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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5 cases in NM from 1953 · page 1 of 1

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…

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Albuquerque, NM

Arizona, Whitney, Texas, NM

Continental Divide, NM

Holloman, NM

Mt Taylor, NM