Case File · AARO · First Saucer Wave (1947-1952) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

1949 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D196P47)

UFO Visual Sighting

The Project Grudge Report was published in 1949, detailing investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena.

1949
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 196
Source document: PURSUE doc 196 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 47 of AARO Historical Record Report Vol 1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated 1949 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

The Project Grudge Report was published in 1949, detailing investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena.

Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.

Status of the case

The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

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