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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.
“US Navy”20 pages
- p. 11 …Should you need additional room, please use another sheet of paper. Please print or typewrite. Your…
- p. 13 …await a full-fledged investigation by scientists using appropriate instrumentation, as NICAP advocates Section XIV. However…
- p. 35 # SECTION IV
# Army, Navy & Marine Corps
The other armed services, required by law to channel UFO…
- p. 37 …The crews of two commercial airliners and a Navy transport sighted a cigar-shaped object about…
- p. 38 …Shortly after 8 p.m., he "noticed a brilliant white flashing light pass directly below us…
- p. 40 …Moore, USN Domed circular UFO passed in front of two Navy planes confirmed by radar. Section…
- p. 44 …Shenkel (both former Air Force pilots) and Steven Summers confirmed Baldwin's report. "All of us…
- p. 50 …Matthews, CAA Tower Operator (over four years experience in aircraft observation with Navy and as a…
- p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
- p. 76 …Arnold, a former Navy air identification and anti-aircraft gunnery control officer, said the UFOs changed…
- p. 93 …Orrego, Chilean Navy. Reported sighting and photographing UFOs over an Antarctic base. Objects described as "one…
- p. 95 …He obtained about 6-1/2 feet of Kodachrome film, using a Keystone Capri camera. The…
- p. 99 …There were no Weather Bureau, Navy or Air Force balloons in the area at the time…
- p. 100 …Huge "Moby Dick" plastic balloons (named after Melville's legendary whale) used for high altitude research…
- p. 116 …When none can be found, the "shotgun" approach is used. Clearly, this is not a scientific…
- p. 123 …Luis Sanchez Moreno, investigating for the Navy, told the press the Navy had been constantly concerned…
- p. 129 …Lorenzen commented that "the rate of closure with us was much greater than any I had…
- p. 130 …has twenty counselor members, among them Army, Navy and Naval Air Force officers on active duty…
- p. 141 …The military had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only trouble was…
- p. 145 …The following list, including one 1884 sighting, shows that many independent witnesses have used very similar…
## 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.