As we suggested in the previous blog entry, a future visit wasn't looking trouble-free for the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America, at least not when they held their convention in Los Angeles in July of 1959. In an attempt to distance their local subcommittee from the controversial group, officials of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) communicated through Tom Towers that the "convention" hosting "contactees" and others of questionable repute was bad news for legitimate UFO research. Having met Maj. Donald Keyhoe in the sixties, I am more than familiar with his outrage over groups which -- loosely or otherwise -- attempted to claim an association with NICAP when it was under his influence. (credit: Barry Greenwood)
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