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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. 11 …Should you need additional room, please use another sheet of paper. Please print or typewrite. Your…
  • p. 13 …await a full-fledged investigation by scientists using appropriate instrumentation, as NICAP advocates Section XIV. However…
  • p. 35 # SECTION IV # Army, Navy & Marine Corps The other armed services, required by law to channel UFO…
  • p. 37 …The crews of two commercial airliners and a Navy transport sighted a cigar-shaped object about…
  • p. 38 …Shortly after 8 p.m., he "noticed a brilliant white flashing light pass directly below us…
  • p. 40 …Moore, USN Domed circular UFO passed in front of two Navy planes confirmed by radar. Section…
  • p. 44 …Shenkel (both former Air Force pilots) and Steven Summers confirmed Baldwin's report. "All of us…
  • p. 50 …Matthews, CAA Tower Operator (over four years experience in aircraft observation with Navy and as a…
  • p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
  • p. 76 …Arnold, a former Navy air identification and anti-aircraft gunnery control officer, said the UFOs changed…
  • p. 93 …Orrego, Chilean Navy. Reported sighting and photographing UFOs over an Antarctic base. Objects described as "one…
  • p. 95 …He obtained about 6-1/2 feet of Kodachrome film, using a Keystone Capri camera. The…
  • p. 99 …There were no Weather Bureau, Navy or Air Force balloons in the area at the time…
  • p. 100 …Huge "Moby Dick" plastic balloons (named after Melville's legendary whale) used for high altitude research…
  • p. 116 …When none can be found, the "shotgun" approach is used. Clearly, this is not a scientific…
  • p. 123 …Luis Sanchez Moreno, investigating for the Navy, told the press the Navy had been constantly concerned…
  • p. 129 …Lorenzen commented that "the rate of closure with us was much greater than any I had…
  • p. 130 …has twenty counselor members, among them Army, Navy and Naval Air Force officers on active duty…
  • p. 141 …The military had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only trouble was…
  • p. 145 …The following list, including one 1884 sighting, shows that many independent witnesses have used very similar…
Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

Date	Location	Time	Description
9	Sacramento, California	3:45 p.m.	Three disc-shaped objects observed bobbing up and down, circling, in eastern sky.
9	Nr White Oaks, N.M.	7:30 p.m.	Car lights failed as bright light approached; object then changed course and sped away.
9	Entre Rios Province, Argentina	10:55 a.m.	Four luminous objects emitting brilliant trails moved rapidly overhead N to S, crossing 40 degrees and disappearing in 10-12 minutes.
10	Madison, Ohio	Abt 1:25 a.m.	Mrs. Leita Kuhn watched brilliant UFO hovering low overhead; rash, eye damage, other physiological effects reported to NICAP. [Section VIII.]
10	Hammond, Ind.	7:00 p.m.	Police chased elongated object; loud beeping sound interfered with cruiser radios, television blackout reported. [Section VII.]
11	Strum, Wisconsin	8:20 a.m.	Silver, tube-shaped object, no trail, moved slowly overhead toward NW.
11	Nr Los Angeles, California	Day	Elliptical, silvery UFO observed moving low above desert, from airliner approaching Los Angeles. [Section VII.]
11	San Fernando Valley, California	4:20 p.m.	Three elliptical silvery objects climbing at high speed observed by aero-nautical engineers. [Section VI.]
11	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	5:00 p.m.	Moonwatch observers saw two round shiny objects leaving long fire-like trails, moving easterly.
12	Fitchburg, Mass.	12:35 a.m.	Many people watched two bright lights approach from opposite directions, hover together, bobbing up and down.
12	Rumney, N.H.	10:20 p.m.	Car engine failed, lights went out; man saw red light moving away.
12 or 13	Hazelton, Pa.	----	Television disrupted as UFO seen.
14	Sacramento, California	Abt 5:00 p.m.	Brilliant oval UFO moving across eastern sky and into heavy cloudbank, seen by employees of Signal Depot.
14	Tamuroa, Ill.	----	Very bright circular object hovering, making sputtering or explosive sounds; gave off three flashes, electric power failed in area.
14	Austin, Texas	8:00 p.m.	Bright round object, moved up and down, from side to side.
14	San Bernardino Mts., Calif.	Night	"Globe of white light" observed by pilot; blinked in seeming response to his signals. [Section V.]
15	Smith County, Tennessee	6:45-9:30 p.m.	State Police, sheriff, others repeatedly saw flashing, revolving red lights which hovered, moved around slowly. [Section VII.]
15	Wheaton, Md.	8:00 p.m.	Two prominent, self-luminous objects in echelon passed from NE to SW at high speed.
15	Cachoeira, Brazil	2:00 p.m.	Car engines failed, UFO hovering low above ground.
16	Lemmon, S.D.	Night	UFO followed train into railroad yard, hovered, then sped away; railroad phones and automatic block system failed.
20	Nr McMinnville, Tennessee	Abt 10:00 p.m.	Flashing red light passed low over sheriff's car; calling in other police, sheriff gave chase; unable to catch UFO.
21	Compton, N.H.	6:05 p.m.	Brilliant oblong object moved rapidly overhead to E, stopped and hovered, pulsating; later sped west.
22	Canutillo, Texas	Abt 4:00 p.m.	Hovering silvery UFO sped up, moved back and forth, climbed out of sight. [Section VII.]
23	Tiro, Ohio	6:30 p.m.	Disc-like object paced car, swung back and forth, up and down.
25	Mogi Mirim, Brazil	Abt 10:00 p.m.	City lights failed as 3 circular UFOs passed overhead.
26	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	11:15 a.m.	Three flat silvery objects in V-formation, moving slowly W in the northern sky.
30	Murphysboro, Illinois	Afternoon	Three white oval objects in V-formation moving rapidly west.

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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.