Category 1
Distant Encounters

Case Directory
Incident At Savannah River Plant
New Ellenton, South Carolina
May 10, 1952

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Ref# 195 FLYING SAUCER REVIEW: (London)       Volume 35 Issue 2 MIL.BASE

Francis Ridge:
Not listed among the original Project Blue Book unknowns this report IS listed in the updated version by Brad Sparks: "10:45 PM. Four Dupont employees at the Savannah River AEC nuclear plant saw up to four yellow, disc-shaped objects on five occasions between 10:45 and shortly after 11:15" (Berliner).


FBI Document:
The Savannah Office of this Bureau has been informed that at approximately 10:45 p. M., May 10 1952,
four employees of the DuPont Company employed in the Savannah River Plant near Ellenton, South Carolina saw four disk shaped objects approaching "the four hundred area" from the south which disappeared in a northerly direction.

Bruce Macabbee:
Of course this is in the FBI file, probably the most interesting sighting FBI report in 1952 before the big flap and the Newhouse film. One would think that the AEC or some organization would have pursued this. The FBI was following directive from Hoover when it took the report and then did not investigate.   However, the fact that the FBI didn't pursue it may indicate that the unstated opinion was that the objects were "flying saucers" of some sort. Had the objects looked like model airplanes the FBI might well have decided to
investigate to find out who was flying model planes over a "vital installation.":