Project Blue Book Case Files

On March 1, 1957, a witness near Blaisdell, North Dakota reported seeing an object approximately 5 feet long and bluish-brown in color traveling north in level flight about 100 fee…

On October 30, 1957, witnesses about 10 miles southwest of Houlton, Maine, reported one object. The report came from military sources, including a ground observer and the crew of a…

On November 26, 1957, at 0630 hours (6:30 a.m. CST), a 31-year-old former Air Force pilot who was then a captain in the Indiana Air National Guard saw an unidentified object while…

On December 2, 1957, a report came from a site about 15 miles west of Russellville, Alabama. A farmer and the local sheriff reported a hole or path about 40 feet long and three fee…

On May 1, 1957, at 5:10 a.m., two round, orange objects were sighted 170 miles southwest of Santa Rosa Island, California. An AEW&C aircraft crew observed the objects for about 30…

On November 19, 1957, a GOC observer near Corpus Christi, Texas, reported an object with the appearance of a bright star with a tail, about the size of a pea and silver in color. T…

On December 8, 1957, a B-47 crew about 20 miles south of Portland, Maine reported a small object somewhat similar to a star. The crew was flying at 35,000 feet. The object held an…

In August 1957, two separate sightings in Dayton, Ohio remained unexplained after investigation by the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force's official evaluation marked both incidents as…

On the night of March 9, 1957, a Pan American Airlines flight bound for San Juan encountered a brilliant greenish-white object in the darkness over the Atlantic Ocean. The pilot, C…

On November 4, 1957, a pilot flying a DC-3 aircraft saw an egg-shaped object with a bright orange glow in the sky about 5 miles away from his position near Astoria, Missouri. The o…

On February 10, 1957, a housewife near Bismark, North Dakota, reported observing a red and green flashing light at 75 degrees azimuth. The object remained stationary for about 20 m…

On September 24, 1957, a civilian witnessed a round object the size of a big ball with red color near 7 miles north-northwest of Sanderson, Texas. The sighting lasted approximately…

On the evening of October 18, 1957, a group of civilians set up cameras about 9 miles west of Benson, Arizona, hoping to photograph the newly launched Russian satellite Sputnik I.…

On July 6, 1957, at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, a military observer spotted one object that changed from small to large in size. The object was yellow and had a halo aroun…

On November 8, 1957, residents of Abington, West Virginia observed a glowing object high in the sky. The object appeared elongated, like a missile or projectile, and was orange to…

Around 10:45 p.m. on November 4, 1957, a Civil Aeronautics Administration radar operator at the Albuquerque control tower at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico noticed an uniden…

On the night of November 8, 1957, a Staff Sergeant at Saint Francis Cabrini Hospital in Alexandria, Louisiana, watched a brilliant bright pink object streak across the sky. The obj…

On October 16, 1957, a government employee at the White Sands Missile Range near Almogordo, New Mexico took a color photograph of an unusual object hovering over the landscape. The…

On November 13, 1957, at 1:00 a.m., a civilian witness in Alpine, Arizona reported a round, white object about the size of a nickel. The object moved downward and shifted one degre…

On November 19, 1957, near Alpine, Arizona, a civilian witness reported seeing a very large round object that was very bright and white. The object was at 60 degrees elevation and…

On July 9, 1957, during the day, a civilian sewage plant operator in Amarillo, Texas reported a sighting. The sky was clear. Two men were watching a B-36 aircraft fly over when th…

On November 1957, military witnesses near Amarillo Air Force Base, Texas reported two or three red lights. A bright light on the bottom looked like a searchlight or flood light, an…

In the early morning hours of November 6, 1957, a 19-year-old service station attendant driving near Disneyland in Anaheim, California, saw a strange light in the sky and photograp…

Two witnesses in Anderson, Indiana saw unusual lights in the night sky on November 8, 1957, between 9:00 and 9:10 p.m. local time. Both observers described a green object with red…

In October 1957, someone working at a defense contractor in Van Nuys, California, brought what looked like a small rocket to his supervisor. The object had Russian writing on it an…

On November 5, 1957, the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Sebago reported radar and visual contacts with an unidentified object roughly 200 miles south of New Orleans, Louisiana. The…

In mid-July 1957, a newspaper reporter and a theater owner in the area between Deming and Columbus, New Mexico, reported seeing unusual objects near Crater Afton, a volcano located…

On August 27, 1957, near the Dry Tortugas, a small group of islands about 70 miles west of Key West, Florida, experienced pilots in military aircraft spotted a bright light in the…

On April 14, 1957, military witnesses at Argentia Naval Station reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified…

On December 9, 1957, a civilian in Argyle, Iowa reported seeing one circular white object through binoculars. The object started at dim light and became extremely bright, then fade…

