Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 11, 1955, six witnesses near Big Foot, Texas saw one object in the daytime sky. It was round and silvery white. The object appeared to have streamers coming out of it. It f…

On July 11, 1955, near Big Foot, Texas, six civilian observers reported one object for about three hours. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was round and silvery-w…

On January 6, 1955, at about 9:00 p.m., three military airmen near Bradenton, Florida, reported a sighting. The men were driving on a highway two or three miles south of Bradenton…

On March 24, 1955, at around 6:30 p.m., residents near the George Washington Bridge in Brooklyn and Manhattan reported seeing unusual luminous objects in the sky. The sightings cam…

Three weather officers at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing an unusual glowing object circling the base in the early morning hours of June 15, 1955. The sighting lasted…

On April 27, 1955, a civilian observer in the Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area reported a bright light. The man was on duty with the Ground Observer Corps, watching th…

On August 26, 1955, in Burbank, California, a civilian aircraft worker reported observing a round, yellow object about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The object remained s…

On December 13, 1955, a B-47 crew detected an object on radar over Caddo Lake, Louisiana. The Greenwich time was 0245Z on December 14. The sighting was at night, and the observer w…

On June 24, 1955, at Camp Poh-Tok, Maryland, a student reported a single object in the sky. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about one minute. The time noted on the…

On the night of December 11, 1955, a forest ranger at Camp Pomponio, California, spotted an unusual glowing object in the eastern sky. His wife had called him outside to look at wh…

On June 5, 1955, a civilian at Camp San Luis Obispo, California saw a single object at dusk. The sighting lasted about four to five minutes. The object was seen circling and ascend…

On June 5, 1955, a civilian reported a sighting near Capsan Luis, California. The object was described as long and silver with a nose larger than its tail. It circled and climbed b…

On the evening of December 21, 1955, a resident of Caribou, Maine saw a bright round object in the night sky. The object was gold in color, about the size of a jet fighter, and sho…

On the evening of September 12, 1955, Steve Sedlacek, a 20-year-old photographer working at television station KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spotted an unusual object while serving a…

On the afternoon of December 8, 1955, a railroad conductor named Box Hinton and his rear brakeman, LeRoy Shell, spotted an unusual object near Sublette Station, one mile east of Ch…

On December 31, 1955, at 11:23 p.m., a civilian in Charleston, South Carolina reported a yellow and red flaming object that was elongated in shape and appeared high and slow. The o…

On July 5, 1955, near Charleston, Maine, a military observer reported sighting one round, orange object. The object appeared to move back and forth and ascend while traveling in a…

On July 12, 1955, near Charleston and Greenville, Maine, witnesses reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was small and round and orange and red. I…

On August 3, 1955, near 2:30 p.m. local time, a civilian ground observer in Charlotte, North Carolina reported one object. The witness was a housewife. The Air Force recorded the r…

On March 9, 1955, between about 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., a civilian near Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, reported a round, red object. The object made no sound. It was sighted twice. On…

On the night of May 22-23, 1955, two airmen stationed at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, reported seeing four unusual objects in the sky. The sighting occu…

On the evening of October 16, 1955, two men hunting near Cheyenne, Wyoming heard a loud whining sound that they believed came from a strange aircraft. One of the men said he looked…

In 1956, a witness in Chicago saw several unidentified flying objects while playing near a railroad near the city's northwest side. The witness got a camera, and when others in the…

An orangish-red object approximately the size of a dime held at arm's length was observed from the control tower at China Lake Naval Air Station on the evening of July 11, 1955. Th…

On June 7, 1955, at 7:15 a.m. local time at Chitose Air Base in Japan, military observers spotted a round white light of moderate intensity moving slowly upward. The object made no…

On May 29, 1955, at Chitose Air Base in Japan, military control tower operators reported observing a round white object followed by smoke trailing with sparks and flames. The objec…

On June 22, 1955, at dawn near Chuckanut Bay, Washington, civilian and military witnesses reported a black object shaped like a submarine. The object was observed for 30 minutes be…

On September 9, 1955, near Cincinnati, Ohio, an astronomer on duty observed a round, star-sized object that appeared red and orange in the high northeast sky. The object was observ…

On December 13, 1955, at 1:30 p.m., a civilian observer in Cincinnati, Ohio reported sighting an ellipsoid-shaped object with blue-white exhaust and orange coloring. The object was…

On about May 22, 1955, a civilian in the Clearfield, Pennsylvania area reported a single object. It appeared about 50 miles east of an observer post and was watched for roughly two…

