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.
242 cases in TX · page 1 of 5
Big Spring, TX
1963 · unknownThe OCR text for page 9 is too corrupted to read reliably. However, the earlier pages of this file contain clear, substantive information about the sighting, and I can write a full…
Dallas-Ft Worth, TX
1963 · unknownSomeone at Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, located between Dallas and Fort Worth, shot 13 slides of what looked like a flying object on June 15, 1963, sometime between 11 a.m.…
Houston, TX
1963 · unknownOn the evening of June 14, 1963, a man and his wife were stargazing from atop Addicks Dam, just west of Houston, Texas. At 9:57 p.m., they spotted what looked like a star positione…
Rockport AFS, TX
1963 · unknownOn January 21, 1963, a civilian near Rockport Air Force Station, Texas, reported a round, silvery white object during daylight. It looked about the size of a pinhead held at arm's…
Texarkana, TX
1963 · unknownOn the night of June 26, 1963, a resident of Texarkana, Texas watched two round white-to-orange objects move slowly across the northern sky. The witness noticed the objects while l…
Von Ormy, TX
1963 · unknownOn June 27, 1963, in daylight, a civilian reported an object near Von Ormy, Texas, about 2 miles north of the town. The witness worked at Kelly Air Force Base. The case was recorde…
Beeville, TX
1962 · unknownOn July 6, 1962, a Navy control tower operator at Chase Field near Beeville, Texas, reported an object at about 2030Z. The object was in sight for about 3 to 5 seconds. The object…
Carswell AFB, TX
1962 · unknownOn February 11, 1962, military and civilian witnesses near Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was made at 2220 local time (10:20 p.m.) and…
Chorpus Christi, TX
1962 · unknownOn October 26, 1962, a farmer in Corpus Christi, Texas reported that a piece of translucent material had fallen from the sky and struck his plow. He kept the material and reported…
Ft. Worth, TX
1962 · unknownAn amateur astronomer and his sons observed an unusual object in the sky near Fort Worth, Texas on the night of April 28-29, 1962. The man, a nuclear engineer, spotted the object t…
Millsap, TX
1962 · unknownIn May 1962, a resident of Millsap, Texas reported seeing an unusual object in the sky that moved quickly across the area. The sighting lasted only five to ten seconds, but the obs…
Perrin, TX
1962 · unknownOn August 1, 1962, near Perrin, Texas, a witness observed an unidentified object with the naked eye. The object appeared square or rectangular, approximately 120 power Barlow Lens…
SE Childers, TX
1962 · unknownOn February 15, 1962, a military pilot reported an object southeast of Childress, Texas. The sighting was made at about 0015 GMT and lasted about 5 to 10 seconds. The pilot was fly…
20 NM W of Junction, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn December 12, 1961, two military pilots about 20 nautical miles west of Junction, Texas, reported a meteor-like object. The pilots were flying a T-29 aircraft and were returning…
Between Sterling City and Garden City, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn the night of February 13, 1961, four people in a car saw a colored light on the highway between Sterling City and Garden City, Texas, about 27 miles southeast of Webb Air Force…
Bryan, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn November 16, 1961, a military pilot near Bryan, Texas, reported an object at about 11:37 a.m. local time (1737 Zulu). The pilot was flying a T-33 jet at about 3,200 feet, headin…
Carswell AFB, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn March 12, 1961, observers at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, reported round, bright silver objects. The objects were the size of nickels and appeared side by side. They were see…
Dallas, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn the morning of March 9, 1961, a Dallas resident doing amateur satellite watching saw a bright object streak across the sky from northeast to southwest in just 2 to 5 seconds. Th…
Diboll, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn the night of November 1, 1961, two neighbors in Diboll, Texas observed a bright object moving across the western sky at approximately 8:00 p.m. CST. One witness received a phone…
Fort Worth, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn January 9 through 15, 1961, multiple witnesses at and near Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The case file primarily focuses on a sigh…
