UFO Article (Blog):
“Oldies Still the Best: Al Chop’s 1953 Classic”
by Robert Barrow, 15 September 2009
(Robert-Barrow.blogspot.com)

Robert Barrow writes about the famous letter Albert M. Chop sent to Henry Holt & Company:

http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2009/09/oldies-still-best-al-chops-1953-classic.html

Albert M. Chop’s letter (dated 26 January 1953) to Henry Holt & Company (NICAP.org):

http://www.nicap.org/chop2let.htm

The late Albert M. Chop was a U.S. Air Force and NASA Public Affairs Officer.

Albert M. Chop,
Press Chief,

Air Materiel Command

(nicap.org photo)

UFO News Article:
“Flying Saucers? Absolutely Not,
Says Chief Air Force Investigator”,
29 August 1965 (St. Joseph News-Press, Missouri)

In the article, Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr. comments about the UFO incidents that had occurred over the U.S. in late July/early August 1965, among other things:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=f_RTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=WTkNAAAAIBAJ&pg=5960,5485447

Quote from the article:
“Quintanilla admits there are 663 unsolved UFO sighting cases – nearly half of them in the peak year of 1952. But, he adds: ‘None has ever given any indication of being a threat to our national security … of being beyond the range of present day scientific knowledge … or being extraterrestrial.’ ”














The late Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., U.S. Air Force
(ovnis-usa.com photo)

UFO Article:
“The Chop Clearance List”,
Updated: 13 February 2011 (NICAP.org)

This is a list of Air Technical Intelligence UFO sightings and other information secured and cleared for Major Donald E. Keyhoe by Mr. Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk, NICAP.org informs:

http://www.nicap.org/chop.htm

The late Albert M. Chop was a U.S. Air Force and NASA Public Affairs Officer.










Albert M. Chop, MSC Deputy Public Affairs Officer, is shown at
his console in the Mission Control Operations Room at the NASA
Headquarters in Houston, Texas (Project 1947.com photo)