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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.

  • 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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1. It is requested that your office initiate an investigation of the sighting of an unidentified flying object as reported by the inclosed AF Form 112, Air intelligence Information Report.

2. As an aid to the investigating officer in recording data from each witness, five copies of our Guide to Investigation are also forwarded herewith.

1. AF Form 112, Air Intel Info Rpt, 6/11/49, (1-3pgs)

2. Guide to Investigation (5)

A. J. HEMSTREET, JR. GWT/amo

Lt Colonel, USAF 6-6398

Acting Chief, Analysis Division Bldg 288

Intelligence Department Post 218B

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