DOE-UAP-D002 consists of personal correspondence to and from James L. Tuck, a physicist affiliated with Los Alamos National Laboratory, dating to the 1970s (with one letter dated 16 December 1970). The documents involve at least three parties: Tuck, a redacted correspondent describing green light sightings in a mountainous area during 1948โ1951, and a separate letter to Fort Belvoir's Department of Mechanical and Technical Equipment. The green light sightings were reportedly witnessed by multiple people, including police force members, on "the Hill" โ a likely reference to Los Alamos. Tuck's Fort Belvoir letter requests a recipe for simulated atomic bomb demonstrations and references interest in large atmospheric vortices discussed in the Condon Report. A fourth letter references James M. McCampbell's 1976 book "Ufology" and ball lightning.
The collection is notable because it places a named Los Alamos physicist in active, documented correspondence about UAP-related phenomena during the postwar nuclear period. The Fort Belvoir letter explicitly ties Tuck's interest to the Condon Report's atmospheric vortex findings. Sender identities are redacted under exemption (b)(6). OCR quality is poor throughout, limiting confident reconstruction of several passages. The sightings described near "the Hill" during 1948โ1951 overlap with the early Green Fireballs incident period documented elsewhere in the UAP record.
Redactions present in this record. Black bars protect identities of eyewitnesses, locations of facilities, or non-UAP-related sensitive material.