with their story
that UFO's were from outer space.

The _True_ article, entitled, "The Flying Saucers Are Real," was
written by Donald Keyhoe. The article opened with a hard punch. In
the first paragraph Keyhoe concluded that after eight months of
extensive research he had found evidence that the earth was being
closely scrutinized by intelligent beings. Their vehicles were the so-
called flying saucers. Then he proceeded to prove his point. His
argument was built around the three classics: the Mantell, the Chiles-
Whitted, and the Gorman incidents. He took each sighting, detailed
the "facts," ripped the official Air Force conclusions to shreds, and
presented his own analysis. He threw in a varied assortment of
technical facts that gave the article a distinct, authoritative
flavor. This, combined with the fact that _True_ had the name for
printing the truth, hit the reading public like an 8-inch howitzer.
Hours after it appeared in subscribers' mailboxes and on the
newsstands, radio and TV commentators and newspapers were giving it a
big play. UFO's were back in business, to stay. True was in business
too. It is rumored among magazine publishers that Don Keyhoe's
article in _True_ was one of the most widely read and widely
discussed magazine articles in history.

The Air Force had inadvertently helped Keyhoe--in fact, they made
his story a success. He and several other writers had contacted the
Air Force asking for information for their magazine articles. But,
knowing that the articles were pro-saucer, the writers were
unceremoniously sloughed off. Keyhoe carried his fight right to the
top, to General Sory Smith, Director of the Office of Public
Information, but still no dice--the Air Force wasn't divulging any
more than they had already told. Keyhoe construed this to mean tight
security, the tightest type of security. Keyhoe had one more
approach, however. He was an ex-Annapolis graduate, and among his
classmates were such people as Admiral Delmar Fahrney, then a top
figure in the Navy guided missile program and Admiral Calvin Bolster,
the Director of the Office of Naval Research. He went to see them but
they couldn't help him. He _knew_ that this meant the real UFO story
was big and that it could be only one thing--interplanetary
spaceships or earthly weapons--and his contacts denied they were
earthly weapons. He played this security angle in his _True_ article
and in a later book, and it gave the story the needed