US · Historical nuclear

AEC

Atomic Energy Commission

Predecessor to DOE/NNSA. Hume's interview with commissioner James T. Ramey's grandson describes a top-secret 1962–73 AEC program to investigate landed UFOs. FOIA to NRC, DOE and NARA returned no responsive records.

Files

AEC · 1962–1973

No records

AEC / DOE / NRC / NARA search — Ramey UFO program 1962–73

No responsive records from NRC, DOE or NARA. Only a 1952 newspaper clip on AEC interest in sightings. Hume says someone with authority would do better than a private FOIA.

Open record

Names

James T. Ramey

AEC Commissioner, 1962–1973

Hume interviewed the commissioner's grandson. The family account: Ramey sat on a top-secret AEC program investigating landed UFOs so the USSR would not gain a nuclear advantage. The team found nothing credible and, per the grandson, also fanned UFO rumours as cover for prohibited weapons work.

Dr. James Ramey II

Grandson of James T. Ramey

Hume's source on the AEC UFO program. Confirmed the family story including the cover/disinformation function around Area 51-era weapons and the claim that nothing extraterrestrial was found.

Cases

1962–present

Starfish Prime, Fishbowl and NNSA UFO files

Classified nuclear-test records that a subject-matter expert must clear

FOIAnuclearNNSAAEC

1962–1973

James T. Ramey's AEC UFO program (1962–73)

Family account of a top-secret landed-UFO investigation — empty FOIA

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