Project Blue Book Case Files

On May 18, 1953, about 1535Z, civilians saw an object over Abadan, Iran. The duration was reported as 20 minutes, and there were many observers. The object was circular and flew a…

On April 23, 1953, a person in Addison, New York saw a small white object in the sky that appeared to glow at the top and bottom, with a black stripe running vertically down its ce…

On a July afternoon in 1953 in Adrian, Michigan, a witness observed a group of unusual objects in the sky that the U.S. Air Force ultimately classified as unidentified. The witnes…

On the evening of December 16, 1953, multiple Lockheed Aircraft Corporation employees in the Agoura, California area reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. Two separate sigh…

On January 19, 1953, a newspaper reporter in Panama said he witnessed an object traveling at high speed with intense brightness over the town of Aguadulce. The reporter, identified…

On January 31, 1953, an aerial phenomenon was reported near Albuquerque, New Mexico, and photographed by a civilian. The case came to the Air Force through a newspaper clipping fro…

On March 20, 1953, at 0730 (use of the Z time group), and again on April 4, 1953, a civilian reported a bright light near Anchorage, Alaska. The witness was a special investigator…

On October 31, 1953, at about 7 p.m. near Annapolis, Maryland, five civilians reported a small round object. The object was extremely bright and shiny with a possible red cast. It…

On June 24, 1953, at 4 a.m., a witness in Annapolis, Maryland woke and looked out a window. The witness saw a great big white bell in the sky and thought it was a plane at first. A…

The OCR for this document is too heavily degraded to support a reliable summary. While the file metadata and scattered legible passages indicate a multi-witness sighting near Holbr…

On the night of July 7, 1953, three men driving on Highway 78 near Austell, Georgia, claimed they saw a red, saucer-shaped object in the middle of the road. They said three small c…

On July 22-23, 1953, civilians in Atlantic City, New Jersey reported seeing unidentified objects moving northward across the sky. The objects were observed for approximately eleven…

On January 14, 1953, at about 11:34 a.m., a civilian in the northeast section of Austin, Texas, saw an object. The witness was a high school petroleum teacher who was throwing a ba…

On the night of October 27, 1953, Private First Class John Raila and another observer in Baltimore, Maryland, saw a colored object moving across the sky. The object was slightly la…

On the night of August 11, 1953, Major Jack D. Swickard and Staff Sergeant Otis Rector were stationed near Flag Lake on Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana when they witnessed so…

On January 26, 1953, a ground observer in Baronette, Wisconsin reported sighting a flying object southeast of his UDO post at 2:45 p.m. The observer described the object as having…

On the morning of February 8, 1953, two Air Force pilots stationed at Barter Island, Alaska witnessed an unusual object descending from the west in a falling-leaf pattern. Captain…

On the evening of January 31, 1953, two men fishing from a rowboat off Bataan, in the Philippines, spotted three or four disc-shaped objects moving rapidly across the western sky.…

On the evening of March 23, 1953, a civilian astronomer in Bay City, Michigan saw something unusual cross his bedroom window. At 11:32 p.m., while lying in bed, he noticed a greeni…

On January 23, 1953, a radar operator at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas detected an unusual target on his scope. T/Sergeant Gerald V. Kelley was working the ground-contr…

Two civilian observers in the Bethesda, Maryland area reported seeing an unidentified oval object on the evening of June 3, 1953, at approximately 1915 hours (7:15 p.m.). The objec…

On February 4, 1953, at 1050 Pacific Standard Time, the crew of an RB-36 transport aircraft spotted an unidentified object near Blythe, California. The plane was flying a ferry mis…

On October 19, 1953, about 2135 (9:35 p.m.), military and civilian witnesses saw an object near Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. The main witness was an Air Force band se…

On November 28, 1953, at dawn, two civilian police officers at Bookley Air Force Base in Alabama saw a flat, round object that looked about the size of a grapefruit or apple. The o…

On June 23, 1953, about 0130 (1:30 a.m.), a military member saw an object near Bracketville, Texas. The witness was a weather forecaster driving west from San Antonio with his wife…

On February 18, 1953, a white object the size of a large aircraft appeared just above the horizon near Seattle and Bremerton, Washington. The object bore a bearing of 270 degrees f…

On the night of January 1, 1953, a senior Air Force pilot watched a bluish-white light move across the sky near Brookley Air Force Base in Alabama. The pilot was sitting at a drive…

On July 16, 1953, a witness in Brooklyn, New York, reported an object in the night sky. The source was a civilian. The witness was lying down on a rooftop and happened to notice t…

# Summary In May and June 1953, two gold miners near Brush Creek, California reported seeing a small flying object land twice near their mining claim at the junction of Marble and…

# Radar Targets Over Lake Superior On the night of April 20, 1953, radar operators at the 665th Air Control and Warning Squadron in Calumet, Michigan tracked a series of fast-movi…

