The Air Force decided to ignore NICAP.

But NICAP wouldn't be ignored. They bombarded everyone from the
Secretary of the Air Force on down with telephone calls, telegrams
and letters.

Still the Air Force remained silent.

Then NICAP headquarters called in the troops and members from all
corners of the nation cut loose. The barrage of mail broke the log
jam and just enough information to constitute an answer dribbled out
of the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force.

But this didn't satisfy Keyhoe or his UFO hungry NICAPions. They
wanted blood and that blood had to taste like spaceships or they
wouldn't be happy. The cudgel they picked up next was powerful.

The Air Force had said that there was nothing classified about
Project Blue Book yet NICAP hadn't seen every blessed scrap of paper
in the Air Force UFO files. This was unwarranted censorship!

While Congress was right in the middle of such important and crucial
problems as foreign policy, atomic disarmament, racketeering,
integration and a dozen and one other problems, NICAP began to
bedevil every senator and representative who was polite enough to
listen.

It's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease and in November 1957,
the United States Senate Committee on Government Operations began an
inquiry concerning UFO's.

I gave my testimony and so did others who had been associated with
Project Blue Book.

A few weeks later the inquiry was dropped.

But NICAP had made its name. Of all of the thorns that have been
pounded into the UFO side of the Air Force, NICAP drove theirs the
deepest.

In the midst of all this mess Admiral Fahrney, General Wedemeyer and
General del Valle, politely, and quietly, resigned from NICAP's board
of governors.

Neither the loss of these famous names nor the defeat at the hands
of the Air Force has stopped NICAP. They continue to forge ahead,
undaunted.

In many UFO incidents they have actually uncovered additional, and
sometimes interesting, information.

NICAP Director Don Keyhoe has taken a beating, being accused of
profiteering, trying to make headlines, and other minor social
crimes. But personally I doubt this. Keyhoe is simply convinced that
UFO's are from outer space and he's a dedicated man.

While the big NICAP-Air Force battle was going on the UFO's were not
waiting to see who won. They were still flying.

At Ellington AFB, Texas, a Ground Observer Corps team spotted a UFO
and passed it on to a radar crew.