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   SUBJECT: UFOs CONTINUE TO VISIT NUCLEAR ENERGY SITES         FILE: UFO1168   
                                      by GEORGE D. FAWCETT   
      
        Looking back over the years during the 40th anniversary of UFOs in modern   
   times(JUNE 24,1987) it is interesting to note that UFOs have been seen and   
   recorded near various atomic energy locations in this country and overseas.   
        This link was first noticed by Captain Edward Ruppelt in 1952 and reported   
   in a LOOK magazine article(JUNE 24,1952) titled "Hunt For The Flying Saucer."   
        Captain Ruppelt, who directed the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book at that   
   time, when viewing a folder of 63 mystifing UFO reportas that had been plotted   
   on a map of the United States discovered that it showed "an ominous   
   correleation" with the location of various atomic energy installations. LOOK   
   magazine learned that some high ranking officers had taken note of this fact   
   and had then held a Pentagon conference to discuss these numerous strange   
   concentrations that have continued to this day.  1   
        Such incidents at the Savannah River, Hanford, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge,   
   McGuire, Cherokee and Indian Point nuclear and atomic plants are of continued   
   vital interest and concern to scientific, military, civilian and governmental   
   observers everywhere.   
        These UFo encounters raise such serious questions as: Are UFOs monitoring   
   our atomic and nuclear energy sites and if so, why? Why has the AEC(now NRC)   
   had represenitives on most of all the major government UFO investigative   
   projects? Why do guards at some AEC installations report their UFO encounters   
   directly to the AEC?   
        The questions continue -- What have AEC studies using air samplers,   
   radioactive background counters, portable counters, magnetometers,   
   oscilloscopes, cameras, radar and other devices revealed? That types of   
   radiation increases have been discovered? What do they make of the increasing   
   numbers of individuals who have suffered "radioactive" injuries of one sort or   
   another allegded to have occured during UFO incidents in many states in the   
   United States and other global countries?   
        In essence, what have been the major discoveries and perhaps hidden   
   secrets of the AEC-UFO link since the late 1940's?   
        Let's examine some of these often reported events. On May 10, 1952 four   
   employees of the DuPont Company, employed at the Savannah River Plant saw eight   
   "disc-shaped" objects approach the Ellenton, South Carolina plant. The objects   
   varied from a yellow to gold in color, moved south to north at a "high rate" of   
   speed. The eight UFOs approached the area at such a low altitude that they had   
   to rise to pass over some tall tanks in the area. The noiseless UFOs weaved   
   from left to right and moved from side to side as they departed at a 90 degree   
   angle. " The AEC in Washington was advised." 2   
        On July 5, 1952 four Florida pilots reported a flying saucer hovering   
   above the Hanford atomic works, a sensitive scientific installation at   
   Richlands, Washington. Captain John Baldwin, Captain George Robertson and   
   pilots D. Shanbel and Steven Summers stated that the UFO was round and flat.   
   After hovering over the atomic plant, it gained speed, reversed its course and   
   then disappeared quickly. Two yellow globes of fiery appearence were reported   
   over the Hanford plant seven days later, confirmed by Air Force investigators.   
   3   
        Two years earlier on April 17, 1950 more than fifteen persons at the   
   secret atomic energy project at Los Alamos, New Mexico reported they saw a UFO   
   on the eastern horizon. One of the observers, a scientist from the University   
   of California Personnel Division watched one of the three objects thru a   
   telescope and said that it looked flat, metallic and was roughly circular and   
   about nine feet in diameter. The UFO appeared to be about 2,000 feet high and   
   moved ".. faster than any known coventional aircraft." It was seen for about 20   
   minutes and put on quite a show. Dozens of excellent UFO sightings have been   
   reported by countless eyewitnesses at Los Alamos over the years. 4   
        June 21, 1952 brought an interesting case of a UFO that trespassed   
   prohibited airspace at the AEC's Oak Ridge Laboratory in Tennessee at 10:58 pm.   
   The UFO was observer by Ground Observer Corps volunteers and also detected by   
   radar. The UFO was persued by a F-47 aircraft on combat patrol from a 10,000 to   
   27,000 foot altitude. During the aerial dogfight, the UFO attempted to ram the   
   F-47 on several occasions, before leaving the area. UFO encounters have become   
   quite commonplace at this AEC site. 5   
        In October 1965 Philip Parker on an aerial photography mission was flying   
   with pilot H.T. Mayhew near the Perth Church Road Lake Norman crossing. Their   
   plane was flying at about 1,000 feet as they circled the lake near the McGuire   
   Nuclear Station, when they noticed three "bright objects" to their right. Pilot   
   Mayhew gave his plane full throttle and they rose barely high enough to escape   
   the UFOs, which were flying in formation 100 feet below them. Unnerved, as he   
   was Parker was able to take one photograph of the three circular UFOs above   
   Lake Norman, which is bordered by the Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, Mecklenburg and   
   Iredell counties in North Carolina. 6   
        In past years several other photographs of UFOs flying above Lake Norman   
        were taken by different photographers.  One of the photographs of an early   
        morning UFO was captured near the Sun on the film.  In the photo, the UFO    
        moved from the 4 to the 6 o'clock position from 90 to 20 degrees over a   
   short   
        period of time.   
        In the late summer of 1968 at 2 a.m. a married couple(names confidential   
        on file) reported seeing a dome-topped UFO with "windows" and odd-colored    
        lights(yellow, blue and red fixed together) flying near their Lake Norman   
        home.  The UFO was about two to three car lengths wide and made a soft   
   hum-   
        ming sound. A "metal rod" came from the bottom edge of the UFO, as it   
   moved   
        down nearby power lines, almost touching the wires as it followed the   
   power   
        lines.  The eyewitnesses ran the rest of the way home and were badly    
        frightened by their experience.  7   
        In July or August, 1972 at 9:30 p.m. businessman Robert P. Sartin, who   
        lives near the Lake Norman Airport and Duke Power Plant's 150 high Cowans   
        Ford Dam spotted a UFO.  His attention to the UFO came when he heard   
   children   
        fishing from a nearby pier, who were shouting about an object in the sky.   
        Four other persons became eyewitnesses to the UFO, which was seen about   
        four miles East of the Marshall Steam Plant near Terrell.   
        The UFO, appeared to be about the size of a basketball court and had   
        a thickness, one-half its width.  The object looked like "one saucer   
   inverted   
        on top of another and had a row of flashing windows through its middle."   
        It had red, white and yellow lighted windows and hovered in the area   
        overhead for about 10 minutes, before it flew sideways, then moved up and   
        away at an unbelievable speed as it disappeared in the sky.  8   
