Auth by CS, USAF PART TWO 27 Apr 1949 AIR BRIEF - SPECIAL STUDY
UNIDENTIFIED AERIAL OBJECTS During the past six months very few
reports have appeared in the press on the subject of flying
saucers. However, recent allegations on the radio and in the
press that the saucers are actually Soviet guided missiles find
no real support in the continuing, exhaustive investigations and
analyses which have been conducted as project "Grudge" (formerly
project "Sign") by the USAF Air Materiel Command. Realistic
treatments of the subject will appear this week in the Saturday
Evening Post. A total of 294 incidents involving unidentified
aerial objects have been recorded. The majority of these are
domestic observations but there are many reports from foreign
sources. Data on unidentified aerial objects places them in
several distinct groups; disc, spherical, elliptical, or
cylindrical shaped objects, winged objects, and light phenomena.
The extreme lack of accurate observed details and the
unpredictable occurrence of incident