Project Blue Book Case Files

On the morning of October 29, 1952, at approximately 7:50 a.m. local time, two U.S. Air Force airmen at Erding Air Depot in Germany spotted an unusual object in the western sky. St…

Two F-94 fighter jets chased a bright light over Hempstead, Long Island on October 29, 1952, in what the Air Force ultimately classified as unexplained. The pilots and radar operat…

On a June day in 1952, T/Sergeant Howard Davis, a flight engineer aboard a B-29 bomber, observed an unusual object while flying over South Texas. The aircraft was cruising at 8,000…

On October 22, 1952, at 10:10 p.m., Airman Second Class Bernard F. DeMonte was walking guard duty at Laurinburg-Maxton Air Base in North Carolina when he heard an unusual sound in…

On the morning of October 17, 1952, Major Robert L. Howard, a U.S. Air Force pilot on flying status, and four civilian companions saw an unusual object near Elko, Nevada. The sight…

On the morning of October 16, 1952, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-6 training aircraft over North Korea spotted an unidentified object near the main line of resistance. First…

On the evening of October 24, 1952, First Lieutenant Edward J. Rau was flying a T-11 aircraft at 7,500 feet near Elberton, Alabama when he spotted an unidentified object traveling…

On July 10, 1952, a civilian yard worker in Miami, Florida, watched a transparent, greenish object about five feet across move slowly south of his position at roughly 435 feet abov…

On the afternoon of October 19, 1952, a couple sitting on the porch of their home in San Antonio, Texas saw three round, metallic-looking objects flying in a V formation across the…

On May 14, 1952, off the coast of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, several civilians reported two unidentified objects. The witnesses included a businessman and lawyer, an American former Ai…

On May 13, 1952, over towns northeast of Lisbon, Portugal, including Santarem, Cartaxo, and Torres, many people reported an unusual object. The account came from an Azores newspape…

On the evening of October 17, 1952, two clergymen standing in the yard of their home in Killeen, Texas spotted a group of approximately ten round objects moving rapidly across the…

On August 1, 1952, near Utica, New York, a yellow circular object was sighted. The object moved into a valley and changed direction from east to westerly heading. The object's colo…

On October 25, 1952, at 1039 (10:39 a.m.) Pacific time, tower operators at Stead Air Force Base in Nevada spotted what they described as a circular object about the size and color…

On May 30, 1952, the pilot, co-pilot, and engineer of a C-54 transport plane spotted an unidentified object southeast of Japan near Oshima at around 1900 to 1930 hours (7:00 to 7:3…

On January 1, 1952, at 12:21 a.m., an RB-26 aircraft observed a bright orange glow traveling at least 600 mph on a heading of 180 degrees at 7,000 feet over Korea. The glow appeare…

On October 19, 1952, a C-50 crew flying over the Pacific Ocean at coordinates 12 degrees 17 minutes north, 155 degrees 35 minutes west sighted an unusual object. The crew observed…

On the night of February 24, 1952, a B-29 bomber flying a leaflet drop mission over North Korea was caught in searchlights near the town of Sinuiju. About forty-five seconds after…

On September 29, 1952, two circular objects five inches in diameter were sighted in England. The objects were initially stationary, then moved off at high speed and disappeared int…

An amateur photographer in Elizabeth, New Jersey captured unidentified objects on film in July 1952, though he did not see them at the time he took the pictures. The photographer,…

On October 18, 1952, a civilian man in Macon, Georgia reported observing a star-shaped yellow light that flickered in the same position for 45 minutes. The observer worked at a Mac…

On October 26, 1952, four or five spherical objects were reported flying at high speed over the northern coast of Iceland near Akureyri. Three civilian witnesses observed the objec…

On July 17, 1952, two Mississippi State Highway Patrol officers observed unidentified objects near Batesville, Mississippi, beginning at approximately 21:07 (9:07 p.m.). They repor…

On July 22, 1952, a civilian couple in Chicago reported seeing four gray, round objects the size of a silver dollar held at arm's length. The witnesses said the objects traveled at…

On March 4, 1952, an A/C crew near Sebring, Florida, reported sighting an orange, oval-shaped object in horizontal flight traveling at terrific speed. The object measured approxima…

On the evening of October 12, 1952, two Air Force officers flying an F-94B fighter jet spotted a brilliant white light off the coast of New Jersey. The pilots were on combat air pa…

# Summary of UFO Sighting Near Rockville, Indiana, July 1952 On the evening of July 22, 1952, three members of the U.S. Air Force at a station near Rockville, Indiana, witnessed a…

On March 4, 1952, at 3:51 a.m. in England, a B-29 gunner reported seeing an extremely bright flash in the sky behind his aircraft, which was flying at 17,500 feet. The sighting occ…

On the night of January 29, 1952, four military pilots observing from two B-29 bombers flying separate missions over Korea reported seeing unusual glowing objects. The first sighti…

On September 20, 1952, at roughly 4:05 p.m., a Metropolitan Sunday Newspapers photographer named Litwin was standing on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Navy…

