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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. 19 …seconds Section III (a)1953Anaco, Venezuela Round gray Pilot Approached airliner, paced it for 40 minutes…
  • p. 26 …Cases shaded in gray are detailed following chart). Date & Location Witnesses Description 8-29-42Columbus,Miss…
  • p. 28 …1-29-53 Presque Isle, Maine F-94 and other pilots Gray oval UFO. 38. 2…
  • p. 30 …I saw that it was a dark gray oval-shaped object, smaller than my T-6…
  • p. 37 …The pilot described the object as cigar-shaped, dark gray or gunmetal in color and giving…
  • p. 38 …divided into two sections, one half light gray in color, the other half black. The estimated…
  • p. 74 …The body appeared to be metallic and was of a light gray color, similar in appearance…
  • p. 104 …skippered by collections director Capt. W. B. Gray and his assistant, Emil Hanson. "We were traveling…
  • p. 110 …the so-called "administrative classification" is the gray area of secrecy, where no clear standards delimit…
  • p. 136 …Avensa Airlines pilot reported round gray object paced plane. X 1953--Navy Carrier-based Squadron of…
  • p. 137 …photographed. VIII September 15, 1954--Bihar, India. Gray disc hovered, emitted smoke and climbed away at…
  • p. 142 …Photographs and visual sighting of unidentified object "like a piece of paper," gray-white. Observed to…
  • p. 143 …A student saw a gray, apparently spherical UFO with a central row of yellow lights. Apparently…
  • p. 144 …The UFO made a sharp turn, headed toward the observers, changing color from orange to gray…
  • p. 147 …shiny or bright) 34 5.9% --- ----- Continued Gray 19 3.3% 5 .2% Silhouette (dark or…
  • p. 148 …Luminous disc,top gray,underside bright. (c)around edge. September20,1954 Cuyahoga Falls,Ohio --- Circular,dark…
  • p. 153 …Section VII. 10-3-60 Cressy, Australia Gray cigar-shaped UFO with vertical bands (5 to…
  • p. 157 …noon (1) gray, shape not specified hovered 8 minutes, arced back & forth about 150, returning to…
  • p. 172 …The cast was turned over to Richard Gray, research physicist at Case Institute of Technology for…

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# Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 NOTES

Law Enforcement Officers

1. Teletype report and letter on file at NICAP

2. Reports obtained by Cleveland and Akron UFO groups, on file at NICAP

3-6. Reports on file at NICAP

7. Saturday Evening Post; April 30, 1949. Popular Science; August 1951

8. Seattle Times; July 7, 1947

9. Associated Press; July 28, 1952

10. International News Service; August 28, 1952

11. Washington Times-Herald and Washington Daily News; September 22,1952

12. Los Angeles Daily News; September 15, 1953

13. Associated Press; November 1, 1955

14. Associated Press; November 26, 1956

15. Chicago Sun Times; November 5, 1957

16. Chicago Sun Times; November 8, 1957

17. Hammond Times; November 11-13, 1957

18. Santa Ana Register; April 10, 1958

19. Bergen Evening Record; August 25, 1958

20. Chicago Daily News; October 13, 1958

21. Report on file at NICAP

Civil Defense, Ground Observer Corps.

22. Stringfield, Leonard H.; Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue. (Privately published, 1957; 4412 Grove Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio), p. 26

23. Tape recorded report on file at NICAP

24. Keyhoe, Donald E., Flying Saucer Conspiracy. (Holt, 1955), p. 30

25. C.R.I.F.O. Newsletter, L.H. Stringfield, Ed.; July 2, 1954 (See address above)

26. Ibid., September 1955.

27. Des Moines Register; November 24, 1955

28. San Bernardino Telegram; July 30, 1956

29. Haverhill Gazette; November 6, 1957

30. El Paso Times; November 24, 1957

31. United Press International, July 26, 1958

Professional and Business Men

32-39. Reports on file at NICAP

## Public Officials

40-43. Reports on file at NICAP

Professors and Teachers

44-45. Reports on file at NICAP

Clergymen

46-48. Reports on file at NICAP

Newsmen

49. Associated Press; July 10, 1947

50. Scripps-Howard newspapers; August 2, 1952

## Cross-Section

51. Report on file at NICAP

52. Las Vegas Sun; April 22, 1954

53. Uhrichsville Evening Chronicle; October 6, 1955 54-60. Reports on file at NICAP

Cases discussed

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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.