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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.

  • p. 2 …Robert Emerson, USAR; Research Chemist, Emerson Testing Laboratory, Baton Rouge, La. Member American Chemical Society Speaker…
  • p. 7 …Allen Hynek (Chief scientific consultant to the Air Force on UFOs) said: "...there are more reports…
  • p. 8 …These UFOs have proved to be a consistent phenomenon, with significant new reports made each year…
  • p. 123 …One UFO was roughly semi-circular, appearing like a disc on edge, the other circular. Dr…
  • p. 129 …Norris, an attorney in Melbourne, heads the Victorian Flying Saucer Research Society, which publishes "Flying Saucer…

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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"

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 186 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.