Subject:
The Fort Monmouth / Sandy Hook, NJ Incidents, September
10, 1951
Drafted 22 Nov 2000, Updated 10 Aug
2006
Francis
Ridge:
What we have here is almost the perfect case, and there is certainly
more to the story than we presently have on file. This page is simply
the Directory for the Fort Monmouth and Sandy Hook documents. My
more-detailed commentary serves as a synopsis and evaluation for the
incidents that caused a major stir at the Pentagon.
My brief comments on the case
Our thanks to everyone who did all the research on this
monumental case. Especially to Mike Hall who provided all the
original documentation, to both Wendy Connors & Mike Hall for the
historical
update, and to Robert Swiatek of FUFOR for the Ruppelt notes not used
in his book. Without our research efforts, which resulted from
the T-33 pilot reports to the media, all we had was the GRUDGE Report
and this final statement by Capt. Ruppelt: "The UFO that the student
radar operator had assumed to be traveling at a terrific speed because
he couldn't lock on to it turned out to be a 400-mile-an-hour
conventional airplane. He had just gotten fouled up on his procedures
for putting the radar set on automatic tracking. The sighting by the
two officers in the T-33 jet fell apart when Metscher showed how they'd
seen a balloon." Brad Sparks analysis
proves that the T-33 was
NOT chasing a balloon. (See below).
This updated version is the result of the acquisition of better
copies of the
documents, and the subsequent locating of new ones. Our thanks here
goes to William Wise of the Project Blue Book Archive, whose valuable
and painstaking work has allowed us to find better and smaller jpegs of
the documents to replace the bulky and "lossy" gif files I scanned in
years ago. Finally our thanks to Dan Wilson whose tedious job it is to
find these documents on the BB site and generate reports on various
aspects of each case.
Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator
Fort Monmouth Incident
NARA-PBB1-42 - Aug-Sept BB Printout - Fran Ridge
NARA-PBB89
1184-1185 -
Memorandum for Mr. Levy - Release of Information - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8
1481-1482 - Ft. Monmouth Case / Violation of AFR 205-1 - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8
1520-1521 - Fort Monmouth Air Intelligence Information Report - Dan
Wilson
MAXW-PBB8
1531-1546 - Transcript of Investigation of Fort Monmouth Sightings -
Dan
Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 161-162 -
Sept. 10,
1951, Fort Monmouth, Several Objects Sighted - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 164-173 - Fort
Monmouth & Sandy Hook Witnesses - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 180 -
General
Information, Weather for Fort Monmouth - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 183-186 -
Statements
From Members of the Radar Training Detachment, Ft. Monmouth - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 189 - EADT
Reply
Concerning Unusual Occurrences at Fort Monmouth - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 198 - ADC Requests Full Evaluation of Observations Near
Asbury Park - Dan Wilson
FBI - Confidential Report
on Fort Monmouth Radar Incident - Pages 31-34 - Dan Wilson
Sandy Hook Incident
NARA-PBB89 434
- Jet Chases
Weird Object 30 Miles - Washington Daily News - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB85
540-548 - GRUDGE
Special Status Report No. 1 / Fort Monmouth Incidents (T-33) -
Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1174-1175 -
Balloon
Releases from Fort Monmouth - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1177-1182 -
Newspaper Release Concerning UFO - 11 Sep 1951
- Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1186 -
Memorandum
for Mr. Levy - Release of Information to the Press - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1189 - Maj.
Barron
Released Certain Information to the Press - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1194-1198 -
Report of
Telephone Conversation / Fort Monmouth Incident - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1199-1201 -
Airmen
Overheard In Diner, Unusual Object Sighted - Fran Ridge
NARA-PBB89 1207-1208
- AIIR, Sept
10, 1951, Sandy Hook - Dan Wilson
NARA-PBB89 1209 -
Statement of
Wilbert S. Rogers - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB9 203-205 -
Interrogation of Rogers and Ballard - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8 1466-1471 -
Sept. 10,
1951, Sandy Hook, NJ / Re: Ft. Monmouth - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8 1501-1502 -
Message
to JEDWP/CG ADC Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, Ohio - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8 1503-1504 -
Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft / Sandy Hook, NJ -
Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8 1505-1508 -
Col.
Taylor Making Quick Trip to Washington - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8 1510 - Pilot
Says He
Saw Odd Object Speed Over Coast at 900 M.P.H. - Dan Wilson
MAXW-PBB8
1511-1512 - Statements on UFO Sighting Over Sandy Hook - Dan Wilson
Incoming
Classified Message - RADNOTE - Report and Analysis of Fort Monmouth
Incident - Dan Wilson
Other News Clippings
2 in Jet Chase 'Flying
Saucer' Going 900 M.P.H. Over New Jersey
Pilots See 900-MPH 'Saucer'
In Flight Over Coast of New Jersey
Mystery 'disc' spotted over
N.J.
Pilot Says He Saw Odd
Object Speed Over Coast at 900 M.P.H.
900 MPH 'Disc' Chased Over
N.J.
Here's That Flying Saucer
Again -- 2 AF Jet Pilots Lose It At 900 MPH
450 MPH Jet Tails 900 MPH
'Thing' Over N.J.
Reference Material
The Fort Monmouth/Sandy
Hook, N.J., UFO Incidents, Sept. 10, 1951 - Francis Ridge
The Fort Monmouth Story - Too
Many
Coincidences - Captain Edward J. Ruppelt
The Ruppelt Notes - c/o Robert
Swiatek,
FUFOR
The Fort Monmouth Case: A New
Look -
Wendy Connors & Michael Hall
ATIC Case File Showing
Location of the
Incident - Wendy Connors
Desk Pad for September
1951
Showing Notes - Mike Hall
Evaluation of the Fort Monmouth
Incident
-
James E McDonald
Analysis
Proves T-33 Was Not
Chasing A Balloon - Brad Sparks
UFO Updates Rebuttal -
Further
Analysis
- Brad Sparks
Another Case Update - Brad Sparks
Setting the Stage for Monmouth -
Joel
Carpenter
UFO Intelligence Summary - July-Dec
1961 -
Francis Ridge
5
March 1952, Letter to CSI on Fort
Monmouth Case
The T-33 Jet Trainer
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