Richard Hall

Richard Hall served as assistant director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) during its most active period under Donald Keyhoe's leadership. He was the primary author and editor of The UFO Evidence (1964), a 184-page document submitted to Congress compiling hundreds of UFO reports with analysis, which became one of the most cited reference works in the field.

Hall later produced The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty-Year Report (2000), extending the documentary record from 1964 to the late 1990s. Both volumes emphasised radar-visual cases, multiple-witness sightings, and reports from military and aviation personnel.

After NICAP's decline, Hall served on the executive committee of the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), which provided grants for UFO-related scientific and archival work. He edited the FUFOR newsletter and maintained a database of UFO reports that fed into his published compilations.

Hall was known for meticulous documentation and a conservative approach to claims. He insisted on primary sources, verifiable dates, and named witnesses. He was openly critical of abduction research methodology and what he considered insufficiently rigorous investigation by some contemporaries. His archives, representing decades of correspondence, case files, and editorial work, constitute a significant primary source for the history of civilian UFO investigation in America.