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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.
“Scientific American”16 pages
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 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.
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.