Project Blue Book Case Files

On July 1, 1956, a strange object was sighted 17 miles east of Columbus, Ohio. A TWA pilot reported seeing one object traveling from north to south-southwest at 4,000 feet altitude…

On October 14, 1956, at about 6:45 p.m. local time, a civilian near Batavia, Ohio reported an object that was assumed to be a jet making a vapor trail. The object was reddish orang…

On the night of August 4, 1956, a resident of Beavertown, Ohio reported seeing a very bright object directly overhead at 9:45 p.m. The object appeared to be about the size of a pea…

On March 5, 1956, a civilian at Bedford, Ohio, reported a slow-moving object at night. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified fly…

On November 5, 1956, a witness saw one object over Bucyrus, Ohio. The object was watched for about fifteen minutes. The report described one round white object the size of a dime…

On March 27, 1956, a civilian and Air Force Ground Observer Corps personnel at Canton, Ohio, reported one object at 1230 (about 12:30 p.m.). The report was filed under Project 1007…

On August 24, 1956, in Canton, Ohio, a civilian observer reported sighting a round, silver object the size of a golf ball. The object had no movement or sound and appeared as a bri…

On November 7, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Canton, Ohio. The object was watched for about fifteen minutes. The witness described one red-orange, pencil shaped object abou…

On May 7, 1956, a round object about the size of a half dollar was sighted near Canton, Alliance, and Springfield, Ohio. The object was held at arm's length by the observer and dri…

On the evening of July 31, 1956, three witnesses in Carrollton, Ohio reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky. The sighting lasted approximately one and a half hours. The ob…

On the morning of June 21, 1956, at 0836 (8:36 a.m.), two meteorologists and an electronics engineer were watching a radar scope at a facility in Cincinnati, Ohio. They were monito…

On November 3, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Cincinnati, Ohio. The object was watched for three to six seconds. The witness described one round, bright white, glowing objec…

On July 7, 1956, in Cincinnati, Ohio, a civilian ground observer reported one object at about 12:20 a.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object had been watched fo…

On October 14, 1956, an astronomer in Cincinnati, Ohio submitted three photographs and five negatives to the Air Force. He said he had taken them while photographing the moon throu…

On September 25, 1956, a housewife in Cincinnati, Ohio noticed a white, fibrous substance floating down into her yard. The material was curled and delicate. She collected some of i…

On March 22, 1956, in Cleveland, Ohio, one round object about the size of a pinhead at arm's length was seen in the west. The object was white in color and traveled at an estimated…

On March 5, 1956, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member at Columbus, Ohio, reported two objects at 2255 (10:55 p.m.). The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On November 5, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Columbus, Ohio. The object was watched for one minute. The witness described one round, brilliant white object the size of a di…

On July 28, 1956, a civilian in Columbus, Ohio, reported a single object in the sky. The sighting was recorded at 0300Z and lasted about ten to fifteen minutes. The witness descri…

On June 17, 1956, someone in Columbus, Ohio called the U.S. Air Force to report an unidentified flying object. The caller saw one or more pencil-shaped objects during daylight hour…

On the evening of November 27, 1956, a witness in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky at 8:30 p.m. The object appeared round and larger than the moon, with an…

On June 10, 1956, in Dayton, Ohio, an 11 year old boy reported one object at about 9:55 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It was a ground visual sighting. The witness saw it with the nak…

On the evening of October 23, 1956, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the night sky. The sighting occurred at 9:45 p.m. EST (21:45 in military time).…

On May 22, 1956, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a round object in the sky that appeared to be about the size of the planet Jupiter. The sighting lasted for an unknown…

Early on the morning of September 2, 1956, someone near Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the sky. The observer described a yellow-green, oval object roughly t…

On August 1, 1956, at 8:05 p.m., a civilian observer in Eaton, Ohio reported a bright orange light that was stationary and observed for five minutes. The light was positioned 110 d…

On October 28, 1956, a fourteen-year-old boy in Englewood, Ohio, observed a solid pink object in the western sky at twilight. The boy estimated the object to be about 50 miles away…

On July 6, 1956, in Euclid, Ohio, a spherical object described as large and white in color was observed by civilian and military witnesses. The object appeared to be revolving slow…

On September 23, 1956, a civilian in Hamilton, Ohio reported observing one object that appeared and faded like a star in continuous observation. The object was described as having…

On July 16, 1956, around midnight, witnesses near Homerville, Ohio saw two objects with lights like aircraft lights. The objects made a humming sound. Each appeared about the size…

On August 27, 1956, a military ground observer in Kent, Ohio, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 1750Z (day) and lasted about two minutes. The witness, a 14-ye…

On the evening of May 23, 1956, a resident of Lumberton, Ohio saw a bright blue-white light moving across the sky. At 9:12 p.m. EST, the observer was walking in the driveway of his…

On the morning of July 27, 1956, a resident of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, saw an unusual object in the sky around 0400 (4 a.m.). The witness described it as resembling a flat-shaped ligh…

On October 7, 1956, in Norwalk, Ohio, a civilian witness reported seeing one oval-shaped object smaller than a dime. The object was colored orange to green to red to orange and mov…

On September 4, 1956, at about 10 p.m. local time, a civilian in Parma Heights, Ohio reported an unidentified flying object. He was observing stars from his home near Doxmere and S…

On November 11, 1956, civilian and military witnesses saw one object over Salineville, Ohio. The object was watched for several minutes. The report described one long, light objec…

On September 4, 1956, around 8:35 p.m., a resident of Vandalia, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky. The object appeared round, roughly the size of a pea held at arm'…

On August 24, 1956, a civilian in Westerville, Ohio reported seeing one round object the size of a basketball at arm's length. The object had a red light in the sky very high above…

A father and his two sons reported seeing a strange aircraft near Wilmington, Ohio on June 27, 1956, at approximately 2:25 p.m. The family was standing about 2.4 miles north of Wil…

On August 31, 1956, a resident of Worthington, Ohio reported seeing a small, darkish yellow object moving slowly from north to south across the sky. The witness described the objec…

On the evening of November 18, 1956, a resident of Xenia, Ohio saw two oval objects with green lights moving across the sky at an estimated speed of 300 to 400 miles per hour. The…

On August 15, 1956, at 10:02 a.m. in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a civilian witness reported observing one reddish-white object with the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was in…