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Document: General Correspondence Of Sandia, DOW-UAP-D017 Agency: Headquarters, Detachment D 1100TH USAF Special Reporting Group Date: 7 April 1949 Notable: Security inspection report and discussion of a fireball sighting in New Mexico. The document is part of the Pursue Release 02 collection, available on The Black Vault's website, and can be found at archive.org. The canonical PDF is also available on archive.org. The document was released through a Freedom of Information Act request and is classified as a security inspection report. HEADQUARTERS, DETACHMENT D 1100TH USAF SPECIAL REPORTING GROUP Campbell Air Force Base, Camp Campbell, Kentucky 7 April 1949 Security inspection Commanding General Sandia Base Albuquerque, New Mexico 1. Reference is made to secret letter, your headquarters, dated 1 April 1949, Subject; Security Inspection. 2. The electric gate is now closed between 1700 hours until 0700 hours the following day. Locks have replaced the bolts in all inspection access gates in the outer fence. 3. Inspection ports on both bridges are now provided with locks, and the final draft of our alert plan has been reviewed and will be published and distributed for study to operating personnel. 4. A stockpile custodian has not been assigned here; his part in the alert plan has been outlined only. Temporary arrangements for defense have been made, pending the arrival of the 11th Airborne Division. 5. All jeep radios are now installed in jeeps. Radio communication with the Camp Campbell Military Police has been in effect for some time, but permanent arrangements are delayed pending the arrival of radio frequency crystals. 6. Pressure has been exerted to keep the drainage system clear and to take measures to check erosion. Plans are prepared for an interim erosion control effort, and a study is being made to estimate the cost of resloping the cuts. 7. With the exception of halting the erosion, all deficiencies listed in the security inspection report have been cleared away. It is requested that the monthly report of action taken be discontinued. HEADQUARTERS SANDIA BASE Albuquerque, New Mexico AFSWP CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS LIBRARY 1444 FILE NO. 222.5 SUBJECT: Security Inspection Dr. Lincoln LaPaz Institute of Meteoritics University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico 10 August 1949 Dear Lincoln, I am inclosing two copies of the report you asked for, and hope that they serve their purpose. We have made a preliminary examination of the collections taken at nine locations on my Monday-Tuesday trip. There was a large number of copper-bearing particles on one collection (R-104L) taken on Highway 84, seventeen miles north of Highway 66. The collection taken at the same location immediately following R-1041 shows practically no copper. A large part of the R-104L is of a granular material unfamiliar to us, and the copper indications originate principally in what are apparently aggregations of finely (one-micron) granular material of overall sizes in the…

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Document: General Correspondence Of Sandia, DOW-UAP-D017 Agency: Headquarters, Detachment D 1100TH USAF Special Reporting Group Date: 7 April 1949 Notable: Security inspection report and discussion of a fireball sighting in New Mexico. org. org. The document was released through a Freedom of Information Act request and is classified as a security inspection report.

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Document: General Correspondence Of Sandia, DOW-UAP-D017 Agency: Headquarters, Detachment D 1100TH USAF Special Reporting Group Date: 7 April 1949 Notable: Security inspection report and discussion of a fireball sighting in New Mexico. The document is part of the Pursue Release 02 collection…

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What was Pursue Release 02 — Documents about?: Document: General Correspondence Of Sandia, DOW-UAP-D017 Agency: Headquarters, Detachment D 1100TH USAF Special Reporting Group Date: 7 April 1949 Notable: Security inspection report and discussion of a fireball sighting in New Mexico. org. org. The document was released through a Freedom of Information Act request and is classified as a security inspection report.
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