Project Blue Book Case Files

This file covers a sighting near Ripley, New York, reported by an Air Force radar and warning squadron. The object was tracked and an F-47 aircraft was sent to intercept, but the i…

On July 27, 1952, in Ripley, New York, two sightings of unidentified objects were reported to the Buffalo Filter Center. The first sighting was made by a qualified ground observer…

In February 1965, residents of Olean, New York reported seeing an unidentified orange object traveling slowly across the sky. The object was visible for about one hour and twenty-f…

On the night of March 23, 1963, a fourteen-year-old in Babylon, New York saw a bright light moving across the sky. The object appeared as bright as the star Sirius and stood still…

On the evening of March 31, 1963, a pilot flying south from Brooklyn, New York spotted something in the sky that caught their attention. The aircraft appeared to be moving with wha…

On June 24 and 25, 1963, civilians reported a star-like object near Frankfort, New York. The witnesses were a husband and wife plus several other people. The case was recorded in P…

On the night of June 18, 1963, people across the Niagara Falls and Buffalo area of western New York reported seeing an unusual bright object in the sky. The sightings were brought…

On March 23 and 24, 1962, two witnesses in the Bronx observed what appeared to be white smoke trailing behind an object traveling across the sky at high speed. The first witness r…

On December 10, 1962, the ferry Gayhead reported seeing a flashing red light and radar blips near Little Gull Point Light in Long Island Sound, about one mile away and roughly 308…

On September 29, 1962, a 17-year-old civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an object in the night sky. The time was about 0030Z. It was at about 2,000 feet, moving west at about…

A resident of Cato, New York reported seeing an unusual object in the sky in September 1962. The witness described the object as having a brightness comparable to a moderately brig…

On August 2, 1962, at 10:35 p.m., a resident of Hague, New York spotted two flying objects directly overhead. The observer watched them move from southwest to northeast across the…

In early July 1962, members of the Zoological Astronomical Terra-nautical Association reported two separate sightings in New York City that neither local experts nor newspapers cou…

On August 25, 1962, a civilian about three miles north of Poughkeepsie, New York, reported an object in the night sky. The time was about 2140 (9:40 p.m.) local time. The witness w…

On the evening of December 14, 1962, a resident of Pound Ridge, New York saw a brilliant, comet-like object flash across the sky around 5:30 p.m. The observer described the object'…

On October 7, 1961, civilian witnesses in Albany, New York, reported an unidentified flying object. The report came in a letter that was first sent to the President and then passed…

On October 11, 1961, at 7:55 p.m., a civilian in Brooklyn, New York reported seeing two self-luminous, transparent objects moving north and east. The objects had no clearly defined…

On July 30, 1961, two friends in Brooklyn spotted a moving object crossing the sky in a northeasterly direction at approximately 9:36 p.m. The object was white and dull, similar in…

On the morning of February 6, 1961, an indirect report said that a civilian witness at Brooklyn, New York had observed an unidentified flying object. The Air Force forwarded a que…

On the evening of August 16, 1961, a resident of Flushing, New York, spotted a shiny, silvery object in the night sky at approximately 9:03 p.m. The witness described it as brighte…

On three nights, August 14, 15, and 16, 1961, civilians in Inwood, New York, reported flashes of light in the sky. The flashes were seen between about 2100 and 2300 (9:00 p.m. and…

On the evening of November 26, 1961, a resident of Kew Gardens, New York, watched an unusual object from his home. He was indoors watching television when he heard a noise on the f…

In August 1961, a Brooklyn resident used a Kodak Brownie camera to photograph what he believed were unidentified flying objects near the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The w…

On November 3, 1961, civilian witnesses in New York City reported an object at about 5:20 to 5:32 p.m. local time. The report came to a naval air station from city police. A police…

The witness, who lived about 1.5 miles from Grumman Aircraft, saw two separate objects on consecutive nights in late July 1961 from Plainview, New York. The first sighting occurred…

In late December 1960, a civilian observer east of Buffalo, New York began seeing a bright light in the evening sky. Over the next two weeks, the object appeared on most clear nigh…

On January 8, 1960, a woman at Bay Port, Long Island, New York, reported that she saw a Russian missile fall into the Great South Bay at about 9:50 p.m. She reported it to the Air…

On a December evening in 1960, an observer in Lynbrook on Long Island, New York, watched an object appear in the night sky that resembled a newly risen harvest moon. The object see…

In October 1960, a resident of Mount Kisko, New York, observed a bright light moving across the night sky. The object appeared as bright as the planet Venus and moved in a wide arc…

On May 26, 1960, a resident of Naples, New York observed an unusual sight above the Naples Gorge around 5 p.m. The witness was sitting at home when they heard a heavy plane pass ov…

