Project Blue Book Case Files

On March 19, 1955, a civilian witness in Farmingdale, Long Island reported seeing five objects in a dull reddish V formation moving south to north. The objects appeared almost tran…

In March 1955, at Farmingdale, Long Island, New York, an observer reported four dull, reddish objects in formation. He saw them with his naked eye while studying the planet Jupiter…

On March 22, 1955, near Fitchburg, Massachusetts, an observer reported a spot of light. It was about the size of a dime held at arm's length and greenish in color. The light was se…

On April 23, 1955, a civilian pilot near Flathead Lake, Montana saw a single white object. It was about the size of a pinhead held at arm's length. It had no other clear features.…

Between June 8 and July 8, 1955, an observer in Fontana, California reported seeing round objects in the night sky. The objects appeared red and flashing or yellow and steady. The…

On August 26, 1955, radar operators at Fordland Air Force Station in Missouri detected an unusual target that behaved in ways that puzzled experienced observers. The object first a…

On December 21, 1955, at 10:01 p.m. GMT, a civilian observer in Forrestville, Ohio reported sighting a round object with a red body and white top. The object made no sound, moved v…

A flight observer aboard a B-47 jet aircraft saw an oval object with a shiny chrome or pinkish surface on January 12, 1955, while flying at roughly 20,000 feet over Forsyth, Georgi…

On the morning of June 26, 1955, around 5:15 a.m., a resident of Fort Worth, Texas, observed an unusual object through a telescope while looking at the sky. The witness was a publi…

In early 1955, near Fuju, military pilots reported a white, circular object with no clear features. They first thought it was a balloon, but it seemed to move against the wind. The…

On June 21, 1955, a civilian in Glenavon, California reported seeing a cigar-shaped object with a reddish color and no sound. The observation lasted 15 minutes. The witness was loo…

On November 18, 1955, a civilian in Glenavon, California reported seeing a round, red object low in the sky. The object was very high in altitude and faded out of sight. The observ…

On June 21, 1955, a civilian in Glenavon, California saw a single object. The sighting lasted about fifteen minutes. The object was seen circling. The object was cigar shaped and…

On July 14, 1955, at Glennavon, California, a civilian, a 15-year-old student, reported objects on the same day in several sightings. Each was seen from the ground and lasted a few…

On October 22, 1955, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a 13-year-old high school student observed one oval object about the size of a half dollar held at arm's length. The object was whit…

On the night of August 25, 1955, a man in Green Bay, Wisconsin reported seeing several unusual objects while standing outside his home. He described a small helicopter about four t…

On February 24, 1955, near Green City, Missouri, an observer reported a hovering object. He was driving a vehicle at the time. He estimated he was about one mile from the object. T…

On September 25, 1955, a civilian in a boat saw a bright light on the horizon near Gulfport, Mississippi, about three miles west of Keesler Air Force Base. The witness was a radio…

On July 5, 1955, in Gulliver, Michigan, a civilian mother and daughter observed one object estimated to be fifteen feet in length for two minutes. The object had no wings, markings…

On July 6, 1955, near Gulliver, Michigan, a mother and daughter reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about two minutes. The object was oblong and…

On the evening of March 16, 1955, a bright object was spotted over Hamilton and Cleves, Ohio. The sighting occurred around 11:29 p.m. local time and lasted several minutes. The obj…

On June 1, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania saw a single object. It was a round sphere, silver in color, about the size of a basketball. It…

On February 7, 1955, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a bright light. The light flashed across the horizon toward the south. The sighting was brief, lasting only a…

On September 2, 1955, at night in Hawthorne, California, a civilian saw a light in the sky. The witness worked in the communications department of an airline in Los Angeles. The si…

On the evening of June 25, 1955, several witnesses in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland watched an unusual bright object move across the sky. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force d…

On July 12, 1955, near a station at Greenville, Maine, a civilian reported one object for about twenty minutes. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was described as c…

On August 7, 1955, near noon local time, a civilian in Hobart, Indiana reported one silver-colored ball high in the air. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its…

On November 25, 1955, an F-86D fighter pilot named Lieutenant Durfey was flying a night patrol mission over Hokkaido, Japan, when he spotted a bright red glow off the left side of…

On August 15, 1955, at 5:34 p.m., a civilian in Hollywood, California reported seeing a round, white object with no trail or sound moving as fast as a jet. The object was observed…

In July 1955, a witness in Hollywood, California saw a yellowish glowing light that was sharply outlined and shaped like a large egg. The object moved very slowly and steadily towa…

On June 25, 1955, near Holt, Florida, civilian and military witnesses reported an object for about five to ten minutes. Three observers said they saw it just above the tree tops. T…

