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.

StateOH 371 CA 274 TX 242 NY 167 FL 110 NM 92 MI 90 WA 89 IL 81 PA 78 MD 73 CO 72

Year1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969

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73 cases in MD · page 1 of 2

Chevy Chase, MD
1963 · unknown
On March 25, 1963, at about 10:12 p.m. local time, a civilian in Chevy Chase, Maryland, reported a bright object after watching the Echo satellite pass. The object was seen at abou…
College Park, MD
1963 · unknown
On the night of January 9, 1963, a premedical student at the University of Maryland in College Park stepped outside his dormitory after hearing people shouting. He looked up and sa…
Ocean City, MD
1963 · unknown
On the night of May 2, 1963, near Ocean City, Maryland, six witnesses observed a light in the sky that resembled a bright star. The object was dim white in color and made no sound.…
Rockville, MD
1963 · unknown
On the evening of June 27, 1963, a person in Rockville, Maryland reported seeing a bright object in the twilight sky that resembled a half moon in appearance. The object was white…
Baltimore, MD
1962 · unknown
On November 7, 1962, in the early morning, a civilian cab driver near Baltimore, Maryland, reported a pink object in the sky to the south of the city. The witness sent the account…
Baltimore, MD
1962 · unknown
On the evening of August 23, 1962, observers near Baltimore, Maryland watched what they initially thought was a satellite pass overhead multiple times. The main sighting, called "A…
Cheverly, MD
1962 · unknown
On the evening of July 6, 1962, an observer in Cheverly, Maryland saw a bright light moving across the night sky around 2305 (11:05 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time. The object appeared…
Hyattsville, MD
1962 · unknown
On the evening of July 3, 1962, someone in Hyattsville, Maryland reported seeing a bright object in the sky. The witness described it as looking like lightning, solid in appearance…
Laurel, MD
1962 · unknown
On June 1, 1962, in Laurel, Maryland, an elderly woman reported a sighting to Scott Carpenter of an unidentified object. The witness described seeing a large object with lights lik…
Silver Spring, MD
1962 · unknown
On November 11, 1962, in Silver Spring, Maryland, a witness reported a streak of light in the sky. The witness also took a time-exposure photograph of the event. The report was fil…
Silver Springs, MD
1962 · unknown
On the night of September 27, 1962, a 12-year-old boy in Silver Springs, Maryland observed two identical white objects in the sky while using a telescope to look at celestial bodie…
Baltimore, MD
1961 · unknown
On February 22, 1961, around 2:30 a.m. local time, the pilot of a United DC-8 airliner reported a point of light near Baltimore, Maryland. The aircraft was at 31,000 feet on a head…
Baltimore, MD
1961 · unknown
On October 24, 1961, in the evening, a civilian in Baltimore, Maryland, reported an object in the sky. The witness was riding in a car. The report was filed on the Project 10073 re…
Ft. Meade, MD
1961 · unknown
On the night of February 28, 1961, radar operators at Fort George G. Meade detected an unusual target on their screen at 2245 EST (Eastern Standard Time). The object appeared on gr…
Gaithersburg, MD
1961 · unknown
On September 20, 1961, in the evening, a civilian in Gaithersburg, Maryland, reported an object in the sky. The report was filed on the Project 10073 record card, the Air Force's o…
Silver Spring, MD
1961 · unknown
On January 11, 1961, a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland reported seeing a rapidly flashing light that moved very fast at a low, constant altitude in a straight line. The light a…
Harbor Springs, MD
1960 · unknown
On September 3, 1960, a witness near Harbor Springs reported seeing a large single light at about 10:30 p.m. The report came through a retired Air Force general, then attached to a…
Hyattsville, MD
1960 · unknown
On July 21, 1960, three or four witnesses near Hyattsville and Patuxent River, Maryland reported a falling object at about 9:30 p.m. The sighting lasted about 5 seconds. Some witne…
Derwood, MD
1958 · unidentified
On the morning of September 29, 1958, at 4:25 a.m., a duty sergeant at a Nike missile battery near Derwood, Maryland, stepped outside and heard a whirring sound. He looked up to se…
Essex, MD
1958 · unidentified
On August 17, 1958, near Essex, Maryland, a civilian witness reported observing a circular object with no sound or exhaust that was apparently powered. The object was self-illumina…
Baltimore, MD
1957 · unknown
In November 1957, a person in Baltimore, Maryland saw something unusual in the night sky and reported it to the U.S. Air Force. The observer said the object appeared on November 6,…
Bethesda, MD
1957 · unknown
