1953

January

February

March

April

May

June

Dr. Sidney Gottlieb approves a CIA LSD test as part of MK ULTRA. "This project will include a continuation of a study of the biochemical, neurophysiological, sociological, and clinical psychiatric aspects of L.S.D.," the CIA scientist writes.

July

August

September

October

Albert K. Bender near-bankrupt editor of a flying saucer publication called the "Space Review" places an announcement in the October 1953 issue stating that he had come across information that would solve the flying saucer mystery but he could not print it because he was ordered not to. He then ended the announcement warning others in saucer work to be "very cautious" and stopped their publications.

Senator Joe McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts begin.

November

December