quotation rr.quo.001002 Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire

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The subsequent release of Col. Halt’s real-time tape recording of events confirmed that the peak figure he quoted was simply a random burst, not a steady level. For much of the time scarcely anything was being picked up by the geiger counters – on the tape we hear them describing the readings at the site as “minor clicks”. Confirmation that this was only background radiation comes from the fact that the same levels were recorded over half a mile away from the supposed landing site, after they had crossed two fields beyond the forest (read the transcript here). The highest reading mentioned on the tape is “seven tenths”, i.e. 0.07; the 0.1 figure reported by Halt appears only in his memo and we do not know exactly where that reading was obtained, assuming it was not just a rough value recalled from memory.

Yet, as is clear from Nick Pope’s quotation above, my conclusion has not been universally accepted. Pope’s own researches led him to claim that the radiation levels recorded were 10 times higher than normal, and similar claims have been made by others.