Project Blue Book Case Files

On the night of November 22, 1954, a pilot flying a National Airlines plane spotted an unusual light in the sky 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. The pilot was cruising at 17,500…

On the night of June 7, 1954, around 6:15 p.m., a man named Hilburn C. Keith watched an unusual bright object through binoculars from his home 1.8 miles north of Julien, Kentucky.…

On May 22, 1954, at 11:30 p.m., a civilian airline pilot reported an object 20 miles southwest of Los Angeles, California. The object flew at 25,000 to 30,000 feet at a speed of 1,…

On June 1, 1954, at about 9:00 p.m. local time, about 400 miles south of Minneapolis, Minnesota, military crews reported one object. An object with what appeared to be running ligh…

On May 21, 1954, at 8:20 p.m., civilians reported a shining large object 50 miles southwest of Needles, California. The object was observed at an altitude of 18,000 to 20,000 feet.…

On a May evening in 1954 in Hamilton, New York, a witness observed a faint, milky-colored object moving across the sky. The object appeared oval in shape and contained two faint re…

On November 23, 1954, a civilian in the Philippines spotted an unusual object in the sky near Manila. The witness, a 37-year-old medical doctor, was about 5 miles east of the city.…

On November 15, 1954, military witnesses about 70 miles southwest of Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico, reported four objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about five minutes. Th…

On October 14, 1954, at 8:56 p.m., a civilian in Agawam, Massachusetts reported seeing a bright object in the sky. The object appeared to have a convex shape on top and bottom and…

On October 11, 1954, at approximately 12:02 a.m., a military observer in Alexandria, Virginia reported seeing one round, very small object with a brilliant white glow. The object w…

In 1954, a formation of objects was reported over Alexandria, Virginia. The sighting was made from the ground during the day. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Forc…

On September 26, 1954 at 8:24 p.m., a civilian in Altoona, Pennsylvania reported seeing one unidentified object. The sighting lasted three minutes. The object was round on top and…

On April 1, 1954, in Anadarka, Oklahoma, a newspaper report described a sighting of an object that glowed like a star with slow movement. The object was observed through a telescop…

On the afternoon of April 13, 1954, three women driving on U.S. Route 2 between Annapolis and Pasadena, Maryland spotted three unusual objects in the sky. The objects appeared to b…

In 1954, lights were reported over Arlington, Virginia. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object reports. The witne…

On April 26, 1954, multiple observers at the University of Georgia in Athens watched a formation of objects move across the sky in broad daylight. The main witness, a U.S. Air Forc…

On September 19, 1954, in Atlanta, Georgia, a civilian observer reported seeing two objects during a one-hour sighting. The objects were described as round, green, and white with s…

In 1954, lights were reported over Atlanta, Georgia. The sighting was made from the ground and filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying ob…

On November 12, 1954, a civilian near Atlantic City, New Jersey, reported a brief sighting in the sky. The observation lasted about one second. The object was described as spheric…

On November 15, 1954, at 3:51 p.m., a civilian in Augusta, Maine reported seeing ten bright objects in a V-formation flying in a strict pattern with no sound. The objects seemed to…

On November 15, 1954, at dusk, a civilian near Augusta reported ten objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about three minutes. The objects moved toward the north-northeast. The…

On June 30, 1954, civilian witnesses at a flight station near Bagdad, Florida, reported an object in the sky. It appeared shiny silver, turning to blue, and looked about three time…

On November 7, 1954, a husband and wife driving on a highway about five miles north of Baltimore, Maryland, saw an unusual object in the evening sky. The couple, later identified i…

On December 27, 1954, at 7:55 a.m. in Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian observer reported a round object with white color that changed to orange. The object had the size of a dime he…

On the evening of December 2, 1954, a bright light caught the attention of an observer in Banning, California. The object appeared to turn at a high rate of speed as it moved acros…

On the evening of November 12, 1954, a resident of Barberton, Ohio, observed an unusual object in the night sky. The witness reported seeing a cigar-shaped object that traveled wes…

On July 15, 1954, in Bath, Michigan, a civilian reported observing eight to ten elongated objects in a V formation traveling backward. The sighting lasted six seconds. The objects…

On the night of May 19, 1954, three people in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi watched an unusual object in the sky for about one hour. The object appeared roughly the size of a bright s…

On September 19, 1954, at 4:30 p.m., a civilian in Beaumont, Texas reported seeing a silver object moving very slowly at an estimated altitude of 60,000 to 90,000 feet. The observe…

In late October 1954, a wave of flying saucer reports came from Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The Air Force learned of them through translated newspaper articles sent from an attache in Be…

