Project Blue Book Case Files

On October 8, 1955, at about 1638 (4:38 p.m.), two civilians saw an object near Loogootee, Indiana. The main witness was a U.S. Naval Ammunition Depot employee and former Navy quar…

On September 9, 1955, at about 0340Z, a civilian ground observer watching for aircraft saw a light near Lowell, Michigan. The contractor observer reported the object for about thre…

On January 24, 1955, a civilian in Macomb County, Michigan reported observing a round, bright red stationary object for three hours. The object was viewed through binoculars. Air F…

On August 22, 1955, at 1443 local time (about 2:43 p.m.), a U.S. Air Force major saw an object over Madrid, Spain. He was Major William A. Burdick, a senior pilot with about 6,900…

Two physicians vacationing in Madrid, Spain saw a dark circular object cross the evening sky on July 14, 1955. The men were sitting on the patio of the Castellana Hilton Hotel just…

On August 3, 1955, near 8:50 p.m. local time, a civilian on Benner Avenue in Malden, Massachusetts reported one object. The witness was a housewife. The Air Force recorded the repo…

On May 20, 1955, a civilian in Malvern, Pennsylvania saw a single object. It was an intermittent bright light. The light traveled from the south toward the north-northwest. The sig…

On July 6, 1955, at Manhasset (Roslyn), New York, a civilian reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about ten to twelve seconds. The object was a si…

On July 5, 1955, a bright light was sighted over Manhasset, New York, crossing the sky from west to east at an estimated altitude of 15,000 feet. A civilian witness observed the ob…

On April 27, 1955, a civilian woman in Manitou Springs, Colorado saw a shining object. She watched it from the back porch of her house. The object appeared to hover over nearby hil…

On December 6, 1955, an object was tracked on radar starting over Marianna, Florida. The report came from a military flight service center. The sighting was at night. The object w…

On October 10, 1955, a long shaft-shaped silver object with no vapor trails was reported near Marshall, Texas. The object was observed flying in a northwest direction with very err…

On September 8, 1955, at about 0245Z, a civilian saw two objects over Mattapan, Massachusetts. The witness was reported to be young (listed as 16 years old). The report was over a…

On March 10, 1955, near Mattawamkeag, Maine, a very bright falling object was reported. It was seen by a commercial pilot and by a ground observer for about three to four seconds.…

On August 4, 1955, near 8:15 p.m. local time, a civilian ground observer in McDonald, Pennsylvania reported one saucer-shaped object. The Air Force recorded the report under Projec…

On December 5, 1955, at 2125 hours (9:25 p.m.), a housewife in McIntosh, Minnesota, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. She described it as shaped like a baseball bat and…

This case was reported from Melbourne, Florida. The witness reported it in March or April 1966, but the actual sighting had happened some time earlier. A witness questionnaire desc…

# Summary On a date years before the report was filed, a Miami resident witnessed thirteen unidentified objects in the night sky. The sighting began when the main object moved fro…

On a spring day in April 1955, an observer in Mira Loma, California reported seeing a single object in the sky. The object was generally white with a reddish tint. It made no noise…

On the night of July 9, 1955, three separate witnesses in Southern California reported seeing bright objects in the sky that moved in ways they found unusual. The U.S. Air Force in…

On the morning of February 2, 1955, a Navy commander driving a private vehicle near Miramar Naval Air Station in California noticed something odd in the sky. He was watching severa…

In March 1955, near Modesto, California, an observer reported a square, white object. It was about the size of a basketball held at arm's length. The object was seen to appear and…

In 1955, near Montevideo, an observer reported a bright light of strong intensity. The light hovered, and a smaller second light of the same color appeared just below it. The objec…

On the night of September 13, 1955, witnesses near Mountain View and Hollister, California reported seeing three separate luminous objects streak across the sky in quick succession…

On December 17, 1955, an unusual high speed track appeared on ground radar at Mount Laguna, California. The local time was about 0945 (9:45 a.m.). The observers were USAF radar ope…

In August 1955, a young man driving near Mulberry Corners, Ohio reported an extraordinary encounter. According to his account, he saw what he thought was a shooting star around 1:3…

# Mulberry Corners, Ohio - July/August 1955 In late July or early August 1955, a couple in Willoughby, Ohio reported seeing a large, circular object hovering near their home north…

On January 24, 1955, a woman in Murrieta, California saw a shiny, aluminum-colored object in the sky around 1635 hours (4:35 p.m.). The object appeared solid and round, resembling…

On about August 26, 1955, in Muscatine, Iowa, civilians at a Ground Observer Corps post reported a star-shaped object. Witnesses included a state worker, a salesman, and a paint st…

