Cour BULTACT: | Visit to Kwajelein, Friday, 5 March e 6 Varch 1964 The interpreter st-ted that esoue of the heeds of faniliee had left money underneath their hute.. This ia their only posséssion of cny consequence. Cere will be teken to dneure that any re-entry parties do not Gisturd the natives! Belon-ings. 6. I interviewed the magietrate from Utirik, a native, “He sald thet @arly in the morning on the first of March, local time, he eaw a very bright light in the sry and hearé a bang followed by ea ruxble somewhet sizilar to thunder but cince there were no storm clouds in the aren he fimurec it was an explosion, Ke was on deluit curing the war which wes evteneively bombed and he knowe what en exnioston fea. He raw nothing cone down fron the el-y like dust or cebrige He seid that he had never seen or heard in previous yesrs anythine like he had ecen and heard on tais occasion. He seexed in mood snirite and with grect deli sht discuesed hie reactions to the lirht an¢é bane. 7 I interviewed thea ton native from Eongela> through an intercreter. his erj;erfience wee similer excert he obviouely ses and hecrd more then w.s the cace at Utirik. then I asked hic if he felt anythine, he resched out. ans exve we a push. Ke observed no fallout. &. Zz interviewed Warrant Cfiicer J. A. Katrol who fe in cherre of the weather et .tion at Rongerik. Fe zaid that he wae just washins um when the flash ocecured. He came out with « towel and the li-ht wer so bricht that he hele the ta.ei just to the bottom edve of his eyes. hea cic not have to cover rie eyce but was on the verce of doing «9 because of the eccertionzlly bricnt dight im the exy. ke scic that ebout 15 minutes efter the flash, the notre enc eh3sck a rivec which were very noticcable and ehosk and rattled the budl’ ines. re bteenne very fristteneé leter when he gay the hich reztine on his instrorents,. Katro] revort-:d thet he did not ses rarticles failings er hat bern re-arte® tet a here eclorec in lfke o cloud anc pp dust wes # KORY on buildings ane fat gurfactc. BEST AVAILABLE & hen eekec for en exrl exuation ae to why the file tadceese previously rerortic to have been in the deebox hat such ea hich reading on then, he exe Flaine: tht the mon who took them out of the fcebory carricd thea in lis noetet f:r 2 “-oriod of time. S. Centcin haizht of the Tivieion of Military Avylication, ATT, who woe eent by me to Kwejealein, reported in effect ar follovs. Health aituntion ef the natives 42 egatisfactory ent rhyeicsal excninatinons are vithin norcal ex~ wectec variatione. There were no syrctoms of radiation ele*meen es of & serch. Sone invent2 eremec to be difficult to fsed Dut thie de thought to be “us to tTresent weriationrs from thelr usmel ciet. Froceur-sent of thelrumol ciet is being accomnmiished from netives who live on an falerd atjacent to “veistein Teland, resent prognosir le favorable ean¢ morale seers to be very 225°. i Fane : 5 ; \