Project Blue Book Case Files

In November 1958, an observer near Palmdale, California, about ten miles northwest of the city, reported seeing a bright spherical object that resembled magnesium in color. The obj…

On June 12, 1958, at dawn, Captain Eugene H. Richards was aboard a B-52 bomber flying about ten miles west of Huntsville, Texas. He was using a sextant, a navigation tool, to take…

On the night of January 20, 1958, a truck driver named F. V. Hughes saw a bright white light near Oxford, North Carolina. The light was about as large as a car headlight or basketb…

On August 13, 1958 (0730Z), two civilians at a ranch about 12 miles northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada, reported an unidentified flying object during night hours. The witnesses describ…

On October 14, 1958, around 2:20 a.m., a military pilot flying a B-47 bomber aircraft at 30,000 feet spotted an unusual object in the sky 15 miles south of Cameron, Arizona. The pi…

On August 11, 1958, at dusk near 15 miles west of Montauk, New York, a bright silver object shaped like a star was sighted. The object was spinning and disappeared instantaneously…

On a clear night in February 1958, a couple near Winston-Salem, North Carolina saw something unusual in the sky. The man and woman, standing outside their home about a mile south o…

On May 17, 1958, a civilian observed an unidentified object 23 miles southeast of Belle Glade, Florida at 1:05 p.m. The witness, a truck driver traveling with his son on U.S. Highw…

On September 7, 1958, at 7:03 a.m., a circular object about the size of a dime was sighted 29 miles west of Crosby, North Dakota. The object flashed red, green, and violet colors.…

On October 14, 1958, at 8:40 p.m., a civilian driving 2 miles west of Calhoun, Louisiana, observed a cylindrical, bluish-white object about the size of a match head held at arm's l…

A woman driving home from work near Mount Prospect, Illinois, saw a small, bright object in the evening sky on May 21, 1958. She described it as bullet-shaped, about the size of a…

On September 13, 1958, two U.S. Air Force Reserve pilots near Collins, Missouri, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The men were flying near Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base when…

On August 7, 1958, at 8:01 a.m. local time, a civilian in St. Louis, Missouri, 2 miles north of the city, reported sighting a white, oval object about the size of a dime. The witne…

On September 7, 1958, at night, a civilian near Larson Air Force Base in Washington, about 2 miles south, reported seeing an object with the shape of an upside-down dipper. The obj…

On September 15, 1958, at 12:02 a.m., a civilian in Dallas, Texas reported a star-like object about the size of a pen that was white, pink, red, and blue. Four objects with no form…

On February 28, 1958, at 4:03 p.m., a witness three miles west of Cleveland, Ohio reported seeing a brilliant orange flaming object. When first sighted, the object separated into f…

On a private twelve acre lake four miles north of Clennie, Michigan, three observers reported seeing something unusual in the water during July 1958. One observer was in a boat on…

On September 26, 1958, a civilian saw a glowing object while driving north on a highway about 4 miles south of Southwick, Massachusetts. The witness was a commercial artist. He fir…

On July 2, 1958, a ground observer near Columbia, South Carolina, reported an unidentified flying object at 2015 (8:15 p.m.) local time. The witness, an Army section officer, descr…

On July 3, 1958, at 7:30 p.m., a welder located 5 miles north of White Cloud, Michigan, observed a round, silver object about the size of a dime at arm's length. The object was sta…

On April 10, 1958, five miles west of Pecos, Texas, a civilian witness reported seeing a diamond-shaped object in an upright position. The object was fifty feet wide and seventy-fi…

Two separate sightings occurred in January 1958 involving U.S. military aircraft and personnel over the Pacific Ocean and other locations. The Air Force investigated both incidents…

On April 11, 1958, about 60 miles west of Argentia, Newfoundland, a military aircraft crew reported a bright object in the sky. The cockpit of their C-124 aircraft was lit up for 1…

# UFO Sighting Near Fairfax, Oklahoma, November 1958 On the early morning of November 2, 1958, a 20-year-old man was driving north on State Highway 18, about 8 miles south of Fair…

On March 5, 1958, near Akron, Ohio, a resident spotted material floating down from the sky around 5:30 p.m. The object landed about 100 yards south of Koons Road, roughly 1 mile we…

On the evening of November 23, 1958, an observer in Albertson, Long Island, saw a round object in the sky that changed colors as it moved. The object appeared as large as a bright…

On January 16, 1958, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a resident observed a disc-shaped object about the size of a dome flying over the area. The object was metallic gray in color. Acco…

On February 2, 1958, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a military observer reported sighting a white circular object about the size of a pea in the night sky. The object traveled from so…

On the evening of October 7, 1958, a 63-year-old man with an engineering degree was walking south on Lee Street in Alexandria, Virginia, when he noticed a bright, silvery object in…

On July 25, 1958, observers in Alexandria, Louisiana, reported an unidentified flying object at 2330Z (about dusk) local time. One witness was a military pilot, Lt. Bailey, and ano…

