From: Francis Ridge <slk@EVANSVILLE.NET>
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:29:03 -0700
Fwd Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:38:07 -0400
Subject: NCP-09: Oak Ridge Native Speak - An Introduction
To: Current Encounters List
Greetings Lists,
Here is another in our series presented by one of our NCP Working Group members, Jerry Washington.
Francis Ridge Coordinator, Nuclear Connection Project http://members.evansville.net/slk/ncp-wash1.htm
Regretfully, any contribution I make to the Nuclear Connection Project is going to be purely anecdotal. My
only qualification is scarcely more than an accident of birth -- having been hatched and reared in the original
'Atomic City': Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
A sleepy little burgh tucked discreetly away in the rolling hills between the Cumberland and Great
Smoky Mountain ranges, Oak Ridge has always appeared deceptively normal on the surface.
Only when you peeked behind the fa=E7ade of plutonium and privilege -- and you had to know where to
look -- did you glimpse the town's true nature.
Beyond the designer dachas of the nuclear bourgeoisie, out past the abandoned guard tower relics of an
earlier era, lay the vast no-man's land we called the "Restricted Zone" ("we" meaning the Mensa set's
prodigal offspring).
The Oak Ridge 'Reservation' encompasses many hundreds of square miles. However, the town itself -- the
residential area -- occupies only a small percentage of that acreage. The rest has always been under the
purview of the Federal Government; Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); Union Carbide; Martin Marietta,
or whoever holds the reigns of power these days.
The Oak Ridge City cops lacked the authority to cross over into 'the zone', a fact taken full advantage of by
me and my fellow delinquents. With too much time and money on our hands, we sought to relieve our
boredom through frequent incursions into 'the zone', where we'd party hearty in the shadow of K-25, Y-12,
or X-10, the three resident nuke facilities.
We sure-as-hell weren't worried about AEC Security showing up. Those guys were an absolute joke! Even
at the height of the Cold War, we were able to carouse in 'the zone' with impunity. We could've been
Russian spies or worse, and nobody would've known.
Ringed with "DANGER: RADIOACTIVE" signs, we went about our business with the fatalism borne by
Oak Ridgers, and nurtured throughout our formative years. Field trips to the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (X-10) only served to reinforce that posture, as we gazed down into the luminous depths of the
Heavy Water tank used to cool spent reactor rods. Years later I would learn that that otherworldly glow
had a name: Cerenkov Radiation. As with the radioactive dimes that we took home as souvenirs and
promptly liberated from their plastic casings, it was probably best that we didn't know too much back then.
What you don't know can't hurt you, or so the theory goes...
That was certainly the disposition with which I approached any mention of UFOs at the time, whether in a
periodical, TV show, or even Baby Huey cartoons! The subject made me extremely uncomfortable. When
Time or Life Magazine (I don't remember which) came out with a special UFO issue featuring a full-color
glossy of an alleged UFO on the front cover, my adolescent self went utterly apoplectic. I repeatedly flipped
over the issue
displayed on our coffee table, so as not to have to look at the thing.
Of course, I was weaned -- like most of my generation -- on a steady diet of B-Movies bearing titles like 'It
Came From Outer Space' and 'Invaders from Mars'. And while they also made me uncomfortable, it was
the notion of TV's 'The Invaders', that really made me squirm; those glowing hands... the dissonant music...
the opening sequence with the saucer landing. The notion of something so totally outside of my 'zone' of
reference
ran contrary to the ideals that I held dear: My yearning for a reasonable life, where cause begets effect, and
stuff makes sense.
I have set the stage for the following account. It is through the contextual prism of life in the Atomic City, as
I've
described it, that these 'anecdotes' should be viewed... too- close encounter
When I invited my buddy, Robert, over to cruise for chicks and beer on his first weekend home from
college, UFOs were the very last thing on my mind -- they weren't even on the radar screen. Bob was a
fellow hedonist, and, while I was still adrift in a sea of uncertainty about my future after high school, he had
seized the bull by the horns and enrolled in the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
He picked me up in the beat up, old Corvair that he'd inherited from his older brother. I was a little heftier
than Bob and, although it took some doing, I squeezed my bulk into the passenger seat. Off we went --
Laurel and Hardy -- into the balmy, autumn evening, headed due west towards the Restricted Zone.
Truthfully, Bob and I weren't all that close. We'd never really hung out together, however, rumor had it that
he had spent his entire first semester at UT racking up one sexual conquest after another, and I was anxious
to hear him dish the dirt. My ears were purt near burnin' as he regaled me with a play-by-play account of his
sexploits, a goodly percentage of which could have been hyperbole; Bob wouldn't be the first young man
who's
inflated his statistics.
Still, Bob was a pretty rational guy, not given to too many flights of fancy. An honor student at Oak Ridge
High, a school that churned out National Merit Finalists like Y-12 turned out nuclear triggers, he'd had the
prettiest girlfriend in school. In other words, he really didn't need to exaggerate very much.
"Let's cruise the plants," I suggested, and Bob agreed. "I haven't had my fix of radiation in a while," he
quipped, only half in jest. "We'll take the grand tour, then come back by the liquor store and buy some beer."
Onward, toward K-25 we trekked, penetrating deep into the Restricted Zone, Bob, all the while, keeping a
running
commentary going about his collegiate conquests. Basically, it was just your typical dude's night out -- two
local boys cruisin' the nuke plants, hoping to stumble upon some action.
Eventually, we found ourselves on Bearcreek Road, the curvy, two-lane road that leads to Y-12. A shift
change was due at the facility in half an hour, but for the time being, we had the thoroughfare to ourselves. It
was a moonless night, so Robert had to drive with extra care. Although quite familiar with the route, the lack
of streetlights or other vehicles only added to the challenges of negotiating its numerous twists and turns on
such a caliginous night.
And then it happened. We were driving along, shootin' the breeze, listening to the A.M. radio, when off to
our right, a bright, fully illuminated object appeared out of nowhere. It was descending at a 30-degree angle,
following the topography of the hillside next to the road, when it abruptly leveled out, stopped, and hovered
no more than twenty feet above the road. Exhibiting every sign of being intelligently controlled, simply by the
ultra-precise manner in which it maneuvered, the UFO seemed to be daring us to approach it and drive
underneath it.
The object was disk-shaped, radiant, metallic, the size of an eighteen-wheeler, and utterly silent. I know,
because at the moment it first appeared in my field of vision, I reached over to turn off the radio. I don't
know why, exactly, but that enabled me to hear whatever ambient noises were present, and other than the
air passing by the open car window, there were none -- other than the pounding of our hearts, of course.
"Oh, God," I cried, "what do we do?"
"I don't know," Robert replied meekly.
The fear, the greatest we had ever known, was robbing us of the ability to speak. Reacting on instinct, Bob
put the pedal-to- the-metal, but this was a Corsair remember, a rickety ol' relic that had long seen its day.
The object awaited us, only a hundred feet or so up ahead. Even at the modest speed we were travelling,
there was no way we could stop -- not in so short a distance. The laws of physics were indeed committing
us to pass right underneath the intruder.
I glanced away, but its otherworldly luminescence still managed to burn its image into my psyche. Robert
wasn't so lucky. He was forced to keep his eyes trained on the road, and it was he who noticed the
prismatic effect that the object exhibited. As though a rainbow were contained within, the UFO pulsed with
an unnatural light.
Passing beyond the 'contact point', all I could think of in my panicked state was the possibility that the UFO
was toying with us, and I suffered another panic attack. Suddenly, a diffuse light appeared on the distant
horizon.
"Could that be?" I wondered.
"I hope so," Bob replied.
What we were seeing were the first familiar signs of humankind: the lights from the western boundary of the
miles long Y-12 plant. It was only a couple of kilometers away. For the next few minutes we hoped and
prayed with every bit of fervor a couple of irreverent teens could muster that we'd make it back to
civilization without another run-in with the mystery craft.
"Just a little further... just a little further," I chanted -- a rather different mantra from my usual call-of-the-wild.
"Thank God...thank God," I intoned in unparalleled relief, once we reached the outer limits of the 'bomb
factory'. It's ironic how something so alien as Y-12, with its enormous electromagnets (largest on the planet)
and cutting edge technologies, could produce such a warm-fuzzy deep within me. A true baby boomer, I
was home...
(postscripts)
Oddly enough, Robert and I never discussed our encounter again. I tried to get him to talk about it once,
several months after the fact when I happened upon him in a pizza joint, but he refused. The very mention of
it made the blood drain from his face and his knees go wobbly. Quasi-hostile, he strong-armed me to the
side and warned me to never bring the subject up again. And so it remained -- that silence between us -- up
until his death of AIDS complications in 1990. In a subsequent conversation with our mutual best friend, I
learned that Bob had
given him a detailed description of the events of that night, and that all of the pertinent details matched up
with my
recollections. It was a relief to know that I wasn't just passing swamp gas...
I once queried Stanton Friedman and John Carpenter, two men who've made it their life's work to study the
UFO phenomenon, what their take on such a close encounter was, and both replied that it fit the alien
abduction profile. "Any encounter that close, usually involves a missing time and/or an abduction
component," was their consensus. Both found Robert's apoplexy when cornered in the pizza joint a
particularly telling constituent. I was completely unaware of both phenomena -- alien abduction and missing
time -- at the time the event occurred. Not
until I assumed the State Directorship of both Kentucky/MUFON and Skywatch did I become aware of
just how much Bob and I fit the profile of likely abductees.
Growing up in the Atomic City you learn a lot about its history, about its birth during World War II, its top-
secret mission, its chief export -- weapons grade uranium -- and about the role it played in bringing the war
to a rapid conclusion. You never hear about its lengthy and well-documented history of UFO surveillance or
about the folks, like Bob and me, who put a human face on the startling statistics. That discovery would also
come later.
In October of 1973, a 'flap' occurred during which UFOs were seen all over the East Coast, from Louisiana
in the south, to Michigan in the north. Oak Ridge, too, had its share of sightings, as her skies were suddenly
adorned with amber ovals, red BOLs (balls of light), and multi-colored whatnots. (See 'Red Balls of...
Light', and 'To Have or Have-Not', for a personal account.)
I feel I'm keeping lofty company to have my tales of the strange-but-true included among the likes of
researchers of such impressive caliber and credentials. Admittedly, my evidence for the status of Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, as a UFO hotspot is anecdotal, but hey -- in the beginning was the word.....
