Project Blue Book Case Files

On the night of August 15, 1958, three people on the western edge of West Point, Mississippi saw an unusual object in the sky. The object was round, about the size of a silver doll…

On the night of September 1, 1958, a civilian technical representative witnessed an unusual object over Wheelus Air Force Base in Tripoli, Libya. The man, described by investigator…

On a clear, cold night in December 1958, observers near Whittier, Alaska saw something bright streak across the sky and hit a mountain about eight miles to the northeast. The objec…

On the night of May 13 to 14, 1958, near Willis, Virginia, a civilian found pieces of foil on the ground near his home. He believed they had fallen during the night. The pieces wer…

On July 8, 1958, west of Boreland, Michigan, a civilian witness observed a red, bright white object with a smoke track behind it for one second. The object moved east. The Air Forc…

On the evening of July 2, 1958, a witness west of Germantown, Ohio saw a bright white light blinking very rapidly in the sky. The observation lasted about 15 hours, with the object…

On January 3, 1958, in the daytime west of Marietta (in Georgia), a military observer reported a single object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 90 seconds. The object was very…

On the morning of July 30, 1958, a state police officer west of Zahl, North Dakota, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sighting began at 3:30 a.m. local time and las…

On October 14, 1958, a witness at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio observed a square object with a yellow and greenish tint. The object then exploded into pieces. The sighti…

On a night in 1958, witnesses in Xenia, Ohio saw two pinpoints of light, brighter than a star and with a blue cast. The lights flashed together. The objects moved from east to west…

On April 3, 1958, a resident of Xenia, Ohio reported seeing a bright light moving rapidly across the sky. The witness described the object as clear and brilliant, resembling a brig…

On July 14, 1958, a civilian in Xenia-Bellbrook, Ohio reported observing an object between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m. The object appeared as a bright star and often looked like three light…

On June 7, 1958, a resident of Yellow Springs, Ohio, reported seeing a white disc-shaped object with a slight tinge of yellow or red while outdoors in open countryside. The sightin…

On January 15, 1958, a civilian in Ypsilanti, Michigan reported seeing a round object with a marble or milky plaster appearance with things on its side. The witness went to bed ear…

On 25 October 1958, a man brought a roll of 8 mm film to the Pentagon claiming it showed proof of unidentified flying objects. The film consisted of six frames shot at Yucca Valley…

Several aircraft crews and ground observers across the Yukon, Canada and Alaska area reported seeing a meteor-like object on March 29, 1958. The sightings occurred almost simultane…

On May 14, 1958, near Yuma, Arizona, a civilian witness observed three objects in the night sky between 9:30 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. MST. The objects were described as round with a head…

On November 24, 1958, at about 5:25 p.m. (1725Z), a military crew in a WB-50 weather aircraft reported an object northeast of Iceland. The senior pilot, an experienced aircraft com…

In January 1958, a single observer in Montevideo, Uruguay reported watching an unusual object descend to a low altitude and emit sparks. The observer described the object as circul…

On January 11, 1958, a P2V-5F patrol bomber flying in the Bering Sea area detected three unidentified objects on its radar. The aircraft was operating near Kodiak Naval Base with f…

On August 20, 1958, a crew member aboard the USS Thornback, a naval vessel in the Eastern Mediterranean, spotted a slow-moving object that pulsed intermittently like a star. The wi…

On the evening of December 30, 1958, two civilian observers near Van Leer, Tennessee, saw a bright glow high overhead. The object appeared to be burning intensely. As it descended…

On December 1, 1958, near Lyon, France, a civilian reported three sightings of unidentified objects. The witness observed an object three times brighter than stars emitting a white…

On the morning of September 7, 1958, radar operators at three U.S. Air Force stations in South Dakota detected unidentified objects on their screens. The sightings occurred over ro…

In early November 1958, military observers near Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota witnessed an unusual nighttime event. The main report describes two distinct phenomena: a brigh…

A civilian passenger on a Greyhound bus saw an unusual object while traveling in New Mexico about a week or two before Thanksgiving in November 1958. The witness described the obje…

On October 18, 1958, two crew members aboard the Dutch cargo ship M.S. Coolsingel saw an unusual object while at sea in the Atlantic Ocean. The ship was traveling from Norfolk, Vir…

In October 1958, a resident of Uruguay reported seeing a luminous, oval-shaped object moving over a small town. The witness, who looked outside after hearing noise from the street,…

On July 20, 1958, a private pilot flying a Cessna 182 near Crystal Lake, Illinois spotted an unusual object in the sky. The pilot was cruising at 8,500 feet when he noticed a disc…

On the evening of October 9, 1958, a resident of Pleasant Hill, California, observed an unusual object in the night sky at about 9:20 p.m. The witness described it as a hazy bar of…

