Project Blue Book Case Files

On the night of May 7, 1949, military personnel at Camp Hood, Texas spotted unusual lights in the sky. Using artillery observation equipment and binoculars, observers tracked diamo…

On the evening of July 11, 1949, a sergeant with the 42nd Armored Infantry Battalion at Camp Hood, Texas, saw something unusual streak across the sky. He was lying in a prone posit…

On the evening of April 27, 1949, soldiers stationed at Camp Hood, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. The first sighting occurred at 9:20 p.m. (2120) when four Army personne…

On May 8, 1949, military personnel at Camp Hood, Texas reported a single diamond-shaped object in the night sky. Witnesses described it as a brilliant light that changed color from…

On the evening of June 6, 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood, Texas observed unusual lights in the sky that sparked an Air Force investigation. Two separate groups of military observers…

On the evening of May 6, 1949, a lieutenant at Camp Hood, Texas, watched an unusual glowing object for fifty minutes. The object appeared about the size of a half dollar at first,…

On May 23, 1949, soldiers at Camp Hood, Texas reported seeing unusual lights in the sky during four separate observation periods that day and night. The sightings involved multiple…

On the night of April 28, 1949, soldiers stationed at Camp Hood, Texas spotted unusual lights in the sky. The sightings began around 8:30 p.m. and continued for several hours, with…

On June 13, 1949, military observers at Camp Hood, Texas reported seeing an unusual bright light moving through the night sky. The Air Force investigated this sighting along with e…

On August 15, 1949, two women in Dallas, Texas observed bright, metallic disc-shaped objects moving slowly across the sky in formation. The first observer, standing on her home por…

On the evening of May 21, 1949, multiple witnesses in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a group of unusual objects moving across the sky. The sightings occurred between approximately 8…

On January 30, 1949, at 1800 (6 p.m.), witnesses across El Paso, Texas and parts of New Mexico saw a bright green fireball moving slowly across the sky. The object appeared to trav…

On May 30, 1949, at 1:32 p.m., a soldier at Sunrise Acres near El Paso, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the clear daytime sky. The soldier was watching a fighter plane when som…

On the evening of April 15, 1949, observers traveling by car about 40 miles east of El Paso, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The main witness was Captain B. J. Walsh J…

On the morning of June 22, 1949, a military officer at Fort Bliss, Texas, stood on the steps of Building 4100 and noticed several small, silvery objects moving through the air to t…

At Fort Bliss, Texas, on May 5, 1949, military officers on a firing range spotted two unidentified objects in the sky. The witnesses were reliable military personnel with clean rec…

On the morning of May 19, 1949, soldiers stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas saw a flashing silver object in the sky near the Hueco Mountains. The object appeared about the size of a th…

Two Air Force officers at Fort Worth, Texas sighted an unidentified flying object on April 13, 1949, at approximately 2105 (9:05 p.m.). First Lieutenant Robert A. Francis and Capta…

On July 7, 1949, a military pilot standing on the horizontal stabilizer of a B-36 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The…

On July 20, 1949, a man reclining in a beach chair on Galveston Public Beach saw a bright, round object moving across the sky. The sighting lasted less than thirty seconds. The obj…

On August 31, 1949, two civilians in Houston, Texas, reported seeing a single object in the sky. The time was about 11:40 p.m. local time. The men were on duty at a power plant and…

On the early morning of August 20, 1949, a rancher near Llano, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky for more than two hours. The man reported that around 3:00 a.m., while standin…

Early on August 2, 1949, Coast Guard crew members at the Port O'Connor Lifeboat Station in Texas sighted a single object in the sky. The time was about 8:45 p.m. local time the eve…

On January 20, 1949, at about 1835 (6:35 p.m.), a soldier named Master Sergeant Ellis C. Stone saw an object in the sky near San Antonio, Texas. He was about 6.2 miles northeast of…