Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 18, 1951, about 6:30 p.m., civilians reported a silvery disc hovering over the vicinity of Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On September 23, 1951, four F-86 fighter jets scrambled from George Air Force Base in response to a report of an unidentified object spotted at 50,000 feet over Long Beach, Califor…

In November 1951, a Los Angeles resident reported seeing a large, unusual object hovering directly overhead for about three minutes. The witness described the craft as roughly 400…

On February 6, 1951, near Lucerne Valley, California, two civilians reported strange objects in the afternoon sky. The witnesses, a structural draftsman and his wife, first saw two…

On November 24, 1951, two Air Force F-51 fighter pilots flying a combat air patrol south of Minneapolis saw something unusual at 25,000 feet. While heading west under radar control…

On February 2, 1951, at Dobbins Air Force Base near Marietta, Georgia, several airmen reported a light in the sky between about 2200 and 2300 (10:00 to 11:00 p.m.). Witnesses inclu…

On September 16, 1951, at 1217 (12:17 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time, a civilian pilot flying a Cessna near Marion, Ohio, reported a near miss with an object. He was at 2,800 feet on…

On August 31, 1951, two women driving north of Matador, Texas spotted an unusual object near U.S. Highway 70. The driver, Mrs. Anna Sheffield, first noticed it about 150 feet ahead…

On March 13, 1951, near McClellan Air Force Base, California, an Air Force officer and his wife reported a strange object at about 1520 (3:20 p.m.). While driving on a road near th…

On June 9, 1951, at 2:05 p.m. local time, a Finnish observer near Mikkeli, Finland reported sighting a disc-shaped object approximately 2 meters in diameter. The object was aluminu…

On November 26, 1951, two experienced Capitol Airlines pilots reported seeing an unusual, fast-moving object near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first pilot, flying a DC-3 at 5,000 feet…

On the morning of October 11, 1951, a research aircraft crew flying near Minneapolis spotted something unusual in the sky. The pilots were at 10,000 feet, observing a weather ballo…

In November 1951, witnesses in Mojave, California reported seeing a circular object about 30 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick. The object appeared in the southeast with a vivid bl…

On September 10-11, 1951, the U.S. Air Force received reports of unidentified objects near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The sightings involved both visual observation by aircraft pil…

# Summary On a clear night around 11 p.m. in late October or early November 1951, a man standing at the intersection of Decary Boulevard and Sherbrooke Street in Montreal saw a st…

On August 1, 1951, a civilian in Navosta, Texas reported observing a large unidentified object moving in up and down motion in the sky. The distance to the object and its height we…

On December 1, 1951, in Nebraska City, Nebraska, a civilian witness reported observing a blue light in the sky moving northwest in flight toward the southeast. The object was 10 to…

On the morning of March 15, 1951, in New Delhi, India, a cigar-shaped object was spotted by the chief aeronautical engineer of the Delhi Flying Club and about two dozen witnesses,…

On July 3, 1951, near Newport News, Virginia, two soldiers reported a strange object at about 2305 (11:05 p.m.). The two Army harbor craft company men saw the object from a park ne…

In winter 1951, a New Zealand observer reported seeing a large cloud formation about 500 yards long, 500 yards wide, and 60 yards high to the east of his location. From the norther…

On the morning of June 1, 1951, a U.S. Air Force weather officer at Niagara Falls Municipal Airport in New York witnessed an unusual object in the sky. Master Sergeant M/Sgt., who…

On October 22, 1951, a radar station at North Truro, Massachusetts, picked up an unusual object moving across its radar scope. The station's radar operators tracked the target for…

In December 1951, near Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a gray-white object was reported in the sky. It was smooth but not shiny and shaped roughly square. It moved at about the speed of a co…

On January 16, 1951, about 9:45 p.m. local time, five civilians in a car reported a light near Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official r…

In 1951, a witness near Oberlin, Ohio saw a silver object hanging motionless in the sky about thirty feet above some trees. The object was roughly one thousand feet away. It hovere…

On the evening of September 30, 1951, three high school boys stood atop a fifty-foot grain silo near Woodberry Forest School in Virginia and spotted something unusual in the sky. A…

On October 9, 1951, a private pilot flying from Greencastle, Indiana, to Paris, Illinois, spotted a silver object near Paris at 5,000 feet altitude. The object appeared stationary…

On October 31, 1951, around 2220 (10:20 p.m.) local time, an Alaskan National Guard observer reported a light near Point Barrow, Alaska. The light was similar to a spotlight and wa…

On the evening of July 24, 1951, a captain and corporal with the U.S. Air Force were driving north on U.S. Route 1 near Portsmouth, New Hampshire, heading toward a toll bridge. At…

