Project Blue Book Case Files

On December 31, 1953, at about 10:45 a.m. local time between Palm Springs and Riverside, California, a Marine pilot reported one object. The pilot was flying an F9F jet at about 22…

On April 8, 1953, at around 1130 (11:30 a.m.), several military personnel stationed at Fort Buchanan in San Juan, Puerto Rico observed an unidentified flying object high in the sky…

On the evening of August 28, 1953, a Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post operator in San Rafael, California spotted an unusual formation in the sky. At 11:25 p.m., the observer used b…

Two experienced Air Force pilots flying a KC-97 tanker aircraft over Santa Ana, California, on the evening of January 9, 1953, observed a formation of blue lights approaching them…

On the night of July 31, 1953, a Methodist preacher named Mr. Lister was driving home to Satsuma, Alabama on Highway 43 when he saw something unusual in the sky. The object had a c…

On the night of July 2, 1953, two military observers stationed near Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina watched three circular objects move across the sky. The largest object glo…

On July 13, 1953, a military pilot and a runway control officer at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina both reported seeing an unidentified object within minutes of each other. T…

On June 23, 1953, a homeowner in Shawnee, Kansas reported seeing an unusual object in the sky at 3:45 p.m. The witness, a civilian woman sitting on her front porch, noticed a brigh…

# Sheaves Cove, Newfoundland, March 1953 In March 1953, several residents of Sheaves Cove, a small community about 25 miles west of Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland, r…

In April 1953, residents of Sheaves Cove, Newfoundland reported seeing an unusual light in the sky. On April 27, two men were cutting wood when they saw an object shaped like a lig…

On the morning of July 9, 1953, at around 12:05 p.m., an airman stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas was standing on the hospital ramp during his lunch brea…

On the night of September 30, 1953, a homeowner in Silver Springs, Maryland, stepped outside and spotted an unusual object in the sky. The man, who owned a local equipment company,…

On June 24, 1953, Airman 2nd Class Richard A. Hill was tracking a weather balloon through a theodolite (a telescope used to measure angles and altitude) near Simiutak, Greenland, w…

On October 25, 1953, military observers reported objects over Simiutak, Greenland. The report came from radar and ground observers at an air base group, with sightings starting abo…

On January 10, 1953, at around 11:45 p.m., a retired Air Force colonel and a federal security officer observed an unusual object in the sky near Sonoma, California. The two men wer…

On February 23, 1953, at about 2130 (9:30 p.m.) Central time, a husband and wife reported an unidentified light in southern Wisconsin. They were driving home from Lake Geneva. They…

On March 29, 1953, four people installing an antenna near Spooner, Wisconsin spotted an unusual object in the sky. At 2:14 p.m. local time, they saw a circular disc the color of al…

On September 26, 1953, a resident of Springfield, Ohio, reported watching an unusual object in the sky. The observer was watching a fishing game when they noticed the phenomenon an…

The OCR text of this case file is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the document is clearly a standard Air Force UFO report form from the 1950s with witness…

On January 28, 1953, at about 7:13 p.m., a civilian saw an object while driving on the St. Georges Bridge near St. Georges, Delaware. The report reached the Air Force by phone from…

On the night of July 6, 1953, a control tower operator and a college student in Stillwater, Oklahoma, watched two bright white lights moving back and forth in a limited arc of roug…

On November 15, 1953, at about 11:30 p.m., a civilian near St. Louis, Missouri, reported a single object. The witness was driving on Highway 30 between Cedar Hill and High Ridge. A…

On December 8, 1953, at about an evening hour, a military pilot near St. Louis, Missouri, reported one object. The sighting was made from a B-26 aircraft of a light bombardment squ…

On the night of January 23, 1953, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a C-47 transport aircraft over Stuttgart, Germany reported seeing a bright white object with a green edge. The pi…

On January 24, 1953, a worker at a railhead near Suwon, Korea, saw two small, round objects that glowed a whitish silver color. The man watched them for three to five seconds as th…

On April 12, 1953, three Air Force pilots flying a C-47 cargo aircraft spotted ten round, flat metallic objects near Sweetwater, Nevada. Major Fred G. Padelford was at the controls…

On April 29, 1953, at about 1125 (11:25 a.m.) Eastern time, civilians reported an object over Syracuse, New York. The witnesses were several women, including two named in the repor…

On May 11, 1953, Lieutenant Colonel Dayton C. Casto Jr., a U.S. Air Force officer stationed in Tehran, Iran, reported sighting an unidentified flying object over the city. The obje…

On the night of December 9, 1953, six Air Force pilots and radar operators stationed at Thule Air Base in Greenland reported seeing unidentified objects during training flights ove…

On June 9, 1953, two U.S. Air Force lieutenants stationed at Tillamook, Oregon reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The officers, 2nd Lieutenant I. N. Patterson and 2nd Li…

