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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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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 October 29, 1953--Lt. Col. F. K. Everest in F-100 Super-Sabre set speed record, 755.149 mph. October 30, 1953--Mt. Vernon, Ohio. Round, silver object circled at low altitude. [VII] November 3, 1953--London, England. A huge apparently metallic UFO, "completely circular" and white, was tracked on radar and observed visually through a telescope by the 256th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment. [VIII] November 12, 1953--Canadian Government announcement of flying saucer observatory (Project Magnet) near Ottawa. November 14, 1953--Nr. Toledo, Ohio. UFO flashing various colors observed climbing. [VII] November 23, 1953--Kinross AFB, Michigan. Air Force F-89 vanished while pursuing UFO over Lake Superior. [VIII, IX] December J, 1953--Air Force announced in Washington it had set up "flying saucer" cameras around the country equipped with diffraction gratings to analyze nature of UFO light sources. December 13, 1953--Central Ohio. Rocket-like UFO with white lights at both ends observed by Ground Observer Corps. [VII] December 16, 1953--Toledo, Ohio. Group of lights changing from red to white, each appearing to revolve. [VII] December 17, 1953--Sweden. Defense high command ordered a full scale investigation of sightings of a wingless circular object which sped over southern Sweden. [X] ## 1954 1954--Dayton, Ohio. Air Force Lt. Colonel saw two maneuvering UFOs. [III] January 1, 1954--Australian Airline pilot saw huge, apparently metallic, elliptical UFO. [V] January 4, 1954--Quantico, Va. Red revolving or blinking lights, hovering and moving soundlessly at tree-top height reportedly seen for six nights above Marine Corps base. [IV] January 6, 1954--Cleveland Press headline: "Brass Curtain Hides Flying Saucers." Reporters seeking information were banned from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. February 13, 1954--Jim G. Lucas of Scripps-Howard, reported that representatives of major airlines would meet in Los Angeles with Military Air Transport Service Intelligence officers to discuss speeding up UFO reporting procedures. "Airline pilots are asked not to discuss their sightings publicly or give them to newspapers," Lucas said. (In a follow-up report, Feb. 23, Scripps-Howard papers said that "the nation's 8500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of unusual objects while flying at night, here and overseas." Plans for a detailed reporting system were agreed upon so Air Force jets could quickly investigate. Each airline was to have an "internal security specialist" for liaison between civilian and military organizations.) February 15,1954--Dorothy Kilgallen column: "Flying saucers are regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a special hush-hush meeting of world military heads next summer." March 1954--Rouen, France. Disc-shaped UFO photographed. March 24, 1954--Baltimore, Md. Maneuvering formation of JFOs observed by Civil Defense official. [VII] March 24, 1954--Florida. Marine Corps jet pilot saw round object streak downward, stop, speed away when pursued. [IV] explorer, watched elongated UFO with "portholes" pass overhead. [VII] April 26, 1954--Newburyport, Mass. Round UFO making sharp turn observed by architect. [VII] May 1954--True article, "What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers"; by Edward J. Ruppelt, former UFO Project Chief. May 10, 1954--Northern Sweden. Week of UFO sightings investigated by military authorities. Scores of residents reported strange glowing objects maneuvering low over forests. May 13, 1954--Washington, D. C. Several large glowing objects maneuvered over National Airport for three hours; observed visually and on radar. [VIII] May 14, 1954--Nr. Dallas, Texas. Marine Corps pilots chased formations of 16 UFOs. [IV] May 15, 1954--Vienna, Austria. Three discs in formation. May 24, 1954--Dayton, Ohio. Photo officer and scanner on RB-29 saw and photographed circular UFO below plane. [III] May 