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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.
## SEC:H727 Incidents 767 — between Jorz Goetla and Loxfo:Glend — 2v July 1347 This invalid and stid, which occurred in the same viability just three days apart, do not fit into the usual description pattern. In both cases, information given is weaker, and in both cases the meteoric hypothesis cannot so completely ruled out, but the objects could have been rockets or even from auroral streamers or brush discharge from ionized dust clouds. In any event, it seems unlikely, although it is not impossible, that the objects seen in this individual were meteors. The even specia; of the flashes arrives strongly against the meteoric hypothesis.
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.