1910.05.01 – 1986.04.27 Dr J Allen Hynek was a United States astronomer, professor, and ufologist. He is perhaps best remembered for his UFO research. Hynek acted as scientific adviser to UFO studies undertaken by the U.S. Air Force under three consecutive names: Project Sign, Project Grudge and Project Blue Book. For decades afterwards, he conducted […]
Edward J Ruppelt
1923.07.17 – 1960.09.15 [Captain Ruppelt] was a United States Air Force officer probably best known for his involvement in Project Blue Book, a formal governmental study of unidentified flying objects. He is generally credited with coining the term “unidentified flying object”, to replace the terms “flying saucer” and “flying disk” – which had become widely […]
Project Grudge/Blue Book Report 13
1954.03c [Note regarding date: Project Blue Book Report 12 was dated 1953.09.30. Its eleven predecessors were an average of about three months apart. Report 14 was dated 1955.05.05. See page iv of this link for more details.] THE UFO LEGEND One of the most prevalent of these legends beside the Grudge/Blue Book Report #13 is […]
Robertson Panel
1953.01.14 – 18 [The Robertson Panel was a committee of scientists convened following a CIA recommendation of 1952.12 that such a panel meet to evaluate USAF-investigated UFO sightings. This recommendation followed a CIA review of the USAF’s investigation of UFOs, namely Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. The CIA review was itself a response to […]
Eisenhower briefing
1952.11.18 [Click here for images of briefing] TOP SECRET/MAJIC EYES ONLY NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION COPY ONE OF ONE. BRIEFING DOCUMENT: OPERATION MAJESTIC 12 PREPARED FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: (EYES ONLY) 18 NOVEMBER, 1952 WARNING! This is a TOP SECRET – EYES ONLY document containing compartmentalized information essential to the national security of the United […]
Project Blue Book
1952.03 A need for as much additional information as possible about these craft, their performance characteristics and their purpose led to the undertaking known as U.S. Air Force project SIGN in December, 1947… SIGN evolved into project GRUDGE in December, 1948. The operation is currently being conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK, with liason […]
Project Grudge
1948.12 A need for as much additional information as possible about these craft, their performance characteristics and their purpose led to the undertaking known as U.S. Air Force project SIGN in December, 1947. In order to preserve security, liason between SIGN and Majestic-12 was limited to two individuals within the Intelligence Division of Air Materiel […]
Project Sign
1947.12.30 [Project Sign was the seemingly independent outfit of scientists, technicians and intelligence officers assembled by the almost entirely out-of-the-loop USAF to analyse UFO reports received by the Air Force in 1947 from “reliable witnesses such as pilots and scientists.” (UFO: The Government Files, Brookesmith) Ruppelt writes of “ATIC’s top intelligence specialists who had been […]
Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
1936 But eventually I found myself in possession, holding two documents: one called Project Grudge, another one called Operation Majority. Project Grudge contained the history of alien involvement since around 1936, and it began talking about Germany’s involvement with a crashed disk that they had recovered in 1936 and [of which they] were attempting to […]