Philip Klass Smear Campaign Against Stanton Friedman
Philip Klass writes letters to the National Research Council of Canada attacking Stanton Friedman's credibility and UFO research. The NRC subsequently dumps its UFO files as a result of the pressure. Klass also disrupts a 1983 UFO conference in Nebraska. A sustained campaign to discredit serious UFO researchers.
Background
Richard Dolan reports that in 1980 Philip J. Klass wrote to Canada's National Research Council challenging Stanton Friedman's credibility and UFO research. The correspondence is presented as part of Klass's public skeptical opposition to UFO researchers. There is no independent documentation establishing that the NRC discarded its UFO files because of those letters or that a later conference disruption was directly connected to them.