Project Blue Book Case Files

On November 5, 1957, at 11:55 p.m., a civilian in Walworth, Wisconsin reported seeing a small, round object that was red and white with a flashing light. The object was first stati…

On January 18, 1957, a civilian in Washington, D.C. reported observing one round bluish-green object about half a dollar in size. The object appeared as a star except for its color…

On May 1, 1957, an object described as "one bright electric blue round object with tail" was observed in the sky above Washington, D.C. The object moved from east to west in a stra…

On June 2, 1957, in Waterloo, Iowa, one object of unknown shape and pan-colored pink was sighted at 3:09 a.m. The object was stationary below the horizon with no maneuvers observed…

On December 21, 1957, near Waverly, Iowa, an observer reported two round white objects in the night sky. The sighting lasted about 45 seconds. The objects were said to be the size…

On November 8, 1957, at 12:01 a.m. in Waverly, Illinois, a civilian witness reported seeing an object larger than an airplane with white and green coloring. The object had fuzzy or…

On the late afternoon of November 26, 1957, the U.S. Air Force picked up a damaged object in Wayne, Michigan. According to the case file, it had fallen from the sky the night befor…

On November 9, 1957, at 1505 (3:05 p.m.), a person in Waynesville, Ohio saw a bright white object in the sky. The object was round and about the size of a baseball. It looked like…

On November 1, 1957, a ground-visual sighting was reported in Westbury, Long Island, New York. A civilian witness observed an object described as baseball-white in color traveling…

On December 17, 1957, near dusk in Westchester, New York, a civilian witnessed an object described as a good sized balloon with a bowl shape on top and bottom. The object traveled…

On the morning of December 3, 1957, a man driving home from work near Saratoga, New York, saw a large brilliant bluish-green object with an orange tail falling through the sky towa…

On September 10, 1957, at 10:30 p.m. local time, a military observer at Wheelus Air Force Base in Libya reported a spherical object the size of a pea with a yellowish orange color.…

At about 1 p.m. on November 4, 1957, James Stokes, an electronic warfare engineer at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, was driving south on U.S. Highway 54 toward El Paso w…

On November 11, 1957, around 5:15 to 5:20 p.m. GMT, a civilian and his family reported an object while driving on U.S. Route 60 near the West Virginia state line, headed toward Whi…

Multiple unidentified objects were tracked on radar at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri on November 6, 1957. The objects appeared on both search radar and precision radar equipm…

On August 30, 1957, at 0037 (Greenwich time) near Wichita, Kansas, a military air crew reported one object. The aircraft, Braniff 48, estimated the object at 25,000 feet, heading a…

On July 22, 1957, civilians near Wild Rice, North Dakota reported observing a star-like object that was blue to firey brown in color. The object appeared longer than its width and…

On November 5, 1957, at Williams Bay Air Force Station in Wisconsin, military personnel observed a small, round, red object that flashed red and white light. The object was station…

On July 31, 1957, two people in Wilmington, Delaware saw a round, dime-sized object that appeared white or silver in color. A friend called their attention to it because the object…

On November 7, 1957, at 7:24 p.m. local time, a civilian in Winston Salem, North Carolina reported seeing a disc-shaped object the size of a silver dollar, white in color, with stu…

On November 5, 1957, at approximately 11:51 p.m., a civilian observer near Wintzville, Missouri, reported sighting a very long object longer than any known aircraft. The object was…

On September 27, 1957, in the evening, a witness in West Jefferson, Ohio saw one object that looked like a red fireball. It moved on a southwest course. The object crossed from one…

On the night of November 12, 1957, a resident of West Los Angeles reported seeing a bright, round white object in the sky. The witness watched the light for about 85 minutes as it…

On the night of November 24, 1957, a 37-year-old sales clerk near Del Rio, Texas saw something odd in the sky. He described it as a round, red object about the size of a baseball.…

On August 14, 1957, at 3:04 a.m., a civilian in Woodland Hills, California reported a very large, long object twice the size of an aircraft with white coloring and two lights appea…

In early November 1957, multiple witnesses across Illinois and Wisconsin reported seeing unusual glowing objects in the sky near the state border. The Air Force received reports of…

On April 29, 1957, between about 10:05 p.m. and 10:40 p.m. local time, two civilian college students in Worcester, Massachusetts reported three separate sightings. They were watchi…

On November 5, 1957, at 8:02 p.m., a civilian in West Port Washington, Washington reported sighting a round, white, medium-sized object that remained stationary and then faded away…

A soldier at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio reported seeing a bright object in the sky in November 1957. He said the object was round and goldish white. He looked at it th…

On November 6, 1957, a witness at Yonkers, New York, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation that lasted about 30 seconds. The object was round…

