LAS VEGAS, Nev., April 17 (INS)
Flying Saucers in the area of the Nevada
test
site, where important new atomic tests are in progress,
were reported Thursday.
An Air Force technical sergeant and four
civilian workers at the Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas,
said
they saw 18 circular objects flying an easterly course
whcih
carried them over or very close to the test site.
Those who reported seeing the objects
were T/S
Orville Lawson, Rudy Toncer, sheet metal shop foreman, and
sheet metal
shop workers R.K. Van Houtin, Edward Gregory and Charles
Ruliffson.
The objects went by at 12:05 p.m. Van
Houtin
saw them first and then called attention of the others to
them.
The men watched the saucers for about 30
seconds
(Reference: The Salt Lake Tribune, Friday Morning, April
18, 1952,
Page 1)
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Operation Tumbler-Snapper
1952 - Nevada Proving Ground
| Test: |
Baker |
| Time: |
17:30 15 April 1952 (GMT)
09:30 15 April 1952 (local) |
| Location: |
Nevada Test Site (NTS), Area 7 |
| Test Height and Type: |
1109 Foot Airdrop from B-50 |
| Yield: |
1 kt |
This device also used the Ranger Able U-235 core in a Mk
4 based
test device (weight 10,500 lb).
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Note: Official fallout maps show the radioactive debris
from Test Baker on April 15, 1952, swirled around
for two
days and was still in the area of the Nevada Test
Site on
April 17, 1952.
A part of the fallout cloud moved to the
southwest and was over Yuma, Arizona on April 17, 1952.
It was
here on April 17 and 18, 1952, UFOs were reported.