Project Blue Book Case Files

On December 5, 1957, observers near O'Fallon, Illinois reported a fast, fiery object. The report describes a bullet-shaped or pencil-shaped object, fiery yellow and blue-white, wit…

On November 12, 1957, at approximately 1 a.m., a round, bright green and blue object was observed rising and moving toward the west near Ogdensberg, New York. The object was small…

On November 12, 1957, a civilian near Ogdensburg, New York reported a small round object. The sighting lasted about 10 to 25 minutes, and the object was practically stationary. It…

On December 18, 1957, a civilian in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma reported seeing a round, silver object about the size of a pinhead at very high altitude. The object was stationary but…

On August 23, 1957, in Olean, New York, a civilian civil defense director watched one round object for about 45 minutes. The object was smaller than a star and reddish in color. It…

On the night of November 18, 1957, a civilian observer in Oregon City, Oregon, watched a bright circular object that split apart and eventually merged back together. The witness re…

On the night of November 11, 1957, two U.S. Air Force enlisted men standing beside a runway at Osan Air Base in Korea saw an unusual object streak across the sky. One man watched i…

On December 5-10, 1957, observers in Cincinnati, Ohio reported seeing a bright white light moving across the sky. The object was described as being as bright as the moon and made n…

On October 7, 1957, a civilian in Overland, Missouri reported seeing a round object about the size of a pinhead, reddish orange in color that turned white. The witness observed the…

On November 13, 1957, over Las Vegas, Nevada, a civilian reported observing one object with bright lights that was also sighted on radar. The observation method was ground-visual a…

On July 31, 1957, in Pacoima, California, a person reported seeing a bright, round object about the size of a dime moving slowly across the sky from southwest to west. The object w…

On the evening of August 31, 1957, in Palm Springs, California, an observer noticed what appeared to be a brilliant star close to the moon, brighter than the moon itself. According…

On the night of September 29 to 30, 1957, residents of Palm Springs, California reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred i…

On July 2, 1957, an observer in Parkton, Maryland reported a sighting that lasted about two minutes. The witness saw one ball shaped object about the size of a half dollar. It was…

On March 23, 1957, civilian and military witnesses at Pasadena, California, reported a single object at night. The Ground Observer Corps was on duty during the sighting. The case w…

On August 29 and 30, 1957, in Paso Robles, California, a civilian witness reported seeing two objects. The first was a silver circular object flying from north to west, visible for…

On September 16, 1957, at about 1935 (7:35 p.m.) near Pecos, New Mexico, a civilian saw one disc-shaped object through eyeglasses. It was about the size of a grapefruit, white with…

On June 21, 1957, at approximately 2030 (8:30 p.m.), an observer at Pennerrell Air Force Base in Newfoundland reported seeing a bright white light in the sky. The object appeared t…

On the night of August 22, 1957, two very bright objects appeared in the sky over Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted only a few seconds. The objects were close togethe…

On November 8, 1957, around 11:20 p.m. GMT, a civilian near Philadelphia, Mississippi reported two bright orange cigar-shaped objects. The sighting lasted about 3 minutes. The two…

On October 12, 1957, at about 1520 (Greenwich time) near the Philadelphia airport in Pennsylvania, witnesses saw one small, very brilliant object. It dived straight down from a ver…

On October 28, 1957, a witness in Piedmont, Missouri observed a bright light in the night sky that changed color from red to white. The object moved very high and very fast across…

On September 29, 1957, an observer in Piqua, Ohio reported seeing an object high in the sky that looked and behaved like an aircraft. The sighting lasted about five to seven second…

On October 23, 1957, civilian pilots and ground observers in Polk County, Florida, reported seeing a round, silver object with a red light on one side hovering overhead. The object…

The OCR text on pages 10 and 11 is too heavily garbled to support reliable transcription. However, the structured portions of the case file are readable enough to provide a summary…

On September 10, 1957, at about 0815 (8:15 a.m.) in Portland, Oregon, a civilian saw one oblong object against a bright blue sky. The object was the color of an electric light seen…

On December 5, 1957, a report from Porto Alegre, Brazil was forwarded to the Air Force as a newspaper article attached to an intelligence report. The article said Brazilian militar…

On October 8, 1957, at Presque Isle, Maine, a civilian witness reported seeing a silver object with the appearance of an aircraft flying at 45 to 60 degrees above the horizon in a…

On August 22, 1957, around 2320 (11:20 p.m.) local time at the Pueblo Airport in Pueblo, Colorado, a control tower operator saw two round white objects through binoculars. Each was…