On the evening of March 25, 1951, personnel at Presque Isle Air Force Base in Maine spotted a spherical light near the horizon. The observer, a weather officer at the base, first n…

On July 14, 1951, near Rensselaer, New York, civilians reported strange objects at about 2:00 p.m. A woman called the FBI and said that she and members of her family had seen two s…

On August 24, 1951, at Rhein Main Air Base in Germany, a military pilot observed a bright light that seemed to fall slowly as if suspended from a parachute, then leveled off into a…

In the early morning of November 28, 1951, Leo Swenson, an illustrator at Northrop Aircraft, was driving alone on Highway 91 between Colton and Riverside, California, when he spott…

On November 2, 1951, a green tear-drop shaped object was observed flying over Rolla, Kansas. The object had no visible means of propulsion and produced no sound. It flew at approxi…

On August 26, 1951, at 1658 (4:58 p.m.), a retired Army officer in San Antonio, Texas, reported a single object in the sky. He was reclining in his back yard when he saw it. The ob…

In September 1951, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer spotted something strange in the sky over Sandy Hook, New Jersey. The object was round, silver-colored, and m…

On July 1, 1951, at 10:50 p.m. local time, four Air Force pilots in different areas near Seoul, Korea simultaneously reported a large green ball traveling at tremendous speed. The…

On January 20, 1951, control tower operators at Sioux City Municipal Airport in Iowa watched a bright light maneuver near their field for approximately fourteen minutes. At nearly…

On January 8, 1951, south of Fort Worth, Texas, a civilian couple and other witnesses reported groups of lights in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On May 22, 1951, over Great Falls, Montana (recorded as South Falls), a civilian reported a strange object between about 1430 and 1500 (2:30 to 3:00 p.m.). The witness, a woman who…

On May 29, 1951, over Geiger Field near Spokane, Washington, military observers reported a strange object at about 0918 (9:18 a.m.). Two pilots and two airmen saw the object with t…

Between September 3 and 8, 1951, multiple Air Force personnel in Spokane, Washington reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force investigated these sightings and ulti…

# UFO Sighting Near St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin On October 10, 1951, two experienced balloon researchers saw an unusual object while tracking a weather balloon near St. Croix Falls…

On January 12, 1951, about 10 p.m. Eastern time, two Air Force officers reported a bright object near Stewart Air Force Base in New York. The report is part of Project 10073, the A…

On March 19, 1951, near Gambell on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, military observers reported a strange aircraft at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.). One officer and two enlisted men of an Ar…

On January 1, 1951, a red and green balloon-shaped object descended on the Stockton Naval Supply Depot in Stockton, California. The object exploded when it hit the ground, though p…

In June 1951, a civilian in Surrey, England reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The witness described the object as silvery zinc in color, bright, and roughly the size o…

On April 12, 1951, near Point Defiance in Tacoma, Washington, military personnel and a civilian reported a strange object at about 1940 (7:40 p.m.). Several witnesses, including ai…

Between March 11 and 14, 1951, near Tatitlek, Alaska, an Alaska Native Service station reported flares in the sky. The flares were seen to the north-northwest at various times over…

On September 17, 1951, near Tatum, New Mexico, a civilian reported an object in the sky. It was orange-red and shaped like a ball. The witness said it looked larger than any aircra…

On October 9, 1951, at 1342 (2:42 p.m.), a Chief Aircraft Communicator for the Civil Aeronautics Authority observed a silver, round object pass directly overhead at Hulman Municipa…

On June 10, 1951, near Thule, Greenland, the crew of a Military Air Transport Service C-54 reported two apparent contrails at about 0100 (1:00 a.m.). The crew saw the first contrai…

Between January 22 and 26, 1951, civilians near Unalakleet, Alaska, reported orange lights low on the horizon. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record…

On August 27, 1951, near Vandalia, Illinois, at least five people reported a bright object in the evening sky. A local pilot first noticed a big orange light of blinding intensity…

On January 9, 1951, in the vicinity of Wichita Falls, Texas, many people reported strange lights in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record fo…

On January 25, 1951, at 1824 hours (6:24 p.m.), a man at Warner Robins Air Force Base in Georgia reported seeing an unusual flying object with a bright light projecting upward from…

# White Sands, New Mexico, October 1951 On the evening of October 2, 1951, multiple employees at White Sands Proving Ground reported seeing unusual lights in the sky. The sighting…

On February 10, 1951, a crew of five Navy pilots spotted something unusual over the Atlantic Ocean east of Newfoundland. The men were flying a transport plane (a Navy C-54, registr…

On February 19, 1951, the crew and passengers of an East African Airways Lodestar spotted an unusual object over Mount Kilimanjaro while flying from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam. Aroun…

On January 12, 1951, witnesses reported a bright object over Fort Benning, Georgia, starting about 11 a.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for…