Unidentified Flying Objects: Project "Grudge" (Technical Report No. 102-AC 49/15-100)

US Air Force, Air Materiel Command · 1949-08 · 413 pages · text by OCR

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.

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Incident 170 - adapazari, Turkey - c. b May 1940

It is extremely unlikely that there is any astronomical explanation for this incident. The information given is very limited, but it points definitely to the probability that the object or objects aligned were rockets. The report indicated that one rocket-like object was recovered.

Cases discussed

The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946 1946
summer of 1946... mysterious aerial objects in Sweden, the "ghost rockets"
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
report of Kenneth Arnold of Boise, Idaho... Incident Number 17
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave 1947
Within the month following Arnold's report, the number of incidents reached a peak
The Green Fireballs over New Mexico 1948
"green fireballs" reported in the general vicinity of Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Fukuoka F-61 Black Widow Radar-Visual Intercept 1948
Incident No. 183... Fukuoka Area, Japan. Airborne radar observer in F-61

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