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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 Date Location Witnesses Description Jan.11,1958 Vista,Calif. Student Parent Object(spindle-shaped)8-10 smaller dropped from it,hovered,all disappeared upward. March3,1958 nr Marshall,Texas Family Two Parent Object(bright lights)6-7 smaller lights clustered and moved around stationary large ones. Sept.10,1960 N.Scituate,Mass. Store Proprietors Parent Object(dark cigar)with two large discs apparently resting on top;3in cluster flying nearby. Oct.4,1960 Cressy,Launceton,Australia Minister&wife Parent Object(cigar with vertical bands)5-6 smaller discs.Parent object descended from clouds,followed in about2 minutes by discs,which stopped around cigar;finally rose rapidly in clouds. May3,1961 Toonpang,N.S.W.,Australia 5men Parent Object(round,domed)4small silveryv-shaped objects left and returned to parent object after maneuvering around at high speed. June4,1961 Blue RidgeSummit,Pa. Librarian Parent Object(cigar or long ellipse)and cluster of smaller hovering objects;small objects streaked toward parent object,and all moved out of sight behind trees. ## NOTES 1. Witnesses interviewed by NICAP Board Member Frank Edwards: Cecil Bridge, fireman; Harry Eckman, engineer; Morris Ott, head brakeman; Paul Soshey, flagman; and Ed Robinson, conductor. 2. True Magazine, March 1950. (Case confirmed by Capt. (then Cdr.) Robert B. McLaughlin, USN, head of Navy missile tracking crew.) 3. Interview report by Walter N. Webb, NICAP Adviser, on file at NICAP. 4. Life Magazine, April 17, 1952, from Air Force Intelligence Report. 5. Ruppelt, Edward J., Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, Doubleday, 1956, p. 38. 6. Flying, July 1950 (including pilot's sketch). See also Memphis Commercial Appeal, March 22, 1950. 7. Monthly Weather Review, March 1904. 8. Baker, Robert M. L., Jr., "Analyses of Photographic Material; Photogrammetric Analysis of the Utah Film Tracking UFOs," p. 2. (Copy on file at NICAP.) 9. Flying, July 1950; Life Magazine, July 21, 1947.
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.