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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. 80 …November 6, 1957; north of Ottawa, Canada. Battery radio and portable short wave radio failed, then…
  • p. 119 …Our file ref...900-040-A (DFR) DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE Ottawa…
  • p. 130 …space ship from another world." ## NOTES 1. Ottawa Journal 2. Copy of statement on file at…
  • p. 137 …of flying saucer observatory (Project Magnet) near Ottawa. November 14, 1953--Nr. Toledo, Ohio. UFO flashing…
  • p. 167 …north of Ottawa, Canada 9:00-9:30 p.m. A group of electronic technicians and…

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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.