USAF · 1947 to 1969
Project Blue Book Case Files
The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.
8 cases in CA from 1951 · page 1 of 1
Claremont, CA
1951 · unidentifiedOn the evening of September 6, 1951, two U.S. Air Force officers traveling by automobile on Highway 66 near Claremont, California witnessed an unusual formation of orange lights in…
Hollywood, CA
1951 · unidentifiedOn the evening of September 6, 1951, a woman standing on a sidewalk in Hollywood, California saw two glowing red objects appear in the southwestern sky near the moon. She watched a…
Long Beach, CA
1951 · unidentifiedOn September 23, 1951, four F-86 fighter jets scrambled from George Air Force Base in response to a report of an unidentified object spotted at 50,000 feet over Long Beach, Califor…
Los Angles, CA
1951 · unidentifiedIn November 1951, a Los Angeles resident reported seeing a large, unusual object hovering directly overhead for about three minutes. The witness described the craft as roughly 400…
Lucerne Valley, CA
1951 · unidentifiedOn February 6, 1951, near Lucerne Valley, California, two civilians reported strange objects in the afternoon sky. The witnesses, a structural draftsman and his wife, first saw two…
McClellan AFB, CA
1951 · unidentifiedOn March 13, 1951, near McClellan Air Force Base, California, an Air Force officer and his wife reported a strange object at about 1520 (3:20 p.m.). While driving on a road near th…
Mojave, CA
1951 · unidentifiedIn November 1951, witnesses in Mojave, California reported seeing a circular object about 30 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick. The object appeared in the southeast with a vivid bl…
Riverside, CA
1951 · unidentifiedIn the early morning of November 28, 1951, Leo Swenson, an illustrator at Northrop Aircraft, was driving alone on Highway 91 between Colton and Riverside, California, when he spott…
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