Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 19, 1952, at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, airmen observed a blinking white light that flew upward, then moved in a pendulum-like motion for about 20 minutes bef…

Several civilians in Palmer, Alaska, reported seeing a bright blue, tube-shaped object near the setting sun on January 12, 1952, at approximately 1652 (4:52 p.m.). The observation…

On August 28, 1952, at 4:45 p.m. local time, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. reported one round object over Parkland, Maryland. He was considered…

On the night of July 22, 1952, five people aboard a civilian airplane near Pennington, New Jersey, spotted an unidentified object in the sky. The observers reported seeing a bright…

On the evening of May 3, 1952, two couples driving through downtown Phoenix in a convertible saw something unusual pass overhead. The object was cigar-shaped, glowing white, and tr…

On January 29, 1952, a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and his wife observed a brilliant green fireball traveling across the sky near Falls Church, Virginia. The object had a spheroi…

On the evening of May 1, 1952, near Phoenix, Arizona, a civilian observer spotted an unusual object in the sky at 2200 hours (10 p.m.). The object was moving to the northeast at an…

On the evening of June 30, 1952, a couple driving on 35th Avenue near Phoenix, Arizona saw a strange bright object in the sky. It was around 9 p.m., and the object appeared to be a…

On the evening of July 28, 1952, a civilian woman in Phoenix, Arizona saw an unusual object in the sky. According to her witness statement, the object resembled a flying wing and w…

# Phoenix, Arizona Sighting - July 1952 On the morning of July 2, 1952, just after 4:20 a.m., a woman in Phoenix, Arizona, spotted something unusual in the predawn sky. She descri…

In early August 1952, two separate sightings were reported in Phoenix, Arizona. The first occurred on August 4 at 2:20 a.m. when an airman stationed at Luke Air Force Base saw a ro…

On August 7, 1952, at 0956 hours (9:56 a.m.), an unidentified object was observed over Pinecastle Air Force Base near Orlando, Florida. An observer working on the flight line saw a…

On February 11, 1952, between about 0300 and 0315 (3:00 to 3:15 a.m.) Eastern time, two Air Force officers flying a T-11 aircraft from Cleveland, Ohio, to Langley Air Force Base, V…

On April 12, 1952, a ground observer at Point Hope, in northwestern Alaska, reported an unidentified multi engine aircraft heading southeast. The altitude and speed were unknown. T…

On August 4, 1952, personnel at a Ground Observer Corps post near Point Reyes, California, sighted an object that looked like a red flare with a 100-foot tail drifting behind it. T…

On the night of April 27, 1952, a man driving with his family north of Detroit saw a brilliant white object descend rapidly from the northeast sky near Pontiac, Michigan. The objec…

On December 9, 1952, radar operators at Pope Air Force Base in South Carolina detected an unidentified object on their radar scope. The object appeared as a stationary target with…

On the night of September 16, 1952, a Navy P2V patrol aircraft from Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine spotted two mysterious objects flying near Portland. The pilot, Lieutenant…

The Portland case file covers a sequence of unidentified-aerial-object reports filed with the Portland Police Bureau and the Civilian Aeronautics Administration office at Portland-…

On the night of August 6 and 7, 1952, military personnel in Port Lyautey, French Morocco, reported seeing an unusual bright object moving at extreme speed. A ground observer first…

This report covers a news item from Quetta, in the Baluchistan region, dated November 18, 1952. An assistant U.S. air attache forwarded a newspaper clipping from The Times of India…

On September 21, 1952, thousands of people across French Morocco witnessed a bright, fast-moving object streaking across the sky. The sighting began around 1815 hours (6:15 p.m.) n…

On the night of June 12, 1952, military personnel stationed at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a series of unidentified aerial objects moving erratically across the sky n…

On the evening of July 13, 1952, two airmen at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio saw an unusual object moving rapidly across the sky. Technical Sergeant Thurman C. Mahone…

On August 1, 1952, two women at a ground observation post near Red Bluff, California, spotted a round, bluish object traveling south at high speed. The sighting lasted about one mi…

In August 1952, civilians at Redding Municipal Airport in California reported seeing seven or eight objects flying in a straight line at very high speed. The observers watched the…

On the evening of July 6, 1952, near Redondo, Washington, a woman employed at nearby McChord Air Force Base spotted an unusual light in the sky. The object appeared as a single, ro…

# Redwing, Wisconsin, November 1952 In November 1952, a civilian observer in Redwing, Wisconsin reported seeing an unidentified flying object that flashed and disappeared repeated…

On May 1, 1952, near Olmstead Air Force Base in Pennsylvania, an ex-pilot reported sighting an unidentified flying object. The object appeared red on approach and white when recedi…

