NEW YORK POST., July 30, 1952

* Washington D.C. UFO Incident
* Flying Saucers craze - panic 

Page 2 has a heading that reads: "AF Now Calls Those Saucers Heat, Illusion" (see images)
Complete with all 60 pages, tabloid size, a little spine wear, small tape mend on the front page, generally in nice condition.

Background: The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap—which reached its frantic climax around July 29, 1952—stands as a seminal watershed moment in Cold War history, military intelligence, and ufology, forever altering how the U.S. government managed public perception of unexplained aerial phenomena. The significance of these events lay in the unprecedented breach of highly restricted airspace over national security hubs like the U.S. Capitol and the White House, where air traffic controllers tracked high-speed, highly maneuverable unidentified flying objects on radar alongside visual confirmations from commercial pilots. Triggering intense public panic, widespread media speculation, and direct inquiries from President Harry S. Truman, the U.S. Air Force was forced to scramble F-94 jet interceptors and subsequently hold the largest Pentagon press conference since World War II, officially attributing the radar blips to temperature inversions. Crucially, the military's inability to decisively control or fully explain the situation sparked acute fears within the CIA that panic over UFO reports could be exploited for enemy psychological warfare or overwhelm air defense systems during the Cold War.