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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.
“Edwards Air Force Base”16 pages
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Code Date Location Witness Description M 1-7-48 Ft. Knox, Ky. Capt. Thomas Mantell, Air National Guard (A.N.G.); many on ground Pilot killed in crash of F-51 while chasing "huge . . . metallic" circular object. [8] P 7-48 Pasco, Wash. Don Newman, 6-year USAF veteran of WW II and Korean War Disc diving and climbing. AL 7-23-48 nr Montgomery, Ala. Capt. C.S. Chiles, F/O J.B. Whitted, Eastern Airlines Cigar with lights like portholes approached head-on, accelerated, climbed away. M 10-1-48 Fargo, N.D. Lt. George F. Gorman, A.N.G.; 3 others "Dogfight" with disc; UFO outsped F-51. [9] P 1-1-49 Jackson, Miss. Tom Rush Cigar crossed path of plane, accelerated rapidly. M 7-3-49 Longview, Wash. Cmdr. M.B. Taylor, USN; many others at air show Round UFO wobbling on axis, sharp maneuvers. [Section IV] M 11-3-49 nr Baja, Calif. Capt. William H. Donnelly, USAFR Four discs which cavorted in an "astounding manner. [Section III] AL 3-8-50 Dayton, Ohio TWA Captains W.H. Kerr, D.W. Miller, M.H. Rabeneck; plus USAF pilots Round UFO tracked on radar, observed from ground and air, climbed away through clouds. [Section VIII, Radar] P 3-18-50 nr Bradford, Ill. Robert Fisher and family Oval UFO, self-illuminated, sped past plane at estimated 600 to 1,000 mph. AL 3-20-50 nr Little Rock, Ark. Capt. Jack Adams, F/O G.W. Anderson, Jr. Disc with apparent "portholes" flew above airliner in arc. [Section II] P 3-26-50 nr Washington, D.C. B.A. Totten, former USAF aircraft inspector Disc flew below plane; when pilot dove at it, UFO "zoomed up into overcast." [10] AL 4-27-50 nr Goshen, Ind. Capt. Robert Adickes, Capt. Robert F. Manning, TWA; passengers Disc paced plane, sped away when pursued. AL 5-29-50 nr Washington D.C. Capt. Willis T. Sperry, F/O Bill Gates, American Airlines Elliptical object circled plane, raced away. AL 6-24-50 California desert F/O David Stewart, United Airlines Cigar-shaped object paced plane for 20 miles. [11] M 6-24-50 nr Daggett, Calif. Navy transport pilot Cigar-shaped object above desert [Section IV] M 7-11-50 nr Osceola, Ark. Lt(jg) J.W. Martin; Enlisted Pilot R.E. Moore, USN Domed circular UFO passed in front of two Navy planes [confirmed by radar]. [Section IV] AL 10-5-50 nr San Fernando, Calif. Capt. Cecil Hardin, F/O Jack Conroy, California Central Airlines UFO with body lights came head-on at plane, dipped down and passed below; "It appeared to be a wing," Captain Hardin said. "It had no fuselage." Bands of blue light were visible across its width. [12] P 11-27-50 Evansville, Wisc. Bill Blair, commercial pilot & flight instructor Six elliptical objects in loose echelon formation, made sound similar to helicopters. Appeared to be at about 10,000 feet, travelling about 500 mph. [13] AL 12-27-50 nr Bradford, Ill. Capt. Art Shutts, TWA Light source, making erratic and violent maneuvers. AL 1-20-51 Sioux City, Iowa Capt. Lawrence Vinther, F/O James F. Bachmeier, Mid-Continent Airlines; plus control tower operators. Cigar with bright body light approached, reversed direction, climbed away. AL 2-19-51 Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa Capt. Jack Bicknell, Radio Officer D.W. Merrifield, East African Airways; plus 9 passengers Cigar-shaped object with vertical bands hovered for long period, ascended vertically at high speed. [Section X] AL 5-22-51 nr Dodge City, Kans. Capt. W.R. Hunt, American Airlines Blue-white star-like object gyrated around airliner, "moved backward and forward, then up and down" and finally dove below plane and sped away. [14] P 8-11-51 Portland, Ore. R.O. Dodge, former US FO 47 pilot Three disc-like UFOs in formation. [15]
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.