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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. 7 …Allen Hynek (Chief scientific consultant to the Air Force on UFOs) said: "...there are more reports…
  • p. 30 …Air Force. (Originally reported in Cleveland Press, picked up by United Press International, July 30, 1952…
  • p. 34 …I collected a few names of individuals present, as I intended to report the UFO to…
  • p. 44 …Gordon Pendleton, Irish International Airlines Globular UFO with antenna-like projections, streaked below his Viscount. Section…
  • p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
  • p. 71 …Reports of the UFO came into the Baltimore Filter Center for about an hour the first…
  • p. 72 …It was "more distinct than the daytime moon," Walker reported. 36 ## Rendezvous of Two UFOs February…
  • p. 77 …Teletype report and letter on file at NICAP 2. Reports obtained by Cleveland and Akron UFO…
  • p. 97 …According to a report which Mr. Purdon submitted to NICAP, the UFO was first motionless for…
  • p. 98 …Miller, who reported September 18, 1960: The UFO "quite probably is a cinch mark. . . it could…
  • p. 110 …Project name changed to "Grudge." Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were…
  • p. 119 …The original report released by the Air Force PIO at Truax AFB, Wisc., stated that contact…
  • p. 122 …Wherever man travels on the globe, UFOs have been sighted. Ships at sea have reported strange…
  • p. 123 …At Ezeiza International Airport, Buenos Aires, December 22, 1962, a UFO was sighted about 3:00…
  • p. 126 …An Aer Lingus (Irish International Airlines) pilot reported a globe-shaped unidentified object which flew beneath…
  • p. 127 …International News Service (INS) reported that an Italian Air Force radar station at Practica Dimare, 40…
  • p. 129 …Norris reported that "during early November UFO reports came from all Australian states except Tasmania." The…
  • p. 130 …However, the reported size of the UFO was far too large to be explained as a…
  • p. 131 …Report and sketches published in Japan International UFO Investigation, J. I. Takanashi, Editor; Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan…
  • p. 137 …Week of UFO sightings investigated by military authorities. Scores of residents reported strange glowing objects maneuvering…
  • p. 142 …Three people reported a round, orange UFO which moved rapidly east to west, stopped and hovered…
  • p. 144 …Once the reports had been publicized, the planet Jupiter also was reported as a UFO on…
  • p. 163 …Unofficial report of elliptical silvery UFO seen by aircraft workers; launched two small discs which maneuvered…
  • p. 164 …Air Force called press conference on UFO sightings, attended by more than 40 reporters. Suggested UFOs…
  • p. 171 …missile range, reported an egg-shaped UFO which descended over the base. A report on this…
  • p. 173 …May 14-16 - Several UFO reports from Bahia Blanca, La Rioja, and La Barrera. In the…
  • p. 182 …However, once it is determined that a given UFO report is not evidence of an attack…
# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington. D.C. 20036

MAJ. DONALD E. KEYHOE, USMC (RET.), DIRECTOR

MR. RICHARD H. HALL, ACTING DIRECTOR

## BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Mr. J.B. Hartranft, Jr.; President, Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association, Washington, D.C. Former Army Air Corps Lt. Colonel, founder of U.S. Air Guard (now Civil Air Patrol), graduate University of Pennsylvania.

Col. J. Bryan III, USAFR (Ret.); Writer and author, Richmond, Virginia. Former special assistant to Secretary of Air Force (1952-53), assigned to staff of Gen. Lauris Norstad, NATO (1959), editorial staff of national magazines, author of several books.

Dr. Earl Douglass; Presbyterian clergyman, Princeton, N. J. Religious Columnist, member of New York Authors League. D.D., Tusculum College (1931), Litt.D., Catawba College (1941).

Dr. Charles P. Olivier; President, American Meteor Society, Narbeth, Pa. Professor emeritus of astronomy, Univ. of Pennsylvania, contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory reports on meteors.

Dr. Marcus Bach; State University of Iowa, School of Religion. Author and playwright, member American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, contributor to scholarly journals and popular magazines, Ph.D. University of Iowa (1942).