In December 1960, someone in New York reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The object displayed red and green flickering lights and appeared roughly the size of a pe…

On April 16, 1960, two civilians saw a group of objects in the sky over Olean, New York. The time was about 11:20 p.m. One witness was a civil defense director and the other was a…

On August 4, 1960, a military witness stopped at an intersection at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York saw a sudden white smoke trail in the sky at about 9:42 a.m. The sighting l…

On or about October 5, 1960, a military sergeant and his son, fishing at Point Lookout on Long Island, New York, reported an object at about 2100 (9:00 p.m.), recorded at 0200 GMT.…

On the night of February 27, 1960, at about 2327 (11:27 p.m.), a civilian near Rome, New York, and military personnel at nearby Griffiss Air Force Base watched an unusual glowing o…

On August 26, 1960, someone in Springville, New York reported seeing an unusual flying object. The witness described a fuzzy, oval white light with sharply outlined red lights on e…

On July 16, 1960, a civilian woman in Syosset, New York saw two strange objects in the sky at about 11:00 p.m. She first thought they were falling stars, then noticed their course…

On June 25, 1960, two pieces of hot, molten material fell near a home in Syracuse, New York at around 3:30 p.m. One piece struck the boot or shoe of a small child. Both objects sho…

On the evening of July 16, 1960, a man in West Babylon, New York noticed a bright object moving across the sky. He was outside checking his television antenna when he spotted it ap…

On July 5, 1959, at approximately 2000 to 2030 hours (8:00 to 8:30 p.m.), a witness in Irondequoit, New York, saw an unidentified object in the sky. The object was brownish-black w…

Just before daybreak on September 17, 1959, a civilian driving a car near Jamaica, Long Island, New York, saw a single object for one to three minutes. It was a gray-white sphere d…

# Summary On December 13, 1959, someone in New York City observed a round, silvery object in the sky for about two and a half minutes. The object appeared solid and moved from wes…

On an August evening in 1959, a New York City resident spotted a white object in the sky that resembled a bright, sparkling star. The witness described it as roughly the size of a…

On July 10, 1959, near Potsdam, New York, a civilian witness reported seeing a streak of brilliant light around 8:30 p.m. while driving with a friend. The light resembled lightning…

On about August 29, 1958, a civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an unidentified flying object he had seen roughly ten days earlier at about 8 p.m. He wrote to the War Departme…

# Brooklyn, New York, July 1958 On a clear night in July 1958, an air control engineer in Brooklyn looked up at the sky and saw something unusual. A ring of light with a dark cent…

On the evening of November 23, 1958, a tower operator at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, looked up and saw a stationary light in the sky. The observer described it as or…

On July 20, 1958, at 9:00 p.m., a civilian in Gryder Buff, New York reported seeing five objects that were yellow and orange in color. Two were large and three were small. The obje…

On the evening of December 14, 1958, a man in Levittown, New York, was taking family photographs on his front lawn when he noticed an unusual glowing light to the east around 4 p.m…

On October 31, 1958, two people in Long Beach, New York saw unusual objects in the evening sky. The first object was round and yellow, appearing almost directly overhead. The secon…

On the evening of August 13, 1958, a civilian observer in Ponca City, Oklahoma watched a bright orange object streak across the night sky. The man, described as a calm and reliable…

On November 19, 1958, a radar operator at Montauk Air Force Station in New York detected an unidentified object on his scope. The operator, Airman James A. Frey, worked at the stat…

On September 28, 1958, at dusk near New York, NY, a red and blue-white object was sighted traveling west. The object broke into three parts and disappeared instantly. The observati…

On August 11, 1958, a civilian near Olean, New York, reported an unidentified flying object at 1945Z, during daytime. The witness described one round, silver object about the size…

On December 1, 1958, in Rockville Center, New York, a witness reported seeing a round, white and gray object with the size of a basketball and a defined outline. The observation wa…

On August 2, 1958, a man working in a tower at Salamanca, New York, reported seeing thousands of silver-colored objects falling from the sky at about 6:00 p.m. He described pieces…

On September 28, 1958, a truck driver in Seaford, Long Island saw an unusual object in the night sky while standing outside his home. The object appeared at approximately 11:25 p.m…

On February 23, 1957, an Army noncommissioned officer reported an object over Brooklyn, New York, at about 8:00 p.m. The account first reached a New York newspaper, then was passed…

On the night of October 19, 1957, residents of Brooklyn and Long Island, New York reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The sightings occurred amid widespread public interest…

On November 2, 1957, a civilian in Brooktondale, New York reported observing one round, milky blueish-white object about the size of a basketball at arm's length. The object was se…