15 Oct 1950 - Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
15 October 1950 15:20
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA

AEC Security Patrol encounters object. Explanation: Balloon.

AESS Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt. Zarzecki saw two shiny silver objects, shaped like bullets or bladders, dive. They had a smoke trail. One vanished, the other hovered at five-to-six foot altitude, 50 feet away, left, and returned several times, somewhat further away.


An unidentified object was sighted, that had an unusual appearance or performance.

An unidentified object at close range was observed by three witnesses (Rymer, J Moneymaker, Zarzecki).


Hynek rating: CE1: Close Encounters of the First Kind
Vallee rating: FB1: A simple sighting of a UFO traveling in a straight line across the sky.
Vallee reliability rating: 342: Reliable source, firsthand; site visit by a skilled analyst; natural explanation requires major alteration of one parameter.
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