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FBI file: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Part 01

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This FBI file on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) holds records from 1956 to 1961. It includes press clippings, NICAP letters signed by Director Donald E. Keyhoe, and internal Bureau memoranda. It also contains Hoover's replies saying the FBI does not investigate UFO sightings and passes reports to the Air Force. Other items cover a 1960 Grand Blanc, Michigan moon photograph by Joe Perry, an Air Force officer's request to curb NICAP, and a citizen asking whether NICAP was Communist sponsored.

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4. THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 'Project Skylight'

# New Group Setting Sights on Saucers

By JIM G. LUCAS Scripps-Howard Staff Writer

The brass plate at 1536 Connecticut-av nw reads "National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena." Inside they refer to it as Project Skylight.

T. Townsend, Brown of Leesburg, Va., who runs it, identified himself as executive vice chairman pro tempore. He formerly was a consulting physicist for the Clevite-Brush Electronics Co. of Cleveland, O.

"I wince whenever anybody refers to "flying saucers", he says. "But, actually, that's what we're after. We want to know whether they exist. If they do, we want to know what they are. And we think it's high time."

## WILL ELECT BOARD

National Investigations Committee—that's how they answered the phone—is just now forming. On Nov. 1 it meets to elect a nine-man board of governors.

Mr. Brown says he is representing a group of approximately 75 "scientists, educators and church leaders" interested in saucers. He expects to be around until Nov. 15, when he goes back to London as research director for Whitehall-Rand. He's also a consulting physicist in Paris for a French aircraft company. But the saucers?

## FACT-FINDING BODY

The National Investigations Committee, Mr. Brown says, will be a "privately supported fact-finding body serving the national public interest." It has applied to the Treasury for tax-exempt status.

"I frankly don't know," he says. "They may or may not exist. And that seems to be the general feeling of all our people. But we want to know."

Mr. Brown has written several hundred public figures seeking their opinlon on what he terms "a subject of inevitable concern in every major phase of human welfare."

One of Mr Brown's letters went to Larry Cates, Washington representative of the Airline Pilots Association. Cates says airline pilots turn in reports of saucer sightings almost nightly.

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.