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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.

  • p. 7 …Allen Hynek (Chief scientific consultant to the Air Force on UFOs) said: "...there are more reports…
  • p. 30 …Air Force. (Originally reported in Cleveland Press, picked up by United Press International, July 30, 1952…
  • p. 34 …I collected a few names of individuals present, as I intended to report the UFO to…
  • p. 44 …Gordon Pendleton, Irish International Airlines Globular UFO with antenna-like projections, streaked below his Viscount. Section…
  • p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
  • p. 71 …Reports of the UFO came into the Baltimore Filter Center for about an hour the first…
  • p. 72 …It was "more distinct than the daytime moon," Walker reported. 36 ## Rendezvous of Two UFOs February…
  • p. 77 …Teletype report and letter on file at NICAP 2. Reports obtained by Cleveland and Akron UFO…
  • p. 97 …According to a report which Mr. Purdon submitted to NICAP, the UFO was first motionless for…
  • p. 98 …Miller, who reported September 18, 1960: The UFO "quite probably is a cinch mark. . . it could…
  • p. 110 …Project name changed to "Grudge." Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were…
  • p. 119 …The original report released by the Air Force PIO at Truax AFB, Wisc., stated that contact…
  • p. 122 …Wherever man travels on the globe, UFOs have been sighted. Ships at sea have reported strange…
  • p. 123 …At Ezeiza International Airport, Buenos Aires, December 22, 1962, a UFO was sighted about 3:00…
  • p. 126 …An Aer Lingus (Irish International Airlines) pilot reported a globe-shaped unidentified object which flew beneath…
  • p. 127 …International News Service (INS) reported that an Italian Air Force radar station at Practica Dimare, 40…
  • p. 129 …Norris reported that "during early November UFO reports came from all Australian states except Tasmania." The…
  • p. 130 …However, the reported size of the UFO was far too large to be explained as a…
  • p. 131 …Report and sketches published in Japan International UFO Investigation, J. I. Takanashi, Editor; Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan…
  • p. 137 …Week of UFO sightings investigated by military authorities. Scores of residents reported strange glowing objects maneuvering…
  • p. 142 …Three people reported a round, orange UFO which moved rapidly east to west, stopped and hovered…
  • p. 144 …Once the reports had been publicized, the planet Jupiter also was reported as a UFO on…
  • p. 163 …Unofficial report of elliptical silvery UFO seen by aircraft workers; launched two small discs which maneuvered…
  • p. 164 …Air Force called press conference on UFO sightings, attended by more than 40 reporters. Suggested UFOs…
  • p. 171 …missile range, reported an egg-shaped UFO which descended over the base. A report on this…
  • p. 173 …May 14-16 - Several UFO reports from Bahia Blanca, La Rioja, and La Barrera. In the…
  • p. 182 …However, once it is determined that a given UFO report is not evidence of an attack…
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

17. Diairo de Sao Paulo; February 22, 1958

18. Diairo Popular; July 7, 1957

19. APRO Bulletin; September 1959. Brazilian newspapers; August 20, 1957

20. Pilot interviewed by Cmdr. A. B. Simoes, Sao Paulo, Brazil 21. O Estado de Sao Paulo; May 28, 1958

22. Report officially logged at airport and relayed to Brazilian Air Force. Obtained for NICAP by J. Escobar Faria, Adviser in Sao Paulo

23. Report obtained by J. Escobar Faria, Sao Paulo

24. Letter on file at NICAP

25. El Mercurio; October 28, 1959

26. El Universal; January 31, 1958

27. Report on file at NICAP

28. APRO Bulletin; April 1955

29. Keyhoe, Donald E., op. cit., p. 249

30. Ultimas Noticias; July 3, 1960

31. Report on file at NICAP

32. El Universal; February 13, 1962

33. New York Times; July 28, 1946

34. See New York Times; August 11, 1946; Associated Press; August 11, 1946; Stockholm Aftenbladet; August 13, 1946

35. New York Times; October 11, 1946

36. United Press; December 18, 1953

37. Letter, signed by Col. O. B. Engvik, Air Attache, on file at NICAP

38. Christian Science Monitor; January 29, 1959

39. Letter on file at NICAP

40. Letter on file at NICAP

41. RAF Flying Review; July 1957. London Illustrated News; December 2, 1954

42. Irish Times; May 22, 1962. Reuters News Agency; May 22, 1962

43. Letter to CSI of Los Angeles, on file at NICAP

44. Michel, Aime, The Truth About Flying Saucers. (Criterion, 1956), ppg. 165-166

45. Ibid., p. 169ff

46. Los Angeles Times; February 19, 1956

47. Report on file at NICAP, available to Congressional investigators

48. Letter on file at NICAP

49. Report on file at NICAP

50. Report on file at NICAP

51. United Press International; November 7, 1958

52. Associated Press; October 28, 1954

53. Natal Mercury (Durban); January 28, 1955

54. New Zealand Herald; November 7, 1957 (Datelined Johannesburg)

55. Johannesburg Sunday Times; April 13, 1958

56. Letter, signed by Kenneth T. C. Cheng, Director of Taiwan Weather Bureau, on file at NICAP

57. Information obtained by Rev. Albert H. Baller, NICAP Board Member, from Indian newspaper

58. Life; April 7, 1952. Newsweek; March 3, 1952

59. Report and sketches published in Japan International UFO Investigation, J. I. Takanashi, Editor; Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan. (8-9-2, Sakurazuka-Higashi)

60. For additional data on UFO sightings in Australia, New Guinea and New Zealand, see: Maney, Charles A. & Hall, Richard, Challenge of Unidentified Flying Objects (Willard Courts #504, Washington, D.C. 20009); Chapter 3, "Recent Sightings in the Pacific."

61. Letter on file at NICAP

62. Auckland Star; December 16, 1954 (N.Z.P.A., Reuters)

63. San Francisco newspapers; June 19, 1957

64. Manila Bulletin; November 6, 1957

66. Reports on file at NICAP

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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.