Albert M. Chop

He spoke for Project Blue Book, from the Air Force press desk. Saturday, July 26, 1952. As radar targets filled every sector over Washington, Albert M. Chop stood in the radar room with Maj. Dewey Fournet and Lt. John Holcomb, watching. He later cleared a list of 41 formerly classified reports for Donald E. Keyhoe. The B-29 radar-visual encounter over the Gulf of Mexico became case number 8. Entry 36, placed only in the "Korean area," is linked by the catalogues to the 1953 F-94 sighting at Nemuro, Hokkaido, though that match remains unconfirmed.

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The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap

July 19, 1952 · Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB, Washington, D.C. area

United States

UAP · Orb / light · 97 sources

61Well documented

Project Blue Book spokesman in the radar room

B-29 radar-visual encounter over the Gulf of Mexico (Karas, Naumann / "Harter and Coleman")

December 6, 1952 · Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, about 190 miles from Galveston, Texas

United States

UAP · Other · 23 sources

47Partially documented

Air Force press desk, cleared the report for Keyhoe

F-94 and Ground Radar Sighting at Nemuro, Hokkaido, 1953

February 7, 1953 · Nemuro AF Detachment, Nemuro, Hokkaido (also listed as "Korean area" and "Okinawa")

Japan

UAP · Unknown · 12 sources

40Partially documented

Compiled the clearance list on which the case appeared as entry 36, "Korean area"