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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.
COUNTRY SWEDEN MARITIME NO. IR 17-19 AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT SURVEY Guided Missile Activity Over Sweden AREA REPORTED ON Sweden DATE OF REPORT 2 March 1949 2 March 1949 PRESIDENT (U.S.) E. D. Walsh, Major, USAF Personal Contact REFERENCE (CORRESPONDING AUTHOR, AFFILIATE, PRESIDENT, ALL, OR APPROPRIATE) R 605-148, Control No. DA-2144 SUMMARY: Clear and number of reports. Give indication of issue. Signature of report on Air Force 111—Part 21 1. With reference to request dated 18 January 1949, Control No. DA-2144, and revised by our cable, the following information is submitted: a. Withdraw (APOIE Cable 51645 dated 21 February 1949) b. Do the Sweden feel that the reported and unconfirmed incidents of guided missile sightings in recent years have any similarity to any such reports that were received in the days when Germany was conducting experiments with missiles in the Baltic area. Answer: The Sweden feel that the guided missile sightings over Sweden have been natural phenomena only and they have no proof to discount such a statement. c. What was Swedish official opinion to unconfirmed guided missile incidents prior to the time that debris of a T-2 missile was actually recovered in Sweden during German experimentation activities in the early part of World War II. Answer: Swedish official opinion prior to the landing of a T-2 in Sweden, was that a certain number of the "missile sightings" were natural phenomena and a certain number were German fighters at high altitude enroute across Sweden to Norway. This view in fact remained the official opinion even after the T-2 missile landed in Sweden. Assistant Air Attache Comment: The Sweden actually do not think very much about these reported incidents but attempt to play it up as much as possible to the U.S. Attaches in an effort to show their great need for radar. Continued interest, therefore, on our part towards the last reported incidents, only causes extreme embarrassment when the Sweden emphasize their radar request. 8/ H. D. Walsh Major, USAF Assistant Air Attache APPROVED: 8/ DONALD L. EARLY Colonel, USAF Air Attache THIS IS A TRUE COPY Distribution by Originator CO USAFE, CO UEPA, AA Oalo, AA Copenhagen, XM - ED - XAD 36296
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.