FOIA: Project Grudge Status Report 2

StatusReport2.pdf
Project Grudge Status Report 2
A status report of Project Grudge for the period August 1951 to the end of December 1951
Document date: 1951-12-31
Department: Air Technical Intelligence Center, Wright-Patterson AFB
Author: Robert J. Friend
Document type: Report
pages: 30


Archivist's Notes: This document is generally clear and easy to follow. It gives an update on issues arising during investigations carried out as part of Project Grudge. It then goes on to list reported sightings and in the appendices gives more detail on the current status and details of some of these sightings and the subsequent investigation.

Project Grudge Status Report 2
30 pages
Covers period Nov. 1951 to Dec.1951.
Pdg pg 5-6 Overall Status:
Notes that the time devoted to this project has been spent sorting and filing old data from 1946 onwards.

It was found that some reports and photographs were missing.

Consultants in physics, nuclear physics, psychology, astronomy were going to be sort to assist in analysis of reports.
Two lists appear in this report: List 1 is incidents pending investigation which came up in report 1. List 2 is new incident reports for nov. to dec.. Appendixes show more details of incidents.

Page 7-9 is the one spreadsheet of oct. and before,
pages 10-12 is the one spreadsheet of nov/dec.
Pages 13-30 are appendixes that contain more details of the incidents worthy of investigation.
Page 13-16 is update of report 1 incident in Texas.
Photographs were analyzed for authenticity and found to be genuine at that stage.
Further investigation was needed.
Appendix II pg 17-18 contains a sketch of the object/aircraft.
Appendix III pg19 is another update from previous report about the pear-shaped object seen in Texas. Road working crew also saw the object.

I found interesting to pinpoint the overall status of the report. So here it is:

I. OVERALL STATUS

A. Files

The majority of the time devoted to Project Grudge during the period covered in this Status Report, 30 November 1951 to 31 December 1951, has been spent in sorting and filing old Project Grudge and Project Sign files. All of the incidents dating back to 1946 that are in ATIC have been sorted and filed. There are approximately 800 on file. Each incident has been put in a separate folder and filed in chronological order. Summary cards are being made on each incident. these summary cards will include data such as description of the object, course, altitude, speed, maneuvers, etc. These cards will then be cross-indexed in an attempt to obtain characteristics or trends in the sightings. It is contemplated that this cross-indexing will be completed in the middle of February.

B. Missing Reports and Photographs

It is apparent that the details of some reports between early 1949 and mid-1951 are missing. An attempt will be made to obtain these reports from other agencies so that the ATIC file will be complete. Photographs referrd to in some reports are also missing. Although there have not been very many photographs of alleged unusual aerial objects submitted to ATIC, there have been a few and an attempt will be made to obtain prints of these photographs.

C. Map for Plotting Sightings

A large map of the United States is being prepared and is nearly completed. All of the sightings will be plotted on this map in an attempt to establish some patterns in the sightings. A color code will be worked out so that as much information as possible can be graphically illustrated on the map.

D. Delays in Obtaining Information

It will be noted in the list of incidents that is contained in this report that the investigation of sightings reported several months ago are still pending or that some sightings have not been investigated due to the time that has elapsed since the sighting. The investigations being conducted in conjunction with the project are still being hampered by the delays in receiving information.

On 25 October 1951, it was requested that AFOIN-CC-1 letter dated 8 September 1954 subject: "Reporting of Information on unconventional Aircraft" be revised and recirculated to all AF commands. It is hoped that as soon as this is done the situation will improve.

In addition to delays in receiving additional information, it is beclieved that many sightings of unidentified objects are not reported at all. This belief is founded on the fact that ATIC has received newspaper clippings or requests for information on sightings about which there is no information in the records.

E. Consultants

Several conferences have been held with members of a prominent research organization to determine whether or not there is enough information available on the unidentified flying objects to warrant a thorough scientific investigation. These people have inspected the files, discussed the problem, and it is their opinion that there are enough reports that cannot be explained by known objects or phenomena to warrant a detailed investigation.

Several other prominents engineers and scientists have been contacted and their opinions are much the same as those stated above. Negotiations are underway to obtain the services of consultants in the field of physics, nuclear physics, astronomy, psychology etc., to assist in the analysis of the reports. In this respect, it is hoped that the project can receive the full cooperation of all AF commands in promptly reporting all sightings of unidentified aerial objects, so that as many authentic reports as possible will be available for study by statistical analysis.