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Why does the Incident 88 folder hold papers from the Wildwood case and the Danforth hoax?

Asked 3 Nov 2026 by ·2 answers·0·0 following
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Two answers have been proposed. None is ahead on the evidence yet. Two are still possible.

Why it matters

Fourteen of the folder's nineteen pages are not about Hackensack, and the mix is what has made the case look mysterious.

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Check the Sign microfilm order for neighbouring folders
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Details

List which folders sit next to 88, 50 and the Danforth case on roll T1206 and in the 1952 card index; if Wildwood and Danforth papers also turn up in other neighbouring folders, the slip was in filing, not judgement.

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History

  1. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book: the Wildwood correspondent has her own folder, Incident 50, with the case's originalsFor: Misfiling: the pages belong to other incidents and were put in the wrong folder
  2. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book: the Danforth letter in the 88 folder is a copy of one in the Danforth folderFor: Misfiling: the pages belong to other incidents and were put in the wrong folder
  3. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book: nothing in the three files refers to the othersAgainst: A deliberate grouping of related reports
  4. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book: nothing in the three files refers to the othersAgainst: A deliberate grouping of related reports
  5. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Newark Division: nothing in the three files refers to the othersAgainst: A deliberate grouping of related reports
  6. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book: the Wildwood correspondent has her own folder, Incident 50, with the case's originalsFor: Misfiling: the pages belong to other incidents and were put in the wrong folder
  7. Air Materiel Command, Project Sign: the Wildwood correspondent has her own folder, Incident 50, with the case's originalsFor: Misfiling: the pages belong to other incidents and were put in the wrong folder
  8. U.S. Air Force, Project Blue Book: nothing in the three files refers to the othersAgainst: A deliberate grouping of related reports
  9. Jazz Shaw: nothing in the three files refers to the othersAgainst: A deliberate grouping of related reports
  10. Session 1: raised the question and found three results bearing on its answers
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