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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.
“Mission Control”15 pages
- p. 7 …study; (2) people are seeing maneuvering, apparently controlled objects in the atmosphere.
Of the two hypotheses…
- p. 28 …8-5-52 Oneida AFB, Japan Control tower operators Dark circular UFO with brilliant white body…
- p. 30 …Assuming it was some kind of radio controlled object sent to pace us, I went into…
- p. 38 …practice mission, were directed to the area by the Jacksonville Naval Air Station control tower. The…
- p. 48 …At the controls was Capt. Kenneth G. Brosdal. The engineer, John Wilbur, was in the co…
- p. 88 …If the "bird" theory is correct, it must be possible to show that ordinary aircraft-control…
- p. 89 …The UFO was also visible to control tower operators and personnel of Air Technical Intelligence Center…
- p. 115 …To divert more men and money from this mission into a greatly enlarged program for investigation…
- p. 119 …have been no need for the intercept mission to begin with. The F-89 was originally…
- p. 120 …If the refueling mission actually took place over southern Pennsylvania (which would have to be the…
- p. 121 …Officially, the case has been "explained" as a refueling mission. The facts obtained before Capt. Killian…
- p. 128 …Dark circular UFO with bright body light hovered near control tower at Oneida AFB, Japan, sped…
- p. 132 …Sighting of maneuvering UFO which paced B-29 during mission. III
October 1944--Southeast Holland. Field…
- p. 140 …Former control tower operator and flight controller saw UFO descend slowly, then speed away like meteor…
- p. 179 …is their performance?"
"Are they controlled and who and what controls them?" "Are they hostile?"
"Are…
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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.