Project Blue Book Case Files

On a day in October 1947, two mine workers near Cave Creek, Arizona spotted something unusual in the sky. Working at an elevation of about 8,000 to 10,000 feet, they watched an obj…

On the afternoon of July 7, 1947, a man in Phoenix, Arizona witnessed an unusual aircraft-like object flying over his home. He grabbed his camera and managed to take two photograph…

In June 1947, a Portland-area prospector reported seeing five or six disk-shaped objects banking and maneuvering in the sky while he worked in the Cascade Mountains near the Oregon…

On December 1, 1947, in Rosedale, California, an aerial object was sighted. The witness observed the object at 12:25 p.m. The object was described as white or silver in color and m…

On August 13, 1947, two men at Salmon Dam, Idaho heard a loud roar and looked up to see two circular objects flying at a great height. The men estimated the objects were between 4,…

In June 1947, a civilian in Seattle, Washington, reported a sighting that was later sent to the Air Force in a letter. The observation was made visually from the ground. The witne…

On 15 July 1947, a civilian woman in West Seattle, Washington, reported that a flying disk had landed on her roof at about 9:40 p.m. the night before. She said the object was burni…

On July 7, 1947, in Shreveport, Louisiana, a man named Harston observed what he thought was a flying disc. At 6:05 p.m., he heard a whirling sound coming from above and looked up t…

On Saturday, June 21, 1947, a resident of Spokane, Washington was in his yard shortly before noon when he spotted something unusual in the sky. He had been watching a twin-engine m…

In July 1947, a civilian near Tempe, Arizona, reported seeing a silver disc in the sky. The report to the Air Technical Intelligence Center was dated 28 April (year unclear on the…

The OCR'd case file is too extensively garbled to support a reliable summary. The document contains mostly illegible text corrupted during digitization, with few clearly readable p…

On August 13, 1947, a farmer in Smoke River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho, watched an unusual object fly through the canyon with his two young sons, ages eight and ten. The object…

On 6, 7, or 8 July 1947, a civilian near Warren, Ohio, reported a blue white object seen from the ground. The card is marked UNCLASSIFIED. The witness described an object 8 to 14…

On June 14, 1947, someone in Weiser, Idaho witnessed an unusual object in the sky. The observer reported that the object shot up and down before leveling off with a glistening trai…

In June 1947, an object described as round was reported diving straight down over Williams Air Force Base in Arizona. According to the brief account in the file, the observer watch…

On October 20, 1947, a female civilian in Xenia, Ohio reported seeing a silver, round object about 12 inches in diameter traveling at fast speed at an altitude of 1,000 to 1,500 fe…

On the night of July 7, 1947, a single observer in Arlington, Virginia spotted what he described as a blob of bright, cool white light crossing the sky at extremely high speed. The…

In July 1947, police officers and citizens in the Portland, Oregon area spotted several unusual objects in the sky. Officer Kenneth McDowell was feeding pigeons behind the police p…

On December 1, 1947, in Lowell, Arizona, a well-known aerodynamicist reported observing a white object in the early morning sky. The object traveled at 600 miles per hour at an alt…

On December 1, 1947, at 7:26 p.m., USAF pilots near Breverton, Kentucky observed an unidentified object. The object was described as having an intense green and blue flame. It was…

On the evening of September 12, 1947, two Pan American Airways pilots observed an unusual object while flying eastbound from Midway Island toward Osaka, Japan. The pilots, both exp…

In June 1947, a civilian observer in Idaho reported seeing a comet-shaped object in the sky that appeared to be stationary. The object was observed from the ground, and the witness…

On June 10, 1947, in Hungary, a civilian reported observing an unidentified object. The number of objects and length of observation were not reported. The sighting was a ground-vis…

On June 1, 1961, at 11:13 p.m., a bright object was observed near latitude 19.25 N, longitude 116.20 E at an altitude of 60 degrees. The object was directly overhead and emitted fi…

On October 22, 1952, an airman reported an unusual object over Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska. The sighting happened at about 2:40 a.m. local time as Airman Second Class John E.…

On April 5, 1962, an air crew near San Juan, Puerto Rico, reported what appeared to be a green flare about 20 miles north-northeast of San Juan. About the same time, a military tra…

On April 14, 1961, four objects were picked up on air intercept radar near Anderson Air Force Base, in the Pacific area around 18 degrees 34 minutes north and 142 degrees 57 minute…