Project Blue Book Case Files

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On August 20, 1952, about 8:20 p.m. local time, a Ground Observer Corps member near Schenectady, New York, reported an object low over the treetops. The location was about eight mi…

Early on the morning of May 11, 1952, a bright blue object streaked across the sky over Seattle, Washington, exploded in a brilliant flash, and disappeared. The flash lit up the en…

On the night of August 14, 1952, multiple airmen at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan watched two bright lavender objects move across the sky in ways that puzzled military obser…

On August 29, 1952, at 2:15 p.m., a civilian in Selma, California reported seeing an object with three green lights and one red light moving up and down. The observer watched from…

On October 19, 1952, from about 5:00 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. Eastern time, many civilians near Selma, Alabama, reported a bright object that left a bright trail in the sky to the west. T…

In early September 1952, a woman in Shamokin, Pennsylvania reported seeing two unusual flying objects on separate nights. The objects were cigar-shaped and had an orange glow at on…

On the evening of October 1, 1952, a U.S. Air Force pilot flying a reconnaissance aircraft near Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina spotted a brilliant white light that exhibited…

On the night of April 16, 1952, a Captain with the U.S. Air Force saw something striking in the sky above Shreveport, Louisiana. The officer, a senior pilot with over 3,000 hours o…

Between April 22 and 24, 1952, near Shreveport, Louisiana, the crew of a C-46 aircraft reported an object around 2030 (8:30 p.m.). It was cream colored and circular. The object cir…

On August 26, 1952, at 8:15 p.m., a ground observer near Silver Lake, California spotted a spherical, brightly lit object moving across the sky. According to the case file, the obj…

On September 5, 1952, before noon, people in two towns in Malaya reported a strange object in the sky. The Air Force learned of this from an article in the Singapore Straits Times…

# Sighting at Slagle Lake, Louisiana, August 1952 On the evening of August 19, 1952, around 2100 hours (9 p.m.), a military officer and a companion sat on a pier at Slagle Lake ne…

On August 3, 1952, a civilian woman in Smyrna, Georgia reported seeing a bright white object moving slowly and erratically. The sighting lasted 18 minutes and was witnessed by two…

On April 20, 1952, in Solano County, California, near the Suisun Marsh, a civilian dentist reported a bright luminous object. The sighting happened about 0300 hours (3:00 a.m.) fro…

On August 28, 1952, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post in Sonoma, California, reported seeing five flat, silver-colored objects in the sky. The sightings occurred over rough…

On August 12, 1952, at 2155 hours (9:55 p.m.) Pacific Standard Time, a control tower operator at Geiger Field near Spokane, Washington, witnessed an unusual formation of lights mov…

On July 27, 1952, people across the Spokane, Washington area reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky. The sightings came in waves over a few hours, and the witnesses inclu…

On a night in December 1952, someone in St. Augustine, Florida saw an object streaking across the sky. The witness described a silver saucer with five or six lit windows, a spinnin…

On May 22, 1952, a group of about eight people at the Stockton Naval Supply Station in California watched a bright silver, rectangular object hang motionless in the sky for 25 minu…

On August 9, 1952, at 10:15 p.m., a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota saw an unidentified elliptical object flying at high speed from southeast to northwest. The observer, standing o…

In July 1952, a civilian man in St. Paul, Minnesota reported seeing two bright objects in the night sky through his telescope. The objects appeared orange-white in color and resemb…

On April 2, 1952, at 2045 (8:45 p.m.) local time, Air Force personnel near Temple, Texas, reported a large fireball. It was seen for about 10 to 40 seconds. The object was green wi…

On December 30, 1952, at approximately noon near Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia, a Royal Australian Air Force wing commander sighted an unidentified object to the east at an…

On July 25, 1952, multiple observers at the 674th Air Control and Warning Squadron in Osceola, Wisconsin, reported unusual radar contacts and visual sightings. The incident was sig…

On April 25, 1952, at Thule Air Base, Greenland, an Air Force lieutenant and a civilian Arctic rescue expert reported a vapor trail. The sighting happened about 0100 hours (1:00 a.…

On May 25, 1952, at 0958 (9:58 a.m.) local time, radar operators at the 767th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron near Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, detected an unusual target on…

On September 1, 1952, at 8:23 p.m., a white object moving very high and very fast with no trail or exhaust was observed by naked eye from the ground near Tinker Air Force Base, Okl…

On September 15, 1952, observers at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, reported a circular object moving back and forth across the sky for 45 minutes. The sighting was a ground visua…

