During August 1949, Project Grudge's final report was completed.
The report contained analysis of 244 cases.
It concluded that Unidentified Flying Objects posed no direct threat to the national security of the
The report was designated as Technical Report No. 102-AC 49/15 – 100 (commonly referred to as “the Project Grudge Report”), originally classified “Secret”.
Web Resources
Images of complete report available online at:
http://www.majesticdocuments.com/official.documents.nara.php
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Book References
For discussion of the Grudge Report see the following:
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Alan Baker in his “Sci-Fi Channel: True Life Encounters: UFO Sightings” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 146-151 (in Chapter 5) of the Orion softcover edition. |
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Bennett, Colin in his “An American Demonology : Captain Edward J Ruppelt and the official UFO investigation of the United States Air Force” (2005) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 60-61 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “A Chain of Being”) of the Headpress softcover edition. |
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Blum, Howard in his “Out There“ (1990) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 61-62 (in Chapter 6) of the Simon & Schuster hardback edition, at pages 56-57 of the Pocket Star paperback edition. |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 92 (in Chapter 8) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Briazack, Norman and Mennick, Simon in their “The UFO Guidebook” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 102 (in the entry entitled “Grudge Report”) of the Citadel softcover edition. |
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Brummett, William E (Major, USAF) and Zuick, Ernest R (Captain) on pages 1-2 of a research paper entitled “Should The Air Force Reopen Project Blue Book?” submitted to the Air and Staff College of the Air (Force) University on 17th May 1974. Available online at http://www.cufon.org/cufon/afrstdy1.htm |
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Campagna, Palmiro in his “The UFO Files: The Canadian Connection Exposed” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 29 (in Chapter 2) of the Stoddart softcover edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Encyclopedia: 1st edition: Volume 2 – Emergence of a Phenomenon” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 280 (in an entry entitled “Project Grudge”) of the Omnigraphics hardback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 851-855 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs: 1947-1968”, by Edward U Condon) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 507-510 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 77 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Davidson, Leon in his “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at page A1 of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition. |
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Devereux, Paul and Brookesmith, Peter in their “UFOs and Ufology – the first 50 years” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 106 (in Chapter 8) of the Blandford softcover edition. |
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Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 124-125, 128 (in Chapter 3) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 77-78, 79 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 60 (in Chapter 3) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 390-392, 395 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton and Berliner, Don in their “Crash at Corona” (1992) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 28 (in Chapter 3) of the 1997 Marlowe Company softback edition. |
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Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 118-119 (in Chapter 13) of the Lancer paperback edition. |
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Gurney, Gene (USAF Lt Col) and Clare Gurney in their “Unidentified Flying Objects” (1970) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 30-31 (in Chapter 3) of the Abelard-Schuman hardback edition. |
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Hall, Michael David and Connors, Wendy Ann in their “Captain Edward J Ruppelt : Summer of the Saucers - 1952” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 17-18 (in Chapter 1), 46 (in Chapter 2), 169 (in Chapter 6) of the Rose Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 128-129 (in Chapter 3), 191 (in Chapter 4) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in his “Uninvited Guests” (1988) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 172 (in Chapter 11) of the Aurora Press paperback edition. |
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Harbinson, W A in his “Projekt Saucer” (1995) at page 225 (in Chapter 12) of the Box Tree hardback edition. |
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Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7-9 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at pages 17-19 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition). |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 52-54 (in Chapter 2) of the |
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Kanon, Gregory M in his “The Great UFO Hoax” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 23 (in Chapter 3) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Keel, John A in “The Fringes of Reason” (1989) (edited by Ted Schultz) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 143 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers”) of the Harmony Books softcover edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Flying Saucers: Top Secret” (1960) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 87-91 (in Chapter 6) of the G P Putnam hardback edition. |
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Kinder, |
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Lamb, David in his “The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence : A Philosophical Inquiry” (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 145-146 (in Chapter 5) of the Routledge softcover edition. |
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Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 134-136 (in Chapter 13) of the Llewellyn softcover edition. |
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Missler, Chuck and Eastman, Mark in their “Alien Encounters: The Secret behind the UFO Phenomenon” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 59 (in Chapter 3) of the Koinonia House softcover edition. |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 41-43 (in Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “The Questions Grow”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at pages 48-50 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 8-9 of the manuscript, at pages 21-22 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf
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Randle, Kevin and Estes, Russ in their “Spaceships of the Visitors” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 66-67 (in Part 3) of the Fireside softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Case MJ-12” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 100-102 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Torch paperback edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4 (in the Introduction), 78-80 (in Chapter 3) of the |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Bluebook Exposed” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “In the Beginning…”) of the Marlowe softcover edition. |
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Randle, Kevin in his “Project Moon Dust” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 28-30 (in Chapter 1) of the |
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Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 108 (in Chapter 7) of the Piatkus softcover edition. |
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Randles, Jenny and Peter Warrington in their “Science and the UFOs " (1985) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 33-34 (in Chapter 3) of the Blackwell hardback edition. |
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Randles, Jenny in her “UFO Study” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 47 (in Chapter 3) of the Hale hardback edition. |
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Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 65-69 (in Chapter 5), 69 (in Chapter 6) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at pages 94-98, 99 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at pages 90-95, 95 of the Ace paperback edition, at pages 65-69, 69 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at pages 46-49, 51 of the reprinted Source Books softcover edition. The first of these editions (i.e. the original 17 chapter hardback edition) has the same page numbering as the version available free online at: |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 257-258 of the Corgi softback edition in an entry entitled “Project Grudge”. |
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Shawcross, Tim in his “The Roswell File” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pagess 145-147 (in Chapter 9) of the |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at page 52 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Steiger, Brad in his “Project Blue Book“ (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 11 of the Ballantine Books paperback edition (Introduction). |
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Stemman, |
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Sturrock, Peter in his “The UFO Enigma“ (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 12-13 (in Chapter 2) of the Warner Aspect hardback edition. |
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Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 81 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition. |
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Vesco, Renato and Childress, David Hatcher in their “Man Made UFOs 1944-1994 – 50 Years of Suppression” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 1) of the AUP softcover edition. |
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Vesco, Renato in his “Intercept Ufo” (Formerly published as “Intercept - But Don't Shoot”) (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in Chapter 1) of the Zebra paperback edition. |
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Young, Mort in “Flying Saucers Have Arrived!” (1970) (edited by Jay David) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 208-209 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “The Investigators”) of the World hardback edition. The relevant chapter is reprinted from “UFO : Top Secret” by Mort Young. |
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Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 21-22 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition. |
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Other Material
Complete images of the Project Grudge Report included on the redacted US National Archives and Records Administration (“NARA”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book, released to the National Archives in 1975 – see National Archives Microfilm Publication T1206 roll number 85 (“Administrative Files: Box 1”). Images of the relevant pages are at the link below from the page with the unique Page ID (“PID”) of NARA-PBB85-75 (page 75 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-487 (page 487 of 1014).
Complete images of the Project Grudge Report included on the unredacted Maxwell Air Force Base (“Maxwell”) microfilm records of Project Blue Book – see Maxwell microfilm roll number 30,362. Images of the document are at the link below from the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-83 (page 83 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-495 (page 495 of 1537).
http://www.bluebookarchive.org