On the evening of August 1, 1957, a police sergeant in Arlington County, Virginia received a report of an unusual object in the sky. A 17-year-old resident had called to describe a…

On November 1, 1957, in Atlanta, Georgia, a civilian witness reported seeing three reddish objects with bluish tops about the size of a basketball in the southwestern sky. The obje…

On October 23, 1957, near Attapulgus, Georgia, a civilian observer reported seeing a round orange or reddish orange object in the sky. The object was visible for one minute. It app…

On October 18, 1957, at Avon Park, Florida, night controllers observed an unidentified flying object. The object had a reddish glow in its white center and moved very fast out of s…

On May 27, 1957, civilian airline personnel flying over Bristol, Tennessee reported a sighting. The observation was made from the air and lasted about thirty minutes. The witnesse…

On October 15, 1957, two Navy pilots flying near La Jolla, California saw an unusual pattern of lights that puzzled them enough to report it to military intelligence. The pilots we…

On June 3, 1957, near Shreveport, Louisiana, the captain and first officer of a Trans-Texas Airlines flight observed two white lights flying alongside their aircraft for about an h…

On October 14, 1957, in Azerbaijan, Iran, American staff and numerous Tabriz observers reported a bright white object moving from east to west. The sightings occurred between May 2…

On December 3 and 4, 1957, military personnel at Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island, Canada reported seeing a round object in the sky during dusk hours. The object was described as rou…

On November 25, 1957, at 12:32 a.m., a civilian observer on Baffin Island, Canada reported a sighting lasting 6.5 minutes. The witness observed a starlike object that was clearly d…

On October 29, 1957, a witness at Baker, Florida, reported one object in the sky. The witness was a student serving as a civilian ground observer. The sighting was a ground visual…

This file concerns a sighting reported by a civilian near Bakersfield, California in mid August 1957. The witness first wrote to the Department of the Army, which referred the lett…

On November 7, 1957, near Bakersfield, California, a civilian observer reported sighting an object described as basketball-sized, white with red and green lights that alternated co…

In November 1957, a person in Baltimore, Maryland saw something unusual in the night sky and reported it to the U.S. Air Force. The observer said the object appeared on November 6,…

On November 11, 1957, a civilian near Bedford, Indiana reported two round flashing objects the size of a baseball. The objects flashed red, green, and blue. They appeared to move u…

On August 22, 1957, at 1520 (Greenwich time) near Bedford and Canton, Ohio, a military observer saw one round white object about the size of the head of a pin. The sighting lasted…

On November 10, 1957, a military observer near Bellefontaine Air Force Base, Ohio reported one round bright white light the size of a dime. The sighting lasted about 1 hour and 15…

On a March 1957 night at Belleview, a civilian reported a single object. The case was logged under Project 10073, the Air Force's official record for unidentified flying object rep…

On November 6, 1957, a witness in Belleville, Michigan reported seeing a shiny, bullet-like object about three-quarters the size of a paper clip held at arm's length. The object wa…

On September 12, 1957, near Bellwood, Nebraska, a civilian witness reported seeing nine round objects about the size of a BB at arm's length. The objects were orange and yellow in…

On November 9, 1957, a civilian near Belton, Missouri reported one oblong white object the size of a dime. The sighting lasted about 15 minutes. The Air Force did not reach a firm…

On June 11, 1957, at 10:53 a.m., two airmen at Benton Air Force Station in Pennsylvania witnessed a round object about the size of a small truck. The object was greenish yellow and…

On May 21, 1957, at 1830 Zulu time (daylight), three military observers at Tempelhof Air Base in Berlin reported seeing objects. The men were Air Force airmen and a special agent,…

On November 13, 1957, around 11:35 p.m. local time, a civilian observer near Bethesda, Maryland reported a streak in the sky. The object was the length of the distance between the…

On July 22, 1957, a Trans World Airlines pilot flying from Chicago to Tucson spotted an unidentified object in the sky near Amarillo, Texas. The pilot reported that the object sudd…

# Between Mockville and Arrity, North Carolina: March 1957 A truck driver in rural North Carolina saw a remarkable object in the night sky on March 8, 1957. According to the case…

In the early morning of November 23, 1957, 1st Lieutenant Joseph F. Long reported seeing four disc shaped objects on the ground near Tonopah, Nevada. Long was driving between Stead…

On February 12, 1957, between Valley Forge and Coatsville, Pennsylvania, a civilian observer reported seeing a long-shaped object about the size of a pencil held at arm's length. T…

On November 14, 1957, in Beverly, Massachusetts, a civilian witness reported seeing two lights with the appearance of small funnels in diameter. The lights were white on one side a…

On December 22, 1957, a resident of Bill, Wyoming saw a bright ball of fire streak across the sky and fall to earth roughly a quarter mile away. The object had a greenish color and…