That document was part of an effort by NICAP members to attract the attention of Congress to the UFO question. Investigator, promoted discussion of the extraterrestrial hypothesis and openly criticized both the air force for hoarding needed data and the contactees for their unsupported claims of contact with extraterrestrials.Īlthough continually on the verge of collapse, NICAP became the symbol of conservative scientific ufology and found some stability with the assistance of Richard Hall, who became secretary of the organization in 1958 and wrote The UFO Evidence (1964). The organization's periodical, The U.F.O. After some initial organizational struggles, Keyhoe emerged as the group's director. Townsend Brown, and several retired officers from the armed forces said they felt that an organization was needed to address the issues created by the "space visitors" controversy. Beginning in 1950 Keyhoe wrote three books - The Flying Saucers Are Real (1950), Flying Saucers from Outer Space (1953), and The Flying Saucer Conspiracy (1955) -in which he argues that flying saucers were extraterrestrial in origin, that the United States Air Force knew what they were, but that the government, fearful of public reaction, was covering up the evidence.īy 1956, Keyhoe, popular radio host Frank Edwards, physicist T. Keyhoe, journalist and retired marine officer. Among those in the midst of the controversy was Donald E.
The possibility of extraterrestrial visitors and the scientific advances that a culture with interplanetary or even interstellar travel could bring captured the interest of a number of scientists. By the mid-1950s speculation about flying saucers, begun in 1947, had developed into a massive controversy. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP)Įarly UFO organization.
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