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More Information:
Note HIV and AIDES
DOE's Fluoride Health Cover-up:
Oak Ridge covers up discoveries in health, religion, and environment. In Biblical terms this is the turning to
stone linked illness process. Click here for an in depth technical explantion for the health effects that Oak
Ridge managers covered up and refuse to recognize, so as not to reveil a huge health problem. Oak Ridge
managers claim all is well and there are no problems in Oak Ridge, when there are massive problems with
worker health and community health. The cover up links to the mechanisms for CFS, MCS, and even HIV.
Oak Ridge covers up these health effects due to the massive liabilities their managers have caused. Problems
that are so severe that they can be termed crimes against humanity for those that have intentionally acted to
cover up and conceil this mechanism.
Plain Talk: Whats the big deal? Oak Ridge is a government facility that poisoned its communities and
workers with fluorides. Specifically, huge amounts of extremely toxic hydrogen fluoride and calcium-
fluoride, which cause immune cell damage, higher retention of toxic metals, thyroid damage, and cancer. A
very similar process involving fluorides from nerve gas decomposition and heavy metals is the prime toxic
driver in the Gulf War illnesses. The fluorides and toxic metals damage the mitochondria DNA of immune
cells as they biocentrate into the lymph system and the nervous system. The "mysterious diseases" linked to
fluoride/metal toxic effects are part of the military / industrial network cover up of the toxic problems.
Severe synergisms exist for fluorides and metals that affect the G-proteins in cells and the Gq/11 binding
sites. This process sets off cell damage, macrophage and immune activity, thyroid damage, thyroid hormone
damage, etc. Fluorides produce an insoluble precipitate of calcium fluoride in the stationary macrophages of
the lymph nodes that accumulate because fluorine's electronegativity exceeds oxygen and fluoride calcium
seeks. Toxic metals produce insoluble metal oxides in the lymph nodes. This also sets off local Th1 / TNFa
cytokine response from the secretory macrophage cells that cause apoptosis in the lymph cells and cytokine
signaling confusion in lymph channels. The Th1 in the lymph system is offset by a general Th2 cytokine
response for the total body, which enables cancers and virals. The general effect is seen with CFS, MCS,
HIV, and environmental diseases of GWI and gas diffusion plant workers. These effects are aggrivated by
poor American diets, fluoride in water, pesticides, preservatives, and etc. This effect was discovered by
ORNL Sr. Staff person J. E. Phelps in 1986-87 as it applied to gas diffusion HF loses. The high levels of
lymph node toxic stress (fluorides, isotopes, metals) cause superoxides, NO, etc. that damage the stationary
and mobile macrophage mitochondria that impair the biological DNA digestion leading to immune related
disease and cancer. The lymph node cells are the most highly toxically exposed cells in the body and the first
to malfunction. The effect is the root cause of CFS, MCS, and the mystery ills, all mechanisms well known
in the 1980's and suppressed by Oak Ridge National Lab. Today, the ORNL suppression of this
information and mechanism amounts to a crime against humanity.
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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:02:39 -0800
Here is an incident report from Barry Greenwood's Oak Ridge file. I suspect it came from the FBI. Please
note the radiation detection.
10 November 1950
On 10 November 1950,-------------, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, employee at-------------, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee was interviewed and he stated subtantially as follows: At approximately 1630 hours on 23
October 1950, while driving on the Benton Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, he observed an object
over the Scarboro School (which is in the control area of Oak Ridge) at a distance of one-quarter to three-
eighth of a mile from his position of observations. The object appeared to be between 1000 and 2000 feet
in altitude and was described as an "aluminum flash".
It was traveling in a South Southeast direction. The object was dropping fast as it crossed the road and
disappeared over a ridge--------heard no noise in connection with this object.
At approximately the time of this observation, a background (Geiger) counter located in the vicinity of this
observation registered a reading for Alpha and Beta particles. -----------
with the Health and Research Division of Oak Ridge Naitonal Laboratories, has stated that a reading
received on this background counter is unexplained.
NPTES: No intentional or accidental releases which would give such a reading were made during month
October.
The Radar Station, Knoxville, Tennessee, has not reported a radar sighting on the date and time of this
observation.
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Oak Ridge sighting by security patrol, 10/13/50
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 19:59:15 -0800
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997
From: Jerry Washington <skyeking@aye.net>
It's been awhile, but I'm back with another casefile from Oak Ridge, Tennessee: my hometown. The
"Atomic City" has a long and storied history where the UFO phenomenon is concerned, and this is just one
account among many that are available for public consumption, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act,
and books by guys such as J. Allen Hynek (CUFOS), and Edward J.Ruppelt (Project Blue Book).
Jerry Washington SD KY/MUFON
The following account is taken from an FBI document (circa 1950) sent by J. Edgar Hoover to Mr. Francis
R. Hammock, Acting Director of the Division of Security of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington,
D.C.:
"On 13 October, 1950, Atomic Energy Security Patrol Trooper, Edward D.Rymer, and a caretaker,
John Moneymaker, from the University of Tennessee Research Farm, at Oak Ridge, saw an object at about
12,000 to 15,000 feet above Solway Gate of the "Control Zone." This object appeared to be an aircraft
which was starting to make an outside loop, trailing smoke behind. Soon these two men realized that the
formerly described smoke behind the aircraft was a tail. This object continued to descend in a controlled
dive, and when it approached the ground it leveled off and flew slowly, parallel to the ground. This object
came within two hundred and ten (210)
feet of the two observers and was paralleling the ground at approximately six (6) feet. Trooper Rymer
attempted to approach the object but as he approached the object became smaller and started moving in a
southeasterly direction. This object is said to have approached a nine (9) foot cyclone chain link fence and
made a controlled movement to clear the fence, then a Willow tree, then a telephone post and wire, after
which the object
gained momentum and altitude and cleared a hill at approximately one (1) mile away. The object appeared
to be pear shaped. When this object was over the hill it was still visible as the same object that was
observed when only fifty (50) feet away. (The explanation given was that this object grew larger as it gained
altitude and speed.)
Approximately five minutes later the object appeared again having reappeared from approximately the
same location from which it had disappeared. The object was seen again five minutes later for approximately
ten seconds.
During the above happenings, Mr. John Moneymaker had visual reference of this object during its first
[appearance] for approximately seven minutes. Trooper Rymer was interrupted twice during which times he
called his headquarters in an attempt to get other observers. Also, during the fantastic flight of this object,
Trooper Rymer stopped Mr. E.W. Hightower, who was on the highway in his vehicle, to verify what was
being seen. Mr.
Hightower's statement substantiates the description as before.
By the time the object appeared the second time, Joe Zarzecki, Captain of the Atomic Energy
Commission Security Patrol, was present and also witnessed this phenomenon. Each of the observers
describes the object substantially as follows:
a. When the object was first sighted it appeared to be an aircraft trailing smoke, or better described as
"smoke writing."
b. When the object was approaching the ground in its descent, it took on the shape of a bullet with a
large tail.
c. When the object was sighted on the ground (from app. 210 ft.) It appeared to be approximately the
size
of a 2x5 card {from a distance], with a twenty (20) foot ribbon tail. The object and the tail were alternately
moving up and down, and the ribbon appeared to be waving in the breeze. The color was a metallic gray.
d. When Trooper Rymer came within fifty (50) feet of the object he described it similar to the above
except that the first two and one-half (2 ½) feet of the tail appeared more solid, but the last seventeen and
one-half (17 ½) feet of the tail appeared almost transparent and was glowing, intermittently, in sections.
The tail appeared to have four or five sections which would glow intermittently.
Trooper Rymer's record is among the best of the troopers at the Atomic Energy Commission Securty
Patrol. Mr. John Moneymaker holds badge No.UT-1817, and is employed by the University of Tennessee
Agricultural Research Farm as a caretaker for small animals. Mr. E.W. Hightower holds badge No. 6633
and is an employee of the Maxon Construction Company.
The Controller, Capt. W. Akin, of Detachment No. 2…at the Knoxville Airport Radar Site, made a
report that he had seen peculiar readings on the radar scopes at approximately 1520 hours. Apparently the
radar picture was indefinite, intermittent, and inaccurate, because the objects sighted by radar would only
make a short "painting" on the scope and would then disappear only to reappear at another location."
Attached to this Summary are eleven (11) enclosures which tend to clarify information contained in the
former two (2) Summaries of Information on SUBJECT. These enclosures are composed of witness
statements; background information concerning previous sightings of peculiar objects over Oak Ridge; and
radar
reports. The most reliable sources available were utilized in the compilation of this report. The employment
records and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports concerning the witnesses were inspected to
ascertain their reliability, integrity, and loyalty to the United States Government.
The opinions of the officials of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge; Security Branch, ??PA [partially
unreadable] Division, Oak Ridge: AEC Security Patrol, Oak Ridge; FBI, Knoxville: Air Force Radar and
Fighter squadrons, Knoxville; and the OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee, FAIL TO EVOLVE AN ADEQUATE
EXPLANATION FOR SUBJECT [emphasis mine] however, the possibilities of practical jokers, mass
hysteria, balloons of any description, flights of birds (with or without cobwebs or other objects attached),
falling leaves, insect swarms, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the
ground, windblown objects, insanity, and many other natural happenings HAVE BEEN REJECTED
because of the
simultaneous witnessing of the objects with the reported radar sightings; because of the reliability of the
witnesses;
because of the detailed, similar description of the objects seen by different persons; and BECAUSE OF
IMPOSSIBILITY…"
(The previous document was declassified in 1983.)
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ALCOA
9/9/55
(Bluebook)
12 noon. Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost square object flew with a circular
motion for 10-15 minutes.
ALTO
4/5/66
(Magonia)
Two men stopped to watch an object hovering above a swamp and tried to follow it, but it flew away. They
observed that animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the object crossed. A
photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force showed an oval object, 30 meters long, flying at 5 meters
altitude, between a high-tension line and a row of trees. (Bluebook) 11:55 p.m. Witness: W. Smith. One
oval object with a dark top, appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise during the
2.5 hour sighting.
CHATANOOGA
6/7/98
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
CHATTANOOGA
November 11, 2002
See Filer's Files
DANDRIDGE
8/23/99
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
DANDRIDGE
9/25/99
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
FAYETTEVILLE
3/28/66
(Magonia)
A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly encountered a large lighted object 1 meter above the
road on a hilltop. It flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The bulbs had to be replaced in the lights.
The object was oval, 7 meters long, dark gray, and showed about 30 lights along it periphery.
GALLATIN
9/7/99
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
GATLINBURG
9/23/54
(Bluebook)
9:45 a.m. Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail
for 2 minutes.