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 September 2, 1952, starting at 8:15 p.m. local time, a radar operator at Haneda Air Base near Tokyo, Japan, reported unidentified targets on the GCA radar scope. The first targe…

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 the morning of January 11, 1952, an airman at Travis Air Force Base in California reported seeing an unusual flying object near his base. The sighting lasted between fifteen and…

# Summary In September 1952, radar operators at Tsu Shima, Japan, detected an unusual radar signature on several occasions. When military aircraft made outbound flights from nearb…

On the evening of August 6, 1952, near Tucson, Arizona, air traffic controllers and pilots reported seeing an unusual bright object moving across the sky at remarkable speeds and a…

On September 17, 1952, two civilians in Tucson, Arizona watched two separate groups of unidentified objects pass slowly over the Tucson Mountains. The first group of three objects…

In August 1952, a family driving near Tularosa, New Mexico, witnessed what the U.S. Air Force could not explain. On the evening of August 31st, shortly after passing through a tunn…

On the afternoon of September 6, 1952, a woman traveling by car on the Satagenia Highway near Tucson, Arizona, spotted an unusual orange, tear-drop shaped object in the sky. The wo…

On July 1, 1952, a family of six observed an unusual object in the sky near Van Nuys, California. The family, which included the father, mother, and four children aged 11 to 15, wa…

On the night of December 29, 1952, two U.S. Air Force captains flying a B-26 bomber from Perrin Air Force Base in Texas spotted an unidentified bright object in the sky near Vega,…

In May 1952, a witness near Vineland, New Jersey, reported seeing an object in the evening sky. The report was filed on a standard observer's questionnaire. The witness was outdoo…

On April 15, 1952, 2nd Lt. Edward F. Gaucher watched a group of 15 to 20 round objects move across the night sky above Waco, Texas. He was sitting at the Joy Drive-In Theatre with…

On April 21, 1952, two civilians in Walla Walla, Washington reported sighting eight unidentified flying objects at 10:30 a.m. The objects were disc-shaped, colored moon in daylight…

On the morning of April 7, 1952, two separate sightings of unusual objects were reported in Mississippi and Tennessee, both occurring near daybreak. The first incident took place…

On May 25, 1952, at 2115 hours (9:15 p.m.), a civilian family observed an unusual light in the sky from their home on Walnut Lake, Michigan. They first thought it was the moon, but…

A geologist working for the U.S. Geological Survey submitted a photograph to the Air Force in April 1952. The photo had been taken on the evening of April 2, 1952 at 2330 hours (11…

On the night of September 12, 1952, a bright streak of light crossed the sky over Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas, triggering a wave of telephone calls to police, newspaper…

On April 1, 1952, in the evening near Washington, Indiana, three civilian men driving west into the setting sun reported an object. At first they thought the red glow was the color…

On August 6, 1952, around 7:15 a.m. local time, a civilian man in Washington, D.C. reported two discs. He said they were about the size of a fifth-cent coin held at arm's length. T…

On November 11, 1952, ten members of the Atomic Energy Commission Security Force at Los Alamos, New Mexico, reported observing a round, bright object that flashed red and green. Th…

On January 5, 1952, shortly after 1:00 a.m. PST, a newspaper article reported a sighting near Watsonville, California. A witness observed a ball of fire with a bluish green tail th…

On August 17, 1952, Captain James H. Perry was flying an Air Force T-6 trainer aircraft from Dallas to Webb Air Force Base near Big Spring, Texas, when he spotted an unusual object…

A Ground Observer Corps supervisor in White Lake, South Dakota watched a bright, reddish, cigar-shaped object in the sky on September 1, 1952. The object had three puffs of what lo…

On April 15, 1952, a retired aeronautical engineer in Wichita, Kansas observed a yellow light streak cross the sky twice in one minute. The observer, president of the Swallow Airpl…

Early on the morning of May 2, 1952, a retired Army sergeant in Wichita Falls, Texas reported seeing an unusual disc shaped object flying overhead. The witness, a 56 year old man w…

On May 12, 1952, about 40 to 50 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico, an Air Force technical sergeant reported an unidentified object. The sighting began about 2045 (8:45 p.m.) and la…

On the evening of December 11, 1952, an engineer at North American Aviation's Santa Susanna Rocket Test Laboratory in Woodland Hills, California, witnessed an unusual object in the…

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 the evening of October 13, 1952, a man working at his drawing board near his home in York, Pennsylvania glanced out and saw a bright yellow-orange light almost directly overhead…

On April 27, 1952, near Yuma, Arizona, an Air Force staff sergeant and his wife reported unconventional objects. The couple were seated in their car at a drive in theater. The sigh…