30, 1954--Bainbridge, N. Y. Silvery elliptical UFO with four "portholes" accelerated and shot away. [XII] June 1, 1954--Nr. Boston, Mass. TWA pilot en route from Paris, control tower operators, saw large white disc. [V] June 11, 1954--Nr. Baltimore, Md. Huge glowing object seen June 11, 1954--Nr. Baltimore, Md. Huge glowing object seen by GOC observers; alternately hovered, moved rapidly. [VII] June 23, 1954--Columbus-Vandalia, Ohio. Round white light followed Air National Guard F-51. [V] June 26, 1954--Idaho Falls, Idaho. Brilliant light source flared up over AEC station, climbed out of sight. [XII] June 30, 1954--Mobile, Alabama. UFO observed from tower of Brookley AFB, tracked on radar. [VIII] June 30, 1954--Nr. Oslo, Norway. Two silvery disks observed and photographed from eclipse expedition planes. [VIII] June 30, 1954--Nr. Goose Bay, Labrador. Airliner crew saw large UFO with smaller satellite objects. [X] July 3, 1954--Albuquerque, N. M. Nine green spheres sighted visually, tracked on radar. [VIII] July 8, 1954--Lancashire, England. British astronomer saw a silvery object with 15-20 smaller satellite objects. [II] July 11, 1954--Hunterdon, Pa. USAF bombers reported a disc. [III] July 28, 1954--North Atlantic. Dutch ship observed disc with apparent portholes. [XII] August 28, 1954--Oklahoma City, Okla. Fifteen UFOs in precise triangular formation observed by hundreds of citizens, Tinker AFB radar. [VIII] August or September, 1954--New York State. Round UFO tracked on radar, plotted across state by Ground Observer Corps. [VII] September 7, 1954--Origny, France. Hovering luminous disc fled when lights were shone at it. [II] September 9, 1954--Nelson, N.Z. Hovering disc photographed. [VIII] September 15, 1954--Bihar, India. Gray disc hovered, emitted smoke and climbed away at high speed. [X] September 16, 1954--Nr. Roanoke, Va. Shiny, round object buzzed radio tower; transmitter failed to operate properly. [VIII] September 17, 1954--Rome, Italy. Thousands of citizens, Italian Air Force radar watched disc-like object which departed upwards. [VIII] September 19, 1954--Danane, French West Africa. Officials watched oval UFO with dome and "searchlights". [X] September 20, 1954--Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Dark saucer-shaped September 20, 1954--Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. Dark saucer-shaped UFO arced overhead, levelled off and moved into distance. [XII] UFO arced overhead, levelled off and moved into distance. [XII] October 1954--Cherry Valley, N. Y. Engineer sighted maneuvering disc. [I] October 3, 1954--Nr. Waben, France. UFO paced car. [II] October 4, 1954--North Weald, Essex, England. Saturn-shaped disc buzzed RAF Meteor jet. [X] October 7, 1954--Isles-sur-Suippes, France. UFO shaped like "giant artillery shell" with "portholes"; landing or near-landing case. [XII] October 22, 1954--Marysville, Ohio. School principal, teacher, 60 students saw silver cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes" hover over school, then speed away; "angel's hair" fell. [VIII] October 23,1954--New Yorker magazine. "Letter From Paris" column detailed recent French sightings. October 24, 1954--Prof. Herman Oberth's American Weekly article, "Flying Saucers Come From A Distant World." October 24, 1954--Porto Alegre, Brazil. Formation of silver, circular objects sped over Air Force base. [X] October 25, 1954--Belgrade, Yugoslavia. High speed objects some egg-shaped seen by hundreds. [X] October 28, 1954--Rome, Italy. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador, others sighted luminous, round UFO. [X] Fall 1954--Korea. Marine Corps weather observer saw 7 discs oscillating in formation. [XII] November 5, 1954--Lookout Point, N.Z. Orange elliptical object with blue "portholes" observed. [XII] November 12, 1954--Louisville, Ky. Spherical object moved quickly south, hovered for long period. [VIII] November 21, 1954--Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Crew, passengers of Brazilian airliner saw 19 glowing UFOs. [X] Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0
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.