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.
33 cases in TX from 1952 · page 1 of 1
6 miles SW Lometa, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 2, 1952, at 2039 (8:39 p.m.) local time, about 6 miles southwest of Lometa, Texas, Air Force officers and a radar team reported a large fireball. A single object was seen.…
Amarillo, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 26, 1952, a captain in the U.S. Air Force saw three pink objects flying in formation near Amarillo, Texas. The observer was standing on the ground facing roughly southwes…
BROOKS AFB, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn October 9, 1952, a captain and four enlisted airmen at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas spotted three round, silver objects in the sky over the course of about an hour. The captai…
Brownwood, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the evening of April 2, 1952, people across Texas reported seeing a bright, fiery object moving rapidly across the sky. Near Brownwood and in communities to the west of Temple,…
Bryan, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 2, 1952, near Bryan, Texas, Air Force pilots reported a large fireball. The sighting lasted about 5 to 15 seconds. The object was fire colored and circular with a tail. Th…
CANADIAN, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the evening of December 27, 1952, five people driving south on US Highway 83 near Canadian, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. CST, they saw a…
Cedar Hill, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 15, 1952, an unidentified flying object was sighted near Cedar Hill, Texas, located five to five and a half miles south of the station. A military officer from Cedar Hill…
Dallas, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 15, 1952, a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported seeing a white light with a light shape. The object had no distinguishable shape, appeared larger than a navigation light,…
Dallas, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the night of April 16, 1952, a woman in Dallas, Texas reported seeing multiple colored objects moving across the sky. She described five objects in total: two red ball shapes, t…
DALLAS, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn December 24, 1952, a B-36 bomber flying east of Dallas, Texas detected an unidentified object on radar at 12:15 p.m. (1215 hours). The phenomenon was tracked intermittently by b…
EL PASO, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn February 25, 1952, Captain John D. Musick of the 1st Strategic Support Squadron at Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas was photographing a rainbow from his home when he notic…
EL PASO, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the night of September 14-15, 1952, a civilian engineer and three witnesses near El Paso, Texas observed six separate groups of luminous spheres moving rapidly across the sky in…
Gonzales, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn a Monday evening in February 1952, a young man driving through Shiner, Texas saw an unusual object in the sky that appeared to vanish into what looked like a ball of fire. The s…
Kelly AFB, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 14, 1952, at 3:45 p.m., seven civilian employees and one airman at Kelly Air Force Base in Texas watched a round, metallic object fly slowly across the sky for roughly th…
KILLEEN, TX
1952 · unidentifiedBefore daybreak on September 17, 1952, about 4:48 a.m. local time, an Army military police corporal on sentry duty at Killeen Base, Killeen, Texas, reported an object directly over…
Lackland AFB, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 1, 1952, at 10:15 p.m. local time, an airman at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas observed a white, sphere-shaped object during a one to two second sighting. The observer w…
Leveland, TX
1952 · unidentified# Leveland, Texas, August 1952 On August 24, 1952, between 9:30 p.m. and midnight, two unidentified flying objects were sighted near Leveland, Texas. The objects were spherical in…
LUBBOCK, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 2, 1952, a man in Lubbock, Texas watched a spherical, metallic object hanging motionless in the sky for six minutes. The object was about 24 inches across and had no visi…
Miller-Graughan AFB, Temple, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 6, 1952, at about 1959 (7:59 p.m.) local time, a civilian near Miller-Graughan Air Force Base in Temple, Texas, reported an object for about 3 minutes. The object was gray…
Oak Forest, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 24, 1952, a Texas couple driving toward Seguin on Highway 3 spotted an unusual aircraft near Oak Forest. They watched it for fourteen to fifteen minutes as it traveled eas…
Randolf AFB, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the night of June 12, 1952, military personnel stationed at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a series of unidentified aerial objects moving erratically across the sky n…
Richmond, TX
1952 · unidentifiedThe OCR text for this case is severely degraded throughout pages 2 through 12, making it impossible to extract reliable factual details beyond what appears on page 1. While the cov…
ROANOKE, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn October 26, 1952, a civilian couple in a car saw a bright object near Roanoke, Texas, on U.S. Highway 77, about 18 miles north of Fort Worth. The driver's wife pointed it out an…
San Angelo, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn May 19, 1952, a B-36 bomber crew flying near San Angelo, Texas, spotted seven unusual white objects arranged in a vertical column ahead of their aircraft. The sighting lasted ab…
San Antonio, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn September 7, 1952, at 10:50 p.m., a couple in San Antonio, Texas witnessed an unusual flash of light in the eastern sky. The man and his wife were leaving friends' house when th…
San Antonio, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the evening of May 29, 1952, a military pilot standing on his front porch in San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The pilot was with his wife and a civilian…
SAN ANTONIO, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 7, 1952, beginning about 9:00 p.m. Central time, a civilian woman in San Antonio, Texas, watched four objects over about an hour and ten minutes. She first went outside w…
SAN ANTONIO, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn December 21, 1952, a driver in San Antonio, Texas saw an unusual object in the night sky while traveling on Freese-Tilden Highway. The witness was alone in his car when he notic…
Temple, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 2, 1952, at 2045 (8:45 p.m.) local time, Air Force personnel near Temple, Texas, reported a large fireball. It was seen for about 10 to 40 seconds. The object was green wi…
VEGA, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn the night of December 29, 1952, two U.S. Air Force captains flying a B-26 bomber from Perrin Air Force Base in Texas spotted an unidentified bright object in the sky near Vega,…
Waco, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn April 15, 1952, 2nd Lt. Edward F. Gaucher watched a group of 15 to 20 round objects move across the night sky above Waco, Texas. He was sitting at the Joy Drive-In Theatre with…
Webb AFB, TX
1952 · unidentifiedOn August 17, 1952, Captain James H. Perry was flying an Air Force T-6 trainer aircraft from Dallas to Webb Air Force Base near Big Spring, Texas, when he spotted an unusual object…
Wichita Falls, TX
1952 · unidentifiedEarly on the morning of May 2, 1952, a retired Army sergeant in Wichita Falls, Texas reported seeing an unusual disc shaped object flying overhead. The witness, a 56 year old man w…
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