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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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  • p. 7 …If our hypotheses are correct they stand independently of, and do not prove, unsubstantiated tales of…
  • p. 46 …He had checked independently with Cedar Rapids Air Traffic Control and determined the same. The typical…
  • p. 139 …Pierre, South Dakota. (Widespread UFO sightings for several days.) State police chased UFO, Air Force jets…
  • p. 143 …September 23 -- In the middle of the day a Hawthorne woman and her son saw an…
  • p. 157 …Washington, Ohio --- (2) red light sources Stopped near hilltop, began independent motions, jumping up & down; one…
  • p. 170 …CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Number of reports per day (midnight to midnight) Date Number E-M Main…
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THE

EVIDENCE

(UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS)

Published by THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP)

WASHINGTON, D.C.

1964

NEFF

Cases discussed

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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.