The article below was published in the daily newspaper The Calgary Herald, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on July 10, 1964.
Editor, The Herald: -- I would like to bring to your attention extremely important information of which you may, or may not, be aware. It concerns the very dangerous problem of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The facts are as follows:
UFOs are unknown superior machines under intelligent control, emanating from an extra-terrestrial source, which have been continually invading our atmosphere in great numbers since 1944 for the obvious purpose of observing the earth civilization and mapping this planet.
Major Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.), Director, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), headquarters, 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington 36, D.C., has been fighting for many years now to persuade the United States Congress to conduct an impartial open investigation into the UFO problem. If these hearings are finally held (and the chances look good in 1964), the USAF policy of secrecy and censorship will almost certainly be ended.
When the truth finally comes out - and it will - and contact is achieved with this superior civilization, you can expect a completely fantastic change on this planet such as mankind has never seen nor experienced. These changes will be very radical on religion, government, science and the military establishment. The greatest change, though, will occur in the human mind, which is extremely provincial in its relationship to the infinite universe.
Let's face reality. The use of gigantic and costly rockets for the purpose of space exploration is already obsolete and extremely primitive. You can be sure that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., and other technically advanced nations as well, including Canada, are feverishly at work on top-secret projects endeavoring to duplicate the UFOs' anti-gravity propulsion system, and are using the most advanced scientific brains available.
JOHN LAVAL,
Matawan, New Jersey.
