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Artifacts from Donald Keyhoe's Appearance on Armstrong Circle Theatre, 1958

On January 22, 1958, Donald Keyhoe, director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) appeared on the popular CBS television program, Armstrong Circle Theater, to present arguments in favor of the proposition that UFOs were interplanetary. But viewers never got to hear what he really wanted to say. In the days before the program aired, writer Irve Tunick edited out a section of a script that Keyhoe had prepared—a section that referred, among other things, to a 1948 top secret Air Force document known as the "Estimate of the Situation." Then, during the live broadcast, CBS producers cut off Keyhoe's microphone when he started straying from the edited script. For several moments, viewers around the country wondered what was going on as they watched Keyhoe's lips moved silently on the screen. The incident generated widespread news coverage and condemnation of CBS for censoring of one of the UFO community's most effective proponents.

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"The Betty White Show" with Guest Donald Keyhoe, c. 1954

Betty White—yes, that Betty White—hosted a daytime talk show during the 1950s. On this day her guest was Donald Keyhoe, the nation's most recognizable UFO expert. Keyhoe was hawking his new book, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, which, much to his dismay, would later serve as the inspiration of the feature film, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers.

Photo from the Professor Gort Collection

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Scenes from Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, 1956

One of the classic UFO films of the 1950s, Earth vs. the Flying Saucers hit the nation's movie theaters on July 1, 1956. It was a mostly ponderous dramatization of the flying saucer phenomenon, redeemed only by the special effects magic of stop-motion master Ray Harryhausen. It was also a rare crossroads of two of the most influential figures in the flying saucer universe—Donald Keyhoe and George Adamski. Keyhoe's best-selling book Flying Saucers from Outer Space was the inspiration for Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, although the author later did everything he could to dissociate himself from the project. ("I have not seen the film and from what I've heard about it, I don't intend to," he wrote.) Harryhausen consulted with Adamski, America's most famous flying saucer "contactee," while working on his designs for the movie's crash-prone spaceships.

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Flying Saucer Cartoon, 1952 (by Alan Ferber)

Los Angeles Daily News cartoonist Alan Ferber came up with this vision of U.S. Air Force flying saucer denial after reading the just published book, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, by Donald Keyhoe. Keyhoe was, by late 1952, well on his way to becoming the nation's foremost UFO proponent.

Image via Dave Kenney