GERMANTOWN
September 8, 2002
See Filer's Files
GERMANTOWN
September 28, 2002
See Filer's Files
HALL'S CROSSROADS
11/30/00
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
KNOXVILLE
10/21/52
(Bluebook)
No time given. Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white lights flew in a loose formation for 1-
2 minutes, and made a shallow dive at a weather balloon.
LAKE CITY
11/20/55
(Bluebook)
5:20 p.m. Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five men of the USAF 663rd AC&W
Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward and
away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15 minutes.
LAVERGNE
July 22, 2002
See Filer's Files
LYNNVILLE
April 12, 2002
See Filer's Files
MARROWBORE LAKE
3/29/50
(Bluebook)
7 a.m. Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams. Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb.
bombs, estimated 5 feet long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing through
the trees.
MEMPHIS
4/14/52
(Bluebook)
6:34 p.m. Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O'Neil. One inverted bowl, 3' long and 1' high,
with vertical slots, flew fast, straight and level, 100 yards from observers' aircraft for 45-60 seconds.
MEMPHIS
November 2, 2001
See Filer's Files
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Back on the American homefront, on the banks of the Clinch River at Oak Ridge, TN, a huge, black,
windowless building was being constructed. In the middle of Sept 1944, this structure, a gaseous diffusion
plant, began operation. This unusual factory was designed to prepare quantities of fissionable material for the
US' most important secret weapon, the A-bomb.
"Shortly after the plant began operations, the area had a vary odd visitor. A strange, metallic looking, tube-
like object was spotted hovering over the road near the Oak Ridge plant. The object moved away as a
crowd started to gather. The sighting was reported to the FBI (20)."
Original Source: Charles Fort. Reference (20) is from Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story.
NICAP Larry Hatch
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CONFIDENTIAL
October 18, 1950
Director, FBI
SAC, Knoxville
Objects Over Oak Ridge, October 12, 15, 16, 1950
PROTECTION OF VITAL FACILITIES
Ramytel October 13, 1950
There is being submitted herewith a copy of two reports made by District Representative of the OSI, 8th
District, U.S. Air Force, with regard to the detection of unidentified objects by the means of radar, as set
forth in
referenced teletype. These reports continue to set forth additional reports concerning unidentified objects in
the air space are over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which to date have not been explained.
No investigation is being conducted by the Knoxville Office in this matter, but any further information
received from OSI or from CIC representatives will be forwarded immediately.
Air Mail
CCM:jaw
65-473
Enc.
(produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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#1667: 1950/10/20 16:50 10 84:17:0W 35:59:0N 3333 NAM USA TNS 7 8
OAK RIDGE,TN:AEC MAN:MTL "BALLOON" HVRS:CHANGES SHAPE?:RDR
CONFIRM:JETS CHASE
Ref# 26 FAWCETT+GREENWOOD: UFO COVERUP. Page No. 172 MNTNS
OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER "Control Zone"
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
October 20, 1950
FBI Report:
At 1655 hours, on 20 October 1950, Mr. Larry P. Riordan, AEC Badge No.522, Superintendent of
Security at X-10 in the "Control Zone" at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, while enroute from X-10 to the Oak
Ridge residential area, on Benton Valley Road, saw an object in the sky which appeared to be directly over
the University of Tennessee Agricultural Research Farm. This object gave the general appearance of an
aerial balloon which had lost its "basket." In other words, the object was generally round; appeared to come
together at the bottom in wrinkles (rather indistinct), and something was hanging below. The balloon was
described as being from eight to ten feet long; of a lead pipe or gunmetal color; and seemed to be
approximately one-fourth (¼) mile from the observer, at a thirty (30) degree elevation above the horizon.
The object was apparently stationary but since the observer was in a moving vehicle, he did not verify that it
was stationary. As the vehicle in which he was travelling changed position, and went around a curve, Mr.
Riordan noticed that this object appeared to be thinner. He concludes that by reason of his changing
position, or the object changing its altitude, he observed another angle of the object which appeared to be
thinner than upon his first sighting.
At the time of the observation there was adequate light and the object was plainly visible. Mr.Riordan is a
responsible person, as is indicated by his position, and he has been aware of the many instances of reported
objects flying in the sky. He is also very familiar with the weather balloons which are sent up hourly each day
over Oak Ridge between 6:00 AM of one day until 1:00 AM of the next day. The size of these balloons
vary, but generally they are similar to a circus balloon which is about twenty- four (24) inches in diameter.
Mr. Riordan is certain that the object was not a
weather balloon but his first impression was that this object was an experimental "gab" being utilized by the
University of Tennessee Agricultural Research Farm.
Mr. Riordan has been the Security Chief of X-10 since 14 July 1943. His vision is normal except that he has
negligible impairment of the right eye. Like many of the Atomic Energy Commission officials, Mr. Riordan
has hoped for the opportunity to see one of these objects, and under the circumstances, he visualized it as
accurately as possible.
At 1845 hours, on 24 October 1950, Mr. William B. Fry, Assistant Chief of Security, NEPA Division, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, while attending a Drive- in theater with his wife and child, at Oak Ridge, noticed an
object in the sky North-Northwest of his position, at a thirty (30) to forty (40) degree elevation. This object
was moving gently in a horizontal plane, back and forth, within thirty (30) degrees of his line of sight. This
object emitted a glow, varying in color from red to green, to blue-green, to blue, and to orange. The
variations were checked on the vertical window post of Mr. Fry's vehicle and were witnessed by Mr. Fry's
wife. The attention of another observer, the Projectionist at the Drive-in theater, was also called to the
object and verification of this sighting was made. The object disappeared from his sight at 1920 hours.
At 1855 hours, on 24 October, 1950, an Air Force Major, Lawrence Ballweg, NEPA Division, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, also saw from his residence an object which he described similarly. The object
disappeared from the sight of Mr. Ballweg at 1920 hours, which coincides with the time of disappearance of
the object from Mr. Fry's sight.
On 20 October 1950, at 1527 hours, aircraft No. AF-409, Pilot Wolf, 5th AW-Fighter Sqd., took off from
the Knoxville Airport for a "local patrol." The Radar Unit at Knoxville Airport received readings on their
Radar scope and sent the aircraft after these targets. The aircraft pilot was unable to identify any flying
object in the vicinity of the said targets. All targets were between eighteen (18) and twenty-five (25) miles
from the Airport at 320 degrees. The aircraft was landed at 1713 hours. (Attention is invited to the fact that
these targets were sighted at approximately the same time, and
locality, that was reported by Mr. Larry Riordan.)
On 24 October 1950, at 1823 hours, several small, slow targets were seen on the Radar screen at the
Knoxville Airport Radar Site. These targets appeared in the Southeast sector of the "Restricted Flying
Zone" and over the city of Oak Ridge. These targets moved from the city area to and along the East
boundary of the area. At 1826 hours, the fighter aircraft was "scrambled" and proceeded to the area where
it was vectored among the targets but the pilot reported no visual contact with said targets. At 1920 hours
the targets disappeared from the Radar Screen and the fighter was vectored toward another target believed
to be one of three (3) aircraft enroute from Andrews Field to Steward Field. (Note: 1920 hours is also the
time that the object sighted by Mr. Fry and Major Ballweg disappeared from their view).
(Source: FBI, Clear Intent, 172)
(produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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OAK RIDGE SIGHTING BY SECURITY PATROL
10/13/50
[From Current Encounters Mailing List]
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997
From: Jerry Washington <skyeking@aye.net>
It's been awhile, but I'm back with another casefile from Oak Ridge, Tennessee: my hometown. The
"Atomic City" has a long and storied history where the UFO phenomenon is concerned, and this is just one
account among many that are available for public consumption, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act,
and books by guys such as J. Allen Hynek (CUFOS), and Edward J.Ruppelt (Project Blue Book).
Jerry Washington
SD KY/MUFON
The following account is taken from an FBI document (circa 1950) sent by J. Edgar Hoover to Mr. Francis
R. Hammock, Acting Director of the Division of Security of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington,
D.C.:
"On 13 October, 1950, Atomic Energy Security Patrol Trooper, Edward D.Rymer, and a caretaker,
John Moneymaker, from the University of Tennessee Research Farm, at Oak Ridge, saw an object at about
12,000 to 15,000 feet above Solway Gate of the "Control Zone." This object appeared to be an aircraft
which was starting to make an outside loop, trailing smoke behind. Soon these two men realized that the
formerly described smoke behind the aircraft was a tail. This object continued to descend in a controlled
dive, and when it approached the ground it leveled off and flew slowly, parallel to the ground. This object
came within two hundred and ten (210)
feet of the two observers and was paralleling the ground at approximately six (6) feet. Trooper Rymer
attempted to approach the object but as he approached the object became smaller and started moving in a
southeasterly direction. This object is said to have approached a nine (9) foot cyclone chain link fence and
made a controlled movement to clear the fence, then a Willow tree, then a telephone post and wire, after
which the object
gained momentum and altitude and cleared a hill at approximately one (1) mile away. The object appeared
to be pear shaped. When this object was over the hill it was still visible as the same object that was
observed when only fifty (50) feet away. (The explanation given was that this object grew larger as it gained
altitude and speed.)
Approximately five minutes later the object appeared again having reappeared from approximately the
same location from which it had disappeared. The object was seen again five minutes later for approximately
ten seconds.
During the above happenings, Mr. John Moneymaker had visual reference of this object during its first
[appearance] for approximately seven minutes. Trooper Rymer was interrupted twice during which tim es he
called his headquarters in an attempt to get other observers. Also, during the fantastic flight of this object,
Trooper Rymer stopped Mr. E.W. Hightower, who was on the highway in his vehicle, to verify what was
being seen. Mr.
Hightower's statement substantiates the description as before.
By the time the object appeared the second time, Joe Zarzecki, Captain of the Atomic Energy
Commission Security Patrol, was present and also witnessed this phenomenon. Each of the observers
describes the object substantially as follows:
a. When the object was first sighted it appeared to be an aircraft trailing smoke, or better described as
"smoke writing."
b. When the object was approaching the ground in its descent, it took on the shape of a bullet with a
large tail.
c. When the object was sighted on the ground (from app. 210 ft.) It appeared to be approximately the
size
of a 2x5 card {from a distance], with a twenty (20) foot ribbon tail. The object and the tail were alternately
moving up and
down, and the ribbon appeared to be waving in the breeze. The color was a metallic gray.
d. When Trooper Rymer came within fifty (50) feet of the object he described it similar to the above
except that the first two and one-half (2 ½) feet of the tail appeared more solid, but the last seventeen and
one-half (17 ½) feet of the tail appeared almost transparent and was glowing, intermittently, in sections.
