Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of May 10, 1952, four civilian employees of the DuPont Company saw a series of unusual objects near the Savannah River Plant in Ellenton, South Carolina. The witness…

# Green Flash Over Long Island On January 17, 1952, a civilian observer in Flushing, New York, on the eastern end of Long Island, witnessed an unusual aerial phenomenon that he do…

On February 25, 1952, Captain John D. Musick of the 1st Strategic Support Squadron at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas was photographing a rainbow from his home when he notic…

On the night of September 14-15, 1952, a civilian engineer and three witnesses near El Paso, Texas observed six separate groups of luminous spheres moving rapidly across the sky in…

On the evening of January 20, 1952, two Air Force intelligence officers at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington witnessed an unusual object flying beneath the clouds at approxima…

On September 12, 1952, at around 8:02 p.m., a naval officer (a lieutenant commander in the U.S. Navy) sitting in his dining room in Fairfax, Virginia, spotted an unusual object thr…

On January 29, 1952, a USAF pilot in Falls Church, Virginia reported observing an object. The sighting occurred between 2:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. (times appear identical on record).…

On April 25, 1952, between 9 and 9:45 p.m., eight people in Moorhead, Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota reported seeing unidentified flying disks moving in the sky. According to th…

On October 31, 1952, an orange, blimp-shaped object was seen moving slowly across a highway near Fayettville, Georgia by several witnesses who stopped their car to observe. The obj…

On August 3, 1952, at 4:27 p.m., a lookout observer near Fort Bragg, California spotted an unidentified flat object about four feet in diameter at an estimated altitude of 5,500 fe…

On July 10, 1952, a very bright object was spotted from the ground near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The sighting lasted 15 to 20 minutes and occurred in daylight conditions during a…

On the evening of September 8, 1952, several people across the Fresno area of California reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings occurred between roughly 7:00 p…

On the evening of April 17, 1952, five military personnel and a family member at Fort Eustis, Virginia, observed an unusual luminous object in the sky around 9:25 p.m. (2125 hours)…

On the evening of April 9, 1952, a man in Fort Lauderdale, Florida saw an unusual object in the night sky. He was taking a walk when something caught his attention. The object appe…

On August 11, 1952, two military pilots at George Air Force Base in California reported seeing unidentified flying objects. Both sightings took place on the same morning but under…

Five white, disc-shaped objects flew over George Air Force Base in Victorville, California, on May 1, 1952. Multiple military witnesses observed the objects for about fifteen to th…

On May 9, 1952, military personnel at George Air Force Base in California observed an unusual object in the sky. A round, silver object was spotted both by ground observers and by…

On a Monday evening in February 1952, a young man driving through Shiner, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky that appeared to vanish into what looked like a ball of fire. The s…

On December 15, 1952, pilots of an F-94 fighter jet and a T-33 training aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Goose Air Base in Labrador. The object appeared bright red and…

On March 1, 1952, at 3:44 p.m. local time, an instrument instructor pilot with the 6th Air Rescue Squadron at Goose Air Base, Labrador, observed vapor trails at very high altitude…

On September 2, 1952, a radar operator at Goose Air Force Base in Labrador detected an unidentified object on radar moving southeast at approximately 25 miles per hour. The object…

On April 27, 1952, near Grand Rapids, Michigan, a civilian who worked as a controller for the Civil Aeronautics Administration reported an unusual flying object. The sighting happe…

On the night of February 13, 1952, radar operators at Granite City Engineer Depot in Granite City, Illinois tracked an unidentified object while conducting a bombing run evaluation…

On the night of September 12, 1952, several people across eastern North Carolina reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object streaking across the sky. The sightings occurred aroun…

# Two Pilots Spot Silver Sphere Over Carolina Mountains On the morning of December 15, 1952, two experienced fighter pilots from Shaw Air Force Base saw an unidentified object wit…

On the night of May 13, 1952, at 2233 (10:33 p.m.) EST, four amateur astronomers gathered on the campus of Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, were preparing to leave…

On April 20, 1952, at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, a civilian took photographs that appeared to show objects in the sky. The pictures were taken about an hour and a ha…

In November 1952, residents of Guanarito, Venezuela, witnessed a series of mysterious aircraft passing overhead in broad daylight. According to press reports, the whole town watche…

On August 11, 1952, a U.S. Air Force officer and his wife witnessed seven yellowish-orange flying objects near Hampton, Virginia. The first two objects appeared at approximately 9:…

# Haneda Air Base, August 1952 On the night of August 5, 1952, control tower personnel at Haneda Air Force Base in Japan watched an unusual glowing object in the sky for nearly an…

On December 1, 1952, an Air Force pilot near Hartsville, South Carolina reported observing a circular silver object about the size of a half dollar from a distance of ten miles. Th…

