Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 24, 1950, three Air Force officers flying a C-45 transport aircraft from Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina to Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C., spotted an…

On the evening of January 6, 1950, two employees of Bendix Aviation in Kansas City punched out at 1926 hours (7:26 p.m.) and stepped into the parking lot. Looking toward the southw…

On the night of January 12, 1950, a B-29 bomber flying over the Gulf of Mexico at coordinates 24 degrees north, 85 degrees west encountered something unusual on its radar. At 2325…

On March 15, 1950, three crew members from TACA Airlines reported seeing three to four shiny, metallic objects flying over Guatemala City Airport in Guatemala. The witnesses were s…

Two Air Force officers at March Air Force Base in Southern California observed an unusual bright object in the sky on the morning of October 14, 1950. One was a navigator and the o…

This Air Force intelligence report covers five reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in the United States between March 29 and April 17, 1950. One main account is from…

On December 4, 1949, at 1935 (7:35 p.m.) Mountain time, several people in New Mexico reported a green fireball. A New York Life Insurance salesman in Albuquerque saw a green fireba…

This file is a U.S. Air Force intelligence record from 1949 and 1950 that was marked 'No Case, Information Only.' It preserves a press account headlined 'The Flying Saucers Are Bac…

The sky above Albuquerque came alive with strange luminous objects in February 1949, launching investigations that would puzzle Air Force officers for weeks. Three separate sightin…

On December 4, 1949, at 1935 hours MST, a civilian in Albuquerque, New Mexico observed a green fireball in the northeastern sky. The object's duration, speed, and other details are…

On September 2, 1949, two people in Alexandria, Louisiana saw something unusual in the sky. The first sighting happened around 6:50 p.m. A retired writer and poet named Mrs. Gwen…

On the evening of July 6, 1949, a woman in Alexandria, Louisiana saw an unusual object in the sky while sitting in her front yard. She described it as round and flat-edged, with a…

On July 7, 1949, at about 9 p.m., Mrs. Wanner was sitting on her front porch at 1821 Waschauer Street in Alexandria, Louisiana, when she noticed a bright object in the sky. She cal…

On the evening of June 24, 1949, a Astoria resident named Mrs. Scaife looked out her kitchen window while preparing dinner around 1830 to 1845 hours (6:30 to 6:45 p.m.) and spotted…

# Atlantic, Iowa October 1949 Two men in Atlantic, Iowa reported seeing an unusual flying object on October 28, 1949 at 1000 (10 a.m.). One of the witnesses later wrote directly t…

On July 26, 1949, a civilian near Augusta, Kentucky, reported seeing a shaft of light in the sky at regular intervals over about one hour. The person wrote to the Air Force, which…

On March 24, 1949, civilians in Bend, Oregon reported seeing unusual objects in the sky that drew crowds of onlookers to the streets. Two objects appeared over the town during the…

On January 27, 1949, an Air Force captain and his wife observed an unusual flying object over the Gulf of Mexico between Cortez and Bradenton, Florida. The sighting lasted between…

On November 18, 1949, three guards at the Biloxi Veterans Hospital in Mississippi watched an unusual object pass through the sky over the Gulf Coast. The chief guard first spotted…

On the evening of August 8, 1949, two sightings of an unidentified object took place within a few hours of each other in southern Mississippi. In Hattiesburg, at approximately 2030…

On August 19, 1949, at approximately 1500 (3 p.m.), a man and his wife driving between Glenn Haven and Bloomington, Wisconsin spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witness said…

On the evening of July 5, 1949, civilian witnesses watched an unusual object in the sky northwest of Boise, Idaho, from a high point along Skyline Road. They described a brilliant…

On May 13, 1949, a newspaper reporter named Smith was driving from Caldwell to Boise, Idaho, when he spotted something unusual in the western sky near Shafer Butte. He watched a si…

# Bourbon County, Kentucky, January 1949 In mid-January 1949, people in Bourbon County, Kentucky reported seeing something unusual in the sky. The primary witness was Paul Brannon…

On May 22, 1949, at approximately 5:00 p.m., a family on a fishing trip at Caddo Lake, Louisiana, about one mile west of Horningport, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The main…

On the night of April 28, 1949, soldiers stationed at Camp Hood, Texas spotted unusual lights in the sky. The sightings began around 8:30 p.m. and continued for several hours, with…

On May 8, 1949, military personnel at Camp Hood, Texas reported a single diamond-shaped object in the night sky. Witnesses described it as a brilliant light that changed color from…

On the evening of July 11, 1949, a sergeant with the 42nd Armored Infantry Battalion at Camp Hood, Texas, saw something unusual streak across the sky. He was lying in a prone posit…

On May 23, 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood, Texas reported seeing unusual lights in the sky during four separate observation periods that day and night. The sightings involved multiple…

