Project Blue Book Case Files

On May 24, 1951, over Chicago, Illinois, civilians reported a strange object at about 1950 (7:50 p.m.). The main witness and his uncle, along with several neighbors, watched the ob…

On April 23, 1951, near Gerald, Missouri, a civilian reported a strange object between about 8:30 and 9:00 a.m. The witness, an elderly retired farmer, asked the local newspaper to…

On January 16, 1951, an unidentified object was sighted over Japan at coordinates 35 degrees 15 minutes north, 135 degrees 50 minutes east. The object was described as having a del…

On July 16, 1951, near Fairborn, Ohio, a civilian reported a strange object between about 2100 and 2115 (9:00 to 9:15 p.m.). The witness, who worked at a public information office,…

On April 26, 1951, near Chicago, Illinois, a civilian reported a strange object at about 1825 (6:25 p.m.). The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. The witness described a bright silv…

On August 20, 1951, near Spokane, Washington, two civilian witnesses watched an object for about 20 minutes. It was first seen around 1110 (11:10 a.m.). The object was elliptical a…

On July 19, 1951, at 4:50 p.m., a luminous disc was reported over Iberia, Peru. The object had an intense orange color and a metallic nucleus. It moved from south to north and was…

On October 21, 1951, a report described a bright flash seen over the Atlantic in the direction of the Soviet island of Novaya Zemlya. A scientist aboard an aircraft observed a brig…

On January 25, 1951, near Warner Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, several civilians reported a strange object in the evening sky around sunset. One witness was a former crop-dusting…

On January 22, 1951, two Air Force officers flying a C-47 transport aircraft near Alamogordo, New Mexico spotted an unusual object while tracking a weather balloon for Project Goph…

On September 18, 1951, radar operators at Air Defense Command stations across Michigan and Wisconsin detected unusual blips moving rapidly across their screens. The objects appeare…

In January 1951, a radar operator aboard an airborne patrol plane detected multiple high-speed targets near Guadalupe, an American naval ship operating in the Far East. The targets…

On February 24, 1951, over the Pacific Ocean near 21 degrees north and 157 degrees west, a sailor aboard the merchant ship Natalia Logger reported a strange object at about 0244 (2…

# Yellow Sea Sighting, October 1951 On the morning of October 18, 1951, a U.S. Navy patrol aircraft spotted an unidentified object over the Yellow Sea, roughly 140 nautical miles…

This document is not a sighting report. The Project 10073 record card for this item, dated at Indianapolis, Indiana, states plainly that it is not a UFO report. It notes that the f…

On March 8, 1951, in the Far East near 45 degrees north and 140 degrees east, a military radar station reported a track. The contact was followed for about 9 minutes and showed som…

On December 22, 1951, a U.S. Air Force pilot flying an F-84C fighter jet near Columbus, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The pilot, an experienced jet fighte…

On the evening of November 24, 1951, seven people scattered across four locations in southern Michigan reported seeing a large, bright object moving rapidly through the sky. The wi…

In October 1951, radar operators and pilots at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington spotted a mysterious object in the sky. The object appeared as a medium gray, round shap…

On March 20, 1950, around 9:26 p.m., the crew of a commercial airliner reported a fast moving object about 15 miles north of Stuttgart, Arkansas. The plane, an airline flight that…

On September 13, 1950, about 6 miles southwest of Effingham, Illinois, a civilian pilot and a passenger reported strange lights. The sighting happened between 7:30 and 7:40 p.m. at…

On March 23, 1950, at 12:30 a.m., 85 miles northwest of Jacksonville, Florida, 1st Lt. J. K. Hahn piloted a C-47 aircraft with crew members T/Sgt. L. E. Young, 1st Lt. R. D. Putnam…

On September 11, 1950, a Coast Guard photographer aboard the USCGC Northwind, stationed about 40 miles north of Adak in the Aleutian Islands, took four photographs of a total solar…

On March 26, 1950, a civilian in Adamant, Vermont reported seeing one unidentified flying object during the daytime. The object was crescent shaped and resembled a DC-3 aircraft. I…

On the night of February 24, 1950, Corporal Lertis E. Stanfield, an Air Police officer stationed at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, spotted an unusual bright o…

On the night of February 25, 1950, a university student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported a single bright object. The time was about 9:15 p.m. He was sitting in a living room lo…

On February 24, 1950, experienced civilian weather observers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported an unusual object. The first sighting was about 1:58 p.m. Mountain Standard Time,…

On August 20, 1950, at around noon, witnesses in and around Astoria, Washington saw a brilliant "ball of fire" streak across the sky in broad daylight. The object appeared silver o…