On August 24, 1952, Colonel Gerald W. Johnson was piloting an F-84G jet aircraft from California to Georgia when he spotted something unusual near Hermanas, New Mexico. Flying at a…

On August 17, 1952, four witnesses at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii saw a shiny metallic object hovering overhead in the middle of the day. The sighting lasted about 10 minutes a…

In October 1952, two hunters in Hickman Canyon near Tooele County, Utah reported seeing an unusual object flying toward them at about 3,000 feet altitude. The object was shaped lik…

On August 3, 1952, at 1945 (7:45 p.m.) Pacific time, a Los Angeles Police Department officer reported a very bright object over Highland Park, California. He watched it for several…

On May 13, 1952, near Niland, California, a deputy sheriff reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 0245 (2:45 a.m.). The witness described a white, bright lig…

On October 12, 1952, about 10:00 p.m. Eastern time, two Air Force majors driving east on Colbrook Drive in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, reported one unidentified object. One was a…

On the evening of August 24, 1952, a man and his wife in Tucson, Arizona saw an object they could not explain. At 5:40 p.m., a large, round, brilliant white light appeared in the s…

On April 23, 1952, at 4:30 p.m. PST, a civilian in Hinkle, Oregon reported seeing an unidentified flying object northwest of Pendleton, Washington. The witness observed a silver fl…

On December 29, 1952, a military radar base on Hokkaido Island, Japan received an unusual report from a B-26 bomber crew in the air. The crew said they had just spotted a UFO that…

On a night in 1952, an airman at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, reported a white light in the sky around 2030 (8:30 p.m.). The observer watched the light for about one hour.…

On August 25, 1952, two civilian employees at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw an unusual object in the sky. The men, Fred Lee (a utilities supervisor with six years at th…

On April 21, 1952, near Holmen, Wisconsin, a civilian woman reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened about 0405 (4:05 a.m.) while she was driving north on a hi…

On April 28, 1952, in Homewood, Illinois, two civilian women reported an unusual object in the sky. The sighting happened about 1700 (5:00 p.m.) and lasted about three minutes. Th…

On the evening of August 2, 1952, a civilian woman in Houlton, Maine, saw a group of disc-shaped objects flying in formation. She watched them for about 35 minutes between 2129 and…

On October 12, 1952, about 9:00 p.m. local time, the pilot and radar observer of an F7U Marine aircraft flying escort over the water off Hungnam, North Korea, reported a reddish-or…

The OCR text in this case file is too heavily degraded and garbled to support a reliable summary. The scanned images are unclear, particularly on the opening pages, making it impos…

On July 27, 1952, between 9:23 p.m. and 9:45 p.m., an object was observed near Hamilton Air Force Base, California. The object appeared larger than a star and brightened. Its edges…

On September 14, 1952, a naval destroyer participating in Operation Mainbrace, a major NATO military exercise, observed three unidentified objects moving rapidly across the sky nor…

Date and location unknown. Five diamond-shaped objects were sighted in V formation near Great Falls Air Force Base. The objects moved from north to south at supersonic speed. The s…

On July 23, 1952, four U.S. Air Force pilots and radar operators flying in F-84 fighter aircraft spotted three unidentified objects stacked vertically above the Altoona, Pennsylvan…

On May 13, 1952, near Imperial, California, two deputy sheriffs reported unidentified objects. The sighting happened about 0310 (3:10 a.m.). The witnesses described objects that a…

On December 18, 1952, radar operators at Detachment #7 of the 527th Air Control and Warning Group, located in Northern Kyushu, Japan, detected an unidentified target on their radar…

On December 17, 1952, at about 7:57 a.m., an observer on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, saw a fast-moving light. The report was sent to Air Force intelligenc…

On December 11, 1952, several people in the Karachi area, in Pakistan, reported seeing objects in the sky. The sightings happened during the morning, at varying times between about…

On the night of August 2, 1952, at approximately 1920 (7:20 p.m.), Airman First Class Gerald T. McCabe was walking near the base supply area at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississipp…

On August 10, 1952, at approximately 0210 (2:10 a.m.) Central Standard Time, two men stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi spotted something unusual in the sky. One ob…

On August 14, 1952, at 3:45 p.m., seven civilian employees and one airman at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas watched a round, metallic object fly slowly across the sky for roughly th…

On October 5, 1952, at 5:12 p.m., a former Royal Air Force officer standing on the deck of the Cunard liner Caronia saw a round, brilliant white object in the sky off the coast of…

On May 12, 1952, near Kenton, Ohio, a civilian commercial pilot and former Navy pilot reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened at 2116 (9:16 p.m.). The witness called…