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FBI file: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Part 02

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This FBI file on the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) covers correspondence and internal memos from 1961 to 1964. It contains citizen inquiries about the group, NICAP's reports about Dr. Frank E. Stranges implying he had FBI ties, and a request from New Orleans about an employee joining. The Bureau notes it never investigated NICAP. It calls some of director Donald Keyhoe's writing irresponsible and decides the FBI's name should not be connected with the organization.

  • p. 9 …in regard to your inquiry, information in FBI files must be maintained as confidential due to…
  • p. 11 …DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 7/10/61 FROM : SAC, NEW ORLEANS (62-0) SUBJECT: NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE…
  • p. 14 …make other material in their files available to the FBI. A review of the enclosed material…
  • p. 16 …FBI (underlined in red), are available for inspection here. We also have a thick file of…
  • p. 20 …Coven informed his Committee that the matter has been turned over to the FBI. He said…
  • p. 22 …In addition, files of the FBI must be maintained confidential in accordance with the regulations of…
  • p. 28 …With respect to your inquiries, information contained in the files of the FBI must be maintained…

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On 3/28/63, BENAJMIN F. CLYMER, Service Librarian, Old Dominion College, Norfolk, Virginia, telephonically contacted the Norfolk Division and advised a professor of the college had seen an unidentified flying object two w ago, and after making his observations known, he received a questionnaire form from the National Investigating Committee on Aerial Phenomena, Seattle, Washington, which inquired into the professor's background and information concerning his observation of the object.

At Seattle, Washington. Advise Norfolk Division if such an organization exists.

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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. 28 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.