Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of June 1, 1953, a man sitting on his family porch in Cincinnati, Ohio saw an unusual object moving across the sky. He watched it change color from white to orange t…

On the evening of March 19, 1953, at around 6:30 p.m., a resident of Crystal Lake, Ohio, spotted two saucer-shaped objects in the sky. The witness was called outside by a family me…

A civilian woman in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a yellowish-white, oblong-shaped object hovering low on the horizon in early February 1953. She observed it on two separate occasio…

On October 15, 1953, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The object was in view for a short time. The witness reported it wa…

On November 14, 1953, Mrs. Ethel Coleman of Lebanon, Ohio was photographing a solar eclipse using an Eastman 35 mm camera equipped with infrared and red filters. The camera was mou…

On the evening of August 3, 1953, two employees of Gentile Air Force Depot in Dayton, Ohio, saw two glowing lights in the sky while driving on Bellbrook Pike. The objects appeared…

The OCR text from this case file is too heavily degraded and incomplete to support an accurate summary. While the metadata indicates this is a July 1953 sighting in Dayton, Ohio, t…

This file covers two sightings over Dayton, Ohio in May 1953. The first was reported about 0110 (1:10 a.m.) Eastern time on May 12. A civilian called to report a moving object over…

On December 1, 1953, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, reported a light in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The witness saw a flashing light with no sound that stayed in view fo…

On July 14, 1953, a witness near Fairborn, Ohio, reported lights in the night sky. The source was a civilian, and the case was tied to astronomical bodies. The sighting lasted abo…

On the evening of October 31, 1953, a couple near Logansville, Ohio saw a bright, moving object in the night sky. The husband noticed it first and called his wife outside to look.…

On November 20, 1953, at about 3:30 a.m. near Marietta, Ohio, three civilians reported one object. They were driving west on US Route Alternate 50, about ten miles west of Marietta…

On June 7, 1953, a resident of Norwood, Ohio, observed a small, sharply defined object in the sky for about ten to fifteen minutes during daylight hours. The object traveled first…

This is an operations report from Project Blue Book covering March 16 to 21, 1953. Project Blue Book was the Air Force program that kept the official records of unidentified flying…

The OCR text of this case file is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the document is clearly a standard Air Force UFO report form from the 1950s with witness…

On September 26, 1953, a resident of Springfield, Ohio, reported watching an unusual object in the sky. The observer was watching a fishing game when they noticed the phenomenon an…

On July 3, 1953, Wilbur H. Focht, an employee at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Tipp City, Ohio, stepped outside his home around 6:43 p.m. and spotted an unusual object in th…