United States: Truman tells Air Force aide Landry to find out what is going on with UFOs
At 10:00 a.m. on July 29, 1952, President Truman told his Air Force liaison Robert B. Landry to find out what was going on with UFOs; Landry reached Ruppelt at ATIC, while Truman listened in.
Background
At 10:00 a.m. on July 29, 1952, President Harry S. Truman told his Air Force liaison, Robert B. Landry, to find out what was going on with UFOs. Landry called the Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) and eventually reached Edward J. Ruppelt, who told him that weather may have caused the radar targets but that there was no proof. Ruppelt later learned that Truman had been listening in. According to the entry, there is some evidence that Truman or Landry soon contacted the National Security Council directly to find out how to proceed with the UFO problem. 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.