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Project Blue Book Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 2019 - 2019
Episode 1
The Fuller Dogfight
Tue, Jan 8, 201944 mins
Allen is recruited to join the secret Project Blue Book team, as General Harding feels that Captain Quinn's reports debunking any reported possible alien sightings need to be backed by a logical, scientific explanation, and who better to provide that than a renowned astrophysicist who has previously done work for the military. Allen's reticent acceptance of the position is due to a mixture of this area not being his true field, but he feeling that he can truly delve into a scientific study of if alien life does or does not exist in working on the project. He may not realize that the Air Force's team on Blue Book solely wants him to provide that scientific evidence to explain whatever witnessed phenomenon, without truly wanting the truth if alien life does exist. Allen's arrival onto the team is not by accident as, despite losing the narrative on the issue to a crop of sensational Hollywood movies, the Air Force has to deal with one of its own, Lieutenant Hank Fuller, who is in a military hospital having claimed he got into a dogfight in the skies over Fargo with something supernatural from outer space. In meeting and dealing with Fuller, Allen may come to understand how much he can or should divulge to Quinn in the two working on different agendas. In Allen's absence, Mimi decides to indulge herself, and in the process meets a new friend, Susie Miller, who is new to Columbus. Their meeting may not have been as happenstance as it appears on the surface. And Joel becomes preoccupied with the possibility of atomic war in his class just having started "duck and cover" drills.
Episode 2
The Flatwoods Monster
Tue, Jan 15, 201943 mins
While he still contemplates what he saw and was told by Lieutenant Fuller, Allen is whisked away by Quinn to investigate the next purported space ship sighting. This case takes them to rural Flatwoods, West Virginia, where the Downing family - consisting of Sara Downing and her two adolescent children - reported seeing a flying saucer dart through the sky before crashing in the woods. In investing the resulting burning area of the crash, they reported seeing a ten foot monster - an alien being - before they ran away from it. In speaking to the Downings and visiting the crash site themselves, Allen and Quinn find among other things that the two children have both suffered from burn like marks solely around their eyes, with an associated increasing sensitivity to light. They also speak to another eyewitness who reported seeing the monster, she whose credibility is brought into question. In trying to figure out what they all saw, Allen and Quinn may ultimately be more concerned about personal safety as a militia of sorts has been formed by the locals who, in their mob mentality, are turning on the Downings in not finding anything else to explain what happened, Sara who in turn may do anything to protect herself and her children, with Allen and Quinn possibly being caught in the middle unless they can come up with a logical explanation. Through it all, Allen knows that there is someone else out there who is investigating this case for an unknown reason, that person who does not want his identity to be discovered. Meanwhile back in Columbus, Mimi goes out with Susie, which takes Mimi into some uncharted and at times uncomfortable territory. Part of Susie's plan in taking Mimi out is for the house to be empty for an extended period of time.
Episode 3
The Lubbock Lights
Tue, Jan 22, 201943 mins
The next reported UFO sighting takes Allen and Quinn to Lubbock, Texas. The report is that a blackout occurred across the city, after which a V-shaped series of lights quickly raced through the sky. One person, Tom Wilson, who saw the UFO when he was at work as an air traffic controller and saw the object on his radar screen, is now in hospital unconscious the result of a subsequent and purportedly associated incident in his car, that incident which not only affected Tom but his now uniquely disfigured car. As Allen and Quinn set up control center at the local college, they will find that this sighting is more widespread than any other with which they have so far had to deal, and arguably than any other reported sighting, period. Despite the problems associated with this investigation, Quinn cannot help but be distracted by the coed nature of the institution, something he missed in his own past. They continue to differ in their outward mission, Quinn's which is to close cases, Allen's which is to find out the truth. They are also unaware that certain people in high up positions know exactly what happened in Lubbock and are doing whatever in their power to keep the truth from emerging in the general public. Back in Columbus, Mimi is getting caught up like many of her neighbors about the threat of nuclear war. As she contemplates buying a prefabricated above-ground bomb shelter if only for some peace of mind which she needs now that Allen is gone more and more often, she reconnects with Susie for the first time since going to the beatnik club and comes to the conclusion that someone is following and watching her.
Episode 4
Operation Paperclip
Tue, Jan 29, 201944 mins
Allen and Quinn head to rural Gurley, Alabama to speak to a farmer who claims that a hovering spaceship killed his otherwise healthy hogs. In Allen and Quinn speaking to the farmer, he further reports that the craft was cigar-shaped, confirming both Allen's own sighting of the object when he was on a commercial flight and Quinn's thoughts of what it is. Quinn is certain that it has something to do with "Operation Paperclip" based out of nearby Huntsville Air Force Base, the operation which is about the American space program. The government recruited many Germans in this post-war period as the primary researchers, led by Wernher von Braun. In that Paperclip is led by a bunch of "former" Nazis, Quinn doesn't fully trust them. As such, his actions in the matter lead to him and Allen taking separate paths in their investigation. They now have to decide how much to tell (General James) Harding to explain above and beyond what von Braun tells and shows them. It is Quinn's suspicion that Harding may already know more than he has divulged to them. Back in Columbus, Mimi encounters the man who has been following her, but her reaction only leads to Susie having her next in her covert mission.
