Project Blue Book Case Files

On September 9, 1959, a witness near Miami, Florida reported observing an object appearing to be a two-stage rocket at high altitude traveling northwest true. The object was whitel…

On the evening of January 4, 1959, a laboratory technician driving north on U.S. Highway 285 near Clines Corner, New Mexico, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The sighting occu…

On the night of December 23, 1959, observers west of Albuquerque, New Mexico spotted three objects in a line formation painted on radar and visible to the naked eye. The objects de…

On September 1, 1959, two military pilots flying a T-33 jet trainer aircraft over the Monterey Peninsula, California spotted an unusual light in the eastern sky. Major John W. Sher…

On the early morning of September 13, 1959, a resident near Gills Rock, Wisconsin, reported witnessing an unusual object rising rapidly into the night sky. The witness, who was out…

On the night of July 19-20, 1959, a woman driving south on Highway 77 near Ceresco, Nebraska saw a strange light in the sky that she described as looking like a bright star with ra…

On August 21, 1959, a piece of red-tinted glass fell from the sky near Marysville, Ohio. The glass landed on the roof of a house about 17 miles northwest of town, then tumbled to t…

On February 6, 1959, a civilian about one mile south of Dinwiddie, Virginia, reported objects in the sky. The sighting was about 3:45 p.m. local time (2045 GMT) and lasted about on…

On January 22, 1959, a civilian about 20 miles east of Richmond, Virginia, reported lights in the sky. The sighting was about 8:45 p.m. local time (0145 GMT) and the lights were in…

Early on the morning of November 3, 1959, Robert L. James, a used car dealer from Taylorsville, North Carolina, reported seeing a glowing object that seemed to chase his car for ab…

On October 15, 1959, a pilot saw a bright object about 25 miles west of Galena, Alaska. The sighting was reported through Project 10073, the Air Force's official record system for…

On February 27, 1959, two military pilots about 29 miles west of Oceanside, California, reported an object high in the sky. The sighting was about 10:45 a.m. (1845Z) and lasted up…

A bright object caught the attention of a motorist near Centerville, Ohio in March 1959. The witness was driving in a car about two miles north of town when they spotted what they…

On January 10, 1959, a civilian about 4 miles south of Eagle Springs, North Carolina, reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was made on the ground and lasted abou…

On May 18, 1959, at about 0830Z, about 4 miles west of Greenbush, Kansas, a driver reported a close encounter with a glowing object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force…

At 1:30 a.m. on March 22, 1959, a man and woman driving on a country road north of Ann Arbor, Michigan, spotted a strange object in the sky. They described it as egg shaped with a…

On February 11, 1959, at 11 a.m., a civilian reported a sighting five miles south of Rockingham, North Carolina. The witness observed a round object two to three hundred feet in di…

On the night of October 9, 1959, an object was reported from the yacht Intermezzo south of Miami in Biscayne Bay, Florida. The sighting lasted about 20 to 30 seconds. The object w…

On the night of February 11, 1959, an airman at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina saw a bright object streaking across the sky. The object appeared as a round ball with a tail,…

On a night in 1959, about 8 miles east of Rapid City, an observer reported an object in the sky. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record…

On the night of September 22 to 23, 1959, a bright white light appeared in the sky eight miles east of St. George, Utah. The light was constant and as bright as the anti-collision…

On November 7, 1959, a civilian drill rig operator working in a rock quarry about eight miles north-northwest of San Antonio, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The obser…

On the night of September 26, 1959, a civilian near Adna, Washington, saw three objects. The witness was a railroad section hand, rated unreliable in the report. The objects were r…

This case file is heavily damaged and partially illegible, which significantly limits the usefulness of a full summary. The OCR has captured fragmentary information across multiple…

On January 2 to 3, 1959, two civilian guards at the Anniston Ordnance Depot in Bynum, Alabama, reported a light in the night sky. The object was under observation for about 7 minut…

# Summary In April 1959, radar operators and a fighter pilot tracked multiple unidentified objects over Wisconsin. The objects appeared as red and green lights with a bright white…

# Assonet, Massachusetts - July 1959 A civilian in Assonet, Massachusetts reported seeing an unidentified object in the northeastern sky on July 30, 1959 at 2:30 a.m. The object w…

On the night of October 21, 1959, a Navy seaman aboard a picket ship in the Atlantic Ocean, about 380 miles east of Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, saw a light. The man was on th…

On the night of November 4, 1959, a military observer, an assistant air attache and pilot, saw an object over Baghdad, Iraq, near 33 degrees north and 44 degrees east. The sighting…

On February 4, 1959, a civilian at Balboa Basin in the Canal Zone reported a bright object in the night sky. The sighting was about 5:20 a.m. local time (1020Z) and lasted about 12…

