FOIA: Project Grudge Special Report No: 1

SpecialReport1.pdf
Special Report Number 1: Project Grudge
A Special Report on visual and radar UFO sightings at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey on 10th and 11th September 1951
Document date: 1951-12-28
Department: Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB
Author: ATIC
Document type: Report
pages: 9

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Archivist's Notes: This document is unclear to read in places. It discusses sightings in Fort Monmouth which were recorded by an Air Force Pilot of a T-33 and student radar operators. It give plenty of detail about the sightings and draws conclusions giving explanations accounting for the sightings, dismissing them generally as weather balloons, although one is unexplained and the ability of the radar student is questioned.

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This report is from the last series of reports done by Project Grudge which stopped in September 1951 thus opening the way for Project Blue Book.
In this special report are investigated two different sightings respectively on September 10 and 11, 1951 over the skies of Monmouth, New Jersey area. According to the document, the pilot and the member of a T-33 aircraft while flying over Sandy Hook, New Jersey, spotted an unidentified flying object in the altitude between 5-8 thousands feet from where they were directed. T-33 was approximately flying over Point Pleasant, New Jersey at the time of initial sighting. Upon seeing the object the pilot started descending at 360° to the left in the attempt to intercept the object. During this maneuver from the pilot, the object increased the speed from 450 mph to 550 mph and decreased the altitude from 20.000 feet to 17.000 feet.

The object looked to be silver in color but not reflecting the sunlight, with a diameter approximately 30-50 feet.

In the same day at approximately the sime time of the sighting from Evans Signal laboratory in New Jersey were released two balloons with a diameter of 7-8 feet. By the investigating team were made attempts to use the information obtained from the interrogation of the T-33 crew and the data on the balloon launching to prove that the pilot and the passenger had observed a balloon. However not all the data given was consistent with such a conclusion.

In the document there are some schematics and design from the investigating team trying to prove that the object was indeed a balloon.

The second sighting was a radar sighting at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey of an object traveling with a speed greater that 700 mph. All radars at that time were able to track an object flying with a speed up to 700 mph. Greater speeds than that were not possible for the radar to track it. Since the observers were students, their conclusion was considered inaccurate due to their lack of experience. A test was made with one of the observers by asking him to identify the speed of a flying object in the radar and determain the flight path and the altitude. The student failed to do so correctly. Thus this sighting has been concluded as incomplete.

The Fort Monmouth sightings are a well known fact. As I said this report and few more after this were the last to be made for Project Grudge. Here is an excerpt that deals with Project Grudge and this sighting aswell:



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For more info about Project Grudge check the ATS FOIA related link: FOIA: Project Grudge