Project Blue Book Case Files

On November 10, 1956, two military pilots saw one object southwest of Terre Haute, Indiana. The men were aboard an aircraft on a night flight. The object was in view for about seve…

On the night of January 11, 1956, control tower operators at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan noticed an unfamiliar orange, circular object hovering near the runway approach. T…

On the evening of November 18, 1956, a resident of Xenia, Ohio saw two oval objects with green lights moving across the sky at an estimated speed of 300 to 400 miles per hour. The…

On August 15, 1956, at 10:02 a.m. in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a civilian witness reported observing one reddish-white object with the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was in…

On March 13, 1956, at 3:00 a.m. local time, a violet-colored luminous object with a red light was reported over Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The object made several passes over the are…

In January 1956, near Oroszlany, Hungary, a witness saw four strange objects in the night sky. The time was about 2230 to 2300 (10:30 to 11:00 p.m.). The observer was a civilian.…

In late January 1956, the Air Force recorded reports of strange objects from several parts of Afghanistan. The record card is dated around January 24, 1956. The information came th…

On July 16, 1956, at Los Angeles International Airport in California, a civilian witness observed one roundish object. The object was initially red in color and was first thought t…

On March 20, 1956, a pilot reported one light about 19 miles northeast of Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official recor…

On November 13, 1956, civilians saw objects over the area of Pound and Nekoosa, Wisconsin. One object was watched for a few seconds and a second for about one minute. The first wi…

On November 11, 1956, the crew of an Air Force C-54 transport saw one object near Goose Bay, Labrador, on a route between Goose Bay and Frobisher Bay. The object was in view for ab…

On December 31, 1956, an Air Force interceptor pilot near Guam reported one object during flight. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unide…

On a February night in 1956, a C-119 cargo plane climbed out of Marseille, France toward Montelimar with three aircrew members aboard. As the aircraft reached about 2,000 feet, the…

In May 1956, five U.S. Air Force pilots flying F-84F fighter jets from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida spotted something unusual in the sky near North Carolina. All three pilots wh…

On the night of August 17, 1956, the pilot of an Eastern Airlines flight heading toward New York reported seeing an unusual object over the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores. The pilo…

On May 14, 1956, near Winston Salem, North Carolina, observers reported a single object about 80 kilometers southwest of the city. The sighting was an air visual observation. It la…

On June 29, 1956, observers reported one object at scattered points in southern California, from Los Angeles to San Diego. The witnesses included Air Force, Navy, and civilian obse…

An Air Force pilot and navigator reported seeing a dark object flying just above the water off the coast of South Carolina in November 1956. The two officers were in flight from Be…

On January 21, 1956, the second mate of a Danish vessel saw a strange object at sea, about 210 miles southeast of Bermuda. The Greenwich time was 0804Z. The night was clear with ma…

On July 12, 1956, radar personnel at Custer Air Force Station in Michigan detected an unidentified object on radar. The object was tracked for 2 minutes and 45 seconds and made a s…

# Summary In November 1956, a lieutenant colonel and pilot of a DC-3 aircraft flying over India near the border with Pakistan reported seeing a bright, metallic object about three…

This case covers sightings in Guatemala on July 20 to 22, 1956, drawn from press reports by civilians. One report described four flying saucers, and another described one object. T…

On April 18, 1956, an Air Force pilot reported one object over the southeast corner of Minnesota, between La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota. The report was filed under…

On December 4, 1956, an Air Force pilot saw one object over Nevada. The pilot was flying a T-33 jet at 38,000 feet, above the clouds, on a clear night. A passenger saw the same thi…

On August 12, 1955, a civilian woman saw an object near her home about 12 miles southeast of Pinecastle Air Force Base in Florida. She lived southeast of Orlando along Highway 15.…

On January 5, 1955, at about 11:25 p.m. (2325Z reported), a military pilot in a T-33 about 20 to 22 miles north of Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, reported one object. The pilot w…

On July 25, 1955, at 2:07 a.m. local time, a civilian near Minneapolis, Minnesota, 20 miles northwest of the city, reported sighting a round object. The object appeared as a red gl…

On December 31, 1955, two people saw a strange object about 25 miles west of Denver, Colorado, near Bergen Park. The Greenwich time was 1805Z. The observers were civilians. The ob…

On January 1, 1955, a military pilot flying a B-25 about 30 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico, reported one object. The pilot was acting as an instructor when he turned to a studen…

On January 1, 1955, a military pilot flying a B-25 about 30 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico, reported one object while acting as an instructor. The sighting lasted a few minutes.…

