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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.
“The Wash”21 pages
- p. 27 …Virgil Cappuro Fiery object made several passes at the control tower. 14.
12-50near Cheyenne, Wyoming…
- p. 28 …Assuming various altitudes, it is possible to compute the speed of the UFO for those altitudes…
- p. 36 …These were submitted to NICAP by members in the armed services.
## OTHER MILITARY SIGHTINGS
ARMY
Date…
- p. 37 …The co-pilot of the Navy plane was the first to see it, and pointed it…
- p. 39 …The reason? "The nation's 8,500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of…
- p. 41 …Beers, a veteran pilot, said the UFOs "swooped around in formation, peeled-off, and shot directly…
- p. 69 …He described the sighting to Olean, N.Y., newsman Bob Barry who relayed the report to…
- p. 83 …18,000 ft. 31
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Nr Hanford, Wash. F-94 obtained radar…
- p. 91 …We have seen dams break and towns washed away by the flood waters. We have seen…
- p. 92 …Wash. At 5:45 p.m. Mr. Ryman photographed a circular white object moving across the…
- p. 96 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Photographic Cases (Continued) Jack Brotzman, NICAP scientific adviser in the Wash area, projected…
- p. 107 …Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery. (Criterion, 1958), p. 143.
E-26. North…
- p. 132 # SECTION XI
# THE UFO CHRONOLOGY
## 19th Century
Roman numerals in brackets indicate numbers of other Sections…
- p. 133 …The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing…
- p. 134 …Nick Mariana took motion pictures of 2 UFOs (The "Montana film," later shown in the documentary…
- p. 136 …Perdy, stated there was "remarkable corroboration as to description of the cluster of lights by people…
- p. 156 …The object would stop, "fall like a leaf," speed up again, and repeat the sequence, gaining…
- p. 158 …C
## Zigzagging UFOs
Another pattern is of UFOs zigzagging across the sky, usually in constant motion…
- p. 160 …Carpenter estimated the speed at 3000 mph. If they were farther away, he pointed out, the…
- p. 162 …The object passed over the area at about 50,000 feet traveling about 1200 mph. 9…
- p. 177 …Jackson, D-Wash., the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, may call some witnesses before…
## CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ... i
Abstract. Explanation of NICAP and its policies. Statement by Board of Governors.
Section I. CROSS-SECTION DIGEST ... 1
Sample cases showing general features of UFO reports.
Section II. INTELLIGENT CONTROL ... 9
Cases indicating intelligence: pacing of vehicles, reaction to stimuli,
formation flights.
Section III. AIR FORCE OBSERVATIONS ... 19
Sightings by Air Force pilots, navigators, other officers and men.
Section IV. ARMY, NAVY & MARINE CORPS ... 29
Reports of other military personnel.
Section V. PILOT & AVIATION EXPERTS ... 33
Observations by airline, military and private pilots.
Section VI. SCIENTISTS & ENGINEERS ... 49
Observations by professional scientists and engineers, including astronomers and
aeronautical engineers.
Section VII. OFFICIALS & CITIZENS ... 61
Sightings by police officers, civil defense and ground observer corps,
cross-section of citizens' reports.
Section VIII. SPECIAL EVIDENCE ... 73
Electro-magnetic effects. Radar cases. Photographic evidence. Physical and
Physiological effects. Sound. Angel's Hair.
Section IX. THE AIR FORCE INVESTIGATION ... 105
Background of secrecy. Official regulations. History and analysis of the
official UFO investigation.
Approved For Release 2001/04/02: CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0
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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.