Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 17 and 18, 1952, military weather observers at Yuma Test Station in Arizona reported seeing a mysterious object streak across the sky. The witnesses were trained meteorolo…

On May 24, 1952, a pilot flying a T-6 trainer aircraft near Zuni, New Mexico, spotted two unusual objects in the sky. The pilot, identified in the file as Glenn Bras, was cruising…

A high-ranking government executive traveling in a military aircraft near Zuni, New Mexico, on October 15, 1952, observed an illuminated object performing unusual maneuvers. The ex…

On July 15, 1952, a state trooper in Pendleton, Oregon reported seeing a silver, spherical object traveling northwest at an estimated altitude of 4,000 feet and moving at high spee…

On the night of July 20, 1952, near Oscoda, Michigan, two women on vacation saw what they believed was a flying disc. The object appeared as a white light approaching from the sout…

On the evening of July 23, 1952, a civilian couple standing at Lake Forest, northwest of Jacksonville, Florida, watched a glowing object cross the sky. The object appeared as a glo…

On August 17, 1952, Captain Jack Buchanan was flying a T-6 training aircraft from Murfreesboro Airport toward Shaw Air Force Base when he spotted something unusual in the sky over…

On the evening of October 17, 1952, two clergymen standing in the yard of their home in Killeen, Texas spotted a group of approximately ten round objects moving rapidly across the…

On October 25, 1952, at 1039 (10:39 a.m.) Pacific time, tower operators at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada spotted what they described as a circular object about the size and color…

On October 19, 1952, a C-50 crew flying over the Pacific Ocean at coordinates 12 degrees 17 minutes north, 155 degrees 35 minutes west sighted an unusual object. The crew observed…

In 1952, a witness reported an object in the sky moving at very high speed. The record describes a course of about 290 degrees and an angular velocity of about 10 degrees per secon…

On the evening of October 12, 1952, two Air Force officers flying an F-94B fighter jet spotted a brilliant white light off the coast of New Jersey. The pilots were on combat air pa…

On September 20, 1952, at roughly 4:05 p.m., a Metropolitan Sunday Newspapers photographer named Litwin was standing on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Navy…

On September 29, 1952, at 9:07 p.m., seven civilians near Hearne, Texas, reported seeing a large flying saucer to Bryan Air Force Base Control Tower. The object was described as or…

On the evening of September 14, 1952, a civilian observer parked at the De Drive-in Theater in Biloxi, Mississippi, reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. Beginning around 211…

On August 28, 1952, about 7:15 p.m. (one statement says about 5:00 p.m.) Pacific Standard time, two Air Force airmen sunbathing near Edgemont, about two miles north of March Air Fo…

On August 23, 1952, at 3:00 a.m. near Far East (XB 28/1), a B-29 bomber aircraft conducting weather reconnaissance in the Simiju area sighted an unidentified object. The aircraft w…

On July 27, 1952, Captain Harold B. Kinison was piloting a B-25 bomber from Des Moines to Washington, D.C., flying at 7,300 feet and 220 miles per hour. About ten miles southwest o…

On May 13, 1952, over towns northeast of Lisbon, Portugal, including Santarem, Cartaxo, and Torres, many people reported an unusual object. The account came from an Azores newspape…

On May 14, 1952, off the coast of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, several civilians reported two unidentified objects. The witnesses included a businessman and lawyer, an American former Ai…

On July 25, 1952, a man in Cincinnati, Ohio spotted an unusual object in the sky while walking near the homes of friends. He described it as elliptical in shape, brilliant orange,…

Three prison guards at Norfolk Prison Colony in Massachusetts reported seeing an unusual object on the night of July 23, 1952. At approximately 2105 hours (9:05 p.m.), they watched…

On July 25, 1952, a ranger standing atop a mountain northwest of The Dalles, Oregon, observed a strange object about 15,000 feet above him. The observer used high-powered binocular…

On July 22, 1952, between 10:50 and 11:15 a.m., a tower operator at Los Alamos Airport in New Mexico spotted a group of about eight round or elliptical objects in the sky to the so…

On the night of July 22, 1952, six witnesses in the Trenton, New Jersey area reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The sightings occurred in three separate waves, with t…

On May 31, 1952, near Chorwon in North Korea, the crew of an F-94 jet reported seeing and chasing an unidentified flying object during the Korean War. The object gave off a brillia…

On the night of July 21, 1952, a driver in Kansas City, Missouri saw something in the sky that caught his attention. As he drove east on Highway 45 around 9:15 p.m., a very bright…

At 10:40 p.m. on July 21, 1952, multiple military personnel stationed at San Marcos Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing a bright, circular object in the night sky. The object g…

A woman in White Plains, New York, reported seeing two shiny, disk-shaped objects on July 17, 1952, at about 3:15 p.m. She was lying on a cot in her backyard when she heard a low w…

On July 2, 1952, near Denver, Colorado, an observer from Graybar Electric Company reported seeing 25 silver objects in formation. The objects were oval shaped, resembling two sauce…

