“Air Force Urged To Tell All
About Unidentified Objects”, 29 March 1966
(The Dispatch, Lexington, North Carolina)
The Dispatch reports that NICAP director Donald E. Keyhoe backed Rep. Gerald R. Ford’s call for a congressional investigation into the UFO phenomenon:
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=_BocAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GVEEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7216,2115392
Furthermore, the article says that scores of police officers and civilians sighted UFOs in widely separated sections of the U.S. on 28 and 29 March 1966.
An Air Force veteran and eleven police officers sighted a UFO over Newark, New Jersey, according to the article.
Rep. Gerald R. Ford (Republican) was instrumental in organising the 1966 Congressional Hearings on UFOs