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This file, from NICAP and CUFOS, collects US Air Force Office of Special Investigations records from 1949 on a Project Grudge special inquiry into a sighting at Rogue River, Oregon, on 24 May 1949. NACA Ames Laboratory employees Gilbert Rivera and Don Heaphy described a silvery pancake-shaped object about 30 feet across that sped off like a jet. An annotated analysis that follows rejects the radar kite explanation and concludes that the case must remain unexplained.
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19D OSI 24-14 # UNCLASSIFIED ## DETAILS: 1. This investigation was requested by District Commander, DO # 19, upon receipt of report from Security Officer, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Moffett Field, California, dated 14 June 1949. ## AT MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA 2. On 24 June 1949, in an interview with Mr. GILBERT RIVERA, Drafting Section, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Ames Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, the following information was ascertained: On Tuesday, 24 May 1949, at 1700, P.S.T., Mr. RIVERA and four (4) other persons, while fishing two (2) miles upstream (East) of the mouth of the Rogue River, at approximately the same direction and distance from the town of Gold Beach, Oregon, sighted an object which is described as follows: When first sighted it appeared to be a glitter about four (4) miles away laterally, at some 5000 feet above the ground which at that point was at sea level or approximately so. The object was then examined through a pair of 8-power Navy type binoculars. Observation time about 90 to 120 seconds. Object appeared round and shiny, something like a fifty-cent piece, viewed from below and to one side. Object's color was silvery and it appeared round in a plan view. The object seemed to be solid with no visible openings and was about 30 feet in diameter as nearly as could be judged. Just before Mr. RIVERA handed the glasses to Mr. HEAPHY, the object made a turn on its vertical axis with no tilting or banking and started to move in a southeasterly direction. There was no sign of exhaust or propeller; no driving force could be seen or felt and no sound was heard. The object at no time contacted or came any closer than 5000 feet, approximately, to the earth, and when last seen was disappearing in a southeasterly direction, accelerating to an approximate speed of a jet plane. There were no protuberances other than a slight fin which seemed to start amidship and come back flush with the trailing edge viewed as the ship drifted. No radio antenna or windows, port holes, or any other protuberances, gaps or openings were visible. The only land mark near the sighting point was a rock formation locally known as "Elephant Rock", approximately 700 yards N.E. of where the boat in which Mr. RIVERA and party were anchored. 3. On 24 June 1949, in an interview with Mr. DON HEAPHY, a mechanic on a 1- by 3-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel, Ames Laboratory, Moffett Field, California, the following information was obtained: On 24 May 1949, at 1700 hours, P.S.T., approximately 2 to 2 1/2 miles upstream from the mouth of the Rogue River,
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