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Pajarito Astronomers club meeting — Los Alamos scientist to present on UFO scientific concern

May 29, 1986Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Analysis — our summary

This document is a newsletter or circular dated May 20, 1986, from the Pajarito Astronomers club (P.O. Box 1092, Los Alamos, NM) announcing a meeting on May 29, 1986, at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos. The guest speaker was Dr. John Warren of AT-6 (an organizational code associated with Los Alamos National Laboratory), whose topic was 'Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO's?' No specific UAP incident is described; the document evidences organized scientific interest in the UAP phenomenon among Los Alamos laboratory personnel in 1986.

As reported — verbatim from the document
"Guest speaker will be Dr. John Warren of AT-6, whose topic will be 'Why Should a Scientist be Concerned about UFO\'s?'"
Analyst notes — caveats & confidence

OCR quality is moderate with some character substitution artifacts (e.g., 'IPj@rat@® As@mo@omens' for 'Pajarito Astronomers'). The document is a meeting notice, not an incident report; no UAP observations are described. Significance lies in the DOE/LANL context: AT-6 at Los Alamos was associated with weapons program divisions, and the meeting at a nuclear-facility-adjacent community club reflects institutional awareness of the UAP topic. Date (May 29, 1986) is clearly stated and precise; Fuller Lodge location in Los Alamos is well-established. Confidence is moderate-high for document contents but the absence of any incident means most incident fields are null.

Provenance
Source documentDOE-UAP-D003_Pajarito_Astronomers.pdf
Document typecorrespondence
Reporting agencyDept. of Energy
Source pages1
DeclassifiedFirst public at this release (2026)
Held classified~40 years (≥, to this release)
Extraction confidence HighHow cleanly this record could be parsed from the source — driven by legibility & redaction. It is not a measure of how credible or anomalous the sighting is.