The tail appeared to have four or five sections which would glow intermittently.
Trooper Rymer's record is among the best of the troopers at the Atomic Energy Commission Securty
Patrol. Mr. John Moneymaker holds badge No.UT-1817, and is employed by the University of Tennessee
Agricultural Research Farm as a caretaker for small animals. Mr. E.W. Hightower holds badge No. 6633
and is an employee of the Maxon Construction Company.
The Controller, Capt. W. Akin, of Detachment No. 2…at the Knoxville Airport Radar Site, made a
report that he had seen peculiar readings on the radar scopes at approximately 1520 hours. Apparently the
radar picture was indefinite, intermittent, and inaccurate, because the objects sighted by radar would only
make a short "painting" on the scope and would then disappear only to reappear at another location."
Attached to this Summary are eleven (11) enclosures which tend to clarify information contained in the
former two (2) Summaries of Information on SUBJECT. These enclosures are composed of witness
statements; background information concerning previous sightings of peculiar objects over Oak Ridge; and
radar
reports. The most reliable sources available were utilized in the compilation of this report. The employment
records and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports concerning the witnesses were inspected to
ascertain their reliability, integrity, and loyalty to the United States Government.
The opinions of the officials of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge; Security Branch, ??PA [partially
unreadable] Division, Oak Ridge: AEC Security Patrol, Oak Ridge; FBI, Knoxville: Air Force Radar and
Fighter squadrons, Knoxville; and the OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee, FAIL TO EVOLVE AN ADEQUATE
EXPLANATION FOR SUBJECT [emphasis mine] however, the possibilities of practical jokers, mass
hysteria, balloons of
any description, flights of birds (with or without cobwebs or other objects attached), falling leaves, insect
swarms, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the ground, windblown
objects, insanity, and many other natural happenings HAVE BEEN REJECTED because of the
simultaneous witnessing of the objects with the reported radar sightings; because of the reliability of the
witnesses; because of the detailed, similar description of the objects seen by different persons; and
BECAUSE OF IMPOSSIBILITY…"
(The previous document was declassified in 1983.)Created: Oct 5, 1997
(produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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UFO INCIDENT AT OAK RIDGE, TN
11/10/1950
Jan Aldrich: Here is an incident report from Barry Greenwood's Oak Ridge file. I suspect it came from the
FBI. Please note the radiation detection.
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10 November 1950
On 10 November 1950,-------------, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, employee at-------------, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee was interviewed and he stated subtantially as follows: At approximately 1630 hours on 23
October 1950, while driving on the Benton Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, he observed an object
over the Scarboro School (which is in the control area of Oak Ridge) at a distance of one-quarter to three-
eighth of a mile from his position of observations. The object appeared to be between 1000 and 2000 feet
in altitude and was described as an "aluminum flash".
It was traveling in a South Southeast direction. The object was dropping fast as it crossed the road and
disappeared over a ridge--------heard no noise in connection with this object.
At approximately the time of this observation, a background (Geiger) counter located in the vicinity of this
observation registered a reading for Alpha and Beta particles. -----------
with the Health and Research Division of Oak Ridge Naitonal Laboratories, has stated that a reading
received on this background counter is unexplained.
NPTES: No intentional or accidental releases which would give such a reading were made during month
October.
The Radar Station, Knoxville, Tennessee, has not reported a radar sighting on the date and time of this
observation. Created: Sep 23, 1997 (produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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Continued.
Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 20:29:03 -0700
Fwd Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 21:38:07 -0400
Subject: NCP-09: Oak Ridge Native Speak - An Introduction
To: Current Encounters List
Greetings Lists,
Here is another in our series presented by one of our NCP Working Group members, Jerry Washington.
Francis Ridge Coordinator, Nuclear Connection Project http://members.evansville.net/slk/ncp-wash1.htm
Regretfully, any contribution I make to the Nuclear Connection Project is going to be purely anecdotal. My
only qualification is scarcely more than an accident of birth -- having been hatched and reared in the original
'Atomic City': Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
A sleepy little burgh tucked discreetly away in the rolling hills between the Cumberland and Great
Smoky Mountain ranges, Oak Ridge has always appeared deceptively normal on the surface.
Only when you peeked behind the fa=E7ade of plutonium and privilege -- and you had to know where to
look -- did you glimpse the town's true nature.
Beyond the designer dachas of the nuclear bourgeoisie, out past the abandoned guard tower relics of an
earlier era, lay the vast no-man's land we called the "Restricted Zone" ("we" meaning the Mensa set's
prodigal offspring).
The Oak Ridge 'Reservation' encompasses many hundreds of square miles. However, the town itself -- the
residential area -- occupies only a small percentage of that acreage. The rest has always been under the
purview of the Federal Government; Atomic Energy Commission (AEC); Union Carbide; Martin Marietta,
or whoever holds the reigns of power these days.
The Oak Ridge City cops lacked the authority to cross over into 'the zone', a fact taken full advantage of by
me and my fellow delinquents. With too much time and money on our hands, we sought to relieve our
boredom through frequent incursions into 'the zone', where we'd party hearty in the shadow of K-25, Y-12,
or X-10, the three resident nuke facilities.
We sure-as-hell weren't worried about AEC Security showing up. Those guys were an absolute joke! Even
at the height of the Cold War, we were able to carouse in 'the zone' with impunity. We could've been
Russian spies or worse, and nobody would've known.
Ringed with "DANGER: RADIOACTIVE" signs, we went about our business with the fatalism borne by
Oak Ridgers, and nurtured throughout our formative years. Field trips to the Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (X-10) only served to reinforce that posture, as we gazed down into the luminous depths of the
Heavy Water tank used to cool spent reactor rods. Years later I would learn that that otherworldly glow
had a name: Cerenkov Radiation. As with the radioactive dimes that we took home as souvenirs and
promptly liberated from their plastic casings, it was probably best that we didn't know too much back then.
What you don't know can't hurt you, or so the theory goes...
That was certainly the disposition with which I approached any mention of UFOs at the time, whether in a
periodical, TV show, or even Baby Huey cartoons! The subject made me extremely uncomfortable. When
Time or Life Magazine (I don't remember which) came out with a special UFO issue featuring a full-color
glossy of an alleged UFO on the front cover, my adolescent self went utterly apoplectic. I repeatedly flipped
over the issue
displayed on our coffee table, so as not to have to look at the thing.
Of course, I was weaned -- like most of my generation -- on a steady diet of B-Movies bearing titles like 'It
Came From Outer Space' and 'Invaders from Mars'. And while they also made me uncomfortable, it was
the notion of TV's 'The Invaders', that really made me squirm; those glowing hands... the dissonant music...
the opening sequence with the saucer landing. The notion of something so totally outside of my 'zone' of
reference
ran contrary to the ideals that I held dear: My yearning for a reasonable life, where cause begets effect, and
stuff makes sense.
I have set the stage for the following account. It is through the contextual prism of life in the Atomic City, as
I've
described it, that these 'anecdotes' should be viewed... too- close encounter
When I invited my buddy, Robert, over to cruise for chicks and beer on his first weekend home from
college, UFOs were the very last thing on my mind -- they weren't even on the radar screen. Bob was a
fellow hedonist, and, while I was still adrift in a sea of uncertainty about my future after high school, he had
seized the bull by the horns and enrolled in the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.
He picked me up in the beat up, old Corvair that he'd inherited from his older brother. I was a little heftier
than Bob and, although it took some doing, I squeezed my bulk into the passenger seat. Off we went --
Laurel and Hardy -- into the balmy, autumn evening, headed due west towards the Restricted Zone.
Truthfully, Bob and I weren't all that close. We'd never really hung out together, however, rumor had it that
he had spent his entire first semester at UT racking up one sexual conquest after another, and I was anxious
to hear him dish the dirt. My ears were purt near burnin' as he regaled me with a play-by-play account of his
sexploits, a goodly percentage of which could have been hyperbole; Bob wouldn't be the first young man
who's
inflated his statistics.
Still, Bob was a pretty rational guy, not given to too many flights of fancy. An honor student at Oak Ridge
High, a school that churned out National Merit Finalists like Y-12 turned out nuclear triggers, he'd had the
prettiest girlfriend in school. In other words, he really didn't need to exaggerate very much.
"Let's cruise the plants," I suggested, and Bob agreed. "I haven't had my fix of radiation in a while," he
quipped, only half in jest. "We'll take the grand tour, then come back by the liquor store and buy some beer."
Onward, toward K-25 we trekked, penetrating deep into the Restricted Zone, Bob, all the while, keeping a
running
commentary going about his collegiate conquests. Basically, it was just your typical dude's night out -- two
local boys cruisin' the nuke plants, hoping to stumble upon some action.
Eventually, we found ourselves on Bearcreek Road, the curvy, two-lane road that leads to Y-12. A shift
change was due at the facility in half an hour, but for the time being, we had the thoroughfare to ourselves. It
was a moonless night, so Robert had to drive with extra care. Although quite familiar with the route, the lack
of streetlights or other vehicles only added to the challenges of negotiating its numerous twists and turns on
such a caliginous night.
And then it happened. We were driving along, shootin' the breeze, listening to the A.M. radio, when off to
our right, a bright, fully illuminated object appeared out of nowhere. It was descending at a 30-degree angle,
following the topography of the hillside next to the road, when it abruptly leveled out, stopped, and hovered
no more than twenty feet above the road. Exhibiting every sign of being intelligently controlled, simply by the
ultra-precise manner in which it maneuvered, the UFO seemed to be daring us to approach it and drive
underneath it.
The object was disk-shaped, radiant, metallic, the size of an eighteen-wheeler, and utterly silent. I know,
because at the moment it first appeared in my field of vision, I reached over to turn off the radio. I don't
know why, exactly, but that enabled me to hear whatever ambient noises were present, and other than the
air passing by the open car window, there were none -- other than the pounding of our hearts, of course.
"Oh, God," I cried, "what do we do?"
"I don't know," Robert replied meekly.
The fear, the greatest we had ever known, was robbing us of the ability to speak. Reacting on instinct, Bob
put the pedal-to- the-metal, but this was a Corsair remember, a rickety ol' relic that had long seen its day.
The object awaited us, only a hundred feet or so up ahead. Even at the modest speed we were travelling,
there was no way we could stop -- not in so short a distance. The laws of physics were indeed committing
us to pass right underneath the intruder.
