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Donald Keyhoe

Retired Marine major and author · 1897 to 1988

Best-selling author who led NICAP and pressed Congress for hearings.

Keyhoe's 1950 book The Flying Saucers Are Real was a bestseller. He directed the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) from 1957 to 1969 and lobbied for open hearings.

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