Project Blue Book Case Files

On April 1, 1948, at 9:55 a.m., First Lieutenant Robert W. Meyers was leading a flight of four P-47 fighter aircraft over the central Philippines when he spotted an unidentified ob…

On April 18, 1948, at 1306 hours (1:06 p.m.), Lieutenant Aylen M. Johnson was standing in his room at the Chechako Hotel in Fairbanks, Alaska, looking out the window when he spotte…

At about 2:45 a.m. on July 24, 1948, Eastern Air Lines Flight 576 was cruising at five thousand feet about twenty miles south of Montgomery, Alabama, on a routine overnight run fro…

On the evening of August 4, 1948, a man traveling south on U.S. Highway 30 near North Powder, Oregon, observed an unusual bright object in the sky. He was about two and a half mile…

On April 11, 1948, a retired Air Force colonel reported seeing a large bird-like creature flying four miles north of Alton, Illinois, around 11:30 p.m. The object resembled a huge…

On the night of January 1, 1948, a resident of Abilene, Texas reported seeing a bright blue-green glow in the western sky around 1:25 a.m. The observer described the object as rese…

In May 1948, a Turkish newspaper reported that a shining object resembling a meteor had been spotted over Adapazari, Turkey. According to the account, the object was seen flying at…

On July 24, 1948, at about 0245 (2:45 a.m.), a civilian in Altoona, Pennsylvania reported a single object moving to the southeast. The witness said it made a swishing sound and sta…

I have read through the entire OCR'd case file for Incident 194. The document quality is poor, with substantial garbling, illegible sections, and fragmented text throughout most pa…

On November 18, 1948, at 2200 hours (10 p.m.), a pilot of a T-6 aircraft reported sighting an unusual object over Andrews Air Force Base near Washington, D.C. The object appeared a…

In April 1948, a resident of Ashley, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The observer described it as a long, narrow, silver-colored object with a clearly outlined s…

On March 13, 1948, several residents in Bakersfield, California reported seeing a fiery object in the sky. One witness, a man identified in the file only as "informant," observed t…

On March 8, 1948, residents of Bakersfield, California reported seeing two objects falling from the sky toward the southwest. One witness, a Pacific General Electric Company employ…

On the morning of March 9, 1948, two people working in the Haberfelde Building in Bakersfield, California, saw an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses were a secretary and a de…

On the morning of March 8, 1948, an unidentified object flew over Belmont, North Carolina at approximately 1100 (11:00 a.m.). Three witnesses, including Mr. Ann (a supervisor in th…

On March 28, 1948, at 4:30 p.m., a former German guided missile expert in Berlin, Germany, reported seeing a white point of light moving from south to north at approximately 14 kil…

On August 5, 1948, an irregular pilot reported a sighting between Parrott and Richland, Georgia. The witness observed a blue-white streak of light in the night sky at 7600 feet alt…

On November 10, 1948, an observer in downtown Boston looked out a window around 5 a.m. and saw three fast-flying single-engine aircraft passing over the Charles River Basin from ea…

On July 28, 1948, at Camp Hood, Texas, Army and USAF officers reported sighting an object. The object was white with a tint of blue-green. It had a round shape with a tail. The obj…

On the night of January 9, 1948, a commercial airline pilot flying near Cartersville, Georgia saw an unusual object cross in front of his aircraft. The pilot, identified in the fil…

On the evening of July 26, 1948, an observer at the Atlanta Naval Air Base in Chamblee, Georgia, spotted a blue-white light traveling southeast at high speed from his post in the o…

On the evening of July 7, 1948, three witnesses in Chapel Hill, North Carolina heard an unusual sound around 2114 and 2115 (9:14 and 9:15 p.m.). The witnesses included a lieutenant…

On November 12, 1948, a sergeant stationed at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines watched something strange cross the sky. He was in a doorway on the north side of the base, sm…

On November 17, 1948, at 2:30 p.m., two fighter pilots at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines spotted an unusual object in the sky. From their position on the ground, they watc…

The OCR text is too garbled to provide a reliable summary of the Columbus, Ohio incident from July 1948. The first page is nearly illegible, and while later pages contain clearer w…

On July 3, 1948, a female civilian in Columbus, Ohio reported observing a cigar or tornado-shaped object with binoculars (M-3, 6 x 30). The object appeared silver in color. The wit…

On January 7, 1948, a USAF pilot near Columbus, Ohio reported sighting an object described as like a large star or planet. The object appeared amber in color and seemed stationary.…

On August 2, 1948, an attorney and his wife in Columbus, Ohio, watched an unusual object moving slowly across the sky in a southerly direction. They observed it for ten to fifteen…

On the evening of January 9, 1948, a couple driving near Danville, Kentucky saw a pencil-shaped object flying very high above them. The object left a long trail of smoke or exhaust…

On November 14, 1948, a housewife in Demarest, New Jersey, about five miles northwest of the town, reported seeing an unidentified object at 1318 hours (1:18 p.m.). According to th…

