1949.1227 Project Grudge press release

 

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Project Grudge press release

On 24 January 1878, the Air Force issued press release (Numbered 629-49) announcing that Project Grudge had been close down.

The press release stated that the final report on UFO’s would released to the press a few later days.

Grudge Report (officially titled “Unidentified Flying Objects Project Grudge”, Technical Report No. 102-AC-49/15-lOO) issued thereafter.

 

 

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1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

Image of press release in Leon Davidson’s “Flying Saucers : An Analysis of the Air Force Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14” (1966.0700) at page A3 of the Ramsey-Wallace paperbound 3rd Edition.

For discussion of the relevant Air Force press release see the following:

 

Year

Discussion by:

 

No. of Pages

1974

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).

1

1969

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 854 (in Section 5, Chapter 2 “UFOs, 1947-1968” by Condon, Edward U) 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 page 509 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:

http://www.project1947.com/shg/condon/contents.html

1

1976

Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 392 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition.

1

1981

Fowler, Raymond E in his “Casebook of a UFO Investigator” (1981) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5 (in Chapter 1) of the Prentice-Hall hardback edition.

2

1974

Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 236-237 (in Chapter 13) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 228-229 of the Bantam paperback edition.

2

1967

Greenfield, Irving A in his “The UFO Report” (1967) at pages 118-119 (in Chapter 13) of the Lancer paperback edition.

2

1956

Guieu, Jimmy in his “Flying Saucers Come From Another World” (1956) (edited by Ronald Story) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 15-16 (in Chapter 1), 182-183 (in Chapter 8) of the Hutchinson hardback edition.

2

1997

Haines, Gerald K (National Reconnaissance Office historian) at footnote 7 in his study entitled “A Die-Hard Issue : CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90” in “Studies in Intelligence”, Issue 1997 Vol. 1, No. 1 (the text of the study is available online on various websites, including the CIA’s: http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/97unclass/ufo.html#ft7 )

1

2000

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 page 17 (in Chapter 1) of the Rose Press softcover edition.

1

1977

Hynek, J Allen in his “The Hynek UFO Report” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 8 (in Chapter 1) of the Barnes & Noble hardback reprint (1997) at page 18 of the Dell paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Sphere paperback edition).

1

1975

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 Indiana hardback edition, pages 45-47 of the Signet paperback edition.

3

2000

Maccabee, Bruce in his “UFO-FBI Connection” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 133-136 (in Chapter 13), 144-145 (in Chapter 14) of the Llewellyn softcover edition.

6

1956

Michel, Aime in his “The Truth about Flying Saucers” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-14 (in the Introduction), pages 72-76 (in Part 1, Chapter 3) of the Robert Hale hardback edition, pages 10, 77-82 of the Pyramid paperback edition.

7

1994

Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 41 (Chapter 4, “The Myth Defined” – in part of a section entitled “The Questions Grow”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at pages 48 of the Berkley paperback edition.

1

1994

Randle, Kevin and Schmitt, Donald in their “The Truth About the UFO Crash At Roswell” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 94 (in Chapter 13) of the Evans hardback edition.

1

2002

Randle, Kevin in his “Case MJ-12” (2002) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 99 (in Chapter 5) of the Harper Torch paperback edition.

1

1997

Randle, Kevin in his “Conspiracy of Silence” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 4-5 (in the Introduction), 78 (in Chapter 3) of the Avon paperback edition.

3

1997

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.

2

1994

Randles, Jenny and Hough, Peter in their “The Complete Book of UFOs” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 109 (in Chapter 7) of the Piatkus softcover edition.

1

2000

Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 38 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the Sterling softcover edition.

1

1956

Ruppelt, Edward J in his “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (1956) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 65 (in Chapter 5) of the original 17 chapter Doubleday hardback edition, at page 94 of the Gollancz hardback edition, at page 90 of the Ace paperback edition, at page 65 of the 1959 revised Doubleday 20 chapter hardback edition, at page 46 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:

http://www.nicap.org/rufo/contents2.htm

1

1977

Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 166 (in Chapter 28) of the Penguin paperback edition.

1

1950

Scully, Frank in his “Behind the Flying Saucers” (1950) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages xv (in the Preface), 2-3 (in Chapter 1), 22 (in Chapter 2) of the Henry Holt hardback edition.

4

1993

Thompson, Richard in his “Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Pheonemena” (1993) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 82 (in Chapter 3) of the GHP revised softcover edition.

1

1970

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.

2

1967

Young, Mort in his “UFO Top Secret” (1967) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 22-23 (in Chapter 2) of the Essandess softcover edition.

2

 

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