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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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NOTES:

1. For other examples of UFO sightings by General Mills balloon personnel, see J. J. Kaliszewski reports, Section VI.

2. Sample contributions to astronomy literature:

Hess, Dr. Seymour L., "A Meteorological approach to the question of water vapor on Mars and the mass of the Martian atmosphere," Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 60, 289, (1948).

, "Some Aspects of the Meteorology of Mars," Journal of Meteorology, 7,1, (1950).

, "Blue Haze and the Vertical Structure of the Martian Atmosphere," The Astrophysical Journal, 127, 743. (1958).

3. Ruppelt, Edward J., The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, (Doubleday, 1956), p. 161.

4. Letter on file at NICAP.

5. Report on file at NICAP.

6. Ruppelt, Edward J., op. cit., p. 303; True, May 1954.

7. Air Force letter on file at NICAP.

8. Quotes taken from Capt. Hull's report to John DuBarry, former

associate editor of True magazine, published in CSI News letter by a New York UFO group of which DuBarry is president.

9. Report on file at NICAP.

10. From U.S. Air Force Intelligence Report.

11. Chapman, Robert, London Evening News, December 21, 1955; Frame from movie film reproduced in RAF Flying Review, London, July 1957.

12. It is not known whether any of these reports have been published.

13. All quotes taken from unclassified U.S. Air Force Intelligence Report. Exact date, names, and location were deleted in accordance with Air Force policy.

14. The average distance from the pilot's face to the windscreen was determined to be 2.27 feet for the F-86-D Sabrejet, and about 2.50 feet maximum for most jets in operation at the time. The average pencil eraser is one-fourth of an inch in diameter. If the pilot's face was 2.50 feet from the windscreen, the diameter of the UFO was about 352 feet. Even allowing for appreciable error in the pilot's estimation of size, the true size of the UFO would be well over 100 feet diameter.

15. Roerich, Nicholas, Altai-Himalaya, (Fred Stokes, N.Y., 1929), Part II, ppg. 361-362.

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