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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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“Open Minds”5 pages

p. 46 …An additional interesting factor to be kept in mind is that, whereas the jet was leaving…
p. 72 …Nonetheless my mind was struggling at all times to identify them as planes, birds, pieces of…
p. 171 …the object. On November 5, in an open session with Public Information Officer William Haggard and…
p. 175 …On the other hand, nothing should be done to create fear in the minds of the…
p. 176 …think it is wise to keep an open mind about them. I occasionally hear from Major…

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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

The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap 1952
UFOs violated the restricted air spaces over Washington, D.C., on two consecutive weekends in July

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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.