SPOT A FLYING SAUCER AND AFRAIDTHE NEIGHORS WILL LAUGH? THEN TELL IT TO NEW CONFIDENTIAL NICAP

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090041-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 41
• Publication Date: July 20, 1957
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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SpqA Flying Saucer And Afraid The Neighbors Wil
I7atigh? Then Tell it To New Confidential NICAP
By DOUGLAS LARSEN A service which Keyhoe and hi:7
NEA Staff Correspondent NICAP offers to members and the
rehlic is an impartial evaluation.
ei all saucer sightings. "We will
?.,, to expose the fake, crackpot
see(d?ts as well as give attention
to those which offer new informat-
i. the nature of UFOs," Key-
) ?..c says.
Ile doubts reports of competinei
wtiters who claimed to have rid-
den in flying saucers and inter-
viewed passengers from outer
space. He says a special NICAP
-committee will give such claimants
lie-detector tests and analyze their'
reports if they will submit to this.
In offering to keep names of me-
mbers secret at their request Key-
hoe admits that just an interest ir/
flying saucers could make a p._,.rson
:the object of ridicule. He says many
airline pilots have been ordered not
CONFIDANTE: - Donald Key- reixatt any LIFO sightings for this
hee heads new "1-I?IY' group. reason.
In a statement of personal pol-
icy on saucers, published in the
Another retired admiral, Delmer first edition of the magazine, Key-
s. Fahrney, is a founder of the or-hoe says:
ganization. Fahrney is a pioneer of "I consider that the evilence
guided missile development. Still that the UFOs are real and arc
another member is Maj. Dewey interplanetary machines is con-
Fournet, a former investigator of elusive. But I am making every
UFO reports for the Air Force. effort to be neutral in my
proach to new evidence.
"The opinions of our special ad-
visors and the board of governors.
will fur outweigh my own pe:tsonal
conviclins in final evaluatins.'
WASHINGTON ? (NA ? You
can now report seeing flying sauc-
ers without being tagged as the
, neighborhood nut.
1 That's one of the several unique
services being offered by a new
organization called the National
I Investigations Committee on Aerial
i Yhenomen.
Another service is that your me-
, rnbership in NICAP will be kept a
secret, just in case the mere act of
' signing up might start the neigh-
bors talking. Already there are
plenty of secret members, although
there are some pretty impressive
'names among members who aren't
afraid to have their affiliation made
public.
?The current yearly dues in this
.non-protit organization are $7.50.
In addition to offering the choice
of anonymity or publicity, the me-
mbership package ijuclucles a new
monthly publication called "The
UFO Investigator." "UFO is the
:official Pentagon designation lot
, "unidentified flying objects," or
? flying saucers.
,1 t our UFOs, Tracked
; ? .:The first issue, just off the press,
vetiPs; for the first .thile that a
viJ Aeronautics Administration
raiJareaperator tracked four U.F0.-.
flying over California_ at speeds ut
to 3,61100 mph .last spring. The eir.
.cunistances were siMilar to past
radar sighting which cOuld not be
identified as conventional aircraft.
? Leen
Others include retired generals, air
line pilots, college professors, min-
isters and businessmen.
Directed By Ex-Marine
Donald Keyhoe, a retired Ma-
rine major and author of three best-
selling flying saucer books, is the
director of NICAP and editor of the
mernhers up ? to tieite on similar le- .new magazine. He has made flying
tare sightings. .saucer a highly profitable career.
I
The first issue also revealed thatn the process he has worked up a
-feud with the Air Force on the sub-
ject.
It has been Keyhoe's contention
all along that the Air Force has
a big plot cooking to keep the real ?
facts on saucers from the public.
"The real mission of NICAP is
to get the Air Force to open up its
secret files on sowers so that thf
public can evaluate for itself just
what there is to this whole thing,'
? . insists.
the former head ol the U. S. Cel-
teat Intelligence Agency, It.Cm.
, Roscoe II. Hillenkoetter ' had be-
come a member of the board of
directors of N1CAP. Hillenkoetter
recently retired from the Navy and
is now with a shipping Lrin in New
I'Voile The CIA which he headed is
Sain's top intelligence age-
ney.
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