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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92 cases in NM · page 1 of 2

Socorro, NM
1964 · unidentified
At about 5:45 p.m. on April 24, 1964, Police Officer Lonnie Zamora of the Socorro, New Mexico Police Department was pursuing a speeding car south of town when he heard a loud roar…
Nr Albuquerque, NM
1963 · unknown
A mechanic in Albuquerque captured photographs of a flying object on June 16, 1963, claiming it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Air Force photo analysts, however, determined th…
Albuquerque, NM
1962 · unknown
On July 7, 1962, a witness in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw an unusual object rise from the south and move northward. As the object climbed overhead, it flashed brightly. At that mom…
Las Cruces, NM
1962 · unknown
On January 15, 1962, a civilian witness reported an object near Las Cruces, New Mexico. The sighting was made at about 1224 GMT and lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. The witness, who w…
Los Crucez, NM
1962 · unknown
On August 1, 1962, near Los Cruces, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing a UFO. The object was flat and black with a dome in the center and vertical fins around the outs…
Albuquerque, NM
1961 · unknown
On the evening of September 2, 1961, a man in northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, was reclining in a lounge chair at his home when he spotted something unusual in the sky. He saw wh…
Cannon AFB, NM
1961 · unknown
On January 15, 1961, three people sitting in a parked car near Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico watched a glowing sphere move across the sky for about 20 to 25 seconds. The obje…
Las Vegas, NM
1961 · unknown
On October 15, 1961, a civilian near Las Vegas, New Mexico called the U.S. Air Force to report something unusual in the sky. The observer used binoculars and looked at an object wi…
N of Roswell, NM
1961 · unknown
On March 20, 1961, a civilian north of Roswell, New Mexico, reported a star-like object about 2:20 a.m. The object had a white light and was about the size of a bright star. It app…
Roswell, NM
1961 · unknown
On October 5, 1961, an observer about two miles south of Roswell, New Mexico, reported a bright object at about 7:52 p.m. local time (0152 Zulu). The witness was a military command…
Almogordo, NM
1960 · unknown
On September 27, 1960, military and civilian witnesses at Alamogordo, Las Cruces, White Sands, and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico reported a bright object at 0905 (about 6:0…
Roswell, NM
1960 · unknown
On September 28, 1960, two civilian city police officers in Roswell, New Mexico, reported an object at 1025 (about 5:15 a.m. local), at night. Driving east on East 3rd Street, they…
SE Of Roswell, NM
1960 · unknown
# Summary In April 1960, a civilian observer near Roswell, New Mexico witnessed an unusual object in the sky for about three seconds. The object appeared two to three times bright…
10 Nautical Mi W Albuquerque, NM
1959 · unknown
On the night of December 23, 1959, observers west of Albuquerque, New Mexico spotted three objects in a line formation painted on radar and visible to the naked eye. The objects de…
Albuquerque, NM
1959 · unknown
This case file is heavily damaged and partially illegible, which significantly limits the usefulness of a full summary. The OCR has captured fragmentary information across multiple…
Holloman AFB, NM
1958 · unknown
On the night of October 10, 1958, a civilian missile engineer reported an object near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, in the Alamogordo area. He viewed it through binoculars f…
Huerfano Mesa, NM
1958 · unknown
On September 15, 1958, two color slides were taken near Huerfano Mesa, New Mexico, by a civilian. The photos showed a rainbow-like object in the sky. The case is part of Project 10…
Las Cruces, NM
1958 · unknown
On July 25, 1958, a leading astronomer near Las Cruces, New Mexico, reported an extremely bright object at 8:27 p.m. Mountain Time. He described an object far brighter than any pla…
Roswell, NM
1958 · unknown
On August 16, 1958, a witness at Roswell, New Mexico, reported an unidentified flying object at 0547Z (about night). The observer, described as a chief, saw a bright, intense flash…
S of Roswell, NM
1958 · unknown
On August 9, 1958 (10/0309Z), an airline pilot south of Roswell, New Mexico, reported an unidentified flying object from a C-46 aircraft at about 6,000 feet. The pilot described on…
Walker AFB, NM
1958 · unknown
On June 21, 1958, at Walker Air Force Base in New Mexico, a military observer reported seeing two pale gold objects in the night sky. The objects were circular and about the size o…
Albuquerque, NM
1957 · unidentified
Around 10:45 p.m. on November 4, 1957, a Civil Aeronautics Administration radar operator at the Albuquerque control tower at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico noticed an uniden…
Almogordo, NM
1957 · unidentified
On October 16, 1957, a government employee at the White Sands Missile Range near Almogordo, New Mexico took a color photograph of an unusual object hovering over the landscape. The…
Cannon AFB, NM
1957 · unidentified
On the morning of November 6, 1957, radar operators at Cannon Air Force Base in New Mexico tracked a slow-moving object across their scopes. The object appeared to be about the siz…
Continental Divide AFS, NM
1957 · unidentified
On December 11, 1957, observers near Continental Divide Air Force Station, New Mexico reported up to about two dozen oblong objects the size of a pencil eraser, colored like cigare…
E of Farmington, NM
1957 · unidentified
On November 26, 1957, east of Farmington, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing one object described as long, the size of a bulky fountain pen, brilliant white in color,…
La Madera, NM
1957 · unidentified
On December 6, 1957, near La Madera, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing one round object the size of a basketball with a white light. The object moved side to side abo…
Las Cruces AFS, NM
1957 · unidentified
On February 7, 1957, at Las Cruces Air Force Station in New Mexico, radar operators detected 54 unidentified objects on their screens between 7:05 a.m. and 12:22 p.m. The targets a…
N of Hurley, NM
1957 · unidentified
On November 12, 1957, a civilian observer north of Hurley, New Mexico saw a round object about the size of a dime held at arm's length. The object was bright red. Small stars appea…
Pecos, NM
1957 · unidentified
On September 16, 1957, at about 1935 (7:35 p.m.) near Pecos, New Mexico, a civilian saw one disc-shaped object through eyeglasses. It was about the size of a grapefruit, white with…