On September 25, 1955, at about 0020Z, a civilian saw three objects about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted about ten minutes. The witness described t…

On September 28, 1955, near Brownville, Maine, a civilian witness reported seeing a round object that changed colors from red to green to yellow. The object made no sound and appea…

On the night of October 20, 1955, a pilot from the 354th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at McGhee Tyson Air Base near Knoxville, Tennessee saw a light in the sky that resembled a bri…

On July 1, 1955, at 7:09 a.m. local time, a silver object was sighted 50 miles southeast of Sacramento, California. The object was observed falling straight down to the ground. It…

On July 1, 1955, about 50 miles southeast of Sacramento, California, a military pilot reported one object. The case was both a ground-radar and an air-visual sighting. The object…

On July 22, 1955, in Aberdeen, Washington, a witness reported one balloon-shaped object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified…

On July 22, 1955, in Aberdeen, Washington, a civilian reported one balloon-shaped object. The witness was watching aircraft at the time. The Air Force recorded the report under Pro…

On August 7, 1955, at dusk in Akron, Ohio, a civilian observer reported one pink object shaped like a streak heading southward. The object was watched for ten minutes before it dis…

On July 24, 1955, in Akron, Ohio, civilian and military witnesses reported one round, light-silver object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official recor…

On August 18, 1955, a civilian in Alhambra, California reported a ground-visual sighting at 7:03 a.m. The witness observed a round, red object that moved straight up heading east a…

On June 16, 1955, a witness near Anita, Iowa reported a single object. The object was cigar shaped, two to six feet long, with blue and white markings and a red exhaust. It appeare…

On December 13, 1955, over Arlington, Virginia, a witness saw a strange light in the night sky. The Greenwich time was 0309Z on December 14. The sky was fairly clear, and the obser…

On the evening of August 23, 1955, two men standing near a house in Arlington, Virginia spotted several strange orange objects moving rapidly across the sky. One witness was a 55-y…

On July 8, 1955, a witness near Arlington, California saw a round, white object in the sky. The object flew in a straight line toward the east. It was in sight for about a few seco…

On July 9, 1955, at Augusta, Maine, civilian and military witnesses reported one object for about one minute. It was seen on radar, air-visually, and from the ground. The time note…

On the morning of March 30, 1955, a civilian chemist and a technician spotted an unusual object near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Bakersfield, California. The object was desc…

On the night of September 9, 1955, two observers in Glen Burnie, Maryland, spotted unusual blinking lights moving across the sky in a west-northwest direction. The first observer,…

A large, bubbly mass fell from the sky over Baltimore on February 23, 1955, and was watched by at least 25 people as it slowly disintegrated on the ground. The object resembled som…

In July 1955, a person in Baltimore, Maryland saw a silvery, spherical object in the sky, roughly four feet in diameter. The object appeared to be blown by the wind toward the sour…

On September 12, 1955, in Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian witness observed white, round objects in a string-line formation heading north. The witness reported that the objects appe…

On May 7, 1955, at approximately 1820 hours (6:20 p.m.), two metallic objects crashed through the roof of the American Oil Company building at 210 South Russell Street in Baltimore…

On July 7, 1955, at Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian reported one object for about four minutes. Physical evidence was collected in this case. The object was spherical and silver,…

On October 9, 1955, at about 1942 (7:42 p.m.) local time, a civilian saw a light over Baltimore, Maryland, in the Coventry area of northeast Baltimore. The sighting lasted about on…

On October 22, 1955, a civilian in Battle Creek, Michigan reported seeing an object described as the large end of a pencil held at arm's length. The object appeared in the south at…

On the afternoon of May 13, 1955, a man named Glendon Rae was walking toward his observation post on Bear Island, Maine, when he saw a sudden flash of fire in the sky. The object l…

On the evening of August 12, 1955, people in and around Beloit, Wisconsin saw bright, star-like objects moving rapidly across the sky. The first report came from a Ground Observer…

On May 19, 1955, a civilian observer in Berkeley, California reported seeing one unidentified object moving south. The sighting lasted 8 seconds. The object was described as rounde…

On June 22, 1955, at 8:30 p.m. local time, a civilian observer in Bethesda, Maryland reported seeing four elliptical-shaped objects flying over the area. The objects emitted a brig…

On February 10, 1955, at about 10 p.m., a civilian reported a saucer-shaped, glowing object near Bethesda, Maryland. He saw it while driving his car east on MacArthur Boulevard. Hi…

On February 3, 1955, near Bettles, Alaska, an object was sighted at about 30,000 to 35,000 feet. The report came from a military air transport source. The object seemed to have a y…