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NRC FOIA-2017-0368 UFO records

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This Black Vault release contains the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's March 23, 2017 response to John Greenewald's FOIA request 2017-0368 for UFO records collected since 1975. The NRC withheld identifying information. The records cover three allegation files. The first is a 2010 Region IV case about a former security officer who said a triangular UFO hovered over the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989. The other two are a 1997 letter claiming DoD flew nuclear-powered craft from New Mexico and a 1998 California complaint.

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m~terial without a proper ._:·NRQ. Bu~ · · t)lefe is l}(r :~Vi~~rice
license. . · .. . ·.:.'thiit ·Testing · 4H.or~t0ries ·. j:¢s.. ·
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alty was imposed against Testing :.~ .· -The gauges are u8ed tO.test the ·
Laboratx>ries, Inc. because ·the· ··denSity9f.co~tn¢tio~ .rnaterials ·: ·.'~
company willfully vjolated NRC :'' llke .soils, ~;~. :~-~~. ~'..:·.- ·.:.:.:·..-·· \ · ·
rules by using the gauges while '; · '.The :NRP .' ha.S·: wSr.p&l .- ~at ·if
working at White Sands Missile'·· the companY. 'does .'hot coh):ply
Range ,and Holloman dur~ng · with regulation~, i~ "eould lea(rto
1992, 1993 and -1995. · . . ·· _crhniriJll. .arid . Civ:iL s.aii~tions
A news release from the NRO · .· including banning the. comJ:!Brty .
states that company president· -·~tn ·~ing w~~e~~·'co:~~~.'..
Levi Abeyta admitted at aii NRC ·· ing radioactive materials.• • ·,. ·
meeting in November that he . . '-:Abeyta ·said'.. his · oompilily. is :'.
knew about the regulations but. "- .working to. get:. in~ .compliance
"elected to do the work at the Air '-.With the , NRC, -~ ah.d is . already
'Force bases without notifying ~he · ..: licensed . by the~_-·sta~ · Erivii:on-
NRC and paying the ·fees · as .rri.ent Department:·;._. ' ··· · · · , ...
reqUired.· . . . :.. ·>-we. ' have c6mplied .with all
AbeYta told 'the Alamogordo .·.. their.re'questS and '~ hi'ihe:pro- · ·.·
Diii.ly News this morning the inCi- . ---ce~s of ap.piying 'tii.' tl:i,e NRC for a · ·
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topes, ame:i:iciuin 241 and cesium
137. The substances are by-

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