On September 4, 1955, before dawn near Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, military witnesses saw an object. The observers were a pilot and a weather forecaster. The Air Force time stam…

On September 30, 1955, near Cedar City, Utah, four civilians reported an object. The sighting lasted about two hours. The Air Force time stamp was 1800Z. The witnesses described o…

On August 23, 1955, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a civilian who was watching the stars saw small objects in the sky. The observer was about five miles north of Rockville Bridge.…

On May 17, 1955, a civilian near MacDill Air Force Base, Florida reported a sighting at night. The observer believed he saw a flying saucer. It looked like a large square glow in t…

On February 11, 1955, near Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands, the crew of a military C-124 transport reported an object. It was yellow or amber in color and shaped like a jack-o-lanter…

On August 9, 1955, near Saginaw, Michigan, a ground observer reported one rectangular, white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for…

On September 4, 1955, near Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, military witnesses reported an object. The observers were a pilot and a weather forecaster. The Air Force time stamp was 1…

On July 12, 1955, a civilian in Newark Valley, New York reported seeing one or two objects that appeared close together. The objects were round, clear plastic in color, and similar…

The OCR text from this case file is too heavily degraded to support an accurate summary. Large portions across multiple pages are either unintelligible, severely garbled, or consis…

# New Orleans, Louisiana - February 1955 During Mardi Gras celebrations in February 1955, four people in New Orleans saw an object in the sky that caught their attention. The obje…

On July 21, 1955, in Newport, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a shapeless, yellow and white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for…

On July 21, 1955, in Newport, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a shapeless, white object that flashed off and on. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its offici…

On July 9, 1955, at Newport Beach, California, a civilian reported one object. The duration was unknown. The object moved from the witness's location toward San Diego. The object…

On May 3, 1955, a civilian in New York, New York saw a single object. The witness watched from the seventh floor of a New York City apartment building. The sighting lasted about tw…

On a morning in March 1955, an elderly woman in New York City looked out her window and saw something strange in the sky. She described a white, oval-shaped object floating in the…

In early March 1955, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard area in New York, a housewife and two marines reported an object near the George Washington Bridge. It appeared as a white flickering…

On Sunday, May 15, 1955, at 4 p.m., a television technician named Warren Siegmond was on the roof of a Chelsea public housing building in Manhattan with a young French woman, Jeann…

On September 4, 1955, at 4:05 a.m. in northwest Atlanta, Georgia, eight civilian witnesses observed a round object like a light bulb, colored white-yellow and extremely bright. The…

On the night of August 17, 1955, into the early morning, a civilian woman saw a strange light while driving northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada. She was an elementary school teacher who…

On April 9, 1955, a civilian in Oakland, California reported a strange object in the sky. The sighting happened in the evening, around 8:20 p.m. local time. The witness was driving…

On September 1, 1955, in Oakland, California, a civilian observer reported seeing a ball-shaped object with a dark blue color and a tail on fire. The object was observed for 60 sec…

In 1955, in the Oakland Bay area of California, a ground observer on duty reported a round object. It was about the size of a pin head held at arm's length and silver in color. A B…

On December 17, 1955, many people across Nebraska, Missouri, and Oklahoma reported strange objects in the sky. The Greenwich time was 0334Z on December 18. The reports came from ci…

In August 1955, a man in Old Greenwich, Connecticut shot what he believed to be a color photograph of a flying saucer. The object appeared as a small, bright blue-white point of li…

On May 13, 1955, a civilian near Old Town and Bradley, Maine saw a single object at night, around 11:45 p.m. local time. The witness was a barber who worked at Dow Air Force Base.…

On June 10, 1955, a civilian housewife in Ontario, California saw a single object in daylight. The sighting lasted about two minutes. The object appeared to be falling. The object…

On July 4, 1955, near 4:02 p.m. local time, witnesses in Orlando, Florida reported a single round, large, white object. The report came in under Project 10073, the Air Force's offi…

On July 26, 1955, the pilot of a B-47 reported one round, white object while over Kansas City, Kansas. This was a military air-visual sighting. The Air Force recorded the report un…

On the morning of October 3, 1955, a school bus driver and civilian pilot near Oxford, Pennsylvania saw an unusual object in the sky. The man, standing beside his car on the northe…

On June 8, 1955, a civilian near Paine Air Force Base, Washington saw a single object at night. The object moved on an erratic course and was still being watched when the report wa…

On August 25, 1955, a round silver object the size of a baseball was sighted in Paisley, Oregon. The object was seen by civilian and military observers (GOC) and appeared very high…