On the evening of March 31, 1949, a 1st Lieutenant stationed at Camp Hood, Texas observed a bright object streaking across the night sky. The object was traveling at high speed on…

On June 13, 1949, military observers at Camp Hood, Texas reported seeing an unusual bright light moving through the night sky. The Air Force investigated this sighting along with e…

On the evening of June 6, 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood, Texas observed unusual lights in the sky that sparked an Air Force investigation. Two separate groups of military observers…

On the night of May 7, 1949, military personnel at Camp Hood, Texas spotted unusual lights in the sky. Using artillery observation equipment and binoculars, observers tracked diamo…

On the evening of May 6, 1949, a lieutenant at Camp Hood, Texas, watched an unusual glowing object for fifty minutes. The object appeared about the size of a half dollar at first,…

On the evening of April 27, 1949, soldiers stationed at Camp Hood, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. The first sighting occurred at 9:20 p.m. (2120) when four Army personne…

Between March and May 1949, many sightings were reported near Camp Hood and the Killeen area of Texas. The reports were collected and forwarded by an Army base command in June 1949…

On the night of July 24, 1949, a radar observer and pilot stationed at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, witnessed an unusual aerial display. The radar observer's wife…

On April 28, 1949, a civilian on Catalina Island, California reported seeing six objects in the sky. According to the report, the objects did not travel together. Each one flew by…

In April 1949, two observers at a rodeo in Charlotte, North Carolina reported seeing an unusual amber-colored object in the sky. The object appeared cylindrical in shape, remained…

On June 5, 1949, multiple observers in Ohio and Florida reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations looked into two separate s…

On the morning of September 8, 1949, five U.S. Air Force officers stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines observed a contrail (a visible trail left by aircraft exhaust…

On the night of April 5, 1949, multiple witnesses in Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing a strange red light in the sky. The object was described as glowing, steady, and roughly the si…

On April 22, 1949, a civilian near Cliff, New Mexico watched a single aluminum-colored object move across the sky. The witness described it as round, flat, and shaped like a thin d…

On the afternoon of April 15, 1949, three military personnel at Peterson Air Field in Colorado Springs spotted two round, bright objects moving rapidly across the sky. The sighting…

On August 1, 1949, air traffic controllers in Columbus, Ohio spotted a puzzling object in the sky above Port Columbus Airport. At roughly 1900 hours (7 p.m.), a witness at the cont…

On the evening of July 31, 1949, around 7:15 p.m., a motor oiler in Columbus, Ohio saw an unusual object in the western sky. He described it as oval shaped, greyish-blue in color,…

On June 3, 1949, a civilian driving about ten miles southeast of Culpeper, Virginia saw a shiny, disc-shaped object traveling across the sky at an estimated speed of 900 to 1,500 m…

On the morning of February 11, 1949, a civilian worker in Curling East, Newfoundland, observed a dull red ball of light in the sky that faded and then re-appeared as a long flame r…

On the evening of May 21, 1949, multiple witnesses in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a group of unusual objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred between approximately 8…

On August 15, 1949, two women in Dallas, Texas observed bright, metallic disc-shaped objects moving slowly across the sky in formation. The first observer, standing on her home por…

On July 21, 1949, at about 1950 (7:50 p.m.), a reporter and five other people in a car saw an object near Darien, Georgia, while driving south on the Coastal Highway. The report ca…

On May 16, 1949, at approximately 5:00 p.m., an airman stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, spotted an unusual object while lying on his bed in the barrack…

On August 26, 1949, at 1245 (12:45 p.m.), an officer at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona watched a standard weather balloon launch. As the balloon rose to approximat…

On the evening of July 10, 1949, a civilian employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual object in the northeastern sky while standing in his yard.…

On February 10, 1949, two Air Force pilots flying north of Dayton, Ohio, spotted an unusual bright object in the night sky. Captain Roger J. Crosclose and First Lieutenant Ray W. A…

On August 8, 1949, two prospectors reported finding a large circular object crashed on the ground in Death Valley, California. The object was approximately 24 feet in diameter and…

On the evening of July 23, 1949, two fishermen at a stone quarry near Delphi, Indiana were casting for bass when one of them spotted unusual lights in the sky. The men, who were em…

In April 1949, a former U.S. Air Force pilot living near Merced, California reported experiencing a striking encounter late one night. According to his witness statement, he was st…

# A Colorado Springs Sighting On August 20, 1949, an Air Force civilian employee reported seeing an unusual aircraft near Denver, Colorado. The man watched the object for about tw…

On April 6, 1949, at approximately 8 p.m., two motorists parked in the lot at Stapleton Airport in Denver, Colorado, sighted a bluish-white light moving eastward across the sky. Th…