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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. 31 …to horizon in an instant. On an AOC mission one night off the California Coast I…
  • p. 34 …Headrick is Field Engineer and West Coast Military Coordinator for Bowser Inc., Engineers & Manufacturers.
  • p. 73 …seconds, to the local horizon which is a range of hills along the coast back of…
  • p. 121 …XII, Nov., 1957 Chronology The Coast Guard sighting was attributed to "aircraft, and possible spurious radar…
  • p. 127 …objects (UFOs)." "However," he concluded: "I am sorry to give you this reply and I think…
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 NOTES

1. New York World Telegram & Sun; June 23, 1960.

2. Lasswell, Harold D., "Men In Space." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 72, Article 4; April 10, 1958.

3. Jung, Carl G., Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen In the Skies. (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1959).

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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.