On 16 February 1978, Senator William Proxmire (D-Wis) awards NASA his “Golden Fleece” for proposing to use taxpayer money on SETI. Several months later, NASA SETI funds were stricken from the 1979 HUD appropropriation bill.
On 19 February 1978, the “Project UFO” television series began broadcasting. It was directed by Jack Webb and produced by retired Air Force Colonel William Coleman
On 20 February 1978, Stanton T Friedman was told to talk to Jesse Marcel by the station manager of a local television station in Baton Rouge. This was the start of renewed investigations of the “Roswell incident”.
