Project Blue Book Case Files

On the morning of April 7, 1949, at around 4:15 a.m., a retired man in Des Moines, Iowa, was awakened by an intense light shining through his bedroom window. He got out of bed and…

On October 26, 1949, a man living seven miles outside Dickson, Tennessee wrote to the U.S. Army Intelligence Service to report something he and four other adults had seen on his fa…

On April 3, 1949, four people in Dillon, Montana, reported seeing a metallic, disk-shaped object at around 1150 hours (11:50 a.m.) in the northern sky above the city. The object ap…

On May 11, 1949, a male civilian in Dodgville, Wisconsin reported an unidentified object. The sighting lasted about one hour. The object was described as faster than an airplane an…

On September 5, 1949, an Air Force sergeant and his wife reported seeing an object while driving on U.S. Highway 40 about 25 miles east of Reno, Nevada. The time was 2:04 p.m. Moun…

# Summary On March 9, 1949, a weather officer driving near Eau Claire, Wisconsin, spotted an unusual object in the sky around 1500 hours (3 p.m.). The observer was a civilian weat…

On the morning of May 29, 1949, a railroad worker in Elko, Nevada, saw five amber-colored lights arranged in a V-shape traveling west at high speed. The man was working in the West…

At approximately 10:15 a.m. on May 2, 1949, a Civil Aeronautics Administration radio operator in Elko, Nevada was working on his car in his front yard when he glanced north and spo…

On the evening of April 15, 1949, observers traveling by car about 40 miles east of El Paso, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The main witness was Captain B. J. Walsh J…

On January 30, 1949, at 1800 (6 p.m.), witnesses across El Paso, Texas and parts of New Mexico saw a bright green fireball moving slowly across the sky. The object appeared to trav…

On May 30, 1949, at 1:32 p.m., a soldier at Sunrise Acres near El Paso, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the clear daytime sky. The soldier was watching a fighter plane when som…

A pilot at Enid Air Force Base in Oklahoma saw something unusual cross the night sky on April 21, 1949. At 9:40 p.m., while standing on the airfield and talking to two other airmen…

On July 24, 1949, at 2430 hours (12:30 a.m.), a person on the ground in Fairfield, Ohio, watched an object in the sky for about 15 seconds. The object appeared to be about the size…

On the morning of July 18, 1949, several military personnel at Fairfield Suisun Air Force Base in California spotted what they described as flying saucers moving at extremely high…

Early on the morning of July 16, 1949, several Air Force personnel stationed at Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base in California observed a strange glowing sphere in the sky. At appro…

# A Mystery in Baltimore's Sky On June 29, 1949, observers in Baltimore, Maryland reported seeing a group of strange, moving objects in the afternoon sky. The U.S. Air Force inves…

At Fort Bliss, Texas, on May 5, 1949, military officers on a firing range spotted two unidentified objects in the sky. The witnesses were reliable military personnel with clean rec…

On the morning of May 19, 1949, soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas saw a flashing silver object in the sky near the Hueco Mountains. The object appeared about the size of a th…

On the morning of June 22, 1949, a military officer at Fort Bliss, Texas, stood on the steps of Building 4100 and noticed several small, silvery objects moving through the air to t…

# Summary: Fort Devens, Massachusetts, June 1949 On the evening of June 23, 1949, at 2307 (11:07 p.m.), a U.S. Army officer stationed at Fort Devens, Massachusetts saw an unusual…

On April 15, 1949, at 5:25 p.m. CST, a civilian driving east along Grand Avenue in Fort Smith, Arkansas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The man had stopped at a traffic ligh…

On July 7, 1949, a military pilot standing on the horizontal stabilizer of a B-36 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The…

Two Air Force officers at Fort Worth, Texas sighted an unidentified flying object on April 13, 1949, at approximately 2105 (9:05 p.m.). First Lieutenant Robert A. Francis and Capta…

On June 5, 1949, at 1950 hours (7:50 p.m.), a U.S. Army captain serving as Post Engineer at Wingate Ordnance Depot near Gallup, New Mexico observed an unusual object in the sky. He…

On July 20, 1949, a man reclining in a beach chair on Galveston Public Beach saw a bright, round object moving across the sky. The sighting lasted less than thirty seconds. The obj…

On the evening of February 14, 1949, a civilian couple near Ganado Mission, Arizona reported a single white light with an orange tinge in the sky. They saw it at about 1840 (6:40 p…

On the morning of June 4, 1949, a man driving on Old Brownsville Road near Ginger Hill, Pennsylvania saw something unusual in the sky. The object was oval in shape and very thin, l…

On June 17, 1949, at about 3:30 p.m., a driver near Glendale, California noticed something bright catching the sunlight. The observer was traveling by car in the Glendale area, rou…

In the summer of 1949, a Maryland man named Jonathan E. Caldwell became the focus of an official Air Force investigation after two unusual experimental aircraft were discovered aba…

On February 7, 1949, at 01:50 a.m., Sergeant Donald Ledbetter, the control tower operator at Godman Air Force Base in Fort Knox, Kentucky, spotted a bright object in the southweste…

