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The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 186 pages · text by GLM-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 …Merely on the basis of examining the explanations advanced by the Air Force for specific cases…
  • p. 8 …I have no personal theory to advance or refute. In view of the importance of the…
  • p. 17 …In addition to the evidence advanced in this section, other sections contain data showing (a) that…
  • p. 100 …training) obtained the following facts bearing on the case: 1. Although plenty of advanced warning is…
  • p. 126 …were advanced by Air Ministry and Airport officials. Some believed the UFO was the planet Venus…
  • p. 180 …the art and science of Metallurgy at the source of these UFOs is in advance of…
  • p. 183 …A program, which NICAP could organize to supplement the investigation, could be patterned after the Ground…

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Approved For Release 2001/04/02

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# EVIDENCE

# (Unidentified Flying Objects)

Published by National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) 1536 Connecticut Ave. , N. W. Washington 36, D. C.

Richard H. Hall

Editor

Washington D. C.

May 1964

Cases discussed

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 186 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.