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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.

  • p. 15 …I had never heard of flying saucers and had no idea what we had seen, but…
  • p. 29 …Photograph never made public. 47. 6-30-54 Brookley AFB, Alabama Control tower operators Radar-visual…
  • p. 34 …It never did drop below the horizon--just faded away. The fading, of course, was due…
  • p. 50 …airports for 16 years." Sonner said, "and never before have I seen an aircraft like it…
  • p. 56 …5 minutes."It was something I had never seen before."UFO finally ascended straight up out…
  • p. 57 …Each "ship" also had, emanating from the "stern" portion, two "tails", seemingly streaming out horizontally, never…
  • p. 58 …It did not flicker, it burned steadily the weatherman said, but its light could never appear…
  • p. 72 …it went over the first hill and never over 1000 feet during my observation." Mr. Hahn…
  • p. 87 …was first being developed, and they have never been acceptably explained. The celebrated Washington radar sightings…
  • p. 88 …It has never been known to occur, there is no theoretical basis for believing that it…
  • p. 89 …The UFO showed on the film as a round, bright spot. (The film has never been…
  • p. 93 …NICAP has never obtained any negatives for analysis. Prints show disc from five different angles. Critics…
  • p. 94 …Picture reportedly showing unexplained circular light source, never made public. See "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects…
  • p. 96 …The many other reports from alleged additional witnesses were never received from Mr. Stanford. His background…
  • p. 97 …The first possibility to cross our minds was a polyethelyne type balloon, but we have never…
  • p. 98 …at least three consecutive frames, you'd never find it. Moreover, internal lens reflections (also countless…
  • p. 112 …Congressional hearings were contemplated See Section XIII but never came about. Instead, Air Force Congressional Liaison…
  • p. 113 …Film Data reportedly analyzed by USAF, but never released to public See Section VIII: Apr. 27…
  • p. 114 …Therefore, I never saw it in its published form. However, since I had prepared it - as…
  • p. 116 …I have never heard anyone claim anything to the contrary. . . ." ODE D"CLASSIC" - SEAGULLS (FROM COLORED…
  • p. 118 …proved highly impressive to one who had never before seen the Nation's Capital.) The interrogation…
  • p. 121 …could be a jet tanker refueling operation. Never having witnessed refueling operation at night, I am…
  • p. 125 …As far as is known, the pictures have never been published and no explanation of the…
  • p. 126 …I have never seen anything like it before." 42 ## The European Continent On the Continent, UFOs…
  • p. 129 …The USAF analysis report has never been released. ## C. OCEAN & ANTARCTIA UFOs have been sighted at…
  • p. 134 …Lincoln LaPaz, Institute of Meteoritics, said: "There has never been a rate of meteorite fall in…
  • p. 135 …film submitted to Air Force, never released. VIII UFO; film submitted to Air Force, never released…
  • p. 138 …I've been observing the skies since 1914, and I've never seen any meteoric fireballs…
  • p. 164 …which was also photographed. (The pictures have never been made public). The UFO was seen moving…
  • p. 165 …One of the most intriguing accounts, never fully investigated, described a whitish oval-shaped object observed…
  • p. 174 …Since most of the material presented to the Committees is classified, the hearings are never printed…
  • p. 175 …to a newsman's question: "UFOs have never been accurately explained. I think there is as…
  • p. 183 …things, is that the raw data almost never permit of measurement. It should be carefully noted…
Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

Code	Date & Location	Description	Speed	Altitude	Sources & References
G, V	July 3, 1954 Albuquerque, New Mexico	Nine green spheres hovered, sped away, tracked by radar.	About 2600 mph.	24,000 ft.	[45]
G, V	August 28, 1954 Tinker AFB, Oklahoma	Fifteen UFO's in triangle formation tracked on radar, chased by jets; changed to semi-circle formation and sped away. [46]
G, A, V	August or September, 1954 White Plains, N.Y.	Circular UFO tracked across N.Y. by GOC, Air Force radar. Above 45,000 ft.	[Section VII]
G, V	September 17, 1954 Rome, Italy	Italian Air Force radar tracked disc-like UFO sene by thousands.	About 150 mph; burst of speed upwards.	3600 ft.	[47]
G, V	November 12, 1954 Kentucky, (Indiana, Ohio)	Air Force interceptors chased spherical object seen over tri-state area; also followed by theodolite. [48]
G, V	December 15, 1954 Nr Nowra, Australia	Royal Australian Navy pilot returning to base, joined by two"strange aircraft resembling flying saucers." Ground radar showed his Seafury, when pilot identified self by moving according to pattern, and also two other objects. [49]
G, V	August 23, 1955 Cincinnati, Ohio	SAC radar detected UFO's Jets engaged in dogfight with three circular objects. [Section VII]
G, V	December 11, 1955 Nr Jacksonville, Fla.	Navy Jets in dogfight with UFO, confirmed on radar. [Section IV]
G, V	February 17, 1956 Paris, France	Orly Airport radar tracked UFO, larger than commercial airliner. Observed by Air France pilot as blinking red light. UFO maneuvered erratically, alternately hovering and moving with jet-like bursts of speed. [50]
G, V	July 19, 1956 Hutchinson, Kansas	Naval Air Station tracked UFO, observed visually by State Police and pilots as erratically moving tear-drop shaped object. [51]
G, V	July 29, 1956 Pasadena, California	GOC spotters sighted brilliant white UFO, tracked by Air Defense Command radar. GOC said UFO appeared to stop, then speed up again"faster than a conventional airplane." [Section VII]
G	Aug.-Sept., 1956 Bornholm Island, Denmark	Report September 11 that NATO radar had been tracking UFO's for three weeks, curving over Baltic Sea.	2000--3500 mph. [52]
G, V	September 4, 1956 Copenhagen, Denmark	Several"fireball"-like UFO's flew over, tracked by radar.	3000 km/h(abt. 1800 mph.)	5000 meters	[53]
G	November 8, 1956 Miami, Florida	Donald Freestone, Pan American master radar mechanic, tracked UFO maneuvering like"aerial tag" over tip of Florida. (Bendix RDR-1A weather radar.)"It had a definite shape and moved on a definite course so is not believed to have been a freak weather return." Object 4-5 times larger than any known aircraft.	Hover-4000 mph.	7000-8000 ft.	[54]
G, A, V	November 25, 1956 Hot Springs, So. Dakota	Series of UFO sightings, one by state police of circular object swaying back and forth across road. Objects detected by radar, jets scrambled from Ellsworth AFB, S.D. [55]
A, V	December 1956 Far East	USAF jet tracking UFO, radar jammed by interference; changed frequency and picked up UFO again, saw circular object climb away.	3600 mph.	Below 10,000 ft.	[Section I]

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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.