Fort Worth, TX
1961 · unidentified# Four UFO Sightings Reported by a Fort Worth Teenager in 1961 In the summer of 1961, the Aerospace Technical Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base received a let…
Ft. Bliss, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn May 10, 1961, a military witness saw an object near Fort Bliss, Texas, around 8 p.m. (local). The sighting lasted about 38 minutes. The object's course varied. The object first…
Houston, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn July 20, 1961, a Trans Texas Airways pilot and crew member spotted two unusually bright objects while flying a DC-3 aircraft from Houston to Jefferson County Airport near Port A…
San Angelo, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn February 16, 1961, a civilian in San Angelo, Texas, reported a reflective light in the sky for about 15 minutes. The witness was a 35 year old petroleum geologist described as v…
San Antonio, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn May 16, 1961, a civilian saw an object near San Antonio, Texas, by ground visual observation. The object was circular, about the size of a half dollar, and brilliant white. It a…
Temple, TX
1961 · unidentified# Temple, Texas - June 1961 A witness in Temple reported seeing a bright object in the night sky in early June 1961. The observer described the object as similar in appearance to…
Vernon, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn February 17, 1961, a boy in Vernon, Texas, reported seeing an unidentified flying object and said he reported it to Altus Air Force Base. The information in this file comes from…
Webb AFB, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn August 14, 1961, at about 0340 (3:40 a.m.) local time, a military observer at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The witness was the staff duty noncommis…
Webb AFB, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn February 22, 1961, around 4:03 a.m. local time, a weather detachment at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported a luminous streak in the sky. The observation was made by the detach…
Wichita Falls, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn January 15, 1961, several employees of a Wichita Falls television station sighted an unidentified object in the sky west of the city. The witnesses reported seeing the object at…
W of Seguin, TX
1961 · unidentifiedOn April 16, 1961, a civilian saw an object while driving west on a new section of Highway 90, from west of Seguin, Texas toward San Antonio. The object was in sight for about 5 mi…
39 mi S of San Angelo, TX
1960 · unknownOn September 21, 1960, a military pilot about 39 miles south of San Angelo, Texas, reported a sighting at 1922 (7:22 p.m.). Flying an F-102A at about 38,000 feet, the pilot saw a r…
4.5 mi SSW of Ft Worth, TX
1960 · unknownOn July 21, 1960, a civilian and his family on a back porch about 4.5 miles southwest of Fort Worth, Texas saw an object at night. The sighting happened at about 9:40 p.m. and last…
8 Mi SW of Seminole, TX
1960 · unknown# Summary In December 1960, residents of the Seminole area in West Texas began reporting an unusual object in the sky. The sightings prompted an investigation that would eventuall…
Biggs, AFB, TX
1960 · unknownOn the morning of March 25, 1960, three U.S. Air Force sentries standing guard at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, witnessed an unusual flying object traveling at extremely…
Dallas, TX
1960 · unknownOn May 16, 1960, a witness near Dallas, Texas, saw an object in the sky. The time was between about 8:50 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. local time. The object was diamond-shaped. The witness…
Durenville, TX
1960 · unknown# Bluish-White Light Over South Texas In August 1960, a man in San Antonio reported seeing an unusual light near Durenville, Texas, about three to five miles from his location. Th…
El Paso, TX
1960 · unknownOn the morning of May 29, 1960, multiple witnesses in and around El Paso, Texas saw a bright object streak across the sky just before dawn. The event lasted only a few seconds to a…
E of Corpus Christi, TX
1960 · unknownOn August 17, 1960, Coast Guard observers east of Corpus Christi, Texas saw an object at about 9:12 p.m. The sighting lasted about 13 minutes. The object was round and white, about…
Kerrville, TX
