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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. 7 …Allen Hynek (Chief scientific consultant to the Air Force on UFOs) said: "...there are more reports…
  • p. 30 …Air Force. (Originally reported in Cleveland Press, picked up by United Press International, July 30, 1952…
  • p. 34 …I collected a few names of individuals present, as I intended to report the UFO to…
  • p. 44 …Gordon Pendleton, Irish International Airlines Globular UFO with antenna-like projections, streaked below his Viscount. Section…
  • p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
  • p. 71 …Reports of the UFO came into the Baltimore Filter Center for about an hour the first…
  • p. 72 …It was "more distinct than the daytime moon," Walker reported. 36 ## Rendezvous of Two UFOs February…
  • p. 77 …Teletype report and letter on file at NICAP 2. Reports obtained by Cleveland and Akron UFO…
  • p. 97 …According to a report which Mr. Purdon submitted to NICAP, the UFO was first motionless for…
  • p. 98 …Miller, who reported September 18, 1960: The UFO "quite probably is a cinch mark. . . it could…
  • p. 110 …Project name changed to "Grudge." Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were…
  • p. 119 …The original report released by the Air Force PIO at Truax AFB, Wisc., stated that contact…
  • p. 122 …Wherever man travels on the globe, UFOs have been sighted. Ships at sea have reported strange…
  • p. 123 …At Ezeiza International Airport, Buenos Aires, December 22, 1962, a UFO was sighted about 3:00…
  • p. 126 …An Aer Lingus (Irish International Airlines) pilot reported a globe-shaped unidentified object which flew beneath…
  • p. 127 …International News Service (INS) reported that an Italian Air Force radar station at Practica Dimare, 40…
  • p. 129 …Norris reported that "during early November UFO reports came from all Australian states except Tasmania." The…
  • p. 130 …However, the reported size of the UFO was far too large to be explained as a…
  • p. 131 …Report and sketches published in Japan International UFO Investigation, J. I. Takanashi, Editor; Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan…
  • p. 137 …Week of UFO sightings investigated by military authorities. Scores of residents reported strange glowing objects maneuvering…
  • p. 142 …Three people reported a round, orange UFO which moved rapidly east to west, stopped and hovered…
  • p. 144 …Once the reports had been publicized, the planet Jupiter also was reported as a UFO on…
  • p. 163 …Unofficial report of elliptical silvery UFO seen by aircraft workers; launched two small discs which maneuvered…
  • p. 164 …Air Force called press conference on UFO sightings, attended by more than 40 reporters. Suggested UFOs…
  • p. 171 …missile range, reported an egg-shaped UFO which descended over the base. A report on this…
  • p. 173 …May 14-16 - Several UFO reports from Bahia Blanca, La Rioja, and La Barrera. In the…
  • p. 182 …However, once it is determined that a given UFO report is not evidence of an attack…
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]

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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.