Project Blue Book Case Files

In August 1952, multiple witnesses in Mount Vernon, New York reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The object was described as lifesaver-shaped with a black hole in the bot…

On the evening of May 13, 1952, an engineer living in National City, California, observed an unusual aerial object in the sky. The object first appeared as a red trail of light mov…

On the evening of March 2, 1952, near National City, California, an aircraft engineer and his wife observed an unusual glowing object while driving east on Highway 94. At approxima…

On August 23, 1952, late in the morning, an observer near Navarro and Mound, Minnesota, reported a fast moving object. The Air Force record card describes it as silver, very fast,…

On the evening of September 7, 1952, a couple sitting on their front porch in Needles, California noticed a single object moving silently across the night sky from north to south.…

On January 22, 1952, radar operators at Murphy's Dome, Alaska, spotted an unusual target near Nenana. The object appeared on the radar scope at an odd angle and moved at an estimat…

On May 28 and 29, 1952, over an area from near Albuquerque, New Mexico, to near Tulsa and Enid, Oklahoma, crews of five B-29 aircraft reported unidentified objects during a night t…

On the evening of August 3, 1952, a clerk-typist employed by the Army Finance Office in New Orleans reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. At approximately 9:38 p.m., while…

On the morning of September 23, 1952, a 62-year-old woman in Newport Beach, California saw two glowing objects in the sky. The first sighting occurred at 2:35 a.m., and she reporte…

On August 26, 1952, a white, round light was spotted above New York City. The object appeared stationary in the sky and gave off red and blue flashes. An observer in Manhattan rep…

On the night of October 27, 1952, a C-119 transport aircraft spotted an unusual bright light in the sky about 50 miles north of Ashiya Air Force Base in northern Kyushu, Japan. The…

On the night of April 29, 1952, a bombardier aboard a B-29 aircraft spotted a strange light near Goodland, Kansas. The crew member was stationed in the bombardier's nose compartmen…

In April 1952, two Canadian military officers stationed at North Bay, Ontario reported seeing a bright amber disc in the sky over the RCAF airfield. The witnesses were WO E.H. Ross…

On the evening of January 22, 1952, a woman driving through Norwalk, Connecticut saw what she described as a large, dome-shaped object hovering over the town. According to her acco…

In April 1952, a witness near Moody Air Force Base in Georgia saw a metallic sphere about ten feet across traveling across the sky. The object had a copper-colored tint and appeare…

On April 24, 1952, a Texas couple driving toward Seguin on Highway 3 spotted an unusual aircraft near Oak Forest. They watched it for fourteen to fifteen minutes as it traveled eas…

On the night of December 10, 1952, two pilots of an F-94 fighter jet flying near Odessa, Washington, at approximately 26,000 feet spotted a large white object with a dim reddish-wh…

On August 14, 1952, at 1438 (2:38 p.m.), a commercial pilot flying a Flying Tiger aircraft reported a blue light over Olmsted Air Force Base, Pennsylvania. The pilot said the blue…

On September 25, 1952, two airmen stationed at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska observed two strange objects in the sky near Omaha. At 1015 CST (10:15 a.m.), A/1C James O. Howell…

On August 22, 1952, at about 1500 (3:00 p.m.) Pacific time, a 19 year old private pilot near Ontario, California, reported an unidentified object. He was flying a Cessna 140 that h…

On August 12, 1952, a railroad agent in Ain Sefra, Algeria observed a ball of fire suddenly appearing against a background of clouds. The object raced across the sky from east to w…

On August 5, 1952, multiple witnesses in the Orlando, Florida area reported seeing a bright, silver, ball-shaped object moving at extraordinary speeds over the city. The sightings…

On July 29, 1952, radar operators at a U.S. Air Force station near Osceola, Wisconsin detected multiple unidentified objects moving across their scope over the course of an hour. T…

On October 19, 1952, at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts, airmen observed a blinking white light that flew upward, then moved in a pendulum-like motion for about 20 minutes bef…

On the evening of July 29, 1952, radar operators at Otis Air Force Base in Massachusetts tracked an unidentified object moving across the sky at high speed. The object appeared on…

Several civilians in Palmer, Alaska, reported seeing a bright blue, tube-shaped object near the setting sun on January 12, 1952, at approximately 1652 (4:52 p.m.). The observation…

On August 28, 1952, at 4:45 p.m. local time, a member of the Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C. reported one round object over Parkland, Maryland. He was considered…

On the night of July 22, 1952, five people aboard a civilian airplane near Pennington, New Jersey, spotted an unidentified object in the sky. The observers reported seeing a bright…

On the evening of May 3, 1952, two couples driving through downtown Phoenix in a convertible saw something unusual pass overhead. The object was cigar-shaped, glowing white, and tr…

On January 29, 1952, a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force and his wife observed a brilliant green fireball traveling across the sky near Falls Church, Virginia. The object had a spheroi…

