Bill English and Grudge/Blue Book Report 13
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| Claimant | William "Bill" English, former U.S. Army Special Forces captain |
|---|---|
| Claimed date | June 1977 |
| Claimed place | A British "listening post" north of London, identified in other accounts as RAF Chicksands |
| Document | "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13", dated "1953–(1963)", 624 pages |
| Contents claimed | Crash recoveries, stored saucers, at least three live aliens |
| Circulated by | Bill Cooper, on UFO bulletin boards (late 1980s) |
| Status | No copy has surfaced; unverified |
| 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 | 8 |
William "Bill" English, a former U.S. Army Special Forces captain and the son of an Arizona state legislator, claimed that in 1977 he had been asked to analyse a top-secret document titled "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13". He said it described recovered flying saucers and alien bodies.[1][8] His story reached the public in the late 1980s through Bill Cooper, who uploaded it to UFO computer bulletin boards as support for his own claims.[1][8][3] No copy of such a report has ever surfaced.[1][8][4]
The "missing" report
The Air Force's UFO investigations at Wright-Patterson ran as Project Sign from 1947, Project Grudge from late 1948, and Project Blue Book from March 1952 until it closed in December 1969.[4] Blue Book's best-known report is "Project Blue Book Special Report No. 14", a statistical study of about 3,200 cases by the Battelle Memorial Institute, completed in 1954.[4] In the file he posted, Cooper wrote that reports 1 to 12 of "Grudge/Blue Book" had been released and were innocuous. Report 14 was widely known, and had been analysed in a book by Leon Davidson whose fifth edition appeared in 1976. Report 13, he said, was missing from public view.[1][8] English's story claimed to fill that gap.[1][8]
The claim
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According to the account Cooper posted, English had been assigned as an information analyst to an RAF "listening post" north of London.[1][8] Other accounts identify this as RAF Chicksands in Bedfordshire, about 35 miles north of London. From 1950 the U.S. Air Force ran signals-intelligence units there, and it had a giant "Elephant Cage" direction-finding antenna from 1962.[1][8][7]
English dictated two audio cassettes of what he remembered, which someone else transcribed into handwritten notes.[1][8] In that version, one day in June 1977 he received a standard American Embassy couriers' diplomatic pouch, serial "JL327D", whose lock had already been opened.[1][8] Inside was a publication sealed with red tape, signifying "code red" security, and a white Air Force disposition form headed "Analysis Report". The form told him to analyse the enclosed report under code red measures, give an abstract, report on its validity, and do so immediately. It bore the letters "NDF" and the initials "WGB".[1][8]
He described the report like this:[1][8]
- about 8 by 11 inches, with a grey cover, heavily bound like a technical manual
- titled "Grudge/Blue Book Report No. 13" and dated "1953–(1963)"
- marked "AFSN 2246-3" and "annotated"
- stamped in red "Top Secret Need To Know Only Crypto Clearance 14 Required"
- handwritten notes inside the cover blacked out with felt pen
- a title page, and an appendix full of notations about photo inserts
- a page marked "G/BV Page 1 of 624 pages"
- an appendix item titled "Some notes on the practical applications of the Worst Nemo equations"
He later said, through his contacts, that the government ran a project dealing with UFOs and captured aliens. In this account it had captured three aliens, one of whom was still alive in captivity in mid-1981, and it had several saucers in secret storage.[1][8] He also claimed that from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s the Air Force kept "relocation and debriefing colonies" where people who had had close encounters were isolated for the rest of their lives. He doubted these still existed.[1][8]
The Vietnam B-52 story
English said that in Vietnam he had been on a Special Forces team sent to recover a B-52 bomber. It had radioed that it was "under attack by a UFO", a "large light", before going down.[1][8] He said the team found the plane intact in the jungle with no crash swath. Only the bottom of the fuselage was damaged and the engine pods were untouched, but the whole crew had been mutilated.[1][8]
Circulation
Cooper posted the account, as part of a series titled "The Majestic Twelve", to back up his "MAJIC.TXT" file.[1][8] Cooper had begun posting on the ParaNet bulletin board in summer 1988. He worked closely with John Lear, whose 1987–88 statement described a Majestic 12 committee, a treaty with grey aliens and underground bases, until the two fell out.[3] The journalist Linda Moulton Howe later reprinted Leonard Stringfield's crash-retrieval "Status Reports", which collected many anonymous retrieval accounts, on her Earthfiles website.[2][6] Howe had herself been shown fabricated documents by the Air Force agent Richard Doty in 1983.[5] English said he had been warned against talking and had suffered for doing so.[1][8]
Assessment
No official information on a "Report No. 13" has appeared, and the U.S. government has never acknowledged one.[1][8][4] Blue Book's records were archived and released under the Freedom of Information Act, with witnesses' names redacted. Blue Book collected 12,618 reports, of which 701 remained unexplained.[4] Accounts of English's story differ on details such as the month. His memories reached the public only through other people's transcripts and Cooper's postings.[1][8] The Lear–Cooper material of that period drew heavily on disinformation that had been fed to Paul Bennewitz.[3] His claims are regarded as unverified, and some researchers think he was repeating stories from the late-1980s milieu around Lear and Cooper.[1][8][3]
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 →
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
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
- The Majestic Twelve, Part 1 (UFO BBS file 1044, posted by Bill Cooper) · textfiles.com
- MOD Chicksands (formerly RAF Chicksands) · en.wikipedia.org
Facts in this article are drawn in part from the Wikipedia articles “John Lear”, “Project Blue Book”, “Linda Moulton Howe”, “MOD Chicksands (formerly RAF Chicksands)”, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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