Col. Robert Emerson, USAR; Research Chemist, Emerson Testing Laboratory, Baton Rouge, La. Member American Chemical Society Speaker's Bureau, graduate Chemical Warfare School Edgewood Arsenal, General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, other military schools.

Mr. Frank Edwards; WTTV, Indianapolis, Indiana, radio-television commentator and author. Recipient of Amvets Service Award (1953) and VFW National Service Award (1945), former news analyst on Mutual Broadcasting System.

Prof. Charles A. Maney; Head, Department of Physics, Defiance College, Ohio. Author of Atoms For Peace proposal now on file in National Archives, M.S. Univ. of Chicago (1915), astrophysics, additional graduate work Universities of Michigan and Kentucky.

Mr. Dewey Fournet, Jr., former Major USAFR; Baton Rouge, La. Former Air Force Headquarters Monitor of AF Project Blue Book UFO investigation, prepared analyses of UFO data for AF, liaison officer between Dayton project and Pentagon.

Rev. Albert Baller; German Congregational Church, Clinton, Mass. Author of children's books, graduate Nebraska Wesleyan University and Boston University School of Theology.

Rear Adm. H.B. Knowles, USN (Ret.); Eliot, Maine. Veteran of both World War I and World War II, held important submarine commands, graduate U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis (1917).

## PANEL OF SPECIAL ADVISERS

## Science & Technology

Dr. James C. Bartlett, Jr., astronomy, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mr. Norman S. Bean, engineering, Miami, Florida.

Mr. Robert C. Beck, Pres., Color Control Company, Hollywood, California.

Mr. Jack Brotzman, physics, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

Dr. Hugh S. Brown, M.D., Spokane, Washington.

Mr. A.L. Cochran, engineer, Richardson, Texas.

Dr. Fred C. Fair, professor emeritus of engineering, New York University.

Dr. Robert L. Hall, sociology & social psychology, program director, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C.

Mr. Frank Halstead, astronomy, former curator Darling Observatory, University of Minnesota.

Dr. Leslie K. Kaeburn, biophysics, University of Southern California.

Prof. N.N. Kohanowski, geology and mining engineering, University of North Dakota.

Mr. Delbert C. Newhouse, former Naval Aviation Photographer, Coronado, California.

Mr. Ralph Rankow, photography, New York City.

Mr. Frank G. Rawlinson, physics, NASA Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.

Mr. J.R. Reiss, research engineer, Lakewood, Ohio.

Mr. Kenneth Steinmetz, astronomy, former head of Denver Moonwatch, Colorado.

Mr. Walter N. Webb, astronomy, Charles Hayden Planetarium, Boston, Massachusetts.

## Aeronautics & Space

Capt. C.S. Chiles, Eastern Airlines pilot, New York City.

Mr. George W. Earley, administrative engineer, major aerospace firm, Connecticut.

Mr. Samuel Freeman, past president National Aviation Trades Assoc., Bedminster, New Jersey.

Mr. Morton Gerla, past director, N.Y. Chapter, American Rocket Society, Jamaica, New York.

Capt. R.B. McLaughlin, USN, missile expert, Corona, California.

Maj. John F. McLeod, USAFR, former Air Force pilot, Civil Air Patrol, Jacksonville, Florida.

Capt. William B. Nash, Pan American Airways pilot, Frankfurt, Germany.

Mr. W.R. Peters, former First Officer, Pan American Airways, Coral Gables, Florida.

Mr. L.D. Sheridan, Jr., former Marine Corps pilot, Ponte Vedra, Florida.

## News & Public Relations

Mr. James C. Beatty, civil defense and Ground Observer Corps, Santurce, Puerto Rico.

Mr. Albert M. Chop, NASA public information officer, Space Flight Center, Houston, Texas.

Mr. Lou Corbin, Chief WFBR News Bureau, Baltimore, Maryland.

Mr. Lee R. Munsick, news and radio, Morristown, New Jersey.

Mr. Leonard H. Stringfield, public relations, Ground Observer Corps, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Mr. George Todt, columnist, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, California.

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