cutll\~: j.' sr: ,;OlfliO 'l'Jnp<unry A'ric lo'Onn 3~?9 SOtl 1-<Ci. Civilians M TF ItJ TO A'l'J.G r. "I} 'I'll LEHG'l'H OF 'l'Ul~ . OD:.il.rtVim 10 min. a~ms THIRD ARUr Ottloe ot AD ot 8, o-2 Port KoPheraon. Qeorgla Hq 14th Air For oe 1lob1Da AFB, CJe orgi& A!Tllr.riOlh Direotor of InteUlgenoe 8 Dooember 1950 Inclosed herewith ia DBwapaper clippinc trcm the U~/6 AND COURIER, 1 Oharleaton, South Carolina, 3 December 1950, re unusual object in the 1 FOR THB C015LWlDDfG GEll~a Aa atatad abave Colonel, GSC AC. ot S, G-2 Bq loaarteenth Air Farce, Robina A1r Force Base, Ga. \6-i9lt-Patteraon Al'B, !0: Comeuding General, Air Materiel D~ton, Cilio. Attn: A ,1 !} J'crWlrded 70Ul' headquarters in accordance with lette~;'\Bee.c1(!uarters USAJ, dated 8 Sep ~. eubject: "Reporting of Information ~conventional Aircraft." \:\ CAPTAIN, USAF Asst. A'u Ad;utant General Over AEC~P ~ KLLJI:NTON, Dec. 2 . . lVI: ~ere D:rlnl Nuccn apylnl on the p~ posed alte of \he naUon'a tint b:rdroen bomb plant ' Jt. nllht? Four persona told :wday of tee lnl a atranKe, brllliantl)'ll&hted ob- ject In the sky abo1rt 10:45 p. m. It dipped up and down and flalhed back and forth for about JO min-: :uta before It flew out or lllht. one e:re wltneaa uid. This town ill in the mldat of the vut tract which tbte ;\t.omle Ener- IJ" eommiuion baa .selected for &be site of the muiU-milUon dollar H-bomb plant which. will be under conlltructlon by Ht11' 1151. 'The Rev. R. D. Parklnaon, a Bap 'tilt minister, 11Jd h e wpa reluctant to taJk about flyinl saucen be- CIUJe everyone--wa11 a) ready excit- 'ed about having to abandon the . town to mAke room for the H-' P~ple probably think we're cnZ)' down here anyhow," be aald. He aaid it seemed unlikely any- one would try to make a tecret Dl&bt over the area In a craft well Jlghtcd aa the object he saw, but be felt be,abould report it any-.. The poator uld Ootphln Dunbar, a neilhbor, flrat apotled the "sau-: cer" and called him outaide to look I at ft. Jndell McCarthy, of Aiken .a 1 dinner IUCI\. ,and hil 12-year-old dau1bter, Evelon, came along. According to Dunbar, "it looked Uke a 1rcat. big white atar with back and forth and up and down" over the town. Parkinson said the red ll1hb were no longer visible when he got out In the yard. By that time, .. it looked like four atan to1ether and wu movlnl away. It waa movlnl\ away toward Geer1la in a aouth-' welter}7 direction. .~ .