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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. 11 …Should you need additional room, please use another sheet of paper. Please print or typewrite. Your…
  • p. 13 …await a full-fledged investigation by scientists using appropriate instrumentation, as NICAP advocates Section XIV. However…
  • p. 35 # SECTION IV # Army, Navy & Marine Corps The other armed services, required by law to channel UFO…
  • p. 37 …The crews of two commercial airliners and a Navy transport sighted a cigar-shaped object about…
  • p. 38 …Shortly after 8 p.m., he "noticed a brilliant white flashing light pass directly below us…
  • p. 40 …Moore, USN Domed circular UFO passed in front of two Navy planes confirmed by radar. Section…
  • p. 44 …Shenkel (both former Air Force pilots) and Steven Summers confirmed Baldwin's report. "All of us…
  • p. 50 …Matthews, CAA Tower Operator (over four years experience in aircraft observation with Navy and as a…
  • p. 55 …Often this argument is used by skeptics to imply that UFO reports result only from careless…
  • p. 76 …Arnold, a former Navy air identification and anti-aircraft gunnery control officer, said the UFOs changed…
  • p. 93 …Orrego, Chilean Navy. Reported sighting and photographing UFOs over an Antarctic base. Objects described as "one…
  • p. 95 …He obtained about 6-1/2 feet of Kodachrome film, using a Keystone Capri camera. The…
  • p. 99 …There were no Weather Bureau, Navy or Air Force balloons in the area at the time…
  • p. 100 …Huge "Moby Dick" plastic balloons (named after Melville's legendary whale) used for high altitude research…
  • p. 116 …When none can be found, the "shotgun" approach is used. Clearly, this is not a scientific…
  • p. 123 …Luis Sanchez Moreno, investigating for the Navy, told the press the Navy had been constantly concerned…
  • p. 129 …Lorenzen commented that "the rate of closure with us was much greater than any I had…
  • p. 130 …has twenty counselor members, among them Army, Navy and Naval Air Force officers on active duty…
  • p. 141 …The military had us just about convinced that no such objects existed. The only trouble was…
  • p. 145 …The following list, including one 1884 sighting, shows that many independent witnesses have used very similar…
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.