Project Blue Book Case Files

In August 1957, two separate sightings in Dayton, Ohio remained unexplained after investigation by the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force's official evaluation marked both incidents as…

On August 22, 1957, at 1520 (Greenwich time) near Bedford and Canton, Ohio, a military observer saw one round white object about the size of the head of a pin. The sighting lasted…

On November 10, 1957, a military observer near Bellefontaine Air Force Base, Ohio reported one round bright white light the size of a dime. The sighting lasted about 1 hour and 15…

On November 7, 1957, an Air Force cadet driving east of Bowling Green, Ohio, reported objects in the sky around 6:00 p.m. He was driving on a highway when he saw a brilliant red fl…

On September 4 and 5, 1957, multiple witnesses in the Midwest reported unusual lights in the night sky. The sightings occurred in Brookville, Ohio, Spencer, Wisconsin, and Dayton,…

On a November evening in 1957, a resident of Brookville, Ohio reported seeing a small, metallic object fall from the sky. The observer described the object as silver in color with…

On September 1, 1957, near Canton, Ohio, a military observer saw one round white object about the size of a softball held at arm's length. The object moved to the northwest and was…

On December 13, 1957, a witness in Canton, Ohio saw one round gold object about the size of a basketball. The object moved slowly toward the east. It was in sight for about four se…

On June 14, 1957, at night, a civilian ground observer in Canton, Ohio reported a sighting. The observation lasted three to five seconds. The witness saw one round bluish green ob…

On May 7, 1957, in Canton, Ohio, a civilian observer reported an oval-shaped object measuring 12 inches long by 8 inches wide at a distance of 5 to 8 miles. The object was very shi…

On the evening of August 21, 1957, a witness in Centerville, Ohio reported seeing two bright, star-like objects in the sky. The objects appeared around 8:30 p.m. during twilight an…

On November 7, 1957, a witness at Chilo, Ohio, reported many objects in the sky. The witness was a civilian ground observer. The objects were in sight for about 47 minutes and were…

On the evening of July 18, 1957, in Cincinnati, Ohio, witnesses reported seeing several bright objects in the night sky. The sighting began around 9:30 p.m. and lasted approximatel…

# Cincinnati, Ohio, December 1957: Motion Picture Film of Unknown Object In December 1957, a Cincinnati resident filmed what he believed to be an unidentified flying object. The s…

In May 1957, a Cincinnati resident observed a single object in the sky for about 14 minutes. The witness described it as round, slightly larger than a baseball, with fuzzy or blurr…

On September 17, 1957, near Columbus, Ohio, a civilian saw one round white object about the size of a basketball held at arm's length. The object was seen to the northwest of the c…

On December 2, 1957, a witness near Columbus, Ohio saw one bluish green object. It moved from northwest to southeast. The object was in sight for only a very short time. The file i…

On December 4, 1957, at around 9:00 a.m., a 15-year-old boy in Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky. The object was very high, bright silver, and sharply outlined. It move…

On November 8, 1957, at approximately 1520 hours (3:20 p.m.), a person in Dayton, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the sky. The observer described it as slightly smaller than a…

On October 4, 1957, observers in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unidentified object in the evening sky. The sightings came from at least three separate witnesses and were document…

On a January night in 1957, someone in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a round object with rays extending from it. The object appeared to be about the size of a quarter held at arm's…

On June 19, 1957, at about 1:30 a.m. local time, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported a sighting through Civil Defense. The report was an extract from a senior duty officer's repor…

On September 24, 1957, at about 2130 (Greenwich time) in Dayton, Ohio, a civilian saw one object shaped like a cylinder that was wide at the top and tapered down. It was silver and…

On the night of March 24, 1957, a bright flash of white light streaked across the sky above Clinton County Air Force Base in Ohio, moving from west to east. The object was visible…

On Sunday, December 1, 1957, around 3 p.m., a man in Montebello, California, and his family witnessed six unidentified objects flying in formation across the sky. When the children…

In November 1957, residents of Fairborn, Ohio, reported seeing unidentified objects in the night sky. The Air Force received at least three separate sighting reports from the area…

On July 25, 1957, in Fairborn, Ohio, a witness observed an unidentified object in the afternoon sky. The Air Force received a detailed report through its standard UFO investigation…

On July 3, 1957, an observer near Hamilton, Ohio reported a sighting that lasted about ten minutes. The attached message describes a related ground observation in Washington state.…

On November 7, 1957, witnesses in Lake County, Ohio, reported objects in the sky. Several people made reports, which were collected by local Civil Defense officials. One woman repo…

On the evening of November 6, 1957, people in Lima, Ohio called the local newspaper to report a strange sight in the sky. They had seen a round, red object at high altitude in the…

On July 16, 1957, at about 5:15 a.m. local time, a civilian family of three in Lorain, Ohio reported a sighting. Their home was on the south side of an avenue running along Lake Er…

On the evening of August 30, 1957, someone northeast of Dayton, Ohio saw an unusual object in the sky. The witness was indoors when a child called them to look outside. The object…

# New Carlisle, Ohio - September 1957 A woman in New Carlisle awoke at 3:30 a.m. on September 21, 1957, to feed her baby. As she looked out her window, she saw a group of lights m…

On September 5, 1957, at about 2330 (11:30 p.m.) near Ney, Ohio, and Archbold, Ohio, two civilians reported a bright oval object that shined like the reflection of a mirror. The ob…

On November 11, 1957, at around noon, a resident of Oakwood, Dayton, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The observer described it as blue-white in color with a poss…

On December 5-10, 1957, observers in Cincinnati, Ohio reported seeing a bright white light moving across the sky. The object was described as being as bright as the moon and made n…

On September 29, 1957, an observer in Piqua, Ohio reported seeing an object high in the sky that looked and behaved like an aircraft. The sighting lasted about five to seven second…

The OCR text on pages 10 and 11 is too heavily garbled to support reliable transcription. However, the structured portions of the case file are readable enough to provide a summary…

On December 11, 1957, a witness near Quincy, Ohio reported one oval yellowish-orange object about the size of a cigar. The object moved from southeast to northwest. It stayed in vi…

In July 1957, someone in Shiloh, Ohio found a large black stone and reported it as a meteorite to the Air Force. The object was sent to the Air Force Institute of Technology for ex…

On a misty morning in Springfield, Ohio, two police officers saw an unusual light streak across the sky in early November 1957. The sighting lasted only about ten seconds, but it s…

On the evening of November 6, 1957, at 8:40 p.m., a witness in Springfield, Ohio saw a very bright white light in the sky moving in a weaving pattern. The object appeared to be abo…

On a day in 1957, civilians in Tallmadge, Ohio reported a sighting. The observation lasted about ten minutes. Witnesses saw two or three objects that were round and black. The obj…

A science teacher from Tiffin, Ohio reported seeing a flash of light while driving home from work on November 17, 1957. The following day, he returned to the area and found a spher…

On June 20, 1957, in Vandalia, Ohio, an observer reported a round object slowly climbing northward to ATIC Command Post. The sighting was confirmed by a local U.S. weather bureau s…

On November 9, 1957, at 1505 (3:05 p.m.), a person in Waynesville, Ohio saw a bright white object in the sky. The object was round and about the size of a baseball. It looked like…

On September 27, 1957, in the evening, a witness in West Jefferson, Ohio saw one object that looked like a red fireball. It moved on a southwest course. The object crossed from one…

A soldier at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio reported seeing a bright object in the sky in November 1957. He said the object was round and goldish white. He looked at it th…