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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 Date Time Location Description 23 --- Culver City, Calif. Unofficial report of elliptical silvery UFO seen by aircraft workers; launched two small discs which maneuvered, returned on board; parent object climbed straight up out of sight. --- Braintree, Mass UFO tracked on radar, seen by ground observers as blue-green light. F-94 saw and chased UFO, locked on with radar, UFO pulled away and disappeared. [10] 11:35 p.m. South Bend, Indiana Capt. Harold Kloth, USAF, saw two blue-white objects arc over the city. 24 3:40 p.m. Nr Carson Sink, Nev. Two USAF Colonels (both Command Pilots) saw three triangular objects in tight V formation; approached their B-25 at one o'clock position, banked past less than 1000 yards away at estimated speed of over 1000 mph. Investigation showed no aircraft, balloons or other devices in area. "Unknown." [11] 26/27 8:00 p.m. after midnight Washington, D.C. UFOs tracked by CAA radar, chased by jet interceptors; some visual sightings. 8:15 p.m.-9:46 p.m. Civilian pilots saw glowing white lights moving at high speed on four occasions: Nr Andrews AFB, Md. Nr Herndon, Va. Beltsville, Md. Nr Andrews AFB, Md. National Airlines pilot, United Airlines pilot, CAA inspection aircraft pilot, CAA inspection aircraft pilot. [12] 10:25 p.m. Newcastle, Delaware Fighters appeared on CAA radarscopes, were vectored on unknowns; one saw four lights ahead of him but could not catch them. 10:49 p.m. About 10 miles E of Mt. Vernon, Va. Same pilot saw "steady white light"; light disappeared in about a minute. In a special article for International News Service, July 29, CAA Radar Specialist James Ritchey (who tracked the unidentified targets both weekends) said that one of the airline pilots mentioned above got close to a UFO. "He reported to us that he sighted a yellow light that appeared to turn red and then back to yellow again," Ritchey said. "The object appeared to be about two miles away and to be flying parallel with him. Radar confirmed that he was between two and three miles from the object." The Washington Post (July 28, 1952) reported that long-range radar at Andrews AFB registered the UFOs from about 7:30 p.m. (EST) to about 11:00 p.m. (The CAA report on Washington radar sightings, although it has a column for that purpose, does not mention any Air Force radar sightings on either July 19/20 or July 26/27). 26 night California Air Defense Command radar tracked a UFO, F-94C scrambled, locked on with radar, crew saw large yellow-orange light. Ground and airborne radar both showed that when jet would get close, UFO would suddenly accelerate and pull away, then slow down and let jet catch up again. Object"Unknown"[13] 27 10:40 a.m. Ann Arbor, Mich. Scientist observed 15 glowing UFOs in formation. [Section VI.] 27 6:35 p.m. Manhattan Beach, Calif. Eight people, including aviation engineer, watched maneuvers of seven discs in formations of two and three. [Section VI.] 27 7:30 p.m. Riverdale, Md. Air Force Lt. Wales, Andrews AFB, saw dark disc moving slowly NE with"oscillating rolling motion." Clouds were moving SE. UFO entered base of clouds. [CAA Report. See Section VIII; Radar.] 10:00 Andrews AFB, Maryland Air Force Major Turlin reported unidentified yellow light which"moved slowly, stopped, flickered, moved in arc." [CAA Report] 27/28 1:00-5:00 a.m. South Central Indiana Round UFOs with visible"exhausts" were seen by police, Civil Defense, military personnel and hundreds of citizens in 20 or more counties. 1:00 a.m. Shelby County, Indiana State policemen at opposite ends of county watched a maneuvering starlike object which alternately hovered, moved up and down, back & forth. 3:00 a.m. Franklin, Indiana Civil Defense and police saw one orange and one white light chasing each other as if in a dogfight. 2:30 a.m. Nr St. Paul, Minn. Air Force radar tracked UFOs, which appeared visually to pilots as rapidly moving lights. [14] 28 7:55 a.m. Geneva, N.Y. Hovering elliptical UFO sighted. Vapor trails, apparently from interceptors, converged on object, it rose straight into cloud bank.
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.