AFOSI Oak Ridge File (Price memo, 14 Oct 1950).
documentedgovernment_studyAtomic Energy Commission / ERDA (DOE progenitors)
AF Office of Special Investigations confidential memo documenting the 12 Oct 1950 radar event and F-82 scramble.
AFOSI Detachment Commander William M. Price filed the 14 Oct 1950 confidential memo 'Unidentified Flying Objects over Oak Ridge, Tennessee,' recording the CPS-1 detection of 11+ objects, the scramble timeline, and the negative airborne result. The 8th District AFOSI office exchanged reports with FBI Knoxville, the CIC and AEC Security throughout the flap. The file is part of the declassified Oak Ridge FOIA corpus.