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SUMMARY or INFORMATION
’Alien the object vcas approaching the ground in its descent, it took on
the shape of a bullet with a large tail.
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c. LTien the object was sighted on the ground (from approximately two
hundred and ten (210) feet) it appeared to be apjroxiniately the size
of a 2x5_4card, with a twenty (20) foot ribbon tail. The object and
the tail was alternately moving up and down, and the ribbon appeared
to be waving in the breeze. The color was a metallic grey.
( d. Uhen Trooper Rymer came within fifty (50) feet of the object he
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Trooper Rymer's record is among the best of the troopers at the Atomic
Energy Commission Security Patrol. Er. John Ifoneymaker holds badge IJc. UT-?
and is employed by the University of Tennessee'Agricultural Research Farm as a
caretaker for small animals. Er. E* U. Hightower holds badge No. 6633 nnd is
an employee of the Eaxon Construction Company.
described it similar to the above except that the first two and one-half
feet of th© tail appeared more solid, but the last seventeen and on&-halfj
(17i) 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. i
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The Controller, Capt. TJ. «kin, of Detachment No. 2 , 662 «C and U Sod.,
15cGee-Tyson Airport, P. 0. Box.202, Uaryville, Tennessee, 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 world then disappear only
to reappear at another location.
On 16 October 1950, at approximately 1520 hours, five persons (as yet unknown)
sighted objects hovering over the IU-25 plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Further
information and description is expected from these sources. However, the radar
scores at Knoxville Airport were giving an unintelligible reading, apparently the
Corarauiding Officer was reluctant to make any statement concerning these’readings
cue to higher Headquarters doubting the event of the past few days.
Nevertheless, a fighter aircraft from the 5th Fighter Sqd. was sent to
identify an object v&ich was reported to be hovering over K-25. Upon approaching
the area the radar equipment aboard the aircraft got an image on its scope and
the pilot pursued this image and identified it as a light type aircraft. Ground
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