Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 2, 1952, at 11:45 p.m. Pacific Daylight time, four civilians in Riverside, California, about nine miles north of March Air Force Base, reported one star-like object. I…

On July 28, 1952, a civilian woman in Riverside, California reported observing a large bluish-white object with a sharp exhaust trail that emitted a noise like a jet engine. The ob…

On October 26, 1952, a civilian couple in a car saw a bright object near Roanoke, Texas, on U.S. Highway 77, about 18 miles north of Fort Worth. The driver's wife pointed it out an…

On the morning of September 17, 1952, multiple witnesses near Robins Air Force Base in Georgia observed two unidentified objects moving across the sky. The sighting began at approx…

On the night of September 23, 1952, multiple witnesses at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia reported seeing a group of unidentified lights in the sky. The first sighting occurred ar…

On April 27, 1952, near Roseville, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, four civilian men with previous military backgrounds reported several unconventional objects. The sighting lasted…

In June 1952, multiple witnesses near Lynchburg, Virginia reported seeing a shiny, round object moving at high altitude across the southern Virginia sky. The sighting sparked immed…

On April 27, 1952, over Royal Oak, Michigan, a civilian man reported an unconventional object. The sighting happened at 1100 hours (11:00 a.m.). The witness saw one small white ob…

On September 3, 1952, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post near Sacramento, California reported seeing a fast-moving, disc-shaped object with a dark line through its middle. T…

On the night of August 26, 1952, a man who worked in intelligence for the U.S. Air Force was returning from a late movie in Sacramento, California. As he walked through a parking l…

On August 3, 1952, a couple stationed at a Ground Observer Corps post in Sacramento, California saw a large red object in the night sky. The observation post was located in the Wes…

On August 23, 1952, a lawyer driving south on U.S. Highway 13 near Salisbury, Maryland, saw an unusual light in the sky. He described it as a bright bluish-green glow traveling at…

On May 19, 1952, a B-36 bomber crew flying near San Angelo, Texas, spotted seven unusual white objects arranged in a vertical column ahead of their aircraft. The sighting lasted ab…

On September 7, 1952, at 10:50 p.m., a couple in San Antonio, Texas witnessed an unusual flash of light in the eastern sky. The man and his wife were leaving friends' house when th…

On the evening of May 29, 1952, a military pilot standing on his front porch in San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The pilot was with his wife and a civilian…

On December 21, 1952, a driver in San Antonio, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky while traveling on Freese-Tilden Highway. The witness was alone in his car when he notic…

On August 7, 1952, beginning about 9:00 p.m. Central time, a civilian woman in San Antonio, Texas, watched four objects over about an hour and ten minutes. She first went outside w…

At 0052 hours Central Standard Time on July 28, 1952, an unidentified white light was spotted near San Antonio, Texas. The observation came from multiple sources: an unknown B-29 p…

On December 17, 1952, several U.S. Naval employees reported seeing objects over San Diego, California. The sightings happened in the afternoon, between about 3:15 and 3:25 p.m. The…

On August 2, 1952, at 2:35 a.m. Pacific Daylight time, a civilian woman at California and Powell Streets in San Francisco reported an unidentified object to the northwest. She watc…

On July 26, 1952, military personnel and civilians across California and multiple other states reported seeing unidentified flying objects. The sightings were scattered geographica…

On July 28, 1952, two observers at a Civil Defense post near San Rafael, California, watched an unidentified object fly overhead for roughly one minute in the early morning hours.…

On September 12, 1952, at 3:17 p.m., an unidentified object was sighted near Santa Monica, California. A civilian witness at a radio company reported seeing the object in a northwe…

On August 30, 1952, a toolmaker in Santa Monica, California saw a series of bright, saucer-shaped objects moving erratically in the sky during the late afternoon. The main sighting…

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On August 20, 1952, about 8:20 p.m. local time, a Ground Observer Corps member near Schenectady, New York, reported an object low over the treetops. The location was about eight mi…

Early on the morning of May 11, 1952, a bright blue object streaked across the sky over Seattle, Washington, exploded in a brilliant flash, and disappeared. The flash lit up the en…

On the night of August 14, 1952, multiple airmen at Selfridge Air Force Base in Michigan watched two bright lavender objects move across the sky in ways that puzzled military obser…

On August 29, 1952, at 2:15 p.m., a civilian in Selma, California reported seeing an object with three green lights and one red light moving up and down. The observer watched from…

On October 19, 1952, from about 5:00 p.m. to 5:25 p.m. Eastern time, many civilians near Selma, Alabama, reported a bright object that left a bright trail in the sky to the west. T…

In early September 1952, a woman in Shamokin, Pennsylvania reported seeing two unusual flying objects on separate nights. The objects were cigar-shaped and had an orange glow at on…