I glanced away, but its otherworldly luminescence still managed to burn its image into my psyche. Robert
wasn't so lucky. He was forced to keep his eyes trained on the road, and it was he who noticed the
prismatic effect that the object exhibited. As though a rainbow were contained within, the UFO pulsed with
an unnatural light.
Passing beyond the 'contact point', all I could think of in my panicked state was the possibility that the UFO
was toying with us, and I suffered another panic attack. Suddenly, a diffuse light appeared on the distant
horizon.
"Could that be?" I wondered.
"I hope so," Bob replied.
What we were seeing were the first familiar signs of humankind: the lights from the western boundary of the
miles long Y-12 plant. It was only a couple of kilometers away. For the next few minutes we hoped and
prayed with every bit of fervor a couple of irreverent teens could muster that we'd make it back to
civilization without another run-in with the mystery craft.
"Just a little further... just a little further," I chanted -- a rather different mantra from my usual call-of-the-wild.
"Thank God...thank God," I intoned in unparalleled relief, once we reached the outer limits of the 'bomb
factory'. It's ironic how something so alien as Y-12, with its enormous electromagnets (largest on the planet)
and cutting edge technologies, could produce such a warm-fuzzy deep within me. A true baby boomer, I
was home...
(postscripts)
Oddly enough, Robert and I never discussed our encounter again. I tried to get him to talk about it once,
several months after the fact when I happened upon him in a pizza joint, but he refused. The very mention of
it made the blood drain from his face and his knees go wobbly. Quasi-hostile, he strong-armed me to the
side and warned me to never bring the subject up again. And so it remained -- that silence between us -- up
until his death of AIDS complications in 1990. In a subsequent conversation with our mutual best friend, I
learned that Bob had
given him a detailed description of the events of that night, and that all of the pertinent details matched up
with my
recollections. It was a relief to know that I wasn't just passing swamp gas...
I once queried Stanton Friedman and John Carpenter, two men who've made it their life's work to study the
UFO phenomenon, what their take on such a close encounter was, and both replied that it fit the alien
abduction profile. "Any encounter that close, usually involves a missing time and/or an abduction
component," was their consensus. Both found Robert's apoplexy when cornered in the pizza joint a
particularly telling constituent. I was completely unaware of both phenomena -- alien abduction and missing
time -- at the time the event occurred. Not
until I assumed the State Directorship of both Kentucky/MUFON and Skywatch did I become aware of
just how much Bob and I fit the profile of likely abductees.
Growing up in the Atomic City you learn a lot about its history, about its birth during World War II, its top-
secret mission, its chief export -- weapons grade uranium -- and about the role it played in bringing the war
to a rapid conclusion. You never hear about its lengthy and well-documented history of UFO surveillance or
about the folks, like Bob and me, who put a human face on the startling statistics. That discovery would also
come later.
In October of 1973, a 'flap' occurred during which UFOs were seen all over the East Coast, from Louisiana
in the south, to Michigan in the north. Oak Ridge, too, had its share of sightings, as her skies were suddenly
adorned with amber ovals, red BOLs (balls of light), and multi-colored whatnots. (See 'Red Balls of...
Light', and 'To Have or Have-Not', for a personal account.)
I feel I'm keeping lofty company to have my tales of the strange-but-true included among the likes of
researchers of such impressive caliber and credentials. Admittedly, my evidence for the status of Oak Ridge,
Tennessee, as a UFO hotspot is anecdotal, but hey -- in the beginning was the word.....
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More Information:
Note HIV and AIDES
DOE's Fluoride Health Cover-up:
Oak Ridge covers up discoveries in health, religion, and environment. In Biblical terms this is the turning to
stone linked illness process. Click here for an in depth technical explantion for the health effects that Oak
Ridge managers covered up and refuse to recognize, so as not to reveil a huge health problem. Oak Ridge
managers claim all is well and there are no problems in Oak Ridge, when there are massive problems with
worker health and community health. The cover up links to the mechanisms for CFS, MCS, and even HIV.
Oak Ridge covers up these health effects due to the massive liabilities their managers have caused. Problems
that are so severe that they can be termed crimes against humanity for those that have intentionally acted to
cover up and conceil this mechanism.
Plain Talk: Whats the big deal? Oak Ridge is a government facility that poisoned its communities and
workers with fluorides. Specifically, huge amounts of extremely toxic hydrogen fluoride and calcium-
fluoride, which cause immune cell damage, higher retention of toxic metals, thyroid damage, and cancer. A
very similar process involving fluorides from nerve gas decomposition and heavy metals is the prime toxic
driver in the Gulf War illnesses. The fluorides and toxic metals damage the mitochondria DNA of immune
cells as they biocentrate into the lymph system and the nervous system. The "mysterious diseases" linked to
fluoride/metal toxic effects are part of the military / industrial network cover up of the toxic problems.
Severe synergisms exist for fluorides and metals that affect the G-proteins in cells and the Gq/11 binding
sites. This process sets off cell damage, macrophage and immune activity, thyroid damage, thyroid hormone
damage, etc. Fluorides produce an insoluble precipitate of calcium fluoride in the stationary macrophages of
the lymph nodes that accumulate because fluorine's electronegativity exceeds oxygen and fluoride calcium
seeks. Toxic metals produce insoluble metal oxides in the lymph nodes. This also sets off local Th1 / TNFa
cytokine response from the secretory macrophage cells that cause apoptosis in the lymph cells and cytokine
signaling confusion in lymph channels. The Th1 in the lymph system is offset by a general Th2 cytokine
response for the total body, which enables cancers and virals. The general effect is seen with CFS, MCS,
HIV, and environmental diseases of GWI and gas diffusion plant workers. These effects are aggrivated by
poor American diets, fluoride in water, pesticides, preservatives, and etc. This effect was discovered by
ORNL Sr. Staff person J. E. Phelps in 1986-87 as it applied to gas diffusion HF loses. The high levels of
lymph node toxic stress (fluorides, isotopes, metals) cause superoxides, NO, etc. that damage the stationary
and mobile macrophage mitochondria that impair the biological DNA digestion leading to immune related
disease and cancer. The lymph node cells are the most highly toxically exposed cells in the body and the first
to malfunction. The effect is the root cause of CFS, MCS, and the mystery ills, all mechanisms well known
in the 1980's and suppressed by Oak Ridge National Lab. Today, the ORNL suppression of this
information and mechanism amounts to a crime against humanity.
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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:02:39 -0800
Here is an incident report from Barry Greenwood's Oak Ridge file. I suspect it came from the FBI. Please
note the radiation detection.
10 November 1950
On 10 November 1950,-------------, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, employee at-------------, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee was interviewed and he stated subtantially as follows: At approximately 1630 hours on 23
October 1950, while driving on the Benton Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, he observed an object
over the Scarboro School (which is in the control area of Oak Ridge) at a distance of one-quarter to three-
eighth of a mile from his position of observations. The object appeared to be between 1000 and 2000 feet
in altitude and was described as an "aluminum flash".
It was traveling in a South Southeast direction. The object was dropping fast as it crossed the road and
disappeared over a ridge--------heard no noise in connection with this object.
At approximately the time of this observation, a background (Geiger) counter located in the vicinity of this
observation registered a reading for Alpha and Beta particles. -----------
with the Health and Research Division of Oak Ridge Naitonal Laboratories, has stated that a reading
received on this background counter is unexplained.
NPTES: No intentional or accidental releases which would give such a reading were made during month
October.
The Radar Station, Knoxville, Tennessee, has not reported a radar sighting on the date and time of this
observation.
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Oak Ridge sighting by security patrol, 10/13/50
From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 19:59:15 -0800
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997
From: Jerry Washington <skyeking@aye.net>
It's been awhile, but I'm back with another casefile from Oak Ridge, Tennessee: my hometown. The
"Atomic City" has a long and storied history where the UFO phenomenon is concerned, and this is just one
account among many that are available for public consumption, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act,
and books by guys such as J. Allen Hynek (CUFOS), and Edward J.Ruppelt (Project Blue Book).
Jerry Washington SD KY/MUFON
The following account is taken from an FBI document (circa 1950) sent by J. Edgar Hoover to Mr. Francis
R. Hammock, Acting Director of the Division of Security of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington,
D.C.:
"On 13 October, 1950, Atomic Energy Security Patrol Trooper, Edward D.Rymer, and a caretaker,
John Moneymaker, from the University of Tennessee Research Farm, at Oak Ridge, saw an object at about
12,000 to 15,000 feet above Solway Gate of the "Control Zone." This object appeared to be an aircraft
which was starting to make an outside loop, trailing smoke behind. Soon these two men realized that the
formerly described smoke behind the aircraft was a tail. This object continued to descend in a controlled
dive, and when it approached the ground it leveled off and flew slowly, parallel to the ground. This object
came within two hundred and ten (210)
feet of the two observers and was paralleling the ground at approximately six (6) feet. Trooper Rymer
attempted to approach the object but as he approached the object became smaller and started moving in a
southeasterly direction. This object is said to have approached a nine (9) foot cyclone chain link fence and
made a controlled movement to clear the fence, then a Willow tree, then a telephone post and wire, after
which the object
gained momentum and altitude and cleared a hill at approximately one (1) mile away. The object appeared
to be pear shaped. When this object was over the hill it was still visible as the same object that was
observed when only fifty (50) feet away. (The explanation given was that this object grew larger as it gained
altitude and speed.)
Approximately five minutes later the object appeared again having reappeared from approximately the
same location from which it had disappeared. The object was seen again five minutes later for approximately
ten seconds.
During the above happenings, Mr. John Moneymaker had visual reference of this object during its first
[appearance] for approximately seven minutes. Trooper Rymer was interrupted twice during which times he
called his headquarters in an attempt to get other observers. Also, during the fantastic flight of this object,
Trooper Rymer stopped Mr. E.W. Hightower, who was on the highway in his vehicle, to verify what was
being seen. Mr.
Hightower's statement substantiates the description as before.
By the time the object appeared the second time, Joe Zarzecki, Captain of the Atomic Energy
Commission Security Patrol, was present and also witnessed this phenomenon. Each of the observers
describes the object substantially as follows:
a. When the object was first sighted it appeared to be an aircraft trailing smoke, or better described as
"smoke writing."
b. When the object was approaching the ground in its descent, it took on the shape of a bullet with a
large tail.
c. When the object was sighted on the ground (from app. 210 ft.) It appeared to be approximately the
size
of a 2x5 card {from a distance], with a twenty (20) foot ribbon tail. The object and the tail were alternately
moving up and down, and the ribbon appeared to be waving in the breeze. The color was a metallic gray.
d. When Trooper Rymer came within fifty (50) feet of the object he described it similar to the above
except that the first two and one-half (2 ½) feet of the tail appeared more solid, but the last seventeen and
one-half (17 ½) feet of the tail appeared almost transparent and was glowing, intermittently, in sections.
