Project Blue Book Case Files

On June 12, 1958, at dawn, Captain Eugene H. Richards was aboard a B-52 bomber flying about ten miles west of Huntsville, Texas. He was using a sextant, a navigation tool, to take…

On September 15, 1958, at 12:02 a.m., a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported a star-like object about the size of a pen that was white, pink, red, and blue. Four objects with no form…

On April 10, 1958, five miles west of Pecos, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing a diamond-shaped object in an upright position. The object was fifty feet wide and seventy-fi…

On July 11, 1958, at Amarillo Air Force Base in Texas, a military observer reported a silver and shiny object that looked like a jet aircraft tumbling and over end. The object stra…

On January 10, 1958, near Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, radar operators reported multiple objects. The sighting on radar lasted about 5 minutes. Between 8 and 11 objects…

On June 24, 1958, near Dallas, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing two pinkish-red objects about the size of a pea through binoculars. The objects were observed for 40 minute…

On July 8, 1958, a civilian observer near Devils River, Texas reported seeing a round, white object about the size of a basketball with a long tail. The observer was looking for ai…

On the evening of January 23, 1958, an attorney and lay astronomer in Fort Worth, Texas stepped into his driveway to observe the scheduled passage of Sputnik II. He had brought his…

On August 30, 1958, military radar operators at Gray Air Force Base near Killeen, Texas, reported an unidentified radar target at 1845Z, during daytime. The senior director and a s…

On the night of January 14, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian reported four oval-shaped objects in the night sky. He was in his backyard about 10:30 p.m. using a telescope. He sa…

On the night of January 3, 1958, in Houston, Texas, a civilian and his wife reported a single star-like object low in the northwestern sky. They saw it slowly descending near a bri…

On September 29, 1958, a civilian doctor in Houston, Texas, reported a bright object in the sky. He had gone to his back yard to feed his dogs when he noticed it. A second person a…

On the evening of October 21, 1958, people in the Korrville-Valverde area of Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The Air Force received two separate sightings from th…

On October 11, 1958, the AN/FPS-17 radar at the Laredo Test Site in Laredo, Texas detected a mysterious target while searching for the Russian satellite Sputnik 3. The radar captur…

On August 9, 1958 (10/0458Z), an American Airlines pilot over Trent, Texas, reported an unidentified flying object from a DC-6 aircraft at about 15,000 feet. The pilot described a…

On July 12, 1958, at 2:45 a.m., a control tower operator at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas observed a single white object about the size of a pinhead through binoculars. The obje…

On September 2, 1958, near San Antonio, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing two unidentified objects. The first object rose vertically and appeared round with a brilliant sil…

On July 29, 1958, a civilian in San Antonio, Texas reported observing a round, flat object about the size of a basketball. The object hovered over South San Antonio and then headed…

On April 27, 1958, near Seminole, Texas, civilians reported three objects in the night sky. The sighting lasted less than one minute. The objects were egg-shaped, reddish-white, an…