Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 10, 1950, at 10:25 a.m., a WOJO officer of the 111th CIC Detachment at Fort McPherson, Georgia sighted a metal object in the sky to the northwest. The object appeared small…

On April 14, 1950, near Port Monmouth, New Jersey, a man driving on Wilson Avenue saw four objects in the sky. The report says this happened in the early afternoon. He stopped his…

On December 6, 1950, near Fort Myers, Florida, civilians reported a flying object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying obje…

In April 1950, Ira Maxey, a former Air Force radar bombardier, reported photographing strange objects in the sky near Fort Worth, Texas. According to news accounts, Maxey had calle…

On January 7, 1950, at 12:24 a.m., a farmer near Gashland, Missouri, reported seeing one unidentified object. The object was brilliant white in color and moved northwest. It flew a…

On March 4, 1950, a male civilian in Grass Plains, Texas reported seeing four or five objects at 1 p.m. CST. The objects were flat and elliptical in shape, white to silvery in colo…

On March 1, 1950, at Greater Pittsburgh Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, military observers reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The object was round, white, and hove…

Around 11:30 a.m. on August 15, 1950, Nicholas Mariana, the general manager of the Great Falls Selectrics, a minor-league baseball team in Great Falls, Montana, was checking the wi…

On June 21, 1950, at about 1:38 a.m., observers at Hamilton Air Force Base, California, reported a fast object in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's offici…

In early April 1950, around dusk, about a hundred or more people in Hertford, North Carolina, reported an elongated, lightly lighted object crossing the western sky. A group standi…

On the evening of March 28, 1950, four people in Northern Minnesota reported seeing a glowing object moving across the sky near Hibbing and Duluth. The most detailed accounts came…

On December 24, 1950, at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, a D/Sgt and various civilians observed a white-orange tall object at 2232 hours. The object was sighted high at 6,000 feet…

On July 5, 1950, at 1:50 p.m., three staff sergeants at Hill Air Force Base radar station in Utah observed an unidentified aerial object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitud…

On the night of January 6, 1950, Russell O. Womack Jr., a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, saw…

On March 11, 1950, at 11:08 a.m., military personnel at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico observed an unidentified object. The sighting was documented as a ground visual observ…

On the evening of January 12, 1950, Private First Class John M. Gusich, a file clerk at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, spotted an unusual object in the sky. He first saw it…

On the morning of May 24, 1950, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, military camera crews photographed objects in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's of…

On January 6, 1950, three U.S. Air Force officers flying a C-47 transport aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Howard, Kansas. The crew consisted of Captain Robert Zielonka…

On July 15, 1950, a man assigned to Los Alamos, New Mexico saw a bright metallic object from a window. He described it as aluminum colored and shaped like a flying wing. The sighti…

On July 13, 1950, in the afternoon, a crowd of civilians at the courthouse in Jacksonville, Florida, watched a shiny object high in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the…

On July 1, 1950, around 5 a.m., a newspaper reporter in the Riverside area of Jacksonville, Florida, reported seeing strange objects in the sky. The witness was a female civilian,…

On November 5, 1950, near Jonesville, Louisiana, members of a farm family reported objects in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unid…

On October 7, 1950, about 7:25 p.m. local time, a civilian on the island of Kauai, Hawaii, reported a glowing object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official…

On May 17, 1950, a 13-year-old boy in Kenosha, Wisconsin reported sighting a bright light at 8:30 p.m. The light was between 10,000 and 15,000 feet altitude and moved in a direct a…

# Two Sightings Over Key West, November 1950 On the nights of November 14 and 15, 1950, military radar and pilots detected two unidentified aircraft operating in restricted airspa…

On February 7, 1950, several people reported a fireball or unidentified object over the Albuquerque and Kirtland Air Force Base area in New Mexico. The investigation began with inf…

On September 20, 1950, about 10:49 a.m., a driver between Kit Carson and Cheyenne Wells, Colorado, reported five objects in the sky. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Fo…

On March 1, 2, and 3, 1950, a radar station near Knoxville, Tennessee, tracked unidentified targets on three nights in a row. The station reported the objects to the Atomic Energy…

On the night of October 12, 1950, and again on October 13, an unidentified radar target appeared on screens at McGhee-Tyson Airport near Knoxville, Tennessee, over the restricted a…

On the nights of November 29 and 30, 1950, radar operators at McGhee-Tyson Airport near Knoxville, Tennessee detected unusual blips on their radar screens that alarmed military and…

