Project Blue Book Case Files

On the early morning of May 30, 1952, a man driving on Highway 99 about seventeen miles south of Fresno, California spotted an unusual object in the sky at around 0400 (4 a.m.). Th…

On April 2, 1952, at 2039 (8:39 p.m.) local time, about 6 miles southwest of Lometa, Texas, Air Force officers and a radar team reported a large fireball. A single object was seen.…

On April 10, 1952, at 4:15 a.m., an officer with the Minnesota State Highway Patrol and a civilian helper saw a strange flying object while sitting in their patrol car near Ada, Mi…

On May 16, 1952, at Galeao International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, a civil aviation inspector reported an unidentified object. The sighting happened about 1:30 p.m. and la…

On October 4, 1952, a civilian woman near Albany, New York, reported one circular object. The Ground Observer Corps relayed the report. The object was described as circular, large,…

On June 7, 1952, at 11:18 a.m., a pilot and co-pilot of a B-25 aircraft observed an unidentified object 25 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object crossed the flight path…

On March 25, 1952, at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, an officer reported sighting a balloon launched from the base at 9:30 a.m., about 30 minutes before the…

On May 28, 1952, over northeast Albuquerque, New Mexico, two city firemen reported three unidentified objects at three different times during a clear day. The sightings happened ab…

On July 29, 1952 (2230 hours Mountain Standard Time), a military pilot stationed in Albuquerque, New Mexico observed an unidentified object in the sky southwest of his position. Th…

At 2309 hours (11:09 p.m.) Central Standard Time on December 28, 1952, a military pilot taking off from Borger, Texas sighted an unusual object traveling from east to west between…

On May 10, 1952, an Air Force colonel and his wife, stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque, New Mexico, watched two unusual objects in the afternoon sky from their h…

On May 22, 1952, in the area southeast of Alexandria, Virginia, a civilian reported an unidentified object. The sighting was made between about 0500Z and 0620Z. The observation was…

On September 12, 1952, at 2:30 a.m., a civilian couple named David and Betty Kolb reported seeing an unusual object from the ground near Allen, Maryland. The object appeared round…

On the evening of October 7, 1952, a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and his wife were watching a movie at the Starlite Drive-In Theater about 2 miles south of Alamogordo,…

On August 26, 1952, a captain in the U.S. Air Force saw three pink objects flying in formation near Amarillo, Texas. The observer was standing on the ground facing roughly southwes…

Early on the morning of December 19, 1952, multiple observers at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam and its surrounding areas reported seeing an unidentified object traveling at extre…

On the night of October 7, 1952, tower operators at Anderson Air Force Base on Guam spotted a bright light in the sky. The object appeared to be white and orange, and it hung in th…

On December 6, 1952, an Alaska Air National Guard pilot in Angoon, Alaska sighted an object consisting of two shiny globes connected by a solid red rod moving south. The sighting o…

On January 16, 1951, an aeronautical engineer working for General Mills reported seeing two unusual objects near a research balloon over Artesia, New Mexico. The engineer was track…

On July 26, 1952, at 9:45 p.m., an officer stationed at Ashiya Air Base in Kyushu, Japan saw unusual lights in the sky near the town of Kokura, to the east. The light first appeare…

On August 2, 1952, at about 2110 (9:10 p.m.) local time, a staff sergeant and his wife saw a single object at Ashiya Air Base on Kyushu, Japan. The couple were walking south toward…

On September 1952 in Atlanta, Georgia, two separate sightings of unusual flying objects were reported to the U.S. Air Force. The first came from a woman on the south side of Atlant…

On August 24, 1952, around 9:32 p.m. (2132 EST), a resident of Atlanta, Georgia reported seeing an unusual object in the northwestern part of the city. The observer described it as…

On the evening of November 7, 1952, a man living at Graves Apartments in Auburn, Alabama, reported seeing a bright, circular object hanging stationary in the sky to the east of tow…

In November 1952, residents of Auburn, Alabama, and nearby areas saw a mysterious object in the sky that the Air Force struggled to explain. The incident caught the attention of mi…

On May 27, 1952, over Baltimore, Maryland, two separate civilian men reported unusual lights. One sighting was about 2230 to 2240 (10:30 to 10:40 p.m.) and another was about 2330 t…

On the night of August 27, 1952, an observer in Baltimore reported seeing a bright red flashing light moving over the eastern section of the city. The object appeared around 2:20 a…

On the evening of September 6, 1952, observers at the Baltimore Filter Center (a radar facility) saw a bright white light flashing in the sky near Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Marylan…

On the night of September 14, 1952, two security officers on duty at the west gate of Olmsted Air Force Base near Bellefonte, Pennsylvania saw an object that the U.S. Air Force wou…

On April 24, 1952, at 0500 EST (5 a.m.), a crew of a C-124 cargo aircraft spotted three round, bluish objects near Bellevue Hill, Vermont. The aircraft was flying at 11,000 feet wh…

