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= ti. Sale Stn ry me \o 7 6 $= 7 F366 - (2) | a - Brae ats 7 - Attached to this s Sweezy is eleven (11) inolosures which tend 4 to clarity ~~ contained in the fowmr tam (2) Sree wstian af Information = SULTRY? _ 7 nnn 2 Fw AA UA es Wise Tew ve We ee These inclosures are composed of witness ‘statements; background information con- cerning previous sightings of peculiar objects over Oak Ridge; ani radar reports, The most reliable sources available were utilized in the compliation of this reper The employment records and the Federel Bure of Investigation reports qoncerming the witnesses were inspected to ascertain their reliability, integrity, and loeyalt to the United States Govermeasnt, The opinions of the officials of the Security Division, ARC, Oak Ridge; Security Branch, MEPA Division, Oak Ridge; AEC Security Patrol, Oak Rides: Fal, KnorviLlie; Air Force Radar and Fighter Squadrons, Knorville; end the OSI, KnoxviLL Tenmesscoe, fail to evolve an adequate explamtion for SUBJECT, however the possi- bilities of practioal jokers, mass hysteria, ballons of any description, flights of birds (wits or without cobwebs or other od joots attached), falling leaves, inse everms, peculiar weather conditions, reflections, flying kites, objects thrown from the ground, windblown objects, insanity, ani many other natural happenings have been rejected because of the simultaneous, witnessing of the objects with the reported redar sightings; because of the reliability ef the witnesses; because of the detailed, similar description of the chjects soon by different persons; <a because of impossibility. The trend ef opinions seom to follow three patterns of thought. The - first is that the objects are a physical phencmencn which have a scientific explan ation; the sccond is teat the objects are experimental objects (from an unieternin source) guided by electronics; and the third is similar to the second except that an intented demoralization of harrassment is involved, The fantastic is generally rejected. 7 4 — Swe Sey 2 Se YS ey wwaw ee Sen oe ae 262647 ¥ on consecrtive days and the seconi v thwee dn tale Lette nm Southwest, witch directions parallel the terrain ridges in this lecality. ; Attention 1s invited te the 1947 photograph of a flying object (inoloeun #8). Atomic Energy Commission officials advise that the Air Force Laboratory at Wright Field, Ohio, Indicate that the object is a water gs en the yaotogrammh. Because this object does not resemble other water the are: Ddecanuse the object in the seconl photograph is following the dim trail left ty the first object, some officials at Atomlo Energy Comission question the vereoity ¢. ee ain “et ar ~ ~ BE i BM 3 00° ‘Gommand ing General, Thiwd Army 1 oo FRI, Knoxville, Temesses ' 1 oo Major Martin, G-2 Section, Third Army 1 oo OSI, Mnoxrities Tennessee. ase 2 co Div, AEC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 1 06 File * Biss “¢ Vv