Project Blue Book Case Files

On May 1, 1957, at 5:10 a.m., two round, orange objects were sighted 170 miles southwest of Santa Rosa Island, California. An AEW&C aircraft crew observed the objects for about 30…

In October 1957, someone working at a defense contractor in Van Nuys, California, brought what looked like a small rocket to his supervisor. The object had Russian writing on it an…

On October 15, 1957, two Navy pilots flying near La Jolla, California saw an unusual pattern of lights that puzzled them enough to report it to military intelligence. The pilots we…

This file concerns a sighting reported by a civilian near Bakersfield, California in mid August 1957. The witness first wrote to the Department of the Army, which referred the lett…

On November 7, 1957, near Bakersfield, California, a civilian observer reported sighting an object described as basketball-sized, white with red and green lights that alternated co…

On February 13, 1957, in Burbank, California, two objects were reported near Lockheed Air Terminal at 1:45 p.m. Witnesses observed two star-sized objects with white, red, and green…

On the night of August 22-23, 1957, radar operators and pilots at Cambria Air Force Station in California detected multiple unidentified objects. The sighting lasted about an hour…

On the night of June 23, 1957, six civilians near Carmichael, California saw a bright yellow-white light rise slowly from near tree-top level, hover for several minutes, then climb…

On November 30, 1957, at 1610 (4:10 p.m.) Pacific Standard Time, residents of Cathedral City, California reported seeing an unidentified object moving through the sky. The sighting…

On November 26 and 27, 1957, a civilian in Del Rosa, California, saw a very bright yellowish red light on two separate occasions, each lasting about thirty seconds. The sightings w…

On January 15, 1957, a civilian observer in Bakersfield, California reported a white, round object about the size of a half dollar. The observer described the object as having a po…

On June 26, 1957, two U.S. Air Police officers standing at a roadblock near Edwards Air Force Base in California watched a B-52 bomber conducting a test drop on the precision bombi…

On May 2, 1957, two civilian workers at Edwards Air Force Base in California spotted an unusual object in the sky while driving to a camera station. They described it as a metallic…

# Summary: Fontana, California, March 1957 On March 17, 1957, a service station attendant in Fontana, California saw a cigar-shaped object with a large red light on it. The object…

On June 16, 1957, during the day, a civilian married couple in Gardena, California reported a sighting. The observation lasted about nine minutes. The sky was clear. The witnesses…

On November 6, 1957, in Garden Grove, California, a civilian witness and neighbors observed a fiery red object about the size of a quarter in the night sky. The object moved back a…

On September 30, 1957, at about 1800 (6:00 p.m.) in Claremont, California, a civilian saw one round object with a single wing. The body of the object was dark in color, except for…

On November 17, 1957, at around 8:27 p.m., a reddish yellow ball of fire emitting smoke and a flash was observed over Glendale, California. One civilian witness reported the object…

On the evening of January 27, 1957, residents of Glendora, California reported seeing a bright disc-shaped object hovering over their house. According to a report filed by the Glen…

On the evening of July 21, 1957, a man called a general building contractor in Inglewood, California, reported seeing strange objects in the sky near Los Angeles. He watched them w…

On November 9, 1957, a civilian in Hemet, California reported seeing an unidentified flying object at 5:30 p.m. The witness described an object with a flame-colored tail traveling…

On November 1957, around 2:41 a.m. GMT, a civilian near Hollywood, California reported one round bright white object the size of a pea. The object moved from northwest to northeast…

On December 3, 1957, a civilian in Loma Linda, California reported seeing two round objects about the size of basketballs. The objects were bluish white with small white dots at on…

On the night of November 6, 1957, civilians in Long Beach, California reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The first observer described a single round, bright object about t…

On the afternoon of November 5, 1957, Major Lewis F. Baker Jr. and two other weather observers at Long Beach Air Force Base spotted several small, metallic objects moving erratical…

On November 8, 1957, around 11:31 p.m. local time, military observers near Los Angeles, California reported a round white object the size of a dime. The sighting lasted more than 2…

On July 10, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian husband observed a round object about the size of a half dollar with the color and brightness of a star. Using binoculars,…

On August 14, 1957, in Los Angeles, California, a civilian witness observed three round yellow objects about a quarter mile in length arranged in a triangle formation. The objects…

On September 30, 1957, a civilian in Los Angeles, California reported sighting a round, white object the size of a baseball overhead. The object disappeared into haze on the horizo…

On December 1, 1957, at 3:00 p.m., a man in Montebello, California watched six objects moving slowly westward across the sky. His children had called his attention to them first. H…

On October 24, 1957, a witness at North Hollywood, California, reported one object in the sky. The report came from a member of the military, an Air Force reservist. The sighting w…

On the night of August 21, 1957, several people in the Santa Monica, California, area reported two round silver objects in the sky. The objects were about the size of a pea and wer…

On the night of September 29 to 30, 1957, residents of Palm Springs, California reported seeing multiple unidentified flying objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred i…

On the evening of August 31, 1957, in Palm Springs, California, an observer noticed what appeared to be a brilliant star close to the moon, brighter than the moon itself. According…

On March 23, 1957, civilian and military witnesses at Pasadena, California, reported a single object at night. The Ground Observer Corps was on duty during the sighting. The case w…

On August 29 and 30, 1957, in Paso Robles, California, a civilian witness reported seeing two objects. The first was a silver circular object flying from north to west, visible for…

On December 9, 1957, a civilian in Redlands, California reported an oval object about the size of a half dollar that was bright white and stationary, then faded out. A small red li…

On April 5, 1957, a civilian at Reseda, California, reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying objec…

On the evening of October 24, 1957, military personnel and commercial pilots near San Diego, California witnessed an object that maneuvered rapidly across the sky while staying jus…

On November 5, 1957, a civilian in San Diego, California reported observing a round object with red, green, and white lights for one and a half hours. The object moved left to righ…

On April 18, 1957, at 8:32 a.m. in San Pedro, California, two round objects were sighted. The objects were white in color and measured 49 feet in diameter. Witnesses thought the ob…

On April 21, 1957, in Santa Barbara, California, a civilian witness observed three diamond-shaped objects in a triangle formation. The objects were seen directly overhead heading n…

On January 16, 1957, in South Laguna, California, a civilian observer reported seeing two or three objects in the sky around 5:13 p.m. The objects appeared suddenly, brightened, di…

On April 9, 1957, a sonic boom woke residents of the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. Later that morning, ten-year-old Pat Murphy discovered a strange cone-shaped hole in…

On November 12, 1957, around 1:30 a.m. GMT, a civilian near Torrance, California reported a round white object like a bright star, the size of a quarter. The object moved at a high…

On January 17, 1957, at 6:30 p.m. in Twenty-Nine Palms, California, a civilian witness observed a round, pea-sized yellow object with a yellow rod in its appearance. The object mov…

On May 21, 1957, in Ventura, California, a school teacher and approximately 20 students observed a round, silver or white object in the sky at 8:30 a.m. The object made a loud nois…

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 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…