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Case · 1962–1973

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

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

AECArea 51 (cover claim)

Hume interviewed Dr. James Ramey II. The commissioner sat on a TS AEC program to investigate landed UFOs so the USSR would not gain a nuclear edge. Nothing credible found; the team also used UFO suspicion as cover for prohibited weapons. FOIA to NRC, DOE, NARA: no records. Hume keeps this next to Hineman and Starfish as a tranche that has not been touched.

Findings

Each line is tagged as a FOIA outcome, something someone told Hume, open literature, a leak, or Hume's own reading. Do not treat the last as a document.

  1. 01Hume's reading

    Dates line up with Ramey's AEC tenure (1962–73) and with Starfish (1962).

  2. 02On the record

    Grandson: no government knowledge of aliens; duty was to make sure Soviets did not get it first; UFO talk also used as cover.

  3. 03FOIA outcome

    Archives empty except a 1952 AEC-interest clipping. Hume: a requester with authority would do better.

  4. 04Hume's reading

    NDAA 2023's Atomic Energy Act 1954 language is, for Hume, the relevant lock.

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

RG Hume

Independent FOIA researcher

UK researcher who files FOI/FOIA against MOD, DSTL, AARO, NNSA, DOE, FBI, CIA-adjacent holdings, EPA, CBP and police. Publishes as @rgh_ufos. Has said his name is on requests, has appeared in BBC and Mail Online, and was cited by Jesse Michels for the NNSA Starfish Prime response.

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.

Agencies

Source posts

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  • 2026-08-01

    spoke with JT Ramey's (AEC commisioner 62-73) grandson about a TS AEC ufo program which AFAIK has never been disclosed/acknowledged.