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NICAP fed a fake crash story (1957) — In his 1960 book Flying Saucers: Top Secret, the retired Marine Corps major Donald Keyhoe, director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), described how the young organisation was fed a fabricated story of a flying-saucer crash. The book has a chapter titled "The Hoax". According to the anonymous UAP timeline in Michael Shellenberger's 2024 House testimony, which cites pages 64–68 of the book, the story told in May 1957 was of a crash in the Florida Everglades. The source was an Associated Press employee and "former Signal Corps engineer" with ties to the National Security Agency, who admitted faking the story but gave no motive. The book… (Full article…)
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Did you know…
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- … about Phoenix Lights: the mass sighting over Arizona on 13 March 1997?
- … about Falcon Lake incident: A 1967 Manitoba case in which prospector Stefan Michalak said he was burned by a landed craft?
- … about Socorro landing: The April 1964 landing reported by police officer Lonnie Zamora?
- … about James Goodall: aviation historian of Area 51 and the Skunk Works?
- … about Ed Dames: Former Army remote viewer who founded Psi-Tech?
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