The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap)

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6-11-54; near Atlanta, Georgia	H. Percy Wilkins	Astronomy	Two silvery objects"like polished metal plates"moving against wind; third grayish oval arced across sky.
11-25-54; Cordoba, Argentina	Dr. Marcos Guerci	Meteorology	Two luminous objects observed from airport; one apparently semi-circular, other circular. [Section X.]
12-7-54; Upington, Cape Province, So. Africa	R. H. Kleyweg	Meteorology	Hemispherical disc tracked through theodolite. [Section X.]
11-1-55; Mojave Desert, California	Frank Halstead	Astronomy	Cigar-shaped object followed by domed disc.
6-18-57; Jackson, Mississippi	Prof. Henry Carlock	Physics	Observing sky with telescope; twice glimpsed UFO with halo around it and"what appeared to be three portholes."
11-10-57; Toulouse, France	Jacques Chapuis	Astronomy	At Toulouse Observatory observed maneuvering yellow star-like object for 5 minutes."It was something I had never seen before."UFO finally ascended straight up out of sight.
10-2-58; near Blairstown, N.J.	Ivan T. Sanderson	Zoology	Maneuvering, banking disc.
10-26-58; LaFayette, Indiana	T. C. Shafer	Chemistry	While observing moon with 4 inch reflector telescope, saw three bright unidentified objects pass from East to West.
5-22-60; Majorca	Observatory staff	Astronomy	Triangular UFO about 1/4 apparent size of moon sighted at 9:33 a.m., spinning on its axis while on steady course. Report cabled to NASA in Washington. [6.]
6-8-60; New York City	Lee Ball	Biochemistry	Flat ellipse traversed about 15 degrees of sky; appeared about 8 times apparent size of moon.
11-24-60; Ohio	Confidential report, certified by NICAP Board Member.	--------	Ellipse in smooth silent flight; 5 minute observation.
3-16-61; Antarctica	R. J. Villela	Meteorology	Fireball-like object in slow level flight.
11-22-61; near Grafton, N.D.	Melvin C. Vagle, Jr.,	Metallurgy	Cigar-shaped UFO with"portholes", hovering tilted at angle.
5-20-62; Defiance, Ohio	Prof. C. A. Maney six others	Physics	Maneuvering light, turned sharply, made sudden change in speed.

## DISCS CIRCLE AIRCRAFT

Source: "Mars, The New Frontier" by Wells Alan Webb, (Fearon Publishers, Calif., 1956) p. 124.

Witnesses: John Zimmerman, Geologist; Charles Fisher, civil engineer.

Date: June 12, 1950.

Location: California.

Time: About 4:00 p.m.

Working outdoors at a quarry, they had noticed a high-flying swept-wing aircraft leaving a vapor trail, and paused to watch it.

"He [Zimmerman] was startled to notice a rift form in the vapor trail not far behind the airplane and a wisp of cloud suddenly streak upward as if an object had come from below and cut upward through the vapor trail, disturbing it. Looking quickly for the object, Zimmerman saw a silvery disc of diameter about one-third the apparent length of the airplane's fuselage, flying rapidly in a circle above the airplane, overtaking it. With an exclamation he called Fisher's attention to the phenomenon, and together they watched two additional discs pass from below, dart up through the vapor trail, overtake the airplane and then dive down in front of it, making vertical loops around the airplane. Each object made several such loops in succession, each time coming up behind the airplane and cutting the vapor trail, each cut displacing a filament of the trail in an upward direction."

Date: August 3, 1951. Witness: Walter N. Webb, Chief Lecturer on Astronomy, Charles Hayden Planetarium, Boston, Mass., (former member of the Smithsonian Institution Satellite Tracking Program): "That summer I was a nature counselor at Camp Big Silver, the Toledo (Ohio) Boy's Club camp on the shores of Silver Lake in southern Michigan, three miles south of Pinckney. It was a clear, moonless night. I had been showing

two boys various celestial objects through my 3-1/2 inch reflecting telescope and pointing out constellations. The time was about 11 p.m. or midnight. Suddenly I noticed a glowing yellow, or yellowish-red light moving in an undulating path (but on a straight course) over the hills south of Silver Lake. As the object traveled slowly westward in this peculiar manner, the three of us watched in fascination. It was at such a low elevation that its regular wavelike course caused it to dip behind the hills a few times. At first I frankly didn't realize that I might be seeing anything unusual and thought the object was a plane light. But something was disturbing about that flight path and by the time it dawned on me that planes don't fly on wavy paths, the thing was about to vanish for good behind trees in the foreground. I swung the telescope toward the hills, but it was too late.

"I had seen something strange in the sky that I could not explain. No known object I could think of followed a path like that. The remote possibility that the UFO might have been the reflection of a moving ground light from a rippling inversion layer was quickly rejected. An inversion reflection would appear as a hazy spot of light in the sky much reduced in brightness when compared with its original light source. My UFO appeared to be a bright, glowing object moving in a regular wavy pattern. It is impossible for an inversion layer to produce a smooth rhythmic reflection. A turbulent rippling layer of air would be required, and such a condition would not be capable of producing any image at all."

## Formation of Rocket-like Objects

The following report was submitted to NICAP by Dr. Charles H. Otis, professor emeritus of Biology, Bowling Green State University.

"Place of observation: 3724 Dexter Rd., R.D. No.1, Ann Arbor, Washtenew County, Michigan; a small acreage at the top of Lyon Hill, called Sleepy Hollow, situated about four miles west from Main Street (or the County Court House). Altitude at the road, about 975 feet (the place is easily located on the

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