Incident #116 Sighting Report — Moose Factory, Canada, 11 March 1948

This document details Incident #116, a sighting of an unidentified aerial object that occurred on the night of 11 March 1948 near the shores of James Bay, Canada. The primary witness, an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company at Moose Factory, described the object as a blue flame, roughly the size of a football, moving at a meteoric speed in an earthward direction. The object reportedly exploded, lighting up the surrounding area brighter than daylight. The report includes a clipping from the Toronto Globe & Mail dated 15 March 1948, which corroborates the event and notes that the incident was linked to reports from Cochrane, Ontario, where witnesses described the object as a meteor plunging downward like a spent rocket. The official evaluation by the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) concluded that the incident was a bright meteor or fireball. The document was forwarded by Lt. Colonel Woodrow B. Wilmot of the Office of the Military Air Attache in Ottawa to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, for official record-keeping. The report is marked as 'RESTRICTED' and is indexed within the Project Grudge evaluation list under astronomical phenomena.