On June 23, 1958, a Louisiana State Trooper near Alexandria spotted two bright white lights while looking through the viewfinder of his Polaroid Land Camera. He was standing about…

On March 10, 1958, a civilian reported a sighting in Alsea, Oregon at 10:19 a.m. The witness described a white object about the size of a grapefruit that was wrinkled and glistered…

On July 11, 1958, at Amarillo Air Force Base in Texas, a military observer reported a silver and shiny object that looked like a jet aircraft tumbling and over end. The object stra…

On the evening of September 29, 1958, tower operators at Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, DC spotted a glowing orange object descending toward the northwest. The object appear…

On August 14, 1958, a reddish-orange object was sighted at Angel's Peak, Nevada, near Nellis Air Force Base. The object was described as round, about the size of a half dollar held…

On February 23, 1958, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a civilian witness observed a round, silver and gold object about 6 to 8 inches in diameter. The object looked like a low moon and ref…

On January 12, 1958, at 12:05 a.m., a civilian in Atlanta, Georgia reported observing a long, slender object resembling a telephone pole. The object was red and changed to red-oran…

On September 14, 1958, in the evening, a steamship captain and four members of his family reported an unidentified flying object from the veranda of their home at Baileys Bay, Berm…

On February 23, 1958, an A/1C (airman first class) Michaud of the base police at Dow Air Force Base in Bangor, Maine, reported seeing a large, bright, round object low on the horiz…

On a Sunday evening in April 1958, a man in Barbados saw something unusual in the sky. He was closing his front door around 2030 (8:30 p.m.) when he noticed a strange glistening bl…

On the evening of January 3, 1958, a man in Houston, Texas, and his wife saw a star-like object slowly descending near the star Deneb in the northwestern sky. The object had the br…

On July 8, 1958, at 12:32 p.m., a civilian in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania reported seeing one small, round, yellowish-green object moving slowly to the southwest. The observation la…

On June 26, 1958, a state police sergeant and several residents of the Belfast, Maine area reported seeing a bright orange or amber light in the sky roughly five miles south-southw…

In April 1958, a pilot and copilot of two F-100C fighter jets spotted an object they could not identify in the sky between Fresno and Merced, California. The pilots were flying at…

On the morning of July 1, 1958, an observer near Springfield, Ohio reported seeing an unusual object in the sky. The sighting lasted only five to ten seconds. The object appeared a…

On August 21, 1958, a civilian witness observed an unidentified object between Vinton and Oelwein, Iowa. The object was cone-shaped with a rounded leading edge and measured 15 to 2…

On January 10, 1958, near Biggs Air Force Base in El Paso, Texas, radar operators reported multiple objects. The sighting on radar lasted about 5 minutes. Between 8 and 11 objects…

On May 9, 1958, a pilot on a PAL flight near Bohol Island in the Philippine Islands reported seeing an object falling from the sky at approximately 3:52 a.m. The object was spinnin…

On April 7, 1958, in Boonville, Missouri, a civilian witness reported an object shaped like an inverted raindrop, the size of a grapefruit, colored white to red, moving very slowly…

On November 9, 1958, at about 4 p.m., about 500 people in Brasilia, Brazil, reported an object in the sky. The future capital was the site of the sighting. The account reached the…

On June 22, 1958, military and civilian observers in Bremerton, Washington reported a round, white object six to eight inches in diameter. The object passed from south to north in…

On September 28, 1958, civilian observers at the Tri-City Airport control tower near Bristol, Tennessee, reported a bright object. A highway patrol officer in the city of Bristol a…

On August 15, 1958, at 8:55 p.m., a small white oval-shaped object was sighted near Brookfield, Ohio. The object flashed alternately while traveling southeasterly and fading in sig…

On the evening of November 23, 1958, a tower operator at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, looked up and saw a stationary light in the sky. The observer described it as or…

On about August 29, 1958, a civilian in Brooklyn, New York, reported an unidentified flying object he had seen roughly ten days earlier at about 8 p.m. He wrote to the War Departme…

# Brooklyn, New York, July 1958 On a clear night in July 1958, an air control engineer in Brooklyn looked up at the sky and saw something unusual. A ring of light with a dark cent…

In April 1958, approximately 28 people called a radio station in Burlington, Iowa to report a fiery object moving across the sky. The sighting occurred on April 29th at 2107 GMT (9…

On December 6, 1958, on a clear moonlit night, a civilian guard at the Anniston Ordnance Depot in Bynum, Alabama, reported an oval object. The report reached the Air Force after se…

On February 22, 1958, two separate objects were spotted over Cabin John, Maryland, according to an Air Force case file marked "unknown" in its final assessment. The first sighting…

On February 16, 1958, near Caliente, Nevada, a civilian reported seeing a bright white object about the size of a grapefruit moving slowly to the south. The object was observed for…