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Somewhere in the Skies

Project Grudge and the Fort Monmouth UFO Incident

Somewhere in the Skies

Ryan Sprague

Unexplained, Paranormal, Ufos, Government, Ufo, Social Sciences, History, Bigfoot, Aliens, Extraterrestrial, Documentary, Unsolved, Alien, Mystery, Uap, Science, Society & Culture

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

On episode 350 of SOMEWHERE IN THE SKIES, we dig deep into the early files of Project Grudge. Intended to alleviate public anxiety over UFOs and persuade the public that UFOs constituted nothing unusual or extraordinary, Project Grudge sought to explain away UFO sightings. Officials recommended that the project be reduced in scope because the very existence of Air Force interest encouraged people to believe in UFOs. Eventually, the Air Force announced the project's termination in December of 1949. However, it would come to light that it was actually still in operation, albeit covertly, until late 1951. And one of the cases investigated was that of the Fort Monmouth UFO in New Jersey. Buried deep in what many believe was a coverup, the most detailed version would come to light through the words of the man who ran Project Grudge, and eventually, Project Blue Book; Edward J. Ruppelt.


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0:00.0

Spexavers have asked me to tell you something important, so I've gone creative and dug out my

0:05.9

old jack-in-the-box. It's about prices and how they jump up when you least expect them.

0:16.0

I said jump up when you least expect them. I said jump up when you least expect them. Oh, that Spexaver's glasses still start from 15 pounds.

0:19.0

Not now, Jack, including standard single vision lenses only.

0:23.0

He's going to jump up now isn't he?

0:25.0

Oh well, you're better off with spec savers.

0:27.0

Oh, I knew it.

0:28.0

Ask in store for details. Before the official UFO investigation by the United States Air Force, known as Project Blue Book, there was Project Grudge.

0:48.7

Project Grudge was intended to alleviate public anxiety over

0:52.8

the public that UFOs constituted nothing unusual or extraordinary.

1:01.1

The Air Force interest in flying saucifers has been due to our feeling of an obligation to identify and analyze to the best of our ability anything in the air that may have the possibility of threat or menace to the United States.

1:16.7

In pursuit of this obligation since 1947, we have received and analyzed between one in 2,000 reports that have come to us from all kinds of sources.

1:27.5

Of this great mass of reports, we have been able adequately to explain the great bulk of them, explain them to our own satisfaction.

1:38.6

We've been able to explain them as hoaxes, as erroneously identified friendly aircraft as meteorological or electronic phenomena or as

1:50.1

light aberrations.

1:51.1

However, there have been a certain percentage of this volume of reports

1:57.0

that have been made by credible observers of relatively incredible things.

2:03.0

It is this group of observations that we now are attempting to resolve.

2:09.0

Officials recommended that the project be reduced in scope because the very existence of Air Force interest

2:16.3

encouraged people to believe in UFOs.

2:20.6

Eventually, the Air Force announced the project's termination in December of 1949.

2:27.0

However, it would come to light that it was actually still in operation, albeit covertly until late 1951.

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