Project Blue Book Case Files

Before daybreak on September 17, 1952, about 4:48 a.m. local time, an Army military police corporal on sentry duty at Killeen Base, Killeen, Texas, reported an object directly over…

On the afternoon of May 23, 1952, officers at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico saw a bright silver object hanging in the western sky. Multiple Air Force personnel watched it f…

# Summary On the night of September 23, 1952, an unidentified flying object was observed over Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The sighting occurred around 2200 hours (10 p.…

# UFO Sighting at Kirtland Air Force Base, August 1952 On August 28, 1952, an observer at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported seeing a strange triangula…

On July 30, 1952, at 11:15 p.m. MST, a young boy in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a bright white circular object traveling from east to west at varying speeds. The object appeared to…

On August 3, 1952, at 3:20 a.m. local time, three oblong translucent objects were sighted near Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The objects flew in an inverted V formation and…

On October 21, 1952, about 1 to 2 minutes long, a weather observer at the Weather Bureau Airport Station in Knoxville, Tennessee, reported six white objects while tracking a pilot…

On March 13, 1952, radar operators at Keflavik Airport in Iceland detected a series of unidentified objects on their ground control approach (GCA) radar scopes. The first object ap…

Around early September 1952, a farmer near Kutztown, Pennsylvania, reported photographing a shiny, disc-shaped object he said was flying over his fields. The Air Force learned of t…

On April 1, 1952, at 10:15 p.m. local time, an airman at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas observed a white, sphere-shaped object during a one to two second sighting. The observer w…

On April 14, 1952, near LaCrosse, Wisconsin, an airline pilot reported unidentified flying objects. The Air Force record lists the time as about 1838 (6:38 p.m.). The witness desc…

On the night of December 8, 1952, two U.S. Air Force pilots spotted an unidentified light near Ladd Air Force Base in Alaska. The pilots, First Lieutenant Donald A. Dickman (pilot)…

On a September day in 1952 near Lake Charles, Louisiana, a witness reported seeing an unidentified object. The sighting occurred around 7:30 to 7:35 a.m. The observer was outdoors…

On the morning of August 9, 1952, an airman stationed at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana saw an unusual flying object while walking to work. The object appeared to be sphe…

At approximately 0130 hours on September 6, 1952, a T/Sergeant stationed at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana observed an unusual object in the sky northeast of the base. Th…

On October 6, 1952, around 2120 (9:20 p.m.) Central Standard Time, three Air Force mechanics working on the flight line at Lake Charles Air Force Base in Louisiana spotted an unusu…

On April 7, 1952, a military officer on a fishing trip to Lake Mead, Nevada, with his wife and a friend spotted a large silver object in the sky. The object appeared between 0200 a…

On the night of August 1, 1952, sheriff's deputies in the Lancaster and Leona Valley areas of California observed two brilliant red lights hovering in the southern sky. The objects…

On the night of July 19-20, 1952, two lights were observed moving across the sky near Lavalette, New Jersey, by a group of civilians on a boat in the area. At approximately 12:20 a…

# Leveland, Texas, August 1952 On August 24, 1952, between 9:30 p.m. and midnight, two unidentified flying objects were sighted near Leveland, Texas. The objects were spherical in…

On August 5, 1952, a commercial pilot and crew members sighted a formation of three flying disc-shaped objects over Lima, Peru at approximately 3 p.m. The objects hovered at high s…

On the morning of May 21, 1952, a spherical glass object struck a mailbox at a home in Lombard, Illinois. The impact happened around 5:30 a.m. and dented the rounded corner of the…

On August 31, 1952, between 4 a.m. and 5:30 a.m. PDT, a small light colored red, blue, and white was sighted near Loomis, California. The object moved up and down and emitted no so…

On the night of December 30, 1952, a security inspector with the Atomic Energy Commission was standing on the sidewalk in front of his home in the residential section of Los Alamos…

On July 28, 1952, a man and his wife observed an unusual flying object in the sky near Los Angeles International Airport around 12:15 p.m. local time. The witness initially thought…

On August 15, 1952, at 2650 PDT (approximately 2:50 p.m.), a man stationed at a Ground Observer Corps post in Los Gatos, California, watched a group of circular objects move across…

On the evening of September 27, 1952, witnesses in central Virginia saw what they described as a ball of fire with a long tail streak across the sky heading west over Lovingston. T…

On August 2, 1952, a man in Lubbock, Texas watched a spherical, metallic object hanging motionless in the sky for six minutes. The object was about 24 inches across and had no visi…

# A Round White Light Over Luke Air Force Base In the early morning hours of August 2, 1952, two airmen spotted something unusual while driving between Glendale, Arizona, and Luke…

On the evening of December 9, 1952, two Air Force pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer south of Madison, Wisconsin spotted four bright lights arranged in a diamond formation. Captain W…

