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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 Insidert $140, A - Jalapena, Ohio - 1 July 1948 The object sighted here was probably a bright, slow moving meteor. It is described as a "bright yellow-white light," moving at a "terrific" rate of speed, and was in sight for two or three seconds. This investigator is again struck by the reference to the ubiquitous moon. "Bright moonlight" was reported; at the ensued hour of observation, the moon had not yet risen.
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.