Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 13, 1952, an Air Force officer stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi saw three bright orange objects moving across the sky over the Gulf of Mexico near Biloxi…

On August 23, 1952, a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi, saw a white, round object in the sky. The witness reported that the object was stationary at first, then veered upward. The o…

On the night of August 27, 1952, two Air Force officers flying in an F-51 aircraft west of Birmingham Airport spotted an unidentified pale blue light moving toward the northwest at…

On Monday, July 28, 1952, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time, two silver or luminous objects were spotted flying in formation directly north of Bismark, North Dakota. The sighting occurred…

On October 15, 1952, a witness near Bladensburg, Maryland, reported seeing three round, bluish white objects in the night sky. The report came through the Maryland State Police and…

On September 23, 1952, at 2:00 a.m., a Flying Tiger aircraft flying southwest at 12,000 feet reported sighting a strange stationary light in the sky near Boise, Idaho. The light wa…

On either March 22 or 29, 1952, a man stood in his yard in Brentwood, Maryland, looking at his television antenna when he noticed a formation of objects in the sky to the west and…

On October 9, 1952, a captain and four enlisted airmen at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas spotted three round, silver objects in the sky over the course of about an hour. The captai…

On the evening of April 2, 1952, people across Texas reported seeing a bright, fiery object moving rapidly across the sky. Near Brownwood and in communities to the west of Temple,…

On April 2, 1952, near Bryan, Texas, Air Force pilots reported a large fireball. The sighting lasted about 5 to 15 seconds. The object was fire colored and circular with a tail. Th…

In late July 1952, ground observers near Burley, Idaho, reported seeing a group of unidentified flying objects moving at high speed across the sky. The sighting occurred on July 28…

On February 26, 1952, an observer at Campbells Creek, West Virginia, made a report that became part of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official record of unidentified flying obj…

On December 24, 1952, at 5:17 a.m., observers at Camp Carson, Colorado, sighted a silvery unidentified flying object. The object appeared circular, about the size of a baseball, an…

On the evening of December 27, 1952, five people driving south on US Highway 83 near Canadian, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. CST, they saw a…

On April 3, 1952, at 2110 (9:10 p.m.) Eastern time, two people reported a fireball over the Cayuga Lake region of New York. One observer was a crew chief for an airline with twelve…

On August 15, 1952, an unidentified flying object was sighted near Cedar Hill, Texas, located five to five and a half miles south of the station. A military officer from Cedar Hill…

On January 15, 1952, a B-29 bomber crew flying near Cedar Keys, Florida observed a large blue-green fireball descending toward the ground at high speed. The aircraft was cruising a…

On the evening of September 16, 1952, three men in the control tower at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois noticed an unusually bright bluish-white light in the sky. The object was…

On June 11, 1952, a Chicago resident watched two dark blue, globular objects with grey centers move across the sky above northwest Chicago. The observer was standing outdoors about…

On July 28, 1952, multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects were reported at military bases and civilian areas across the United States, from Louisiana to South Carolina.…

On the night of August 28, 1952, between 9:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., military personnel and civilians near Chickasaw and Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama reported seeing six uniden…

On August 3, 1952, in Chico, California, a large round white glowing object was observed moving slowly at low altitude. The object made no sound and was watched from 2:50 p.m. for…

On May 31, 1952, a bright unidentified object was spotted near Chorwon, Korea (in the middle of the country, near the 38th parallel) by multiple observers. An F-94 fighter jet trie…

On August 1, 1952, a bright red object with a trailing tail of fire streaked across the sky near Clear Lake, California. An observer stationed at a Ground Observer Corps post repor…

On September 10, 1952, a woman living near Andrews Air Force Base in Clinton, Maryland, spotted something unusual in the sky outside her home. The object was shiny and metallic wit…

On August 29, 1952, two naval pilots flying a P2V-2 patrol aircraft observed three white, disk-shaped objects near the coast of Greenland. The pilots were on a cosmic balloon track…

On April 29, 1952, near Coldwater, Ohio, a civilian and three other people reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened at 1940 (7:40 p.m.). The witness called the Air Te…

On April 24, 1952, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a civilian man reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened about 2245 (10:45 p.m.) from the back yard of a home…

On December 11, 1952, an Air Force sergeant and a civilian observed a round, aluminum-colored object flying from east to west near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The object appeared t…

# A Milestone Week for UFO Reports In July 1952, the U.S. Air Force received a surge of UFO sightings across multiple states. One particular report from Columbia, Missouri, stood…

In April 1952, near Columbus, Indiana, a large fireball was reported in the sky. Witnesses described it as fire colored and circular, with a tail. The ball of fire was said to be a…

