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1947 – November 2026
The organizational record is southern, national, and — for this county — thin: the investigations behind this section's files were never local. The Air Force's projects sat at Wright-Patterson in Ohio. NICAP, the era's great civilian committee, worked the county's cases from Washington and through its published catalogues — the AVCAT aircraft file, the chronologies, the Loedding history — without a named St. Joseph County investigator in the record reached. Indiana's one investigator of national standing, Francis L. Ridge of Mt. Vernon — NICAP Indiana Unit No. 1 chairman from 1960, founder of the UFO Filter Center (1973–1995), MUFON field investigator and, from 1986, MUFON's Indiana State Director with some 150 members and 36 field investigators statewide, trainer of over 150 investigators — built his archive, the MADAR network and the NICAP website itself from Posey County, 250 miles south; his filed cases are the south's. His eastern colleague Don Worley of Connersville worked the 1973 wave for APRO. MUFON Indiana today is a state chapter under State Director James Wolford (in the post since January 2021), with Assistant State Director John Street and Chief Investigator Darrell Collins — a statewide roster in which no St. Joseph County section director or county investigator is named in the chapter's public record as reached, and no MUFON case filing for Granger or the two townships surfaces in the open record. CUFOS, Hynek's Center for UFO Studies, holds the era's physical-trace catalogue in which Indiana's entries are again the south's and centre's. Verdict: this county's sky was investigated, when it was investigated at all, from Dayton, Washington and Mt. Vernon; no investigator or organization has ever been seated on this ground, and what they filed from afar is the five-case ledger above — nothing more is in any file this section could open.
From the NICAP-hosted records of Ridge's Filter Center and investigations, the APRO Bulletin's Indiana field reports, and Indiana MUFON's published leadership (state chapter event and officer records, June 2025). Searches shown in the article.