The tail appeared to have four or five sections which would glow intermittently.
Trooper Rymer's record is among the best of the troopers at the Atomic Energy Commission Securty
Patrol. Mr. John Moneymaker holds badge No.UT-1817, and is employed by the University of Tennessee
Agricultural Research Farm as a caretaker for small animals. Mr. E.W. Hightower holds badge No. 6633
and is an employee of the Maxon Construction Company.
The Controller, Capt. W. Akin, of Detachment No. 2…at the Knoxville Airport Radar Site, made a
report that he had seen peculiar readings on the radar scopes at approximately 1520 hours. Apparently the
radar picture was indefinite, intermittent, and inaccurate, because the objects sighted by radar would only
make a short "painting" on the scope and would then disappear only to reappear at another location."
Attached to this Summary are eleven (11) enclosures which tend to clarify information contained in the
former two (2) Summaries of Information on SUBJECT. These enclosures are composed of witness
statements; background information concerning previous sightings of peculiar objects over Oak Ridge; and
radar
reports. The most reliable sources available were utilized in the compilation of this report. The employment
records and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports concerning the witnesses were inspected to
ascertain their reliability, integrity, and loyalty to the United States Government.
The opinions of the officials of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge; Security Branch, ??PA [partially
unreadable] Division, Oak Ridge: AEC Security Patrol, Oak Ridge; FBI, Knoxville: Air Force Radar and
Fighter squadrons, Knoxville; and the OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee, FAIL TO EVOLVE AN ADEQUATE
EXPLANATION FOR SUBJECT [emphasis mine] however, the possibilities of practical jokers, mass
hysteria, balloons of any description, flights of birds (with or without cobwebs or other objects attached),
falling leaves, insect swarms, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the
ground, windblown objects, insanity, and many other natural happenings HAVE BEEN REJECTED
because of the
simultaneous witnessing of the objects with the reported radar sightings; because of the reliability of the
witnesses;
because of the detailed, similar description of the objects seen by different persons; and BECAUSE OF
IMPOSSIBILITY…"
(The previous document was declassified in 1983.)
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ALCOA
9/9/55
(Bluebook)
12 noon. Witness: M.N. Dawkins, using binoculars. One brown, almost square object flew with a circular
motion for 10-15 minutes.
ALTO
4/5/66
(Magonia)
Two men stopped to watch an object hovering above a swamp and tried to follow it, but it flew away. They
observed that animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the object crossed. A
photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force showed an oval object, 30 meters long, flying at 5 meters
altitude, between a high-tension line and a row of trees. (Bluebook) 11:55 p.m. Witness: W. Smith. One
oval object with a dark top, appeared cone-shaped when moving. It made a high-frequency noise during the
2.5 hour sighting.
CHATANOOGA
6/7/98
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
CHATTANOOGA
November 11, 2002
See Filer's Files
DANDRIDGE
8/23/99
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
DANDRIDGE
9/25/99
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
FAYETTEVILLE
3/28/66
(Magonia)
A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly encountered a large lighted object 1 meter above the
road on a hilltop. It flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The bulbs had to be replaced in the lights.
The object was oval, 7 meters long, dark gray, and showed about 30 lights along it periphery.
GALLATIN
9/7/99
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
GATLINBURG
9/23/54
(Bluebook)
9:45 a.m. Witness: Dave Owenby. Two bright silver, wheel-shaped objects flew from north to south in trail
for 2 minutes.
GERMANTOWN
September 8, 2002
See Filer's Files
GERMANTOWN
September 28, 2002
See Filer's Files
HALL'S CROSSROADS
11/30/00
UFO Roundup vol 3 #24
KNOXVILLE
10/21/52
(Bluebook)
No time given. Witnesses: persons at airport weather station. Six white lights flew in a loose formation for 1-
2 minutes, and made a shallow dive at a weather balloon.
LAKE CITY
11/20/55
(Bluebook)
5:20 p.m. Witnesses: Operations Officer Capt. B.G. Denkler and five men of the USAF 663rd AC&W
Sqdn. Two oblong, bright orange, semi-transparent objects flew at terrific speed and erratically, toward and
away from each other. Observed by various persons form 4 to 15 minutes.
LAVERGNE
July 22, 2002
See Filer's Files
LYNNVILLE
April 12, 2002
See Filer's Files
MARROWBORE LAKE
3/29/50
(Bluebook)
7 a.m. Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside and Williams. Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb.
bombs, estimated 5 feet long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise like wind blowing through
the trees.
MEMPHIS
4/14/52
(Bluebook)
6:34 p.m. Witnesses: U.S. Navy pilots Lt. jg. Blacky, Lt. jg. O'Neil. One inverted bowl, 3' long and 1' high,
with vertical slots, flew fast, straight and level, 100 yards from observers' aircraft for 45-60 seconds.
MEMPHIS
November 2, 2001
See Filer's Files
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Back on the American homefront, on the banks of the Clinch River at Oak Ridge, TN, a huge, black,
windowless building was being constructed. In the middle of Sept 1944, this structure, a gaseous diffusion
plant, began operation. This unusual factory was designed to prepare quantities of fissionable material for the
US' most important secret weapon, the A-bomb.
"Shortly after the plant began operations, the area had a vary odd visitor. A strange, metallic looking, tube-
like object was spotted hovering over the road near the Oak Ridge plant. The object moved away as a
crowd started to gather. The sighting was reported to the FBI (20)."
Original Source: Charles Fort. Reference (20) is from Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story.
NICAP Larry Hatch
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CONFIDENTIAL
October 18, 1950
Director, FBI
SAC, Knoxville
Objects Over Oak Ridge, October 12, 15, 16, 1950
PROTECTION OF VITAL FACILITIES
Ramytel October 13, 1950
There is being submitted herewith a copy of two reports made by District Representative of the OSI, 8th
District, U.S. Air Force, with regard to the detection of unidentified objects by the means of radar, as set
forth in
referenced teletype. These reports continue to set forth additional reports concerning unidentified objects in
the air space are over Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which to date have not been explained.
No investigation is being conducted by the Knoxville Office in this matter, but any further information
received from OSI or from CIC representatives will be forwarded immediately.
Air Mail
CCM:jaw
65-473
Enc.
(produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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#1667: 1950/10/20 16:50 10 84:17:0W 35:59:0N 3333 NAM USA TNS 7 8
OAK RIDGE,TN:AEC MAN:MTL "BALLOON" HVRS:CHANGES SHAPE?:RDR
CONFIRM:JETS CHASE
Ref# 26 FAWCETT+GREENWOOD: UFO COVERUP. Page No. 172 MNTNS
OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER "Control Zone"
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
October 20, 1950
FBI Report:
At 1655 hours, on 20 October 1950, Mr. Larry P. Riordan, AEC Badge No.522, Superintendent of
Security at X-10 in the "Control Zone" at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, while enroute from X-10 to the Oak
Ridge residential area, on Benton Valley Road, saw an object in the sky which appeared to be directly over
the University of Tennessee Agricultural Research Farm. This object gave the general appearance of an
aerial balloon which had lost its "basket." In other words, the object was generally round; appeared to come
together at the bottom in wrinkles (rather indistinct), and something was hanging below. The balloon was
described as being from eight to ten feet long; of a lead pipe or gunmetal color; and seemed to be
approximately one-fourth (¼) mile from the observer, at a thirty (30) degree elevation above the horizon.
The object was apparently stationary but since the observer was in a moving vehicle, he did not verify that it
was stationary. As the vehicle in which he was travelling changed position, and went around a curve, Mr.
Riordan noticed that this object appeared to be thinner. He concludes that by reason of his changing
position, or the object changing its altitude, he observed another angle of the object which appeared to be
thinner than upon his first sighting.
At the time of the observation there was adequate light and the object was plainly visible. Mr.Riordan is a
responsible person, as is indicated by his position, and he has been aware of the many instances of reported
objects flying in the sky. He is also very familiar with the weather balloons which are sent up hourly each day
over Oak Ridge between 6:00 AM of one day until 1:00 AM of the next day. The size of these balloons
vary, but generally they are similar to a circus balloon which is about twenty- four (24) inches in diameter.
Mr. Riordan is certain that the object was not a
weather balloon but his first impression was that this object was an experimental "gab" being utilized by the
University of Tennessee Agricultural Research Farm.
Mr. Riordan has been the Security Chief of X-10 since 14 July 1943. His vision is normal except that he has
negligible impairment of the right eye. Like many of the Atomic Energy Commission officials, Mr. Riordan
has hoped for the opportunity to see one of these objects, and under the circumstances, he visualized it as
accurately as possible.
At 1845 hours, on 24 October 1950, Mr. William B. Fry, Assistant Chief of Security, NEPA Division, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, while attending a Drive- in theater with his wife and child, at Oak Ridge, noticed an
object in the sky North-Northwest of his position, at a thirty (30) to forty (40) degree elevation. This object
was moving gently in a horizontal plane, back and forth, within thirty (30) degrees of his line of sight. This
object emitted a glow, varying in color from red to green, to blue-green, to blue, and to orange. The
variations were checked on the vertical window post of Mr. Fry's vehicle and were witnessed by Mr. Fry's
wife. The attention of another observer, the Projectionist at the Drive-in theater, was also called to the
object and verification of this sighting was made. The object disappeared from his sight at 1920 hours.
At 1855 hours, on 24 October, 1950, an Air Force Major, Lawrence Ballweg, NEPA Division, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee, also saw from his residence an object which he described similarly. The object
disappeared from the sight of Mr. Ballweg at 1920 hours, which coincides with the time of disappearance of
the object from Mr. Fry's sight.
On 20 October 1950, at 1527 hours, aircraft No. AF-409, Pilot Wolf, 5th AW-Fighter Sqd., took off from
the Knoxville Airport for a "local patrol." The Radar Unit at Knoxville Airport received readings on their
Radar scope and sent the aircraft after these targets. The aircraft pilot was unable to identify any flying
object in the vicinity of the said targets. All targets were between eighteen (18) and twenty-five (25) miles
from the Airport at 320 degrees. The aircraft was landed at 1713 hours. (Attention is invited to the fact that
these targets were sighted at approximately the same time, and
locality, that was reported by Mr. Larry Riordan.)
