Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 14, 1955, at 3:12 a.m., a military observer at Palm Beach, Florida reported a sighting. One conical white light with tail exhaust was observed moving smoothly to point and…

On July 1, 1955, near Palm Beach, Florida, a civilian witness reported a single conical, white light with a tail. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its officia…

On September 13, 1955, at 1:01 a.m. near Palmdale, California, a civilian witnessed an object with a flat top and bottom with rounded ends. The object had a diameter equal to a sil…

# Summary On the evening of February 19, 1955, a group of people on a beach near San Diego, California saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness who filed the report was Paul…

On a June morning in 1955, the captain, first officer, and radio operator of a Dutch tanker observed an oblong object in the sky above the Mediterranean Sea near Pantelleria Island…

In March 1955, Eugene Metcalf of Paris, Illinois reported witnessing what he described as a jet aircraft being abducted by an unidentified flying object. According to Metcalf's acc…

On June 4, 1955, near Parker, Arizona, a civilian on the ground and a military pilot flying overhead reported seeing an unusual object in the evening sky. The civilian watched thro…

A Ground Observer Corps spotter near Parksburg, Pennsylvania watched the night sky on March 3, 1955, and reported seeing many red objects that expanded to between 6 and 8 feet wide…

On July 12, 1955, at Penbrook, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about three minutes. The object was saucer-shaped and…

Mrs. Anne Chamberlin, a 42-year-old Ground Observer Corps volunteer in Penbrook, Pennsylvania, reported seeing unidentified flying objects on two separate occasions in July 1955. O…

On July 12, 1955, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported five objects over a period of about twenty minutes, each visible from five to fifteen seconds. The sighting was…

On July 12, 1955, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, civilian witnesses reported five objects over a period of about twenty minutes, each visible from five to fifteen seconds. The sigh…

On July 23, 1955, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a civilian ground observer reported one round, light-colored object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its offic…

In January 1955, residents of Pittsfield and Detroit, Maine, reported seeing a bright blue-white object in the sky that resembled a four-foot circular saw with sharply outlined edg…

On January 31 through February 8, 1955, a civilian reported observing a bright blue-white star-like object near Pittsfield and Detroit, Maine. The object appeared about the size of…

On August 1955 in Platte County, Missouri, a civilian witness reported seeing a strange light over more than two hours after dark. The light moved up and down like a rotating aircr…

In April 1955, near Plattsburg, New York, an observer reported an object to the east at about 1:51 a.m. (0651Z). The object then disappeared and reappeared at about 3:34 a.m. (0834…

On October 11, 1955, from about 2100Z to 2330Z, two civilians saw an object near Point Lookout, Maryland, at Cornfield Harbor. The men were from West Hyattsville, Maryland; one wor…

On October 2, 1955, Captain E. N. Wood was piloting a Colonial Airlines DC-3 aircraft about five miles west-northwest of Poughkeepsie, New York, when he spotted an unusual object.…

On June 22, 1955, a civilian in Poulsbo, Washington saw three objects at night. They were seen to the southwest of a Ground Observer Corps station. The sighting lasted about one ho…

On June 22, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps chief observer in Poulsbo, Washington saw objects in the sky at night. The chief observer was on duty at a Ground Observer Corps…

On December 1, 1955, near Pueblo, Colorado, a man and his wife saw a strange object while driving about 29 miles south of Pueblo. The time was about 1500 (3:00 p.m.). There were no…

On the evening of July 31, 1955, a man standing in his backyard in Rego Park, Queens, saw four spherical objects that reminded him of glowing light bulbs. They appeared to be about…

On January 11, 1955, at 11:21 p.m., a civilian in Queens, New York City reported seeing two objects moving south at high altitude. The objects were circular in shape and moved slig…

On December 18, 1955, at 7:22 p.m., a 15-year-old high school student working as a relief observer at a Ground Observer Corps post in Red Oak, Iowa, saw an unusual object flash acr…

On July 30, 1955, in Rego Park, New York, a civilian reported four spherical objects. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified fl…

On October 22, 1955, a civilian controller at a station in Rialto, California, reported seeing an object that looked like a meteor with fragments falling. The object appeared blue…

On August 2, 1955, in Rialto, California, a civilian reported one round, yellowish-white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unid…

On March 29, 1955, near Richmond, California, an observer reported one round object about the size of a nickel held at arm's length. It was seen to rise from the ground at about a…