Radium Springs, NM
1957 · unidentified
On November 6, 1957, witnesses at Radium Springs, New Mexico, reported one object in the sky. The witnesses were military and civilian. The sighting was a ground visual observation…
Regina, NM
1957 · unidentified
On November 5, 1957, in Regina, New Mexico, a civilian observer reported seeing a star-like object the size of a baseball that was red-blue in color and made a whistling sound. The…
Santa Fe, NM
1957 · unidentified
On November 5, 1957, near Santa Fe, New Mexico, a civilian reported seeing a red and white flashing object about the size of a silver dollar. The object was round with a white circ…
White Sands, NM
1957 · unidentified
At about 1 p.m. on November 4, 1957, James Stokes, an electronic warfare engineer at White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico, was driving south on U.S. Highway 54 toward El Paso w…
Bernalillo, NM
1956 · unknown
On July 26, 1956, a civilian near Bernalillo, New Mexico, reported a single object in the sky. The sighting began at 0900 (9:00 a.m.) local time and was made from the ground. The…
30 Mi E Cochise, NM
1955 · unidentified
On January 1, 1955, a military pilot flying a B-25 about 30 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico, reported one object. The pilot was acting as an instructor when he turned to a studen…
Chama, NM
1955 · unidentified
On the afternoon of December 8, 1955, a railroad conductor named Box Hinton and his rear brakeman, LeRoy Shell, spotted an unusual object near Sublette Station, one mile east of Ch…
Deming, NM
1955 · unidentified
On about November 14 or 15, 1955, a commercial airline pilot saw an object over Deming, New Mexico. The report reached the Air Force by letter and was a CIRVIS report, a required r…
Elk, NM
1955 · unidentified
On April 5, 1955, a civilian in Elk, New Mexico reported seeing one object with a fan-shaped tail about the size of a baseball held at arm's length. The object was bright green-pur…
Las Cruces, NM
1954 · unknown
On a clear January night in 1954, a trained observer at White Sands Proving Ground in Las Cruces, New Mexico saw a bright light that pulsed in a regular pattern. The observer was p…
Roswell, NM
1954 · unknown
On April 14, 1954, near Roswell, New Mexico, a sighting was reported in the vicinity of Roswell Radio. At 2:15 p.m., a dull reddish glow was observed above the lower cloud deck. Th…
Topia, NM
1954 · unknown
On November 23, 1954, a military witness near Topia, New Mexico, reported a momentary sighting in the sky. One object was seen. The object was described as a brilliant flash of li…
Albuquerque, NM
1953 · unidentified
On January 31, 1953, an aerial phenomenon was reported near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and photographed by a civilian. The case came to the Air Force through a newspaper clipping fro…
Arizona, Whitney, Texas, NM
1953 · unidentified
The OCR for this document is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the file metadata and scattered legible passages indicate a multi-witness sighting near Holbr…
Continental Divide, NM
1953 · unidentified
On the night of January 26, 1953, Air Force personnel stationed at a radar station near Continental Divide, New Mexico made one of the most striking UFO sightings of the era. A/1c…
Holloman, NM
1953 · unidentified
On October 1, 1953, at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, observers witnessed an unidentified object. One UFO was sighted in a direct direction at approximately 10:17 a.m. and…
Mt Taylor, NM
1953 · unidentified
On March 27, 1953, near Mt Taylor, New Mexico, military personnel observed one circular object. The sighting lasted four minutes. The object was bright orange and did not change or…
Albuquerque, NM
1952 · unidentified
On March 25, 1952, at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, an officer reported sighting a balloon launched from the base at 9:30 a.m., about 30 minutes before the…
Albuquerque, NM
1952 · unidentified
On May 28, 1952, over northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, two city firemen reported three unidentified objects at three different times during a clear day. The sightings happened ab…
ALBUQUERQUE, NM
1952 · unidentified
On July 29, 1952 (2230 hours Mountain Standard Time), a military pilot stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico observed an unidentified object in the sky southwest of his position. Th…
ALBUQUERQUE, NM
1952 · unidentified
At 2309 hours (11:09 p.m.) Central Standard Time on December 28, 1952, a military pilot taking off from Borger, Texas sighted an unusual object traveling from east to west between…
Albuqueruque, NM
1952 · unidentified
On May 10, 1952, an Air Force colonel and his wife, stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, watched two unusual objects in the afternoon sky from their h…
ARTESIA, NM
1952 · unidentified
On January 16, 1951, an aeronautical engineer working for General Mills reported seeing two unusual objects near a research balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The engineer was track…
Hermanas, NM
1952 · unidentified
On August 24, 1952, Colonel Gerald W. Johnson was piloting an F-84G jet aircraft from California to Georgia when he spotted something unusual near Hermanas, New Mexico. Flying at a…
Hollman AFB, NM
1952 · unidentified
On a night in 1952, an airman at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, reported a white light in the sky around 2030 (8:30 p.m.). The observer watched the light for about one hour.…
Holloman AFB, NM
1952 · unidentified
On August 25, 1952, two civilian employees at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw an unusual object in the sky. The men, Fred Lee (a utilities supervisor with six years at th…
Kirtland AFB, NM
1952 · unidentified
# Summary On the night of September 23, 1952, an unidentified flying object was observed over Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. The sighting occurred around 2200 hours (10 p.…
Kirtland AFB, NM
1952 · unidentified
On the afternoon of May 23, 1952, officers at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico saw a bright silver object hanging in the western sky. Multiple Air Force personnel watched it f…
KIRTLAND AFB, NM
1952 · unidentified
On July 30, 1952, at 11:15 p.m. MST, a young boy in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a bright white circular object traveling from east to west at varying speeds. The object appeared to…
LOS ALAMOS, NM
1952 · unidentified
On the night of December 30, 1952, a security inspector with the Atomic Energy Commission was standing on the sidewalk in front of his home in the residential section of Los Alamos…

