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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. 23 …Duich, Air Force Master Navigator, and other officers, September 8, 1958 at Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska…
  • p. 26 …UFO project) personnel and intelligence officers; a Master Navigator who had sighted several UFOs while on…
  • p. 29 …Duich, Master Navigator, others Elongated object tilted at angle, small satellite objects. 5-20-61 Tyndall…
  • p. 32 …Until recently, Major Duich was an Air Force Master Navigator, accumulating 4000 flying hours and 300…
  • p. 76 …Nantucket Channel, Mass.; Joseph Gwooz, Master of the S.S. Nantucket, reported an October 7 sighting…
  • p. 84 …1800 mph.) 5000 meters 53 G November 8, 1956 Miami, Florida Donald Freestone, Pan American master…
  • p. 89 …The Master Sergeant who tracked it on radar stated: "The target was a good solid return…
  • p. 127 …p.m., May 25, 1958, Gunter Henn (Master of Business Administration) with another person watched a…
  • p. 130 …Vinson, Master, reported the following: "At 1700 G.M.T. on September 21, 1961, while in…
  • p. 134 …Two master sergeants (intelligence specialists), reported a large, bluish-white spherical object with a long blue…
  • p. 140 …Ship's Master, others watched a grayish oval object hover for several minutes, then climb away…
  • p. 152 …1-21-57 Army base Captain and Master Sergeant watched two UFOs maneuvering close together at…
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Copyright 1964, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. All rights reserved, except that newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations may quote up to 750 words without special permission.

## ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Art: Eric Aldwinckle, Eugene Bergeron, Richard Hall, James Kemple, Earl J. Neff (cover design), Dr. John Pagano, Edward L. Smith, Walter N. Webb.

Editorial: Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret)., Consultant. Other research, proof-reading and typing assistants: Don Berliner, Mrs. Lelia S. Day, Carmen Johnson, Joan Lusby, Elizabeth Sabow.

Scientific & Technical Consultants: West H. Armistead, Jr. (electronics engineer); Dr. James C. Bartlett, Jr. (astronomy); Dr. Fred C. Fair (engineering); Dr. Robert L. Hall (social psychology); Stanley J. Hryn (electronics); John F. McLeod (aviation); Max B. Miller (photography); David L. Morgan, Jr. (physics); Ralph Rankow (photography); J. R. Reiss (electronics engineer); L. D. Sheridan, Jr. (aviation); Walter N. Webb (astronomy).

We are also indebted to Isabel Davis, New York City, whose extensive files on UFOs were opened to NICAP; and to the following persons for valuable help and advice during the preparation of this report: Ted Bloecher, Jose A. Cecin, Paul C. Cerny, George W. Earley, Alexander D. Mehane, Lee R. Munsick, Leonard H. Stringfield

Ted Bloecher, Jose A. Cecin, Paul C. Cerny, George W. Earley, Alexander D. Mebane, Lee R. Munsick, Leonard H. Stringfield.

The Ronald Press Company, New York, kindly granted permission to quote an important sighting from 200 Miles Up--The Conquest of the Upper Air, by J. Gordon Vaeth (c.1956), which appears in Section I.

We are also grateful to the NICAP Affiliates, Subcommittees and Associate Members whose support and encouragement, and practical help, made this report possible.

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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.