Created: 13 January 2006
Updated: 3 April 2018
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the UFO report:
“Fran Ridge:
This report is an on-going project, and it will take
many months to get active links to cases all in place. Many sightings have no
details and are those selected By Dr. James E. McDonald as those worthy of
inclusion in this report as we locate them. Our thanks go to Rebecca Wise
(Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson, Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of
Project Blue Book Unknowns) and Jean Waskiewicz, outstanding members of my
team.
Jan 9, 1953 SECRET letter to Miles Goll from H.C. Cross
(PENTACLE MEMO)
Large-scale military plan recommended to ATIC to
entrap UFOs to secure evidence at high incident areas. This just a week before
the CIA-sponsored meetings of Jan 14-16.
Jan 14-17, 1953:_Robertson_Panel_Convenes
Report of Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified
Flying Objects Convened by Office of Scientific Intelligence, CIA. (Credit:
Brad Sparks obtained the full declassification of the Robertson Panel Report
and Durant Memo by the CIA with all sanitized redactions filled in, in 1974.Copy
by CUFON)
Jan. 16, 1953
Maj. Dewey Fournet presented his ‘motion study’ to the
Robertson Panel. This study is significant and it is similar to the earlier
1948 ‘Estimate of the Situation’ and illustrates once again the reason why the
Extraterrestrial Hypothesis was seriously considered. And as always, the study
was not stopped as it went up, but was rejected at the top.
Jan. 27, 1953 CIA letter to Julius Stratton from
Marshall Chadwell
Jan. 30, 1953; CIA Memo on ONE Briefing
Briefing of the Office of Naval Estimates Board by CIA
on Unidentified Flying Objects, included the showing of the Utah
and Montana
films.
March 5, 1953
Letter to Air Defense Command about 4602nd doing UFOI
Investigations
May 1953 - CAA Report on Radar Targets
(Actual doc starts on page 2. CAA Technical
Development Report 180. A
Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed on Air Traffic Control. This
flawed report states the July 1952 objects were weather targets. (Courtesy of
CUFON)
AFM 200-3, May 1953 Promulgated
Handbook for Intelligence Officers. The manual’s theme
is the importance of having high grade air technical intelligence in order to
avoid ‘technological surprise’ from a foreign power. Although UFOs are not
specifically mentioned, the illustration of ‘flying saucers’ above an Air Force
bomber appears on page 9-3 of the manual, and this chronology shows the
timing/context of its publication. (Richard Hall)
ADDR 200-1 May_9, 1953
34th Air Defense Division Regulation No. 200-1,
Reporting of Information on Unidentified Flying Objects. Including: 34ADD Form
127: Unidentified Flying Object Report (FLYOBRPT) supercedes May 9, 1952
directive.
History_NEAC_7-12_53.pdf
July 25, 1953 - Restricted AF Document - How to Make
FLYOBRPTS (68 pages)
This guide, written in 1953, was intended for US Air
Force intelligence officers and others who might have to make UFO reports
(‘Flying Object Report = FLYOBRPT’.) It cites as its authority Air Force Letter
200-5 (AFL 200-5) which preceded Air Force Regulation 200-2. This guide contains
all the different report forms and also some statistics that may have not seen
the light of day for many years) until now (Jim Klotz, CUFON; Michael Swords,
Jan Aldrich)
AFR 200-2, Aug 26,1953
Air Force Regulation issued by Secretary of AF Harold E.
Talbott: procedures for reporting UFOs, restrictions on public discussion by
Air Force personnel.
Oct. 28, 1953; Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska
(BBU)
(McDonald List)
November12, 1953 - Project MAGNET
Canadian Government announcement of flying saucer observatory
near Ottawa.
December 1, 1953
Air Force announced in Washington it had set up ‘flying saucer’
cameras around the country equipped with diffraction gratings to analyze nature
of UFO light sources.
Dec. 15, 1953 - AFR 205-1, Part 1 (Courtesy, CUFON)
Part 2 (CUFON)”
A flurry of UFO incidents occurred at U.S. Air Force
Bases in 1953 (as in 1952). Many of these cases involved radar detection.
Wikipedia article: “Offutt Air Force Base”:
Related posts:
This is a photo I took of Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha,
Nebraska,
from an airline while on final approach to Eppley
(wikimedia.org photo)
