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from belittling it." "We need to get all the data drawn together in one place and examined far more objectively than anyone has done so far. A stable public opinion will come from a trustworthy look at the evidence, not It would seem that, at the rate reports of phenomena continue to flow into official departments, it is indeed time for "an objective and respected panel to investigate, appraise and report" on UFO sightings in a manner that seems more cognizant of the rights and intelligence of free people, who are entitled to know the truth about matters of national security and who deserve to be treated with respect and dignity when they summon the courage to report unnatural phenomena. "People are trying to make a fanatic out of me," Frank Mannor of Dexter Township, Michigan complained to Life's Paul O'Neil. "They was tramping around here at 3 o'clock this morning and look at them now. They say, 'How much money are you going to make off this?' That's crazy. | don't want no money. | didn't want no publicity in the first place. | don't want none now. I'm just a simple fellow. But | seen what | seen and nobody's going to tell me different. That wasn't no old foxfire or hullabillusion. It was an object. Maybe it'll come back if all these people would stay away and we could get a picture and have verification of it. Anybody wants to give me a lie-detector test I'll take it." 30. The Air Force and the UFO In the January 1965 issue of True magazine, Donald E. Keyhoe, director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) charged the U.S. Air Force with deliberately censoring information concerning flying saucers. Since the early 1950's, Keyhoe has been regularly repeating his charges that, while the Air Force has been seriously analyzing UFO data in secret, it has maintained a policy of officially debunking saucer stories for the press and ridiculing all citizens who report sightings.