On the evening of October 1, 1952, a U.S. Air Force pilot flying a reconnaissance aircraft near Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina spotted a brilliant white light that exhibited…

On the night of April 16, 1952, a Captain with the U.S. Air Force saw something striking in the sky above Shreveport, Louisiana. The officer, a senior pilot with over 3,000 hours o…

Between April 22 and 24, 1952, near Shreveport, Louisiana, the crew of a C-46 aircraft reported an object around 2030 (8:30 p.m.). It was cream colored and circular. The object cir…

On August 26, 1952, at 8:15 p.m., a ground observer near Silver Lake, California spotted a spherical, brightly lit object moving across the sky. According to the case file, the obj…

On September 5, 1952, before noon, people in two towns in Malaya reported a strange object in the sky. The Air Force learned of this from an article in the Singapore Straits Times…

# Sighting at Slagle Lake, Louisiana, August 1952 On the evening of August 19, 1952, around 2100 hours (9 p.m.), a military officer and a companion sat on a pier at Slagle Lake ne…

On August 3, 1952, a civilian woman in Smyrna, Georgia reported seeing a bright white object moving slowly and erratically. The sighting lasted 18 minutes and was witnessed by two…

On April 20, 1952, in Solano County, California, near the Suisun Marsh, a civilian dentist reported a bright luminous object. The sighting happened about 0300 hours (3:00 a.m.) fro…

On August 28, 1952, observers at a Ground Observer Corps post in Sonoma, California, reported seeing five flat, silver-colored objects in the sky. The sightings occurred over rough…

On August 12, 1952, at 2155 hours (9:55 p.m.) Pacific Standard Time, a control tower operator at Geiger Field near Spokane, Washington, witnessed an unusual formation of lights mov…

On July 27, 1952, people across the Spokane, Washington area reported seeing unusual objects in the night sky. The sightings came in waves over a few hours, and the witnesses inclu…

On a night in December 1952, someone in St. Augustine, Florida saw an object streaking across the sky. The witness described a silver saucer with five or six lit windows, a spinnin…

On May 22, 1952, a group of about eight people at the Stockton Naval Supply Station in California watched a bright silver, rectangular object hang motionless in the sky for 25 minu…

On August 9, 1952, at 10:15 p.m., a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota saw an unidentified elliptical object flying at high speed from southeast to northwest. The observer, standing o…

In July 1952, a civilian man in St. Paul, Minnesota reported seeing two bright objects in the night sky through his telescope. The objects appeared orange-white in color and resemb…

On April 2, 1952, at 2045 (8:45 p.m.) local time, Air Force personnel near Temple, Texas, reported a large fireball. It was seen for about 10 to 40 seconds. The object was green wi…

On December 30, 1952, at approximately noon near Terrigal, New South Wales, Australia, a Royal Australian Air Force wing commander sighted an unidentified object to the east at an…

On July 25, 1952, multiple observers at the 674th Air Control and Warning Squadron in Osceola, Wisconsin, reported unusual radar contacts and visual sightings. The incident was sig…

On April 25, 1952, at Thule Air Base, Greenland, an Air Force lieutenant and a civilian Arctic rescue expert reported a vapor trail. The sighting happened about 0100 hours (1:00 a.…

On May 25, 1952, at 0958 (9:58 a.m.) local time, radar operators at the 767th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron near Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, detected an unusual target on…

On September 1, 1952, at 8:23 p.m., a white object moving very high and very fast with no trail or exhaust was observed by naked eye from the ground near Tinker Air Force Base, Okl…

On September 15, 1952, observers at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, reported a circular object moving back and forth across the sky for 45 minutes. The sighting was a ground visua…

On the night of May 29, 1952, around 11:00 p.m. Eastern time, two Air Force officers watched the sky over Tipp City, Ohio, through a 6-inch telescope. One officer, a physicist, and…

On September 2, 1952, starting at 8:15 p.m. local time, a radar operator at Haneda Air Base near Tokyo, Japan, reported unidentified targets on the GCA radar scope. The first targe…

On October 23, 1952, three people driving west on US Route 20 about ten miles west of Toledo, Ohio saw six yellow-orange objects flying due south across the sky. The observers stop…

On the morning of January 11, 1952, an airman at Travis Air Force Base in California reported seeing an unusual flying object near his base. The sighting lasted between fifteen and…

# Summary In September 1952, radar operators at Tsu Shima, Japan, detected an unusual radar signature on several occasions. When military aircraft made outbound flights from nearb…

On the evening of August 6, 1952, near Tucson, Arizona, air traffic controllers and pilots reported seeing an unusual bright object moving across the sky at remarkable speeds and a…

On September 17, 1952, two civilians in Tucson, Arizona watched two separate groups of unidentified objects pass slowly over the Tucson Mountains. The first group of three objects…