war.gov PURSUE Release 02 – James Tuck (Manhattan Project): UAP Correspondence Los Alamos 1970s

Four pages of personal correspondence from Dr. James L. Tuck – British physicist, Manhattan Project veteran under Oppenheimer, director of Project Sherwood (US nuclear fusion research). DOE-UAP-D002. Contents: (1) Inbound letter from a former Los Alamos security officer: confirms sightings of 'green lights weaving in and out of mountain peaks' near Los Alamos 1948–1951 (21:00–23:00, Jemez Mountains). Five objects in formation, flight direction southeast–northwest, 5–6 witnesses. (2) Tuck's own letter of 16 December 1970 to the US Army Engineering School, Fort Belvoir: requesting the 'recipe for simulated atomic bomb demonstrations' for research into atmospheric vortices, as described in the Condon Report. (3) Ball-lightning correspondence (1976): Tuck had authored his own report on ball lightning and was circulating it within his network. Significance: First documented instance of a Manhattan Project physicist of the highest security clearance pursuing UAP as a private research interest and actively collecting data. Connection to LaPaz Green Fireballs documentation (FBI 62-HQ-83894). Source: DOE-UAP-D002, war.gov Release 02, pursueindex.com.