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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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  • p. 11 …Should you need additional room, please use another sheet of paper. Please print or typewrite. Your…
  • p. 13 …await a full-fledged investigation by scientists using appropriate instrumentation, as NICAP advocates Section XIV. However…
  • p. 35 # SECTION IV # Army, Navy & Marine Corps The other armed services, required by law to channel UFO…
  • p. 37 …The crews of two commercial airliners and a Navy transport sighted a cigar-shaped object about…
  • p. 38 …Shortly after 8 p.m., he "noticed a brilliant white flashing light pass directly below us…
  • p. 40 …Moore, USN Domed circular UFO passed in front of two Navy planes confirmed by radar. Section…
  • p. 44 …Shenkel (both former Air Force pilots) and Steven Summers confirmed Baldwin's report. "All of us…
  • p. 50 …Matthews, CAA Tower Operator (over four years experience in aircraft observation with Navy and as a…
  • p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
  • p. 76 …Arnold, a former Navy air identification and anti-aircraft gunnery control officer, said the UFOs changed…
  • p. 93 …Orrego, Chilean Navy. Reported sighting and photographing UFOs over an Antarctic base. Objects described as "one…
  • p. 95 …He obtained about 6-1/2 feet of Kodachrome film, using a Keystone Capri camera. The…
  • p. 99 …There were no Weather Bureau, Navy or Air Force balloons in the area at the time…
  • p. 100 …Huge "Moby Dick" plastic balloons (named after Melville's legendary whale) used for high altitude research…
  • p. 116 …When none can be found, the "shotgun" approach is used. Clearly, this is not a scientific…
  • p. 123 …Luis Sanchez Moreno, investigating for the Navy, told the press the Navy had been constantly concerned…
  • p. 129 …Lorenzen commented that "the rate of closure with us was much greater than any I had…
  • p. 130 …has twenty counselor members, among them Army, Navy and Naval Air Force officers on active duty…
  • p. 141 …The military had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only trouble was…
  • p. 145 …The following list, including one 1884 sighting, shows that many independent witnesses have used very similar…
## 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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