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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 ## GEOMETRICAL FORMATION CASES (All reports on file at NICAP) Date Location Witnesses Number Type Other Features 2-28-04 North Pacific Crew, U.S.S. Supply 3 In-line, echelon Changed course, climbed 6-23-47 Cedar Rapids, Iowa Railroad engineer 10 In-line Fluttered 6-24-47 Mt. Ranier, Wash. Pilot 9 In-line Zig-zag, skipping flight 7-4-47 Portland, Ore. Police, Pilot 23 Unspecified Unspecified Oscillating motion Oscillating motion Summer 1948 Easton, Pa. Scientist 3 In-line Last zig-zagging [Section VI] 3-30-50 Selma, Ala. Radio engineer & others 3 In-line Middle disc pulled ahead, shot up out of sight 11-27-50 Evansville, Wis. Pilot 6 Echelon 8-11-51 Portland, Ore. Pilot 3 V Flew north in perfect formation 2-20-52 Greenfield, Mass. Minister 3 V [Section VII]. 3-10-52 Oakland, Calif. Inspecting engineer 2 Side-by-side One on steady course, one swaying back and forth. [Section VI] 5-13-52 Greenville, S.C. Amateur astronomers "several" Diamond Wobbled in flight 7-14-52 Newport News, Va. Airline pilots 6+2 In-line Flip over, 120 degrees turn. [Section V] 7-16-52 Hampton, Va. Aeronautical engineer 4 Varied; in-line 2 made tight circling turns [Section VI] 7-17-52 Staten Island, N.Y. Citizens 5 V 7-24-52 Near Carson Sink, Nev. 2 USAF colonels 3 V UFOs were delta shaped [Section III] 8-1-52 Albuquerque, N.M. Scripps-Howard staff writer About 10 Cluster, V, 2 rows in-line Shifted formation with precision. [Section VII] 8-5-52 Baltimore, Md. Amateur Astronomer 2+2 Paired [Section VI] 10-12-52 Palo Alto, Calif. A/C maintenance man 6 V Edges of discs glowing. [Section VI] 11-22-52 Bocaranga, Africa Missionary 4 Rectangle Sometimes moved singly, returned to formation 2-22-54 York, Pa. GOC 14 Unspecified 3-10-54 San Francisco, Calif. Pilot, executive 12 V 3-24-54 Baltimore, Md. Civil Defense official 14 V; in-line Changed to in-line as airliner passed, moved toward it. [Section VII] 5-5-54 Minneapolis, Minn. Astronomy students Unspecified V 5-6-54 Heppner, Ore. Several Unspecified V Oscillating motion 5-15-54 Southampton, England Amateur astronomer 18 V "Windows" visible in some through telescope 6-30-54 Near Oslo, Norway Scientists 2 Echelon First in tilted position, then levelled off. [Section I] 8-28-54 Oklahoma City, Okla. Hundreds 15 Triangle, semi-circle Changed to semicircular and sped up when pursued. [Section III] 9-6-54 Baltimore, Md. Amateur Astronomer 4 In-line, echelon One left, 3 changed formation 11-26-54 Manasquan, N.J. Professor 15-20 V [Section VII] 4-10-55 Baltimore, Md. Several Unspecified (1) V (2) T Two separate sightings 8-25-55 Birmingham, England Ex-Navy officer 15 In-line Groups of 3 in-line 11-9-55 Philadelphia, Pa. Newspaperman, many others 12 V, A Changed to A in flight [Section VII] 8-56 Boulder City, Nev. Research technician 5 Staggered V Spaced one diameter apart. [Section VI] 9-12-56 New Orleans, La. Watchman 4 Y Hovered, formed vertically, scattered 11-19-56 Frankfurt, Germany Engineering student 7 V [Section X]
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.