Year File · 1955 38 cases on file
Year File

1955 · paranormal events

38 catalogued cases recorded in 1955.

27 UFO 6 Cryptid 4 Other 1 Apparition
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Source document: PURSUE doc 34
UFO 1955

1955 UAP Sighting — FBI Files

Unknown location

A correspondent named Catherine Aughen Baugh sent a letter claiming the existence of flying saucers and requested assistance from FBI agents to watch for them. She stated she had previously written to the President without receiving a response. The FBI determined she was in a dis
CIA Information Report on a sighting of an unconventional aircraft.
UFO 1955

A Flying Saucer from a Train Window: An American Tourist's 1955 Sighting Near Baku

Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR

A CIA report, declassified in the June 2026 PURSUE release, records an American tourist's account of a triangular object with three lights ejected from a Soviet airfield on the Caspian coast in 1955 — a vivid Cold War 'flying saucer' seen from a moving train.
A summary of the Central Intelligence Agency's assessment of a 1955 incident involving "unconventional aircraft."
UFO 1955

Analysis of Unconventional Aircraft Sightings, 1955 — CIA File

Undisclosed location

Sections 1 and 2 of this memorandum document a 1955 analysis of reports of “flying saucers” or “unconventional aircraft,” referencing the incident described in observer debriefings contained within CIA-UAP-D020. The memo summarizes the incident as consisting of two lights rising vertically, then…
Artistic depiction of Area 51 — mothership flanked by smaller escort craft
UFO 1955

Area 51

Nevada, United States

America's most secretive military base, synonymous with UFO conspiracy theories, alleged extraterrestrial technology, and decades of government secrecy.
Source document: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_7
UFO 1955

Bethurum Case (1955) — FBI Files (D7P192)

Cincinnati, Ohio

FBI files detail a 1955 investigation in Cincinnati involving an advertisement for a flying saucer program linked to Truman Bethurum and George Hunt Williamson.
A handwritten letter dated January 19, 1955, from an airman expressing interest in joining Air Force Intelligence.
UFO 1955

Correspondence Relating to Project Blue Book, 1955 — Department of War File

Various

This file contains correspondence relating to Project Blue Book, a 1952-1969 U.S. Air Force program to investigate the nature and origin of unidentified flying objects (UFO). The correspondence includes letters and memoranda sent between various departments and agencies of the U.S. Government,…
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Archive · 1955