Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 17, 1957, in Kansas City, Missouri, a civilian witness reported seeing a round, white object moving rapidly across the sky faster than an aircraft. The sighting occurr…

On November 5, 1957, a seed salesman driving near Kearney, Nebraska reported a remarkable encounter. The man said a flash of light stopped his car about three miles southeast of to…

On September 2, 1957, at about 2000 (8:00 p.m.) over Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, a military witness saw one round object for 20 to 25 minutes. It was about the size of a quarter h…

On the evening of November 10, 1957, someone in Kennesaw, Georgia saw a bright object fall from the sky. The object was round with a tail and had a green core that gradually turned…

On October 21, 1957, at 3:10 p.m., a civilian observer in Kennesaw, Georgia reported seeing a round bright light about half the size of a dime. The object moved rapidly and seemed…

On June 9, 1957, at night, a civilian near Kerrville, Texas reported a sighting. The sky was clear to partly scattered with about 15 miles of visibility. The witness saw one round…

On December 7, 1957, residents in three Texas locations reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force recorded these sightings as part of Project Blue Book, its officia…

On May 24, 1957, at 10:53 a.m., Edmund McCabe was working on a high-tension electrical line near Old Northport Road in Kings Park, Long Island, when he spotted an object in the sky…

On August 22, 1957, around dusk at 2330 (Greenwich time) in Kingston, Pennsylvania, civilian witnesses in one family saw two circular objects. The first was about twice the size of…

On the morning of October 23, 1957, at 0500 (5:00 a.m.), a priest standing in front of his church at Kisalon, Mindanao saw a light approaching from the southeast. The light moved r…

On the night of February 14-15, 1957, a bright green object streaked across the sky near Kittery Point, Maine, witnessed by a couple taking down laundry in their yard. The object w…

On August 13, 1957, at dusk, a civilian near Knoxville, Tennessee reported a sighting. The observation lasted about three minutes. The sky was clear. The witness saw one reddish o…

On July 7, 1957, a military observer in Kokomo, Indiana reported a sighting that lasted about thirty seven minutes. The witness saw two round objects that showed six or seven chan…

On October 6, 1957, at 1:05 p.m., a civilian in Kremmling, Colorado reported seeing a round object about the size of a quarter at arm's length. The object was red at first, then ch…

On June 14, 1957, at about 5:55 a.m. Zulu time, observers near La Aurora Airport in Guatemala reported a sighting. The report came through a U.S. air attache and was credited to se…

On September 11, 1957, at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas, military personnel observed seven round objects in a V formation traveling in a straight line. The objects were describe…

On November 26, 1957, at dusk in Laconia, New Hampshire, a 15-year-old student observed a cigar-shaped object 2 inches long and gold in color. The object was flying in a straight c…

On the night of December 21, 1957, a witness in LaGrange, Georgia reported seeing a very bright object in the sky. The sighting lasted only about two seconds. The object appeared b…

On January 16, 1957, in Laguna, California, a GOC observer reported a red, round, pea-sized object observed to the east, southeast at about 30 degrees elevation. The object did not…

On the evening of March 20, 1957, in Lake City, Florida, three people observed an unusual object in the sky for about 51 minutes. The object appeared pear-shaped and roughly the si…

On November 9, 1957, near Lake City, Missouri, a civilian employee at Lake City Arsenal reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The witness was driving his automobile from h…

On November 7, 1957, a witness at Lake City, Tennessee, reported one object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 45 minutes. The object was r…

On November 7, 1957, witnesses in Lake County, Ohio, reported objects in the sky. Several people made reports, which were collected by local Civil Defense officials. One woman repo…

On August 7, 1957, at 2:20 a.m. EST in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a civilian observer reported two star-like objects. One object was directly behind the other. They moved very fast and…

On February 22, 1957, a civilian at Lake Stevens, Washington, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified fl…

On November 26, 1957, near Lake Worth, Florida, a civilian witness reported seeing one star-like object with a reddish color moving between clouds. The observation lasted several s…

On December 6, 1957, near La Madera, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing one round object the size of a basketball with a white light. The object moved side to side abo…

On February 7, 1957, at Las Cruces Air Force Station in New Mexico, radar operators detected 54 unidentified objects on their screens between 7:05 a.m. and 12:22 p.m. The targets a…

On November 27, 1957, at around 2:30 a.m., a resident of Baywood Park near Las Vegas, Nevada, reported seeing a bright flying object. The witness described it as round and yellow-o…

