Project Blue Book Case Files

On March 20, 1950, around 9:26 p.m., the crew of a commercial airliner reported a fast moving object about 15 miles north of Stuttgart, Arkansas. The plane, an airline flight that…

On September 13, 1950, about 6 miles southwest of Effingham, Illinois, a civilian pilot and a passenger reported strange lights. The sighting happened between 7:30 and 7:40 p.m. at…

On March 23, 1950, at 12:30 a.m., 85 miles northwest of Jacksonville, Florida, 1st Lt. J. K. Hahn piloted a C-47 aircraft with crew members T/Sgt. L. E. Young, 1st Lt. R. D. Putnam…

On September 11, 1950, a Coast Guard photographer aboard the USCGC Northwind, stationed about 40 miles north of Adak in the Aleutian Islands, took four photographs of a total solar…

On March 26, 1950, a civilian in Adamant, Vermont reported seeing one unidentified flying object during the daytime. The object was crescent shaped and resembled a DC-3 aircraft. I…

On the night of February 24, 1950, Corporal Lertis E. Stanfield, an Air Police officer stationed at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo, New Mexico, spotted an unusual bright o…

On the night of February 25, 1950, a university student in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported a single bright object. The time was about 9:15 p.m. He was sitting in a living room lo…

On February 24, 1950, experienced civilian weather observers in Albuquerque, New Mexico, reported an unusual object. The first sighting was about 1:58 p.m. Mountain Standard Time,…

On August 20, 1950, at around noon, witnesses in and around Astoria, Washington saw a brilliant "ball of fire" streak across the sky in broad daylight. The object appeared silver o…

On August 4, 1950, the captain and crew of the merchant ship M/V Marcala reported seeing an unusual object while sailing off the coast of Pennsylvania. The ship was traveling from…

On March 10, 1950, a civilian in Bethel, Connecticut, reported a wing shaped object over the center of town. The witness said the object was jet black and circled over the town fou…

On 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…

On September 26, 1950, a cigar-shaped object with a glowing appearance was reported over Birmingham, Alabama. A civilian witness observed the object during a drive-in movie. The ob…

On December 11, 1950, about 12:10 p.m. mountain time, three people reported an object about two miles east of Bliss, Idaho. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On August 12, 1950, a man vacationing near Bogalusa, Louisiana saw an unusual object in the sky while taking an evening walk with his wife and sister-in-law. The witness was on a c…

On the night of April 7, 1950, around 9:55 p.m., a control tower watch supervisor at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, reported a strange light. He saw a deep b…

On March 13, 1950, at about 8:05 a.m., a civilian near Bradford, Illinois, reported a saucer shaped object. The sighting was made from the air and relayed through aviation authorit…

On August 27, 1950, around 6:30 p.m., a civilian pilot reported an object while flying near Brockton, Massachusetts. The witness was a private licensed pilot, and a young passenger…

On March 28, 1950, between about 11:15 and 11:30 a.m., several people in Brunswick, Georgia, reported flying objects. Witnesses described five objects, three in one group and two i…

In the spring of 1950, an officer stationed at Camp Carson, Colorado, saw an object streak across the northeastern sky. The observer watched it for about seven seconds. The object…

On December 1, 1950, civilians in Charleston, South Carolina, reported an unusual object in the sky. The object was described as white and red in color and resembled a big star. Wi…

On the night of April 24, 1950, people in several South Carolina cities reported a bright object in the sky. The record includes reports from the Charleston, Columbia, and Greenvil…

This Air Force file covers two separate sightings. On March 28, 1950, around 4 p.m., two women in Chattanooga, Tennessee, reported a round, silver object in the sky heading toward…

On August 7, 1950, a flying disc was reported sighted over Riverdale, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. A witness heard a sound like an airplane and then spotted a flat circular objec…

On July 1, 1950, around 1:09 a.m., a man in or near Chicago, Illinois, reported a bright object in the sky. The witness was a civilian doctor. He said the object flew from north to…

On 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…

On the evening of January 7, 1950, a Captain stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico saw something unusual while driving south of Corona. The object appeared as a bright…

On January 14, 1950, a car salesman in Dalton, Georgia, reported an aircraft passing very low over his home. He was backing his car out of his driveway when he saw it. The object w…

