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—CONFIDEN TIAL INFORMATION UNCLASSIFIED STATUS REPORT PROJECT BLUE BOOK - REPORT NO. 8 FORMERLY PROJECT GRUDGE PROJECT NO. 10073 31 DECEMBER 1952 AIR TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE CENTER WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE OHIO CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED

1. Information conflicting with or pertinently affecting that contained in this publication should be forwarded by the recipienc directly to: Commanding General Air Technical Incelligence Center Weright-Patteraon Air Force Bage, Ohio This in no way abrogates or alters responsibility for sending such information or any pertinent intelligence data through already established intelligence collection channels of the various services or agencies of the U.S. government. 2. WARNING: This document contains information af- fecting the national defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espi…

IED CLASSIF CONFIDENTIAL This resort is the eighth of a series of Status Reports of Project Blue Book, Normally each report ia written on or near the last of each month anid includes all project activities for that month, This procedure has not been followed during the months of June, duly, August, September and October duc to an. extremely heavy workload caused by an increase in reports, The proce- dure of listing all reported sightings will also be eliminated in this repork since B24 reports were received during the period covered by this report and compiling such a list would not be feasibl…

UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL STATUS OF PROIEGT BLUE BOOK I, OVERALL STATUS The period since the last status report of this project was published (Project Blue Book Status Report #7, 31 May 1952) has produced a volume of reports axcesding the total mmber of reports received in the period 197 te 41. Dec 51. For the month of Jul 52, the total was over 4hO reports. During the period 1 Jun 52 to 31 Oct 52, the period covered by this status report, #86 reports have bean received, evaluated, cross-indexed and filed. This total of 886 represents 149 more reports than had been received during the previous…

UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL part of the reporting agency. All ceses where there is only a single observer; unless his or her reliability is unquestionable, sre put in this category. C. Aireraft This category of reports varies from those reports of pbjects that were definitely proven to be airéraft to those that were possibly aircraft. In evaluating reports as aircraft, a greab deal of importance is put on any com- ments by the reporting officer about local air traffic. Another criterion is the elevation of the reported object. It has been found that if an observer sees an aircraft above a 60° an…

UNCLASSIFIED €CONFIDEN TAL Meteors are identified mainly by the observer's description as to size, shapa, and maneuvers. In some cases, exceptionally large meteors or firaballa are plotted by observatories and these plots are obtained. F, Other This category contains reports that have been proven to be Known objects or phenomena, or the descriptions of the reported objects are similiar to reports of known objects that do not fall into the above caterories. Ex- amples of these are birds, anomalous radar phenomena, bugs, sto. A percentage breakdown of the evaluation of reports is as follows: Ae …

il seas IDENTIAL fay So Hh RA. Oates 20 UNCLASSIFIED Catepory Noe orte 2 Total De September Unknown #2 e785 Insufficient Data 29 25.32 Aireraft 7 6.86 Balloons iz 15.19 Astronomical 12 15.19 Other 6 75 TOR Ee Cumulative total for June, July, August, and September Unknown 206 es5e5 Tnsufficient Data 216 21,38 Mireraft 101 11.39 Balloons 211 23.61 Astronomical 113 12.75 Other ae rity (Note: No breakdown for the month of October 1952 is included since at the time this report was written all October reports had not been evaluated, ) TI. SPECIAL REPORT ON CONFERENCE WITH 4 PROFESSIONAL ASTRONOMERS …

UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL "Over 4O astronomers were interviewed, of which five had made sight— ings of one sort or another. This is a higher percentage than among the pop— ulsace at large, Perhaps this is to be expected, since astronomers do, after all, wateh the skies, On the other hand, they will not likely be fooled by balloons, aircraft, and similiar objects, as may the general populace, Ti is interesting to remark upon the attitude of the astronomers interviewed. Tha graat majority ware neither hostile nor overly interested; they gave one the general faealing that all flying saucer report…