On 24 October 1950, at 1823 hours, several small, slow targets were seen on the Radar screen at the
Knoxville Airport Radar Site. These targets appeared in the Southeast sector of the "Restricted Flying
Zone" and over the city of Oak Ridge. These targets moved from the city area to and along the East
boundary of the area. At 1826 hours, the fighter aircraft was "scrambled" and proceeded to the area where
it was vectored among the targets but the pilot reported no visual contact with said targets. At 1920 hours
the targets disappeared from the Radar Screen and the fighter was vectored toward another target believed
to be one of three (3) aircraft enroute from Andrews Field to Steward Field. (Note: 1920 hours is also the
time that the object sighted by Mr. Fry and Major Ballweg disappeared from their view).
(Source: FBI, Clear Intent, 172)
(produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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OAK RIDGE SIGHTING BY SECURITY PATROL
10/13/50
[From Current Encounters Mailing List]
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997
From: Jerry Washington <skyeking@aye.net>
It's been awhile, but I'm back with another casefile from Oak Ridge, Tennessee: my hometown. The
"Atomic City" has a long and storied history where the UFO phenomenon is concerned, and this is just one
account among many that are available for public consumption, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act,
and books by guys such as J. Allen Hynek (CUFOS), and Edward J.Ruppelt (Project Blue Book).
Jerry Washington
SD KY/MUFON
The following account is taken from an FBI document (circa 1950) sent by J. Edgar Hoover to Mr. Francis
R. Hammock, Acting Director of the Division of Security of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington,
D.C.:
"On 13 October, 1950, Atomic Energy Security Patrol Trooper, Edward D.Rymer, and a caretaker,
John Moneymaker, from the University of Tennessee Research Farm, at Oak Ridge, saw an object at about
12,000 to 15,000 feet above Solway Gate of the "Control Zone." This object appeared to be an aircraft
which was starting to make an outside loop, trailing smoke behind. Soon these two men realized that the
formerly described smoke behind the aircraft was a tail. This object continued to descend in a controlled
dive, and when it approached the ground it leveled off and flew slowly, parallel to the ground. This object
came within two hundred and ten (210)
feet of the two observers and was paralleling the ground at approximately six (6) feet. Trooper Rymer
attempted to approach the object but as he approached the object became smaller and started moving in a
southeasterly direction. This object is said to have approached a nine (9) foot cyclone chain link fence and
made a controlled movement to clear the fence, then a Willow tree, then a telephone post and wire, after
which the object
gained momentum and altitude and cleared a hill at approximately one (1) mile away. The object appeared
to be pear shaped. When this object was over the hill it was still visible as the same object that was
observed when only fifty (50) feet away. (The explanation given was that this object grew larger as it gained
altitude and speed.)
Approximately five minutes later the object appeared again having reappeared from approximately the
same location from which it had disappeared. The object was seen again five minutes later for approximately
ten seconds.
During the above happenings, Mr. John Moneymaker had visual reference of this object during its first
[appearance] for approximately seven minutes. Trooper Rymer was interrupted twice during which tim es he
called his headquarters in an attempt to get other observers. Also, during the fantastic flight of this object,
Trooper Rymer stopped Mr. E.W. Hightower, who was on the highway in his vehicle, to verify what was
being seen. Mr.
Hightower's statement substantiates the description as before.
By the time the object appeared the second time, Joe Zarzecki, Captain of the Atomic Energy
Commission Security Patrol, was present and also witnessed this phenomenon. Each of the observers
describes the object substantially as follows:
a. When the object was first sighted it appeared to be an aircraft trailing smoke, or better described as
"smoke writing."
b. When the object was approaching the ground in its descent, it took on the shape of a bullet with a
large tail.
c. When the object was sighted on the ground (from app. 210 ft.) It appeared to be approximately the
size
of a 2x5 card {from a distance], with a twenty (20) foot ribbon tail. The object and the tail were alternately
moving up and
down, and the ribbon appeared to be waving in the breeze. The color was a metallic gray.
d. When Trooper Rymer came within fifty (50) feet of the object he described it similar to the above
except that the first two and one-half (2 ½) feet of the tail appeared more solid, but the last seventeen and
one-half (17 ½) feet of the tail appeared almost transparent and was glowing, intermittently, in sections.
The tail appeared to have four or five sections which would glow intermittently.
Trooper Rymer's record is among the best of the troopers at the Atomic Energy Commission Securty
Patrol. Mr. John Moneymaker holds badge No.UT-1817, and is employed by the University of Tennessee
Agricultural Research Farm as a caretaker for small animals. Mr. E.W. Hightower holds badge No. 6633
and is an employee of the Maxon Construction Company.
The Controller, Capt. W. Akin, of Detachment No. 2…at the Knoxville Airport Radar Site, made a
report that he had seen peculiar readings on the radar scopes at approximately 1520 hours. Apparently the
radar picture was indefinite, intermittent, and inaccurate, because the objects sighted by radar would only
make a short "painting" on the scope and would then disappear only to reappear at another location."
Attached to this Summary are eleven (11) enclosures which tend to clarify information contained in the
former two (2) Summaries of Information on SUBJECT. These enclosures are composed of witness
statements; background information concerning previous sightings of peculiar objects over Oak Ridge; and
radar
reports. The most reliable sources available were utilized in the compilation of this report. The employment
records and the Federal Bureau of Investigation reports concerning the witnesses were inspected to
ascertain their reliability, integrity, and loyalty to the United States Government.
The opinions of the officials of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge; Security Branch, ??PA [partially
unreadable] Division, Oak Ridge: AEC Security Patrol, Oak Ridge; FBI, Knoxville: Air Force Radar and
Fighter squadrons, Knoxville; and the OSI, Knoxville, Tennessee, FAIL TO EVOLVE AN ADEQUATE
EXPLANATION FOR SUBJECT [emphasis mine] however, the possibilities of practical jokers, mass
hysteria, balloons of
any description, flights of birds (with or without cobwebs or other objects attached), falling leaves, insect
swarms, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the ground, windblown
objects, insanity, and many other natural happenings HAVE BEEN REJECTED because of the
simultaneous witnessing of the objects with the reported radar sightings; because of the reliability of the
witnesses; because of the detailed, similar description of the objects seen by different persons; and
BECAUSE OF IMPOSSIBILITY…"
(The previous document was declassified in 1983.)Created: Oct 5, 1997
(produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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UFO INCIDENT AT OAK RIDGE, TN
11/10/1950
Jan Aldrich: Here is an incident report from Barry Greenwood's Oak Ridge file. I suspect it came from the
FBI. Please note the radiation detection.
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10 November 1950
On 10 November 1950,-------------, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, employee at-------------, Oak Ridge,
Tennessee was interviewed and he stated subtantially as follows: At approximately 1630 hours on 23
October 1950, while driving on the Benton Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, he observed an object
over the Scarboro School (which is in the control area of Oak Ridge) at a distance of one-quarter to three-
eighth of a mile from his position of observations. The object appeared to be between 1000 and 2000 feet
in altitude and was described as an "aluminum flash".
It was traveling in a South Southeast direction. The object was dropping fast as it crossed the road and
disappeared over a ridge--------heard no noise in connection with this object.
At approximately the time of this observation, a background (Geiger) counter located in the vicinity of this
observation registered a reading for Alpha and Beta particles. -----------
with the Health and Research Division of Oak Ridge Naitonal Laboratories, has stated that a reading
received on this background counter is unexplained.
NPTES: No intentional or accidental releases which would give such a reading were made during month
October.
The Radar Station, Knoxville, Tennessee, has not reported a radar sighting on the date and time of this
observation. Created: Sep 23, 1997 (produced for the NICAP site by Francis Ridge)
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Continued.