On May 26, 1955, near Clearfield, Pennsylvania, a civilian observer reported seeing an object with no specific shape that changed color from white to red and back. The object appea…

On June 2, 1955, a civilian and a military witness in Cleveland, Ohio saw a single object. The civilian was a Ground Observer Corps member and the other was a technician sergeant.…

On November 28, 1955, over Cleveland, Ohio, a witness reported a strange object in the sky. The report time in Greenwich time was 2232Z. The night was clear. The object was dark g…

On May 29, 1955, both civilian and military witnesses in Colorado Springs, Colorado reported one object. It was reported by phone to the duty officer at the headquarters of an Air…

On March 22, 1955, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a civilian reported seeing a circular, bright purple object about the size of a baseball. The object descended to the ground with…

On December 13, 1955, a flight crew saw a strange object while flying near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The report time in Greenwich time was about 1400Z. The sky was clear at dusk,…

On December 11, 1955, over Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado, three people saw one object in the sky. The Greenwich time was 1330Z. The witnesses included military and civilian…

On December 11, 1955, over Colorado Springs and Denver, Colorado, three people reported one object in the sky. The Greenwich time was 1330Z. The witnesses included military and civ…

On August 3, 1955, at night in Corvallis, Oregon, a civilian fire lookout reported one oval object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for u…

On August 14, 1955, at 3:20 p.m., a civilian student in Crystal, Minnesota observed one round, bright yellow object with a tail. The object was bright yellow in color and male time…

On April 28, 1955, personnel at Dahlgren, Virginia observed a round, metallic object in the sky using a theodolite (an optical surveying instrument used to measure angles and dista…

On the evening of June 20, 1955, multiple witnesses in Dallas, Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The sightings lasted from roughly 2200 hours (10 p.m.) until around…

On August 1, 1955, near 8:27 p.m. local time, a ground observer at a post in Danville, California reported one bulbous object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073…

On January 30, 1955, near Des Moines, Iowa, a jet pilot flying a T-33 reported an object at night. He was at about 20,000 feet. The sighting lasted about 25 seconds. The pilot sai…

On December 20, 1955, at 0430 (4:30 a.m.), a witness in Decatur, Nebraska, observed an unidentified object in the night sky. The object was described as winged in shape and display…

A child observed a white light in the sky above Decatur, Georgia, on April 15, 1955. The observer, an 11-year-old, was looking west through a pair of toy binoculars when he saw the…

On about November 14 or 15, 1955, a commercial airline pilot saw an object over Deming, New Mexico. The report reached the Air Force by letter and was a CIRVIS report, a required r…

On January 31, 1955, near Detroit, Maine, an observer reported a bright object in the sky. It looked like a bright blue-white star. It was about the size and shape of a small circu…

On February 9, 1955, an Eastern Air Lines pilot named Captain S.W. spotted an unusual object in the sky northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, near Dobbins Air Force Base. He watched it fr…

On the night of May 13, 1955, two Air Force pilots flying an F-89D jet interceptor out of Duluth, Minnesota, spotted something unusual on their radar while on a routine training mi…

On April 5, 1955, a civilian in Elk, New Mexico reported seeing one object with a fan-shaped tail about the size of a baseball held at arm's length. The object was bright green-pur…

On October 5, 1955, in Ellensburg, Washington, a civilian observer reported two round objects about the size of a football held together by what appeared to be a red band. The sigh…

On October 28, 1955, at Elmendorf Air Force Base in Alaska, a military observer reported sighting an object with an indefinite outline and dark color with an orange flame following…

# Summary On May 27, 1955, a resident of Englewood, Ohio reported finding a lightweight rock that resembled a melon. The person brought the specimen to the Air Force Technical Inf…

On June 3, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps observer in Euclid, Ohio saw a single object. The sighting lasted about twenty minutes. The object moved to the southwest. The ob…

On May 26, 1955, at 7:55 a.m. EST, a civilian in Euclid, Ohio reported observing a round, white object that remained stationary in the sky for four minutes. The object was describe…

On about October 22 or 23, 1955, civilian and military witnesses reported an object over Exeter, New Hampshire. The report came through Ground Observer Corps channels. The Air Forc…

On October 29, 1955, at 2:35 p.m., a civilian observer in Fairfield, California reported seeing one or possibly two objects. The witness described the initial sighting as an object…

On January 9, 1955, at 8:05 p.m. EST, three unidentified objects were observed flying near Falls Church, Virginia. A civilian witness reported seeing three objects that resembled s…

On May 14, 1955, residents of Fargo, North Dakota, watched a colorful object moving erratically across the evening sky. The object displayed blue, orange, green, and other color sh…