On the night of March 2, 1953, four airmen stationed at the 775th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron in Cambria, California observed an unusual object over the ocean. The men we…

On March 28, 1953, at 0031 (use of the Z time group), a military pilot reported an object over the Canal Zone in Panama. The witness was the pilot of a B-26 aircraft flying at 5,00…

On March 19, 1953, starting at about 2105 (9:05 p.m.) Eastern time, civilians reported a glowing object near Cape Vincent, New York. The report reached the 655th Aircraft Control a…

On October 25, 1953, at approximately 8:50 p.m., two unidentified objects were sighted over Capitol Heights, Maryland, near Washington D.C. The objects were round in shape, about t…

On the morning of February 13, 1953, a civilian witnessed three bright lights traveling across the sky near Fort Worth, Texas, at Carswell Air Force Base. The lights remained visib…

On the evening of March 23, 1953, three civilians standing on the ground at Natrona County Airport near Casper, Wyoming spotted a bright orange disk moving rapidly across the sky.…

On August 1, 1953, in Centerville, Idaho, a witness and his wife saw an object at 2:00 p.m. in a bright, hazy sky. The object was a brilliant milk-white disc flying low over Sharon…

On February 25, 1953, starting at about 2030 (8:30 p.m.), an unusual target was reported on radar by the 783rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron near Charleston, West Virginia.…

On the evening of June 1, 1953, a man sitting on his family porch in Cincinnati, Ohio saw an unusual object moving across the sky. He watched it change color from white to orange t…

On April 28, 1953, around 6:30 p.m., a group of thirteen girls at Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus spotted an unusual object in the sky. One student called Columbus…

In early December 1953, two civilians driving near Columbus, Indiana spotted an unusual object in the night sky. The witnesses were traveling east in a car when they looked north a…

On July 6, 1953, in the early morning over Colville, Washington, civilians reported an object in the sky. Three watchers at an observation tower saw it, and the sighting was report…

On March 5, 1953, the U.S. Air Force investigated a complex UFO incident involving multiple sightings across South Carolina. An observer at the Savannah River Project reported seei…

On March 31, 1953, at about 1355 (1:55 p.m.) Mountain time, civilians reported an object near Conrad, Montana. The report reached the 26th Air Division. The witnesses, a family, wa…

On the night of January 26, 1953, Air Force personnel stationed at a radar station near Continental Divide, New Mexico made one of the most striking UFO sightings of the era. A/1c…

On the night of January 29, 1953, Lloyd Booth of Conway, South Carolina, saw an unusual object hovering near his family's farm about eight miles north of town. It was roughly 24 fe…

On January 28, 1953, at about 6:05 p.m., an airman saw a group of objects near Corona, California. The witness was a technical sergeant driving on a state highway about 5 miles sou…

On the evening of June 12, 1953, several residents of Porterdale, Georgia, which sits about three miles southwest of Covington, reported seeing a bright ball of fire hovering in th…

On the night of January 1, 1953, a group of motorists driving on Highway 91 near Craig, Montana, saw something unusual in the sky. The main witness, a sales manager from Helena, wa…

On or about July 31, 1953, a man driving north on Highway 43 near Creola, Alabama, saw a bright reddish object flash across the sky. The object crossed the highway at high speed an…

On the evening of July 31, 1953, a grocer named Herman Lister was getting into his vehicle near Creola, Alabama, when he spotted an unusual light in the sky. The object appeared to…

On the evening of March 19, 1953, at around 6:30 p.m., a resident of Crystal Lake, Ohio, spotted two saucer-shaped objects in the sky. The witness was called outside by a family me…

On December 26, 1953, at about 3:25 p.m. in a military grid area over Korea, a pilot reported one object. The sighting was made from a T-6 aircraft on a flight at about 3,500 feet.…

On the morning of January 6, 1953, people across the Dallas area reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings began around 1:30 a.m. and continued until about 11:30…

On the morning of May 31, 1953, eleven people in the Darlington-Monroe area of southwestern Wisconsin watched a bright white light move slowly across the sky for eight hours. The o…

On May 31, 1953, eleven people in Darlington and Monroe, Wisconsin reported seeing a brilliant white light in the sky. The object appeared low on the eastern horizon and rose to ap…

On January 27, 1953, at about 9:00 p.m., two Iowa state highway patrolmen saw an object west of Davenport, Iowa. The Iowa State Highway Patrol called a filter center to report it.…

A civilian woman in Dayton, Ohio reported seeing a yellowish-white, oblong-shaped object hovering low on the horizon in early February 1953. She observed it on two separate occasio…

This file covers two sightings over Dayton, Ohio in May 1953. The first was reported about 0110 (1:10 a.m.) Eastern time on May 12. A civilian called to report a moving object over…

On the evening of August 3, 1953, two employees of Gentile Air Force Depot in Dayton, Ohio, saw two glowing lights in the sky while driving on Bellbrook Pike. The objects appeared…