A Minnesota farmer reported a red and orange half-sphere object in the night sky on December 9, 1956. While the official military conclusion identified the object as Mars, the investigating officer noted the witness's disagreement with this assessment.
A policeman in Santa Monica reported two fast-moving, circular objects on December 10, 1956. The Air Technical Intelligence Center concluded the sighting was likely a meteor or comet.
A USAF pilot reported a silver, straight-winged aircraft at high altitude over Texas in 1956. Intelligence officials concluded the object was a USAF reconnaissance aircraft on an experimental mission.
A civilian reported an oval, color-changing object over Anacostia, D.C. in 1956. While officially classified as a weather balloon, internal military correspondence debated whether it was an experimental reconnaissance aircraft.
This document details two UAP sightings in Miami, Florida, in December 1956. One case was closed due to insufficient data, while the other was attributed to an aircraft, despite internal instructions to disregard the report.
A balloon found in Iowa in 1956 was initially reported as an unidentified object but was later identified by the Air Technical Intelligence Center as a General Mills constant-altitude balloon.
A 1956 sighting of three objects in Tampa, Florida, was officially attributed to sunlight reflecting off a B-47 aircraft. The report includes a Project 10073 record card and military teletype correspondence.
A 1956 sighting of a blue-white spherical object at Hamilton AFB was reported by an aircrew member. The military investigation concluded the object was likely a meteor.
A 15-year-old student reported two bright, round objects in Biloxi, Mississippi, on 16 December 1956. The Air Force investigation concluded the objects were likely a weather balloon cluster.
On 17 December 1956, a USAF pilot in Japan reported a high-speed, tan-colored, circular object that was also tracked on radar. While initially treated as a significant unidentified object, subsequent intelligence evaluations concluded the sighting was likely a weather balloon and a false radar return.
A 1956 U.S. Coast Guard sighting of a stationary, blinking, red and green object in New Hampshire was officially identified by ATIC as the planet Venus.
This is a brief report file from December 17, 1956, documenting a sighting at Itazuke AFB, Japan. It includes a single photograph of a silhouetted object.
On December 18, 1956, a witness in New Jersey observed a brilliant, multi-colored object moving horizontally across the sky before it disintegrated. Military intelligence evaluated the report and concluded the object was a large meteor.
A civilian sighting of a rocket-shaped object in Orlando, Florida, on 18 December 1956 was officially identified by the Air Technical Intelligence Center as a guided missile.
A civilian's report of a UFO in Mexico, Maine, was investigated by the Air Force and determined to be a misidentification of light reflections. The witness was deemed unreliable, and the case was officially classified as a hallucination.
A 1956 sighting report of an egg-shaped object in Florida, officially concluded to be an aircraft despite discrepancies in the timeline regarding a local helicopter.
A 1956 record card from Project 10073 documenting a sighting at Oxnard AFB. The object was identified as a meteor.
A sighting of a bluish-white ball with a tail was reported by military personnel at Oxnard AFB on December 29, 1956. The event was tracked by radar and officially concluded to be a meteor.
A sighting of a circular object in Fairbanks, Alaska, on 29 December 1956 was investigated by the 5004th AISS. The object was officially identified as a flare based on witness reports and local police intelligence regarding flare activity in the area.
A civilian reported four red objects over Gassoway, WV, on December 30, 1956. Military investigators concluded the objects were a known aircraft tracked by radar in the same vicinity.
An Air Force pilot reported a 10-minute encounter with an unidentified object over Guam on December 31, 1956. Despite maneuvers suggesting an aircraft, the case remained classified as unidentified due to a lack of corroborating air traffic.
A pilot reported an encounter with four unidentified objects over Guam on December 31, 1956. While intelligence officers initially classified the event as 'Unknown' due to the pilot's reliability, it was later officially attributed to an aircraft.
This document contains a Project 10073 record card for a December 1956 sighting in Denver, Colorado, alongside various other UAP incident reports from late 1956. The Denver case, involving two objects observed for over two hours, was ultimately classified as having insufficient data despite an initial astronomical hypothesis.
A civilian in Baltimore reported a 90-minute sighting of an orange, star-like object through a telescope on May 1, 1966. The military investigation concluded the case as 'Insufficient Data for Evaluation' due to missing critical observational details.