Editing Donald Keyhoe (section)

{{Short description|American writer and UFO researcher}}
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|caption       = Donald Keyhoe (right) interviewed by Mike Wallace on March 8, 1958
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|birth_place   = [[Ottumwa, Iowa]], US
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|death_place   = [[New Market, Virginia]], US
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|footnotes     = <ref>"Donald Edwards Keyhoe". ''Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology'', 5th ed. [[Gale (Cengage)|Gale Group]], 2001. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. [[Farmington Hills, Michigan]]: Gale, 2009. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC galenet.galegroup.com] Fee via [[Fairfax County Public Library]]. Document number: K1656000899.</ref><ref name=ContempAuthors/><ref>
{{Cite news |title=Donald E. Keyhoe, 91, Exponent of UFOs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/12/03/obituaries/donald-e-keyhoe-91-exponent-of-ufo-s.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 3, 1988 |access-date=March 30, 2009 |page=33}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=UFO Investigator, Author Donald E. Keyhoe, 91, Dies |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73647198.html?dids=73647198:73647198&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+2%2C+1988&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=d.06&desc=UFO+Investigator%2C+Author+Donald+E.+Keyhoe%2C+91%2C+Dies |format=Fee |newspaper=The Washington Post |page=d.06 |date=December 2, 1988 |access-date=March 30, 2009 |archive-date=October 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020115613/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73647198.html?dids=73647198:73647198&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Dec+2,+1988&author=&pub=The+Washington+Post+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&edition=&startpage=d.06&desc=UFO+Investigator,+Author+Donald+E.+Keyhoe,+91,+Dies |url-status=dead }}</ref>}}
'''Donald Edward Keyhoe''' (June 20, 1897 – November 29, 1988) was an American [[United States Marine Corps|Marine Corps]] [[Naval aviator (United States)|naval aviator]],<ref name=ContempAuthors>
Donald E(dward) Keyhoe. (April 30, 1998) [[Contemporary Authors Online]], Gale, 2002. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2009. [http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC galenet.galegroup.com] 
Fee via [[Fairfax County Public Library]]. Document number: H1000053777.</ref> writer of aviation articles and stories in a variety of publications, and tour manager of aviation pioneer [[Charles Lindbergh]].

In the 1950s, Keyhoe became a [[UFO]] researcher and writer, arguing that the [[U.S. government]] should conduct research into UFO matters, and should publicly release all its UFO files.<ref>[[Jerome Clark]], ''The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial''. Visible Ink, 1998.  {{ISBN|1-57859-029-9}}</ref> A biography by Linda Powell—''Against the Odds: Major Donald E. Keyhoe and His Battle to End UFO Secrecy''—was published in 2023.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Powell |first=Linda |title=Against the Odds: Major Donald E. Keyhoe and His Battle to End UFO Secrecy |publisher=Anomalist Books |year=2023 |isbn=978-1949501322}}</ref>