{"type":"documents","slug":"1991-1994-project-identification","title":"Project Identification","url":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/1991-1994-project-identification","description":"Scientists led night watches in Missouri logging mysterious lights with instruments and photography","date":"1991-05-01T00:00:00.000Z","tags":["Study"],"updated":"2025-06-13T13:26:43.000Z","disclosureRating":6,"connectionCount":0,"content":{"markdown":"## Summary\n\nPhysics professor Harley Rutledge organized teams to observe luminous phenomena around Piedmont, Missouri. Over three years they captured spectra and trajectories, proposing natural plasma explanations.[^1][^2][^3][^4][^5][^6][^7][^8][^9]\n\n<PDF src=\"https://archive.org/download/rutledge-project-identification/Rutledge-Project_Identification.pdf\" />\n\n## Instrumented stakeout\n\nLed by physics professor Harley Rutledge, the team documented unexplained aerial lights with cameras, magnetometers, and spectrographs. Observations sometimes showed structured objects moving silently.\n\n## Findings and debate\n\nRutledge concluded the lights represented controlled craft of unknown origin. Skeptics argued the data could be misinterpreted atmospheric phenomena.\n\n[^1]: https://books.google.com/books/about/Project_Identification.html?id=3claAAAAYAAJ\n\n[^2]: https://archive.org/details/rutledge-project-identification\n\n[^3]: https://archive.org/download/rutledge-project-identification/Rutledge-Project_Identification.pdf\n\n[^4]: https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7343876M\n\n[^5]: https://search.worldcat.org/title/1412654001\n\n[^6]: https://mdc.mo.gov/magazines/conservationist/1997-01/spooklight\n\n[^7]: https://anomalyarchives.org/collections/file/project-identification/\n\n[^8]: https://skepticalinquirer.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29/2019/03/Issue-03-4.pdf\n\n[^9]: https://archive.org/download/rutledge-project-identification/Rutledge-Project_Identification_djvu.txt","readingTime":"1 min read"},"relatedRecords":[],"citation":{"canonicalUrl":"https://disclosdex.com/documents/1991-1994-project-identification","title":"Project Identification","publisher":"Disclosdex","retrievedFrom":"https://disclosdex.com/api/v1/documents/1991-1994-project-identification","license":"CC-BY-4.0"}}