FBI-UAP-D011 — FBI referral re: Cascades/Hanford AEC sighting (1949).
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PURSUE Release 03 FBI correspondence: Hoover forwards a 1949 citizen report of converging light beams + an explosion near the AEC's Hanford plutonium site to the Atomic Energy Commission.
1949 FBI correspondence (J. Edgar Hoover) referring a citizen report (Rev. Charles Barnes) of four converging light beams and a large explosion over the Cascades near the AEC's Hanford plutonium site to the AEC, suggesting a possible Commission experiment. Part of the 1948-49 atomic-proximity thread. NOTE: primary war.gov PDF is 403-gated and this entry was search-index-verified (excerpts), not fetched as a full page — treat as catalog-tier pending a fetchable mirror; the url field points at the PURSUE catalog host.