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Cn a ae es wee en i ee a ee a ce Memorbudum « * _ UNITED sta. S$ covEEnewr, 3 f . MR. D. M. IAD | ; : DATE: Merch 3, 2950» ws is FROM 41 Je. H. BELMONT OO of «, : i Mo}. e e—<—, :! UNKNOWN, OBJECT OVER “ax RIDGE, TEMESSEL, MARCH 1, 19505 a to pe COMPLAINANT; VITAL FACILI TIES; INTERNAL SECURITY i — At 9:55 A.M. today, SAC Robey of Knoxville advised that owner and operator o oxville Office at 112:15‘P.M. on March 1, is @ radio ham - rator and has set up in his home in Knoxville an Army Surplus APIA * radar set. advised that he had pioked up on this set a "“pip® - dicating that an object was circling at an altitude of about 40,000 ‘tect’ Hod ocak Ridge. tated that he customarily had followed the movement. f airplanes through this set end he was sure this item was not a thunder ‘- ‘bloud. IM, advised that the Knoxville Office had inmediately notifed 20 ABC Beourity Section following the receipt of the call fran ir. 2” At 5130 P.M. on March 2, Mr, @llpagain called to say that. ‘he had. ; pioked up an object at 11:15 A.M. on March 2 about 100, 000 fect up and . +; tabout 18 miles from his home in Knoxville which would place thé object over Oak. ‘Ridge. Mr. @ilim advised that CIC Agents had been given the information coming” (y* from the Knoxville Office, as a result of which CIC Agents and OSI representatives i\> went out last night and looked over Mr. MMs set. They did see an object 1..5\5 on the screen about 11:00 or 12:00 P.M, last night. They reported this infor=e fortes to the Third Army. Mr.@ilg wes of the opinion that the Air Force =~ “probably has sent the information to Washington also. Army CIC has now informed je CIA ie going to send a technician down from Washington to examine the Bote ees, as “ es Mr. QM had no information as to how CIA had jurisdiction. Mr. @igpmatvised”” Zs that the Army is also contemplating sending a man up from Atlanta with a portable. ee YE wl sot locally and is ) Petting it into > operation this morning ' in an a effort. to: identify : “radar set to check into this situation. In addition, the Naval Reserve has a. bist this .objects,, “hh Ch REA ENAAR PS e b ie ret PEE ater. r " . > , rR ag BE i ree ; eee advised that AEC and the Armed Forces! representatives ere, aah F- ; pecnenhat concerned about this matter and he wanted the Bureau t to. »_ have ahe = re par sk. oon above dnformation an case there were Anquirdes. a ed A Re see ne 2 23} oT advised Mr. Qe to keep 4n touch with the situation Bis Met us r eas oe ae Tknow immediately of any developments and as to any information picked up by the} oe ear Armed Forces or the CIA representative. I also requested that he ascertain who | i SO tne CIA representative is and what action he took upon his arrival. ~ Mr. C t. was advised thatemo investigation should be conducted Py the Knoxville # |.but that#he should be opt advised of develo nte Lene ie pm et Bo eee ato to ae wenhawel atl gt yrs ee