Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 12, 1955, a civilian woman saw an object near her home about 12 miles southeast of Pinecastle Air Force Base in Florida. She lived southeast of Orlando along Highway 15.…

On January 5, 1955, at about 11:25 p.m. (2325Z reported), a military pilot in a T-33 about 20 to 22 miles north of Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, reported one object. The pilot w…

On July 25, 1955, at 2:07 a.m. local time, a civilian near Minneapolis, Minnesota, 20 miles northwest of the city, reported sighting a round object. The object appeared as a red gl…

On December 31, 1955, two people saw a strange object about 25 miles west of Denver, Colorado, near Bergen Park. The Greenwich time was 1805Z. The observers were civilians. The ob…

On January 1, 1955, a military pilot flying a B-25 about 30 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico, reported one object. The pilot was acting as an instructor when he turned to a studen…

On January 1, 1955, a military pilot flying a B-25 about 30 miles east of Cochise, New Mexico, reported one object while acting as an instructor. The sighting lasted a few minutes.…

On September 25, 1955, at about 0020Z, a civilian saw three objects about 30 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The sighting lasted about ten minutes. The witness described t…

On September 28, 1955, near Brownville, Maine, a civilian witness reported seeing a round object that changed colors from red to green to yellow. The object made no sound and appea…

On the night of October 20, 1955, a pilot from the 354th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at McGhee Tyson Air Base near Knoxville, Tennessee saw a light in the sky that resembled a bri…

On July 1, 1955, at 7:09 a.m. local time, a silver object was sighted 50 miles southeast of Sacramento, California. The object was observed falling straight down to the ground. It…

On July 1, 1955, about 50 miles southeast of Sacramento, California, a military pilot reported one object. The case was both a ground-radar and an air-visual sighting. The object…

On July 22, 1955, in Aberdeen, Washington, a civilian reported one balloon-shaped object. The witness was watching aircraft at the time. The Air Force recorded the report under Pro…

On July 22, 1955, in Aberdeen, Washington, a witness reported one balloon-shaped object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official record for unidentified…

On August 7, 1955, at dusk in Akron, Ohio, a civilian observer reported one pink object shaped like a streak heading southward. The object was watched for ten minutes before it dis…

On July 24, 1955, in Akron, Ohio, civilian and military witnesses reported one round, light-silver object. The Air Force recorded the report under Project 10073, its official recor…

On August 18, 1955, a civilian in Alhambra, California reported a ground-visual sighting at 7:03 a.m. The witness observed a round, red object that moved straight up heading east a…

On June 16, 1955, a witness near Anita, Iowa reported a single object. The object was cigar shaped, two to six feet long, with blue and white markings and a red exhaust. It appeare…

On the evening of August 23, 1955, two men standing near a house in Arlington, Virginia spotted several strange orange objects moving rapidly across the sky. One witness was a 55-y…

On July 8, 1955, a witness near Arlington, California saw a round, white object in the sky. The object flew in a straight line toward the east. It was in sight for about a few seco…

On December 13, 1955, over Arlington, Virginia, a witness saw a strange light in the night sky. The Greenwich time was 0309Z on December 14. The sky was fairly clear, and the obser…

On July 9, 1955, at Augusta, Maine, civilian and military witnesses reported one object for about one minute. It was seen on radar, air-visually, and from the ground. The time note…

On the morning of March 30, 1955, a civilian chemist and a technician spotted an unusual object near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Bakersfield, California. The object was desc…

In July 1955, a person in Baltimore, Maryland saw a silvery, spherical object in the sky, roughly four feet in diameter. The object appeared to be blown by the wind toward the sour…

A large, bubbly mass fell from the sky over Baltimore on February 23, 1955, and was watched by at least 25 people as it slowly disintegrated on the ground. The object resembled som…

On October 9, 1955, at about 1942 (7:42 p.m.) local time, a civilian saw a light over Baltimore, Maryland, in the Coventry area of northeast Baltimore. The sighting lasted about on…

On May 7, 1955, at approximately 1820 hours (6:20 p.m.), two metallic objects crashed through the roof of the American Oil Company building at 210 South Russell Street in Baltimore…

On the night of September 9, 1955, two observers in Glen Burnie, Maryland, spotted unusual blinking lights moving across the sky in a west-northwest direction. The first observer,…

On September 12, 1955, in Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian witness observed white, round objects in a string-line formation heading north. The witness reported that the objects appe…

On July 7, 1955, at Baltimore, Maryland, a civilian reported one object for about four minutes. Physical evidence was collected in this case. The object was spherical and silver,…

On October 22, 1955, a civilian in Battle Creek, Michigan reported seeing an object described as the large end of a pencil held at arm's length. The object appeared in the south at…

