Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 21, 1956, several civilians and two military Ground Observer Corps members at Richmond, Virginia, reported one object. The report came in by letter and was filed under Pro…

On December 4, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Ridgewood, New York. The witness was a teacher and stood near City College in New York. The object was seen for about one half t…

On February 15, 1956, a US Navy pilot near Riverside, California reported seeing a cigar-shaped brown object with no apparent details. The object followed a straight and level cour…

On May 7, 1956, at 8:04 a.m. GMT, a witness in Rochester, Indiana reported seeing one round object about three inches in diameter. The object was silver and green in color. It rema…

On November 12, 1956, at Rocky Ford, Colorado, a civilian observer reported three objects about the size of a dime, colored red, yellow, and green, arranged in a stationary formati…

On the morning of April 9, 1956, observers at Griffiss Air Force Base near Rome, New York, spotted a bright light in the sky. The object appeared as a round, orange-white light tha…

On January 8, 1956, at 1:12 a.m., a civilian near Roseburg, Oregon, five miles southwest of the city, observed a round white object with a small amount of sparks for two to three s…

On September 12, 1956, in Rossville, Georgia, a civilian witness observed an unidentified object for three to five minutes. The object was described as round and chrome colored, ab…

On March 27, 1956, a civilian at Saginaw, Michigan, reported one object at 1105 (about 6:05 a.m. local). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record fo…

On February 25, 1956, a man and his wife stopped their car near Sahaurita, Arizona, to observe an object in the sky. The man was traveling south toward Mexico when his wife noticed…

On November 11, 1956, civilian and military witnesses saw one object over Salineville, Ohio. The object was watched for several minutes. The report described one long, light objec…

On April 4, 1956, a local weather observer in McKinney, Texas spotted an unusual bright object in the afternoon sky near Samish Island, Washington. The object appeared stationary i…

On September 22, 1956, at about 3:45 a.m., four observers at or near Kelly Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas reported one round, intensely bright white object about the size of…

On July 23, 1956, civilians and military personnel in San Antonio, Texas reported seeing one round, very bright object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was silv…

On July 19, 1956, a 15-year-old student in San Bernardino, California reported seeing a disk-shaped flying object while lying in his backyard taking photographs with a new camera.…

An unusual flying object puzzled a U.S. Geological Survey supervisor in downtown Los Angeles in the mid-1950s, after he spotted something floating past his office window that seeme…

On April 10, 1956, a civilian at San Diego, California, reported several groups of objects. The report came in by letter and was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official…

On February 6, 1956, at 7:21 a.m., a civilian witness in San Fernando, California reported observing one unidentified object. The object was circular with a pinhead at arm's length…

On May 20, 1956, a civilian in San Luis Obispo, California reported seeing one round red object that was glowing and moving southwest. The sighting lasted five minutes before the o…

# San Ramon, California, August 1956 In August 1956, residents of San Ramon, California reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The sighting occurred on August 10, and…

On December 10, 1956, a policeman in Santa Monica, California, reported two objects. The sighting was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified f…

On October 11, 1956, in Santee, California, two individuals reported seeing a round, brilliant white object the size of a pin at arm's length. The object moved very high in the sky…

On the night of July 13, 1956, a woman in Saugerties, New York saw two bright lights in the sky. One light was red and the other was white. The lights appeared stationary, about fi…

On January 9, 1956, a civilian observer on Sauvies Island, Oregon reported seeing a very large object reflected on the Columbia River around 10:06 a.m. The object was described as…

On January 24, 1956, a civilian in Seattle, Washington reported seeing one oval-shaped object that was golden and glowing with a long tail. The sky was clear. The object was climbi…

On a June evening in 1956, someone in southeastern Kentucky watched one or two white objects in the sky that moved very fast and appeared to turn and descend. The observer estimate…

On August 1, 1956, a military witness in Shalimar, Florida, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0155Z and lasted about six seconds. The witness described one ro…

On March 21, 1956, a civilian at Sioux City, Iowa, reported one object at 2330 (about 11:30 p.m.). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On the evening of July 31, 1956, a man and his friend were sitting in a yard in Smyrna, Georgia, watching the stars when they spotted a bright white light moving rapidly across the…

On April 24, 1956, military personnel at Snelling Air Force Base in St. Paul, Minnesota observed one object with a solid octangular shape and plane surfaces. The object was about t…

