Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 22, 1954, objects were reported over Wertherly, Pennsylvania. The sighting was made from the ground and filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for u…

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 January 10, 1954, residents of Westminster, Maryland reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received multiple reports of sightings that occurred over several…

In 1954, a witness near West Palm Beach, Florida, reported a bright glow in the sky. The card describes a very bright glow with no clear shape and erratic movements. Later informa…

On January 22, 1954, a civilian couple near West Point, Kentucky reported a bright white light. The sighting began at 2025 local time and lasted about 25 minutes. The witnesses wer…

On May 31, 1954, around midnight in the Westwood suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, a civilian reported one object. The witness, whose windows faced northeast, saw a bright, star-like lig…

On July 5, 1954, military witnesses near White Wood, South Dakota, reported a huge object over the city. The sighting lasted about two hours. The object looked like a large star. I…

On February 8, 1954, a civilian woman in Wichita, Kansas reported a drifting object. The sighting began at 1620 local time and lasted about four and a half minutes. She watched the…

On April 24, 1954, at night, a witness in Wichita, Kansas, reported lights in the sky. The witness was sitting in a car on Market Street, facing north. The witness reported seeing…

On May 29, 1954, at about 10:30 a.m. between Willcox and Benson, Arizona, a civilian driving from Lordsburg, New Mexico, to Tucson reported one object. His attention was drawn by s…

On September 21, 1954, at 9:21 p.m. near Winslow, Arizona, a civilian witness reported seeing one white object emitting light from its rear. The object was visible for approximatel…

On December 28, 1954, a civilian near Wichita, Kansas, reported a sighting in the sky. The observation lasted about one minute. The object moved from the southwest to the northeast…

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 September 23, 1954, at 12:33 a.m., a civilian in West Riverside, California reported seeing one object during a two-minute ground visual observation. The object was described as…

On January 10, 1954, in York, Pennsylvania, one civilian witness reported seeing a bright moving object forming an arc or cone shape with a round base. Several people observed it t…

On October 1, 1954, a Pan American Airlines captain reported an unidentified flying object over Zerbst, Germany. The pilot observed four to three objects flying in the Berlin Corri…

On November 14, 1954, military and civilian witnesses near 21 degrees 20 minutes north and 92 degrees 33 minutes west, in the New Orleans area, reported objects in the sky. The sig…

On April 1, 1954, civilians aboard the motor vessel El Cafetero reported observing a novel kind of balloon in the air at position 40 degrees 39 minutes North, 44 degrees 10 minutes…

On January 8, 1954, at about 8:27 p.m. GMT (about 2027 local) over Berlin, Germany, a civilian reported one object over the American sector. The witness was a German official. The…

On August 9, 1954, an Air Force crew flying over the Atlantic Ocean reported seeing objects in the sky. The sighting was made by military observers aboard a B-47 type aircraft. It…

On July 1, 1954, five objects were sighted at an unknown location. Witnesses observed a triangle with rounded corners that was orange and luminous, traveling in a straight line. Tw…

On a date in 1954, a U.S. Army sergeant and his wife in West Germany observed an orange glowing object for about 90 seconds. The object traveled at a high rate of speed and had a j…

On July 3, 1954, a B-36 bomber flying over the Atlantic Ocean near Bermuda picked up an unusual radar return. The crew observed seven objects, and occasionally eight, arranged in a…

On July 29, 1954, a sighting was reported in Korea. The source was military. The record card lists few details and refers readers to the case file for the full account. The length…

This Project 10073 record card documents a sighting reported on July 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York, by a civilian. Project 10073 was the Air Force's official record for unidentif…

On August 19, 1954, a single object was reported over Austria. The report was part of a series of European sightings collected by the Air Force during the summer and fall of 1954.…

On July 30, 1954, a sighting was reported near Mountain View, Missouri. The source was a civilian. The witness submitted photographs of two objects, which were forwarded to the Ai…

On September 1, 1954, a man reported a bright object while riding a train near Pasco, Washington. The witness was a railroad employee and a private pilot. He first saw the object w…

In August 1954, the U.S. Air Force received reports of six unidentified flying objects sighted across various parts of Europe. The information came from intelligence summaries file…

On September 7, 1954, three people reported an object in the Aisne Department of France. The sighting was one of a series of European reports collected by the Air Force during the…

On September 14, 1954, a circular object was reported over Finland, near Helsinki. The sighting was one of a series of European reports collected by the Air Force in 1954. It happe…

On September 14, 1954, two people reported an object over Italy, near the town of Pitigliano. The sighting was one of a series of European reports collected by the Air Force in 195…

On September 12, 1954, at Cape May, New Jersey, a civilian witness reported two bright white lights moving side by side in a northward direction at a speed covering 15 to 20 degree…

On February 1, 1954, a balloon shaped object was reported near Mobile, Alabama, in the area of Brookley Air Force Base. The witnesses were both military and civilian. The object wa…

On July 5, 1954, a UFO sighting was reported in West Berlin. According to a status report extract dated October 25, 1954, the sighting involved observations that were documented by…

On August 11, 1954, observers on a salvage vessel anchored near Yoron Island in the Pacific Ocean spotted an unusual glowing object in the night sky. The craft appeared first as a…

On the evening of March 2, 1954, multiple observers across south-central Pennsylvania reported seeing unusual lights in the sky near Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown. The sight…

On March 2, 1954, an Air Force crew flying a C-45 transport plane spotted a bright white object hovering high above Mobile, Alabama. The object appeared translucent and had a white…

On October 13, 1954, an aircraft crew reported an object over the Pacific Ocean. The sighting was made by military observers from the air. It was filed as information only, with no…

On October 18, 1954, an object was reported off Okinawa. The report came from both military and civilian sources. The sighting lasted about ten seconds as the sun was rising. The…

On October 20, 1954, an embassy official reported an object while on vacation at Kyrenia, Cyprus, in the Mediterranean. The witness was a civilian connected to the American Embassy…

On October 29, 1954 at 1900 hours in the Philippine Islands, a military source reported a UFO sighting. One bright blue object, long and narrow, was observed for 2 to 3 seconds dur…

On November 4, 1954, an unidentified light was reported over St. Lawrence, Alaska. The details on the record are limited. The report described an unidentified light. The source of…

On November 7, 1954, an aircraft crew reported an object over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast near the Georgia and Florida area. The sighting was made by military observers from t…

On May 13, 1954, at about 10:45 a.m. local time over the Pacific Ocean, a military aircrew on a C-124 flying from Hickam to Travis reported one object for about five minutes. The c…

Between April 15 and 19, 1954, at various places in South Korea, four separate reports came from four sources. Witnesses included ground and air observers. The objects were seen as…

On November 19, 1954, a civilian pilot southeast of New Orleans reported six objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about three to five minutes. The objects disappeared toward the…

On November 4, 1954, near Labrador at coordinates 62 degrees 3 minutes North and 56 degrees 45 minutes West, military personnel observed one object during an air visual sighting. T…

On November 18, 1954, a military radar operator over the Gulf of Mexico, near 21 degrees 46 minutes north and 84 degrees 47 minutes west, reported one object. The detection came fr…

In May 1954, a military pilot flying over the Atlantic Ocean spotted what he thought were unidentified objects in two V-shaped formations. The sightings occurred at coordinates 44…