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.
19 cases in TX from 1953 · page 1 of 1
Austin, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn January 14, 1953, at about 11:34 a.m., a civilian in the northeast section of Austin, Texas, saw an object. The witness was a high school petroleum teacher who was throwing a ba…
Bergstrom AFB, Austin, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn January 23, 1953, a radar operator at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas detected an unusual target on his scope. T/Sergeant Gerald V. Kelley was working the ground-contr…
Bracketsville, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn June 23, 1953, about 0130 (1:30 a.m.), a military member saw an object near Bracketville, Texas. The witness was a weather forecaster driving west from San Antonio with his wife…
Carswell AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the morning of February 13, 1953, a civilian witnessed three bright lights traveling across the sky near Fort Worth, Texas, at Carswell Air Force Base. The lights remained visib…
Ellington AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the evening of May 19, 1953, six Air Force personnel at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas reported seeing an unidentified yellowish-orange object moving rapidly acros…
Ft. Davis, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn April 19, 1953, at about 1320 (1:20 p.m.), a civilian reported an object near Fort Davis, Texas. The witness wrote a letter to the Civil Aeronautics Administration at Marfa, Tex…
Ft Worth, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn July 9, 1953, about 2115 (9:15 p.m.), a civilian saw an object near Fort Worth, Texas. The witness was an aircraft company employee. He had just finished a church activity and w…
Houston, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn November 27, 1953, at 2:30 p.m. in Houston, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing five metallic objects that formed the letter C in the sky. The objects appeared to move str…
Lackland AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn May 23, 1953, a radar operator at Lackland Air Force Base, near San Antonio, Texas, picked up a series of radar blips that would puzzle investigators for weeks. The radar scope…
Muster, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn June 4, 1953, about 2305 (11:05 p.m.) Central time, a civilian saw objects over Muenster, Texas, about 30 miles west of Gainesville. The witness was an aircraft engine mechanic…
Pasadena, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of March 23, 1953, military personnel at a radar station in Pasadena, Texas reported seeing an unidentified object that made unusual maneuvers in the sky. The sighting…
Perrin AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of July 25, 1953, multiple witnesses at Perrin Air Force Base in Texas and nearby civilians in Denison spotted seven unidentified objects in the sky. The sighting bega…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentified# San Antonio UFO Sighting, May 7, 1953 On the evening of May 7, 1953, a civilian employee at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky.…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the evening of January 9, 1953, three women in San Antonio, Texas spotted an unusual object in the sky while driving home. They were stopped at a traffic light at the intersecti…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of February 26 and 27, 1953, military personnel at Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas observed one or more bright lights moving rapidly across the sky. The fi…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn August 5, 1953, at 10:00 a.m. Central Standard Time, four civilians working near San Antonio, Texas saw an elliptical-shaped silvery object hovering silently in the sky. The obj…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedAn undetermined number of lights appeared over San Antonio, Texas, on the evening of March 25, 1953, moving in unusual patterns that neither radar nor conventional explanations cou…
San Antonio, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the night of June 2, 1953, a husband and wife in San Antonio, Texas witnessed something unusual in the sky. Around 10:20 p.m., the wife was hanging clothes in the backyard when…
Sheppard AFB, TX
1953 · unidentifiedOn the morning of July 9, 1953, at around 12:05 p.m., an airman stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas was standing on the hospital ramp during his lunch brea…
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