Donald Keyhoe

Donald Keyhoe was a retired United States Marine Corps major and author who headed the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena and argued, in his book Flying Saucers Are Real, that the US Air Force was concealing evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation.

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) · Major, United States Marine Corps (retired) · Author; UFO investigator

Donald Keyhoe was a former United States Marine Corps major¹ and Marine Corps veteran.² A retired Marine aviator, he was head of³ and a co-founder of⁴ the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a civilian research organisation.³

In late 1949, Keyhoe published the article ‘Flying Saucers Are Real’ in True Magazine.⁵ He followed it with the book Flying Saucers Are Real in January 1950.⁶

In the book, Keyhoe claimed that the United States Air Force (USAF) knew the objects were extra-terrestrial but was playing down reports to avoid public panic.⁷ He further suggested that the US government was hiding the truth about UFOs, and that high-level insiders, including Air Force officials, had retrieved crashed alien vehicles.⁸ Keyhoe also contended that alien beings more technologically advanced than humans existed,⁹ and that the US Department of Defense was keeping evidence of them secret.¹⁰

Keyhoe said that Dan Kimball had told him the discs involved in a 1952 sighting over the Pacific flew at speeds of up to approximately 3,200 kilometres per hour.¹¹ According to Jacques Vallée, during the 1961 Betty and Barney Hill Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) abduction, Betty Hill and Barney Hill reported empirical evidence of a sighting of a starlike object to the USAF, but when describing their experience to people they felt would not scoff - among them Keyhoe, and later their therapist - they related an encounter with nonhuman beings.¹²

In 1954, the Directorate of Air Force Intelligence Australia dismissed the findings of the 1954 Harry Turner Directorate of Air Force Intelligence (DAFI) Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP) review after consulting with the USAF, because Harry Turner had quoted Keyhoe - described as a US flying saucer author and NICAP director - in his research.¹³ According to In Plain Sight (2021), Australia’s Director of Air Force Intelligence said Turner had erred in quoting Keyhoe, since Keyhoe’s books supposedly gave the misleading impression that they carried some official US government sanction.¹⁴

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Former United States Marine Corps major
“Kehoe was a former US Marine Corps major.”
Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document - DEBRIEFED ep. 33 00:10:58.2-00:11:00.2
Marine Corps veteran
“Marine Corps veteran Donald Keyhoe”
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Retired Marine aviator and head of NICAP, a civilian research organisation
“Donald Keyhoe, a retired Marine aviator who was head of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, a civilian research organization.”
American Cosmic ch4:43149-43284
Co-founder of NICAP
“The co-founder of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Major Donald Keyhoe”
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Published the article 'Flying Saucers Are Real' in True magazine in late 1949
“published his dramatic article 'Flying Saucers Are Real' in the popular men's magazine True in late 1949”
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Released the book The Flying Saucers Are Real in January 1950
“I'm going to take you back to January 1950, where a very interesting book was released by none other than Donald Kehoe entitled The Flying Saucers Are Real.”
Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document - DEBRIEFED ep. 33 00:10:48.8-00:10:57.4
Claimed the USAF knew the objects were extra-terrestrial but downplayed reports to avoid panic
“In his best-selling book of the same name, he claimed the US Air Force knew that the mystery objects were extra-terrestrial but that it was playing down reports to avoid a public panic”
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Suggested the government was hiding the truth and that officials had retrieved crashed alien vehicles
“He suggested that the US government was hiding the truth and claimed that high-level insiders like Air Force officials had retrieved crashed alien vehicles.”
Aliens and Albert Einstein - The Secret Document - DEBRIEFED ep. 33 00:11:00.8-00:11:08.5
Contended more technologically advanced alien beings existed
“In the book Keyhoe contends that there are alien beings that are more technologically advanced than humans and that the US Department of Defense is keeping the evidence secret.”
American Cosmic ch4:43333-43502
Contended the Department of Defense was keeping evidence of alien beings secret
“the US Department of Defense is keeping the evidence secret.”
American Cosmic ch4:43449-43502
Said Dan Kimball told him the 1952 Pacific sighting discs flew at up to ~3,200 km/h
“wrote how Kimball later told him the discs flew at speeds up to 2000 miles an hour (3200 km/h)”
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Vallée: the Hills told Keyhoe and later their therapist a story of nonhuman beings
“They reported empirical evidence to the Air Force, the sighting of the starlike object. But when describing their experience to people they felt would not be inclined to scoff, like Donald Keyhoe and later their therapist (who, ironically, did not believe in UFOs), they divulged the story of the encounter with nonhuman beings.”
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Australian DAFI dismissed Turner's findings for quoting Keyhoe
“because Harry Turner quoted US best-selling flying saucer author and National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena director Major Donald Keyhoe in his research, Australia’s Director of Air Force Intelligence dismissed Professor Turner’s findings, after consulting with the US Air Force”
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Australia's Director of Air Force Intelligence said Turner erred in quoting Keyhoe
“He said Professor Turner had ‘erred’ in quoting Keyhoe because the former marine major supposedly gave the misleading impression his books had some official US government sanction.”
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