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The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 186 pages · text by OCR

This is a copy of "The UFO Evidence," a report published in May 1964 by the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) in Washington, D.C. and edited by Richard H. Hall. The CIA released its copy in 2001. The report draws 746 sightings from more than 5,000 signed reports and argues that unexplained UFOs are real, artificial objects under intelligent control. It criticizes Air Force secrecy and calls for a Congressional inquiry into Project Blue Book and a larger scientific investigation.

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“Project Magnet”6 pages

  • p. 44 …Gordon Pendleton, Irish International Airlines Globular UFO with antenna-like projections, streaked below his Viscount. Section…
  • p. 62 …Physics, research engineer in aircraft instrumentation and magnetics: "The object appeared to be elliptic or oval…
  • p. 122 …Smith issued a statement: "The conclusions reached by Project Magnet and contained in the official report…
  • p. 124 …Bittar, was approached by a brightly luminous UFO with ball-like projections on the underside. The…
  • p. 137 …Canadian Government announcement of flying saucer observatory (Project Magnet) near Ottawa. November 14, 1953--Nr. Toledo…
  • p. 183 …NICAP therefore endorses such programs as an enlarged Project Ozma (attempt to intercept intelligent communications from…
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THE

EVIDENCE

(UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS)

Published by THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP)

WASHINGTON, D.C.

1964

NEFF

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 186 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.