United States: Keyhoe's microphone cut on CBS Armstrong Circle Theatre UFO broadcast

The segment "UFO: The Enigma of the Skies" of Armstrong Circle Theatre aired on CBS. USAF Reserve Lt. Col. Spencer Whedon of ATIC said all UFOs were explainable. Keyhoe began reading his script, then deviated from it, announcing that his committee had been working for six months with a Senate committee investigating official secrecy on UFOs and that open hearings would prove the flying saucers were real; at that point his microphone was cut off, although filming continued. Donald Menzel then appeared, followed by USAF spokesman Richard E. Horner, who said the Air Force was not hiding anything about UFOs. Keyhoe later said this was not censorship by the show but blamed an Air Force silence group; in April, CBS editing director Herbert A. Carlborg told NICAP that the deviation might have led to statements neither the network nor the participants were authorized to release. The New York Times reported the incident on January 23, 1958. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.