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This August 1949 technical report from the US Air Force Air Materiel Command presents Project Grudge's investigation of unidentified flying objects through January 1949. Drawing on consultants including Dr. J. A. Hynek, Rand Corporation, the Air Weather Service and Dr. P. M. Fitts, it explains most of 244 incidents as balloons, aircraft, astronomical phenomena, hoaxes or psychological errors. It concludes the objects pose no direct threat to national security and recommends reducing the investigation in scope.
## UNCLASSIFIED Incident #C3 -- near Lake Neade, Nevada -- 28 June 1947 There appear to be nothing astronomical about this incident. According to the observer, the objects had a speed of 286 km and were moving on a course of 180°. Now, since the plane was moving at 285 120° on a course of 300°, it is possible that the observed motion of the objects was only apparent (since 180° plus 120° equal 300°), and we can conjecture that a cluster of balloons (cosmic ray apparatus perhaps) was observed, the notion of which was merely a reflection of the motion of the plane.
Report, from the classic collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 413 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.