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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”19 pages
Note: These drawings are hypothetical constructions, generalized from hundreds of UFO reports. They are intended to indicate basic shapes which have been reported, and are not necessarily completely accurate in every detail. Additional details sometimes reported, such as "portholes," projections, body lights, etc., are not portrayed. The general types shown do represent with reasonable accuracy virtually all UFOs which have been reliably described in any detail. Examples of each type appear in the left-hand column. UFO SHAPE BOTTOM VIEW BOTTOM ANGLE SIDE VIEW 1. FLAT DISC A. 10-54 Cox 7-2-52 Newhouse B. 7-9-47 Johnson 7-14-52 Nash A oval B A lens-shaped coin-like 2. DOMED DISC A. 9-21-58 Fitzgerald 4-24-62 Gasslein B. 5-11-50 Trent 8-7-52 Jansen A hat-shaped B A World War I helmet 3. SATURN DISC(Double dome) A. 10-4-54 Salandin 1-16-58 Trindade 10-2-61 Harris B. 8-20-56 Moore A elliptical or winged oval Diamond-shaped Saturn-shaped 4. HEMISPHERICAL DISC 9-24-59 Redmond 1-21-61 Pulliam 2-7-61 Walley Parachute Mushroom half moon 5. FLATTENED SPHERE 10-1-48 Gorman 4-27-50 Adickes 10-9-51 C.A.A. Sometimes with peak 6. SPHERICAL(Circular from all angles) 3-45 Delarof 1-20-52 Baller 10-12-61 Edwards A metallic-appearing ball B ball of glowing light 7. ELLIPTICAL 12-20-58 Arboreen 11-2-57 Levelland 8-13-60 Carson Football egg-shaped 8. TRIANGULAR 5-7-56 G.O.C. 5-22-60 Majorca Tear-drop 9. CYLINDRICAL(Rocket-like) 8-1-46 Puckett 7-23-48 Chiles 10. LIGHT SOURCE ONLY "cigar-shaped"
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.