Project Blue Book Case Files

On June 25, 1954, at 1705 Eastern Daylight Time (5:05 p.m.), a civilian witness near Indian Lake, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified aerial object. The observer was outdoors in o…

On the night of September 27, 1954, a civilian reported an object over Loudonville, Ohio. The witness, an employee of a local company, watched the object from his car while driving…

On June 22 or 23, 1954, a civilian woman near Madeira, Ohio, watched an object she thought was the same as one reported in newspapers from a Columbus sighting. She saw it at about…

On October 22, 1954, students and teachers at Jerome Elementary School in Marysville, Ohio, saw what they described as a bright, shiny, cigar-shaped object in the afternoon sky. Af…

On October 23, 1954, two people in different locations in Ohio saw what the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation would later label an unidentified object. One witness was in…

On July 23, 1954, at 2:40 p.m., a silver circular or spherical object was sighted in the sky near Milford, Ohio. The object was observed at approximately 45 degrees elevation in th…

On August 2, 1954, a civilian witness at Westlake, Ohio, reported an object in the sky at about 5:17 p.m. The sighting lasted about 20 seconds. The object was elliptical and about…

On July 25, 1954, at 9:00 a.m., a civilian in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object. The object was circular, silver-white in color with a black center, and a…

On the evening of June 1, 1953, a man sitting on his family porch in Cincinnati, Ohio saw an unusual object moving across the sky. He watched it change color from white to orange t…

On the evening of March 19, 1953, at around 6:30 p.m., a resident of Crystal Lake, Ohio, spotted two saucer-shaped objects in the sky. The witness was called outside by a family me…

A civilian woman in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a yellowish-white, oblong-shaped object hovering low on the horizon in early February 1953. She observed it on two separate occasio…

This file covers two sightings over Dayton, Ohio in May 1953. The first was reported about 0110 (1:10 a.m.) Eastern time on May 12. A civilian called to report a moving object over…

On December 1, 1953, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, reported a light in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The witness saw a flashing light with no sound that stayed in view fo…

The OCR text from this case file is too heavily degraded and incomplete to support an accurate summary. While the metadata indicates this is a July 1953 sighting in Dayton, Ohio, t…

On the evening of August 3, 1953, two employees of Gentile Air Force Depot in Dayton, Ohio, saw two glowing lights in the sky while driving on Bellbrook Pike. The objects appeared…

On November 14, 1953, Mrs. Ethel Coleman of Lebanon, Ohio was photographing a solar eclipse using an Eastman 35 mm camera equipped with infrared and red filters. The camera was mou…

On October 15, 1953, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The object was in view for a short time. The witness reported it wa…

On July 14, 1953, a witness near Fairborn, Ohio, reported lights in the night sky. The source was a civilian, and the case was tied to astronomical bodies. The sighting lasted abo…

On the evening of October 31, 1953, a couple near Logansville, Ohio saw a bright, moving object in the night sky. The husband noticed it first and called his wife outside to look.…

On November 20, 1953, at about 3:30 a.m. near Marietta, Ohio, three civilians reported one object. They were driving west on US Route Alternate 50, about ten miles west of Marietta…

On June 7, 1953, a resident of Norwood, Ohio, observed a small, sharply defined object in the sky for about ten to fifteen minutes during daylight hours. The object traveled first…

This is an operations report from Project Blue Book covering March 16 to 21, 1953. Project Blue Book was the Air Force program that kept the official records of unidentified flying…

On September 26, 1953, a resident of Springfield, Ohio, reported watching an unusual object in the sky. The observer was watching a fishing game when they noticed the phenomenon an…

The OCR text of this case file is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the document is clearly a standard Air Force UFO report form from the 1950s with witness…

On July 3, 1953, Wilbur H. Focht, an employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Tipp City, Ohio, stepped outside his home around 6:43 p.m. and spotted an unusual object in th…

On April 29, 1952, near Coldwater, Ohio, a civilian and three other people reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened at 1940 (7:40 p.m.). The witness called the Air Te…

In April 1952, near Columbus, Indiana, a large fireball was reported in the sky. Witnesses described it as fire colored and circular, with a tail. The ball of fire was said to be a…

This report covers two sightings near Dayton, Ohio. Late on August 31, 1952, about 11:45 p.m., a base duty officer received a call from the Piqua, Ohio police about a sighting nort…

On the evening of April 29, 1952, a civilian working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, spotted an unusual object in the sky. He was looking toward the east from…

On the evening of August 7, 1952, a woman in Dayton, Ohio called to report seeing two disc-shaped objects in the sky. Her son had called her outside around 7 p.m. to look at someth…

On the evening of July 28, 1952, a technical draftsman at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky along with his wife. The man…

