Documents / FOIA release
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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# NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA A non-profit organization 1536 Connecticut Avenue, Washington 6, D. C. Telephone NOrth 7-9434 Cable Address SKYLIGHT Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects by Admiral Delmer S. Fahrney, USN (Ret.) Chairman of the Board of Governors of NICAP "Reliable reports indicate that there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds. No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve. "There are signs that an Intelligence directs these objects because of the way The way they change position In formations would indicate that their motion is The Air Force is collecting factual data on which to base an opinion, be required to sift and correlate the material. "As long as such unidentified objects continue to navigate through the earth's atmosphere, there is an urgent need to know the facts. Many observers have ceased to report their findings to the Air Force because of the seeming frustration—that is, all Information going in, and none coming out. It is in this area that NICAP may find its greatest mission. "We are in a position to screen independently all UFO Information coming in from our filter groups. "General Albert C. Wedemeyer will serve the Committee as Evaluations Adviser and complete analyses will be arranged through leading scientists. After careful evaluation we shall release our findings to the public." ## Statement by Donald E. Keyhoe, Major USMC (Ret.) Director of NICAP "To carry out the policy stated by Admiral Fahrney, NICAP is developing investigative units and clubs which interested persons may join. Membership in NICAP, at $7.50, also will include a monthly newsletter containing recent UFO (or flying saucer) sightings, reports on secret developments, exciting articles by scientists, pilots and UFO researchers, a new serialized history of flying saucers, and many other features. "Regardless of membership, we would greatly appreciate receiving news clippings on firsthand UFO sighting reports."
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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.