On the evening of May 1, 1952, near Phoenix, Arizona, a civilian observer spotted an unusual object in the sky at 2200 hours (10 p.m.). The object was moving to the northeast at an…

# Phoenix, Arizona Sighting - July 1952 On the morning of July 2, 1952, just after 4:20 a.m., a woman in Phoenix, Arizona, spotted something unusual in the predawn sky. She descri…

On the evening of July 28, 1952, a civilian woman in Phoenix, Arizona saw an unusual object in the sky. According to her witness statement, the object resembled a flying wing and w…

On the evening of June 30, 1952, a couple driving on 35th Avenue near Phoenix, Arizona saw a strange bright object in the sky. It was around 9 p.m., and the object appeared to be a…

In early August 1952, two separate sightings were reported in Phoenix, Arizona. The first occurred on August 4 at 2:20 a.m. when an airman stationed at Luke Air Force Base saw a ro…

On August 7, 1952, at 0956 hours (9:56 a.m.), an unidentified object was observed over Pinecastle Air Force Base near Orlando, Florida. An observer working on the flight line saw a…

On February 11, 1952, between about 0300 and 0315 (3:00 to 3:15 a.m.) Eastern time, two Air Force officers flying a T-11 aircraft from Cleveland, Ohio, to Langley Air Force Base, V…

On April 12, 1952, a ground observer at Point Hope, in northwestern Alaska, reported an unidentified multi engine aircraft heading southeast. The altitude and speed were unknown. T…

On August 4, 1952, personnel at a Ground Observer Corps post near Point Reyes, California, sighted an object that looked like a red flare with a 100-foot tail drifting behind it. T…

On the night of April 27, 1952, a man driving with his family north of Detroit saw a brilliant white object descend rapidly from the northeast sky near Pontiac, Michigan. The objec…

On December 9, 1952, radar operators at Pope Air Force Base in South Carolina detected an unidentified object on their radar scope. The object appeared as a stationary target with…

On the night of September 16, 1952, a Navy P2V patrol aircraft from Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine spotted two mysterious objects flying near Portland. The pilot, Lieutenant…

The Portland case file covers a sequence of unidentified-aerial-object reports filed with the Portland Police Bureau and the Civilian Aeronautics Administration office at Portland-…

On the night of August 6 and 7, 1952, military personnel in Port Lyautey, French Morocco, reported seeing an unusual bright object moving at extreme speed. A ground observer first…

This report covers a news item from Quetta, in the Baluchistan region, dated November 18, 1952. An assistant U.S. air attache forwarded a newspaper clipping from The Times of India…

On September 21, 1952, thousands of people across French Morocco witnessed a bright, fast-moving object streaking across the sky. The sighting began around 1815 hours (6:15 p.m.) n…

On the night of June 12, 1952, military personnel stationed at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a series of unidentified aerial objects moving erratically across the sky n…

On the evening of July 13, 1952, two airmen at Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio saw an unusual object moving rapidly across the sky. Technical Sergeant Thurman C. Mahone…

On August 1, 1952, two women at a ground observation post near Red Bluff, California, spotted a round, bluish object traveling south at high speed. The sighting lasted about one mi…

In August 1952, civilians at Redding Municipal Airport in California reported seeing seven or eight objects flying in a straight line at very high speed. The observers watched the…

On the evening of July 6, 1952, near Redondo, Washington, a woman employed at nearby McChord Air Force Base spotted an unusual light in the sky. The object appeared as a single, ro…

# Redwing, Wisconsin, November 1952 In November 1952, a civilian observer in Redwing, Wisconsin reported seeing an unidentified flying object that flashed and disappeared repeated…

On May 1, 1952, near Olmstead Air Force Base in Pennsylvania, an ex-pilot reported sighting an unidentified flying object. The object appeared red on approach and white when recedi…

The OCR text for this case is severely degraded throughout pages 2 through 12, making it impossible to extract reliable factual details beyond what appears on page 1. While the cov…

On the morning of August 27, 1952, Air Force personnel at the Richmond Filter Center in Richmond, Virginia spotted a round, medium-sized, amber-colored object moving west-northwest…

On March 31 or April 1, 1952, a worker at Port Chicago Naval Yard in the San Francisco Bay Area reported seeing an unusual bright light moving over Suisun Bay near Richmond, Califo…

In August 1952, an observer in Richmond, California reported seeing a round, orange object that circled overhead and then faded into darkness. The sighting lasted about thirty seco…

On August 3, 1952, an observer stationed at the Hall of Justice building in Richmond, California saw two objects in the night sky. The objects looked about the size of a star and a…

On the night of September 1, 1952, a man and woman in Richmond, Virginia, saw an unusual glowing object in the sky. The object appeared very bright at first, then faded from view.…

In May 1952, two photographers working for O Cruzeiro magazine in Rio de Janeiro reported photographing a "flying disc" over the Barra da Tijuca, a beach area northwest of the city…