Project Blue Book Case Files

# Summary On the morning of February 1, 1954, a woman in Puente, California saw an unusual object hovering in the sky around 10:15 a.m. She described it as round and shiny silver,…

In 1954, a military pilot flying an F3D-2 aircraft near Pyongtaek reported one object. The sighting lasted about three seconds. The object was on a course parallel to the aircraft,…

On the evening of January 28, 1954, an object described as bright yellow-white, changing to orange, appeared in the sky near Rangeley, Maine. The observer, identified in the file a…

In 1954, a white object was reported over Rangoon, Burma. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The wit…

On May 10, 1954, at about 11:20 p.m. in Reading, Pennsylvania, a 17-year-old civilian reported one object. He heard a roaring noise in the sky, looked up, and saw a glowing white o…

On June 11, 1954, a military witness at Reese Air Force Base, Texas, reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting lasted only 2 to 5 seconds. The witness saw three objects th…

On May 24, 1954, an Air Force major flying a B-17 photographic mapping aircraft near Richmond, Indiana spotted a brilliant white light moving below him. The pilot managed to photog…

On April 14, 1954, near Roswell, New Mexico, a sighting was reported in the vicinity of Roswell Radio. At 2:15 p.m., a dull reddish glow was observed above the lower cloud deck. Th…

On November 9, 1954, a witness near Salem, Massachusetts, reported a bright object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation and lasted about 23 minutes. The object…

On May 15, 1954, at about 10:22 p.m. local time near Salinas, California, military pilots reported one object for about five seconds. They described a bright green, meteor-like obj…

On the night of May 1, 1954, around 0002 hours (just after midnight), two teenage grade school students and a housewife in Salisbury Beach, Massachusetts saw a bright white light m…

On the night of July 30, 1954, a military witness at Sampson Air Force Base, New York, reported a star like object. The sighting lasted a few seconds, between about 10:57 and 11:02…

On April 19, 1954, at 8:52 p.m., an engineer draftsman at Sampson Air Force Base in New York observed an object about the size of a nickel held at arm's length. The object was brig…

On the night of March 8-9, 1954, residents and military personnel in San Antonio, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses described a crescent-shaped group of lights,…

On November 25, 1954 (Thanksgiving Day), a resident of San Antonio, Texas watched a round, greyish-white object moving slowly across the sky. The object appeared to hover briefly a…

On August 6, 1954, a civilian in San Antonio, Texas, reported a small elliptical object in the sky. The man, a licensed mechanical engineer, was driving home in the evening when th…

On the night of July 21, 1954, a civilian woman in San Antonio, Texas, saw an orange colored light in the sky. The sighting was at about 11:00 p.m. and lasted two to four seconds.…

On October 13, 1954, at 9:26 a.m. in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported observing one round object with a hissing noise like escaping steam. The object first appeared…

On the afternoon of June 2, 1954, a U.S. Customs Inspector traveling with his family on a road near Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, spotted what he first thought was the moon moving acros…

On August 15, 1954, a military observer in San Marcos, Texas reported a dark blue oblong object without discernible features. The object flew on the same course as an aircraft. It…

On April 22, 1954, at around 2:30 p.m., a Navy serviceman named James B. Stephens Jr. was riding in a carryall vehicle on San Nicolas Island, California, when he spotted something…

On June 2, 1954, a fisherman named Phillips was casting lines in Sardis Lake near Sardis, Mississippi, when he saw an unusual object descending from the sky. The object appeared sm…

In June 1954 in Savannah, Georgia, observers reported objects in the sky. The objects were described as generally round with a red glow and a halo effect. They made no sound. No de…

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On the night of August 22, 1954, two young people observed a pale yellowish-white point of light moving rapidly across the sky near Fort Screven on Tybee Island, Savannah Beach, Ge…

On October 2, 1954, at 7:21 a.m., a pale blue object was sighted near Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. One round object, the size of a baseball, was observed at 15 degrees elevation…

On January 28, 1954, near Seneca Lake, New York, military observers sighted an unidentified object at 10 a.m. and again at 10 a.m. The object was half-moon shaped, about 12 feet in…

On the evening of March 12, 1954, a resident of Scranton, Pennsylvania reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky while walking home. The man, a 31-year-old laborer, was he…

On April 25, 1954, at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina, military personnel observed an unidentified flying object. The object was green and round with a green exhaust trail ap…

On January 3, 1954, a driver traveling south on Highway 53 near Sioux City, Iowa saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness was moving at about 50 miles per hour when he spotted…

