NM_MAR_2_1949.pdf
Sighting of a low, fast light near Los Alamos by an AESS Inspector
0010 hours two second sighting of a low, fast light north to south from station 103 by Paul J. Seward, AESS Inspector on foot patrol.
Document date: 1949-03-02
Department: Atomic Energy Security Service
Author: Paul J. Sewald, Inspector
Document type: incident report
pages: 6
Archivist's Notes: While on foot patrol at Ground Station 103 AESS Inspector (i.e.: a Guard) Paul J. Sewald saw a low, fast light for about two
seconds, traveling from north to south. It traveled 90 degrees of arc in two seconds and disappeared behind some trees. It was a dim light of constant
intensity. Note says 'CBI' a requirement of employment.
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Document 1: blank
Document 2:
Military report labeled incident #274
Dated 2 March 1949 at Los Alamos, N.M.
Description – object was dim light & self luminous, very fast – covered half the field in 2 secs.
Disappeared behind the trees.
Document 3:
Letter regarding the incident #274 from Inspector Paul J. Sewald
“At approximately 0010, 2 March 1949, while making a foot patrol at station 103, I observed a light low in the sky. It appeared quite dim and
constant in intensity. It was traveling nearly in a horizontal plane from north to south. I saw it for about 2 secs when the trees cut off my view.
It appeared to be traveling very fast as it crossed one half of my line of vision during the time I observed it.”
For some reason the subject title is: Requisite for employment with AEC.
Document 4:
Internal military document from Inspector Paul Sewald to Lt. Earle D. (Hightower?) Operations Officer Protective Force AESS (Atomic Energy Security
Service)
Relays same description as Document 3.
Document 5 & 6:
Document headed ‘Guide to Investigate’ detailing same facts as Doc 3
Incident #274. At the bottom of pg 6 under Comments of Interrogator…
“CBI requisite for employment”.
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the above sums it up very well.
due to his job, AEC presumably is the atomic energy commission though not sure what the CBI requisite stands for. perhaps it was the company
Chicago Bridge & Iron who developed "the first site-assembled thick wall
steel nuclear reactor vessel". at a guess i would say that it probably means he was screened to be able to work for those companies and was
therefore regarded as 'in good character'.
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