Project Grudge Sighting Report — Glenn Haven Township, Wisconsin, 19 August 1949

This document is a formal report of investigation conducted by the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) regarding a sighting of an unidentified aerial object in Glenn Haven Township, Grant County, Wisconsin, on 19 August 1949. The investigation was initiated following a letter from the witness, a resident of Bloomington, Wisconsin, to U.S. Representative Gardner R. Withrow. The witness, who was driving with his wife, reported seeing a shiny, mirror-like object with wing-like appendages at approximately 1500 hours. He estimated the object's body to be one foot in diameter, with appendages measuring ten inches in length and one inch in width. The witness described the object as traveling in a northerly direction at a speed of 200 to 300 miles per hour at a normal aircraft altitude. He noted that the object was stable, produced no noise or exhaust, and eventually faded from view. The witness also reported that the object caused considerable glare in his eyes. The OSI investigation included interviews with the witness and his wife, as well as a neighbor who reported hearing unusual loud noises in the sky in late September or October, though the neighbor could not see any object. The final assessment by the Air Force, as documented in a teleconference report, stated that there was nothing in the evidence to seriously controvert the conclusion that the object seen by the witness was a conventional airplane. The report was processed under Project Grudge, with various routing and record sheets indicating the urgency of the investigation as requested by the Air Force.