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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.

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“The Wash”21 pages

  • p. 27 …Virgil Cappuro Fiery object made several passes at the control tower. 14. 12-50near Cheyenne, Wyoming…
  • p. 28 …Assuming various altitudes, it is possible to compute the speed of the UFO for those altitudes…
  • p. 36 …These were submitted to NICAP by members in the armed services. ## OTHER MILITARY SIGHTINGS ARMY Date…
  • p. 37 …The co-pilot of the Navy plane was the first to see it, and pointed it…
  • p. 39 …The reason? "The nation's 8,500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of…
  • p. 41 …Beers, a veteran pilot, said the UFOs "swooped around in formation, peeled-off, and shot directly…
  • p. 69 …He described the sighting to Olean, N.Y., newsman Bob Barry who relayed the report to…
  • p. 83 …18,000 ft. 31 A, V December 10, 1952 Nr Hanford, Wash. F-94 obtained radar…
  • p. 91 …We have seen dams break and towns washed away by the flood waters. We have seen…
  • p. 92 …Wash. At 5:45 p.m. Mr. Ryman photographed a circular white object moving across the…
  • p. 96 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Photographic Cases (Continued) Jack Brotzman, NICAP scientific adviser in the Wash area, projected…
  • p. 107 …Michel, Aime, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery. (Criterion, 1958), p. 143. E-26. North…
  • p. 132 # SECTION XI # THE UFO CHRONOLOGY ## 19th Century Roman numerals in brackets indicate numbers of other Sections…
  • p. 133 …The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing…
  • p. 134 …Nick Mariana took motion pictures of 2 UFOs (The "Montana film," later shown in the documentary…
  • p. 136 …Perdy, stated there was "remarkable corroboration as to description of the cluster of lights by people…
  • p. 156 …The object would stop, "fall like a leaf," speed up again, and repeat the sequence, gaining…
  • p. 158 …C ## Zigzagging UFOs Another pattern is of UFOs zigzagging across the sky, usually in constant motion…
  • p. 160 …Carpenter estimated the speed at 3000 mph. If they were farther away, he pointed out, the…
  • p. 162 …The object passed over the area at about 50,000 feet traveling about 1200 mph. 9…
  • p. 177 …Jackson, D-Wash., the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, may call some witnesses before…
# 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

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.