On November 13, 1957, around 11:35 p.m. local time, a civilian observer near Bethesda, Maryland reported a streak in the sky. The object was the length of the distance between the…
Chestertown, MD
1957 · unknown
In May 1957, an assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of Defense reported seeing strange lights in the night sky over Chestertown, Maryland, along with his wife and teenage so…
Easton, MD
1957 · unknown
On the night of June 29, 1957, around 9:40 p.m., a woman driving near Easton, Maryland spotted three unusual objects in the sky. The objects looked like inverted shallow umbrellas…
Parkton, MD
1957 · unknown
On July 2, 1957, an observer in Parkton, Maryland reported a sighting that lasted about two minutes. The witness saw one ball shaped object about the size of a half dollar. It was…
Severna Park, MD
1957 · unknown
On the evening of August 14, 1957, at around 7:53 p.m., two bright lights maneuvered across the sky above Severna Park, Maryland. Three witnesses, including a professional engineer…
Silver Springs, MD
1957 · unknown
On the evening of August 25, 1957, a resident of Silver Spring, Maryland reported seeing a blue-white formation of luminous objects in the sky. The witness described the objects as…
Aberdeen, MD
1956 · unknown
On November 24, 1956, an airline pilot saw one object near Aberdeen, Maryland. The witness had flown as an airline pilot for about 20 years. The object was watched for about five m…
Baltimore, MD
1956 · unknown
On June 7, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland, an observer reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about five minutes. The object was circular a…
Beltsville, MD
1956 · unknown
On January 25, 1956, a fourteen-year-old student in Beltsville, Maryland took photographs he believed showed an unidentified flying object. The observer aimed a Zeiss Ikon camera f…
Hyattsville, MD
1956 · unknown
On August 26, 1956, in Hyattsville, Maryland, a civilian observer reported seeing one object with the appearance of a conical shredded parachute. The object had a reddish to whitis…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
In July 1955, a person in Baltimore, Maryland saw a silvery, spherical object in the sky, roughly four feet in diameter. The object appeared to be blown by the wind toward the sour…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
On September 12, 1955, in Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian witness observed white, round objects in a string-line formation heading north. The witness reported that the objects appe…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
On the night of September 9, 1955, two observers in Glen Burnie, Maryland, spotted unusual blinking lights moving across the sky in a west-northwest direction. The first observer,…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
A large, bubbly mass fell from the sky over Baltimore on February 23, 1955, and was watched by at least 25 people as it slowly disintegrated on the ground. The object resembled som…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
On October 9, 1955, at about 1942 (7:42 p.m.) local time, a civilian saw a light over Baltimore, Maryland, in the Coventry area of northeast Baltimore. The sighting lasted about on…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
On July 7, 1955, at Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian reported one object for about four minutes. Physical evidence was collected in this case. The object was spherical and silver,…
Baltimore, MD
1955 · unidentified
On May 7, 1955, at approximately 1820 hours (6:20 p.m.), two metallic objects crashed through the roof of the American Oil Company building at 210 South Russell Street in Baltimore…
Bethesda, MD
1955 · unidentified
On February 10, 1955, at about 10 p.m., a civilian reported a saucer-shaped, glowing object near Bethesda, Maryland. He saw it while driving his car east on MacArthur Boulevard. Hi…
Bethesda, MD
1955 · unidentified
On June 22, 1955, at 8:30 p.m. local time, a civilian observer in Bethesda, Maryland reported seeing four elliptical-shaped objects flying over the area. The objects emitted a brig…
Camp Poh-Tok, MD
1955 · unidentified
On June 24, 1955, at Camp Poh-Tok, Maryland, a student reported a single object in the sky. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about one minute. The time noted on the…
Chesapeake Bay, MD
1955 · unidentified
On March 9, 1955, between about 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., a civilian near Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, reported a round, red object. The object made no sound. It was sighted twice. On…
Hillcrest Heights, MD
1955 · unidentified
