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UFO news article:
“ ‘Object’ Circles Over Camp Drum”
27 September 1952
(The Ithaca Journal, New York)
The whole article:
“The Air Force has no comment on an unidentified
flying object that reportedly paid a half-hour visit to this Northern
New York camp.
Military authorities said Friday that the object
hovered over the base last Monday night [22 September 1952]. The information at
first had been classified as confidential.
Eight soldiers said the object was about 20 feet across and trailed
red-orange sparks. It circled rapidly and sometimes hovered, they reported.
Officers from Griffis [Griffiss] Air Force Base at Rome questioned the men
on Tuesday. The officers declined comment.”
Wikipedia article: “Fort Drum”:
Quote from the above Wikipedia article:
“Fort
Drum [located near Watertown, New York] is a
U.S. Army military reservation and a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County,
on the northern border of New York,
United States.
The population of the CDP portion of the base was 12,955 at the 2010 census.[2]
It is home to the 10th Mountain Division.
Fort Drum
consists of 107,265
acres (434.09 km2). In this region, winter temperatures
can reach as low as −30 °F (−34 °C).[3] Its mission includes command of active
component units assigned to the installation, providing administrative and
logistical support to tenant units, support to active and reserve units from
all services in training at Fort Drum, and planning and support for the
mobilization and training of almost 80,000 troops annually.
History
This
section of the article incorporates text taken from a public-domain document
prepared by the United
States military.[4]
A portion of the present Fort Drum
was first used as a military training site in 1908 when it was named Pine
Camp; the following year land was purchased to develop the camp as an
installation. The army had an earlier presence in the North
Country from the early 19th century, prior to the War of 1812.
World War II expansion
With the outbreak of World War II in Europe,
Pine Camp was selected by the Army for a major expansion. An additional 75,000 acres (30,000 ha) of land was
purchased, displacing 525 local families. Five entire villages were eliminated,
while others were reduced from one-third to one-half their size. Three thousand
buildings, including 24 schools, six churches and a post office, were
abandoned.
By Labor Day 1941, 100 tracts of land were taken over.
Contractors went to work, and in a period of 10 months at a cost of $20
million, an entire city was built to house the divisions scheduled to train at
Pine Camp.
Eight hundred buildings were constructed, including
240 barracks, 84 mess halls, 86 storehouses, 58 warehouses, 27 officers'
quarters, 22 headquarters buildings, and 99 recreational buildings, as well as
guardhouses and a hospital. Construction workers suffered during this period,
as the winter of 1941-42 was one of the coldest in North
Country history.
The three divisions to train at Pine Camp included the
4th Armored Division (Gen. Creighton Abrams was a battalion commander there at
the time), the 45th Infantry Division (United States), and the 5th Armored
Division.
Pine Camp was renamed as Camp Drum
in 1951, named after Lieutenant General Hugh A. Drum, who was chief of staff of
the First United States Army during World War I and First Army commander at the
start of World War II. During and after the Korean War, a number of units were
stationed and trained here to take advantage of the terrain and climate.”
Wikipedia article: “Griffiss Air Force Base”:
Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“Griffiss Air Force Base is a former United
States Air Force installation in the northeastern United States, located in
central New York state at Rome, about fifteen miles (25 km) northwest of Utica.
Missions included fighter interceptors, electronic
research, installation, and support activities, aerial refueling, and bombers.
Opened in 1942, the base closed pursuant to BRAC action in 1995 and its
airfield is now Griffiss International Airport,
owned by Oneida County. In November 1984 the site was
added to the National Priorities List because hazardous chemicals were found in
soil and ground water. Solvents, lead and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) had
been disposed in landfills and dry wells
Closed 24 years ago in September 1995 by the Base
Realignment and Closure Commission decision, it was realigned for civilian and
non-combat purposes in 1995, and is now home to the Griffiss Business and
Technology Park. Post-closure, two USAF activities remained: the Rome
Research Site of the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Eastern Air
Defense Sector (EADS) of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
as operated by the New York Air National Guard from a small complex of
buildings in the Technology
Park.”
NNY360.com (Watertown Daily Times, Watertown,
New York) article about Fort Drum
(with photo of the base):
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