On September 29, 1952, at 5:30 p.m. in Mainz, Germany, a French naval officer observed an egg-shaped, luminescent object with a black spot in the center. The object resembled a C-4…

On May 14, 1952, at 10:50 p.m. local time, four civilians driving a car about 12 miles southwest of Malung, Sawan, Sweden, reported seeing an illuminated white aircraft-shaped obje…

On August 5, 1952, a bright oval-shaped object was sighted by a group of civilians near Manassas, Virginia, at 5:21 a.m. local time. The same day, a large orange object remained mo…

On August 3, 1952, at approximately 8:15 a.m., Airman Third Class Gary L. Damon was driving east on Manitou Beach Road near Rome Center, Michigan, when he saw a brilliant white lig…

# Marietta, Georgia, September 1952 On the evening of September 3, 1952, multiple witnesses in Marietta, Georgia, saw unusual objects in the sky. The sightings occurred around 10:…

On the evening of August 2, 1952, a civilian man parked on a highway about one mile west of Marietta, Pennsylvania, noticed a brilliant white light suddenly appear in the sky. The…

On December 8, 1952, military personnel at McGuire Air Force Base in Trenton, New Jersey, witnessed an unusual flying object that the U.S. Air Force ultimately classified as uniden…

On the night of June 24th into June 25th, 1952, an intermittent bright light was reported near Meade, Kansas. The sighting lasted just two seconds. The object appeared in the weste…

On May 3, 1952, witnesses across the Melbourne and Sydney areas of Australia reported seeing unusual lights in the early morning sky. The first sightings came around 5:10 a.m., whe…

On April 15, 1952, near Memphis, Tennessee, two U.S. Navy pilots reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened at 1334 (1:34 p.m.) while the pilots were flying over…

On August 14, 1952, at approximately 10:25 p.m., a civilian observer in Lake Charles, Louisiana watched a bright, moving light hover and maneuver over the Mathieson Chemical Corpor…

On the night of August 27, 1952, two Air Force pilots flying an F-51 fighter plane near Meridian, Mississippi spotted an unusual pale green light moving through the sky. Both men w…

On the night of April 5, 1952, an amateur astronomer and his nine-year-old son watched four circular dark objects pass across the face of a nearly full moon near Miami, Florida. Th…

On July 25, 1952, at about 10:55 p.m., a civilian woman in Miami reported seeing two flying objects over the city. She said both were very bright and red in color. Relative to her…

On the night of December 25, 1952, a civilian man and woman in Miami, Florida observed a very bright light moving slowly across the western sky. The man, an experienced amateur ast…

On September 13, 1952, observers from Dauphin and adjacent counties near Middletown, Pennsylvania sighted an object in the sky. The object was described as bluish white turning to…

On April 6, 1952, at about 1959 (7:59 p.m.) local time, a civilian near Miller-Graughan Air Force Base in Temple, Texas, reported an object for about 3 minutes. The object was gray…

In August 1952, a high school student and three teenage companions driving southeast of Millheim, Pennsylvania, reported seeing a bright yellow light in the night sky. The object a…

On April 24, 1952, a civilian electronics scientist working at a radar facility near Milton, Massachusetts observed two objects flying in a wobbly, undulating pattern. The observer…

On the night of May 8, 1952, a pilot and radar observer flying an F-94 fighter jet near Misawa Air Base in Japan saw a streak of colored light cross the sky. The sighting lasted on…

On the evening of May 8, 1952, a 16-year-old girl standing outside her home in Mishawaka, Indiana saw a strange object in the sky. She described it as oval in shape and dull red in…

On January 21, 1952, a U.S. Navy pilot flying a TBM aircraft near Mitchel Air Force Base in New York spotted an unusual object at low altitude. The pilot estimated it was traveling…

On the morning of December 1, 1952, air traffic controllers and tower operators across the New York City area spotted a single, glowing object in the western sky. The sighting bega…

On January 21, 1952, a Navy pilot reported a sighting near Mitchell Air Force Base in New York at 9:50 a.m. The object was described as very light colored, circular in shape, and 2…

On January 21, 1952, a U.S. Navy pilot in a TBM-3W aircraft spotted an unusual object near Mitchell Air Force Base in New York. Lieutenant James R. Zeitvogel, flying at 6,000 feet…

On October 19, 1952, a GAP pilot and observer near Momence, Illinois, reported seeing a round silver ball flying at high speed at 1,000 feet altitude while on a search mission. The…

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On April 13, 1952, four airmen stationed near Moriarity, New Mexico, reported seeing a silver, disc-shaped object flying at high speed with erratic movements. The observers were fa…

On September 1, 1952, the town of Morristown, Tennessee observed unusual objects between 11:30 a.m. and 12:32 p.m. The editor of the Morristown Sun reported that the town was quite…

On October 3, 1952, at 5:05 p.m., roughly 100 to 150 factory workers leaving their shift in Morristown, Tennessee spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round an…