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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. 27 …Virgil Cappuro Fiery object made several passes at the control tower. 14. 12-50near Cheyenne, Wyoming…
  • p. 28 …Assuming various altitudes, it is possible to compute the speed of the UFO for those altitudes…
  • p. 36 …These were submitted to NICAP by members in the armed services. ## OTHER MILITARY SIGHTINGS ARMY Date…
  • p. 37 …The co-pilot of the Navy plane was the first to see it, and pointed it…
  • p. 39 …The reason? "The nation's 8,500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of…
  • p. 41 …Beers, a veteran pilot, said the UFOs "swooped around in formation, peeled-off, and shot directly…
  • p. 69 …He described the sighting to Olean, N.Y., newsman Bob Barry who relayed the report to…
  • p. 83 …18,000 ft. 31 A, V December 10, 1952 Nr Hanford, Wash. F-94 obtained radar…
  • p. 91 …We have seen dams break and towns washed away by the flood waters. We have seen…
  • p. 92 …Wash. At 5:45 p.m. Mr. Ryman photographed a circular white object moving across the…
  • p. 96 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Photographic Cases (Continued) Jack Brotzman, NICAP scientific adviser in the Wash area, projected…
  • p. 107 …Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery. (Criterion, 1958), p. 143. E-26. North…
  • p. 132 # SECTION XI # THE UFO CHRONOLOGY ## 19th Century Roman numerals in brackets indicate numbers of other Sections…
  • p. 133 …The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing…
  • p. 134 …Nick Mariana took motion pictures of 2 UFOs (The "Montana film," later shown in the documentary…
  • p. 136 …Perdy, stated there was "remarkable corroboration as to description of the cluster of lights by people…
  • p. 156 …The object would stop, "fall like a leaf," speed up again, and repeat the sequence, gaining…
  • p. 158 …C ## Zigzagging UFOs Another pattern is of UFOs zigzagging across the sky, usually in constant motion…
  • p. 160 …Carpenter estimated the speed at 3000 mph. If they were farther away, he pointed out, the…
  • p. 162 …The object passed over the area at about 50,000 feet traveling about 1200 mph. 9…
  • p. 177 …Jackson, D-Wash., the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, may call some witnesses before…
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Date	Location	Description
10-51	Anderson, Indiana	Large group of discs individually tilted back and forth in unison.
3-29-52	Misawa, Japan	USAF pilot observed small disc near plane which fluttered, "rocked back and forth in 40-degree banks" while moving slowly. [Section I.]
4-5-52	Hensley AFB, Texas	Circular metallic object moving at high speed, "wobbled" in flight.
4-17-52	Cassopolis, Mich.	Oval-shaped UFO moving at high speed with "wobbling motion."
5-13-52	Greenville, S.C.	Several oval-shaped UFOs in diamond formation "wobbled in flight." [5]
8-1-52	Sharonville, Ohio	Brilliant milk-white disc flying slowly, with "tendency to wobble."
8-14-52	Coral Gables, Fla.	Bright white luminous object with orange ring, hovered; wobbled back and forth every few seconds.
9-9-52	Portland, Ore.	Two oval or disc-shaped UFOs hovering; one wobbled.
9-20-52	Topcliffe, England	Silver disc rotated and wobbled. [Operation Mainbrace Chronology, this section]
9-9-54	Nelson, New Zealand	Three discs hovered, wobbled, rose at high speed. [Section VIII; Photographs.]
3-2-55	Tucson, Arizona	Elongated UFO passed overhead with "loping or rocking motion."
3-28-55	Joseph City, Ariz.	Large group of UFOs maneuvering like jets in a dogfight, split up, began moving with "strange fluttering motion."
7-26-55	Washington, D.C.	Round UFO approached airport, hovered and oscillated before speeding away.
3-20-56	Washington, D.C.	Three discs, silvery-white; tilted in "wobbling" motion, moved up and down.
7-56	Washington, D.C.	Three discs, one with "a pronounced wobble," leaving visible trails and flying "in definite formation."
7-14-56	Arlington, Va.	Amateur astronomers watched object larger than stars or planets for four minutes; object had "wobbling motion."
8-20-56	Citrus Heights, Calif.	Large group of Saturn-shaped UFOs in rough semi-circle formation, individually wobbling.
12-18-56	Barberton, Ohio	UFO arced across sky from E to W; when it slowed and hovered, "it wobbled and had erratic movement."
7-57	Azusa, Calif.	Disc-shaped UFO with row of amber lights on rim descended with wobbling motion.
8-15-57	Woodland Hills, Calif.	Disc hovered 6 minutes, rocked from side to side and rose straight up out of sight. [Section IV.]
11-29-57	Sarasota, Florida	Round orange object "wobbled" and hovered for about 2 minutes, moved away.
5-5-58	San Carlos, Uruguay	Brilliant top-shaped UFO approached, stopped; "rocked twice" before speeding away. [Section X.]

11-8-59	Biloxi, Miss.	Disc-like UFO; edges "flipped or fluttered" as it flew steady course(later spiraled, turned sharply.)
2-16-60	Laguna Beach,Calif.	Oval UFO "wobbled...on an axis through its center and at right angles to its course" as it slowed down approaching a second UFO.[Section VII.]
5-19-61	Long Beach,Calif.	Shiny UFOs maneuvered erratically,with"odd fluttering motion."

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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.