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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. 2 …of AF Project Blue Book UFO investigation, prepared analyses of UFO data for AF, liaison officer…
  • p. 5 …officers, civil defense and ground observer corps, cross-section of citizens' reports. Section VIII. SPECIAL EVIDENCE…
  • p. 11 …Navy Special Devices Center for a special Skyhook flight to be undertaken for that Office of…
  • p. 13 …However, the accumulation of reports by good observers and some of the special evidence such as…
  • p. 21 …of reports by unusually well-qualified observers is worth special mention. During the Fall of 1949…
  • p. 39 …pilots (two of whom had personally sighted UFOs) joined the NICAP Panel of Special Advisers. Federal…
  • p. 45 …cards and badges of Special Investigators, USAF. In separate rooms, we were questioned for one hour…
  • p. 88 …Special records are kept of all such sightings. Usually, in a case of this type, jets…
  • p. 94 …Force officers. It shows five glowing, oval-shaped objects. 20. Adamski "Scout Ship." Because of Mr…
  • p. 96 …In the interests of scientific investigation, we urge that secrecy about the case be lifted by…
  • p. 109 …History of the UFO Project C. Air Force Statements About Its UFO Investigation/NICAP Rebuttals D…
  • p. 111 …CLARDP81R00560R0001000100010 every phase" of the investigation. The scientists believed this program would "dispel any of the…
  • p. 116 …gation of a phenomenon. Yet, as the agency officially charged with investigation of UFOs, the Air…
  • p. 125 …Allied intelligence experts were reported to be investigating radar sightings of "mysterious objects" which had been…
  • p. 137 …Defense high command ordered a full scale investigation of sightings of a wingless circular object which…
  • p. 141 …from office of Secretary of Air Force: The USAF maintains a "continuous surveillance of the atmosphere…
  • p. 164 …The Air Ministry announced it was investigating.21 About September 20 - Personnel of the U.S…
  • p. 182 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 investigators, impatient with NICAP's "conserv from reviewing the methods of investigation a…
  • p. 183 …investigation is required. . . "Now the primary objection to UFO reports, as most scientists think of such…
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Date & Location	Time	UFO&Maneuvers	Number&Pattern
April2,1958Columbus,Ohio	9:00 to 11:00 p.m.	Cigar-shaped.	(c)long row of"portholes or windows".
April4,1958SantaMonica,Cal.	7:15 p.m.	Cigar-shaped;shot straight up.	(d)"windows"
April7,1958SantaAna,Calif.	---	Large glowing object;slow.	(c)string of lights.
April9,1958NewportBeach,Cal.	9:30 p.m.	2 deltas;hovered,flew away.	(c)row of6flashing red lights on edges. [Section VII.]
August17,1958KansasCity,Kans.	2:00 p.m.	Dome-shaped disc;followed jets,hovered.	(a)row of about5"portholes".
May4,1960Sarasota,Fla.	9:15 a.m.	Yellow elliptical object.	(b)4evenly spaced"windows",square,slightly rounded corners.
May18,1960Wellington,N.Z.	---	Cigar-shaped object.	(d)"portholes".
August18,1960Redlands,Calif.	1:45 a.m.	Disc with small dome.	(c)red lights around edge.
August24,1960Rumney,N.H.	9:15 p.m.	Cigar-shaped,self-luminous.	(c)4blinking lights which changed from orange to yellow.
November3,1960PriceCounty,Wis.	4:30 p.m.	Aluminum like disc with dome on top.On ground;rose above trees,took off at high speed,(humming noise).	(b)several around circumference.
December25,1960Cottonwood,Minn.	11:45 p.m.	Hemispherical disc(convex surface downward)with dome on top.	(b)row at base of dome.
BetweenMay2andMay5,1961UnionMills,Ind.	10:00 p.m.	Object about8'high,10'to15'di- ameter,inverted bowl shape;took off from road.	(a)oblong"windows"around topwith flashing red lights coming from them.Lights changed to steady fluorescent when object rose.
May25,1961Shepperton,Middlesex,England	Between10:00 and10:30 p.m.	Domed object first appearing as brilliant point of yellow light in West.	(a)row of3"portholes".
November22,1961NearGrafton,N.D.	7:00 p.m.	Cigar-shaped object,steady red light at upper end and flashing white light at other end.	(b)even row with yellow light. [Section VI.]
February9,1962AshtonClinton,Beds.,England	About3:30 a.m.	Disc-like reflective object with hazy dome;hovered low above road.White halo appeared as object took off at high speed.	(b)black markings"like portholes or air vents."
April24,1962Philadelphia,Pa.	7:45 p.m.	Circular object,dome on top;moving slowlyE to W,estimated altitude50'(shafts of white light directed downward from base).	(b)Center section was rotating row of"square windows".
April25,1962Philadelphia,Pa.	8:00 p.m.	Brilliantly lighted circular object low in southern sky moving slowlyWest.Green light on top.	(c)Row of yellow"window-like lights" disappeared and reappeared periodically.

UFO WITH "PORTHOLES," SARASOTA, FLORIDA OBSERVED BY ARCHITECT; MAY 4, 1960

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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.