Atomic Energy Commission

A former US government agency established after World War II to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology. During the late 1940s and 1950s, a disproportionate number of UFO sightings occurred over highly restricted AEC facilities, such as Los Alamos and Oak Ridge, prompting intense security investigations.

Managed nuclear facilities that were the focal point of numerous high-profile, restricted-airspace UFO incursions in the late 1940s and 1950s.