On the afternoon of May 13, 1955, a man named Glendon Rae was walking toward his observation post on Bear Island, Maine, when he saw a sudden flash of fire in the sky. The object l…

On the evening of August 12, 1955, people in and around Beloit, Wisconsin saw bright, star-like objects moving rapidly across the sky. The first report came from a Ground Observer…

On May 19, 1955, a civilian observer in Berkeley, California reported seeing one unidentified object moving south. The sighting lasted 8 seconds. The object was described as rounde…

On February 10, 1955, at about 10 p.m., a civilian reported a saucer-shaped, glowing object near Bethesda, Maryland. He saw it while driving his car east on MacArthur Boulevard. Hi…

On June 22, 1955, at 8:30 p.m. local time, a civilian observer in Bethesda, Maryland reported seeing four elliptical-shaped objects flying over the area. The objects emitted a brig…

On February 3, 1955, near Bettles, Alaska, an object was sighted at about 30,000 to 35,000 feet. The report came from a military air transport source. The object seemed to have a y…

On July 11, 1955, six witnesses near Big Foot, Texas saw one object in the daytime sky. It was round and silvery white. The object appeared to have streamers coming out of it. It f…

On July 11, 1955, near Big Foot, Texas, six civilian observers reported one object for about three hours. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was round and silvery-w…

On January 6, 1955, at about 9:00 p.m., three military airmen near Bradenton, Florida, reported a sighting. The men were driving on a highway two or three miles south of Bradenton…

On March 24, 1955, at around 6:30 p.m., residents near the George Washington Bridge in Brooklyn and Manhattan reported seeing unusual luminous objects in the sky. The sightings cam…

Three weather officers at Bryan Air Force Base in Texas reported seeing an unusual glowing object circling the base in the early morning hours of June 15, 1955. The sighting lasted…

On April 27, 1955, a civilian observer in the Bryn Mawr and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area reported a bright light. The man was on duty with the Ground Observer Corps, watching th…

On August 26, 1955, in Burbank, California, a civilian aircraft worker reported observing a round, yellow object about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The object remained s…

On December 13, 1955, a B-47 crew detected an object on radar over Caddo Lake, Louisiana. The Greenwich time was 0245Z on December 14. The sighting was at night, and the observer w…

On June 24, 1955, at Camp Poh-Tok, Maryland, a student reported a single object in the sky. The sighting was seen from the ground and lasted about one minute. The time noted on the…

On the night of December 11, 1955, a forest ranger at Camp Pomponio, California, spotted an unusual glowing object in the eastern sky. His wife had called him outside to look at wh…

On June 5, 1955, a civilian at Camp San Luis Obispo, California saw a single object at dusk. The sighting lasted about four to five minutes. The object was seen circling and ascend…

On June 5, 1955, a civilian reported a sighting near Capsan Luis, California. The object was described as long and silver with a nose larger than its tail. It circled and climbed b…

On the evening of December 21, 1955, a resident of Caribou, Maine saw a bright round object in the night sky. The object was gold in color, about the size of a jet fighter, and sho…

On the evening of September 12, 1955, Steve Sedlacek, a 20-year-old photographer working at television station KCRG in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spotted an unusual object while serving a…

On the afternoon of December 8, 1955, a railroad conductor named Box Hinton and his rear brakeman, LeRoy Shell, spotted an unusual object near Sublette Station, one mile east of Ch…

On December 31, 1955, at 11:23 p.m., a civilian in Charleston, South Carolina reported a yellow and red flaming object that was elongated in shape and appeared high and slow. The o…

On July 5, 1955, near Charleston, Maine, a military observer reported sighting one round, orange object. The object appeared to move back and forth and ascend while traveling in a…

On July 12, 1955, near Charleston and Greenville, Maine, witnesses reported one object. The sighting was seen from the ground. The object was small and round and orange and red. I…

On August 3, 1955, near 2:30 p.m. local time, a civilian ground observer in Charlotte, North Carolina reported one object. The witness was a housewife. The Air Force recorded the r…

On March 9, 1955, between about 7:30 p.m. and 8:00 p.m., a civilian near Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, reported a round, red object. The object made no sound. It was sighted twice. On…

On the night of May 22-23, 1955, two airmen stationed at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, reported seeing four unusual objects in the sky. The sighting occu…

On the evening of October 16, 1955, two men hunting near Cheyenne, Wyoming heard a loud whining sound that they believed came from a strange aircraft. One of the men said he looked…

In 1956, a witness in Chicago saw several unidentified flying objects while playing near a railroad near the city's northwest side. The witness got a camera, and when others in the…

An orangish-red object approximately the size of a dime held at arm's length was observed from the control tower at China Lake Naval Air Station on the evening of July 11, 1955. Th…