1960 · unknownIn October 1960, six students in Kerrville, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object appeared as a self-luminous ball with a pastel green color. It was first seen at…
Marlin, TX
1960 · unknownOn July 10, 1960, a civilian couple in Marlin, Texas saw an object in the sky at dusk. The sighting lasted about one and a half minutes. The object was round and about the size of…
Randolph AFB, TX
1960 · unknownTwo military weather observers at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas watched a bright, glowing object streak across the sky on the morning of December 5, 1960. The object appeared wh…
SW of Wichita Falls, TX
1960 · unknownOn the morning of September 28, 1960, a bright white light fell from the sky southwest of Wichita Falls, Texas, and was seen by dozens of people across a wide area. The sighting oc…
Vicinity Biggs AFB, TX
1960 · unknown# Summary On the early morning of July 2, 1960, at approximately 0347 (3:47 a.m.), military sentries and dog handlers stationed near the active runway at Biggs Air Force Base in T…
Vicinity Waco, TX
1960 · unknownOn May 9, 1960, a single witness near Waco, Texas, saw an object in the sky at dusk. The card lists the sighting as a ground visual observation of one object. The object looked lo…
Wolfe City, TX
1960 · unknownOn September 28, 1960, a civilian near Wolfe City, Texas, reported an object due east of the town between about midnight and 1 a.m. local. The witness, an Air Force reservist, desc…
8 Mi NNW Of San Antonio, TX
1959 · unknownOn November 7, 1959, a civilian drill rig operator working in a rock quarry about eight miles north-northwest of San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The obser…
Big Spring, TX
1959 · unknownOn April 5, 1959, at about 1300Z (about 7 p.m. local), two civilians in Big Spring, Texas, reported an object in the night sky. The witnesses were a 33-year-old man, a petroleum ma…
Big Spring, TX
1959 · unknownOn the evening of April 22, 1959, a 14-year-old boy in Big Spring, Texas, saw an object moving rapidly across the sky. The boy watched from the central part of town as the object t…
Castorville, TX
1959 · unknownOn October 1, 1959, in Castorville, Texas, witnesses reported an orange fire-colored, cigar-shaped object with grapefruit-sized feathery edges. The object was oriented vertically a…
Corpus Christi, TX
1959 · unknownIn July 1959, a resident of Corpus Christi, Texas filmed what they believed was an unidentified flying object during daylight hours. The film showed a bright image that appeared co…
Dallas, TX
1959 · unknownOn August 1, 1959, in Dallas, Texas, a civilian reported observing a round, white object slightly larger than a pea. The object was observed during daylight hours at 2300Z (4:00 p.…
Dallas, TX
1959 · unknownOn April 5, 1959, in Dallas, Texas, a witness reported a bright object in the sky around the evening hours. The observer was watching a B-47 aircraft when the object was noticed.…
Duncanville, TX
1959 · unknownOn November 17, 1959, at 3:19 p.m., a resident of Duncanville, Texas, observed what he described as a flying saucer while looking southwest from his home near a Navy base. The obje…
Ozona, TX
1959 · unknownOn October 28, 1959, an object was watched for about seven hours near Ozona, Texas. Both civilians and military personnel observed it, from about 1300Z to 2000Z. They measured its…
Palacios, TX
1959 · unknownOn February 16, 1959, a resident of Palacios, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky around 2:40 a.m. The witness described a bright red object glowing with what he called a…
Randolph AFB, TX
1959 · unknownOn the night of October 4, 1959, two civilians driving in a car about two miles south of Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, saw a single object for about 25 minutes. One observer work…
San Antonio, TX
1959 · unknownOn the evening of April 17, 1959, a mother and her adult son were driving on W.W. White Road near San Antonio, Texas when the mother pointed out an unusual object in the sky. The s…
San Antonio, TX
1959 · unknownOn the evening of March 25, 1959, someone in San Antonio, Texas spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The witness described it as bluish-white, roughly the size of a grapefru…
Webb AFB, TX
1959 · unknownOn July 10, 1959, at about 0335Z, an observer in the control tower at Webb Air Force Base, Texas, reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's u…
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