On August 4, 1950, the captain and crew of the merchant ship M/V Marcala reported seeing an unusual object while sailing off the coast of Pennsylvania. The ship was traveling from…

On March 10, 1950, a civilian in Bethel, Connecticut, reported a wing shaped object over the center of town. The witness said the object was jet black and circled over the town fou…

On March 11, 1950, at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, military personnel reported observing one unidentified object. The object was round, about the size of a quarter, and…

On September 26, 1950, a cigar-shaped object with a glowing appearance was reported over Birmingham, Alabama. A civilian witness observed the object during a drive-in movie. The ob…

On December 11, 1950, about 12:10 p.m. mountain time, three people reported an object about two miles east of Bliss, Idaho. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On August 12, 1950, a man vacationing near Bogalusa, Louisiana saw an unusual object in the sky while taking an evening walk with his wife and sister-in-law. The witness was on a c…

On the night of April 7, 1950, around 9:55 p.m., a control tower watch supervisor at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, reported a strange light. He saw a deep b…

On March 13, 1950, at about 8:05 a.m., a civilian near Bradford, Illinois, reported a saucer shaped object. The sighting was made from the air and relayed through aviation authorit…

On August 27, 1950, around 6:30 p.m., a civilian pilot reported an object while flying near Brockton, Massachusetts. The witness was a private licensed pilot, and a young passenger…

On March 28, 1950, between about 11:15 and 11:30 a.m., several people in Brunswick, Georgia, reported flying objects. Witnesses described five objects, three in one group and two i…

In the spring of 1950, an officer stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado, saw an object streak across the northeastern sky. The observer watched it for about seven seconds. The object…

On December 1, 1950, civilians in Charleston, South Carolina, reported an unusual object in the sky. The object was described as white and red in color and resembled a big star. Wi…

On the night of April 24, 1950, people in several South Carolina cities reported a bright object in the sky. The record includes reports from the Charleston, Columbia, and Greenvil…

This Air Force file covers two separate sightings. On March 28, 1950, around 4 p.m., two women in Chattanooga, Tennessee, reported a round, silver object in the sky heading toward…

On August 7, 1950, a flying disc was reported sighted over Riverdale, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. A witness heard a sound like an airplane and then spotted a flat circular objec…

On July 1, 1950, around 1:09 a.m., a man in or near Chicago, Illinois, reported a bright object in the sky. The witness was a civilian doctor. He said the object flew from north to…

On April 18, 1950, a Northrop Aircraft test pilot flying near Memphis, Texas, spotted an unidentified object in the sky. The pilot, Max Stanley, had been asked to investigate after…

On the evening of January 7, 1950, a Captain stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw something unusual while driving south of Corona. The object appeared as a bright…

On January 14, 1950, a car salesman in Dalton, Georgia, reported an aircraft passing very low over his home. He was backing his car out of his driveway when he saw it. The object w…

This file centers on a sighting reported by a woman from Minnesota who wrote to the Air Force about an object she and her husband saw while driving in Florida on a trip. The OCR of…

On April 4, 1950, at 9:50 p.m., the Provost Marshal's office in Delano, California received a report of a flying saucer sighting 37 miles north of Bakersfield. A 17-year-old boy an…

On the night of September 20, 1950, a B-25 aircraft carrying USAF personnel observed an unusual object near Denver, Colorado. The observers, who were airborne at the time, reported…

On the evening of January 18, 1950, eight U.S. Air Force pilots flying in four separate aircraft near Denver, Colorado reported seeing a fast moving flame or bright light streaking…

On the night of July 20, 1950, near Southfield Township, Michigan, six Girl Scouts at a summer camp reported a bright object. The witnesses were girls aged about 12 to 14, along wi…

On June 29, 1950, near Dowagiac, Michigan, a farmer reported watching a flying saucer come out of a military plane. The man, John Keller, was riding a tractor in a hay field when h…

On May 1, 1950, near East Ely, Nevada, civilians reported seeing a silvery white object hovering about 100 feet above the ground. The object hovered and moved back and forth before…

On September 2, 1950, at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland, a military observer reported a strange encounter. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official…

On August 30, 1950, military radar operators and civilian witnesses across Newfoundland reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky and on radar screens. The sightings occurred…

On September 8, 1950, near Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington, witnesses reported a bright light, one of several sightings near the base around that date. The report is part of…

On September 3, 1950, a military source near Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington reported a bright light. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record sy…

On August 7, 1950, the crew of the motor vessel Minerva reported seeing an unusual flaming object while sailing from San Francisco toward the Panama Canal. The sighting occurred at…

On the morning of March 6, 1950, two Army officers at Fort Bliss, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky. First Lieutenant Philip W. Arant and Corporal Johnnie L. Adams were in…