Donald Keyhoe becomes director of NICAP

Name: Donald Keyhoe becomes director of NICAP
Start: 1957
Location: Washington, D.C.

When: 1957
Where: Washington, D.C.
Sources: 2 public sources

Donald Keyhoe, director of NICAP CBS, "The Mike Wallace Interview" 1958 March 8, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

After founding director T. Townsend Brown was removed at the end of 1956, retired Marine Major Donald Keyhoe took charge of the civilian group NICAP. Under him it pressed Congress to scrutinize Air Force secrecy about UFOs.

Sources

OtherNational Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) (opens in a new tab)Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology (via Encyclopedia.com)
OtherUFOs, NICAP, and the CIA (opens in a new tab)Podcast UFO (Charles Lear) / 2021-10-24

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