On the night of July 16, 1952, a woman and her daughter in San Antonio, Texas, watched an unusual object in the sky for more than an hour. According to the observers, the round obj…

On the morning of July 15, 1952, several residents of Las Vegas, Nevada witnessed two unidentified flying objects moving rapidly across the sky. The first sighting occurred around…

On the night of July 13, 1952, a U.S. Army captain sitting in his car at an outdoor theater north of Nouasseur Air Base in Morocco saw an object on fire moving from south to north…

On September 24, 1952, at 3:35 p.m., the crew of a B-29 aircraft 50 to 100 miles south of Charleston, West Virginia, reported unusual bright, metallic-appearing particles streaming…

On the night of September 27, 1952, between about 10:00 and 10:30 p.m., a civilian driving near Inyokern in the Mojave Desert of California reported a round object that changed col…

# Dallas and New England Sightings, July 1952 In early July 1952, residents in the Dallas area reported seeing an unusual object high in the sky moving at what seemed to be an ext…

On the night of September 30, 1952, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Taney, on Ocean Station Uncle in the Atlantic Ocean, reported an object in the sky that resembled a flying sa…

On October 7, 1952, at 7:28 p.m. local time, two Air France commercial airline pilots over the Riviera area of France reported a luminous, egg-shaped object. The Air Force learned…

On May 13, 1952, at 2135 (9:35 p.m.), a Navy ensign and three other people reported a saucer like object over the Washington, D.C., area. The main witness described a goldish orang…

On May 10, 1952, in the city of Paphos, in southwest Cyprus, a group of people including a noted British scientist reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 2030…

In April 1952, a U.S. Air Force B-29 bomber crew returning to the United States on rotation observed several unidentified flying objects while stationed at Naha Air Base on Okinawa…

On the night of January 29, 1952, four military pilots observing from two B-29 bombers flying separate missions over Korea reported seeing unusual glowing objects. The first sighti…

On March 4, 1952, at 3:51 a.m. in England, a B-29 gunner reported seeing an extremely bright flash in the sky behind his aircraft, which was flying at 17,500 feet. The sighting occ…

On July 21, 1952, at 0050 (12:50 a.m.) Eastern time, two Air Force pilots reported an unidentified object over Louisville, Kentucky. The pilots, both described as reliable and expe…

On March 4, 1952, an A/C crew near Sebring, Florida, reported sighting an orange, oval-shaped object in horizontal flight traveling at terrific speed. The object measured approxima…

On the night of February 24, 1952, a B-29 bomber flying a leaflet drop mission over North Korea was caught in searchlights near the town of Sinuiju. About forty-five seconds after…

This file covers reports of flying discs over several cities in Mexico in late August 1952, forwarded by the U.S. Air Attache in Mexico City. The reports came from U.S. consuls and…

On January 1, 1952, at 12:21 a.m., an RB-26 aircraft observed a bright orange glow traveling at least 600 mph on a heading of 180 degrees at 7,000 feet over Korea. The glow appeare…

On September 29, 1952, at 9:05 p.m. local time, a civilian man at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii, reported a black, circular object over Hickam Air Force Base. He estimated it was…

Four witnesses in the East Bronx saw a formation of reddish-orange objects speed across the sky on the night of Friday, July 25, 1952. Rita Acuna, age 16, was outside with her moth…

On the evening of October 1, 1952, near Pascagoula, Mississippi, a homemaker witnessed an unusual object in the sky. At approximately 1940 hours (7:40 p.m.) CST, she saw a round, m…

On the night of July 14 to 15, 1952, multiple witnesses in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania observed an unusual object in the sky that changed color, hovered, and moved erratically over s…

On May 8, 1952, the pilot and co-pilot of Pan American Airways Flight 203 were flying about 600 miles off the U.S. East Coast between Jacksonville, Florida and Savannah, Georgia, w…

# Summary In August 1952, observers at multiple military locations in California reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The case file contains two separate incidents, bo…

On the night of October 14, 1952, at 1255 p.m. (1:55 p.m.) in Hopewell, Virginia, a man was sitting on a sidewalk looking north when he suddenly saw a rocket-shaped object with fla…

In mid-July 1952, two incidents involving unidentified flying objects were reported in the Ogden Dunes area of Indiana. On July 16 at approximately 2200 hours (10 p.m.), a civilian…

Two control tower operators at Laredo Air Force Base in Texas witnessed an unidentified object on the evening of November 3, 1952. The sighting lasted only two to three seconds. A…

On July 25, 1952, two civilian women driving near Thomaston, Connecticut, spotted an unusual object in the sky. They described it as a black, block-shaped object with what looked l…

# Summary of UFO Sighting Near Rockville, Indiana, July 1952 On the evening of July 22, 1952, three members of the U.S. Air Force at a station near Rockville, Indiana, witnessed a…

On July 22, 1952, a civilian couple in Chicago reported seeing four gray, round objects the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length. The witnesses said the objects traveled at…