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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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“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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# 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.