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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 Incident μEK = 3.0v/sec 1v/9 It seems entirely probable that the object sighted in this incident was the constellation 16434, which had been discovered two days earlier in Australia. The constellation was suitably placed for observation near the equator and in the southern hemisphere. The time of observation also closely with the time of visibility. There is no single statement in the limited report that contradicts the constellation. If the observer had given the actual bearing of the object, these would have eliminated the matter.
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.