Year File · 1955 34 cases on file
Year File

1955 · paranormal events

34 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

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.

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.

First page of AAROs Supplement to ORNLs Analysis of a Metallic Specimen
UFO 1955

Dayton, OH UFO Sighting (31 December 1955) — AARO Records

Dayton, OH

A cold war / blue book era case from Dayton, OH. A report details the history of the Wright Air Development Center from July to December 1955.

Cloaked figure standing in mist near barbed wire fence at dawn
Apparition 1955

Imjingak and the Korean DMZ Ghost Reports

Paju, South Korea

Along the southern edge of the Korean Demilitarised Zone, soldiers, security guards, and visitors to the Imjingak peace memorial have reported phantom figures, weeping voices, and the steady tread of unseen marchers crossing the abandoned villages of the buffer zone.

Archive · 1955