On September 12, 1955, at about 1810Z, a civilian saw an object near Huron, Ohio. Ground observers used binoculars of unknown power to watch it. The sighting lasted about two minut…

On the evening of January 21 and early morning of January 22, 1955, military personnel at and near Naval Air Station Hutchinson in Kansas observed unusual lights in the sky. Contro…

# Summary: Jersey City UFO Sighting, January 1955 On the evening of January 11, 1955, a civilian observer in Jersey City, New Jersey reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object s…

On April 22, 1955, someone in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, saw a white, round object with sharp edges standing still in the sky for about a minute. Then it rose slowly. The sighting…

On September 23, 1955, at about 0140Z, a civilian saw an object over Kankakee, Illinois. The sighting lasted about ten minutes. The witness described one spherical object that cha…

# Case Summary: Kennewick, Washington, June 1955 In June 1955, Sergeant Gordon Richardson of the Kennewick, Washington Police Department reported seeing a large, shiny metal spher…

On May 20, 1955, a civilian housewife in Kentfield, California saw a single object at dusk. She first saw it while sitting on the back porch of her home, to the southwest. The sigh…

On February 7, 1955, a man sitting at a picnic table near Knights Landing, California reported seeing an unusual aircraft in the sky. He was watching a jet leaving a heavy vapor tr…

On July 23, 1955, near Kirkland, Washington, civilian and military observers reported a single round object brighter than a star with no sound. The object moved up and down and sid…

On the evening of April 27, 1955, multiple observers near Kisarazu, Japan, watched an unusual object move across the sky. The object appeared egg-shaped, roughly two feet in diamet…

On August 15, 1955, at 3:13 p.m., a sighting was reported in Klamath, Oregon. Civilian and military observers saw one ragged object described as the size of a child's head. The obj…

In March 1955, two separate observers in Klamath Falls, Oregon reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. Both witnesses described a cigar-shaped craft approximately 30 fe…

On May 8, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member in Klamath Falls, Oregon saw a single white object. It looked larger than the morning star. The sighting lasted more than an…

On March 14, 1955, near Klamath Falls, Oregon, civilians reported bright objects in the sky. The observation lasted about six hours. One object was star-like and very bright and wa…

On October 1, 1955, at 1 p.m. local time, a civilian in Lafayette, Indiana, observed an object that looked like a parachute. The witness ran toward where he thought it would land,…

In early September 1955, two ground observers using binoculars reported seeing unusual lights in the sky near LaGrand, Iowa. One observer, a farmer with three years of experience w…

On May 20, 1955, a civilian near Laguardia Airport, New York saw a single object at dusk. The observer used binoculars. The report was described as very scant. The object was roun…

On July 13, 1955, a civilian in La Habra, California reported seeing an oblong, dark brown object moving faster than a jet. The sighting lasted 15 seconds and was observed from the…

On July 14, 1955, at La Habra, California, a civilian reported one object for about fifteen seconds. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was oblong and dark brown, e…

On the evening of November 20, 1955, seven witnesses in Tennessee reported seeing two bright, metallic objects flying in formation across the twilight sky. Six of the observers wer…

On March 8, 1955, over Lake Okeechobee, Florida, bright, flare-like objects were reported drifting toward the ground. Three B-47 type aircraft had been on a night photo mission in…

On November 25, 1955, near La Veta, Colorado, a man saw a strange object in the daytime sky. The time was about 1030 (10:30 a.m.). The sky was clear with an unlimited ceiling and n…

On September 23, 1955, at around 12:30 p.m., a housewife in Leonape, Pennsylvania, heard a sputtering sound like a light airplane engine and stepped outside to look. Instead of see…

In March 1955, at Lexington Airport near Pendleton, Oregon, an observer reported two round, bright crimson objects. They were seen about three minutes apart. Each looked about as l…

On May 2, 1955, a pilot of an Air Force T-33 aircraft reported a sighting near Limestone, Maine. While flying between Westover Air Force Base in Massachusetts and Harmon Air Force…

On the evening of September 22-23, 1955, residents near Lodi, Ohio reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The sightings began around 10:15 p.m. when a resident called to…

On the afternoon of May 25, 1955, a man stood in a public garden in North Harringay, London, watching an American four-engine bomber fly overhead at about 22,000 feet during a rout…

On August 15, 1955, at about 2100 local time (9 p.m.) near Ruislip, in northwest London, England, two people saw a light in the night sky. The witnesses were the wife of an observe…

On July 14, 1955, at Long Beach, California, a witness reported one object for about five minutes. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was round and red, about the s…