Winston Churchill 1952 Memo
Churchill wrote this memo shortly after the UFO sightings after Washington, D.C. in July 1952. Several months later sightings during Exercise Mainbrace peaked his interest.
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Date:
1952
Status:
Government Sourced
Credit:
Dr. David Clarke
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Churchill was concerned about the "flying saucer" problem in 1952, as seen in this declassified memo.
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Project Blue Book Case File: 07-20-1952, Washington, D.C.
British Royal Air Force pilots discussed their UFO sightings.
Project Blue Book Case File: 07-29-1952, Gen. Sanford Press Conference Washington, D.C.
Multiple UFO sightings in the North Sea seen during Exercise Mainbrace.
Litwin's story about his famous Mainbrace UFO photos, taken aboard the USS Roosevelt.
Radar picked up the objects over Washington, D.C. in July 1952, but jets scrambled to intercept could not find the objects.
Project Blue Book Case File from the NATO Exercise Mainbrace sightings labeled "At sea on (U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt.)" and dated "20 September 52".
Major General Samford stated the U.S. Air Force was not sure what the objects were, but they posed no threat to national security.
Newspaper sketch of the incident.
Exercise Mainbrace: Air Ministry London
Exercise Mainbrace Witness Letter
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Exercise Mainbrace Sightings
September 1952
From September 13-21, 1952, several unidentified aerial objects were reported by military personnel in different locations across Northern Europe and the North Sea. Many of these reports came from participants in Operation Mainbrace, a joint NATO military exercise. The Royal Air Force sightings...
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
July 1952
The events over Washington D.C. in July 1952 are some of the most famous events in the history of the UFO phenomenon. Many credible witnesses–including air traffic controllers and USAF pilots dispatched to intercept the objects–believe they saw physical objects in the sky and on radar...
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Winston Churchill
Statesman, Soldier and Writer
Winston Churchill
Statesman, Soldier and Writer
Documents from the 1950s report that the prime minister ordered a RAF bombing crew's encounter with a UFO be hidden from the public for 50 or more years to avoid "mass panic."
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Churchill wrote this famous memo after the Washington, D.C. UFO incident made world news, just before the 1952 Exercise Mainbrace North Sea sightings.
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