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.
16 cases in PA from 1955 · page 1 of 1
30 Miles East Of Pittsburg, PA
1955 · unknownOn September 25, 1955, at about 0020Z, a civilian saw three objects about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted about ten minutes. The witness described t…
Bryn Mawr, PA
1955 · unknownOn April 27, 1955, a civilian observer in the Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area reported a bright light. The man was on duty with the Ground Observer Corps, watching th…
Clearfield, PA
1955 · unknownOn May 26, 1955, near Clearfield, Pennsylvania, a civilian observer reported seeing an object with no specific shape that changed color from white to red and back. The object appea…
Harrisburg, PA
1955 · unknownOn June 1, 1955, a civilian Ground Observer Corps member in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania saw a single object. It was a round sphere, silver in color, about the size of a basketball. It…
Jersey Shore, PA
1955 · unknownOn April 22, 1955, someone in Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania, saw a white, round object with sharp edges standing still in the sky for about a minute. Then it rose slowly. The sighting…
Leonape, PA
1955 · unknownOn September 23, 1955, at around 12:30 p.m., a housewife in Leonape, Pennsylvania, heard a sputtering sound like a light airplane engine and stepped outside to look. Instead of see…
Malvern, PA
1955 · unknownOn May 20, 1955, a civilian in Malvern, Pennsylvania saw a single object. It was an intermittent bright light. The light traveled from the south toward the north-northwest. The sig…
McDonald, PA
1955 · unknownOn August 4, 1955, near 8:15 p.m. local time, a civilian ground observer in McDonald, Pennsylvania reported one saucer-shaped object. The Air Force recorded the report under Projec…
Near Harrisburgh, PA
1955 · unknownOn August 23, 1955, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a civilian who was watching the stars saw small objects in the sky. The observer was about five miles north of Rockville Bridge.…
Newport, PA
1955 · unknownOn July 21, 1955, in Newport, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported a shapeless, yellow and white object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for…
Oxford, PA
1955 · unknownOn the morning of October 3, 1955, a school bus driver and civilian pilot near Oxford, Pennsylvania saw an unusual object in the sky. The man, standing beside his car on the northe…
Parksburg, PA
1955 · unknownA Ground Observer Corps spotter near Parksburg, Pennsylvania watched the night sky on March 3, 1955, and reported seeing many red objects that expanded to between 6 and 8 feet wide…
Penbrook, PA
1955 · unknownOn July 12, 1955, at Penbrook, Pennsylvania, a civilian reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about three minutes. The object was saucer-shaped and…
Penbrook, PA
1955 · unknownMrs. Anne Chamberlin, a 42-year-old Ground Observer Corps volunteer in Penbrook, Pennsylvania, reported seeing unidentified flying objects on two separate occasions in July 1955. O…
Philadelphia, PA
1955 · unknownOn July 12, 1955, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, civilian witnesses reported five objects over a period of about twenty minutes, each visible from five to fifteen seconds. The sigh…
Pittsburgh, PA
1955 · unknownOn July 23, 1955, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a civilian ground observer reported one round, light-colored object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its offic…
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