Uranium Orchard is the name given to an incident involving the recovery of an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Ozona, West Texas, in June or July 1948, alleged to be hard documentation of unintended extra-terrestrial contact. On July 9, 1948, the Ozona Army Air Field (OAAF) public information officer Steve Grambowsky in Ozona, Texas, issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed, “cassette-like" tape from an orchard near Ozona, sparking intense media interest. The press release was later retracted and the United States military has since maintained that what was actually recovered was debris from an experimental high-altitude surveillance blimp belonging to a classified program named "Mongrel"; however, many UFO proponents maintain that in fact an alien craft had discharged the tape in an effort to relay communications with other craft in the area and that the tape unintentionally entered Earth’s gravitational field and subsequently crashed. Following the death of noted computer scientist and Navy Admiral Grace Hopper in 1992, documentation retrieved from her personal papers indicate that unidentified United States intelligence agencies commissioned her to work on a project involving what is believed to be the tape that crashed in Ozona and that her development of the Mark V compiler and COBOL programming language was first begun during this period. According to the documentation in Hopper’s papers, the tape appeared to consist of radio transmissions unlike anything that could be transmitted at the time. Later reports of strange levels of radioactivity in the orchard and the inability of farmers to continue to produce crops in the area eventually led to the incident being referred to as Uranium Orchard. While the United States military maintains that the tape was lost in administrative down-sizing during the Reagan administration, tapes alleging to be dubbed copies of the original can still be found circulating in various underground circles. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Uranium+Orchard">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.