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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.
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- 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…
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 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.