On May 1, 1958, a photographer in the rural area near Juntas de Abreial in Uruguay's Rivera Department observed a cylindrical object in the sky. The object appeared metallic and sh…

In mid-March 1958, over northern Norway, an object was reported as a flying saucer. The sighting was made the night before reports reached Oslo on March 18. Witnesses said the obje…

On the night of September 20, 1958, observers across Alaska reported seeing a bright ball of fire with a long trailing tail streaking across the sky. Multiple witnesses on the grou…

On January 12, 1958, shortly after midnight, a man in Salem, Virginia, reported seeing an unusual glowing object in the night sky. He watched the object from his living room window…

On July 2, 1958, about 9:15 p.m. (universal time), east of Ascension Island, the crew of the steamship African Planet reported a single bright object. They described a bright red m…

On September 5, 1958, at 5:06 a.m. GMT over the Atlantic Ocean at coordinates 29.03N 68.56W, a bright light was observed moving from east to west. The object was sighted by personn…

Starting July 7, 1958, people across a wide area of Uruguay reported a glowing object in the sky. The reports came from many departments of the country, from Rocha to Soriano. Witn…

On August 22, 1958, a sighting occurred in the USSR at sea in the North Pacific. A single object of undetermined shape was observed for two seconds due to brilliance. The object wa…

On August 1, 1958, a civilian observer near Rock Springs, Wyoming, about 26 to 30 miles north, reported seeing a bright green object with a neon glow and pencil-head size. The obje…

On August 12, 1958, in the early morning hours, multiple witnesses in the Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska area reported seeing unusual lights in the sky. The sighting occurred around 0…

On July 24, 1958, at approximately 12:00 a.m., a civilian observer in West Nyack, New York reported seeing a moving object in the eastern sky. The object appeared about the size of…

On the evening of October 14, 1958, observers in three Kentucky cities reported seeing a silver-colored, cigar-shaped object in the sky. The sightings occurred in rapid succession:…

In October 1958, pieces of tinfoil were found on the ground in northern Ohio. A civilian mailed a sample to the Air Technical Intelligence Center and asked for an explanation. He s…

During March 1958, radar operators in the Panama Canal Zone tracked several unidentified objects over the course of a few days. The sightings sparked significant investigation and…

On November 13, 1958, military radar operators near Tonopah Airport, Nevada, tracked unidentified objects. Four separate sightings were made on radar during one day. The first cont…

A crew aboard a U.S. Air Force C-54 transport plane saw a bright, greenish-blue flash west of Wake Island on February 13, 1958. The flash was instantaneous and intense. The pilot b…

On May 25, 1958, an instructor pilot and aviator named Carlos Alejo Rodrigues was flying a Piper aircraft from San Carlos to Montevideo, Uruguay, when he spotted an unusual object…

On May 2, 1958, around 1:00 a.m., off eastern Spain, a military observer and two civilians reported a single object in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 1 minute and 20 seco…

On April 1, 1958, a cigar-shaped object with a bluish color was sighted in the Atlantic Ocean near Panama. The master of the SS Coole reported seeing the object at a high altitude,…

In April 1958, observers across a vast region of the Caribbean and the eastern United States witnessed a spectacular display of brilliant objects streaking across the night sky. Sh…

In March 1958, a bus driver in Uruguay reported seeing an unidentified flying object during an early morning route. The driver and his wife, along with a bus attendant, observed th…

In early January 1958, multiple witnesses across South Carolina reported seeing unusual bright objects in the night sky. The main sighting occurred around 1920 hours (8:20 p.m.) on…

In January 1958, a woman in Uruguay saw an unidentified object in the night sky that maneuvered in an unusual way and gave off a distinctive bluish-white light. The sighting was br…

On August 13, 1958, at 2335 GMT (7:35 p.m.), three military observers sighted a celestial object directly overhead north of the Azores. The object was white and pulsated every eigh…

On the night of December 13-14, 1958, witnesses across the East Coast reported seeing a brilliant object moving rapidly through the sky. The sightings began over the Atlantic Ocean…

On August 3, 1958, a civilian in New York State reported observing four bright flashes of light at regular intervals of about one second apart. The initial observation occurred in…

A ship west of North Africa reported seeing an unusual object moving across the sky on May 30, 1958 (local time). The object was moving westward and appeared to be shooting flame a…

On a foggy night in June 1958, a resident of Uruguay observed a tube-shaped object moving vertically through the sky before disappearing toward the east. The sighting was brief and…

On December 2, 1958, near Bahia Blanca, Argentina, three luminous objects were seen falling about five miles south of the city at 2:23 p.m. An air traffic control tower operator an…