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.
6 cases in TX from 1950 · page 1 of 1
Biggs AFB, El Paso, TX
1950 · unidentifiedOn March 11, 1950, at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, military personnel reported observing one unidentified object. The object was round, about the size of a quarter, and…
Clarendon, TX
1950 · unidentifiedOn April 18, 1950, a Northrop Aircraft test pilot flying near Memphis, Texas, spotted an unidentified object in the sky. The pilot, Max Stanley, had been asked to investigate after…
Ft. Bliss, TX
1950 · unidentifiedOn the morning of March 6, 1950, two Army officers at Fort Bliss, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky. First Lieutenant Philip W. Arant and Corporal Johnnie L. Adams were in…
Ft. Worth, TX
1950 · unidentifiedIn April 1950, Ira Maxey, a former Air Force radar bombardier, reported photographing strange objects in the sky near Fort Worth, Texas. According to news accounts, Maxey had calle…
Grass Plains, TX
1950 · unidentifiedOn March 4, 1950, a male civilian in Grass Plains, Texas reported seeing four or five objects at 1 p.m. CST. The objects were flat and elliptical in shape, white to silvery in colo…
Texarkana, TX
1950 · unidentifiedOn June 27, 1950, at about 7:50 a.m., two workers at the Red River Arsenal near Texarkana, Texas, saw a shiny object in the sky. The men were riding in a federal truck when a passe…
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