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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.

Open the PDF at page 54 Original source ↗

“Flagstaff”3 pages

p. 55 …5-20-50;Flagstaff, Arizona Seymour L. Hess Meteorology,Astronomy Disc or sphere in apparent"powered…
p. 73 …43 ## PROFESSORS AND TEACHERS May 20, 1950; Flagstaff, Arizona. Dr. Seymour L. Hess, Head Department of…
p. 134 …Shiny silver disc hovered, two photographs taken. VIII May 20, 1950--Flagstaff, Ariz. Astronomer/meteorologist observed…

Chiles-Whitted Case - July 23, 1948; nr Montgomery, Alabama

Federal Aviation Agency Case - September 24, 1959; Redmond, Oregon

Cases discussed

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
UFOs violated the restricted air spaces over Washington, D.C., on two consecutive weekends in July

About this file

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.