On April 1, 1959, civilians in Batesville, Arkansas, reported seeing a round, transparent, egg-shaped object with a silver color rising straight up. The sighting lasted about two h…

On a night in February 1959, someone in Belaire, New York saw a bright blue flashing light pass directly overhead in a matter of just two or three seconds. The observation was made…

On July 29, 1959, around dusk, an observer in Bellingham, Washington, reported a bright object. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying object record…

On the evening of February 16, 1959, an observer in Benghazi, Libya, spotted an unusual object in the sky at 9:30 p.m. local time. The object was round with a dome shape and had ve…

On April 5, 1959, at about 1300Z (about 7 p.m. local), two civilians in Big Spring, Texas, reported an object in the night sky. The witnesses were a 33-year-old man, a petroleum ma…

On the evening of April 22, 1959, a 14-year-old boy in Big Spring, Texas, saw an object moving rapidly across the sky. The boy watched from the central part of town as the object t…

On April 1, 1959, near Bitburg, an unidentified object was observed. The witness reported a large object of papparently brilliant white, with a brilliant white, extending white mat…

On May 1959, radar operators at the Boston Air Defense Sector near Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire detected an unusual cluster of blips on their screens. Around 0023Z (just a…

In February 1959, a photographer standing on Flagstaff Mountain near Boulder, Colorado, took what he thought was an ordinary scenic picture. When the film was developed, a white bl…

On the evening of January 8, 1959, two Air Force pilots flying a C-45 aircraft from Phillipsburg to Brookville, Pennsylvania, spotted something unusual in the night sky. At 6:14 p.…

On the morning of October 8, 1959, military and civilian observers near Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana spotted a bright white light in the sky. The object appeared circular…

On September 13, 1959, control tower personnel at Bunker Hill Air Force Base in Indiana spotted an unusual object high in the sky. It was first reported by a civilian pilot flying…

On the evening of December 19, 1959, two girls walking in the country near Burgoon, Ohio, saw an object at about 5:15 p.m. as the sun was setting in freezing weather. The witnesses…

On the evening of March 18, 1959, a resident of Caldwell, New Jersey named Wilber Price watched an unusual sight in the night sky. At 8:40 p.m. EST, he and several other observers…

On the night of September 18, 1959, six to eight objects were seen from Camp Kinser, a Marine base on Okinawa. The witnesses were Marines on the ground. Each object appeared singly…

On the night of June 17, 1959, military personnel at Camp Lucas, Michigan, spotted an unusual object in the sky. The witnesses were members of an anti-aircraft artillery battery ne…

On September 30, 1959, a Marine observer at Camp Pendleton, California reported seeing a bright, silvery-blue object moving across the sky at twice the speed of a jet aircraft. The…

# Summary On October 29, 1959, a military observer at North Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, watched a circular or oval object move from horizon to horizon in 10 to 15 minutes.…

# Summary On January 10, 1959, a B-52 aircraft commander flying at 36,000 feet near Alvord, Texas, spotted an unusual object in the bright morning sky. The object was elongated an…

On October 19, 1959, a Colombian Navy vessel near Cartagena, Colombia, reported a sighting using a sextant. The position was about 10 degrees north and 75 degrees west. The card no…

On October 1, 1959, in Castorville, Texas, witnesses reported an orange fire-colored, cigar-shaped object with grapefruit-sized feathery edges. The object was oriented vertically a…

On August 28, 1959, military crews flying over the Charlotte Islands, Canada, reported seeing a mysterious object on radar and through visual observation. The sighting lasted about…

On March 15, 1959, near Cheshire, Ohio, a civilian reported seeing strange lights at night. The account was submitted on a tape recording. The witness was walking across a hill in…

On June 21, 1959, in Chesterland, Ohio, a witness reported seeing two white lights in the sky forming a tail. The object had no sound. It was flying in a bed looking out a window,…

On July 9, 1959, a civilian in Chicago, Illinois reported seeing a round, orange object about the size of a pinhead. The object was observed from a ground location at approximately…

On a cold, clear night in late November or early December 1959, a couple in Clarkston, Michigan saw a bright object in the sky and took a photograph. The object was egg-shaped, abo…

Between March and April 1959, residents of the Coburn and Wise areas in southwestern Virginia reported seeing strange lights in the night sky. The sightings sparked immediate inter…

In August 1959, a man in Coeburn, Virginia took a photograph he believed showed three unidentified flying objects. He had been on a hilltop behind the local schoolhouse on a clear…

On the evening of January 19, 1959, two separate sightings occurred near Coleville, Washington. The first happened at 2030 (8:30 p.m.) when a farmer saw a cigar-shaped object about…

On August 9, 1959, near Columbus, Ohio, a man reported an object in the sky. The witness was a civilian. The sighting was reported through the Air Force's unidentified flying objec…