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

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 25 pages · text by OCR

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.

  • p. 7 …Your interest in our investigation of Unidentified Flying Objects (flying saucers) is greatly appreciated. Since 1950…
  • p. 9 …Room ___ Holloman ___ Gandy ___ Subject, Director of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, by letter of 9…
  • p. 10 …of Investigation plays in the official investigation of UFOs. Some years ago, Air Force Intelligence officers…

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FOIA release, from the fbi-vault 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. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.