USAF · 1947 to 1969
Project Blue Book Case Files
The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.
344 cases from 1955 · page 6 of 6
Traverse City, MI
1955 · unknownOn October 9, 1955, a civilian in Traverse City, Michigan reported observing an unidentified object between 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 a.m. The witness described the object as resembling…
Trenton, NJ
1955 · unknownOn August 31, 1955, at about 0120Z, civilian and military observers reported an object over Trenton, New Jersey. The report came through Ground Observer Corps channels. The witnes…
Tussy, OK
1955 · unknownOn June 25, 1955, near Tussy, Oklahoma, a civilian reported one object while driving. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about five seconds. The object was seen throu…
Twenty-Nine Palms, CA
1955 · unidentifiedOn March 18, 1955, at Twenty-Nine Palms, California, a civilian reported a round object. It was about the size of a quarter held at arm's length and probably white in color, though…
Twenty-Nine Palms,
1955 · unknownIn March 1955, at Twenty-Nine Palms, California, a civilian reported a round object. It was about the size of a quarter held at arm's length and probably white in color, though no…
Tyndall AFB, FL
1955 · unidentifiedOn January 5, 1955, military and civilian witnesses near Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted a few seconds. The object moved toward…
Valentine, NE
1955 · unidentifiedOn October 1, 1955, a civilian in Valentine, Nebraska reported sighting many round white objects. The objects were the size of a dime held at arm's length. They flew in a straight…
Van Nuys, CA
1955 · unidentifiedOn July 24, 1955, in Van Nuys, California, a civilian reported one elliptical, silver object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unident…
Van Nuys, CA
1955 · unidentifiedOn May 19, 1955, a civilian observer in Van Nuys, California, reported seeing a single silver object with a delta wing shape (triangular, like the nose cone of a rocket). The objec…
Van Nuys,
1955 · unknownOn July 23, 1955, in Van Nuys, California, a civilian observer reported seeing one elliptical, silver object about the size of a nickel at arm's length. The object traveled souther…
Van Nuys, CA
1955 · unidentifiedOn an April night in 1955, a housewife in Van Nuys, California, stepped outside and saw a red, flashing light appear in the sky immediately after a multi-engine airliner passed ove…
Wabuska, NV
1955 · unknownOn a day in May 1955, a witness near Wabuska, Nevada, reported an object in the sky. The source was a civilian. The object was circular and silvery white. It made a rumbling sound…
Washington,
1955 · unknownOn October 13, 1955, a civilian in Washington, D.C. reported observing a round object the color of cloud with a white vapor trail. The object was moving at high speed. The Air Forc…
Washington,
1955 · unknownOn September 7, 1955, in the late afternoon, three civilian workers saw an object in Washington, D.C. They were employees of the Army Map Service and saw the object from the ground…
Washington State,
1955 · unknownOn July 25, 1955, in Washington State, a ground observer reported two objects. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified flying ob…
Washingtonville, NY
1955 · unknownOn the evening of September 6, 1955, multiple observers across New York reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object with a distinctive blue-white flame streaking across the night…
West Palm Beach, FL
1955 · unidentifiedOn January 28, 1955, around 12:15 p.m. (1215Z reported), a civilian near West Palm Beach, Florida, reported one object. The witness had gone outside to look at some birds in the ya…
Williamsburg, VA
1955 · unidentifiedOn a date in January 1955, a witness near Williamsburg, Virginia, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about two hours. The object was toward the south. The object…
Williston, FL
1955 · unidentifiedOn the night of October 30, 1955, a city police officer in Williston, Florida was making his rounds when he spotted several bright lights in the sky. He drove a few miles out of to…
Winnipeg, Manitoba,
1955 · unknownOn October 19, 1955, at night near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, witnesses reported an object. The observers were a civilian control tower operator at an air station and a civilian d…
Winsted,
1955 · unknownOn a date in 1955, in Winsted, Connecticut, a witness reported one round, silver object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified…
Winterset, IA
1955 · unknownOn January 30, 1955, near Winterset, Iowa, a military pilot reported an unusual object. He was flying a T-33 jet at night at about 20,000 feet. The sighting lasted about 25 seconds…
Woodside, California,
1955 · unknownA young person saw an unusual object in the sky over Woodside, California in the summer of 1955. The observation came to light years later, when the now-adult witness reported it t…
W-P AFB, OH
1955 · unknownOn November 10, 1955, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, a military observer reported seeing a round object that was white and blue in color with no sound. The object rema…
Yuma, AZ
1955 · unknownOn October 17, 1955, in Yuma, Arizona, a military observer reported seeing approximately 12 pale yellow lights traveling in a SSE direction. The formation was wide and shaped like…
Yuma, AZ
1955 · unknownOn January 17, 1955, multiple observers in Southern California reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky near Yuma, Arizona. The sighting occurred around 1730 (5:30 p.m.) i…
Zonguldak,
1955 · unknownOn October 28, 1955, at about 0545Z, a civilian saw three objects over Zonguldak, Turkey. The total sighting lasted about 45 seconds, about 15 seconds for each object. The witness…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn July 15, 1955, the crew of the tanker Tydol Flying A reported seeing an unidentified object hovering above their ship in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. The observat…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn July 5, 1955, two KC-97 refueling aircraft were on a mission near Newfoundland when their crews spotted an unusual object in the early morning sky. The crews described it as a b…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn May 12, 1955, a civilian reported a single object. The exact city is not given in the record. The sighting lasted about four to five minutes. The object was round and red, abou…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn April 16, 1955, at 4:45 p.m., a civilian observer in Los Angeles, California reported seeing a round, white object that moved straight up. The observation lasted one minute and…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn May 24, 1955, a civilian about 75 miles west-northwest of an Ohio location saw a single object. The sighting lasted about four minutes. The object was round and white, about th…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn March 28, 1955, and around that time, many reports of unidentified flying objects came from widely scattered places in Iran. Reports came from the Persian Gulf area, Tehran, Gor…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn the night of October 11, 1955, three servicemen at Earnest Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland watched an unusual light move across the sky. The object was small, about the si…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownIn November 1955, the Air Force received a letter from a naturalized U.S. citizen writing from Budapest, Hungary. The letter reported what the writer called flying saucers, or rock…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn November 8, 1955, at about 0249Z, the crew of a U.S. Air Force SC-54 transport saw an object over the North Atlantic Ocean. The plane was flying from Harmon to Prestwick, Scotla…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownIn January 1955, a civilian airline pilot reported one object somewhere between Virginia and Kansas. The object was described as a dark object leaving a contrail. The Air Force r…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn July 25, 1955, a military witness made an air-visual sighting over New York State. The witness reported one orange object with a dark center. The Air Force recorded the report u…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn a February night in 1955, several people at Western Kentucky State Teachers College observed unusual objects flying in formation across the sky. The witnesses watched from the c…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn January 18, 1955, a military observer in the Pacific Ocean reported a globular object with no sound. The object was white with a reddish color and disappeared as it flew low wit…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn the night of October 21, 1955, two fighter pilots from the 432nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron based in Minnesota reported separate but seemingly connected sightings near Minneap…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn July 12, 1955, over Southern California, military and civilian witnesses reported one object for about seven minutes. The sighting was seen from the ground, including from an ai…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn December 15, 1955, a pilot and observer saw a strange object during a flight from Charleston, West Virginia, toward Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina. The Greenwich time ran…
Location unrecorded
1955 · unknownOn September 14, 1955, a civilian in New York State reported seeing one oblong object changing colors from yellow to red to yellow. The object was traveling on a north-east course…
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