On the evening of June 25, 1955, several witnesses in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland watched an unusual bright object move across the sky. A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force d…
Point Lookout, MD
1955 · unidentified
On October 11, 1955, from about 2100Z to 2330Z, two civilians saw an object near Point Lookout, Maryland, at Cornfield Harbor. The men were from West Hyattsville, Maryland; one wor…
Annapolis, MD
1954 · unknown
On the afternoon of April 13, 1954, three women driving on U.S. Route 2 between Annapolis and Pasadena, Maryland spotted three unusual objects in the sky. The objects appeared to b…
Baltimore, MD
1954 · unknown
On November 7, 1954, a husband and wife driving on a highway about five miles north of Baltimore, Maryland, saw an unusual object in the evening sky. The couple, later identified i…
BALTIMORE, MD
1954 · unknown
On December 27, 1954, at 7:55 a.m. in Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian observer reported a round object with white color that changed to orange. The object had the size of a dime he…
Bethesda, MD
1954 · unknown
On July 20, 1954, a civilian in Bethesda, Maryland reported observing a single object at 11:03 p.m. local time. The object appeared star-like and hovered while moving slowly at a 3…
Frederick, MD
1954 · unknown
On November 14, 1954, a civilian in Frederick, Maryland, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted about one minute. The object was described as circular and saucer shap…
Greenbelt, MD
1954 · unknown
On August 13, 1954, in Greenbelt, Maryland, observers reported seeing a V-shaped formation of objects at sunset. The objects were described as climbing rapidly out of sight. Sun re…
Hillcrest Heights, MD
1954 · unknown
On September 5, 1954, at 10:55 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a witness in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland reported seeing a circular object with light beams or rays radiating from it. Th…
Kensington, MD
1954 · unknown
On the evening of September 27, 1954, a civilian employee of the Marine Corps in Kensington, Maryland, spotted an unusual yellowish amber light in the sky through a screened window…
Marloboro, MD
1954 · unknown
On October 11, 1954, near Marloboro, Maryland, a civilian observer reported seeing one object for ten minutes. The object appeared to be the size of a baseball, yellow in color, ch…
Orangeville, MD
1954 · unknown
On March 2, 1954, three objects were reported near Orangeville, Maryland. The sighting was made from the ground and lasted about 15 minutes. The report was filed under Project 1007…
Temple Hills, MD
1954 · unknown
On the night of September 30 to October 1, 1954, civilians in Temple Hills, Maryland reported seeing a strange white object moving across the sky. The witnesses described it someti…
WEST MINSTER, MD
1954 · unknown
On January 10, 1954, residents of Westminster, Maryland reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received multiple reports of sightings that occurred over several…
ANNAPOLIS, MD
1953 · unknown
On October 31, 1953, at about 7 p.m. near Annapolis, Maryland, five civilians reported a small round object. The object was extremely bright and shiny with a possible red cast. It…
Baltimore, MD
1953 · unknown
On the night of October 27, 1953, Private First Class John Raila and another observer in Baltimore, Maryland, saw a colored object moving across the sky. The object was slightly la…
Bethesda, MD
1953 · unknown
Two civilian observers in the Bethesda, Maryland area reported seeing an unidentified oval object on the evening of June 3, 1953, at approximately 1915 hours (7:15 p.m.). The objec…
Capitol Heights, MD
1953 · unknown
On October 25, 1953, at approximately 8:50 p.m., two unidentified objects were sighted over Capitol Heights, Maryland, near Washington D.C. The objects were round in shape, about t…

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Chevy Chase, MD

College Park, MD

Ocean City, MD

Rockville, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Cheverly, MD

Hyattsville, MD

Laurel, MD

Silver Spring, MD

Silver Springs, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Ft. Meade, MD

Gaithersburg, MD

Silver Spring, MD

Harbor Springs, MD

Hyattsville, MD

Derwood, MD

Essex, MD

Baltimore, MD

Bethesda, MD

Chestertown, MD

Easton, MD

Parkton, MD

Severna Park, MD

Silver Springs, MD

Aberdeen, MD

Baltimore, MD

Beltsville, MD

Hyattsville, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Baltimore, MD

Bethesda, MD

Bethesda, MD

Camp Poh-Tok, MD

Chesapeake Bay, MD

Hillcrest Heights, MD

Point Lookout, MD

Annapolis, MD

Baltimore, MD

BALTIMORE, MD

Bethesda, MD

Frederick, MD

Greenbelt, MD

Hillcrest Heights, MD

Kensington, MD

Marloboro, MD

Orangeville, MD

Temple Hills, MD

WEST MINSTER, MD

ANNAPOLIS, MD

Baltimore, MD

Bethesda, MD

Capitol Heights, MD