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Dr. James McDonald referred to this case in his prepared statement before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics in 1968. It was one of seven multiple witness events that he had mentioned. He listed it Case 13. Apparently there were a number of sightings at this location. The Project Blue Book UNKNOWNS included a May 10 incident but it couldn't have been the one McDonald was referring to. The date was wrong and the number of witnesses was way off "May 10, 1952; Ellenton, South Carolina. 10:45 p.m. Witnesses: 4 Dupont employees at the Savannah River nuclear plant. Up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects were seen on five occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15." Ruppelt had also mentioned Savannah River, Georgia:"Georgia and Alabama led the field (in sightings in
the fall of 1952). Many of the reports came from
people in the vicinity of the then new super-hush-hush
Atomic Energy Commission facility at Savannah River,
Georgia. And many were coming from the port city of
Mobile, Alabama. Our first thought, when the reports
began to pour in, was that the news papers in these
areas were possibly stirring things up with scare
stories, but our newspaper clipping service covered
the majority of the southern papers, and although we
kept looking for publicity, none showed up. In fact,
the papers only barely mentioned one or two of the
sightings. As they came in, each of the sighting
reports went through our identification process; they
were checked against all balloon flights, aircraft
flights, celestial bodies, and the MO file, but more
than half of them came out as unknowns." |