On December 11, 1957, a witness near Quincy, Ohio reported one oval yellowish-orange object about the size of a cigar. The object moved from southeast to northwest. It stayed in vi…

On November 6, 1957, witnesses at Radium Springs, New Mexico, reported one object in the sky. The witnesses were military and civilian. The sighting was a ground visual observation…

On January 16, 1957, a civilian housewife in Random Lake, Wisconsin reported seeing an object like two white barrels floating in the air. The witness observed it for 5 minutes trav…

On March 1, 1957, at approximately 12 a.m. MST in Rapid City, South Dakota, a military witness reported seeing strange lights in the sky. The rays from the lights formed a circular…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian in Red Durham, North Carolina reported two red oblong objects at around 1:45 a.m. One object was behind the other. They were about the size of baseb…

On December 9, 1957, a civilian in Redlands, California reported an oval object about the size of a half dollar that was bright white and stationary, then faded out. A small red li…

On October 25, 1957, a witness near Red Oak, Georgia, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about two minutes. The object was white. It was about the size and shape…

On November 13, 1957, at Reese Air Force Base in Texas, a civilian and military observer reported sighting an object that changed shape from round to egg-like. The object was descr…

On November 5, 1957, in Regina, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing a star-like object the size of a baseball that was red-blue in color and made a whistling sound. The…

On April 5, 1957, a civilian at Reseda, California, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying objec…

On January 19, 1957, a civilian night watchman in Rhinelander, Wisconsin reported observing a round, white object the size of a basketball heading south. The object was observed 20…

On the morning of April 25, 1957, a civilian driving near Ringgold, Louisiana reported seeing a large, crescent-shaped object glowing bright red or scarlet descend slowly from the…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian witness at Ringgold, Georgia, reported one object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 30 minutes. The object…

On November 10, 1957, a military observer near Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina reported a round object about five times the magnitude of a star. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes…

On November 6, 1957, at Roslyn Air Force Station in New York, a civilian observer reported seeing a round, red object moving back and forth for five minutes. The sighting was obser…

On November 14, 1957, radar operators at a U.S. Air Force station in Rothwesten, Germany detected three separate radar signals, or blips, traveling at extraordinarily high speeds.…

On November 6, 1957, near Rydal, Georgia, a civilian witness observed an unidentified object for approximately 15 minutes. The witness reported a bright light similar to a star tha…

On September 14, 1957, at about 0045 (Greenwich time) in San Antonio, Texas, a witness saw seven circular blue-white objects through a six-power telescope. Two were about the size…

On July 28, 1957, in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing six objects about the size of a quarter with orange lights arranged in a V formation. The objects were s…

On October 5, 1957, at 1:15 p.m. in San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped aluminum object about the size of a fountain pen. The object was sighted o…

On March 28, 1957, a civilian near San Antonio, Texas, reported a single object around dusk. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentifi…

On November 7, 1957, a civilian woman at San Antonio, Texas, reported one object in the sky. A neighbor had called and told her to watch it. The sighting was a ground visual observ…

On the evening of October 24, 1957, military personnel and commercial pilots near San Diego, California witnessed an object that maneuvered rapidly across the sky while staying jus…

On November 5, 1957, a civilian in San Diego, California reported observing a round object with red, green, and white lights for one and a half hours. The object moved left to righ…

On April 18, 1957, at 8:32 a.m. in San Pedro, California, two round objects were sighted. The objects were white in color and measured 49 feet in diameter. Witnesses thought the ob…

On April 21, 1957, in Santa Barbara, California, a civilian witness observed three diamond-shaped objects in a triangle formation. The objects were seen directly overhead heading n…

On November 5, 1957, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, a civilian reported seeing a red and white flashing object about the size of a silver dollar. The object was round with a white circ…

On July 30, 1957, near Santa Maria, California, six objects with a round size and basket-like color were sighted moving in a straight line. Objects were described as five balls of…

On November 25, 1957, at 1:05 p.m., a witness in Santa Rosa, Texas, observed a round object about the size of a baseball, brown in color, with binoculars. The object appeared to ha…

In July 1957, observers near Schenectady and Albany, New York reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The object was described as oval in shape, roughly the size of a dime at…

On November 5, 1957, at 5:30 p.m., a civilian in Scotia, Nebraska reported seeing an object overhead that sounded like a helicopter and smelled like burning fuel. The object looked…