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Richard Hall

Person 28 stories, 1904 to 1995

Richard Hall worked for NICAP. Its secretary, its investigator and its editor, he handled some of the archive's best known cases. 10 September 1957. Clyde Tombaugh wrote to him about his Las Cruces sighting, admitting he had been petrified with astonishment. In 1961 Hall judged Joe Simonton's space pancakes ludicrous and kept NICAP out of it, and under him NICAP called the 1965 Brooksville robot landing a hoax. He edited The UFO Evidence in 1964, which carried the Redmond, Oregon case, and in 2001 he edited a second volume.

Pro early
Tamaroa Hovering UFO and Power Failure
November 14, 1957 · Tamaroa, Perry County, Illinois
United States
UAP · Unknown · 15 sources
12Thinly documented

Co-author of The Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects (1961) and editor of NICAP's The UFO Evidence (1964), which catalogued the case