A longtime contractor at the Hanford Site has come to an agreement with the Federal Government over allegations that the company was fraudulently billing the Department of Energy(DOE).
Just days before the Roswell incident made headlines in 1947, another strange encounter unfolded off the shores of Maury Island, Washington. A harbor patrolman claimed to witness flying saucers dumping metallic debris—killing his dog, injuring his son, and attracting the attention of mysterious men in black.
Yucca Flat, Nevada is considered the most cratered landscape on Earth, not from ancient asteroids, but from nearly one-thousand nuclear bomb tests conducted by the United States during the Cold War.
What's inside these mysterious capsules that seemingly sneak by sleeping Tri-City residents in the early morning hours? Over 130 of them have been shipped up the Columbia River and through Tri-Cities since the 1980s.
Not many locals know the story of the USS Triton (SSRN 586) submarine sail and how its superstructure ended up in Richland or that you can schedule a guided tour inside the original conning (raised platform tower) and control room.
A declassified government study that was conducted in 1950 presents the potential effects on the Hanford site after a direct hit of an atomic bomb on Grand Coulee Dam.