Project Grudge Status Report 1
27 pages
Pdf pg 4-5: Overall Status – discusses the project’s intention to index data on ufo sightings.
Two difficulties had been recognized, time element (events aren’t always reported straight away..if at all) and transportation.
Interesting comment: “It is believed that the general feeling in some instances is that the Air Force is not too interested in this
project and reporting such incidents is unimportant.”
The issue of transportation is further explained that the sightings are often in remote areas and investigators have difficulty organizing
vehicles..leading to financial burdens.
The question of informing the public of this project is raised: it would bring in more information of sightings but also it is feared that it would
attract crank letters etc, therefore the internal memo system of re-circulating the directive to report all sightings was chosen first.
Reports of Specific Incidents: listed from pdf pg 7. Period covers Oct 1951 to Nov 1951.
Investigations were focused on high grade sources eg pilots, technically trained people, or a number of sightings occur in one area/one time.
pdf pages 7-10 are all part of the one spreadsheet…would be advisable to print them out to correlate information better.
pdf pages 11-14 are one spreadsheet also.
pdf pages 15-27 appendix I – X: has more details of some incidents worthy of more investigation.
pdf page 17: One incident was seen by more than 100 people in Texas, including a group of college professors who saw them on several occasions.
There was groups of people saying they were birds and a photograph was taken of the objects in a V formation. However the professors never saw them in
that formation and had other reasons why they couldn’t be birds. Appendix V was seen in the same area and time but the object was a single
pear-shaped metallic one.
pdf page 21The observers claimed it had a port or aperture in the side.
pdf page 26: Objects were seen by two pilots while flying.
The first one was observed for 5 mins…it had high speed, had a halo of light with dark undersurface, changed speed, climbed in lazy circles,
disappeared quickly.
pdf page 20 describes a bright orange light observed by a pilot while flying his plane. The object made circles around the town then went back
the way it came. Other people saw it.

