Project Blue Book Case Files

On December 17, 1953, at about 5:48 p.m. local time over the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii, a military navigator reported objects on radar. The sighting was made from an Air Force WB-2…

On October 16, 1953, at 4 p.m., military personnel at Cypress Island, Mediterranean (location noted in the document) reported observing unidentified aerial objects. The sighting in…

On a night in November 1953, a New York City resident living in a Manhattan hotel witnessed an unusual aerial object that moved with striking precision across the Hudson River. The…

On June 17, 1953, a military transport plane flying near Iwo Jima, Japan, detected an unidentified object on radar that neither the crew nor any known aircraft could explain. The p…

On Thursday, January 22, 1953, at about 1:35 p.m., a man retired from aircraft flight testing observed what he believed to be a B-26 bomber flying over Giant Rock Airport near Josh…

On February 26-27, 1953, U.S. Air Force personnel stationed across Japan reported seeing unusual lights in the sky. The sightings occurred at multiple radar and air defense sites s…

On the evening of January 4, 1953, a civilian employee at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida watched an unusual object streak across the sky near Eau Gallie. The witness, described…

In November 1953, a witness near Guadeloupe Island reported an object in the twilight sky. The source was a civilian. The object was described as bright and shaped like a comet. I…

On November 4, 1953, a control tower operator at Norton Air Force Base, California, reported an unidentified object. The source was military. The operator watched the object for a…

On November 11, 1953, a pilot reported a sighting over the Atlantic Ocean, near 48 degrees north and 57 degrees west. The witness was the civilian pilot of a BOAC airliner flying f…

On April 3, 1953, at about 0235 (use of the I time zone), a military crew reported an object over northwest Korea. One report names Lt. Colonel John K. Dillon, a B-26 pilot flying…

On November 23, 1953, a UFO was reported near Marham, Norfolk, England. A Royal Air Force pilot observed an illuminated object with windows similar to a passenger airliner, with fl…

On the night of September 2, 1953, a crew of a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane spotted an unusually bright white light near Sidi Slimane Air Base in French Morocco. The light a…

This document collects several sightings reported in Russia from November 1952 to February 20, 1953. The source is foreign reporting passed to Air Force intelligence. On nights in…

On May 11, 1953, near Seattle and Renton, Washington, civilians reported a flying object. The first sighting was about 1910 (7:10 p.m.) Pacific time. The object was watched through…

On February 18, 1953, a civilian sighting of a light was reported near Reykjavik, Iceland. The report came from Iceland Air Defense Force at Keflavik Airport. Three men saw a brigh…

On June 5, 1953, about 1330Z, military aircrew over the Pacific southwest of Guam reported a green light. The witnesses were two Navy aircraft commanders flying military transport…

On June 9, 1953, about 2345 (11:45 p.m.) local time, military observers saw an object over North Korea. The witnesses were forward artillery observers of an Army field artillery ba…

On the night of June 13 to 14, 1953, military aircrew over the Pacific reported a light. The sighting happened during an encounter between an RB-29 aircraft and an unidentified air…

In late April 1953, three U.S. military officers aboard a Navy transport ship in the North Pacific reported seeing a gleaming metallic object roughly the size of a fighter jet. The…

# Unidentified Objects Over California, August 1953 On August 20, 1953, at 1:35 p.m., a commercial aircraft flying near Castle Air Force Base in California reported seeing unident…

This file is a November 3, 1953 letter reviewing a batch of sighting reports, including one from September 1953 at Portland, Oregon. The writer compared the reports with a case at…

On January 27, 1953, at about 6:00 p.m., two airmen saw an object about one mile west of March Air Force Base, California. The witnesses were a technical sergeant and a staff serge…

On January 27, 1953, at about midnight local time, an observer in Alaska reported a bright object. The source of the report was not stated in the record. The object was described…

On September 13, 1953, about 2:00 to 2:30 a.m., a civilian in Switzerland reported an object in the sky. The witness filled out a sighting form and included a sketch. The witness…

On the evening of November 27, 1953, two separate objects were spotted from the ground near Dhahran Air Force Base in Saudi Arabia. The first sighting occurred around dusk. An obse…