On 6 December 1952, the crew of a USAF B-29 over the Gulf of Mexico reported several unknowns were seen on the airborne scopes and some flashes of light were also seen visually about 190 miles from Galveston. Incident involved the pilot (Captain John Harter), the radar officer (Lieutenant Sid Coleman), the navigator (Lieutenant Cassidy), Master Sergeant Bailey and Staff Sergeant Ferris. (Commonly referred to as “the Gulf of Mexico incident”).

 

 

On 18 December 1952, H Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of the CIA’s OSI, prepared a memorandum for the record entitled “British Activity in the field of ‘Unidentified Flying Objects’” which refers to a British “standing committee created about sixteen months ago on flying saucers”.

 

 

 

 

On 11 December 1952, the US Civil Aeronautics Administration (“CAA”) issues a press release relating to its report on the radar detection of unidentified targets during the summer of 1952.

 

 

 

During 1953, Eugen Sanger proposed the antimatter rocket.