        In March, 1975 at Lexington, South Carolina Mr. and Mrs. Jim Richardson   
        were driving near the Lake Murray Hydroelectric Plant's Saluda Dam, when a   
        brillant "spotlight" came on and illuminated the interior of their car.     
        They noticed the UFO looked "like two pie pans" put together and had a   
   dome   
        on top.   
        It flew about 40 to 50 feet above their car and it had red and blue lights   
        on its ends and its dome was "brillant white."  The bottom of the UFO was    
        octagonal in shape or like a stop sign.  The Lake Murray area has been the   
        scene of many UFO encounters over the years.  9   
        On October 27,1975 a UFO was reported by Staff Sgt. Danny K. Lewis   
        near the Loring Air Force Base, Maine.  The UFO began to circle the   
   nuclear   
        weapons storage area to within 300 yards of the facility.  Finally, it   
   hovered   
        150 feet above the ground.  The base was placed on a major alert status.   
        Radar tracked its maneuvers in the area for over 40 minutes.  The reddish-   
        orange UFO later moved to within five feet of the ground.  Security   
   personnel   
        said the UFO was "like a stretched-out football in the air" as it hovered   
        nearby.  They described the object as about four car lengths long.  It   
   shut   
        off its lights and rapidly left the area from near ground level.  10   
        On November 22, 1975 Pilot Frank Auman, Jr. and UFO investigator Arlan   
        Keith Andrews were flying in a private plane near the Savannah, Georgia   
        Nuclear Plant.  They saw a bright white UFO maneuvering in the area for   
   four   
        or five minutes.  It made a "slight wobble" and then a hard turn, before   
   it   
        flew away.  Jacksonville Control Center personnel at Jacksonville, Florida   
        confirmed three UFO sightings(either radar or visuals) by pilots at the    
        site.  11   
        Arlan K. Andrews is a MUFON Consultant and State Director in Indiana.   
        On March, 1978 several persons described seeing two "milky white" UFOs   
        flying side by side at treetop level at the McGuire Nuclear Station near   
        Triangle, North Carolina. 12   
        April 24, 1980 at 9 p.m. brought another UFO report from the Lake    
        Norman area.  Pete Link and Jeff Schlatter, two Rutherford County   
   carpenters,   
        while working on a house roof observed a bright yellow UFO that rose up   
   vertically from Lake Norman, made a loop and then disappeared while moving   
   rapidly away.  13   
        Lake Norman is a large lake and is surrounded by Highway 16, Highway 73,   
   Highway 150 and Highway 21.  The lake is surrounded by many towns and cities,   
   among them Mooresville, Lincolnton, Lowesville, Denver, Triangle, Iron Station,   
   Stanley, Davidson and Sherrills Ford.  These communities have been a "hotbed   
   of UFO sightings" over the past four decades.   
        One of the more intriguing UFO sightings was reported at 7:30 a.m. on   
   October 18,1982.  Gary Fortenberry and Jimmy Bumgarner, two employees at the   
   McGuire Nuclear Station on Lake NOrman were driving to work on Highway 73 at   
   the Catawba River(Lincoln County) when they encounted an unknown.   
        They watched a dull silver oval UFO with "four legs" above a nearby   
   fogbank.  During the daylight encounter, they first mistook it for a water   
   tank, but later in the day when they returned home from work, the fog had   
   lifted and no water tank was to be seen anywhere in the area.  They did notice   
   that high voltage lines from the power plants were in the general area of the   
   earlier sightings.  When first seen the UFO was about 250 feet above the ground   
   The eyewitnesses had worked at McGuire for six years without experiencing   
   anything unusual.  Several months before, when UFOs again visited the same   
   location, the power fluctuated, before the UFOs left the area.  Security   
   guards, when questioned by me on the phone, told me that such UFO incidents   
   were to be made directly to AEC headquarters. 14   
      ZOn October 13, 1983 at 12:30 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ruppe of Gaffney,   
   South Carolina were disturbed forom their sleep by a siren-like sound(like   
   something taking off).  They looked out of their house windows in time to see   
   a glowing oval-shaped UFO about 20 feet above their neighbor's home.   
        The neighborhood dogs were barking in a frenzy.  The UFO, described    
   as "about the size of a Winnebago travel-trailer" had two "beams of lights"   
   on the bottom of the object.   
        It was orange-yellow in color and made a high-pitched sound as it   
   crossed the power lines and moved east in direction of the Cherokee Nuclear   
   Station.  The UFO was seen for approximately five minutes and was estimated   
   to be about 20 feet long and 8 to 10 feet in height.  15   
        On June 24,1984 from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m. security guards at the Indian   
   Point Nuclear Power Plant near Peekskill, New York reported seeing  UFO    
   over the plant for approximately 15 minutes.  It was roughly 30 stories    
   above the exhaust funnel of one of the plant's three nuclear reactors.   
        UFO investigator Philip J. Imbrogno for the Dr. J. Allen Hynek's   
   Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) in Chicago, Illinois interviewed six of the   
   twelve security guards who saw the UFO.   
        The UFO, according to the witnesses was huge in size, diamond-shaped and   
   approximately 450 feet in length.  It was first white, then changed to blue   
   to red to green to amber in color.  Local police in Peekskill received   
   numerous UFO sightings during the same evening.  One of them, Sgt. Karl   
   Hoffman said the UFO he observed included a "dozen white lights" in V-   
   formation that slowly moved towards the power plant at Indian Point.  16   
        In the case of the UFO reported by security guards at the Indian Point   
   Nuclear Plant at Peekskill investigators uncovered some interesting   
   information.   
        As the UFO apporached the nuclear plant it flew to within 30 feet of   
   its Reactor Number Three.  When it did the plant's security systems, shut   
   down as did all of its alarm systems and communication systems.   
        Security guards were issued shotguns and were waiting for the final   
   word to shoot at the UFO.  A request was also made for an armed helicopter   
   to come and shoot down the UFO, but before the command was given, the UFO   
   moved away and left the area.   
        Carl Patrick of the plant's information office, when questioned by   
   investigators about the UFO had this to say, "I can neither confirm or deny   
   that the guards fired upon it, but they did what was necessary to protect   
   the plant.  17   
        UFO reports continued to be concentrated near various atomic energy   
   locations in the late 1980s by reliable eyewitnesses.   
        We are reminded of a statement made by General Nathan F. Twining of the   
   Army Air Forces(the original UFO study Project Sign) in 1947 forty years ago.   
   General Twining said, "all pertinent data would be made available to the   
   Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)."   
        Perhaps answers to the many question posed at the beginning of this   
   article were furnished to the Atomic Energy Commission, but they have yet   
   to see the light of day in the public sector through 1987.   
        Perhaps in the not to distant future, the truth behind the UFO-AEC    
   link will be fully revealed to the public.   
      
