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1952

  • 1952.0729 Port Huron intercept

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    On 29 July 1952, a F-94 attempted an intercept near Port Huron, Michigan.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0729 Samford press conference

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    On 29 July 1952, Major General John Samford holds a press conference in relation to the well publicised Washington National Radar/Visual Sightings

     

     

     

  • 1952.0800 Project A

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    “Project A” was established by Dr Warren Hichman during August 1952 at Ohio Northern University to research UFOs.

    It closed two years later because it possessed no means of obtaining further information with which to make a study

     

     

     

  • 1952.0800 Ruppelt article

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    An article by Captain Edward J Ruppelt appeared in the August 1952 edition of Air Intelligence Digest.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0801 Bellefontaine Ohio incident

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    The Bellefontaine, Ohio radar/visual incident occurred on 1 August 1952.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0801 CIA concealment memo

     

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    CIA concealment memo
    On 1 August 1952, Edward Tauss, acting chief of the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence Weapons and Equipment Division, reported on behalf of a special CIA study group in a memorandum for Deputy Assistant Director, SI (Philip Strong).

    Tauss urged that the CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public, “in view of their probable alarmist tendencies” to accept such interest as confirming the existence of UFOs.

     

  • 1952.0805 Haneda Japan incident

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    The Haneda Air Force Base, Japan radar/visual incident occurred on 5 August 1952.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0806 Hynek's poll of astronomers

     

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    Hynek's poll of astronomers
    On 6 August 1952, Dr J Allen Hynek wrote a “Special Report” on an informal survey of astronomers about UFOs during, and following, a American Astronomical Society meeting in Victoria, B.C. in June 1952.

    (Commonly referred to as “the Hynek poll of astronomers”)

     

     

     

  • 1952.0809 Response to Churchill

     

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    Response to Churchill
    On 9 August 1952, UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives a response from the Air Ministry in relation to his request for information about flying saucers.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0814 CIA briefing paper on UFOs

     

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    CIA briefing paper on UFOs
    On 14 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper entitled “Flying Saucers” details background of both Air Force and CIA investigations and considers major theories.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0815 CIA paper on IFOs

     

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    CIA paper on IFOs
    On 15 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper gives details of “the official explanations of the great majority of sightings of unidentified flying objects” and mentions “possible phenomena which may account for some of the open cases”.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0819 CIA paper on UFO dangers

     

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    CIA paper on UFO dangers
    On 19 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper entitled “Flying Saucers” discusses potential dangers of UFO reports, including the USSR's possible use of UFOs as a psychological warfare tool and deliberate overloading of the US air warning by the Soviets to gain a surprise advantage in any nuclear attack.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0819 Florida Scoutmaster incident

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    On 19 August 1952, Florida Scoutmaster D S “Sonny” Desvergers and three boy scouts report seeing a UFO in Florida near Palm Beach, Florida.

    This incident is Case 39 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 59 of the books covered by that article.

    This was Project Blue Book Case Number 1981.

    Karl Pflock wrote an article about this incident entitled “The Best Hoax in UFO History”.

     

  • 1952.0820 CIA concerns

     

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    CIA concerns
    On 20 August 1952, a CIA memo refers to a meeting with officials during which DCI Walter Bedell Smith had expressed various concerns.

     

     

     

     

  • 1952.0822 CIA paper on USAF stand

     

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    CIA paper on USAF stand
    On 22 August 1952, a CIA briefing paper discussed the Air Force stand on “Flying Saucers”.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0900 J P Cahn exposes Frank Scully

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    The September 1952 issue of True magazine includes an article by J P Cahn of the San Fransico Chronicle on his investigation into the story contained in Frank Scully’s book, “Behind the Flying Saucers” published in 1950.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0901 Yaak, Montana incident

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    The Yaak, Montana radar/visual incident occurred on 1 September 1952.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0907 Chadwell memo

     

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    Chadwell memo
    On 7 September 1952, H Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, prepares a memorandum for CIA’s DCI Walter Bedell Smith entitled “Flying Saucers”.

     

     

     

  • 1952.0912 Flatwoods Monster

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    On 12 September 1952, Mrs Kathleen May, her children and Gene Lemon claim to see a creature at Flatwoods, West Virginia after the children had claimed to have seen a UFO.

    (Commonly referred to as “the Flatwoods Incident” or “the Flatwoods Monster”).

    This incident is Case 38 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 61 of the books covered by that article.

    This was Project Blue Book Case Number 2078.

    This incident featured in a list of cases produced by Greg Bishop for the Fortean Times in 2007 as part of a survey of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.

     

  • 1952.0917 Chadwell memo

     

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    Chadwell memo
    On 17 September 1952, H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of OSI, prepares a memorandum for CIA’s DCI Walter Bedell Smith entitled “Flying Saucers”.