On December 5, 1957, at 6:41 a.m. in Yonkers, New York, a civilian witness observed a streak of light about twice the size of a star while driving in a car. The object was whitish-…

On November 27, 1957, a witness in Yosemite, Kentucky saw one round orange object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was seen falling. It was in sight for about t…

On May 26, 1957, at 10 p.m., a civilian observer in Yuma, Arizona, reported seeing one object with a long, narrow shape while looking through a telescope at stars. The object was d…

On February 13, 1957, at 8:20 p.m., a civilian observer reported one object near Yuma, Arizona. The object was described as the size of a pinhead with a color that changed from red…

On July 25, 1957, a man in Iran watched a bright shining object moving south. The sighting lasted over five minutes. One unidentified object was observed moving south on July 26, 1…

On November 8, 1957 (recorded at 11:20 p.m. GMT), two cigar-shaped objects were reported near Philadelphia, Mississippi. The sighting lasted about 3 minutes. The two objects were b…

On October 22, 1957, west of Portugal, a civilian reported sighting a strange object approximately 40 degrees above the western horizon passing south to north at high speed. The ob…

On November 26, 1957, an air crew flying at 15,000 feet near the Sea of Okhotsk in the USSR observed one object with a bluish-green trail. The object flashed from right to left in…

# Multi-City UFO Sightings Over Florida and Georgia In November 1957, multiple witnesses across Florida and Georgia reported seeing unusual aerial objects during pre-dawn hours. T…

In July 1957, an American tourist named Mrs. William Felton Barrett took a photograph along the Norwegian coast while on a cruise. She aimed her camera at a group of houses on a cl…

In November 1957, observers across Pennsylvania reported seeing bright lights in the night sky that the U.S. Air Force ultimately attributed to the aurora borealis, a natural atmos…

# Summary On August 2, 1957, at roughly 4:30 a.m., an observer at Red Bluff Air Force Station in California spotted a bright white object the size of a baseball streaking overhead…

On November 6, 1957, a witness at Long Beach, California, reported one object in the sky. The sighting was a ground visual observation. The object was still in sight at the time of…

On November 30, 1957, something bright streaked across the evening sky over Southern California. Military observers at Naval Ordnance Test Station San Clemente Island watched it pa…

On September 21, 1957, at about 2240 (10:40 p.m.) local time in the Panama Canal Zone, a military witness saw one rapidly moving object. It appeared to come through a gap formed by…

In early December 1957, witnesses across the northeastern United States reported seeing a bright, fast-moving object with a distinctive colored tail. The sightings occurred over se…

Between October 12 and October 20, 1957, dozens of Americans reported seeing a bright, star-like object in the night sky. Over the course of nine days, the Air Force received sight…

On November 1, 1957, at 8:22 p.m., a civilian observer in the Atlantic off the coast of North Carolina reported sighting one object. The witness described a large pink illumination…

On August 21, 1957, a white flash or three aircraft were observed over the Atlantic Ocean near JRGE 2814 by a Pan Am 377 civilian airline pilot. The sighting was instantaneous. The…

On November 1, 1957, at approximately 12:00 a.m., a round white object the size of a nickel was sighted near Alpine, Arizona. The object was observed on a downward course moving sl…

On September 12, 1957, near Ne France, a military observer sighted one round object described as silver dollar-sized, light gray or white in color. An object was hanging beneath th…

On December 3, 1957, at 12:00 a.m., a military observer at Johnson Island AFB reported sighting one object. The object had the shape of a shooting star and was colored green. It tu…

On April 1, 1957, at 9:15 a.m. in Colorado Springs, a civilian witness reported one object shaped like a parachute, about half the size of a C-47 aircraft, white or shiny silver in…

On February 2, 1957, a military witness near Presidio, California, reported one object during daytime hours. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official recor…

On February 4, 1957, an airline passenger flying over Utah reported a single object below the aircraft. The witness was on a flight from San Francisco to St. Louis. He did not repo…

On December 2, 1957, three sightings of a light blue light were reported in the North Atlantic. The first sighting occurred at 12:50 a.m., the second at 12:57 a.m., and the third a…

On December 3, 1957, at 7:15 p.m., Naval Air Station personnel at Cape May, New Jersey, reported a very bright object in the southern sky. The object moved slightly southwest over…

On the evening of September 16, 1957, a man traveling north on U.S. Highway 93 in Nevada, about five miles south of Lincoln County, saw an unusual object in the night sky. The obje…

On May 20, 1957, at 8:20 p.m. local time, a round object of unknown size was sighted near Laredo, Texas. The object was reddish in color and traveled at an extremely high rate of s…

On March 22, 1957, radar at Los Angeles International Airport and Long Beach Municipal tower tracked objects near Los Angeles, California. The case was logged under Project 10073,…