On December 24, 1955, in Riverside, California, a witness observed one round, red object about the size of a dime heading northeast. The object appeared stationary at first, then s…

On June 17, 1955, near 8:22 a.m., a civilian in Riverside, California reported observing one round, reddish-white object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The witness, a fi…

On September 9, 1955, two housewives sitting in their front yard in Rock Garden, a residential area near Alcoa, Tennessee, noticed an unusual object moving across the sky. One of t…

A father and his nine-year-old son watching the sky near Rome, Georgia, in April 1955 saw what looked like a conventional aircraft pass overhead. As the plane flew away, the father…

In April 1955, a man in Roscommon, Michigan noticed an unusually bright object moving across the night sky. The object appeared at least four times larger than any star visible in…

On August 2, 1955, a civilian in Sacramento, California reported seeing an egg-shaped, flat amber object about the size of a pea. The object appeared in the south, moved southwest,…

On August 9, 1955, in Saginaw, Michigan, a civilian witness reported a rectangular object with a white center and red and green sides. The object made no sound and appeared in the…

On January 11, 1955, at 12:01 a.m., a civilian observer near Salona Beach and Mt. Laguna, California, reported seeing two unidentified objects. The first object appeared as a light…

On January 13, 1955, at 9:43 p.m. local time, a civilian witness at Salona Beach, California reported seeing a light blue light that split into two objects. The sighting lasted 20…

On March 13, 1955, near Salton Sea, California, a military pilot observed one round, silver object. The pilot of a B-47 aircraft flying 30 miles north of the Salton Sea reported th…

On June 22, 1955, near Samish Island, Washington, an object was reported as an unidentified flying object. The report came from both civilian and military sources. The sighting las…

On June 9, 1955, a civilian in San Diego, California saw a single object. It was still in sight at the time the report was made. The object drifted to the southwest. The object wa…

On July 31, 1955, a 17-year-old student in San Diego, California, used binoculars to watch an unusual object in the night sky for about 20 minutes. The object appeared round, glowe…

On March 18, 1955, at night, a civilian in San Francisco, California, reported one round, pinkish-orange object. It was about the size of a pin head held at arm's length. The objec…

In late January 1955, an observer near San Mateo, Florida, reported a bright object in the sky. The witness said it looked like a burning, meteor-like object. It flashed across the…

On June 21, 1955, at 2:20 p.m. GMT (10:20 a.m. local time), a civilian in Santa Barbara, California reported an oblong, silver object with no sound. The sun was shining on the obje…

In June 1955, a witness near Santa Barbara, California, reported an object in the sky. The source was a civilian. The object was oblong and silver, about the size of a nickel held…

On September 16, 1955, at 5:03 p.m. local time in Santa Cruz, California, a civilian witness observed six to seven objects with tracer-like appearances that glowed white and red. T…

On June 5, 1955, near Santa Margareta, California, a civilian witness reported observing one round, white object about the size of a head or pin held at arm's length. The object re…

In June 1955, a witness near Santa Maria, California, reported objects in the sky. The source was a civilian. The witness saw two oblong, gold objects side by side. Each looked ab…

On July 22, 1955, in Santa Maria, California, a civilian reported one large, silver object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentif…

On July 23, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, both civilian and military observers reported one round object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record…

On July 18, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, a civilian reported a white object shaped like a star. The witness worked at Boeing and had four other witnesses. The Air Force recorded t…

On June 28, 1955, at Seattle, Washington, a civilian reported one object. It was described as a silver glow moving parallel to the Washington coast. The Air Force card lists the c…

On July 21, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, a civilian reported one round, black object. The witness's neighbor saw it first. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, i…

On October 1, 1955, two fifteen-year-old girls working as Ground Observer Corps (GOC) spotters near Shelby, Iowa reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The observers, ide…

On the evening of July 30, 1955, a group of five people gathered at a Ground Observer Corps post near Shelby, Iowa, spotted something unusual in the night sky. The object appeared…

On the morning of November 1, 1955, four inmates working as Ground Observer Corps volunteers at Soledad State Prison in California reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. At…

In March 1955, near Sonoma, California, an observer reported one object about the size of a dime held at arm's length. It was silvery white. The observer thought it looked like a b…

On October 22, 1955, a civilian in Sonora, California reported observing one trail of light that had the appearance of leaving a trail and faded after being observed for two second…

On August 9, 1955, near 4:35 p.m. local time in the South Bay area of California, a 12-year-old civilian reported one disc-shaped object. The Air Force recorded the report under Pr…