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FBI file: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Part 03

Federal Bureau of Investigation · 28 pages · text by OCR

This Federal Bureau of Investigation file section collects 1964 to 1968 correspondence about the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). It includes public letters, internal notes calling Donald Keyhoe's submissions irresponsible, and an Indianapolis recommendation against sending material to NICAP researcher Harry F. Koch. The FBI Laboratory declined to examine UFO photo negatives from Emerson, New Jersey, but its experts privately judged them likely trick photography. Other replies state that UFO matters fall outside FBI jurisdiction.

  • p. 22 …Your cooperation in this matter will be greatly appreciated. EX110
  • p. 23 …I assure you of my desire to cooperate with you on matters of mutual interest. The…
Correspondent's letter in general advises of the activities of his organization so that this Bureau may be apprised of them in the event of any inquiry regarding the organization.

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