4 November 1952
(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)
Source: Fold3.com, Lindon, Utah
Quote from the document:
“Facts and Discussion
1. On 4 Nov 1952 Capt E. J. Ruppelt and Lt R. M. Olsson
visited Col Hood, chief of the Nuclear Powered Aircraft Branch of WADC. Previous
to this visit, Col Hood had contacted ATIC in regard to certain sightings of
UFO’s at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee,
in which he and a Naval officer had attempted to obtain correlation between
sightings and peaks in radiation backgrounds.
2. Col Hood stated that in Jul 1950, the person who
was then head of the Physics Department at Vanderbilt University (Col Hood
could not recall his name, but stated he would find out and notify ATIC) said
that he believed there might be some correlation between sightings of UFO’s and
increases in radiation. Col Hood and a Naval officer became interested and
attempted to correlate these occurences.”
3. … Col Hood stated that approximately three times
per month, peaks would be recorded on the tapes, sometimes on either the alpha
counter or gamma counter and sometimes on both simultaneously. They took these
peaks and the unknown radar pickups and in some cases were able to correlate
them. No written record was made or kept, consequently, the percent correlation
is not known.”
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