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The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 186 pages · text by GLM-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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  • p. 34 …Los Angeles Times; November 6, 1957. 55. Japan Times; July 20, 1958. 56. Col. Headrick is…
  • p. 36 …Summer 1944 Normandy, France George Todt, now Los Angeles columnist, other officers Pulsating red object approached…
  • p. 37 …shaped object about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Calif. The pilot of the Navy plane…
  • p. 47 …NICAP member, was reported in the Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1955. ## Commercial Plane Follows UFO…
  • p. 55 …Los Angeles, which attained national prominence in 1952 after being publicized in Life and Time. Dr…
  • p. 57 …Felix Gelber and Grover Kihorny, both of Los Angeles, were also passengers. The night sky appeared…
  • p. 63 …In a letter to the President of CSI of Los Angeles, Dick Beemer, aviation photographer for…
  • p. 72 …Hahn, a jewelry designer, was flying from Minneapolis to Los Angeles aboard Western Airlines flight #61…
  • p. 77 …Washington Times-Herald and Washington Daily News; September 22,1952 12. Los Angeles Daily News; September…
  • p. 82 …23,000 ft. 16 G June 1, 1952 Los Angeles, Cal. Hughes Aircraft radar tracked UFO…
  • p. 90 …Between that time and midnight, police switchboards throughout the Los Angeles area were flooded with hundreds…
  • p. 95 …Ralph Benn, Los Angeles, Calif., was alerted to some UFOs by his eight year old son…
  • p. 96 …Miller subsequently viewed the films, which were processed in Los Angeles, several days before they were…
  • p. 97 …which, as stated above, were processed in Los Angeles and examined by Max Miller before they…
  • p. 100 …Miller in Los Angeles for analysis. (NICAP paid for the printing of one copy of the…
  • p. 106 …Ridgley Drive, Los Angeles, Calif.). E-7. Report to NICAP E-8. Aerial Phenomena Research Organization…
  • p. 113 …Ralph Benn of Los Angeles, using a 3x telephoto lens, took about six and a half…
  • p. 123 …Los Angeles News, March 14 & 15, 1950, Mexico City (UP)--Hundreds of persons said they saw…
  • p. 127 …Germany, directed the Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles. CSI was the first prominent UFO investigation…
  • p. 131 …Los Angeles Times; February 19, 1956 47. Report on file at NICAP, available to Congressional investigators…
  • p. 132 …Los Angeles columnist George Todt, in a party of four Army officers including a Lt. Col…
  • p. 135 …rapidly, circle area. I June 1, 1952--Los Angeles, Calif. Crew of Hughes Aircraft Co., radar…
  • p. 139 …Los Angeles, California. Airline passenger saw elliptical UFO flying low over ground below plane. VII November…
  • p. 141 …each night) saw a distinct round UFO hover and maneuver slowly. Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee investigation…
  • p. 157 …of violent maneuvers." A 4-8-49 Los Angeles, Calif. day (1) silvery disc high speed…
  • p. 169 …11 Nr Los Angeles, California Day Elliptical, silvery UFO observed moving low above desert, from airliner…
  • p. 181 …Later he was convicted in Los Angeles of selling Doctor of Divinity degrees, mainly to other…

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## Approved For Release 2001/04/02

21. International News Service, Atlanta; July 24, 1952.

22. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 97 (From USAF Intelligence Report). 23. Burnelt, op. cit., p. 222

24. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 98. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

26. Ibid., p. 107. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

20. ibid., p. 107. (From USAF Intelligence Report). 27. ibid., p. 120.

28. Ibid., p. 95; Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 247.

29. Ibid., p. 96. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

30. Ibid., p. 258. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

31. Ibid., p. 161. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

32. Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 65.

33. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 149. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

34. Ibid., p. 189-191. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

35. True; May 1954.

36. Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 295.

37. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 257. (From USAF Intelligence Report). 38. Ibid, p. 257. (From USAF Intelligence Report)

38. Ibid., p. 257. (From USAF Intelligence Report).

39. Michel, Aime, The Truth About Flying Saucers. (Criterion, 1956), p. 123

40. Ruppelt, op. cit., p. 303. (Other data on file at NICAP).

41. Keyhoe, Donald E., Flying Saucer Conspiracy. (Henry Holt, 1955), p. 79.

42. Ibid., p. 13.

43. Ibid., p. 144.

44. United Press; June 30, 1954.

45. Report obtained by Leonard H. Stringfield, Cincinnati, Ohio (See Section VII).

46. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 25.

47. Associated Press; September 18, 1954.

48. Louisville Courier-Journal; November 13, 1954

49. Auckland Star; December 16, 1954.

50. Associated Press, Paris; February 19, 1956.

51. United Press; July 19, 1956.

52. Altus (Okla.) Times-Democrat; September 11, 1956.

53. APRO Bulletin; November 1956.

54. CRIFO Orbit; January 4, 1957. The Clipper, Pan American Airways; January 1957. Miami Daily News; November 8, 1956.

55. CRIFO Orbit; January 4, 1957. Pierre Daily Capitol Journal, November 26, 1956.

56. Associated Press, United Press, London; April 6, 1957.

57. Unresolved discrepancy in dates. Flying Saucer Review (London), Jan.-Feb., 1958 gives October 21. APRO Bulletin, November 1957, gives October 29.

58. APRO Bulletin, January 1958.

59. Signed report on file at NICAP.

60. Signed report on file at NICAP. Visual sighting inferred from report.

61. Japan Times; July 28, 1958.

62. Confidential report obtained and certified by Calgary, Alberta, NICAP Subcommittee.

## CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 63 New York Times: January 25, 1959.

64. Confidential report certified by NICAP Director and Assistant Director. Contains all tracking data (unclassified at source).

66. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Radars and Flying Saucers. 2 July 1962.

67. Borden, R. C. & Vickers, T. K., Technical Development Report No. 180; A Preliminary Study of Unidentified Targets Observed On Air Traffic Control Radars. (Civil Aeronautics Administration Technical Development and Evaluation Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 1952).

68. U. S. Air Force, Radar Storm Detection. (Washington, D.C., 6 August 1945).

69. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Report 63-434, 1963.

70. Skolnik, Merrill J., Introduction to Radar Systems. (McGraw-Hill, 1962), ppg. 551-552.

## Physical & Physiological Effects

71. Keyhoe, op. cit., p. 174.

72. Michel, op. cit., p. 44

73. Ibid., p. 58

74. Ibid., p. 76

75. Ibid., ppg. 82-83

76. Ibid., ppg. 90-92

77. Ibid., p. 97

78. Ibid., p. 131

79. Ibid., p. 130

80. Ibid., p. 133

81. Ibid., p. 143

82. Ibid., p. 145

83. Ibid., p. 154

84. Ibid., p. 158

85. Ibid., p. 177

86. Ibid., p. 181

87. Ibid., p. 184

88. Ibid., p. 198

89. Report obtained by Leonard H. Stringfield, Cincinnati, Ohio. (See Section VII).

90. Ibid.

91. Indianapolis Star; August 27, 1955.

92. Reports on file at NICAP.

93. Lincoln Evening Journal & Nebraska State Journal; November 8, 1957.

94. APRO Bulletin; September 1959.

95. Associated Press; February 20, 1958

96. Report obtained by William D. Leet, Pres., Bluegrass NICAP Affiliate.

97. Reported by Dr. Askold Ladonko, Caracas, Venezuela, NICAP Adviser.

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