Project Blue Book Case Files

On June 5, 1949, multiple observers in Ohio and Florida reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations looked into two separate s…

On the night of April 5, 1949, multiple witnesses in Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing a strange red light in the sky. The object was described as glowing, steady, and roughly the si…

On the evening of July 31, 1949, around 7:15 p.m., a motor oiler in Columbus, Ohio saw an unusual object in the western sky. He described it as oval shaped, greyish-blue in color,…

On August 1, 1949, air traffic controllers in Columbus, Ohio spotted a puzzling object in the sky above Port Columbus Airport. At roughly 1900 hours (7 p.m.), a witness at the cont…

On February 10, 1949, two Air Force pilots flying north of Dayton, Ohio, spotted an unusual bright object in the night sky. Captain Roger J. Crosclose and First Lieutenant Ray W. A…

On the evening of July 10, 1949, a civilian employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual object in the northeastern sky while standing in his yard.…

On July 24, 1949, at 2430 hours (12:30 a.m.), a person on the ground in Fairfield, Ohio, watched an object in the sky for about 15 seconds. The object appeared to be about the size…

On June 11, 1949, a man driving south of Huntsville, Ohio saw an object in the sky that appeared to dive directly at his car. He pulled over and got out for a better look. The obje…

On May 3, 4, and 6, 1949, residents of Sidney and Maplewood, Ohio reported seeing a bright silver disc-shaped object moving rapidly through the sky. The sightings prompted an Air F…

On August 25, 1949, residents of McDonald, Ohio, reported shiny objects high in the sky. Witnesses said the objects glittered and flopped in the sun. According to one young witness…

On the evening of June 29, 1949, a civilian observer near Osborn, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The sighting occurred around 8:30 to 9 p.m., just after du…

On the night of June 26, 1949, around midnight (0005 hours), several observers in Pennsylvania and Ohio saw what appeared to be an unusually large and bright meteor streaking acros…

On May 3, 6, and 7, 1949, residents of Sidney, Ohio reported seeing a bright, silvery object moving rapidly across the sky. An Air Force investigation was triggered by newspaper ac…

On April 9, 1949, a teenager in Toledo, Ohio reported seeing three flying discs. The boy, identified in newspaper accounts as 15-year-old Henry Jordan of Whitford Road, told the To…

On June 28, 1949, at 1745 (5:45 p.m.), a ball of fire with a trailing flame was spotted moving from west to east across the sky near Urbana, Ohio. The sighting happened in daylight…