Richard H. Hall

Richard H. Hall (December 25, 1930 – July 17, 2009) was an American ufologist and prominent advocate for the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Between 1958 and 1969, he served as executive secretary and assistant director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), where he worked with director Donald Keyhoe to lobby Congress for public UFO investigations. Hall researched, edited, and authored The UFO Evidence (1964), a comprehensive compendium of UFO incidents from the 1940s-1960s that was distributed to every member of Congress. He later published The UFO Evidence, Volume 2 (2001), covering incidents from the mid-1960s through 1990s. Hall served as director of the Fund for UFO Research, editor of the MUFON Journal, and founder of the Journal of UFO History. He was a consultant to the 1966-68 University of Colorado UFO study and remained an active researcher and vocal proponent of extraterrestrial spacecraft theory throughout his career.