On March 31 or April 1, 1952, a worker at Port Chicago Naval Yard in the San Francisco Bay Area reported seeing an unusual bright light moving over Suisun Bay near Richmond, Califo…

The OCR text for this case is severely degraded throughout pages 2 through 12, making it impossible to extract reliable factual details beyond what appears on page 1. While the cov…

In August 1952, an observer in Richmond, California reported seeing a round, orange object that circled overhead and then faded into darkness. The sighting lasted about thirty seco…

On the morning of August 27, 1952, Air Force personnel at the Richmond Filter Center in Richmond, Virginia spotted a round, medium-sized, amber-colored object moving west-northwest…

On August 3, 1952, an observer stationed at the Hall of Justice building in Richmond, California saw two objects in the night sky. The objects looked about the size of a star and a…

On the night of September 1, 1952, a man and woman in Richmond, Virginia, saw an unusual glowing object in the sky. The object appeared very bright at first, then faded from view.…

In May 1952, two photographers working for O Cruzeiro magazine in Rio de Janeiro reported photographing a "flying disc" over the Barra da Tijuca, a beach area northwest of the city…

On September 2, 1952, at 11:45 p.m. Pacific Daylight time, four civilians in Riverside, California, about nine miles north of March Air Force Base, reported one star-like object. I…

On July 28, 1952, a civilian woman in Riverside, California reported observing a large bluish-white object with a sharp exhaust trail that emitted a noise like a jet engine. The ob…

On October 26, 1952, a civilian couple in a car saw a bright object near Roanoke, Texas, on U.S. Highway 77, about 18 miles north of Fort Worth. The driver's wife pointed it out an…

On the morning of September 17, 1952, multiple witnesses near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia observed two unidentified objects moving across the sky. The sighting began at approx…

On the night of September 23, 1952, multiple witnesses at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia reported seeing a group of unidentified lights in the sky. The first sighting occurred ar…

On April 27, 1952, near Roseville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, four civilian men with previous military backgrounds reported several unconventional objects. The sighting lasted…

In June 1952, multiple witnesses near Lynchburg, Virginia reported seeing a shiny, round object moving at high altitude across the southern Virginia sky. The sighting sparked immed…

On April 27, 1952, over Royal Oak, Michigan, a civilian man reported an unconventional object. The sighting happened at 1100 hours (11:00 a.m.). The witness saw one small white ob…

On September 3, 1952, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post near Sacramento, California reported seeing a fast-moving, disc-shaped object with a dark line through its middle. T…

On the night of August 26, 1952, a man who worked in intelligence for the U.S. Air Force was returning from a late movie in Sacramento, California. As he walked through a parking l…

On August 3, 1952, a couple stationed at a Ground Observer Corps post in Sacramento, California saw a large red object in the night sky. The observation post was located in the Wes…

On August 23, 1952, a lawyer driving south on U.S. Highway 13 near Salisbury, Maryland, saw an unusual light in the sky. He described it as a bright bluish-green glow traveling at…

On May 19, 1952, a B-36 bomber crew flying near San Angelo, Texas, spotted seven unusual white objects arranged in a vertical column ahead of their aircraft. The sighting lasted ab…

On the evening of May 29, 1952, a military pilot standing on his front porch in San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The pilot was with his wife and a civilian…

On September 7, 1952, at 10:50 p.m., a couple in San Antonio, Texas witnessed an unusual flash of light in the eastern sky. The man and his wife were leaving friends' house when th…

On August 7, 1952, beginning about 9:00 p.m. Central time, a civilian woman in San Antonio, Texas, watched four objects over about an hour and ten minutes. She first went outside w…

On December 21, 1952, a driver in San Antonio, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky while traveling on Freese-Tilden Highway. The witness was alone in his car when he notic…

At 0052 hours Central Standard Time on July 28, 1952, an unidentified white light was spotted near San Antonio, Texas. The observation came from multiple sources: an unknown B-29 p…

On December 17, 1952, several U.S. Naval employees reported seeing objects over San Diego, California. The sightings happened in the afternoon, between about 3:15 and 3:25 p.m. The…

On August 2, 1952, at 2:35 a.m. Pacific Daylight time, a civilian woman at California and Powell Streets in San Francisco reported an unidentified object to the northwest. She watc…

On July 26, 1952, military personnel and civilians across California and multiple other states reported seeing unidentified flying objects. The sightings were scattered geographica…

On July 28, 1952, two observers at a Civil Defense post near San Rafael, California, watched an unidentified object fly overhead for roughly one minute in the early morning hours.…

On September 12, 1952, at 3:17 p.m., an unidentified object was sighted near Santa Monica, California. A civilian witness at a radio company reported seeing the object in a northwe…

On August 30, 1952, a toolmaker in Santa Monica, California saw a series of bright, saucer-shaped objects moving erratically in the sky during the late afternoon. The main sighting…