The Investigation Restarted: Fort Monmouth and the Road to Blue Book

Part 33 of a series reassessing the documentary record behind the 1933 Magenta narrative. TL;DR Army radar personnel logged four incidents on 10–11 September 1951. A T-33 crew separately reported a silver object. The records do not connect it to a radar track. Grudge favored a balloon for the T-33 sighting, questioned the first radar target’s speed and left the final echo unknown. Ruppelt’s later accounts were more certain. The FBI recorded a reporting delay. Air Force records confirm Gen. Ch...