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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. 2 …of AF Project Blue Book UFO investigation, prepared analyses of UFO data for AF, liaison officer…
  • p. 5 …officers, civil defense and ground observer corps, cross-section of citizens' reports. Section VIII. SPECIAL EVIDENCE…
  • p. 11 …Navy Special Devices Center for a special Skyhook flight to be undertaken for that Office of…
  • p. 13 …However, the accumulation of reports by good observers and some of the special evidence such as…
  • p. 21 …of reports by unusually well-qualified observers is worth special mention. During the Fall of 1949…
  • p. 39 …pilots (two of whom had personally sighted UFOs) joined the NICAP Panel of Special Advisers. Federal…
  • p. 45 …cards and badges of Special Investigators, USAF. In separate rooms, we were questioned for one hour…
  • p. 88 …Special records are kept of all such sightings. Usually, in a case of this type, jets…
  • p. 94 …Force officers. It shows five glowing, oval-shaped objects. 20. Adamski "Scout Ship." Because of Mr…
  • p. 96 …In the interests of scientific investigation, we urge that secrecy about the case be lifted by…
  • p. 109 …History of the UFO Project C. Air Force Statements About Its UFO Investigation/NICAP Rebuttals D…
  • p. 111 …CLARDP81R00560R0001000100010 every phase" of the investigation. The scientists believed this program would "dispel any of the…
  • p. 116 …gation of a phenomenon. Yet, as the agency officially charged with investigation of UFOs, the Air…
  • p. 125 …Allied intelligence experts were reported to be investigating radar sightings of "mysterious objects" which had been…
  • p. 137 …Defense high command ordered a full scale investigation of sightings of a wingless circular object which…
  • p. 141 …from office of Secretary of Air Force: The USAF maintains a "continuous surveillance of the atmosphere…
  • p. 164 …The Air Ministry announced it was investigating.21 About September 20 - Personnel of the U.S…
  • p. 182 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 investigators, impatient with NICAP's "conserv from reviewing the methods of investigation a…
  • p. 183 …investigation is required. . . "Now the primary objection to UFO reports, as most scientists think of such…
Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

G, V	March 23, 1957
Long Beach, Calif.	Four UFOs tracked by CAA radar.
(Confidential report certified by 6 NICAP Board Members) Coincided with visual reports by GOC, police and Oxnard AFB. [Details this Section]
A, V	March 29, 1957	Pan American Airways flight #206A, saw pulsating UFO, radar target coincided. [Section V]
G	April 4, 1957
Wigtownshire, Scotland	Three radar posts tracked UFO which dove and circled. Wing Cdr. W. P. Whitworth (at Scottish base): "Quite definitely this was no freak. It was an object of some substance and no mistake could have been made." 60,000 to 14,000 ft.	[56]
G, V	October 21 or 29, 1957
Nr London, England	UFO sighted visually by pilot near atomic base, tracked by ground radar; dimmed lights and sped away. [57]
G, V	November 5, 1957
Gulf of Mexico	Coast Guard Cutter Sebago tracked UFO, brief visual sighting from deck.	1020 mph [Details this Section]
G, V	December 12, 1957
Tokyo, Japan	GCI radar tracked UFO seen by ground observers as vari-colored object; jets scrambled. [58]
G	March 8, 1958
Korea	USAF radar site tracked slowly descending UFO. 77,000-25,000 ft.	[59]
G, V	Summer 1958
Air Force Base, SW United States.	Two maneuverable UFOs tracked, evaded jet interceptors. [60]
G	November, 1958
Dewline radar	UFO descended from maximum alt. range of radar, moved horizontally for 100 miles, ascended vertically.	500 knots(abt. 575 mph.) [62]
G, V	January 23, 1959
Panama Canal	Bright silver object arced across sky, tracked by U.S. radar. [63]
G, V	September 24, 1959
Redmond, Oregon	Air Force radar site reportedly tracked UFO, observed visually by FAA personnel at airport as disc-shaped object. [Section V, IX]
G, V	August 13, 1960
Red Bluff, California	State Police observed egg-shaped UFO reported USAF radar site confirmed tracking it. [Section VII, IX]
G	January 1961
Missile Base during missile test flight	UFO which alternately hovered and moved rapidly to new position, tracked. [64]
G, V	June 19, 1961
Exeter, England; Edinburgh, Scotland	Large, bright shining UFO observed at Exeter airport, tracked on radar. Cigar-object and speeding light observed over Edinburgh twice during preceding night.	Hovered	50,000 ft.	[65]
G, V	July 5, 1961
Akron, Ohio	Former AF pilot saw maneuvering glowing UFO, also tracked by FAA radar at Cleveland airport. [Section V]
G, A, V	January 29, 1962
Eastern Holland	Royal Dutch Air Force jet interceptor chased UFO detected by ground and airborne radar, and visually. [Section X]

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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.