Tag: donald keyhoe
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major donald keyhoe: early pioneer of ufology
Major Donald Keyhoe, already an established writer, turned UFO researcher when editor Kevin Purdy of True magazine asked him to investigate early sightings in 1949. The Thomas F Mantell incident, a Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, who crashed to his death on January 7, 1948 in a Mustang P51 while in pursuit of a UFO,…
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weapons of mass deception
Mark Pilkington, author of Mirage Men, writes an excellent account of early ufology, from an intelligence point of view, in a Fortean Times article, “Weapons of Mass Deception”. Pilkington begins with the Air Forces’ “Project Grudge, an early effort “to study” unidentified flying objects (ufos), but intended primarily to suppress public interest. The effort proved successful,…