On 29 April 1952, the US Air Force Air Force Letter 200-5 (“AFL 200-5”) entitled “Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting” set forth UFO reporting procedures within the US Air Force, giving Project Blue Book authority to contact any Air Force unit in the USA without going through usual channels.

AFL 200-5 was later modified by the release of AFR 200-2 (26^th August 1953).

 

On 28 June 1952, an article is published in the German newspaper “Saarbrücker Zeitung”[i] (and is republished in the German newspaper “Berliner Volksblatt” [ii] on 9 July 1952) alleging that a flying disc crashed on Spitsbergen/ Spitzbergen Island in 1952 and had been recovered by the Norwegian Air Force.

On 7 May 1952, Ed Keffel, a writer for the O Cruziero magazine, claims to have taken photographs of a UFO from Ilha Dos Amores (“The Island of Lovers”) near Barra da Tijuca, Brazil whilst in the company of Joao Martins.

 

 

 

Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (“APRO”) of Tucson, Arizona, founded by Mrs Coral Lorenzen and her husband Leslie J Lorezen, mailed out its first mimeographed bulletin to 52 members during July 1952.