UFO History

 

On 30 October 1951, Project Grudge Status Report Number 1 was issued. This was the first in a series of “Status Reports” issued by Project Grudge, a practice continued by Project Bluebook.

 

 

1. Web Resources

2. Book References

3. Other material

 

Web Resources

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Book References

For discussion of the status reports see the following:

 

Year	Discussion by:	No. of Pages
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 page 857 (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 page 511 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
1999	Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 223 (in Chapter 5), 241 (in Chapter 6) of the Galde Press softcover edition.	2
1975	Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 105 (in Chapter 4) of the Indiana hardback edition, at page 92 of the Signet paperback edition.	1

 

Other Material

Complete images of the Project Grudge status reports and the Project Blue Book status reports (status reports 1-12) are 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-PBB85-517 (page 517 of 915) to the page with the PID of NARA-PBB85-915 (page 915 of 1014).

Complete images of the Project Grudge status reports and the Project Blue Book status reports (status reports 1-12) are 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-PBB1-497 (page 497 of 1537) to the page with the PID of MAXW-PBB1-887 (page 887 of 1537).