On April 22, 1952, at 12:15 p.m. PST, a civilian female in Condon, Oregon reported three saucer-shaped objects with shiny metallic surfaces and gray-brown undersides. The objects w…

On the morning of December 4, 1952, radar operators at Congaree Air Force Base in South Carolina detected an unusual object on their radar screen. The AN/MPS-5 radar set picked up…

On the evening of April 18, 1952, a newspaper reporter in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, witnessed an unusual object in the sky while walking home from a picture show. The man saw a b…

On April 18, 1952, in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, a civilian reported an unidentified flying object. The man, who worked at a local newspaper, was awakened about 0400 (4:00 a.m.) b…

On August 13, 1952, at around 12:45 p.m., a woman in Cotati, California, observed a white, flat object in the sky. According to her questionnaire responses, the object was roughly…

On August 15, 1952, a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a white light with a light shape. The object had no distinguishable shape, appeared larger than a navigation light,…

On the night of April 16, 1952, a woman in Dallas, Texas reported seeing multiple colored objects moving across the sky. She described five objects in total: two red ball shapes, t…

On December 24, 1952, a B-36 bomber flying east of Dallas, Texas detected an unidentified object on radar at 12:15 p.m. (1215 hours). The phenomenon was tracked intermittently by b…

On September 4, 1952, a resident of Danville, California saw a shiny, circular object streaking across the sky in broad daylight. The observer watched it for about thirty seconds a…

On April 25, 1952, at 9:15 p.m. near Darmstadt, Germany, an Air Force instructor pilot and his copilot in a C-47 aircraft observed a brilliant white light on a collision course wit…

On May 1, 1952, a crew flying a B-36 bomber (a long-range aircraft used during the Cold War) observed two unidentified objects near Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The obj…

On the evening of April 29, 1952, a civilian working at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, spotted an unusual object in the sky. He was looking toward the east from…

This report covers two sightings near Dayton, Ohio. Late on August 31, 1952, about 11:45 p.m., a base duty officer received a call from the Piqua, Ohio police about a sighting nort…

On the evening of July 28, 1952, a technical draftsman at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky along with his wife. The man…

In October 1952, four civilian observers in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing two bright orange or yellow lights moving slowly through the sky together. According to the witnesses, the…

On the evening of August 7, 1952, a woman in Dayton, Ohio called to report seeing two disc-shaped objects in the sky. Her son had called her outside around 7 p.m. to look at someth…

On May 11, 1952, in Deephaven, Minnesota, about 12 miles west of Minneapolis, a civilian reported an unidentified flying object. The witness, a former liaison pilot during World Wa…

On August 29, 1952, an astronomer at Perkins Observatory near Delaware, Ohio saw something unusual in the night sky. Using the observatory's telescope, a 5-inch refractor with 80 t…

On September 24, 1952, Technical Sergeant Billy Ross Hughes saw five or six circular objects wheeling through the sky over Aurora, Colorado, just north of Stapleton Airport. The ti…

On the evening of November 27, 1952, a housewife near DeQuincy, Louisiana, saw an unusual bright object moving toward her home. She watched it for approximately two and a half hour…

On the morning of August 7, 1952, at 12:05 a.m., a Detroit resident named Whitcomb spotted an unusual object in the sky over northern Michigan. The object appeared to be roughly th…

On April 19, 1952, at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, a U.S. Air Force brigadier general reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting took place about 2120 local time (9:20 p.m.) wh…

On a date in 1952, an observer at Dobbins Air Force Base, Georgia, reported a spheroid shaped object in the sky. The report came through an Office of Special Investigations agent.…

On August 7, 1952, a U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist stationed at Duluth, Minnesota spotted something unexpected while tracking a weather balloon through a theodolite (a surveyin…

On the night of July 17, 1952, a man and woman driving on State Highway 33 near Duluth, Minnesota, saw four circular disc-shaped objects flying in formation about 20 miles southwes…

On October 11, 1952, at 10:03 a.m. Central time, a civilian woman stopped at a traffic light at 7th Street and 17th Avenue in East Moline, Illinois, reported one object. She descri…

On May 29, 1952, around 1:30 p.m. Pacific time, two disc-shaped objects were seen over the northern part of Edwards Air Force Base, California. Seven known observers watched them.…

On May 13, 1952, an F-9-F pilot taking off from El Centro NAS, California reported seeing a meteor-shaped object diving at a 60-degree angle. The sighting occurred at approximately…

On September 4, 1952, around 5:10 p.m., a man standing outside Elizabethtown, Kentucky saw a disc-shaped object moving across the sky. The object appeared to be shining, as if refl…