Project Grudge replaces Project Sign

First page of the 1949 Project Grudge report
The Project Grudge report, which attributed sightings to misidentifications, hoaxes and psychology US Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Air Force renamed Project Sign as Project Grudge, a scaled-down successor that treated most reports as misidentifications. Its 1949 report concluded sightings came from misread natural objects, hoaxes or psychological causes.

Sources

  1. OfficialProject Blue Book 50th Anniversary (opens in a new tab)U.S. National Archives / 2019-12-05
  2. OfficialFlying Saucers (OSI briefing, 14 August 1952), CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020013-6 (opens in a new tab)CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room / 1952-08-14
  3. FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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