Project Blue Book Case Files

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On the night of Monday, July 13, 1959, three professional astronomers in Rio de Janeiro watched an unusual object cross the sky through their telescope at the University of Brazil'…

# Summary On May 2, 1959, at dusk, a Trans-Canada Airlines pilot and first officer spotted a bright object over Poughkeepsie, New York, while flying a Viscount 717 airliner at 15,…

# A Missionary's Encounter: The Boianai UFO Sightings, New Guinea, June 1959 In late June 1959, a missionary and teacher in Papua, New Guinea reported a series of extraordinary si…

On January 10, 1959, a witness in Baltimore, Maryland, reported a glowing object in the sky. The sighting was made about 6:45 p.m. local time (2345 GMT) and lasted about one minute…

On June 18, 1959, just after 2:15 a.m., a United Airlines pilot flying over the Pacific Ocean spotted what he believed was a rocket firing. His aircraft was at 19,000 feet near the…

On February 22, 1959, civilian crewmen aboard a Dutch merchant ship about 60 miles east of Puerto Rico reported an object in the night sky. The sighting was about 1:38 a.m. (0538Z)…

On May 1, 1959, in Plumas County, an unusual white glow was sighted from three ships at sea. The object was first spotted off Port Bow at twenty-five degrees, positioned twenty-fou…

On the night of March 13, 1959, a Navy pilot reported a bright object about 37 miles south of Oceanside, California. The sighting was made from the air at about 0027Z, in clear wea…

On April 1, 1959, at 7:43 a.m. near Limatuontauri, a witness reported seeing what appeared to be a rocket traveling from east to west at coordinates 40 degrees 35 minutes north, 46…

On the night of March 26, 1959, a B-52 bomber flying at 32,000 feet near the Montana-Canada border picked up an unidentified object on radar. The B-52 crew, led by Captain John W.…

On the evening of February 24, 1959, an American Airlines pilot near Bradford, Pennsylvania, reported seeing three mysterious lights that paced his aircraft for about 40 minutes. T…

On August 14, 1959, at about 0453Z, an object was reported over the North Pacific, northeast of Hawaii. The sighting was reported from the air through the Air Force's unidentified…

On August 17, 1959, at about 0921Z, an aircraft crew reported an object over the ocean, east of North Carolina toward the West Indies. The sighting was reported from the air throug…

On September 7, 1959, a military pilot reported a sighting south of the Aleutian Islands over the Pacific, near 52 degrees north and 172 degrees west. The pilot first saw a bright…

On the night of September 16, 1959, a military pilot over the Atlantic near the Azores, at about 39 degrees north and 34 degrees west, saw a fireball. The aircraft was a C-124 flyi…

On Saturday, January 24, 1959, at around 12:15 p.m., a man was walking in Prospect Park near the Music Grove in Brooklyn with a friend. The sky was perfectly clear, and he noticed…

On the night of October 28, 1959, a military pilot saw a light from a C-118 aircraft over the Pacific, midway between Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, and Wake Island. The aircraft w…

On the night of November 3, 1959, military pilots in a T-33 jet over Utica, New York, saw an object for 10 to 15 minutes. The aircraft was at 30,000 feet. The object was round and…

On June 1, 1959, near Ohio, two airplanes noticed balls of fire traveling at about 600 miles per hour. One plane was 1300 feet northeast of Clinton County Homer Radio, and the othe…

On the night of November 24, 1959, an object was reported from the ship Santa Monica in the Atlantic Ocean, near 11 degrees north and 73 degrees west. The witness was described as…

On May 1, 1959, personnel aboard USS Newell observed three flaming meteors from a position approximately 25-12 north, 163-50 west. The objects fell ahead of the ship from an elevat…

On January 2, 1959, at 2:00 a.m. local time, a military observer at a location in the Pacific (35.05 North, 129.57 East) reported sighting an object traveling from west to east alo…

On March 10, 1959, near Walingabad, Illinois, a witness reported seeing several fireballs that appeared every night for a week. Only one was observed at a time. The objects were fi…

On April 1, 1959, near Patroon and Norwood in New York, a civilian reported observing a fiery ball traveling south to north on a curved track. The object was very large. The observ…

In August 1959, radar operators at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts detected seven separate blips on their radar screens during a single night. The blips appeared to be about o…

On November 1, 1959, a bright object was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean at coordinates 31.14 North, 61.57 West. An observer aboard the M/V Rio de Laplata reported seeing a bright ob…

On November 13, 1959, two B-52 bomber pilots from the 99th Bomb Wing spotted a small, silver, round object while flying east of Resolution Island in the Canadian Arctic. The sighti…