On July 23, 1954, near South Lakewood, New Jersey, a civilian witness observed three disc-shaped objects with a lime-white color flying in a circle. The objects were about 100 feet…

On July 10, 1954, at 8:55 p.m. local time, a civilian observer approximately 6 miles north of Somerset, Pennsylvania reported seeing a short vapor trail over the western horizon un…

In the spring of 1954, an object was reported on two occasions near Stalingrad, in the Soviet Union. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for u…

On August 13, 1954, an object was reported near Stavern, Norway. The Air Force learned of the sighting through a newspaper clipping, so it was a second hand report. The clipping di…

On August 9, 1954, a civilian witness in St. Cloud, Minnesota, observed a round object flashing red, orange, blue, and white at one-minute intervals. The object moved with jerky mo…

On April 18, 1954, at 2320 local time, lights were reported over Stewart Air Force Base, New York. Two reliable observers reported the sighting from different points. The report wa…

# Summary On May 1, 1954, a white light was observed moving along the horizon near St. Lawrence Island, Alaska. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The observer was on the gro…

On July 11, 1954, at 7:50 a.m. in St. Louis, Missouri, a civilian witness reported a milky white rectangular object with no trail or sound. The object appeared opaque and moved at…

On November 3, 1954, at 1:30 p.m. in St. Louis, Missouri, a civilian observer watching a formation of B-47 bombers flying on a south-westerly course spotted a round, flat object to…

On November 30, 1954, at 1350 (1:50 p.m.), a meteor exploded high in the atmosphere above Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi. One fragment from that explosion fell through the roof…

On the night of September 30 to October 1, 1954, civilians in Temple Hills, Maryland reported seeing a strange white object moving across the sky. The witnesses described it someti…

On June 8, 1954, at about 1:00 a.m. near Hooks, Texas, a civilian arsenal employee reported one object for about two minutes. He described a circular object about the size of a was…

On June 5, 1954, at 2:25 a.m. EST in Three Oaks, Michigan, a civilian observer reported seeing one unidentified object. The object appeared bright as Saturn and had no running ligh…

On October 23, 1954, radar operators at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma picked up an unusual target on their FPS-10 radar scope (a type of radar that displays moving objects on a…

On the night of January 1, 1954, residents across central New Jersey reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. In Toms River, a police chief and several officers watched three lu…

On January 5, 1954, at about 10 p.m. local time (about noon by one witness account) near Tooma, New South Wales, Australia, civilians reported three objects. The witnesses were on…

On November 23, 1954, a military witness near Topia, New Mexico, reported a momentary sighting in the sky. One object was seen. The object was described as a brilliant flash of li…

On October 23, 1954, at 3:52 p.m., an airline pilot flying near Tulsa, Oklahoma reported seeing one object about the size of a small fighter with wings shaped like a half-moon. The…

On February 1, 1954, at about 8:00 p.m., witnesses near Tuscaloosa, Alabama, reported lights in the sky. The source was civilian. The witnesses reported six lights hovering around…

On a December night in 1954, a person in University City, Missouri saw an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round and white when it moved, but turned red when it stopp…

On February 21, 1954, a glowing object was reported near Van Nuys, California. The sighting was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying o…

On the evening of September 22, 1954, a civilian in Venice, California saw a huge, round fireball in the sky. The object appeared yellowish-orange and later turned red. It was firs…

Between June 13 and June 16, 1954, several witnesses near Vero Beach, Indialantic, and Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, reported strange lights over the Atlantic coast. The witness…

On the night of July 8, 1954, three separate observers in Texas reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object with a blue flame trailing behind it. An airline captain and co-pilot a…

On January 21, 1954, an aircrew reported a bright white light near Waco, Texas. The sighting was made at 1556 local time by four crew members. It came in as a pilot report and was…

On October 3, 1954, a group of eight people in Warrensburg, Missouri observed an unusual object in the sky. They reported seeing a dull red, oblong shape that moved erratically fro…

On February 23, 1954, glowing objects were reported over Washington, D.C. The sighting was made from the ground and filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for u…

On July 29, 1954, near Key West, Florida, the crew of the U.S. Navy tugboat USS YTB-543 witnessed a strange aerial object that left several observers puzzled. Chief Quartermaster…

On August 4, 1954, a civilian in Washington, D.C. reported observing an object from 12:10 a.m. to 1:40 a.m. EST. The object appeared star-like and small with no marked movement or…

On July 15, 1954, in Waterville, Minnesota, a UFO was sighted flying south at low altitude. The object was 12 inches in diameter and orange in color. It appeared to be a cluster of…