Episode 5
Foo Fighters
Tue, Feb 5, 201944 mins
Generals Harding and Valentine make a personal visit to the Hyneks in Columbus upon learning that the person who had been following Mimi and invaded their home was Lieutenant Fuller. Fuller was able to escape and was last seen by authorities climbing a radio tower in Terre Haute before again escaping. Upon learning that Fuller had spewed off a series of numbers as being able to save the people, Allen, not fully trusting his military masters and thus not telling them that he has some idea as to the meaning of those numbers, investigates on his own. What he discovers leads him and Quinn to Randall Kavanagh, an ex-war pilot who was dishonorably discharged, and who was the first military pilot to report strange sightings in the air while in battle during the war, those strange lights he spotted which were listed as Foo Fighters. In tracking down who ends up being an angry Kavanagh, Allen and Quinn will discover a greater community of like minded people who are looking for the answers to what happened to them. Part of the official visit to Columbus has Quinn questioning Susie as the person who "saved" Mimi from Fuller. This official visit does not sit well with Susie's mysterious associate.
Episode 6
The Green Fireballs
Tue, Feb 12, 201942 mins
It's been two weeks since Fuller killed himself. Allen hasn't been sleeping and has been increasingly agitated, continually snapping at Mimi in not telling her anything about Blue Book including what happened to Fuller, in his guilt over what part he may have played in Fuller's death, that guilt which is only exacerbated by having watched him not flinch at all while he burned. The next reported sighting of something strange in the skies takes Allen and Quinn to White Forest Missile Testing Range in Nevada. Something inexplicable had set the countdown to a missile launch which would have killed all personnel on the range, and just as sudden the countdown stopped just seconds before the launch was to occur, followed by what were coined green fireballs shooting across the sky. Officially Allen wants to explain the green fireballs away as pure meteors, hiding his true beliefs. Allen has gained approval to set-up a motion sensor camera at the range in hopes of filming the green fireballs if and when they return. Allen's risky method of getting this approval, his more fulsome encounter with someone who he's seen before, and Quinn wanting to deal with someone unauthorized to be on the range, which Allen believes is none of their business, take them on diverging paths to the same hypothesis. Meanwhile, Susie is getting increasing pressure from her associate to wrap things up in Columbus in its entirety. Feeling she is close to something, Susie gets Mimi to do some of her dirty work in Mimi's frustration with Allen.
Episode 7
The Scoutmaster
Tue, Feb 19, 201944 mins
The next case on which Allen and Quinn are supposed to work will be minus Quinn as he has been placed on another short term assignment, the nature of which he does not reveal to Allen. What Quinn has been tasked to do, on Harding's directive, is to follow Rizzuto, who they feel is of greater use to them out than he would be in military custody. Quinn further learns that he has a specific task to find what Rizzuto purportedly stole from Wake Forest. The UFO case takes Allen to Bowling Green, Ohio, where a scout troop was out in the woods on an overnight camp, when they spotted moving lights in the sky. The scoutmaster, Emmett, went to investigate, the last the troop seeing or hearing of him being his yells for them to run, Emmett who is still missing. While doing his job in providing a scientific explanation for what happened however improbable it may seem in his own head, Allen is pointed in the direction of what had only been known in these parts as an old Choctaw Indian legend, which leads to Allen speaking to David, a Choctaw who may be able to provide further detail on the legend. When Emmett does emerge with a few visible scars but otherwise all right physically telling of the alien he encountered and the subsequent proof he has to that alien he purportedly killed, Allen has to piece together that evidence against what he learns from David. The missing piece to the puzzle may be provided by Brian, one of the older boys in the troop.
Episode 8
War Games
Tue, Feb 26, 201943 mins
This time on Harding and Valentine's directive, Allen and Quinn investigate a UFO sighting at Sedalia Air Field in Missouri by a platoon of rangers on a training mission, the sighting captured on film. When Allen and Quinn question the platoon members, they find not only that the stories differ from person to person, but that they are argumentative with each other to the point of being physically violent, which Quinn finds odd in that they are trained to work as a team, such arguments which have no place in their mentality as soldiers. An odd occurrence with some starlings at the site of the training mission leads Allen and Quinn to some theories, which they may not want to discover as the truth. It also places their lives at greater risk than with other cases as they are dealing with trigger happy soldiers who see them as the enemy. Through this process, Quinn increasingly begins to suspect that Allen took what is the missing item from the base, that theft which he had earlier attributed to Rizzuto. Back in Columbus following her and Allen's discussion that they are in "this" together, Mimi feels more insecure than ever, and taking and page from Susie and with her help, takes a decisive measure to feel more secure in her life, while Jack, back from a business trip, goes searching for a missing Donna.
Episode 9
Abduction
Tue, Mar 5, 201944 mins
Hynek and Quinn are unable to escape one case when a man and his wife visit the Blue Book headquarters with a story about his abduction, which they reveal after they take the two men hostage and refuse to release them until the truth is exposed.
Episode 10
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
Tue, Mar 12, 201943 mins
Getting advance notification from his mysterious acquaintance, Allen drags Quinn out onto the National Mall in Washington, DC where they, and the plethora of others going about their business on the mall, witness the next appearance of the speeding lights. To avert public panic, the defense and military chiefs, including the Commander-in-Chief himself, assign Allen and Quinn as the Blue Book leads to handle the public relations, their job to place a logical spin on what is behind the lights. This task is despite both Allen and now Quinn knowing that the lights are not "Russian" and are not yet explainable. Behind closed doors, both Valentine and Harding are determined to place the blame on the Russians, against who they are trying to convince the President to take a retaliatory strike. Allen and Quinn have their own individual next steps, which they largely do not divulge to each other or to their political masters, Allen who plans to meet the mysterious man again, and Quinn who has his own military means to get a closer look at the flying objects. The outcome of these steps lead to Allen devising a strategy to continue their work without as much interference as there has been up to this point. Meanwhile, what is happening in DC and discovering something in her home leads to Mimi once again turning to Susie for comfort and support, the kiss which Mimi feels she has to address in the process.
