Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 2, 1956, a witness in Van Dyke, Michigan, reported a single object. The sighting lasted about five hours and thirty minutes. The witness described one round object the s…

On the evening of July 16, 1956, a resident of Van Nuys, California woke to the sound of his dogs barking loudly. When he went outside to quiet them, he saw a golden, sphere-shaped…

On March 15, 1956, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member at Van Nuys, California, reported one object at 1545 (3:45 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force…

On November 1, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Ventura, California. The object was watched for about three minutes. The witness described a missile shaped object with a long…

On March 21, 1956, in Ventura, California, two round objects described as rod and white, about the size of peas held at arm's length, were reported by civilian and military witness…

On September 14, 1956, a civilian in Vincennes, Indiana reported sighting an object at 3:15 p.m. The witness described a very large light bulb about the size of a human arm at arm'…

On the night of January 17 or 18, 1956, a warehouse employee at Stewart Air Force Base near Walkill, New York, spotted what looked like a very bright star in the northwest sky. The…

This case concerns a sighting near Warrenton, Virginia, in June or July 1956. The witness, an Army specialist who was a civilian when he wrote the report, described it in a letter…

On November 28, 1956, at about 6:00 a.m., a civilian saw one object over Washington, D.C. The witness was a clerk-typist who awoke and looked out her bedroom window. The object was…

On September 3, 1956, in Washington, D.C., a civilian reported seeing a round reddish object about the size of a pea at arm's length. The object was sighted at 90 degrees azimuth a…

On June 20, 1956, in Waterloo, Iowa, a civilian and a member of the General Operations Center (GOC) reported observing one unidentified object. The object was round and sized like…

On the evening of March 10, 1956, at around 11:25 p.m., three people in Watertown, New York saw a bright object in the western sky. A high school student first noticed the light wh…

On the evenings of May 6 and 13, 1956, residents of Morrisville and Waterville, Vermont reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The sightings involved multiple witnesses w…

On May 14, 1956, a civilian in Waupun, Wisconsin reported seeing one round flashing red light about the size of a baseball for three minutes. The object flew in a straight directio…

On August 24, 1956, a civilian in Westerville, Ohio reported seeing one round object the size of a basketball at arm's length. The object had a red light in the sky very high above…

On August 26, 1956, a civilian in West Haven, Connecticut, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0645Z and lasted about one hour and thirty-three minutes. It was s…

On September 29, 1956, in West Palm Beach, Florida, a civilian witnessed several objects in the sky. The observer reported seven objects arranged in a square formation, with three…

In early October 1956, radar operators at Wethersfield, Essex, England reported numerous ground-controlled approach radar observations of unidentified flying objects. The targets i…

On May 20, 1956, in Wheaton, Illinois, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting at about 9:50 p.m. local time. The witness watched it for about 23 minutes wi…

On the night of October 17-18, 1956, radar operators at Wheelus Air Base in Libya detected two unidentified objects moving slowly through the airspace near the base. The objects ap…

On January 24, 1956, military radar at Wheelus Air Force Base in Morocco tracked an unidentified object for 12 minutes. The object was first detected at 75 degrees azimuth, 299 mil…

On September 30, 1956, a civilian observer in Whitewater, Wisconsin reported seeing two oblong objects the size of small planes. The objects were white-silver in color. The sightin…

On February 4, 1956, a civilian in Williams Bay, Wisconsin reported seeing a round object about the size of a half dollar. The object was colored red, white, yellow, and blue. The…

On December 18, 1956, two separate sightings of unusual objects were reported in the Delaware-New Jersey area. The first sighting occurred in Wilmington, Delaware, where one witnes…

A father and his two sons reported seeing a strange aircraft near Wilmington, Ohio on June 27, 1956, at approximately 2:25 p.m. The family was standing about 2.4 miles north of Wil…

On November 4, 1956, a civilian and his two young sons saw objects over Wilmington, Delaware. The father worked as an engineer. They were looking at the stars when they happened to…

On June 10, 1956, near Winchester, California, a civilian reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting at about 10:20 p.m. local time. The object was in view for about 2 mi…

On July 2, 1956, in Winchester, Massachusetts, a civilian reported one object at about 9:20 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about 1 min…

On the evening of July 17, 1956, a resident of Windham Center, Connecticut, reported seeing two bright objects in the sky that seemed to move together and eventually broke apart. T…

