Journalist or investigator

Donald Keyhoe

1950-01-01year known, day not recorded

Retired U.S. Marine Corps officer and writer whose bestselling 1950 book "Flying Saucers Are Real" argued the government was hiding UFO evidence. Founded and directed NICAP starting in 1956.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "flying saucer", "ufo". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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← NICAP

Keyhoe was its director in March 1966

Unidentified Flying Objects
printed p. 6051 checked against the page
← Harry Truman a reference; no pages of it are held

Keyhoe wrote to him directly about UFOs

Records Related to Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) and Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) at the National Archives: Presidential Library Holdings
← James E. McDonald names a source we do not hold

allied in pushing for open UFO investigation

Wikipedia: James E. McDonald

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Donald Keyhoe → NICAP

Keyhoe was its longtime director (1957-1969)

Keyhoe was its director in March 1966

THE RECORD CARRIES NEITHER YEAR AND NOT THE WORD "LONGTIME". Folio 6051 reprints a Washington Post article of 29 March 1966 which says "Keyhoe now is director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, an organization whose major aims are to evaluate all UFO sightings". That fixes the directorship at one month and says nothing about when it began or ended. A caveat was considered and rejected: a caveat scopes a modifier the document does not reach, and here the document reaches neither year, so there is nothing to scope. Read as an image 2026-08-25.