Project Blue Book Case Files

In August 1952, a family driving near Tularosa, New Mexico, witnessed what the U.S. Air Force could not explain. On the evening of August 31st, shortly after passing through a tunn…

On the afternoon of September 6, 1952, a woman traveling by car on the Satagenia Highway near Tucson, Arizona, spotted an unusual orange, tear-drop shaped object in the sky. The wo…

On July 1, 1952, a family of six observed an unusual object in the sky near Van Nuys, California. The family, which included the father, mother, and four children aged 11 to 15, wa…

On the night of December 29, 1952, two U.S. Air Force captains flying a B-26 bomber from Perrin Air Force Base in Texas spotted an unidentified bright object in the sky near Vega,…

In May 1952, a witness near Vineland, New Jersey, reported seeing an object in the evening sky. The report was filed on a standard observer's questionnaire. The witness was outdoo…

On April 15, 1952, 2nd Lt. Edward F. Gaucher watched a group of 15 to 20 round objects move across the night sky above Waco, Texas. He was sitting at the Joy Drive-In Theatre with…

On April 21, 1952, two civilians in Walla Walla, Washington reported sighting eight unidentified flying objects at 10:30 a.m. The objects were disc-shaped, colored moon in daylight…

On the morning of April 7, 1952, two separate sightings of unusual objects were reported in Mississippi and Tennessee, both occurring near daybreak. The first incident took place…

On May 25, 1952, at 2115 hours (9:15 p.m.), a civilian family observed an unusual light in the sky from their home on Walnut Lake, Michigan. They first thought it was the moon, but…

On April 1, 1952, in the evening near Washington, Indiana, three civilian men driving west into the setting sun reported an object. At first they thought the red glow was the color…

A geologist working for the U.S. Geological Survey submitted a photograph to the Air Force in April 1952. The photo had been taken on the evening of April 2, 1952 at 2330 hours (11…

On the night of September 12, 1952, a bright streak of light crossed the sky over Washington, D.C., and surrounding areas, triggering a wave of telephone calls to police, newspaper…

On November 11, 1952, ten members of the Atomic Energy Commission Security Force at Los Alamos, New Mexico, reported observing a round, bright object that flashed red and green. Th…

On August 6, 1952, around 7:15 a.m. local time, a civilian man in Washington, D.C. reported two discs. He said they were about the size of a fifth-cent coin held at arm's length. T…

On January 5, 1952, shortly after 1:00 a.m. PST, a newspaper article reported a sighting near Watsonville, California. A witness observed a ball of fire with a bluish green tail th…

On August 17, 1952, Captain James H. Perry was flying an Air Force T-6 trainer aircraft from Dallas to Webb Air Force Base near Big Spring, Texas, when he spotted an unusual object…

A Ground Observer Corps supervisor in White Lake, South Dakota watched a bright, reddish, cigar-shaped object in the sky on September 1, 1952. The object had three puffs of what lo…

On April 15, 1952, a retired aeronautical engineer in Wichita, Kansas observed a yellow light streak cross the sky twice in one minute. The observer, president of the Swallow Airpl…

Early on the morning of May 2, 1952, a retired Army sergeant in Wichita Falls, Texas reported seeing an unusual disc shaped object flying overhead. The witness, a 56 year old man w…

On May 12, 1952, about 40 to 50 miles west of Roswell, New Mexico, an Air Force technical sergeant reported an unidentified object. The sighting began about 2045 (8:45 p.m.) and la…

On the evening of December 11, 1952, an engineer at North American Aviation's Santa Susanna Rocket Test Laboratory in Woodland Hills, California, witnessed an unusual object in the…

On May 14, 1952, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a college senior reported an unidentified flying object. The sighting happened between about 12:50 and 12:55 a.m. while the witness was wa…

On the evening of October 13, 1952, a man working at his drawing board near his home in York, Pennsylvania glanced out and saw a bright yellow-orange light almost directly overhead…

On April 27, 1952, near Yuma, Arizona, an Air Force staff sergeant and his wife reported unconventional objects. The couple were seated in their car at a drive in theater. The sigh…