On August 9, 1956, a civilian in Woburn, Massachusetts reported a sighting at 10:30 p.m. local time. The witness observed a disc-shaped yellow object initially stationary at 30 deg…

On August 7, 9, and 10, 1956, civilian witnesses near Woburn and Ipswich, Massachusetts, reported a single object. One observation on August 10 was recorded at 0230Z and lasted abo…

On December 10, 1956, a farmer near Woodstock, Minnesota, reported one object in the night sky. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unident…

On August 31, 1956, a resident of Worthington, Ohio reported seeing a small, darkish yellow object moving slowly from north to south across the sky. The witness described the objec…

On November 10, 1956, two military pilots saw one object southwest of Terre Haute, Indiana. The men were aboard an aircraft on a night flight. The object was in view for about seve…

On the night of January 11, 1956, control tower operators at Wurtsmith Air Force Base in Michigan noticed an unfamiliar orange, circular object hovering near the runway approach. T…

On the evening of November 18, 1956, a resident of Xenia, Ohio saw two oval objects with green lights moving across the sky at an estimated speed of 300 to 400 miles per hour. The…

On August 15, 1956, at 10:02 a.m. in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a civilian witness reported observing one reddish-white object with the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was in…

On March 20, 1956, a pilot reported one light about 19 miles northeast of Andrews Air Force Base, Maryland. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official recor…

On November 13, 1956, civilians saw objects over the area of Pound and Nekoosa, Wisconsin. One object was watched for a few seconds and a second for about one minute. The first wi…

On November 11, 1956, the crew of an Air Force C-54 transport saw one object near Goose Bay, Labrador, on a route between Goose Bay and Frobisher Bay. The object was in view for ab…

On December 31, 1956, an Air Force interceptor pilot near Guam reported one object during flight. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unide…

On March 13, 1956, at 3:00 a.m. local time, a violet-colored luminous object with a red light was reported over Barquisimeto, Venezuela. The object made several passes over the are…

On April 18, 1956, an Air Force pilot reported one object over the southeast corner of Minnesota, between La Crosse, Wisconsin, and Rochester, Minnesota. The report was filed under…

On July 12, 1956, radar personnel at Custer Air Force Station in Michigan detected an unidentified object on radar. The object was tracked for 2 minutes and 45 seconds and made a s…

# Summary In November 1956, a lieutenant colonel and pilot of a DC-3 aircraft flying over India near the border with Pakistan reported seeing a bright, metallic object about three…

On July 16, 1956, at Los Angeles International Airport in California, a civilian witness observed one roundish object. The object was initially red in color and was first thought t…

On December 4, 1956, an Air Force pilot saw one object over Nevada. The pilot was flying a T-33 jet at 38,000 feet, above the clouds, on a clear night. A passenger saw the same thi…

This case covers sightings in Guatemala on July 20 to 22, 1956, drawn from press reports by civilians. One report described four flying saucers, and another described one object. T…

On June 29, 1956, observers reported one object at scattered points in southern California, from Los Angeles to San Diego. The witnesses included Air Force, Navy, and civilian obse…

On May 14, 1956, near Winston Salem, North Carolina, observers reported a single object about 80 kilometers southwest of the city. The sighting was an air visual observation. It la…

In late January 1956, the Air Force recorded reports of strange objects from several parts of Afghanistan. The record card is dated around January 24, 1956. The information came th…

An Air Force pilot and navigator reported seeing a dark object flying just above the water off the coast of South Carolina in November 1956. The two officers were in flight from Be…

On January 21, 1956, the second mate of a Danish vessel saw a strange object at sea, about 210 miles southeast of Bermuda. The Greenwich time was 0804Z. The night was clear with ma…

In January 1956, near Oroszlany, Hungary, a witness saw four strange objects in the night sky. The time was about 2230 to 2300 (10:30 to 11:00 p.m.). The observer was a civilian.…

On the night of August 17, 1956, the pilot of an Eastern Airlines flight heading toward New York reported seeing an unusual object over the Atlantic Ocean near the Azores. The pilo…

In May 1956, five U.S. Air Force pilots flying F-84F fighter jets from Eglin Air Force Base in Florida spotted something unusual in the sky near North Carolina. All three pilots wh…

On a February night in 1956, a C-119 cargo plane climbed out of Marseille, France toward Montelimar with three aircrew members aboard. As the aircraft reached about 2,000 feet, the…