On April 8, 1950, around 2 a.m., a sheet metal worker in Kokomo, Indiana, reported an object after being awakened by his dog. He said he saw an object about 200 feet up, almost dir…

On July 22, 1950, at 1710 hours (5:10 p.m. Alaska time), military personnel stationed at Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska spotted an unusual object in the sky. Several airm…

Around April 1950, in or near Lafayette, Indiana, the Air Force opened a record about a man who contacted them. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record s…

On the night of November 7, 1950, a Navy pilot flying an AD-6 aircraft approached Lakehurst Naval Air Station at about 3,500 feet. He spotted a steady white light off his right win…

On December 27, 1950, shortly before 9:20 p.m., two naval tower operators at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey spotted an unusual light in the southeastern sky. The operato…

On October 11, 1950, a worker at the Lark Tunnel in Lark, Utah saw an unusual object cross the night sky. The man, a compressor operator, was working at approximately 2210 hours (1…

On March 17, 1950, around 4:30 p.m., a flight operator preparing to land at Adams Field in Little Rock, Arkansas, reported one or more objects. He was about 500 feet up in the land…

On the evening of March 15, 1950, several people in the Little Silver area of New Jersey reported seeing three distinct white vapor trails moving across the sky. The sightings occu…

In December 1950, in London, England, news broadcasts reported small transparent objects that resembled bricks or ice falling from the sky over Great Britain. The report is part of…

On the evening of December 24, 1950, a bright, glowing object appeared in the sky above Los Alamos, New Mexico, an atomic research facility. An observer stationed at the junction o…

On December 21, 1950, about 7:40 a.m., a civilian reported a bright object near Los Alamos, New Mexico. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for uni…

On February 25, 1950, Atomic Energy Security Service inspectors at Los Alamos, New Mexico, reported an unusual aerial object. The sighting happened between about 3:45 p.m. and 3:56…

On the evening of January 9, 1950, three scientists at Los Alamos, New Mexico watched a bright object streak across the sky. The sighting lasted only about two seconds. All three o…

On March 29, 1950, around 7 a.m., two real estate salesmen fishing on Marrowbone Lake near Nashville, Tennessee, reported a group of objects. The lake is about 18 miles from Nashvi…

On March 29, 1950, at 8:02 p.m., a military observer at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama reported an unidentified flying object over the runway heading 255 degrees. The object app…

On Thanksgiving Day 1950, a military officer at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama saw four unusual objects moving across the sky in just over fifteen minutes. Between 3:08 p.m. and…

On November 13, 1950, military pilots and ground observers in Mississippi reported seeing an unusual object in the sky that remained unidentified by the U.S. Air Force. The main s…

On June 21, 1950, at 11:30 a.m. at Misawa Air Base, Japan, an AF Officer sighted a highly polished silver circular object. The object was 20 feet in diameter and 5 feet thick, flyi…

On the evening of June 23, 1950, witnesses across a broad stretch of the southern United States saw a brilliant ball of fire streak across the sky. The object was visible to people…

On March 22, 1950, around 1 p.m., a civilian restaurant operator near Montpelier, Vermont, reported two objects. He said he first saw an aircraft at high altitude leaving three or…

On March 27, 1950, at approximately 10:30 a.m., a radar operator at a gun position on Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, detected an unidentified object on radar. The object was first pick…

On September 26, 1950, about 8:36 p.m. Pacific time, two Air Force navigators reported an object near the Mt. Palomar Observatory in California. The report is part of Project 10073…

On September 17, 1950, residents around Nashville and Cookeville, Tennessee, reported odd streaks of light in the sky shortly before 6 p.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the…

On October 20, 1950, about 6:15 p.m., a civilian near New Haven, Connecticut, reported a bright object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for uni…

On April 12, 1950, around 11:30 p.m., a man in New Orleans, Louisiana, was awakened in bed by his wife, who saw an object through the window. Their home was just behind the levee o…

On the night of April 10, 1950, four separate observers in New Orleans, Louisiana reported seeing an unidentified aerial object moving rapidly across the sky. All sightings occurre…

On October 10, 1950, a father and son in New Orleans watched a bright, noiseless object hover in the sky for five to ten minutes. The object glowed with a whitish-blue light and ap…

On August 20, 1950, around 11:30 a.m. local time, a U.S. military officer at Nicosia Airfield, Cyprus, saw a bright object. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's offic…

On the evening of November 2, 1950, two flying officers stationed north of Rome, New York reported observing a bright blue-white flash of light. The event occurred at 1935 hours (7…

On December 5, 1950, two people reported an object over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, between about 12:45 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official r…