Created: 15 December 2005
Updated: 4 February 2017
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the web page:
“Fran Ridge:
This is a very comprehensive and qualitative effort.
Without the help of Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson, Brad
Sparks, Jean Waskiewicz, Bill Schroeder and others, this could not have been
done. (Items on the Chop clearance list are coded ‘CCL’). But none of this
would be complete without the story behind the wave of 1952, as told by none
other than Richard Hall.
On March 2, 1950, a Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) meeting
focused on establishing goals for a minimum air defense by 1952. The following
month at a USAF Commanders Conference at Ramey AFB, Puerto
Rico , planners familiarized
commanders with the thinking behind the plan of minimum defense as well as with
its contents. Referred to as the Blue Book Plan, it stipulated that a minimum
air defense could be in place by mid-1952. It was estimated that July 1, 1952,
as the critical date when the Soviets would pose a dangerous threat. General
Charles Cabell expected the Soviets to have between 45 and 90 atom bombs and 70
to 135 Tu-4 bombers (copied B-29s) by that time. Was there a nuclear connection
between this threat and the massive UFO sighting wave of 1952 and the events
over Washington
Richard Hall:
The summer 1952 UFO sighting wave was one of the
largest of all time, and arguably the most significant of all time in terms of
the credible reports and hardcore scientific data obtained. Electromagnetic
(EM) effects and physical trace evidence were
more prominent in other waves, but 1952 (and 1953) featured recurring
radar detection of UFOs, often from both ground and airborne radar, visual
sightings by jet interceptor pilots sent up to pursue the mysterious objects,
and cat-and-mouse chases in which the UFOs seemed to toy with the interceptors.
Further, Air Force investigators who plotted the sightings noticed that they
were concentrated around strategic military bases, and this clearly posed a
threat to national security since their origin was unknown. Senior generals in
the Air Force concluded that UFOs were
interplanetary in origin, and broadly hinted this belief in LIFE magazine for
April 1952.”
Related posts:
UFO Map: North
America
(larryhatch.net/archive.org image)