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16 cases
1964
Socorro, 1964
A patrolman broke off a speeding chase because he heard a roar and saw a flame drop behind the mesa, and he expected to find a dynamite shack going up.…
DocumentedA suit
1961
Eagle River, 1961
The US Air Force had a federal food laboratory analyse four pancakes, and the FDA reported back that they were an ordinary pancake made predominantly of buckwheat, of terrestrial origin.
DocumentedA suit
1964
Cisco Grove / Loch Leven Lakes, 1964
The only Blue Book file in which USAF investigators tape-recorded a first-hand humanoid encounter and wrote the morphology into their own report, with the witness firing arrows and burning…
DocumentedA body
1953
Brush Creek, 1953
Two gold miners told the Air Force that a metal disc like two large soup plates fastened together settled on their creek sandbar on a pipe-like leg, and that a four-foot, very pale man in a…
DocumentedA body
1973
Near Mansfield / Charles Mill Lake, 1973
A signed four-man US Army document recording that the aircraft was pushed from 1,700 ft to 3,500 ft at 1,000 fpm with the collective full down while the object hesitated above it.
Documented
1968
Minot AFB and its Minuteman missile field, 1968
The B-52 radar recorded a target that travelled approximately 25 miles in 3 seconds, the aircraft radar and radio both failed while it sat off the left wing, and fourteen airmen guarding…
Documented
1967
Echo Flight, 1967
The declassified wing history states flatly that all sites in Echo Flight shut down with No-Go indications: ten nuclear launch facilities lost strategic alert near-simultaneously and the…
Documented
1966
Ravenna / Mantua, 1966
An 86-mile, 90-minute cross-state police pursuit at speeds up to 103 mph of an object one deputy described in the file as resembling the head of a flashlight, about 40 feet wide, humming…
Documented
1966
Dexter and Hillsdale, 1966
About eighty college students and their civil-defence director watched lights over a swamp on two nights, the Air Force announced the cause was swamp gas, and its own consultant conceded in…
Documented
1965
Exeter, 1965
Two on-duty police officers watched a dark object roughly 80-90 ft long carrying five red lights pulsing in sequence hover at about 100 ft over a field, and Blue Book carried it as…
Documented
1959
Redmond, 1959
Six F-102s, an F-89, a helicopter and a civilian light aircraft carrying a Geiger counter were all put up over one light at Redmond, and the file records that not one of them got a visual…
Documented
1957
Airborne over Mississippi, 1957
Simultaneous ELINT, ground radar and visual acquisition from a strategic reconnaissance aircraft across four states: the strongest multi-sensor Blue Book case of the 1950s.
Documented
1980
FM 1485 near Huffman / Dayton, 1980
The only US UFO case ever litigated against the federal government on a personal-injury theory, with documented burns, hair loss and radiation-type illness, and roughly two dozen Chinooks…
Documented
1967
Ashland, 1967
A serving police officer's UFO report that the Air Force's own contracted scientific study took seriously enough to run psychological assessment on him, and then wrote off.
DocumentedNothing on record
1965
Cherry Creek, 1965
A bull bent a steel restraining bar trying to get away from it, the milk yield dropped from two and a half cans to one, and the Air Force wrote that the sighting was not consistent with…
Documented
1957
Levelland, 1957
The classic vehicle-interference case: the file itself documents engines dying and headlights extinguishing as the object closed, then normal function restored after it left.
Documented