On the night of July 4, 1948, a couple sitting on their lawn in Dravesburg, Pennsylvania watched the sky at around 11:15 p.m. They first thought they saw a star moving across the s…

On July 9, 1948, at 12:05 p.m., two officers from the 729th Reconnaissance Squadron were fishing at Fielding Lake in Washington when they spotted something unusual in the sky. They…

On November 23, 1948, a U.S. Air Force captain stationed at Fursten Feldbruck, Germany saw an object in the sky that looked like a reddish star. The captain watched it from the gro…

At about 1:20 p.m. on January 7, 1948, the Kentucky State Highway Patrol began receiving calls from residents of western Kentucky reporting a large, circular, metallic-looking obje…

On August 24, 1948, at Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky, AF Personnel observed a circular object with a silver color and slow movement. The object was sighted at 11:30 a.m. to 12:…

On August 19, 1948, the Wright-Patterson Air Force Flight Service Center received a report from Lt. Col. John Waugh at Godman Air Force Base in Kentucky. He said that an unidentifi…

On the evening of November 1, 1948, radar operators at Goose Bay, Labrador, detected an unidentified blip on their scope. The object appeared on radar at 9:45 p.m., approximately 3…

On February 18, 1948, a bright fireball streaked across the sky in broad daylight over parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. Two B-29 bombers flying southe…

On Sunday, August 1, 1948, at about 2:00 p.m., a student was driving east on Groveport Pike near Groveport, Ohio, when he noticed something unusual in the sky. He saw what looked l…

On January 11, 1948, at approximately 1630 (4:30 p.m.), two Air Force officers spotted an unusual object over Hartford, Connecticut. Captain Kenneth M. Zelton and Captain James J.…

On January 3rd and 5th, 1948, residents of Finland reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. According to a cable from the U.S. Military Attache in Helsinki, a brightly shining o…

On January 5, 1948, residents of Pietsarsaari, Finland, saw a bright, shining object move across the sky from north to south. The object remained visible for about ten seconds. Ano…

# Holloman AFB, April 1948: Three Trained Observers and One Fast-Moving Object In April 1948, three trained balloon observers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw an objec…

On April 5, 1948, trained balloon observers at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico reported sighting an object. The object was gray-white in color and round with an indistinct fo…

On the evening of December 4, 1948, a bright, flaming object streaked across the sky near Bellefontaine, Ohio, lighting up the entire area with smoke and flames. The object crashed…

On December 3, 1948, at 2015 hours (8:15 p.m.) Pacific Standard Time, the control tower operator at Fairfield-Suisun Air Force Base in California saw a bright white light moving ra…

Before dawn on a fall morning in 1948, a person in Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, reported a strange sky display in a letter to the Air Force. The weather was…

On July 29, 1948, two workers driving a truck near Indianapolis spotted a flying object shaped like a broad, short propeller. The men were heading east on East 56th Street when the…

On the morning of July 31, 1948, a man and his wife in Indianapolis saw an object shaped like a cymbal move rapidly across the sky. The object was white, flat, and measured about t…

On December 5, 1948, a U.S. Air Force pilot flying from Colorado to Arizona reported seeing an unusual green flare near Las Vegas, New Mexico. Within hours, other military and civi…

On August 30, 1948, a Staff Sergeant stationed at an Army and Air Force facility in Los Angeles reported witnessing a large object flying west of the city at approximately 2025 hou…

On August 29, 1948, a farmer in Maplewood, Ohio reported seeing a large silver-colored sphere rise from behind some woods near his property. The object appeared to float across his…

On July 8, 1948, around midday, two female residents of McKeesport, Pennsylvania reported seeing a large silver disc-shaped object zooming silently overhead in the direction of Ken…

On May 7, 1948, between 1500 and 1700 hours (3 p.m. and 5 p.m.), residents of Memphis, Tennessee reported seeing between fifty and sixty small, shiny objects moving rapidly across…

On May 8, 1948, in Hobson, Ohio, an unidentified object was reported. The Air Force investigation concluded that the report was entirely inadequate for a conclusion. The phenomenon…

In southern Colorado in 1948, a civilian named Harold M. Wright reported seeing a "green fireball" on three separate nights. The dates were September 12, December 5, and December 1…

On April 9, 1948, Colonel Covert S. Hughes was flying a P-51 Mustang fighter aircraft near Montgomery, Alabama when he spotted an unusual object in the sky. Hughes was a pilot with…

On November 8, 1948, at 1850 hours (6:50 p.m.), a civilian dispatcher at Newark Air Force Base in New Jersey was standing outside a hangar when he looked up toward the moon and saw…

On November 29, 1948, a ninth-grade student in Newburgh, New York, reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The girl said she was standing with two friends at the corner of Co…

On July 9, 1948, a USAF pilot near North End, Osborn, Ohio reported seeing a pale yellowish white luminous object between 5:00 and 6:00 a.m. at an altitude of 3,000 to 4,000 feet.…