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| Some of this Information was obtained through the Krill Report The Mystery Choppers Situations involving the mystery helicopters appear to be a little more insidious. A good example is an event which occurred in Madison County, Montana, between June and October of 1976. Twenty-two confirmed cattle mutilations had occurred during that period, and they were accompanied by reports throughout the county of silent, unmarked, jet-black helicopters, flashing or steady anomalous lights in the air and near the ground, unmarked fixed- wing aircraft and white vans in remote and previously inaccessible areas. Toward the latter part of this period, in early autumn of 1976, a hunter from Bozeman, Montana, was out alone around 3:00pm one day in the Red Mountain area near Norris. He watched as a black helicopter without markings flew overhead and disappeared below a small hill. The curious hunter climbed to the top of the hill. There was the black chopper (a Bell Jet Ranger, he thought) on the ground, the engine still running. Seven men had apparently exited from the craft and were walking up the hill toward the observer. As the hunter advanced toward the seven, he waved and shouted congenial greetings. It was then that he realized there was something about the men -- they were all Oriental. They had slanted eyes and olive skin and were jabbering among themselves in some indecipherable language. They wore "everyday" clothes, not uniforms. Suddenly they began to return to the helicopter. The hunter, still waving and shouting friendly greetings, started after them. The Orientals quickened their pace. When the hunter approached within five or six feet, they broke into a dead run, crowded into the chopper and took off. In a documented "mystery helicopter" wave in England, accounts place Oriental-appearing occupants in an unidentified chopper. Slant-eyed, olive skinned, Oriental-seeming occupants have been a staple at the heart and at the periphery of UFO accounts for years. Significant numbers of the infamous "men-in- black" (MIB) have a similar appearance, but very often they are seen as very pale and gaunt men who are sensitive to light. In STIGMATA No. 5 (Fall-Winter 1978) Tom Adams outlined the most prominent speculative explanations accounting for the mutilation/helicopter link, including the following: The helicopters are themselves UFOs, disguised to appear as terrestrial craft. The choppers originate from within the U.S. government/military and are directly involved in conducting the actual mutilations. The helicopters are government/military and are not involved in the mutilations but are investigating them. The helicopters are government/military, and they know about the identity and motives of the mutilators and by their presence, they are trying to divert attention to the possibility of involvement by the military. The answer, as far as Tom Adams is concerned, could be a combination of the above explanations. There also has been speculation that they are involved in biological experiments with chemical or biological warfare or the geobotanical pursuit of petroleum and mineral deposits. On one occasion, an army standard-type scalpel was found at a mutilation site. Since the disks have been mostly involved with the mutilations, it is thought that this was a diversionary event. These events, or the discussion of them, is just the precursor to the actual revelations of what is behind the mutilations: alien acquisition of biological materials for their own use. To discuss this in a logical and sequential manner, we must review what has been really happening right under our noses: direct interaction with extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE's). To discuss that, however, we must attempt to start at the beginning with what we now know to be true. It seemingly all began thousands of years ago, but for the purposes of this discussion, let's start with some events that we all are familiar with. In 1947, two years after we set off the first nuclear explosion that our current civilization detonated, came the Mantell episode, where we had the first recorded incident of a military confrontation with extraterrestrials that resulted in the death of a military pilot. It is quite evident now that our government did not known quite how to handle the situation. In 1952, the nation's capital was overflown by a series of disks. During this period, the government established a working group, known as Majestic Twelve (MJ-12). The original members were: Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, Dr. Vannevar Bush, Secretary James Forrestal, General Nathan P. Twining, General Hoyt S. Vandenburg, Dr. Detlev Bronk, Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, Mr. Sidney W. Souers, Mr. Gordon Gray, Dr. Donald Menzel, General Robert M. Montague, and Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner. The MJ-12 group has been a continuously existing group since it was created, with new members replacing others that die. For example, when Secretary Forrestal was upset at seeing the United States sold out in World War II, he wound up being sent to a Naval hospital for emotional strain. Before relatives could get to him, he "jumped out a 16th story window." Most persons close to him consider his suicide contrived. When Forrestal died, he was replaced by General Walter B. Smith. In 1949, MJ-12 evolved an initial plan of contingency called MJ-1949-04P/78 that was to make allowance for public disclosure of some data should the necessity present itself. Majestic Twelve was originally organized by General George C. Marshall in July, 1947, to study the Roswell-Magdalena UFO crash recovery and debris. Admiral Hillenkoetter, director of the CIA from May 1, 1947, until September, 1950, decided to activate the "Robertson Panel," which was designed to monitor civilian UFO study groups that were appearing all over the country. He also joined NICAP in 1956 and was chosen as a member of its board of directors. It was from this position that he was able to act as the MJ-12 "mole," along with his team of other covert experts. They were able to steer NICAP in any direction they wanted to go. With the "Flying Saucer Program" under complete control of MJ-12 and with the physical evidence hidden away, General Marshall felt more at ease with this very bizarre situation. These men and their successors have most successfully kept most of the public fooled for years, including much of the western world, by setting up false experts and throwing their influence behind them to make their plan work, with considerable success. |
| Black helicopters do exist, they have no identification marks, and they are not that secret. A source who wished to remain anonymous sent these pictures. The craft shown here is the successor of the Argus, the Northrop Grumman Ryan model 379 VTUAV, a small size helicopter ... without a pilot! The craft is in use by the US Navy for example, they do publish the same photographs on their web site, accompanied with all the tehcnical data. This kind of unmanned crafts are intensively developped and tested by the US military in the recent years, and will probably be deployed for operational use between 2000 and 2025, depending on budget considerations. As these crafts generally have no identification marks, they might -or might not- be the famous "black helicopters". Due to their small size, they might appear to the naive observer as "UFO manoeuvering at high speed in the distance". But on the other end, they are not at all silent, and you can be confident that tests of such crafts are not conducted over populated areas but rather over desertic dedicated test ranges. These crafts are also quite recent: there was no informatics capacities in the last decades to get an aircaft of any kind to fly in a stable manner under no human control. In few word, when a flying device is observed near a military test range these days, it is more and more difficult to discriminate between human or possibly non-human crafts. But such craft cannot be used to dismiss cases of the past decades, particularly if the UFO case is reported as "unexplained" by the military themselves. Photos and Information by: http://www.chez.com/lesovnis/htm/blackheli.htm |
| BLACK HELICOPTER HARRASSMENT THIS IS HAPPENING OUTSIDE HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS A GOOD FRIEND OF MINE IS BEING HARASSED BY BLACK UNMARKED HELOCOPTERS!! THIS IS NOT JUST A ONE TIME HAPPENING BUT HAS BEING GOING ON FOR MONTHS. THERE HAVE BEEN BLACKHAWKS, HUEYS, COBRAS, AND APPACHIES. NOT ALL HAVE BEEN BLACK, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN ALL HARASSING HIM AT NEAR TREETOP LEVEL. AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE ARE NO MARKINGS ON THIS PARTICULAR ONE. THEY COME TWO DAYS THEN OFF A DAY THEN BACK THE 4TH DAY. THIS PARTICULAR ONE BLEW OFF A COVER TO HIS CHICKEN PEN AND HE LOST 54 CHICKENS. HIS HOGS BROKE OUT OF THEIR PEN AND HIS ROCKWIELER DOG WAS RUNNING FOR COVER UNDER THE HOUSE. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN FIXED WING PLANES CIRCLING HIS 10 ACRES FOR HOURS. I HAVE SPOKEN TO HIS NEIGBORS AND THEY HAVE VERIFIED THESE ACCOUNTS. WHY IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING THIS? SEE FOR YOURSELF...... THIS IS REAL DOCUMENTATION OF JUST ONE OF MANY MANY MANY HARASSMENTS, BUT THE ONLY ONE WHICH HE PHOTOGRAPHED. IF THEY WILL DO THIS TO THIS AMERICAN VETERAN AND PATRIOT, JUST THINK WHAT THEY MAY BE PLANNING FOR THE REST OF US. "WHAT YOU DO UNTO THE LEAST OF THESE, YOU DO UNTO ME!" ARE YOU NEXT? AM I? Editors Note: IF anyone has any information on this contact BUFO Paranormal and UFO Radio IMMEDIATELY! |
| Click here to read the diary of an alien abductee from Tennessee. The Abduction of Eddie Moore |
Another Report from Tennessee
I was reading the postings on you website at http:
//www.burlingtonnews.net/ufotennesseeoakridge.html
and wanted to share my own story which also seems
to have a connection to Oak Ridge area sightings.
One Summer evening in 1978 (exact date lost to
memory), when I was 9 years old, my father, mother
and sister and I were driving home from a trip to the
store via Middlebrook Pike. It was twilight as we
headed west toward the intersection of Weisgarber
Road and Middlebrook Pike.
As we approached the intersection, a large, brilliantly
lit craft caught our eyes. It was a slow moving oval
shaped craft which appears to be about four to five
stories in high and was only a couple of hundred feet in
altitude. As it approached from the Northwestern sky,
we could see that is had an incredibly bright light
shinning upward from the top of the craft like a spot
light. There also seemed to be steam coming from the
top. The light was so bright in fact that it left a bright
spot on the ceiling of clouds above.
As it came closer, we could also see that the craft was
covered with literally thousands of small lights of every
color which seemed to cycle through the color
spectrum. It had many long rods protruding from its
side which were also covered in these multicolored,
dynamic lights. Some of the rods seemed to be moving
while others seemed stationary.
I asked my father to stop the car so we could get out
and watch the craft, but he said no in a nervous voice I
was not used to hearing from him. We kept driving.
Traffic was heavy, and even slowed a bit because so
many commuters were distracted by the object. As
we continued our drive home, I did see a few cars pull
off the road and into the grass. I even saw one man
trying to take a picture of the craft with a camera as he
leaned on the roof of his car.
When we arrived home, my friends ran into my yard
and said, “you’ll never guess what we saw.â
€� I told them we had seen it too and they describe
the craft exactly. They said it came very low over the
neighborhood (Canby Hills Road) crossing Mountain
Creek Lane (a Cul-De-Sac) and headed slowly
Southeeast. They said it made absolutely no sound as
it drifted across the night sky.
For days, my friends and I watched the news hoping
to see a report about the incident. However, no report
even came.
Recently, it occurred to me that I could use the two
known points of sighting (1- Middlebrook
Pike/Weisgarber Rd and 2- Montain Creek Lane Cul-
De-Sac) to plot the possible flight path of the object.
After doing this I discovered an interesting possibility.
If the object flew in a straight line from the Northwest
as it appear to be doing, then it would have passed
directly over the restricted airspace of Oak Ridge
National Laboratories. Surely, such a sighting would
not have gone unnoticed over such a facility.
I know many people who still remember the event and
can describe it in equal detail. I would be interested in
hearing from others, via this site, who may have
witnessed what we saw that evening. I find it very
strange that an event witnessed by so many people
never made it to the news in any form. Greg Allen
I was reading the postings on you website at http:
//www.burlingtonnews.net/ufotennesseeoakridge.html
and wanted to share my own story which also seems
to have a connection to Oak Ridge area sightings.
One Summer evening in 1978 (exact date lost to
memory), when I was 9 years old, my father, mother
and sister and I were driving home from a trip to the
store via Middlebrook Pike. It was twilight as we
headed west toward the intersection of Weisgarber
Road and Middlebrook Pike.
As we approached the intersection, a large, brilliantly
lit craft caught our eyes. It was a slow moving oval
shaped craft which appears to be about four to five
stories in high and was only a couple of hundred feet in
altitude. As it approached from the Northwestern sky,
we could see that is had an incredibly bright light
shinning upward from the top of the craft like a spot
light. There also seemed to be steam coming from the
top. The light was so bright in fact that it left a bright
spot on the ceiling of clouds above.
As it came closer, we could also see that the craft was
covered with literally thousands of small lights of every
color which seemed to cycle through the color
spectrum. It had many long rods protruding from its
side which were also covered in these multicolored,
dynamic lights. Some of the rods seemed to be moving
while others seemed stationary.
I asked my father to stop the car so we could get out
and watch the craft, but he said no in a nervous voice I
was not used to hearing from him. We kept driving.
Traffic was heavy, and even slowed a bit because so
many commuters were distracted by the object. As
we continued our drive home, I did see a few cars pull
off the road and into the grass. I even saw one man
trying to take a picture of the craft with a camera as he
leaned on the roof of his car.
When we arrived home, my friends ran into my yard
and said, “you’ll never guess what we saw.â
€� I told them we had seen it too and they describe
the craft exactly. They said it came very low over the
neighborhood (Canby Hills Road) crossing Mountain
Creek Lane (a Cul-De-Sac) and headed slowly
Southeeast. They said it made absolutely no sound as
it drifted across the night sky.
For days, my friends and I watched the news hoping
to see a report about the incident. However, no report
even came.
Recently, it occurred to me that I could use the two
known points of sighting (1- Middlebrook
Pike/Weisgarber Rd and 2- Montain Creek Lane Cul-
De-Sac) to plot the possible flight path of the object.
After doing this I discovered an interesting possibility.
If the object flew in a straight line from the Northwest
as it appear to be doing, then it would have passed
directly over the restricted airspace of Oak Ridge
National Laboratories. Surely, such a sighting would
not have gone unnoticed over such a facility.
I know many people who still remember the event and
can describe it in equal detail. I would be interested in
hearing from others, via this site, who may have
witnessed what we saw that evening. I find it very
strange that an event witnessed by so many people
never made it to the news in any form. Greg Allen