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The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 186 pages · text by GLM-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. 11 …Thank you for your cooperation. You may use my name. ( X ) Please keep my name confidential…
  • p. 31 …I am coming to Washington soon for an appointment with Senator Cooper and if it is…
  • p. 48 …The Akron UFO Research Committee cooperated in the investigation, adding valuable details. Other published references are…
  • p. 50 …The FAA often has cooperated with NICAP, in some cases furnishing logs, teletype reports, and other…
  • p. 59 …AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS ADJACENT TO AND COOPERATING WITH WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUND 10 September 1957…
  • p. 99 …unusual object in the sky; (2) Full cooperation between the witness and NICAP analysts uniquely fitted…
  • p. 101 …Johnson about analyzing the picture and received full cooperation. She had taken five exposures of ships…
  • p. 110 …is to silence even commercial airline pilots cooperating with the intelligence network, once they have made…
  • p. 123 …luminous phenomenon." In addition to receiving good cooperation from the Embassy, NICAP is indebted to Mr…
  • p. 174 …We also invite the support and encouragement of individual Members of Congress, and will cooperate fully…
  • p. 177 …It is a pleasure to cooperate in the matter. I have expressed my deep personal interest…
  • p. 182 …and made available to any interested scientists). Cooperation of existing astronomical societies, and such instrument programs…

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TIME OF SIGHTING: 5:15 P.M. THURSDAY JANUARY 8, 1959 POSITION: 1 MILE NORTH OF ILLINOIS-WISCONSIN STATE LINE ON U.S.14

1.	40° FROM HORIZON	100° FROM NORTH
2.	20°	100°
3.	15°	130°
4.	10°	135°

WHILE TRAVELING EAST AT 5:15 P.M. THE OBJECT WAS SIGHTED AT POSITION No1. AS IT STARTED TO DESCEND SLOWLY THE AUTOMOBILE WAS BROUGHT TO A STOP TO GET A BETTER VIEW. IT TOOK APPROXIMATELY 15 SECONDS FOR THE OBJECT TO REACH POSITION No2. IT STILL GLOWED A BRIGHT WHITE AS IN POSITION No1. THEN IT SHOT OFF AT TREMENDOUS SPEED LEAVING A TRAIL OF SPARKS CHANGING FROM THE ORIGINAL BRILLIANT WHITE, TO ORANGE, AND SEEMED TO EITHER GO OUT OF SIGHT, DISAPPEAR, OR DISINTEGRATE

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 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.