Project Blue Book Case Files

On January 30, 1951, near Albany, New York, two F-86 jet pilots reported a strange object while flying in close formation at 26,000 feet. The sighting happened at about 1930 (7:30…

On March 6, 1951, at approximately 2:30 p.m., four personnel from Los Alamos and two pilots from Kirtland Air Force Base observed a very bright object crossing the sky near Albuque…

On the evening of August 25, 1951, a Sandia Base security guard and his wife observed what they described as a large flying wing type aircraft passing over their trailer home in ea…

On December 28, 1951, two Air Force pilots flying a C-45 transport plane near Alexandria, Virginia saw an unusual object in the sky. The pilots, Captain Hersberger and Major Tart,…

On August 19, 1951, at 6:05 p.m., a naval officer in Alexandria, Virginia, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The man, identified as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, was near the…

On October 16, 1951, near Anchorage, Alaska, a witness reported an object in the sky. It first appeared to be an aircraft, then looked like a star. The object was blue-white in col…

On September 10, 1951, at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.), the pilot and co-pilot of a C-47 aircraft saw a light in the sky while flying near Andrews Air Force Base, Washington, D.C. The w…

On October 1, 1951, a civilian pilot flying a Navion aircraft near Battle Creek, Michigan, encountered a disk-shaped, highly polished object while cruising at approximately 4,000 f…

On January 14, 1951, a pilot reported a round object near Big Bear Lake, California. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying ob…

On March 11, 1951, near Biggs Air Force Base, Texas, a Military Air Transport Service crew reported a strange object at about 2200 (10:00 p.m.) while flying at 30,000 feet. The cre…

On November 25, 1951, five objects were sighted moving south approximately 20 miles east of Bimini, Key West, Florida. The objects were still trailing smoke at the time of report.…

On the night of August 11-12, 1951, residents of Birmingham, Alabama reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. The first report came around 11:25 p.m. (2325 CST) when a caller de…

On October 28, 1951, near Buena Vista, Colorado, a witness reported a single object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 30 seconds. The object was a greenish-blue light moving fr…

On December 10, 1951, near Buffalo, New York, a military witness reported a large, brilliant object in the sky. It was described as bright like the light of a welder's torch and gl…

On the night of February 3, 1951, over Galena, Illinois, civilians reported a strange object in the sky. The mayor said he was flooded with calls from people who claimed they saw a…

On March 13, 1951, near Cartwright, Labrador, a military reporting station heard an unidentified aircraft pass overhead at about 0045 (12:45 a.m.). The aircraft was heard, not seen…

On March 10, 1951, near Chinnampo, Korea, the crew of a B-29 aircraft reported a strange flash at about 0051 (12:51 a.m.). The crew was at 16,000 feet on a heading of 030 degrees.…

On the evening of September 6, 1951, two U.S. Air Force officers traveling by automobile on Highway 66 near Claremont, California witnessed an unusual formation of orange lights in…

On August 8, 1951, near Cleveland, Ohio, a pilot reported a strange object at about 1410 (2:10 p.m.). The pilot was flying about two miles off the lake shore from Port Clinton at 5…

On October 2, 1951, at 2300 (11:00 p.m.) Greenwich time, a civilian near Columbus, Ohio, reported a glowing object. It was seen for about one minute. The object made no sound and a…

On February 2, 1951, near Condamine, Queensland, Australia, a civilian man reported eight objects in the sky at about 1500 (3:00 p.m.). He was repairing a belt on his boring plant…

In April 1951, near Coopersville, Michigan, civilians reported strange objects in the afternoon sky at about 4:00 p.m. Two men were delivering equipment to a farm when they saw fou…

Between the night of January 11 and the early hours of January 12, 1951, witnesses across Kentucky and into Georgia reported an object. Reports centered around Corbin, Kentucky, an…

On August 12, 1951, near Corona, New Mexico, a witness reported a fast moving object in the sky. The sighting lasted about 10 seconds. The object was round and looked about the siz…

On the morning of February 21, 1951, over Durban, South Africa, civilians reported a torpedo-shaped object in the sky. The main witness, a tramwayman finishing a night shift, was s…

On January 12, 1951, near Elba, New York, a woman and her 6 year old son reported a moving object with a bright white light, seen from a window of their home. The report is part of…

On the evening of October 2, 1951, a 29-year-old physicist watching from a parking lot at The Ohio State University in Columbus saw something strange in the sky. The man was sittin…

On the night of August 26, 1951, at Ellington Air Force Base near Houston, Texas, three military witnesses reported seeing bright yellow lights in the sky. The sightings occurred a…

On October 30, 1951, about 1930 (7:30 p.m.), a civilian artist and a companion in the Four Corners area saw a bright object in the sky. The Four Corners area marks the meeting poin…

On St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, residents and military personnel at Gambill heard a series of loud explosions over a six-month period beginning in April 1951. These blasts shook th…