# Las Vegas Radar Sighting, July 1957 On July 16, 1957, a radar station in Las Vegas detected an object moving at an extraordinary speed. The object appeared on the radar scope tr…

On November 25, 1957, a witness in Las Vegas, Nevada saw one round object. It was about the size of a half dollar at arm's length and yellowish orange in color. The object went dow…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian near Levelland, Texas reported an unusual object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. The object looked like two basketballs, one…

On the evening of November 21, 1957, residents of the New York and New Jersey area saw a bright object streak across the sky. In Levittown, Long Island, a witness on the ground obs…

On October 10, 1957, a person in Levittown, New York, saw a round area of light larger than a basketball. The object appeared blue-green with a trail three or four times its size.…

On November 9, 1957, a civilian in Lexington, Kentucky reported observing an unidentified object. The witness described a round long streamer with a 4-foot diameter and a 6-foot ta…

On November 1957 (recorded around 3:40 a.m. GMT), a civilian near Lexington, Kentucky reported one round white object the size of a dime. The sighting lasted two to three seconds.…

On January 19, 1957, a civilian near Liberty, Pennsylvania, reported a single object. The sighting was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified…

On the evening of November 6, 1957, people in Lima, Ohio called the local newspaper to report a strange sight in the sky. They had seen a round, red object at high altitude in the…

On the night of February 13, 1957, control tower personnel at Lincoln Air Force Base in Nebraska watched multiple red flashing lights moving over the area north and northeast of th…

On December 27, 1957, near Littleton, New Hampshire, two civilians reported a single bright object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 3 to 4 minutes. The object was round,…

On August 1, 1957, near Livingston, Montana, the crew of a Ringbolt 54 B-47 aircraft flying at 37,000 feet reported sighting a long green flame coming from some object at 33,000 fe…

On August 7, 1957, three civilians reported seeing one round object about the size of a basketball with transparent color near Livingston Manor, New York. The sighting lasted one h…

On the evening of February 29, 1957, Department of Defense security officers at the U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot in Crane, Indiana saw two unusually lit objects traveling southwest…

On December 3, 1957, a civilian in Loma Linda, California reported seeing two round objects about the size of basketballs. The objects were bluish white with small white dots at on…

On the night of November 6, 1957, civilians in Long Beach, California reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The first observer described a single round, bright object about t…

On November 3, 1957, at 1:30 p.m., a round object was sighted in Long Beach, New York. The object appeared as bright as the head of a pin when dim, then changed brightness and emit…

On the afternoon of November 5, 1957, Major Lewis F. Baker Jr. and two other weather observers at Long Beach Air Force Base spotted several small, metallic objects moving erratical…

On the night of December 5, 1957, multiple people across Long Island, New York reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object in the sky. The sightings occurred around 0100Z (8 p.m.…

On October 9, 1957, at 12:04 a.m., a civilian in Brentwood, Long Island, New York reported seeing a star-like white object about the size of a pea. The witness heard a deep roaring…

In July 1957, a rancher working about six miles west of Longmont, Colorado observed an unusual craft hovering in the early morning sky. He was raking hay south of his farmhouse whe…

On July 16, 1957, at about 5:15 a.m. local time, a civilian family of three in Lorain, Ohio reported a sighting. Their home was on the south side of an avenue running along Lake Er…

On November 8, 1957, around 11:31 p.m. local time, military observers near Los Angeles, California reported a round white object the size of a dime. The sighting lasted more than 2…

On July 10, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian husband observed a round object about the size of a half dollar with the color and brightness of a star. Using binoculars,…

On September 30, 1957, a civilian in Los Angeles, California reported sighting a round, white object the size of a baseball overhead. The object disappeared into haze on the horizo…

On August 14, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian witness observed three round yellow objects about a quarter mile in length arranged in a triangle formation. The objects…

On November 27, 1957, a civilian near Louisville, Kentucky reported one circular, clear but bright object described as about three and a half inches long. The object moved from eas…

On November 19, 1957, two separate sightings were reported to Project Blue Book. In Louisville, Kentucky, a civilian observed one oblong white object with a red stripe moving very…

On December 8, 1957, a civilian Texas oil field worker in Loving, Texas sighted a round, silver object about the size of a dime. The object faded from sight during an observation l…

On November 22, 1957, a mining engineer near Point Eugenia in Lower California, Mexico sighted a slender, missile-like object traveling at high speed. The object was heading roughl…

On November 9, 1957, at 10:01 a.m., a civilian in Makanda, Illinois reported seeing one round object colored red to blue, very high in the sky. The object had no tail or exhaust an…