Hanford disc denial (1947)

A Washington Post story of 6 July 1947, pages 1-M and 3-M, clipped into the FBI's UFO file. A Los Angeles newspaper had quoted an unidentified Caltech nuclear physicist saying the discs "have resulted from experiments in transmutation of atomic energy being conducted at Muroc Lake, Calif., White Sands, N. Mex.; Portland, Oreg., and elsewhere." THE PAGE IS THE OFFICIAL REFUSAL OF THAT CLAIM. Col. F. J. Clark, commanding officer of the Hanford Engineering Works "in the Pacific Northwest where the largest saucer influx has been reported", said the saucers were not coming from the atomic plant there: "I have been waiting for someone to tie the discs to the Hanford atomic plant... as far as he knew no experiments were under way there which would explain the mystery." David Lilienthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, "declared the unexplained discs are in no way connected with atomic experiments", adding "until someone has the facts about this phenomenon, I can't see how anyone can say anything definite about it." Harold Urey called the transmutation claim "gibberish"; C. C. Lauritsen said the discs "have nothing to do with nuclear physics". IT IS ON THIS MAP AS THE EARLIEST DATED PAGE HELD HERE IN WHICH THE GOVERNMENT IS ASKED WHETHER THE DISCS ARE COMING FROM ITS ATOMIC PLANTS, and nothing more. No sighting at Hanford is documented in anything this project holds.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread from the clipping that establishes it, which is about the 1947 disc wave.

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