On July 20, 1954, a civilian in Bethesda, Maryland reported observing a single object at 11:03 p.m. local time. The object appeared star-like and hovered while moving slowly at a 3…

On November 19, 1954, civilian and military witnesses near Beaumont, Texas, reported objects in the sky. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The objects moved from the south-so…

On the night of September 25, 1954, a civilian reported objects over Biloxi, Mississippi. The witness was a radar instructor at Keesler Air Force Base. The sighting lasted about 10…

On August 24-25, 1954, multiple civilian witnesses in Bismarck, North Dakota reported seeing orange and red tracers moving across the night sky. The objects made no sound and disap…

On January 3, 1954, at about 3:55 p.m. local time near Blackburn, Australia, a civilian reported one object. The witness, a silversmith, heard the sound of an aircraft and looked t…

On the afternoon of January 28, 1954, witnesses at and near Blackstone Army Air Field in Virginia saw a bright, stationary object in the sky. A civilian observer watching from his…

In April 1954 in Boulder City, Nevada, a witness reported an unidentified object at night during a full moon. The observer said the object was elongated and about 45 feet long. Col…

In November 1954, a witness in Brandenburg, Kentucky saw two stationary objects high in the sky. The objects were not particularly bright, but appeared to be reflecting sunlight. T…

On November 7, 1954, at 7:23 p.m., a military source in Brunswick, Georgia reported seeing one object. The witness described it as basketball-sized, white, and brilliant, maintaini…

On January 22, 1954, young witnesses near Buena Park, California reported egg shaped objects. The first object was orange and about the size of a 50 cent piece held at arm's length…

On the night of September 26, 1954, a weather observer at Butler, Missouri, spotted unusual lights in the sky. The observer reported seeing what looked like a small cluster of star…

On the evening of September 5, 1954, a Butler, Missouri resident witnessed an unusual object passing overhead. The observer described a silver to white colored craft with a slight…

On the night of January 13, 1954, personnel at Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda, Michigan saw an unusual object streak across the sky. The observers described a small, circular…

On October 31, 1954, an object was reported over Calcutta, India. The Air Force learned of it from a newspaper article in a local paper, which was forwarded by an attache in New De…

On July 28 and 29, 1954, military and civilian witnesses near Camp Crook and Rapid City, South Dakota, reported objects in the sky. One witness at Camp Crook saw an object fall abo…

On December 7, 1954, an Air Force officer in Cape Province, South Africa, reported one object in the sky. The sighting lasted a few minutes. The object moved slowly from west to ea…

On the night of February 4, 1954, radar operators at Carswell Air Force Base near Fort Worth, Texas, detected an unusual target heading straight toward the base. The object appeare…

On March 1, 1954, two airline flights observed a glowing bright green light descending in an arc near Cherokee and Sinclair, Wyoming. The object appeared at 12 to 15 degrees above…

On a November afternoon in 1954, a Cincinnati resident saw grayish-white objects moving rapidly across the sky. The witness observed them for about 15 minutes while standing outdoo…

In late June 1954, multiple witnesses across a wide area of central Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sightings occurred on June 26, with reports coming from Z…

On May 13, 1954, at about 3:00 a.m. near Cleveland, Ohio, ground observers and a pilot of the 71st Fighter-Interceptor Squadron reported one object. It showed an orange light that…

On June 10, 1954, at about 9:50 p.m. local time in Cleveland, Ohio, a civilian reported one object for one to one and a half minutes. While sitting in his back yard, he saw an obje…

On the evening of July 7, 1954, a 25-year-old insurance salesman was driving west on Mayfield Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, when he spotted an unusual object near his right side…

On January 30, 1954, a U.S. Air Force transport plane was flying near Cold Bay, Alaska when its crew spotted a red glowing light. The light appeared at eleven o'clock position rela…

On April 1, 1954, in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a military witness observed an object traveling north in a straight and level course at extremely high speed. The sighting lasted 1…

On April 11, 1954, at 0230 (2:30 a.m.) in Columbia, Missouri, several people at the airport reported a single object. They described a bright white light, like an aircraft navigati…

On the evening of June 23, 1954, First Lieutenant Harry Roe Jr., an Ohio Air National Guard pilot, was flying an F-51 Mustang fighter between Dayton and Columbus when he encountere…

On the night of August 12, 1954, a civilian observer in Columbus, Georgia reported seeing a round object that glowed brilliant orange and red, fading to white. The object remained…

On the night of February 26, 1954, an object was reported near Columbus, Ohio. The witnesses were civilians, and the sighting was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's officia…

On May 30, 1954, in Columbus, Ohio, a civilian reported seeing 11 or 12 objects for a few seconds. The witness, who was painting at the time, said the objects moved from the southw…