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we ena ee nm ce el ae ame ht ltl ae i Te] 1S Io {nq rl ( y EWOXVIELE DETACHMENT 8th DISTRICT OSI (IG) PO BOX 4ol Knoxville, Tenmessee 3 4 fietarhaw 1654 ore | “4 “28 SUBJECT: Visual Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objecta ; % rr | over Oak Ridge, Tennessee aes Sa ~ : Dietrict Ccmmander 8th District OSI (IG) Maxwell AFB, Ala. : 1. At 0830 16 October 1950, Mr. George Rathman, Security - Division, Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, notified the undersigmed that visual sightings of an wmidentified flying a , ob ject had been made by several persons at Oak Ridge. Accompanied by W. B. Gray, SAC Enoxville CIC, the wnderaigned proceeded to Oak Ridge. ; 2. At the ARC Security Division, Oak Ridge AEC Security Patrol : ER ves inter.ieved by Mr. Rathman, Mr. Gray and : the undersigmed. In substance BPNENET. related the following: At /_ about 1525 EST, 15 October 1050 MiRatibactiitia® vas on duty at the Solvay /) entrance to the Oak Ridges controfies area. He was conversing outeide the Guard house with QM, attendant at the University of Tenner Research Farm Program, Oak Ridge. GUNG happened to glance in the sky and called QQMMBRattention to an object in the sky. The men observed that the object was starting jo describes an arc in the sky. They estimates ; the object to be about twelve to fifteen thousand feet altitude. At this ‘ altitude the object regambled a sky-vwriting plane because smokes appeared ‘ to be trailing from the object. After the object described about a quarter of an arc it began to make a controlled descent at a speed estimated at about 100 miles per hour. Gq then noticed that the object nad no wings and that it appeared to be bullet shaped. By this time the men could observe that what appeared to be smoke coming from the object was an attached tail. At this time SP went in the guard house and call the Captain of the Guard to report a falling object. ag = cont ir to observe the object. When QRRERMMBMM came out of the guard house the object had descended to a height of about six (6) feet and was about sevent (70) yards from the two (2) men. By thie time the object had asewmed the ahepe of a two (2) by five (5) inch grayish colored card and attached to th obsect vas 2 ribbon likes taf? about twenty (20) feet long and an inch wide. The object had no thickness. The tail of the object, which was light gray color, bad a small black line running down through ite center. The tail appeared to be waving or rippling and the latter fifteen (15) feet of the tail gave off a pulsating glow intermittently in different section of the er *" j yc s-fitteen (15) feet. The latter Tiftesn (15) feet of the tail appeared to be , ares . . oe . ‘ a 4 ° ‘ tte t eS 7 j & «rc ew es S65- SE Drd0- Ze ERILISSAR- .