In October 1951, a husband and wife driving near Gonzales, Texas, saw an unusual object in the sky while traveling on Highway 3, about a mile north of town. As they crested a small…

In the summer of 1951, several people in and near Gonzales, Texas reported seeing unusual objects in the sky. An Air Force investigation, filed in June 1952, documented the account…

On September 13, 1951, radar operators at Goose Air Force Base in Labrador detected three unidentified objects on their scopes. The first target appeared at 0100 hours (1 a.m.) GMT…

On December 22, 1951, in the early morning near Hamden, Ohio, an object was reported in the southeast sky. A witness first said the object appeared to follow an automobile along a…

On the evening of August 5, 1951, a man camping near Big Moose in Herkimer, New York, was awakened by a sudden gust of wind at approximately 1830 (6:30 p.m.). He stepped outside hi…

On February 18, 1951, near Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, an officer and airmen reported a strange object. The sighting lasted about one hour and 4 minutes. The object was wa…

On the evening of September 6, 1951, a woman standing on a sidewalk in Hollywood, California saw two glowing red objects appear in the southwestern sky near the moon. She watched a…

On the evening of January 7, 1951, a man sitting in his parked car at a drive-in theater in Honolulu watched a large mass of muddy orange flames move rapidly across the sky toward…

On August 13, 1951, at 1900 (7:00 p.m.) Central Standard Time, an object was seen over Indianapolis, Indiana. Both military and civilian witnesses observed it. The object was visib…

On February 1, 1951, near Johnson Air Base, Japan, the crew of an F-82 aircraft reported a strange light at about 1710 (5:10 p.m.). About one mile south of the base, at 6,000 feet,…

On October 3, 1951, at 13:27 (1:27 p.m.) Zulu time, a radar operator at a U.S. Air Force ground control station near Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, detected an unusual radar echo on the…

On the night of December 19, 1951, observers in Keck, Kentucky reported watching an unusual light in the sky over a period of more than three hours. The file indicates the main obj…

On February 26, 1951, an airman standing guard duty at Ladd Air Force Base in Alaska reported seeing an unusual object hovering over the base. The airman said the object looked obl…

On August 26, 1951, at 2:26 a.m., radar operators at Larson Air Force Base in Washington detected an unidentified object. The base had two radar sets in operation: an AN/CPS-4 and…

In October 1951, two unusual sightings were reported near Lenoir City, Tennessee, and documented by the U.S. Air Force. The first came from a civilian who reported a strange object…

On January 18, 1951, about 6:30 p.m., civilians reported a silvery disc hovering over the vicinity of Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii. The report is part of Project 10073, the Air Force's off…

On September 23, 1951, four F-86 fighter jets scrambled from George Air Force Base in response to a report of an unidentified object spotted at 50,000 feet over Long Beach, Califor…

In November 1951, a Los Angeles resident reported seeing a large, unusual object hovering directly overhead for about three minutes. The witness described the craft as roughly 400…

On February 6, 1951, near Lucerne Valley, California, two civilians reported strange objects in the afternoon sky. The witnesses, a structural draftsman and his wife, first saw two…

On November 24, 1951, two Air Force F-51 fighter pilots flying a combat air patrol south of Minneapolis saw something unusual at 25,000 feet. While heading west under radar control…

On February 2, 1951, at Dobbins Air Force Base near Marietta, Georgia, several airmen reported a light in the sky between about 2200 and 2300 (10:00 to 11:00 p.m.). Witnesses inclu…

On September 16, 1951, at 1217 (12:17 p.m.) Eastern Standard Time, a civilian pilot flying a Cessna near Marion, Ohio, reported a near miss with an object. He was at 2,800 feet on…

On August 31, 1951, two women driving north of Matador, Texas spotted an unusual object near U.S. Highway 70. The driver, Mrs. Anna Sheffield, first noticed it about 150 feet ahead…

On March 13, 1951, near McClellan Air Force Base, California, an Air Force officer and his wife reported a strange object at about 1520 (3:20 p.m.). While driving on a road near th…

On June 9, 1951, at 2:05 p.m. local time, a Finnish observer near Mikkeli, Finland reported sighting a disc-shaped object approximately 2 meters in diameter. The object was aluminu…

On November 26, 1951, two experienced Capitol Airlines pilots reported seeing an unusual, fast-moving object near Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The first pilot, flying a DC-3 at 5,000 feet…

On the morning of October 11, 1951, a research aircraft crew flying near Minneapolis spotted something unusual in the sky. The pilots were at 10,000 feet, observing a weather ballo…

In November 1951, witnesses in Mojave, California reported seeing a circular object about 30 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick. The object appeared in the southeast with a vivid bl…

On September 10-11, 1951, the U.S. Air Force received reports of unidentified objects near Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. The sightings involved both visual observation by aircraft pil…

# Summary On a clear night around 11 p.m. in late October or early November 1951, a man standing at the intersection of Decary Boulevard and Sherbrooke Street in Montreal saw a st…