On February 29, 1956, at 21:10 (9:10 p.m.), an observer in Victoria West, Cape Province, South Africa saw an unusual object in the sky. The object emerged from a luminous cloud, mo…

On February 29, 1956, a 14-year-old student in South Newton, Iowa, reported seeing an unusual object while scanning the sky for aircraft. The witness described the object as round,…

On August 4, 1956, military observers at a Coast Guard station near South Portland, Maine, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0722Z (night). It was still in sig…

On August 5, 1956, in the early evening, a witness in South Salem, New York saw one object during bright twilight. It was bullet shaped, about the size of a half dollar at arm's le…

On November 10, 1956, two civilian guards on duty at a naval air station saw one object over South Weymouth, Massachusetts. They were among about eight observers, all on military d…

In March 1956, a pilot flying near Spokane, Washington spotted an unusual blip on his radar scope. The blip moved rapidly upward across the scope and then faded away. Two other air…

On August 17, 1956, a military aircrew south-southwest of Spragueville, Maine, reported a radar contact. The sighting was recorded at 1550Z and was tracked for about three minutes.…

On August 17, 1956, a military observer in the area south-southwest of Spragueville, Maine, reported a radar contact. The sighting was recorded at 0455Z (the card lists it in dayli…

On July 5, 1956, a civilian reported a round yellow object the size of a baseball held at arm's length in Stanton, Nebraska. The object was acting like a light on a balloon, bobbin…

On August 13, 1956, near Staunton, Virginia, a civilian observed an object that looked like a blimp's gondola with red lights on each beam and white lights between the red lights.…

On May 25, 1956, a civilian in Steilacoom, Washington reported observing one round object the size of a small jet aircraft. The object was pure white in color and remained stationa…

On September 13, 1956, in Stockton, California, a civilian witness reported seeing an unidentified object at 1:53 a.m. The object was described as the size of a pin head at arm's l…

On the morning of Saturday, September 22, 1956, in St. Petersburg, Florida, an employee at MacDill Air Force Base reported seeing what he described as a "flying saucer." The observ…

On the evening of August 18, 1956, a resident of Tacoma, Washington reported watching a round object about the size of a dime held at arm's length. The object alternated between bl…

On April 30, 1956, a civilian in Tacoma, Washington reported seeing an unusual object in the sky during daylight hours. The witness described a slim object about 2 inches wide and…

During the night of August 25 to 26, 1956, witnesses reported objects over the port of Tangier, Morocco. The information came from a newspaper rather than a direct witness report.…

On August 9, 1956, civilian witnesses in Tarrytown, New York, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0152Z and the object was still visible when the first report wa…

On October 28, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Tehachapi, California. The object was watched for about 25 minutes during daytime with good visibility. The witness described o…

On October 17, 1956, a civilian near Tehachapi, California reported one red, egg-shaped object about the size of a dime held at arm's length. The object was first seen directly ove…

On July 31, 1956, around 8:20 a.m. local time, a civilian in Temple, Texas, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about one and a half to two minutes. The object was seen t…

On October 31, 1956, a civilian in Temple City, California reported seeing a yellowish orange object larger than a star. The object was extremely bright and remained motionless for…

On June 22, 1956, in Terre Haute, Indiana, a civilian reported one object at about 4:35 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The witness watched it through binoculars…

On July 20, 1956, in Terre Haute, Indiana, a civilian witness reported seeing one round object slightly larger than the north star. The object was yellow or white in color and appe…

On March 17, 1956, at 7:04 p.m., a civilian in Torrance, California reported observing one round object that appeared fish-shaped when turning. The object resembled a street light…

On April 18, 1956, a civilian in Traverse City, Michigan, reported seeing one object in the western sky. The object was described as a deep yellow round object with a red tail that…

On January 7, 1956, two people saw strange objects over Turlock, California. The Greenwich time was 0715Z on January 8. The observers were civilians, described as students. They r…

On May 10, 1956, a prisoner at Waupun, Wisconsin, reported one object. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object repo…

On December 1, 1956, a round object slightly larger than a baseball was reported near Valley City, North Dakota. The object was red to orange in color and located approximately fiv…

On July 29, 1956, civilian ground observers near Vancouver and Bellingham, Washington, reported objects in the sky. The sighting was recorded at 2230Z. One part lasted about one ho…

On September 4, 1956, around 8:35 p.m., a resident of Vandalia, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky. The object appeared round, roughly the size of a pea held at arm'…