USAF · 1947 to 1969
Project Blue Book Case Files
The U.S. Air Force's 22-year investigation into reported UFO incidents, drawn from the National Archives. Each case below has a journalistic summary written from the original file. Use the search box to find a place or date, or filter by state and year.
35 cases in OH from 1958 · page 1 of 1
3 Mi W of Cleveland, OH
1958 · unknownOn February 28, 1958, at 4:03 p.m., a witness three miles west of Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing a brilliant orange flaming object. When first sighted, the object separated into f…
Akron, OH
1958 · unknownOn March 5, 1958, near Akron, Ohio, a resident spotted material floating down from the sky around 5:30 p.m. The object landed about 100 yards south of Koons Road, roughly 1 mile we…
Between Springfield and Enon, OH
1958 · unknownOn the morning of July 1, 1958, an observer near Springfield, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sighting lasted only five to ten seconds. The object appeared a…
Brookfield, OH
1958 · unknownOn August 15, 1958, at 8:55 p.m., a small white oval-shaped object was sighted near Brookfield, Ohio. The object flashed alternately while traveling southeasterly and fading in sig…
Canton, OH
1958 · unknownOn May 20, 1958, at 12:11 a.m., a night watchman in Canton, Ohio reported seeing a cigar-shaped object about two to three feet in size. The object was white with a bright front and…
Canton, OH
1958 · unknownOn the evening of May 12, 1958, a resident of Canton, Ohio saw an unidentified object in the sky. The object appeared as a red light moving from the northwest toward the east. It h…
Cleveland, OH
1958 · unknownOn the morning of December 10, 1958, a Cleveland resident saw what he described as an oval, silvery object moving rapidly across the sky. Looking north, the witness watched the obj…
Cuyahoga, Falls, OH
1958 · unknownOn February 1, 1958, multiple reliable phone callers reported seeing a strange object in the sky over Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio between 9:20 p.m. and 9:26 p.m. EST. The object was cigar…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn the night of June 7, 1958, an observer in Dayton, Ohio saw a small, reddish object in the sky that looked similar to a star. The sighting occurred around 11:32 p.m. local time.…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn March 21, 1958, around 8:20 a.m. in Dayton, Ohio, three youths on their way to school observed a spherical object moving slowly away in the sky. The object was reported as movin…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn September 20, 1958, in the evening, witnesses in Dayton, Ohio saw three objects. There was one white object and two red objects, each about the size of a pea at arm's length. Th…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownIn August 1958, a resident of Dayton, Ohio observed a yellow-white object about the size of a golf ball at 5:00 p.m. local time. The witness watched it for approximately two hours…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownIn April 1958, an observer in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a silvery, circular object in the sky. The object was small, about the size of a pinhead when viewed from a distance, and…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn July 13, 1958, a civilian and two other observers in Grand Rapids, Michigan, reported seeing an unidentified flying object near the zenith (almost directly overhead). The object…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownIn early January 1958, a woman in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing three objects that resembled helicopters with red blinking lights. She believed they were arranged in a row and told…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn December 4, 1958, at about 11:30 p.m., a civilian woman in Dayton, Ohio, reported flashes of light and an object. It was raining at the time. She and her husband were in bed whe…
Dayton, OH
1958 · unknownOn a night in October 1958, a witness in Dayton, Ohio saw one blue-green object that looked like a flame. It changed brightness and was about the size of a dime. The object travele…
Dayton vicinity, OH
1958 · unknownOn March 6, 1958, people across the Dayton, Ohio area reported seeing a small, round, reddish object moving slowly through the early morning sky around 5:30 to 6:00 a.m. The object…
E Of Columbus, OH
1958 · unknownIn November 1958, someone near Columbus, Ohio saw an object fall from the sky in broad daylight. The witness described it as round and green, about the size of a pin head held at a…
Hubbard, OH
1958 · unknownOn May 26, 1958, at 8:34 p.m., a civilian in Hubbard, Ohio reported seeing a round orange object traveling at 600 knots at 5,000 feet. The object moved from southeast to northwest.…
Lake Erie, Put In Bay, OH
1958 · unknownIn October 1958, several witnesses near Put In Bay, Ohio, on Lake Erie reported seeing an unusual object in the sky over the course of several weeks. The object appeared as a round…
Lakewood, OH
1958 · unknownOn September 14, 1958 (15/0310Z), a civilian observer in Lakewood, Ohio, near Cleveland, reported an unidentified flying object at night. The witness, who was looking at the stars,…
Marietta, OH
1958 · unknownOn the night of May 9, 1958, a man in Marietta, Ohio reported seeing five lights in the sky moving from east to west near Parkersburg, West Virginia. He described four amber-white…
Massilon, OH
1958 · unknownOn July 9, 1958, two observers near Massillon, Ohio, reported an unidentified flying object at about 11:21 p.m. local time. One witness was a civilian and one was a military ground…
Parma, OH
1958 · unknownOn May 16, 1958, a civilian witnessed a bright light in Parma, Ohio. The object remained stationary until an aircraft flew over it from west to east. When the aircraft passed the o…
Pigua, OH
1958 · unknownOn a November morning in 1958 near Piqua, Ohio, a witness spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared round and dirty white, roughly the size of a basketball, and see…
Sheffield Lake, OH
1958 · unknownEarly on the morning of September 21, 1958, a woman in Sheffield Lake, Ohio, woke to a bright light flooding her bedroom. When she looked out the window, she saw a flat, circular o…
Springfield, OH
1958 · unknownOn March 11, 1958, two observers reported sighting an unidentified flying object over Springfield, Ohio. Major Huke from WPAFB called the Strategic Defense Operations office at 9:3…
Toledo, OH
1958 · unknownOn the evening of September 8, 1958, a woman in Toledo, Ohio named Pamela A. Rowe noticed a bright glowing object in the sky around 6:30 p.m. The object remained stationary for abo…
W of Germantown, OH
1958 · unknownOn the evening of July 2, 1958, a witness west of Germantown, Ohio saw a bright white light blinking very rapidly in the sky. The observation lasted about 15 hours, with the object…
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
1958 · unknownOn October 14, 1958, a witness at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio observed a square object with a yellow and greenish tint. The object then exploded into pieces. The sighti…
Xenia, OH
1958 · unknownOn April 3, 1958, a resident of Xenia, Ohio reported seeing a bright light moving rapidly across the sky. The witness described the object as clear and brilliant, resembling a brig…
Xenia, OH
1958 · unknownOn a night in 1958, witnesses in Xenia, Ohio saw two pinpoints of light, brighter than a star and with a blue cast. The lights flashed together. The objects moved from east to west…
Xenia-Bellbrook, OH
1958 · unknownOn July 14, 1958, a civilian in Xenia-Bellbrook, Ohio reported observing an object between 4:30 and 5:30 a.m. The object appeared as a bright star and often looked like three light…
Yellow Springs, OH
1958 · unknownOn June 7, 1958, a resident of Yellow Springs, Ohio, reported seeing a white disc-shaped object with a slight tinge of yellow or red while outdoors in open countryside. The sightin…
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