On the night of September 10, 1949, a pilot flying an NBC (National Broadcasting Company) aircraft near Goose Bay, Labrador, spotted an unusual object at high altitude. The plane w…

On the evening of August 15, 1949, an unidentified object was sighted over Greenville, South Carolina, at about 7:30 p.m. Two witnesses reported it, one of them a civilian who work…

On October 27, 1949, a woman in Guntown, Mississippi watched two connected oval objects moving across the sky. The ovals were shiny, like polished aluminum, and were fastened toget…

On June 8, 1949, at about 0852 (8:52 a.m.), the crew of a military aircraft reported an object near Haines, Alaska. The plane was about 70 miles northwest of Juneau, flying at abou…

On the evening of August 28, 1949, four civilians near Hansville, Washington, reported seeing flying discs. The sighting happened about 6 p.m., between roughly 6:00 and 6:30. Two m…

On the morning of August 9, 1949, a man working at a lodge near Hebgen Lake in western Montana reported seeing eight disc-shaped objects streak across the sky. The worker, employed…

A pilot at Hickam Field in Hawaii watched an unusual object in the sky on January 4, 1949. Captain Paul Stoney was standing outside the Pacific Air Command Headquarters building wh…

On May 25, 1949, military personnel at Hill Air Force Base in Utah spotted two mysterious flying objects in the sky. The first sighting happened at 1405 hours (2:05 p.m.) when a fi…

On a clear January day in 1949, two separate sightings near Tillamook, Oregon raised questions that would eventually land on the desks of U.S. Air Force investigators. On January 2…

On June 4, 1949, at 1105 a.m. (Pacific Standard Time), two workers on a hilltop seven miles west of Hillsboro Airport spotted something odd in the sky. The men, both employed by th…

On the evening of August 10, 1949, a 73-year-old woman in Hindsville, Arkansas watched a bright disc-shaped object move across the sky. She first spotted it around 6 p.m. while loo…

On December 3, 1949, a civilian employee at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico reported an unusual object in the sky. The time was about 6:05 p.m. Mountain Standard Time. He was…

On the evening of May 12, 1949, a Harvard Observatory astronomer driving near Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico spotted something unusual in the eastern sky. The observer, who…

On the morning of April 28, 1949, a dairy employee in Homer, Michigan, was sitting in his office when he noticed six silver, disc-shaped objects in the sky. At first, he thought th…

On July 20, 1949, between about 10:30 and 11:00 a.m., a civilian woman in Honolulu, Hawaii, saw two objects while doing laundry behind her house. She was interviewed by investigato…

On May 31, 1949, at 1110 (11:10 a.m.), a U.S. Air Force pilot flying an F-80 jet at 20,000 feet over Honshu Island, Japan, spotted a silvery, flickering object in the sky. The pilo…

On August 31, 1949, two civilians in Houston, Texas, reported seeing a single object in the sky. The time was about 11:40 p.m. local time. The men were on duty at a power plant and…

On June 11, 1949, a man driving south of Huntsville, Ohio saw an object in the sky that appeared to dive directly at his car. He pulled over and got out for a better look. The obje…

On April 28, 1949, a civilian contacted Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois by long-distance telephone to report an unusual sighting over Indianapolis. The caller, identified only a…

On the night of January 15, 1949, personnel at Indian House Lake in Canada reported seeing a bright light streak across the sky at extremely high speed. The observers only saw the…

On the evening of July 25, 1949, a bright object fell from the sky near Vandercook Lake in Jackson, Michigan. The object struck the pavement in front of a house and burned a hole i…

On January 1, 1949, a private pilot and his wife, both experienced fliers, spotted an unusual object while flying over Mississippi in their civilian aircraft. The couple were desce…

On the night of June 27, 1949, a clerk-typist working in the Security Division at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico spotted something unusual from a second-floor barracks windo…

On January 6, 1949, Private First Class Meredith Everitt spotted a bright white diamond-shaped object traveling across the sky near Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Everitt,…

On June 23, 1949, at around 1400 hours (2 p.m.) Pacific Daylight Time, multiple witnesses in Klamath Falls, Oregon observed several unidentified objects moving across the sky. The…

On September 1, 1949, two teenagers on a camping trip near Knoxville, Tennessee spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses, both students at Central High School, said they…

On the night of August 19, 1949, a soldier operating an antiaircraft searchlight near Cincinnati, Ohio, picked up an unusual object in the light beam. He was a sergeant running a s…

On December 30, 1949, at 1210 (12:10 p.m.), a technical sergeant at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia spotted an unusual object while driving on a road about half a mile south of…

In September 1949, two sergeants flying a small private aircraft near Lebec, California spotted an oval, metallic object moving at high speed. The object rose steeply from the foot…

On May 4, 1949, a 60-year-old public health nurse named Miss Sherman saw a bright, shining object in the sky from the front porch of her home in Limona, Florida, near Tampa. Her tw…