UFO activity at the Hanford Plutonium Plant

摘要

The Hanford Engineer Works, near Richland, Washington, was America's first full-scale plutonium production plant. During World War II, its reactors provided the fissile material used in the test of the world's first atomic device, code-named "Trinity," near Alamogordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, and in the bomb that destroyed Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9th. (Hiroshima was wiped out by a uranium-based bomb on August 6th.) That same year, Clarence R. "Bud" Clem was a Lieutenant Junior Grade in the U.S. Naval Reserves, serving as an F6F Hellcat fighter pilot assigned to Air Group 50 aboard the U.S.S. Cowpens CVL-25.