In October 1952, four civilian observers in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing two bright orange or yellow lights moving slowly through the sky together. According to the witnesses, the…

On August 29, 1952, an astronomer at Perkins Observatory near Delaware, Ohio saw something unusual in the night sky. Using the observatory's telescope, a 5-inch refractor with 80 t…

On May 12, 1952, near Kenton, Ohio, a civilian commercial pilot and former Navy pilot reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened at 2116 (9:16 p.m.). The witness called…

On the night of May 29, 1952, around 11:00 p.m. Eastern time, two Air Force officers watched the sky over Tipp City, Ohio, through a 6-inch telescope. One officer, a physicist, and…

On October 23, 1952, three people driving west on US Route 20 about ten miles west of Toledo, Ohio saw six yellow-orange objects flying due south across the sky. The observers stop…

On May 14, 1952, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a college senior reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened between about 12:50 and 12:55 a.m. while the witness was wa…

On August 8, 1951, near Cleveland, Ohio, a pilot reported a strange object at about 1410 (2:10 p.m.). The pilot was flying about two miles off the lake shore from Port Clinton at 5…

On October 2, 1951, at 2300 (11:00 p.m.) Greenwich time, a civilian near Columbus, Ohio, reported a glowing object. It was seen for about one minute. The object made no sound and a…

On December 22, 1951, in the early morning near Hamden, Ohio, an object was reported in the southeast sky. A witness first said the object appeared to follow an automobile along a…

On September 16, 1951, at 1217 (12:17 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time, a civilian pilot flying a Cessna near Marion, Ohio, reported a near miss with an object. He was at 2,800 feet on…

In 1951, a witness near Oberlin, Ohio saw a silver object hanging motionless in the sky about thirty feet above some trees. The object was roughly one thousand feet away. It hovere…

On June 5, 1949, multiple observers in Ohio and Florida reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations looked into two separate s…

On the night of April 5, 1949, multiple witnesses in Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing a strange red light in the sky. The object was described as glowing, steady, and roughly the si…

On the evening of July 31, 1949, around 7:15 p.m., a motor oiler in Columbus, Ohio saw an unusual object in the western sky. He described it as oval shaped, greyish-blue in color,…

On August 1, 1949, air traffic controllers in Columbus, Ohio spotted a puzzling object in the sky above Port Columbus Airport. At roughly 1900 hours (7 p.m.), a witness at the cont…

On the evening of July 10, 1949, a civilian employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual object in the northeastern sky while standing in his yard.…

On February 10, 1949, two Air Force pilots flying north of Dayton, Ohio, spotted an unusual bright object in the night sky. Captain Roger J. Crosclose and First Lieutenant Ray W. A…

On July 24, 1949, at 2430 hours (12:30 a.m.), a person on the ground in Fairfield, Ohio, watched an object in the sky for about 15 seconds. The object appeared to be about the size…

On June 11, 1949, a man driving south of Huntsville, Ohio saw an object in the sky that appeared to dive directly at his car. He pulled over and got out for a better look. The obje…

On May 3, 4, and 6, 1949, residents of Sidney and Maplewood, Ohio reported seeing a bright silver disc-shaped object moving rapidly through the sky. The sightings prompted an Air F…

On August 25, 1949, residents of McDonald, Ohio, reported shiny objects high in the sky. Witnesses said the objects glittered and flopped in the sun. According to one young witness…

On the evening of June 29, 1949, a civilian observer near Osborn, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The sighting occurred around 8:30 to 9 p.m., just after du…

On the night of June 26, 1949, around midnight (0005 hours), several observers in Pennsylvania and Ohio saw what appeared to be an unusually large and bright meteor streaking acros…

On May 3, 6, and 7, 1949, residents of Sidney, Ohio reported seeing a bright, silvery object moving rapidly across the sky. An Air Force investigation was triggered by newspaper ac…

On April 9, 1949, a teenager in Toledo, Ohio reported seeing three flying discs. The boy, identified in newspaper accounts as 15-year-old Henry Jordan of Whitford Road, told the To…

On June 28, 1949, at 1745 (5:45 p.m.), a ball of fire with a trailing flame was spotted moving from west to east across the sky near Urbana, Ohio. The sighting happened in daylight…

In April 1948, a resident of Ashley, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The observer described it as a long, narrow, silver-colored object with a clearly outlined s…

The OCR text is too garbled to provide a reliable summary of the Columbus, Ohio incident from July 1948. The first page is nearly illegible, and while later pages contain clearer w…

On July 3, 1948, a female civilian in Columbus, Ohio reported observing a cigar or tornado-shaped object with binoculars (M-3, 6 x 30). The object appeared silver in color. The wit…