This file centers on a sighting reported by a woman from Minnesota who wrote to the Air Force about an object she and her husband saw while driving in Florida on a trip. The OCR of…

On April 4, 1950, at 9:50 p.m., the Provost Marshal's office in Delano, California received a report of a flying saucer sighting 37 miles north of Bakersfield. A 17-year-old boy an…

On the evening of January 18, 1950, eight U.S. Air Force pilots flying in four separate aircraft near Denver, Colorado reported seeing a fast moving flame or bright light streaking…

On the night of September 20, 1950, a B-25 aircraft carrying USAF personnel observed an unusual object near Denver, Colorado. The observers, who were airborne at the time, reported…

On the night of July 20, 1950, near Southfield Township, Michigan, six Girl Scouts at a summer camp reported a bright object. The witnesses were girls aged about 12 to 14, along wi…

On June 29, 1950, near Dowagiac, Michigan, a farmer reported watching a flying saucer come out of a military plane. The man, John Keller, was riding a tractor in a hay field when h…

On May 1, 1950, near East Ely, Nevada, civilians reported seeing a silvery white object hovering about 100 feet above the ground. The object hovered and moved back and forth before…

On September 2, 1950, at Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Newfoundland, a military observer reported a strange encounter. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official…

On August 30, 1950, military radar operators and civilian witnesses across Newfoundland reported seeing unidentified objects in the sky and on radar screens. The sightings occurred…

On September 8, 1950, near Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington, witnesses reported a bright light, one of several sightings near the base around that date. The report is part of…

On September 3, 1950, a military source near Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington reported a bright light. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record sy…

On August 7, 1950, the crew of the motor vessel Minerva reported seeing an unusual flaming object while sailing from San Francisco toward the Panama Canal. The sighting occurred at…

On 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…

On July 10, 1950, at 10:25 a.m., a WOJO officer of the 111th CIC Detachment at Fort McPherson, Georgia sighted a metal object in the sky to the northwest. The object appeared small…

On April 14, 1950, near Port Monmouth, New Jersey, a man driving on Wilson Avenue saw four objects in the sky. The report says this happened in the early afternoon. He stopped his…

On December 6, 1950, near Fort Myers, Florida, civilians reported a flying object. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying obje…

In 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…

On January 7, 1950, at 12:24 a.m., a farmer near Gashland, Missouri, reported seeing one unidentified object. The object was brilliant white in color and moved northwest. It flew a…

On 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…

On March 1, 1950, at Greater Pittsburgh Airport in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, military observers reported seeing an unidentified flying object. The object was round, white, and hove…

Around 11:30 a.m. on August 15, 1950, Nicholas Mariana, the general manager of the Great Falls Selectrics, a minor-league baseball team in Great Falls, Montana, was checking the wi…

On June 21, 1950, at about 1:38 a.m., observers at Hamilton Air Force Base, California, reported a fast object in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's offici…

In early April 1950, around dusk, about a hundred or more people in Hertford, North Carolina, reported an elongated, lightly lighted object crossing the western sky. A group standi…

On the evening of March 28, 1950, four people in Northern Minnesota reported seeing a glowing object moving across the sky near Hibbing and Duluth. The most detailed accounts came…

On December 24, 1950, at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, a D/Sgt and various civilians observed a white-orange tall object at 2232 hours. The object was sighted high at 6,000 feet…

On July 5, 1950, at 1:50 p.m., three staff sergeants at Hill Air Force Base radar station in Utah observed an unidentified aerial object flying at approximately 20,000 feet altitud…

On the night of January 6, 1950, Russell O. Womack Jr., a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations stationed at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, saw…

On March 11, 1950, at 11:08 a.m., military personnel at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico observed an unidentified object. The sighting was documented as a ground visual observ…

On the morning of May 24, 1950, at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, military camera crews photographed objects in the sky. The case is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's of…

On the evening of January 12, 1950, Private First Class John M. Gusich, a file clerk at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, spotted an unusual object in the sky. He first saw it…

On January 6, 1950, three U.S. Air Force officers flying a C-47 transport aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Howard, Kansas. The crew consisted of Captain Robert Zielonka…

On July 15, 1950, a man assigned to Los Alamos, New Mexico saw a bright metallic object from a window. He described it as aluminum colored and shaped like a flying wing. The sighti…