Project Blue Book Case Files

On August 13, 1956, a civilian reported a sighting ten miles north of Hermanville, Massachusetts. A flat-bottomed object described as silver or metallic was observed moving rapidly…

On October 1, 1956, at 1:16 a.m., military personnel observed an unidentified object ten miles west of Carey Islands, Newfoundland. Two observers in a formation of F-86D aircraft s…

On July 1, 1956, a strange object was sighted 17 miles east of Columbus, Ohio. A TWA pilot reported seeing one object traveling from north to south-southwest at 4,000 feet altitude…

On August 5, 1956, at 6:04 a.m. local time, one mile east of Denver, Colorado, a civilian observer reported seeing six round, pale orange colored objects flying in an approximate t…

On January 9, 1956, a light was seen about 20 miles southwest of Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. The Greenwich time was 0120Z on January 10. The sighting was made from the air at…

The OCR text from pages 4 through 7 is too heavily garbled to support reliable reconstruction of the investigative details. While page 1 provides basic case metadata and pages 2 an…

On October 1, 1956, a civilian airline captain observed unusual lights about 20 miles west of Punk City, Texas. The witness reported two white and bright trailing lights that emitt…

On July 5, 1956, between Skagway and Juneau, Alaska, a military observer reported one object at about 1:35 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting made by a member of an A…

On November 1, 1956, two Air Force officers saw one object about 60 miles east of St. Louis, Missouri. The men were aboard a T-33 jet flying at 35,000 feet on a flight from Springf…

On December 12, 1956, a civilian found a balloon in a roadside ditch about 7 miles west of Cedar Falls, Iowa. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official reco…

On November 24, 1956, an airline pilot saw one object near Aberdeen, Maryland. The witness had flown as an airline pilot for about 20 years. The object was watched for about five m…

On May 20, 1956, near Akpatok Island, off Newfoundland, the pilot and co-pilot of a Royal Canadian Air Force DC-4 reported one object. It was an air visual sighting at about 12:10…

On September 20, 1956, a civilian observer in Albany, New York spotted one round white object about the size of a softball at arm's length. The object hovered and then moved southe…

On January 28, 1956, a military witness saw a strange object near Albany, Georgia. The Greenwich time was 0051Z on January 29. The weather was clear with about 15 miles visibility.…

On May 30, 1956, near Alberton, Montana, a civilian reported two objects. It was a ground visual sighting. The report came in on an Air Force Form 112. The objects were in view for…

On February 9, 1956, a ground observer saw a strange object near Alger, Michigan. The Greenwich time was 0200Z on February 10. The night was clear with about seven miles visibility…

On May 3, 1956, at 2:48 a.m. in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, civilian and Air Force witnesses reported a sighting of seven silver objects in a V formation moving south at an estimated…

On July 23, 1956, near Alpena, Michigan, a civilian reported one object at about 4:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about 7 minutes.…

On September 15, 1956, a military observer at Altus, Oklahoma reported one round, white object about the size of a pea held at arm's length. The object had a bluish tail right behi…

On the night of August 1, 1956, observers near Amarillo, Texas reported seeing a bright trajectory in the sky about ten miles to the southeast. The sighting lasted two hours and fi…

On August 1, 1956, at 0400 (4 a.m.), a Dallas man named J.G. Kirby was driving back to Dallas from Colorado Springs via Amarillo, Texas, when he and his wife and two children obser…

On October 25, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Anita, Iowa. The report came from a ground observer post. The object was watched for two minutes. The witness described one bri…

In July 1956, a cemetery worker named Luna in the town of Aranda, Colombia reported finding pieces of metal after a series of loud explosions. The worker said the explosions happen…

On February 12, 1956, a civilian reported a round object like a tire or hub-cap with red and yellow rotating lights near Aripeka, Florida. The sighting lasted approximately ten min…

On the morning of July 18, 1956, residents across central Kansas reported seeing strange glowing objects in the sky. In Arkansas City, two witnesses who had been fishing, along wit…

On the night of September 20, 1956, the control tower at Manston Air Force Base in England received two phone calls about unidentified flying objects. The witnesses were British ci…

On August 23, 1956, at approximately 7:00 p.m., a civilian observer in Atlanta, Georgia reported seeing a small jet-like object. The object moved straight up and down, then went ou…

On July 21, 1956, near Auburn, California, civilian observers reported one object at about 1:00 p.m. local time. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for two to…

On March 26, 1956, civilian Ground Observer Corps members at Avon Park, Florida, reported many objects in daylight. The report was filed under Project 10073, the Air Force's offici…

On the night of April 8, 1956, Captain Ryan, an American Airlines pilot, and his first officer spotted a bright orange light while flying their aircraft between Schenectady and Osw…