      
      
      
                               REFERENCES   
      
      
   1.  Look Magazine, June 24, 1952 issue, "Hunt For The Flying Saucer"   
      
   2.  UFOs: A History(January-May, 1952)Loren E. Gross, "Memorandum for Mr. Levy.   
         Prepared by the Inspector General, Directorate of Special Investigations,   
         Hq. USAF, Washington, D.C. OSI Records.  BLUE BOOK Files.   
      
   3.  UFOs:  AHistory(June-July 20,1952)Loren E. Gross, "Flyers Report Saucers   
         Near Atomic Plant"   
      
   4.  UFOs: A History(April-July, 1950)Loren E. Gross, "News Service Teletype   
         Z134P4/19"   
      
   5.  UFOs: A History(June-July 20,1952)Loren E. Gross, "The Report on UFOs"   
         (Edward J. Ruppelt)   
      
   6.  Mooresville Tribune, Mooresville, N.C. (October 14,1965 issue), "UFOs   
         Flying Over Lake Norman?"   
      
   7.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1968)   
      
   8.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1974)   
      
   9.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett (1975)   
      
   10.  Clear Intent (The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience), Prentice-   
           Hall, Inc.(1984) (Lawernce Fawcett & Barry Greenwood)   
      
   11.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1975)   
      
   12.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1978)   
      
   13.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1980)   
      
   14.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1982)   
      
   15.  Personal Files of George D. Fawcett(1983)   
      
   16.  National Enquirer,(July 23, 1985 issue), "N.Y. Police Watch Huge UFO   
          Buzz Nuclear Power Plant"(Franklin R. Ruehl)   
      
   17.  Night Siege(The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings), Ballantine Books(1987)   
          (Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno With Bob Pratt)   
            
      
                    
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