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Browse sightings by state

Browse sightings by year

1947 51 1948 90 1949 236 1950 167 1951 124 1952 471 1953 326 1954 350 1955 344 1956 417 1957 559 1958 359 1959 268 1960 340 1961 408 1962 346 1963 123

Socorro, NM

Nr Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque, NM

Las Cruces, NM

Los Crucez, NM

Albuquerque, NM

Cannon AFB, NM

Las Vegas, NM

N of Roswell, NM

Roswell, NM

Almogordo, NM

Roswell, NM

SE Of Roswell, NM

10 Nautical Mi W Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque, NM

Holloman AFB, NM

Huerfano Mesa, NM

Las Cruces, NM

Roswell, NM

S of Roswell, NM

Walker AFB, NM

Albuquerque, NM

Almogordo, NM

Cannon AFB, NM

Continental Divide AFS, NM

E of Farmington, NM

La Madera, NM

Las Cruces AFS, NM

N of Hurley, NM

Pecos, NM

Radium Springs, NM

Regina, NM

Santa Fe, NM

White Sands, NM

Bernalillo, NM

30 Mi E Cochise, NM

Chama, NM

Deming, NM

Elk, NM

Las Cruces, NM

Roswell, NM

Topia, NM

Albuquerque, NM

Arizona, Whitney, Texas, NM

Continental Divide, NM

Holloman, NM

Mt Taylor, NM

Albuquerque, NM

Albuquerque, NM

ALBUQUERQUE, NM

ALBUQUERQUE, NM

Albuqueruque, NM

ARTESIA, NM

Hermanas, NM

Hollman AFB, NM

Holloman AFB, NM

Kirtland AFB, NM

Kirtland AFB, NM

KIRTLAND AFB, NM

LOS ALAMOS, NM