Project Blue Book Case Files

On February 4, 1953, at 1050 Pacific Standard Time, the crew of an RB-36 transport aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Blythe, California. The plane was flying a ferry mis…

# Summary In May and June 1953, two gold miners near Brush Creek, California reported seeing a small flying object land twice near their mining claim at the junction of Marble and…

On the night of March 2, 1953, four airmen stationed at the 775th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron in Cambria, California observed an unusual object over the ocean. The men we…

On January 28, 1953, at about 6:05 p.m., an airman saw a group of objects near Corona, California. The witness was a technical sergeant driving on a state highway about 5 miles sou…

On December 24, 1953, at about 8:04 a.m. local time near El Cajon, California, two Navy pilots reported ten objects in formation. The pilots were experienced aviators with over 20…

On April 28, 1953, at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.) Pacific time, a military pilot reported objects near Fontana, California. The witness was 1st Lt. Ralph R. Scowden, flying a T-6 aircr…

On September 22, 1953, a civilian in Hayward, California, observed a triangular object in the sky. The witness used a power telescope to get a closer look. The object was yellow, w…

On May 16, 1953, about 1810 (6:10 p.m.) Pacific time, civilians at the Naval Air Facility in Inyokern, California, saw flying objects. The report came from a base employee. The wi…

On May 20, 1953, a man in Los Angeles reported seeing a white stone roughly the size of a football descend toward him from the sky. The object came to rest about five feet above hi…

On January 29, 1953, Lieutenant Commander Rex Hardy Jr., a Navy pilot with approximately 5,248 hours of flying time, was piloting a twin-engine Beechcraft aircraft near Malibu Beac…

On September 3, 1953, a newspaper photographer in Modesto, California set up a camera on the roof of the newspaper building after seeing an unusual yellowish-white light near the a…

On the evening of August 12, 1953, multiple witnesses near Oxnard Air Force Base in Ventura, California, reported seeing an unidentified bright light moving rapidly across the sky.…

On February 1, 1953, two Air Force pilots on a practice bombing run sighted an unidentified object near Pittsburg and Stockton, California. The pilots observed a bright light with…

On January 28, 1953, a civilian observer stationed at Point Mugu, California, spotted a white disk-shaped object traveling at high speed over the Pacific coast. The observer, who w…

On the evening of June 30, 1953, three control tower operators at Mather Air Force Base near Sacramento saw a red light in the sky west of their station. The light appeared to be a…

On the evening of February 13, 1953, four members of a Ground Observer Corps post on top of Mount Sutro in San Francisco watched an unidentified flying object for about twenty minu…

On December 31, 1953, at about 10:45 a.m. local time between Palm Springs and Riverside, California, a Marine pilot reported one object. The pilot was flying an F9F jet at about 22…

On the evening of August 28, 1953, a Ground Observer Corps (GOC) post operator in San Rafael, California spotted an unusual formation in the sky. At 11:25 p.m., the observer used b…

Two experienced Air Force pilots flying a KC-97 tanker aircraft over Santa Ana, California, on the evening of January 9, 1953, observed a formation of blue lights approaching them…

On January 10, 1953, at around 11:45 p.m., a retired Air Force colonel and a federal security officer observed an unusual object in the sky near Sonoma, California. The two men wer…

On the night of August 12, 1953, four civilians fishing off the seaward end of the Ventura public pier in California spotted an unusual light in the western sky around 9:05 p.m. (2…