Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ruppelt briefs MIT Beacon Hill group on Blue Book progress
In April 1952, Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt again met MIT Lincoln Laboratory scientists of the Beacon Hill group in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to brief them on Project Blue Book's progress.
Background
Edward J. Ruppelt again met with scientists of MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Beacon Hill group, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to brief them on Blue Book's progress. Afterward he asked them about the flashes seen on Mars in 1951, and a general discussion of life on other planets followed. Ruppelt described the meeting in a text later published in the International UFO Reporter in 1998. Historian Michael D. Swords suspects that physicist George Valley Jr., engineer Julius Adams Stratton, physicist Albert G. Hill and chemical engineer Walter G. Whitman were among those present. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.