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…

# UFO Sighting Off Labrador Coast, June 1952 On June 24, 1952, at approximately 2155 (9:55 p.m.) Greenwich Civil Time, a U.S. Air Force transport aircraft encountered radio contac…

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 May 27, 1952, at 1:15 p.m., an Arab boy fishing at Temara Beach in French Morocco called attention to an unidentified floating object estimated 1000 to 2000 yards offshore. The…

On July 21, 1952, at 1:35 p.m., a round silver colored object was sighted 15 miles northwest of Bed Bluff, California, moving north west. The object was described as very high and…

# Hamilton Air Force Base, California - July 1952 A civilian employee at Hamilton Air Force Base near San Francisco spotted an unusual object on July 24, 1952. The witness was sta…

On October 28, 1952, a C-47 aircraft carrying three U.S. Air Force crew members from Perrin Air Force Base witnessed an unusual object near Paoli, Oklahoma. The sighting lasted app…

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 the evening of November 10, 1952, a man living west of Covington, Ohio reported seeing a brilliant blue light in the sky to the northwest of his home. The light appeared to bob…

On the evening of October 17, 1952, four Air Force officers stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque saw a bright blue object streak across the sky near Taos, New Mexi…

On the morning of October 16, 1952, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-6 training aircraft over Korea spotted something unusual. First Lieutenant William H. Hooper was in the fro…

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…

On May 15, 1952, two F-86 fighter pilots flying a sweep over North Korea spotted a bright, silver object moving at high speed through the sky. The lead pilot, a 51st Fighter-Interc…

# Duluth, Minnesota, October 1952 On the afternoon of October 21, 1952, three separate witnesses in Duluth reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The accounts described a c…

On October 10, 1952, in Munston, England, airmen observed two glittering silver objects hovering over Munston Airfield in a circular pattern. The witnesses watched the objects for…

On July 16, 1952, at around 8:50 p.m., a family driving home near Haddenfield, New Jersey, saw a strange object in the sky. The witnesses included a husband, wife, and three young…

On August 24, 1952, a radio entertainer named Barker saw an unusual object while driving near Pittsburg, Kansas. He described it as approximately 75 feet long, dull aluminum in col…

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…

On July 5, 1952, an unidentified air object was observed by multiple Air Force personnel near Warwick Parish, Bermuda. The object was first spotted at 10:22 p.m. moving north to so…

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 July 19, 1952, near Rock Island, Illinois, a civilian man observed a brilliant object over the Mississippi River. The object appeared in the southern horizon and rose to 22 degr…

On July 20, 1952, at 12:27 a.m. Central Time, Mr. Scott and others at Rigid, Illinois observed a bright light moving very fast. The object was estimated to be 4,200 feet high and t…

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 nights of October 15 and 16, 1952, radar operators at Ashiya Air Base in Japan detected multiple unidentified objects on their radar scopes. The objects appeared as blips si…

The OCR on these pages is too heavily degraded to extract reliable case details. While the document header identifies this as a July 1952 sighting from Clovis, New Mexico, and scat…

On August 20, 1952, radar operators at Marrakech in French Morocco detected an unidentified object moving at a reported speed of 1,157 miles per hour. The object appeared on an AN/…

On the morning of December 14, 1952, three U.S. Air Force airmen at Tsutsu Saki in southern Japan spotted an unusual bright object in the sky. The men were radar operators and tech…

On the night of December 4, 1952, First Lieutenant Robert O. Arnold was flying a T-28 trainer aircraft near Laredo Air Force Base in Texas. He was waiting in a holding pattern for…

On December 6, 1952, a B-29 bomber returning to Texas from a training flight detected a series of high-speed objects on radar about 160 miles from Galveston and roughly 100 miles s…

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 August 7, 1952, at 1:19 p.m. EDT, a civilian woman in Washington D.C. reported seeing an object about the size of the moon. The object appeared as an almost perfect circle and m…

On July 1, 1952, at 10:18 p.m., a bluish-white object appearing as a pinpoint of light was sighted passing over East Springfield, Massachusetts, at an unknown distance and estimate…

On October 30, 1952, two Air Police officers on duty at Truax Field near Madison, Wisconsin, watched an egg-shaped, silver-blue object pass overhead around 10:35 a.m. local time. A…