Project Blue Book Case Files

On May 22, 1954, at 11:30 p.m., a civilian airline pilot reported an object 20 miles southwest of Los Angeles, California. The object flew at 25,000 to 30,000 feet at a speed of 1,…

On May 21, 1954, at 8:20 p.m., civilians reported a shining large object 50 miles southwest of Needles, California. The object was observed at an altitude of 18,000 to 20,000 feet.…

On the evening of December 2, 1954, a bright light caught the attention of an observer in Banning, California. The object appeared to turn at a high rate of speed as it moved acros…

On January 22, 1954, young witnesses near Buena Park, California reported egg shaped objects. The first object was orange and about the size of a 50 cent piece held at arm's length…

On the morning of July 22, 1954, a retired Marine Corps major general at Coronado, California, reported hearing a strange object. At about 8:41 a.m. he heard the sound of an object…

On November 2, 1954, witnesses at Edwards Air Force Base, California, reported four objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about 14 minutes. The objects were described as four lo…

On May 18, 1954, a Royal Air Force Squadron Leader named Donald Higgin was piloting an F3D2 aircraft near Oceanside, California, during a routine training exercise with a second je…

On the night of July 12, 1954, a military pilot near Hamilton Air Force Base, California, reported a strange object while flying an F-86. The pilot made two sightings about three m…

On December 21, 1954, a civilian near La Habra, California, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about two hours. The object moved toward the northeast. The object…

In 1954, a round object was reported over Long Beach, California. The sighting was made from the ground during the day. There was one object, and it moved to the south. The report…

On July 3, 1954, in Long Beach, California, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, red object with no trail, apparently revolving in flight. The object passed over the obse…

On July 30, 1954, two civilian test pilots flying a B-25 about 15 miles southeast of Los Angeles, California, sighted a strange object. Both pilots saw it at the same time at about…

On the afternoon of October 28, 1954, a military aircraft mechanic at Merced Country Club was playing golf when he heard a loud jet noise and spotted an unusual object in the sky.…

In early October 1954, a man 15 miles southwest of Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert, California found strips of silvery colored metal scattered on the ground. Most of th…

In March or April 1954, multicolored objects were reported near Oakland, California. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flyi…

On the evening of June 11, 1954, a husband and wife in East Pasadena, California, saw a red object in the sky. They reported it at about 9:00 p.m. The object flew at about the spee…

# Summary On the morning of February 1, 1954, a woman in Puente, California saw an unusual object hovering in the sky around 10:15 a.m. She described it as round and shiny silver,…

On May 15, 1954, at about 10:22 p.m. local time near Salinas, California, military pilots reported one object for about five seconds. They described a bright green, meteor-like obj…

On April 22, 1954, at around 2:30 p.m., a Navy serviceman named James B. Stephens Jr. was riding in a carryall vehicle on San Nicolas Island, California, when he spotted something…

On February 21, 1954, a glowing object was reported near Van Nuys, California. The sighting was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying o…

On the evening of September 22, 1954, a civilian in Venice, California saw a huge, round fireball in the sky. The object appeared yellowish-orange and later turned red. It was firs…

On September 23, 1954, at 12:33 a.m., a civilian in West Riverside, California reported seeing one object during a two-minute ground visual observation. The object was described as…