Project Blue Book Case Files

This report describes a sighting in 1953 in upstate New York, near Ten Mile River, at a Boy Scout camp. The witness did not report it until November 1960, when he wrote a letter to…

On February 25, 1953, hundreds of residents in Borneo gathered to watch a bright, star-like object rotating in the sky above the oil town of Seria. The object appeared to emit twin…

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…

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…

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…

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…

On February 23, 1953, a strange egg-shaped object was observed over Corontalo in North Celebes, Indonesia. The object radiated a grayish-green light with a red light visible from i…

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 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…

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 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 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 February 26, 1953, at 0550 (use of the Z time group), an unidentified radar target was reported at a Greenland air base. This was a ground radar sighting by a Ground Control App…

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 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…

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 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 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 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 19, 1953, at about 1 a.m., a pilot over the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores reported one object. The sighting was made from a C-54 aircraft flying at 9,000 feet at about…

On November 21, 1953, at about 9:38 p.m., the captain of a Danish ship in the Atlantic Ocean reported a light. The position was off the coast of Greenland. The light was watched fo…

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 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 the early morning of May 30, 1952, a man driving on Highway 99 about seventeen miles south of Fresno, California spotted an unusual object in the sky at around 0400 (4 a.m.). Th…

On April 2, 1952, at 2039 (8:39 p.m.) local time, about 6 miles southwest of Lometa, Texas, Air Force officers and a radar team reported a large fireball. A single object was seen.…

On April 10, 1952, at 4:15 a.m., an officer with the Minnesota State Highway Patrol and a civilian helper saw a strange flying object while sitting in their patrol car near Ada, Mi…

On May 16, 1952, at Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a civil aviation inspector reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 1:30 p.m. and la…

On October 4, 1952, a civilian woman near Albany, New York, reported one circular object. The Ground Observer Corps relayed the report. The object was described as circular, large,…

On June 7, 1952, at 11:18 a.m., a pilot and co-pilot of a B-25 aircraft observed an unidentified object 25 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object crossed the flight path…

On March 25, 1952, at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, an officer reported sighting a balloon launched from the base at 9:30 a.m., about 30 minutes before the…

On May 28, 1952, over northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, two city firemen reported three unidentified objects at three different times during a clear day. The sightings happened ab…

On July 29, 1952 (2230 hours Mountain Standard Time), a military pilot stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico observed an unidentified object in the sky southwest of his position. Th…

At 2309 hours (11:09 p.m.) Central Standard Time on December 28, 1952, a military pilot taking off from Borger, Texas sighted an unusual object traveling from east to west between…

On May 10, 1952, an Air Force colonel and his wife, stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, watched two unusual objects in the afternoon sky from their h…

On May 22, 1952, in the area southeast of Alexandria, Virginia, a civilian reported an unidentified object. The sighting was made between about 0500Z and 0620Z. The observation was…

On September 12, 1952, at 2:30 a.m., a civilian couple named David and Betty Kolb reported seeing an unusual object from the ground near Allen, Maryland. The object appeared round…

On the evening of October 7, 1952, a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and his wife were watching a movie at the Starlite Drive-In Theater about 2 miles south of Alamogordo,…

On August 26, 1952, a captain in the U.S. Air Force saw three pink objects flying in formation near Amarillo, Texas. The observer was standing on the ground facing roughly southwes…

Early on the morning of December 19, 1952, multiple observers at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and its surrounding areas reported seeing an unidentified object traveling at extre…

On the night of October 7, 1952, tower operators at Anderson Air Force Base on Guam spotted a bright light in the sky. The object appeared to be white and orange, and it hung in th…

On December 6, 1952, an Alaska Air National Guard pilot in Angoon, Alaska sighted an object consisting of two shiny globes connected by a solid red rod moving south. The sighting o…

On January 16, 1951, an aeronautical engineer working for General Mills reported seeing two unusual objects near a research balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The engineer was track…

On July 26, 1952, at 9:45 p.m., an officer stationed at Ashiya Air Base in Kyushu, Japan saw unusual lights in the sky near the town of Kokura, to the east. The light first appeare…

On August 2, 1952, at about 2110 (9:10 p.m.) local time, a staff sergeant and his wife saw a single object at Ashiya Air Base on Kyushu, Japan. The couple were walking south toward…

On August 24, 1952, around 9:32 p.m. (2132 EST), a resident of Atlanta, Georgia reported seeing an unusual object in the northwestern part of the city. The observer described it as…

On September 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia, two separate sightings of unusual flying objects were reported to the U.S. Air Force. The first came from a woman on the south side of Atlant…

In November 1952, residents of Auburn, Alabama, and nearby areas saw a mysterious object in the sky that the Air Force struggled to explain. The incident caught the attention of mi…

On the evening of November 7, 1952, a man living at Graves Apartments in Auburn, Alabama, reported seeing a bright, circular object hanging stationary in the sky to the east of tow…

On the evening of September 6, 1952, observers at the Baltimore Filter Center (a radar facility) saw a bright white light flashing in the sky near Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Marylan…

On May 27, 1952, over Baltimore, Maryland, two separate civilian men reported unusual lights. One sighting was about 2230 to 2240 (10:30 to 10:40 p.m.) and another was about 2330 t…

On the night of August 27, 1952, an observer in Baltimore reported seeing a bright red flashing light moving over the eastern section of the city. The object appeared around 2:20 a…

On the night of September 14, 1952, two security officers on duty at the west gate of Olmsted Air Force Base near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania saw an object that the U.S. Air Force wou…

On April 24, 1952, at 0500 EST (5 a.m.), a crew of a C-124 cargo aircraft spotted three round, bluish objects near Bellevue Hill, Vermont. The aircraft was flying at 11,000 feet wh…

# Benson, Arizona, April 1952 On the morning of April 3, 1952, three civilian flight instructors and several other people at Benson Airport in Arizona watched a bright, silver obj…

On April 19, 1952, at 10:50 a.m. local time, radar operators at an air traffic control station near Benton, Pennsylvania, detected three unidentified objects on radar. The targets…

On April 17, 1952, at 9:23 a.m., a radar operator at a station near Benton, Pennsylvania, detected three objects on radar moving east at 210 knots. The target appeared to be a norm…

On the morning of April 18, 1952, four civilians standing in a yard in Bethesda, Maryland saw something unusual in the sky. At around 1:30 a.m., they watched a formation of seven t…

On March 1, 1952, between Claremore and Tulsa, Oklahoma, an Air Force pilot reported a sighting. One object was observed. The object was described as a bright light. It was sighted…

In April 1952, near the area between Claremore and Tulsa, Oklahoma, a light was reported in the sky around 0700 (7:00 a.m.). The source was reported to be a pilot. The record notes…