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This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section compiles 1950 to 1952 reports of unidentified aerial objects shared with the FBI. Most of it is an Air Force OSI investigation, dated May 12, 1952, into Donald Stewart's claim that a disc hovered over his car on Ritchie Highway near Baltimore. His companion George Tyler III later admitted he saw nothing. The file also covers disks seen at the Savannah River Plant, radar and visual sightings over Oak Ridge, a Fairbanks, Alaska jet pilot report, and an Ashland, Kentucky sighting.
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OBJECTS SIGHTED OVER OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE (In compliance with latter AJACI-360.33 General, dated 15 November 1950, Headquarters, third Army, Subject; Unconventional Aircraft, the following is submitted.) A. Location and Time of Sighting: From 1605 hours for about three (3) hours, on 14 December 1951, on the Radar Scopes of the 663rd AC and W Squadron, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knorville, Tennessee. B. Weather at the Time: At 1600 hours on 14 December 1950—"Ceiling-2100 feet; Broken overcast; Seven (7) miles visibility; Temperature-37 degrees F.; and Wind - Southwest at thirteen (13) miles per hour. C. Names, Occupations, and Addresses of Witnesses: Personnel of the 663rd AC and W Squadron, 30th Air Division, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knorville, Tennessee, who were on duty at the time. Their occupations are Radar operators, Supervisors, and experts. D. Photographs of Objects, if available: No photographs taken. See "F" below. E. Object Sighted: A group of targets blanketed the Radar Scopes in the area directly over the government Atomic Energy Commission projects at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. These objects could not be identified from the radar image and a perfect fighter interception met with negative results. F. Any other pertinent information: Lt. Robinson of the 663rd AC and W Squadron, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knorville, Tennessee took photographs of the scope readings with a personal, four (4) by five (5) Speed Graphite Camera, using Plus-X civilian procured film, a lens opening of F-2.5, and a shutter speed varying from twenty (20) to forty-five (45) seconds. The negatives were printed and forwarded to the 30th Air Division, Selfridge Air Forcue Base, Michigan, which installation printed the negatives and sent copies thereof to the 663rd AC and W Squadron. The numerous targets can readily identified from the permanent radar echoes by comparing the photographs. (B-2) SOURCE: Personnel and logs of the 663rd AC and W Squadron, McGhee Tyson Airport, Knorville, Tennessee.
FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 56 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.