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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.
“Office of Special Investigations”19 pages
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 INFORMATION INVITED If you have personal knowledge of any of the cases reported in this document, and can add missing details, you are invited to submit this information to NICAP. We also welcome previously unreported UFO cases, regardless of date. Be sure to include the following basic information: 1. Name and address. 2. Date of Sighting; location. 3. Time at beginning and ending of observation. 4. Position of object(s) in sky (by compass direction and angle above horizon when first and last seen). 5. Sky conditions (day-night-twilight; clear-partly cloudy-overcast; raining-snowing; presence of searchlights, glow from city lights, etc.) 6. Description of object (light source-visible shape; color or lack of it; size in comparison to the full moon, a star or planet; and detail visible on surface of, or protruding from, object). A sketch would be helpful. 7. Description of maneuvers (speed; flight path; changes of direction; horizontal or vertical motion). 8. Ranging Information (did object pass high overhead, low above horizon? Did it pass in front of anything such as the moon or a tree? Did it pass behind anything, such as a house or cloud? How did it disappear--behind something, explode, vanish in midair?) 9. Names and addresses of other witnesses, if any. 10. Your signature and some biographical information about yourself (schools attended; any special training, awards or diplomas; special skills).
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.