Year File · 1955 41 cases on file
Year File

1955 · paranormal events

41 catalogued cases recorded in 1955.

Featured · 1955

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

Page 7 of the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron History Vol. 1 (June 1955), from the Air Force records transferred to the National Archives.
UFO 1955

4602d AISS History, 1955: How the Air Force Ran UFO Field Investigations

Ent Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA

A secret 1955 squadron history binds in the whole machinery of Air Force UFO field work: the 1953 deal that handed it to the 4602d, the Hynek conference, the investigators' guide, and 306 reports tallied.

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

The CIA built Area 51 in 1955 to test the U-2 spy plane, and its own historians later linked those flights to a wave of UFO reports. Since Bob Lazar's 1989 claims, it has been the world's most famous UFO legend.

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.

Archive · 1955