Project Blue Book Case Files

On the evening of November 12, 1954, a resident of Barberton, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky. The witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped object that traveled wes…

On a November afternoon in 1954, a Cincinnati resident saw grayish-white objects moving rapidly across the sky. The witness observed them for about 15 minutes while standing outdoo…

In late June 1954, multiple witnesses across a wide area of central Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings occurred on June 26, with reports coming from Z…

On June 10, 1954, at about 9:50 p.m. local time in Cleveland, Ohio, a civilian reported one object for one to one and a half minutes. While sitting in his back yard, he saw an obje…

On May 13, 1954, at about 3:00 a.m. near Cleveland, Ohio, ground observers and a pilot of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron reported one object. It showed an orange light that…

On the evening of July 7, 1954, a 25-year-old insurance salesman was driving west on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, when he spotted an unusual object near his right side…

On the night of February 26, 1954, an object was reported near Columbus, Ohio. The witnesses were civilians, and the sighting was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's officia…

On May 30, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio, a civilian reported seeing 11 or 12 objects for a few seconds. The witness, who was painting at the time, said the objects moved from the southw…

On the evening of June 23, 1954, First Lieutenant Harry Roe Jr., an Ohio Air National Guard pilot, was flying an F-51 Mustang fighter between Dayton and Columbus when he encountere…

On a date in 1954, a witness in Dayton, Ohio, reported an object in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The object was a steady flame color with no sound. It flew in a strai…

On the night of June 21, 1954, around 10:20 p.m. Eastern time, a civilian observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a bright, glowing object in the sky. The object appeared solid bu…

On July 3, 1954, a B-36H bomber was flying over the Atlantic Ocean between the Azores and Bermuda when its radar observer spotted something unusual on his scope. Captain Charles C.…

On June 25, 1954, at 1705 Eastern Daylight Time (5:05 p.m.), a civilian witness near Indian Lake, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified aerial object. The observer was outdoors in o…

On the night of September 27, 1954, a civilian reported an object over Loudonville, Ohio. The witness, an employee of a local company, watched the object from his car while driving…

On June 22 or 23, 1954, a civilian woman near Madeira, Ohio, watched an object she thought was the same as one reported in newspapers from a Columbus sighting. She saw it at about…

On October 22, 1954, students and teachers at Jerome Elementary School in Marysville, Ohio, saw what they described as a bright, shiny, cigar-shaped object in the afternoon sky. Af…

On October 23, 1954, two people in different locations in Ohio saw what the Air Force's Project Blue Book investigation would later label an unidentified object. One witness was in…

On July 23, 1954, at 2:40 p.m., a silver circular or spherical object was sighted in the sky near Milford, Ohio. The object was observed at approximately 45 degrees elevation in th…

On August 2, 1954, a civilian witness at Westlake, Ohio, reported an object in the sky at about 5:17 p.m. The sighting lasted about 20 seconds. The object was elliptical and about…

On July 25, 1954, at 9:00 a.m., a civilian in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object. The object was circular, silver-white in color with a black center, and a…