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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.
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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 JACOBY SAID HE MADE AN EFFORT TO INTERCEPT THE LIGHT BUT IT ELUDED HIM AND FINALLY DISAPPEARED. HE SAID HE FIRST SPOTTED IT 15 TO 25 MILES FROM LOVE AIR FIELD AT AN ALTITUDE OF ABOUT 3,000 FEET. THE PILOT SAID THE OBJECT TURNED AND DIVED BUT THE APPEARANCE OF ITS BODY "DID NOT CHANGE WHEN IT TURNED . . . I COULDN'T TELL WHETHER IT WAS JUST A LIGHT OR A LIGHT COMING FROM SOME OBJECT." HE SAID HE WAS ACCOMPANIED ON THE FLIGHT BY CAPT. J.W. MCNAULTY, ALSO A PILOT. June 23, 1954: An Air National Guard pilot, flying an F-51 Mustang fighter, was trailed by a UFO over Ohio. The incident was reported to Leonard H. Stringfield, then director of an Ohio-based UFO investigation organization. [See Section VII; Ground Observer Corps]. Lt. Harry L. Roe, Jr., first noticed the object about 8:00 p.m. near Columbus, and kept it in sight for 45 minutes all the way to Vandalia. Lt. Roe repeatedly tried to maneuver so that he could see a silhouette behind the "round white light," but "it kept maneuvering around so it was against the darkened part of the sky." When Roe swung the F-51 around to give chase, the UFO "took off" and sped away. November 14, 1955: Another UFO which gave the appearance of intelligence behind its actions was observed at night above the San Bernardino Mountains of California. Gene Miller, a former Air Force instructor, was enroute from Phoenix, Arizona, to Banning, California. His passenger, Dr. Leslie Ward (Redlands physician) also witnessed the UFO. A "globe of white light" appeared ahead of Miller's plane, moving very slowly. Assuming it was an airliner, he blinked his landing lights twice. The "white globe" went out twice, in apparent acknowledgment. As the light grew larger, closing on his plane, Miller flashed his landing lights three times. The UFO, he said, blinked three times, then "suddenly backed up in midair." The sighting by Miller, who later became a NICAP member, was reported in the Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1955. ## Commercial Plane Follows UFO April 8, 1956: A very brilliant light was followed across New York State by an American Airlines plane. The pilots were Capt. Raymond Ryan and First Officer William Neff. The chase was described by radio to Air Force and civilian control tower operators. The following account of the sighting is taken from a tape-recorded interview program, "Meet the Millers," on WBENTV, Buffalo, New York, April 16, 1956 (tape on file at NICAP). Mr. and Mrs. Miller are the interviewers (Int.); Captain Ryan, F/O Neff, and Bruce Foster (a Bell Aircraft Company engineer) are the guests: Int: Was that a regular flight of American Airlines? Int: Was that a regular flight of American Airlines? Ryan: Yes, it was. Int: From Buffalo to New York? Ryan: This flight comes out of New York and lands at Albany, Syracuse, Rochester, and terminates in Buffalo. Int: What was your first idea that anything was happening--that you were seeing something? Neff: This very brilliant white light, like an approaching aircraft with its landing lights on. Naturally we moved away from it thinking that's what it was. Then we noticed it was standing still at the time and we got sort of curious. Int: Just about what location was this? Ryan: This was just about over Schenectady. We were coming out of Albany. We took off north and we made a left turn and we noticed this light over Schenectady. It seemed to be standing still. Int: A light? Now, when you say a light do you mean a light like a light bulb--about that color? Ryan: Oh yes, very fluorescent--a very bright light. . . Int: A big what? Ryan: A large light. It looked more like a light coming into Albany airport. Int: And both of you saw it? At the same time? Int: How close were you to it, do you think? Ryan: We turned a little bit to pass to the south of it, and we were probably 2 or 3 miles from it. Int: And the thing was just standing there? Ryan: Just about standing; it was off our wingtip. Int: Was there anyone else on the flight with you? Ryan: Oh, we had Miss Reynolds, our stewardess was with us. Int: Did she happen to notice it too? Ryan: She came up. We called her and she came up and looked at it later on after this had taken off at this terrific speed from where we first noticed it. Int: How long was it stationary there? Neff: We couldn't say that it was actually stationary. Several talking at once Ryan: ... from the time we were off the ground at Albany, until we--it's about 15 miles by air to Schenectady and it was off our wingtip, and we watched it go through a ninety degree arc, go right straight to the west, and it was--how many seconds does it take to go through a ninety degree arc? Int: Bruce? Foster: How fast would you say it appeared to be going? Did it change speed very radically during the time that you saw it? Ryan: The initial speed I would say probably was 800 to 1000 miles an hour. How fast can it--it's hard to say, just to compute that speed. Neff: Certainly much faster than another airplane would. Ryan: Oh much faster, much faster than a jet. Int: Faster than a jet? Ryan: Yes ma'am. Neff: Couldn't be a jet, not at that altitude because their fuel is so critical. Foster: Did it appear to change color at all? Ryan: Yes it did. It changed color after it got to the west of us, probably 8 to 10 miles. It appeared--the light went out, that's what had Bill and I concerned. It went out momentarily, and we knew there was something up there, and now here we were with a load of passengers with something on our course up ahead, and what are we going to do, so we watched this where the light went out and this orange object came on--this orange light. Ryan: We looked at one another a little bit amazed, so we decided we'd call Griffiss Air Force Base, and I thought they had the radar on. . . And they didn't have it on-It would take them 30 minutes to energize the set. Neff: They asked us to keep it sighted and we did, and we kept calling out our location and as we told them where we were we turned all our lights on. They asked us to turn them off and they could see us, and they asked if this object you see is orange in color. We said it was-- Int: This is after it turned on I understand Ryan: Yes. They said "we have a definite silhouette in sight south of the field." Now those fellas are observers who are in the tower. They said that they could see a silhouette. Neff: Watertown could see it and they're quite a ways north of Griffiss, and Albany saw it--two men in the tower at Albany--one an Air Force man and one a CAA man. And they saw it after we first called them, and noticed--and they looked over to the west and saw it right away. Int: And when they saw it was it moving? Neff: Well, we didn't get to talk with them-- Int: But to you it was moving? Neff: Oh yes. Int: Real fast? Ryan: It stayed just that far ahead of us, and they asked us what our point of next intended landing was, and I told them Syracuse, and they wanted to be identified--our aircraft, number and serial number, and they said "well abandon that next landing temporarily and maintain the course and your altitude," so we did. They were calling scramble.
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