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Description: U.S. Air Force UFO investigation, 1949-1951, preceding Bluebook
File Code: grudge Class: ufo
Reported Alias: Project Saucer
Location: USA
Deceased (1951)
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UFO Topic:
Official Government Investigations of UFOs·(1)
UFO Sighting:
Sightings at Military & Nuclear Installations·(2)
Affiliation:
Project Bluebook·(3),
J. Allen Hynek·(4),
Lincoln LaPaz·(5),
Rand Corporation·(6),
Edward Ruppelt·(7),
U.S. Air Force·(sponsoring·agency),
Project Twinkle·(8),
Project Sign·(9)
Investigated or Interviewed:
Thomas Mantell·(10)
Investigated or Interviewed By:
Barry Greenwood·(11),
Loren E. Gross·(12),
Donald Keyhoe·(13),
Edward Ruppelt·(14),
Michael Swords·(15),
Project 1947·(16)
Footnotes for Above:
(1) Sign was early official USAF UFO investigation/Grudge indicated a name and attitude change.
(2) Major concern of investigations.
(3) Project Sign,1948-1949/Grudge, 1949-1951, were the precursors of Bluebook.
(4) Hynek was hired early in Project Sign. His work can be found in the Project Grudge Report.
(5) Investigated "Green fireballs" for Air Force/acted as unofficial consultant.
(6) Study for Project Sign/appeared in Project Grudge Report.
(7) Ruppelt took over Project Grudge, which became Bluebook.
(8) Most of our knowledge of Twinkle comes from Project Grudge files.
(9) Project Sign was superceded by Project Grudge in 1949.
(10) Mantell case was among first investigated by Project Sign.
(11) Using the Project Sign microfilms, Sign/Grudge investigative filess, & USAF HQ files.
(12) In "UFOs: A History series"
(13) Investigated for True Magazine & wrote Flying Saucers Are Real.
(14) The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects.
(15) Articles in Volume 2 & 7, Journal of UFO Studies.
(16) Early gov't UFO interest is a focus of PJ1947.
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- Uninvited Guests: A Documented History of UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters & Coverups: Brief summary of sign. Name changed around 1949 to Grudge, p.172
- clark2: Entry of Project Sign, p.282-284. Project Sign was established on 30 December 1947. To the public it was known as Project Saucer. Entry on Project Grudge, p.280-281. Project Sign was renamed Grudge on Feb 11, 1949 and again renamed Blue Book (Aerial Phenomena Group) in March 1952.
- The Hynek UFO Report: Project Sign/Grudge, p.5-9. (Project Sign was born Feb. 1948. Hynek joined Sign as a consulting astronomer shortly after it started... No explanation for "Grudge" name was ever offered by AF.
- bluebook: Summary of the findings of Project Sign, p.170-216. Final Report of Project Grudge (apparently the full text), prepared by Hynek, p.217-259
- The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial: Project Grudge, p.486-489. Project Sign, p.489-492
- Project 1947 -- Project Sign Microfilms+ - Reveiw of Project Sign microfilms which were in the possesion of CAUS.
- Message - By Jan Aldrich - Published: 1/11/97 - Source: Project 1947 Research List <3/10/97 #5>
- Project Sign Action Slip+ - Used by Project Sign personnel to track the steps in the investigation of a UFO report
- Government Document - Official - Published: 6/30/97 <6/30/97 #6>
- Projects Sign and Grudge (Just Caus)+ - Article about the recent release of over 900 pages of Project Sign and Project Grudge files, 1948-1949.
- Post - By John Stepkowski - Published: 1/24/97 - Source: JUST CAUS (Newsletter) <7/1/97 #9>
- Project 1947 -- Rand "Spaceship" Study+ - From the recently released Project Sign/Grudge files: A 1948 request from Project Sign for a study by RAND on the possibility that UFOs are spaceships.
- Message - Published: 1/18/97 - Source: Project 1947 Research List <3/10/97 #13>
- "Silver Balls" over Budapest, Hungary, 10 July 1947+ (127 lines)
- Government document <9/4/97 #15>
- Cannot Find /ufo/people/b/bluebook/index.link
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- New Top Secret Document Revealed+ - Message links to the newly discovered 1949 Top Secret USAF Director of Intelliegnece briefing for the Joint Intelligence Committee. (86 lines)
- By Jan Aldrich - Published: 5/18/98 - Source: UFO Updates (Mailing List) <5/19/98 #20>
- Project Sign Research Center - Anatomy of a Project: Sign, Research into the first Official UFO Investigation.
<5/22/98 #21>
"Wendy Connors collects official and personal documents concerning
Project Sign and attempts to locate the project personnel and
their heirs to obtain personal recollections of the Project."
- Project Sign Research Center - Anatomy of a Project, an attempt to document the first official US investigation of the UFO Phenomenon.
<6/12/98 #22>
"Wendy Connors has collected documents and interviews from many
sources concerning the first UFO investigation. She continues to
look for Project Sign members and their relatives."
- Project Sign Check List--UFO+ - An example of Project Sign UFO Check List used to summarize UFO incidents.
- By Jan Aldrich - Published: 12/26/96 - Source: UFO Updates (Mailing List) <7/20/98 #23>
- EoTS, Analysis and Ghosts+ - The relationship of three Top Secret documents from the Sign/Grudge era. (135 lines)
- By Jan Aldrich - Published: 11/1/98 - Source: UFO Updates (Mailing List) <11/6/98 #24>
- Project SIGN Research Release+ - Wendy Connors announces some of her research finding concerning the USAF first investigation of UFOs. (138 lines)
- By Jan Aldrich - Published: 11/9/98 - Source: UFO Updates (Mailing List) <11/11/98 #25>
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Created: 2/8/98