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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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“Scientific American”16 pages

  • p. 7 …to scientific studies of meteors and ice-falls. Data has been furnished to the American Meteor…
  • p. 8 …the scientific adequacy of the investigation (whether there has been a consistently objective, scientific study of…
  • p. 14 …The films, released by Gaumont, a British firm, were shown on American television September 26, 1954…
  • p. 88 …The only reaction to this was that obviously the American equipment was way off calibration. "The…
  • p. 94 …The film was reportedly shown on American television December 26, 1954. See Section I 27. Gibbons…
  • p. 96 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Photographic Cases (Continued) Jack Brotzman, NICAP scientific adviser in the Wash area, projected…
  • p. 109 …The Cold War burden plainly has put a severe strain on the traditional American belief in…
  • p. 115 …A scientific investigation of any phenomenon would set out to gather objective and quantitative data about…
  • p. 121 …COPY American Airlines, Inc. Flight 139 - February 24, 1959 Captain P. W. Killian Departing Newark 1910…
  • p. 122 # SECTION X # FOREIGN REPORTS "Although we tend to think of flying saucers as peculiarly American, they…
  • p. 123 …Flavio Pereira, President (also President of the Scientific Council, Brazilian Interplanetary Society); Cmdr. A.B. Simoes…
  • p. 128 …Kleyweg said. "This object was no balloon." 53. During the North and South American "flap" in…
  • p. 129 …A well-qualified scientific observer aboard an ice-breaker in Admiralty Bay, Antartica, sighted a luminous…
  • p. 132 …Charles Fort, from Scientific American, 115-241 Early 1918--Near Waco, Texas. Reddish cigar-shaped object…
  • p. 174 …UFOs, we believe, are a matter for scientific inquiry. The Air Force, through intelligence procedures, has…
  • p. 175 …Calif.) - May 15, 1959 "I am concerned, as are most Americans, with unidentified flying objects. Surely…
# 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.