# Benson, Arizona, April 1952 On the morning of April 3, 1952, three civilian flight instructors and several other people at Benson Airport in Arizona watched a bright, silver obj…

On April 19, 1952, at 10:50 a.m. local time, radar operators at an air traffic control station near Benton, Pennsylvania, detected three unidentified objects on radar. The targets…

On April 17, 1952, at 9:23 a.m., a radar operator at a station near Benton, Pennsylvania, detected three objects on radar moving east at 210 knots. The target appeared to be a norm…

On the morning of April 18, 1952, four civilians standing in a yard in Bethesda, Maryland saw something unusual in the sky. At around 1:30 a.m., they watched a formation of seven t…

On March 1, 1952, between Claremore and Tulsa, Oklahoma, an Air Force pilot reported a sighting. One object was observed. The object was described as a bright light. It was sighted…

In April 1952, near the area between Claremore and Tulsa, Oklahoma, a light was reported in the sky around 0700 (7:00 a.m.). The source was reported to be a pilot. The record notes…

On April 13, 1952, an Air Force officer stationed at Keesler Air Force Base in Mississippi saw three bright orange objects moving across the sky over the Gulf of Mexico near Biloxi…

On August 23, 1952, a resident of Biloxi, Mississippi, saw a white, round object in the sky. The witness reported that the object was stationary at first, then veered upward. The o…

On the night of August 27, 1952, two Air Force officers flying in an F-51 aircraft west of Birmingham Airport spotted an unidentified pale blue light moving toward the northwest at…

On Monday, July 28, 1952, at 10:00 a.m. Central Time, two silver or luminous objects were spotted flying in formation directly north of Bismark, North Dakota. The sighting occurred…

On October 15, 1952, a witness near Bladensburg, Maryland, reported seeing three round, bluish white objects in the night sky. The report came through the Maryland State Police and…

On September 23, 1952, at 2:00 a.m., a Flying Tiger aircraft flying southwest at 12,000 feet reported sighting a strange stationary light in the sky near Boise, Idaho. The light wa…

On either March 22 or 29, 1952, a man stood in his yard in Brentwood, Maryland, looking at his television antenna when he noticed a formation of objects in the sky to the west and…

On October 9, 1952, a captain and four enlisted airmen at Brooks Air Force Base in Texas spotted three round, silver objects in the sky over the course of about an hour. The captai…

On the evening of April 2, 1952, people across Texas reported seeing a bright, fiery object moving rapidly across the sky. Near Brownwood and in communities to the west of Temple,…

On April 2, 1952, near Bryan, Texas, Air Force pilots reported a large fireball. The sighting lasted about 5 to 15 seconds. The object was fire colored and circular with a tail. Th…

In late July 1952, ground observers near Burley, Idaho, reported seeing a group of unidentified flying objects moving at high speed across the sky. The sighting occurred on July 28…

On February 26, 1952, an observer at Campbells Creek, West Virginia, made a report that became part of Project Blue Book, the Air Force's official record of unidentified flying obj…

On December 24, 1952, at 5:17 a.m., observers at Camp Carson, Colorado, sighted a silvery unidentified flying object. The object appeared circular, about the size of a baseball, an…

On the evening of December 27, 1952, five people driving south on US Highway 83 near Canadian, Texas witnessed an unusual aerial object. Between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. CST, they saw a…

On April 3, 1952, at 2110 (9:10 p.m.) Eastern time, two people reported a fireball over the Cayuga Lake region of New York. One observer was a crew chief for an airline with twelve…

On August 15, 1952, an unidentified flying object was sighted near Cedar Hill, Texas, located five to five and a half miles south of the station. A military officer from Cedar Hill…

On January 15, 1952, a B-29 bomber crew flying near Cedar Keys, Florida observed a large blue-green fireball descending toward the ground at high speed. The aircraft was cruising a…

On the evening of September 16, 1952, three men in the control tower at Chanute Air Force Base in Illinois noticed an unusually bright bluish-white light in the sky. The object was…

On June 11, 1952, a Chicago resident watched two dark blue, globular objects with grey centers move across the sky above northwest Chicago. The observer was standing outdoors about…

On July 28, 1952, multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects were reported at military bases and civilian areas across the United States, from Louisiana to South Carolina.…

On the night of August 28, 1952, between 9:30 p.m. and 10:45 p.m., military personnel and civilians near Chickasaw and Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama reported seeing six uniden…

On August 3, 1952, in Chico, California, a large round white glowing object was observed moving slowly at low altitude. The object made no sound and was watched from 2:50 p.m. for…

On May 31, 1952, a bright unidentified object was spotted near Chorwon, Korea (in the middle of the country, near the 38th parallel) by multiple observers. An F-94 fighter jet trie…

On August 1, 1952, a bright red object with a trailing tail of fire streaked across the sky near Clear Lake, California. An observer stationed at a Ground Observer Corps post repor…