10 case files, newest first.
Over a few hours one stormy night, motorists around Levelland called the sheriff to report a glowing egg-shaped object that killed their engines and lights. The Air Force blamed ball lightning and a storm. It came a day before Sputnik 2.
A New Mexico police officer chasing a speeder saw a flame in the hills, then an egg-shaped craft and two small figures. It took off as he approached. Blue Book could not identify it, and it stayed 'unidentified' in Air Force files.
NARA catalogs Project Blue Book Motion Picture Films, 1950–1966 — film-as-record, with modern digital derivatives.
The Mariana Montana film travels with Utah footage inside the 1953 Navy analysis (D098) — better photogrammetry ≠ final taxonomy.
Air Force Fact Sheet via NARA: 12,618 sightings (1947–1969); 701 remain Unidentified; project ended 17 Dec 1969.
archives.gov offers catalog bulk downloads for UAP-related series — researcher on-ramp without conspiracy framing.
A declassified Naval Photographic Interpretation Center progress report charts the 1952 Utah and 1950 Montana movies without settling a modern ET claim.
A New Mexico ranch recovery, a hurried press note, and a retraction that never quite settled the file.
~1 hour of then-Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt describing AF UFO investigation workload — historical voice, not 2026 adjudication.
Navy photographer Delbert Newhouse’s 16mm Kodachrome reappears as a DoD digitization — old primary media as new access.
