Military1951

Fort Monmouth radar-visual sightings

When: 10 Sep 1951
Where: Fort Monmouth, NJ
Sources: 2 public sources

Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, whose Signal Corps radar tracked the 1951 targets Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Army Signal Corps radar at Fort Monmouth tracked fast and high targets over two days, and a T-33 crew reported an object near Sandy Hook. The reports reached Gen. Charles Cabell and led to a revived Project Grudge under Edward Ruppelt; investigators later blamed an airplane and balloons.

Sources

OfficialFlying Saucers (OSI briefing, 14 August 1952), CIA-RDP81R00560R000100020013-6 (opens in a new tab)CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room / 1952-08-14
FirsthandThe Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Edward J. Ruppelt, 1956) (opens in a new tab)Project Gutenberg / 1956

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