Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 16, 1952, at approximately 9:35 a.m., a U.S. Coast Guard photographer at Salem, Massachusetts took a photograph of four bright lights in the sky west of the air station. Th…

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 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…

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-…

# UFO Sighting Off Labrador Coast, June 1952 On June 24, 1952, at approximately 2155 (9:55 p.m.) Greenwich Civil Time, a U.S. Air Force transport aircraft encountered radio contac…

On August 24, 1952, a radio entertainer named Barker saw an unusual object while driving near Pittsburg, Kansas. He described it as approximately 75 feet long, dull aluminum in col…

On August 20, 1952, radar operators at Marrakech in French Morocco detected an unidentified object moving at a reported speed of 1,157 miles per hour. The object appeared on an AN/…

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…

# Duluth, Minnesota, October 1952 On the afternoon of October 21, 1952, three separate witnesses in Duluth reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The accounts described a c…

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 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 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 28, 1952, a C-47 aircraft carrying three U.S. Air Force crew members from Perrin Air Force Base witnessed an unusual object near Paoli, Oklahoma. The sighting lasted app…

The OCR on these pages is too heavily degraded to extract reliable case details. While the document header identifies this as a July 1952 sighting from Clovis, New Mexico, and scat…

On the nights of October 15 and 16, 1952, radar operators at Ashiya Air Base in Japan detected multiple unidentified objects on their radar scopes. The objects appeared as blips si…

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 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 October 10, 1952, in Munston, England, airmen observed two glittering silver objects hovering over Munston Airfield in a circular pattern. The witnesses watched the objects for…

On August 7, 1952, at 1:19 p.m. EDT, a civilian woman in Washington D.C. reported seeing an object about the size of the moon. The object appeared as an almost perfect circle and m…

On July 1, 1952, at 10:18 p.m., a bluish-white object appearing as a pinpoint of light was sighted passing over East Springfield, Massachusetts, at an unknown distance and estimate…

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,…

On the night of July 1 to July 2, 1952, radar operators at Dobbins Air Force Base in Marietta, Georgia tracked an unidentified object on their radar screens. The object first appea…

On the night of July 24, 1952, a Technical Sergeant with the Air Force Band at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia observed three unidentified objects near Lakeland, Georgia, starting…

On May 27, 1952, at 1:15 p.m., an Arab boy fishing at Temara Beach in French Morocco called attention to an unidentified floating object estimated 1000 to 2000 yards offshore. The…

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…

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 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 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…

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 July 16, 1952, at around 8:50 p.m., a family driving home near Haddenfield, New Jersey, saw a strange object in the sky. The witnesses included a husband, wife, and three young…

On July 21, 1952, at 1:35 p.m., a round silver colored object was sighted 15 miles northwest of Bed Bluff, California, moving north west. The object was described as very high and…

On July 20, 1952, at 12:27 a.m. Central Time, Mr. Scott and others at Rigid, Illinois observed a bright light moving very fast. The object was estimated to be 4,200 feet high and t…

On July 19, 1952, near Rock Island, Illinois, a civilian man observed a brilliant object over the Mississippi River. The object appeared in the southern horizon and rose to 22 degr…

On July 5, 1952, an unidentified air object was observed by multiple Air Force personnel near Warwick Parish, Bermuda. The object was first spotted at 10:22 p.m. moving north to so…

# Hamilton Air Force Base, California - July 1952 A civilian employee at Hamilton Air Force Base near San Francisco spotted an unusual object on July 24, 1952. The witness was sta…

On the morning of December 14, 1952, three U.S. Air Force airmen at Tsutsu Saki in southern Japan spotted an unusual bright object in the sky. The men were radar operators and tech…

On the night of December 4, 1952, First Lieutenant Robert O. Arnold was flying a T-28 trainer aircraft near Laredo Air Force Base in Texas. He was waiting in a holding pattern for…

On December 6, 1952, a B-29 bomber returning to Texas from a training flight detected a series of high-speed objects on radar about 160 miles from Galveston and roughly 100 miles s…

On the morning of October 16, 1952, two U.S. Air Force pilots flying a T-6 training aircraft over Korea spotted something unusual. First Lieutenant William H. Hooper was in the fro…

On the evening of October 17, 1952, four Air Force officers stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque saw a bright blue object streak across the sky near Taos, New Mexi…

On the evening of November 10, 1952, a man living west of Covington, Ohio reported seeing a brilliant blue light in the sky to the northwest of his home. The light appeared to bob…

On October 30, 1952, two Air Police officers on duty at Truax Field near Madison, Wisconsin, watched an egg-shaped, silver-blue object pass overhead around 10:35 a.m. local time. A…

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…

On May 15, 1952, two F-86 fighter pilots flying a sweep over North Korea spotted a bright, silver object moving at high speed through the sky. The lead pilot, a 51st Fighter-Interc…

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 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 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 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 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…