On September 29, 1952, at 9:07 p.m., seven civilians near Hearne, Texas, reported seeing a large flying saucer to Bryan Air Force Base Control Tower. The object was described as or…

On the night of October 14, 1952, at 1255 p.m. (1:55 p.m.) in Hopewell, Virginia, a man was sitting on a sidewalk looking north when he suddenly saw a rocket-shaped object with fla…

# Summary In August 1952, observers at multiple military locations in California reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The case file contains two separate incidents, bo…

On May 8, 1952, the pilot and co-pilot of Pan American Airways Flight 203 were flying about 600 miles off the U.S. East Coast between Jacksonville, Florida and Savannah, Georgia, w…

In 1952, a witness reported an object in the sky moving at very high speed. The record describes a course of about 290 degrees and an angular velocity of about 10 degrees per secon…

Early on the morning of May 13, 1952, several people in and around El Centro, California reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The sightings occurred over roughly a two-…

On August 28, 1952, about 7:15 p.m. (one statement says about 5:00 p.m.) Pacific Standard time, two Air Force airmen sunbathing near Edgemont, about two miles north of March Air Fo…

On the night of July 14 to 15, 1952, multiple witnesses in Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania observed an unusual object in the sky that changed color, hovered, and moved erratically over s…

On August 23, 1952, at 3:00 a.m. near Far East (XB 28/1), a B-29 bomber aircraft conducting weather reconnaissance in the Simiju area sighted an unidentified object. The aircraft w…

On October 27, 1952, a commercial airline flight crew sighted a glowing object west of Fort de France, in the Caribbean. The report came from an aircraft cruising at about 11,500 f…

In April 1952, a U.S. Air Force B-29 bomber crew returning to the United States on rotation observed several unidentified flying objects while stationed at Naha Air Base on Okinawa…

On July 18, 1952, four U.S. Air Force maintenance personnel at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida observed a series of unidentified flying objects over the base between 2115 and 223…

On the night of October 10, 1952, weather observers at Presque Isle Air Force Base in Maine spotted something unusual in the sky. They saw a circular orange object with four green…

On May 10, 1952, in the city of Paphos, in southwest Cyprus, a group of people including a noted British scientist reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 2030…

On April 18 or 19, 1952, a radar operator at a U.S. Air Force detachment in Japan detected an unidentified object on his radar scope. The operator worked at Detachment 721 of the 6…

On July 15, 1952, a state trooper in Pendleton, Oregon reported seeing a silver, spherical object traveling northwest at an estimated altitude of 4,000 feet and moving at high spee…

On the evening of October 1, 1952, near Pascagoula, Mississippi, a homemaker witnessed an unusual object in the sky. At approximately 1940 hours (7:40 p.m.) CST, she saw a round, m…

Four witnesses in the East Bronx saw a formation of reddish-orange objects speed across the sky on the night of Friday, July 25, 1952. Rita Acuna, age 16, was outside with her moth…

# Dallas and New England Sightings, July 1952 In early July 1952, residents in the Dallas area reported seeing an unusual object high in the sky moving at what seemed to be an ext…

In mid-July 1952, two incidents involving unidentified flying objects were reported in the Ogden Dunes area of Indiana. On July 16 at approximately 2200 hours (10 p.m.), a civilian…

On May 13, 1952, at 2135 (9:35 p.m.), a Navy ensign and three other people reported a saucer like object over the Washington, D.C., area. The main witness described a goldish orang…

On the night of July 20, 1952, near Oscoda, Michigan, two women on vacation saw what they believed was a flying disc. The object appeared as a white light approaching from the sout…

On the evening of July 23, 1952, a civilian couple standing at Lake Forest, northwest of Jacksonville, Florida, watched a glowing object cross the sky. The object appeared as a glo…

On August 17, 1952, Captain Jack Buchanan was flying a T-6 training aircraft from Murfreesboro Airport toward Shaw Air Force Base when he spotted something unusual in the sky over…

On the night of July 13, 1952, a U.S. Army captain sitting in his car at an outdoor theater north of Nouasseur Air Base in Morocco saw an object on fire moving from south to north…

On the morning of July 15, 1952, several residents of Las Vegas, Nevada witnessed two unidentified flying objects moving rapidly across the sky. The first sighting occurred around…

On February 2, 1952, an air crew aboard a MATS (Military Air Transport Service) transport plane traveling from Travis Air Force Base, California to Hickam Air Base, Hawaii observed…

On the night of July 16, 1952, a woman and her daughter in San Antonio, Texas, watched an unusual object in the sky for more than an hour. According to the observers, the round obj…

On July 2, 1952, near Denver, Colorado, an observer from Graybar Electric Company reported seeing 25 silver objects in formation. The objects were oval shaped, resembling two sauce…

On the night of July 19, 1952, a columnist for a Mexico City newspaper reported seeing four bright unidentified objects moving across the sky above Acapulco, Guerrero. The witness,…