Richard H. Hall (December 25, 1930 – July 17, 2009) [1] was a Ufologist and proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis to explain UFO sightings.
A member of the Authors Guild, he also wrote numerous books and magazine articles dealing with the role of women in the American Civil War.
"[1] According to Carlson, Hall also rejected what he called "the ding-a-ling fringe [of ufology]...who approach this more as a belief system or a faith" than a scientific endeavor.
Working with NICAP director Donald Keyhoe, he helped lobby the United States Congress to hold public hearings and investigations into the UFO phenomenon.
As a result, CIA director John McCone initiated a review of the possibility that UFOs might represent a threat to the United States.
CIA agents interviewed Richard Hall, who provided them with data about UFA sightings from NICAP's records.
's 1947-90 by Gerald K. Haines, which admitted that the agency had routinely lied about the causes of UFO reports for decades, blaming the incidents on weather conditions such as "temperature inversions" or "ice crystals".