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Blue Book file, Rivera and Heaphy (CUFOS)

NICAP / CUFOS · 28 pages · text by OCR

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. 18 …In order to recover these details I have searched the files of Project Blue Book and…
  • p. 27 …the difficulty (or impossibility) of obtaining size estimates from the data presented in the OSI files…
# UNCLASSIFIED

## 5D 24-21U PROJECT GRUDGE

## DETAILS:

1. Investigation was requested by the Technical Intelligence Division of the Air Materiel Command, Dayton, Ohio, on R&R Sheet dated 22 June 1949 to interview all witnesses and obtain all facts pertaining to the sighting of an "unidentified object" on Tuesday, 24 May 1949, about 5:00 p.m. 2-1/2 miles up Rogue River from mouth in Oregon.

## AT WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE

2. Excerpt of letter from Security Officer, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Moffett Field, California, dated 14 June 1949, is quoted below:

"report by Mr. Don Heaphy recounting the observation by several employees of this laboratory of an unusual object apparently in flight. Mr. Heaphy is employed in this laboratory's 1- by 3-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel and is therefore necessarily somewhat familiar with high-speed flight configurations."

## Inclosures:

## FOR COMMANDING GENERAL, AIR MATERIEL COMMAND

AF Form 112, Pages 1, 2, and 3, dated 14 June 1949 (in dup)

## FOR HEADQUARTERS OSI

AF Form 112, Pages 1, 2, and 3, dated 14 June 1949 (in dup)

## FOR DO #19, FAIRFIELD-SUISUN AFB

1. AF Form 112, Pages 1, 2, and 3, dated 14 June 1949 (in dup)

2. Guide to Investigation - Unidentified Aerial Objects (in quint)

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