Bill English and Grudge/Blue Book Report 13
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Contents 7
| Date | January 1989 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Bill English, John Lear, Linda Moulton Howe |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 102 |
| Year | 1989 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1989 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 6 |
William "Bill" English, a former U.S. Army Special Forces captain and the son of an Arizona state legislator, claimed in the 1980s that in 1977 he had been asked to analyse a top-secret document titled "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13", which described crash recoveries and alien bodies. No copy of such a report has ever surfaced.[1][2]
The claim
English said that in June 1977, while working as an information analyst at a British listening post north of London — identified in other accounts as RAF Chicksands — he was handed a locked diplomatic pouch sealed with red security tape, with an Air Force form asking for an abstract and an assessment of its validity. Inside, he said, was a grey-covered report marked "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13", dated "1953–(1963)" and stamped top secret, with a title page, appendix, photograph inserts and a page numbered "1 of 624". He later said the government had captured at least three live aliens, and that the Air Force had run isolation colonies for close-encounter witnesses.[1]
Other claims
English also said that in Vietnam he had been part of a Special Forces team sent to recover a B-52 forced down after radioing that it was under attack by a UFO, finding the plane intact and its crew dead. He told his story in the late 1980s through John Lear and William Cooper, who circulated it on computer bulletin boards, and journalist Linda Moulton Howe later republished his account. He said he had been warned against talking and had suffered consequences for doing so.[1][3]
Assessment
No official information on "Report No. 13" exists, and the U.S. government denies it ever existed. Project Grudge and Blue Book's real reports are numbered and publicly available, and none matches English's description. Accounts of his story differ on details such as the month, and his recollections were transmitted through others' transcripts. His claims are regarded as unverified, and some researchers think he was repeating stories from the late-1980s disinformation milieu around Lear and Cooper.[1][4]
People and topics
- Bill English — Former Army captain who claimed he read "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13".
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- John Lear — Pilot and son of Bill Lear who spread claims of alien treaties in the late 1980s.
- Project Grudge — The Air Force's skeptical UFO project of 1949–51 that replaced Project Sign.
- Linda Moulton Howe — Journalist and filmmaker who runs the Earthfiles website and has reported many crash-retrieval claims.
- Disinformation — False information spread deliberately to mislead.
On the Timeline
- John Lear's source Mike (1989) (January 1989) — John Lear says a source was flown to an underground site to photograph a saucer and autopsy.
- Cabo Rojo jet disappearance (1988) (January 1989) — A Navy sailor says F-14 pilots chased a UAP near Puerto Rico.
See every 1989 event on the UAP Timeline →
References
- William Cooper, "Bill English and Grudge 13", U.F.O. BBS file 1044 (text archive) · mirror.cyberbits.eu · archived copy
- "UFO Crash/Retrievals: Status Report V", Earthfiles (2005) · earthfiles.com · archived copy
- John Lear — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Project Blue Book — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Linda Moulton Howe — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Earthfiles — Linda Moulton Howe's news site · earthfiles.com · archived copy
Further reading
- Project Blue Book — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Project Blue Book records — National Archives · archives.gov · archived copy
- Project Blue Book files — The Black Vault · theblackvault.com · archived copy
- J. Allen Hynek — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Cattle mutilation — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- Animal Mutilation file — FBI Vault · vault.fbi.gov · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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