On July 8, 1953, at 10:27 p.m., observers at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma spotted a round, white, shiny object moving across the sky. The object had no tail or other obvious f…

On October 2, 1953, about 0200 (2:00 a.m.), a military witness saw an object over Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The witnesses were an Air Force sergeant and an Army private. Th…

On July 1, 1953, at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma, an unidentified object was sighted. The object looked like a star about the size of a star with no trail or exhaust and no ap…

On July 2, 1953, multiple guards and tower personnel at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma spotted an unidentified object in the sky during daylight hours. The object was round, bri…

On July 3, 1953, Wilbur H. Focht, an employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Tipp City, Ohio, stepped outside his home around 6:43 p.m. and spotted an unusual object in th…

On the evening of April 15, 1953, a radar operator and his wife observed four separate bright lights over Tucson, Arizona. The sightings took place between 9:45 p.m. and 10:10 p.m.…

On January 27, 1953, at about 7:34 p.m., an airman and his wife saw an object near Tucson, Arizona. The witness was a staff sergeant from a bomb wing at Davis-Monthan Air Force Bas…

On October 31, 1953, a civilian witness near Union Lake, Michigan, about 25 miles west of Detroit, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The witness was an ensign in the U.…

On the night of August 12, 1953, four civilians fishing off the seaward end of the Ventura public pier in California spotted an unusual light in the western sky around 9:05 p.m. (2…

On the night of February 12, 1953, an Air Force pilot reported an unidentified light near Vichy, Missouri. The witness was Captain Robert B. Bailey, a staff pilot. He was flying a…

On February 2, 1953, two aerial gunners aboard a B-50 bomber spotted a silver object in the wake of a B-52 aircraft near Victorville, California. The gunners were flying at 25,000…

On July 5, 1953, a witness in Washington reported lights in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The witness was outdoors at night and reported many stars and no moon. The ob…

On October 11, 1953, a farmer near Waubun, Minnesota reported seeing two unusual objects in the sky. The first object, which appeared around 11:30 a.m., was described as a large fl…

On January 15, 1953, a civilian Civil Defense ground observer saw objects from a tower in Westhampton Beach, New York. The first object appeared at about 6:40 p.m. The witness was…

On August 4, 1953, about 2340 (11:40 p.m.), a civilian saw an object over West Point, Nebraska. The witness was a former rated pilot who had flown in World War II. The witness had…

On June 28, 1953, at 8:23 p.m., a civilian airline pilot near White Plains, New York reported observing one circular, slightly elongated dark object. The object was approximately 5…

On March 31, 1953, a civilian test pilot flying near Williams Air Force Base in Arizona spotted what he described as a silver, disc-shaped object traveling at high speed. The sight…

On February 16-17, 1953, two experienced Air Force pilots saw a mysterious red light over Alaska while flying a military transport plane. Major Joseph H. Lemon and Captain Eugene S…

On the night of October 19, 1953, two observers in Winsor, Newfoundland, watched a bright object descend from the sky and move across the landscape. The sighting lasted between 10…

On the night of November 22 to 23, 1953, near Woomera, Australia, several civilians reported objects in the sky. The witnesses were local residents driving on roads near Woomera an…

On October 16, 1953, in Yakima, Washington, a circular object with silver color was sighted. An Air Force pilot and co-pilot flying at 2,000 feet observed the object during dayligh…

On February 4, 1953, a weather observer at Yuma County Municipal Airport in Arizona was using a theodolite (an optical instrument for measuring angles) to track a lost weather ball…

On December 16, 1953, at about 6:12 p.m. in the Mediterranean area, military radar operators reported returns. The detection was made by ground radar at an air control and warning…

On February 23, 1953, a strange egg-shaped object was observed over Corontalo in North Celebes, Indonesia. The object radiated a grayish-green light with a red light visible from i…

On February 25, 1953, hundreds of residents in Borneo gathered to watch a bright, star-like object rotating in the sky above the oil town of Seria. The object appeared to emit twin…

On November 19, 1953, at about 1 a.m., a pilot over the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores reported one object. The sighting was made from a C-54 aircraft flying at 9,000 feet at about…

On November 21, 1953, at about 9:38 p.m., the captain of a Danish ship in the Atlantic Ocean reported a light. The position was off the coast of Greenland. The light was watched fo…

A U.S. citizen living in Guatemala observed a brilliant greenish gold object on the afternoon of January 17, 1953. The witness was riding a bus between Guatemala City and Antigua w…

On February 26, 1953, at 0550 (use of the Z time group), an unidentified radar target was reported at a Greenland air base. This was a ground radar sighting by a Ground Control App…

This report describes a sighting in 1953 in upstate New York, near Ten Mile River, at a Boy Scout camp. The witness did not report it until November 1960, when he wrote a letter to…