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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.
Insidest al 154 — volumus, this — 31 July 1948 This incident and incident #107, when certainly refers to the same object, must be considered together. The object fell to earth and was retrieved; it proved to be a "county fair bail-loan," once quite common in this part of the country, usually they are lighted in mid-afternoon, having one or more fire-pots to provide the hot air. They then rise and stay aloft for several hours before finally falling to earth. It is highly probable that the object consisted in the oldest glob, which was observed a few hours earlier on the same day and near the same location, thus this object, even while it was still high in the sky.
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.