You've entered the Paracast with your host, Gene Steinberg and David Bienn.

More sad news in the UFO field, the recent death of Richard Hall, who many of you might remember as author of a couple of books called The UFO Evidence.

There was a part one and a part two.

The part one was written when he was working with Major Donald

Kehoe at NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. As you listeners know,

I've had kind of an iron-off association with Richard Hall. He pointed his finger at me and told

he I couldn't come to Nycap's office back in 1965. I wasn't welcome,

but then said 10, 12 years later, well, that was water under the dam. Well, to remember Richard

Hall, we have Jerry Clark, Don Ecker, Paul Kimball, Bruce McAbee, and Kevin Randall. Before we proceed,

Kevin, since you've collected the information that you said was borrowed from other sources, perhaps you can tell our listeners a little bit about the life and the work

of Richard Hall.

Well, I'll give it a shot, although I'm sure there's others much more qualified than I

to talk about Dick Hall's career.

But for those who are interested, Dick Hall was born on Christmas Day in 1930 in Hartford, Connecticut,

and attended, I guess, elementary school and high school there in Connecticut.

In 1949, he enlisted in the Air Force, apparently to avoid being grafted by the Army,

which is not necessarily a bad thing.

And he served on active duty until 1951 and spent six years in the Air Force Reserve.

Others have mentioned, and it deserves mentioning, after getting his degree in Tulane University,

he went on to Washington, D.C., and worked full-time for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon with

Major Don Quihou. He was first an executive secretary, then an assistant director, and finally an

acting director. While he was there, he put together what an awful lot of people think is one of

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