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Blue Book file, Rivera and Heaphy (CUFOS)
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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.
“Rogue River”15 pages
- p. 1 …PROJECT GRUDGE, Incident at Rogue River, Oregon SPECIAL INQUIRY
TO: Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright…
- p. 3 …PROJECT GRUDGE, Incident, Rogue River, Oregon SPECIAL INQUIRY
TO: Commanding General Air Material Command Wright-Patterson…
- p. 4 …5D 24-21U DATE
27 June 1949
TITLE
PROJECT GRUDGE
Incident – Rogue River, Oregon
24 May…
- p. 5 …2-1/2 miles up Rogue River from mouth in Oregon.
## AT WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE…
- p. 8 …Unconventional Aircraft
INCLOSURE:
"Tuesday May 24th about 5:00 P.M. -- 2½ miles up Rogue River…
- p. 11 …BROOKS
TITLE UNCONVENTIONAL AIRCRAFT (PROJECT SIGN) Sighted at Rogue River, Oregon, on 24 May 1949
REPORT…
- p. 12 …upstream (East) of the mouth of the Rogue River, at approximately the same direction and distance…
- p. 15 …PROJECT GRUDGE, Incident, Rogue River, Oregon SPECIAL INQUIRY
TO: Commanding General Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson…
- p. 17 …ROGUE RIVER, OREGON; MAY 24, 1949; 1700 HRS LOCAL TIME
The case referred to in the…
- p. 18 …was 1 1/2 miles up the Rogue River from (i.e., East of) Gold Beach…
- p. 19 …four other persons* while fishing on* the Rogue River near Elephant Rock* approximately 1 1/2…
- p. 20 …upstream (East) of the mouth of the Rogue River, at approximately the same direction and distance…
- p. 21 …two and a half miles up the Rogue River from Gold Beach, Oregon, my attention was…
- p. 22 …two and a half miles up the Rogue River from its mouth at Gold Beach, Oregon…
- p. 23 …while fishing from a boat in the Rogue River in the late afternoon, my husband,Mr…
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# Allen - I've looked in both reels 588 and I only find material on this case in reel 58 that is on the sighting by the fishing party. I can't find any thing on that date in Reel 88 at
1. DATE + TIME GROUP
24 May 1970 10. CONCLUSION
No data presented to indicate object could NOT have been an A/C.
2. SOURCE
Civilian
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
One
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION
Not Reported
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground-Metal 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Object was round, silver in color and about the size of a C-47. Object flew in a straight flight.
From the base but in flight headed to the surface.
COURSE
BY
PHOTOS
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
(75E) Procedure addition or subtraction may be used.
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