In late November 1978, the Special Political Committee of the United Nations’ General Assembly met for several days of hearings, everything about which was extraordinary. The mandate of those assembled, to debate the establishment of an agency or department “for undertaking, coordinating and disseminating the results of research into unidentified flying objects and related phenomena.” The initiative’s unlikely sponsor was the tiny Caribbean nation of Grenada and the invited speakers included Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Stanton T. Friedman, Dr. Jacques Vallee, astronaut Gordon Cooper and U.S. Army Lt. Col. Lawrence Coyne, whose Huey helicopter and crew members were literally pulled high into the air by a UFO over Ohio, very much against their wishes and efforts. Dr. Hynek, speaking on behalf of many of his scientific colleagues, began his remarks by noting that one of the smallest nations on earth has courageously introduced the perplexing subject of UFOs to the United Nations and thus “trod where mightier nations have feared to tread.” But following the passage of the motion to establish such a committee, the mightier nations of the Special Political Committee made sure the historic effort would languish and die from a concerted lack of action.