighting near Pretoria, South Africa, on July 24, 1956. The source was the Pretoria press. A news item and photo from a local newspaper were forwarded. The cas…

On October 1, 1956, at 2:53 a.m., a civilian in Pueblo, Colorado reported observing one round object resembling a star with a cream color. The object was approximately the size of…

On August 11, 1956, in Pueblo, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing six to eight objects with greenish glow in a very formation. The objects were about the size of a half…

On September 1, 1956, a civilian ground observer in Pueblo, Colorado, reported four objects. The sighting was recorded at 0513Z and lasted about two hours. The witness described f…

On August 29, 1956, a military witness in Pueblo, Colorado, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about two hours and twenty-one minutes. The witness described one round o…

On July 16, 1956, in Puyallup, Washington, a civilian reported one object at about 7:30 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The witness used binoculars of unknown pow…

On May 31, 1956, a student at Queens College in Flushing, Long Island saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness described it as white and roughly half the size of an airliner.…

On March 4, 1956, a civilian at Racine, Wisconsin, reported three objects in the night sky. The witness was an instructor for the Ground Observer Corps. The report was filed under…

On July 30, 1956, a civilian in Rialto, California reported seeing one object with no discernible shape. The object was bright yellow and turned bright red. It made violent turn ma…

On August 1, 1956, a sighting was reported in Richmond, Virginia. The report was submitted through Air Force channels and routed to multiple commands including Cape Charles Air For…

On April 21, 1956, several civilians and two military Ground Observer Corps members at Richmond, Virginia, reported one object. The report came in by letter and was filed under Pro…

On December 4, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Ridgewood, New York. The witness was a teacher and stood near City College in New York. The object was seen for about one half t…

On February 15, 1956, a US Navy pilot near Riverside, California reported seeing a cigar-shaped brown object with no apparent details. The object followed a straight and level cour…

On May 7, 1956, at 8:04 a.m. GMT, a witness in Rochester, Indiana reported seeing one round object about three inches in diameter. The object was silver and green in color. It rema…

On November 12, 1956, at Rocky Ford, Colorado, a civilian observer reported three objects about the size of a dime, colored red, yellow, and green, arranged in a stationary formati…

On the morning of April 9, 1956, observers at Griffiss Air Force Base near Rome, New York, spotted a bright light in the sky. The object appeared as a round, orange-white light tha…

On January 8, 1956, at 1:12 a.m., a civilian near Roseburg, Oregon, five miles southwest of the city, observed a round white object with a small amount of sparks for two to three s…

On September 12, 1956, in Rossville, Georgia, a civilian witness observed an unidentified object for three to five minutes. The object was described as round and chrome colored, ab…

On March 27, 1956, a civilian at Saginaw, Michigan, reported one object at 1105 (about 6:05 a.m. local). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record fo…

On February 25, 1956, a man and his wife stopped their car near Sahaurita, Arizona, to observe an object in the sky. The man was traveling south toward Mexico when his wife noticed…

On November 11, 1956, civilian and military witnesses saw one object over Salineville, Ohio. The object was watched for several minutes. The report described one long, light objec…

On April 4, 1956, a local weather observer in McKinney, Texas spotted an unusual bright object in the afternoon sky near Samish Island, Washington. The object appeared stationary i…

On July 23, 1956, civilians and military personnel in San Antonio, Texas reported seeing one round, very bright object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was silv…

On September 22, 1956, at about 3:45 a.m., four observers at or near Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas reported one round, intensely bright white object about the size of…

On July 19, 1956, a 15-year-old student in San Bernardino, California reported seeing a disk-shaped flying object while lying in his backyard taking photographs with a new camera.…

On April 10, 1956, a civilian at San Diego, California, reported several groups of objects. The report came in by letter and was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official…

An unusual flying object puzzled a U.S. Geological Survey supervisor in downtown Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, after he spotted something floating past his office window that seeme…

On February 6, 1956, at 7:21 a.m., a civilian witness in San Fernando, California reported observing one unidentified object. The object was circular with a pinhead at arm's length…

On May 20, 1956, a civilian in San Luis Obispo, California reported seeing one round red object that was glowing and moving southwest. The sighting lasted five minutes before the o…

# San Ramon, California, August 1956 In August 1956, residents of San Ramon, California reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The sighting occurred on August 10, and…

On December 10, 1956, a policeman in Santa Monica, California, reported two objects. The sighting was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified f…

On October 11, 1956, in Santee, California, two individuals reported seeing a round, brilliant white object the size of a pin at arm's length. The object moved very high in the sky…

On the night of July 13, 1956, a woman in Saugerties, New York saw two bright lights in the sky. One light was red and the other was white. The lights appeared stationary, about fi…

On January 9, 1956, a civilian observer on Sauvies Island, Oregon reported seeing a very large object reflected on the Columbia River around 10:06 a.m. The object was described as…

On January 24, 1956, a civilian in Seattle, Washington reported seeing one oval-shaped object that was golden and glowing with a long tail. The sky was clear. The object was climbi…

On a June evening in 1956, someone in southeastern Kentucky watched one or two white objects in the sky that moved very fast and appeared to turn and descend. The observer estimate…

On August 1, 1956, a military witness in Shalimar, Florida, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0155Z and lasted about six seconds. The witness described one ro…

On March 21, 1956, a civilian at Sioux City, Iowa, reported one object at 2330 (about 11:30 p.m.). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On the evening of July 31, 1956, a man and his friend were sitting in a yard in Smyrna, Georgia, watching the stars when they spotted a bright white light moving rapidly across the…

On April 24, 1956, military personnel at Snelling Air Force Base in St. Paul, Minnesota observed one object with a solid octangular shape and plane surfaces. The object was about t…

On February 29, 1956, at 21:10 (9:10 p.m.), an observer in Victoria West, Cape Province, South Africa saw an unusual object in the sky. The object emerged from a luminous cloud, mo…

On February 29, 1956, a 14-year-old student in South Newton, Iowa, reported seeing an unusual object while scanning the sky for aircraft. The witness described the object as round,…

On August 4, 1956, military observers at a Coast Guard station near South Portland, Maine, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0722Z (night). It was still in sig…