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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.

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“Los Angeles Times”27 pages

  • p. 34 …Los Angeles Times; November 6, 1957. 55. Japan Times; July 20, 1958. 56. Col. Headrick is…
  • p. 36 …Summer 1944 Normandy, France George Todt, now Los Angeles columnist, other officers Pulsating red object approached…
  • p. 37 …shaped object about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles, Calif. The pilot of the Navy plane…
  • p. 47 …NICAP member, was reported in the Los Angeles Times, November 26, 1955. ## Commercial Plane Follows UFO…
  • p. 55 …Los Angeles, which attained national prominence in 1952 after being publicized in Life and Time. Dr…
  • p. 57 …Felix Gelber and Grover Kihorny, both of Los Angeles, were also passengers. The night sky appeared…
  • p. 63 …In a letter to the President of CSI of Los Angeles, Dick Beemer, aviation photographer for…
  • p. 72 …Hahn, a jewelry designer, was flying from Minneapolis to Los Angeles aboard Western Airlines flight #61…
  • p. 77 …Washington Times-Herald and Washington Daily News; September 22,1952 12. Los Angeles Daily News; September…
  • p. 82 …23,000 ft. 16 G June 1, 1952 Los Angeles, Cal. Hughes Aircraft radar tracked UFO…
  • p. 90 …Between that time and midnight, police switchboards throughout the Los Angeles area were flooded with hundreds…
  • p. 95 …Ralph Benn, Los Angeles, Calif., was alerted to some UFOs by his eight year old son…
  • p. 96 …Miller subsequently viewed the films, which were processed in Los Angeles, several days before they were…
  • p. 97 …which, as stated above, were processed in Los Angeles and examined by Max Miller before they…
  • p. 100 …Miller in Los Angeles for analysis. (NICAP paid for the printing of one copy of the…
  • p. 106 …Ridgley Drive, Los Angeles, Calif.). E-7. Report to NICAP E-8. Aerial Phenomena Research Organization…
  • p. 113 …Ralph Benn of Los Angeles, using a 3x telephoto lens, took about six and a half…
  • p. 123 …Los Angeles News, March 14 & 15, 1950, Mexico City (UP)--Hundreds of persons said they saw…
  • p. 127 …Germany, directed the Civilian Saucer Investigation of Los Angeles. CSI was the first prominent UFO investigation…
  • p. 131 …Los Angeles Times; February 19, 1956 47. Report on file at NICAP, available to Congressional investigators…
  • p. 132 …Los Angeles columnist George Todt, in a party of four Army officers including a Lt. Col…
  • p. 135 …rapidly, circle area. I June 1, 1952--Los Angeles, Calif. Crew of Hughes Aircraft Co., radar…
  • p. 139 …Los Angeles, California. Airline passenger saw elliptical UFO flying low over ground below plane. VII November…
  • p. 141 …each night) saw a distinct round UFO hover and maneuver slowly. Los Angeles NICAP Subcommittee investigation…
  • p. 157 …of violent maneuvers." A 4-8-49 Los Angeles, Calif. day (1) silvery disc high speed…
  • p. 169 …11 Nr Los Angeles, California Day Elliptical, silvery UFO observed moving low above desert, from airliner…
  • p. 181 …Later he was convicted in Los Angeles of selling Doctor of Divinity degrees, mainly to other…

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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.