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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.
“Scientific American”16 pages
# 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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