On August 10, 1956, near Bakersfield, California, a civilian witness reported seeing a round, bright object with a grapefruit shape. The object was red, white, and yellow in color.…

On June 7, 1956, in Baltimore, Maryland, an observer reported one object. It was a ground visual sighting. The object was in view for about five minutes. The object was circular a…

On the evening of June 18, 1956, a witness in Bandera, Texas saw several glowing objects in the sky. The witness was indoors looking out a window when the first object appeared. Ov…

On October 14, 1956, at about 6:45 p.m. local time, a civilian near Batavia, Ohio reported an object that was assumed to be a jet making a vapor trail. The object was reddish orang…

On January 8, 1956, a civilian in Battlecreek, Michigan reported sighting one round reddish white object flying in straight level flight at 400 feet elevation and 150 degrees azimu…

On February 18, 1956, a civilian in Beaulieu, Minnesota reported seeing an object like a basketball that was green and red. The object descended slowly in flight toward the northea…

On the night of August 4, 1956, a resident of Beavertown, Ohio reported seeing a very bright object directly overhead at 9:45 p.m. The object appeared to be about the size of a pea…

On March 5, 1956, a civilian at Bedford, Ohio, reported a slow-moving object at night. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified fly…

On January 8, 1956, witnesses near Bedford, Indiana, reported three objects in the sky. The Greenwich time was 1659Z. The observers were civilians. The objects were described as c…

On February 12, 1956, a ground observer saw a strange object over Belleview, Florida. The Greenwich time was 0205Z on February 13. The observer was a civilian who supervised a grou…

On March 8, 1956, a 72-year-old civilian at Bellingham, Washington, reported a single object. The report was made under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentif…

On March 2, 1956, in Beloit, Wisconsin, a civilian and Air Force observer reported a black oblong object of unknown size at approximately 1,000 feet altitude. The object was seen t…

On January 25, 1956, a fourteen-year-old student in Beltsville, Maryland took photographs he believed showed an unidentified flying object. The observer aimed a Zeiss Ikon camera f…

On December 2, 1956, near Belvidere, South Dakota, a civilian witness reported seeing two round objects with a 2-foot circumference. The larger object was brilliant red. A smaller…

Beginning at about 9:30 p.m. on August 13, 1956, and continuing into the predawn hours of August 14, ground-based radar at the U.S. Air Force station at RAF Bentwaters in eastern E…

On July 26, 1956, a civilian near Bernalillo, New Mexico, reported a single object in the sky. The sighting began at 0900 (9:00 a.m.) local time and was made from the ground. The…

On September 3, 1956, at dusk near Bert, Michigan, a civilian observer reported sighting one oblong bright red object at 90 degrees azimuth and 12,000 feet altitude. The object was…

In September 1956, a passenger on a commercial airline flying between Coos Bay and Portland, Oregon took a photograph from cruising altitude of what she believed to be a spacecraft…

On October 22, 1956, a civilian saw an unusual object over Beulah, Michigan. The witness was the civil defense director of Benzie County, a man with many years in law enforcement.…

On the evening of September 9, 1956, three civilians near Big Bethel, Virginia saw an unusual object in the sky. The primary witness was a man driving his sister-in-law home to Ham…

On June 5, 1956, two Air Force majors spotted an unusual object while flying near Birmingham, Alabama. Major Robert L. Oelker and Major Arnold D. Zimmerman were piloting a B-25 air…

On August 25, 1956, a civilian in Bloom, Kansas, reported a single object. The sighting was recorded at 0313Z (night). The duration was not reported. The witness gave very little…

On the evening of September 17, 1956, six people in Crane Village, a settlement on the western edge of the Naval Ammunition Depot near Crane, Indiana, reported seeing unidentified…

# Summary On the evening of January 31, 1956, two young witnesses in Boonton, New Jersey saw two round, white objects moving across the sky. The objects appeared small, about the…

On August 22, 1956, radar operators at Bornholm, a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, detected several unidentified objects moving at very high speeds. The first targets appeared aro…

In May 1956, a professional photographer in the Boston area submitted photographs to the Air Force that he claimed showed unidentified flying objects. The images appeared to show t…

A high school student in Bostonia, California took a photograph in October 1956 as part of a class assignment. She aimed her simple box camera at the moon on a clear night and left…

On November 14, 1956, a civilian saw one object over Brainerd, Minnesota. The witness was a housewife and ground observer who noticed the object while driving a car. The object was…

On February 11, 1956, a witness saw a strange object over Bremerton, Washington. The Greenwich time was 0745Z on February 12. The sighting was at night, and the sky ranged from cle…

On January 29 and 30, 1956, witnesses at Bremerton, Washington, reported a strange object in the night sky. The Greenwich time ran from about 0248Z to 0254Z on January 30, with two…