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(UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS) Published by THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS: COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP) WASHINGTON, D.C. 19 6 4 Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA 1536 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036 MAJ. DONALD E. KEYHOE, USMC (RET.), DIRECTOR BOARD OF GOVERNORS Mr. J.B. Hartranft, Jr.; President, Aircraft Owners & Pilots As- sociation, Washington, D.C. Former Army Air Corps Lt. Colonel, founder of U.S. Air Guard (now Civil Air Patrol), graduate Uni- versity of Pennsylvania: Col. J. Bryan Ill, USAFR (Ret.); Writer and author, Richmond, Virginia. Former special assistant to Secretary of Air Force (1952-53), assigned to s…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 T ~ EVIDENCE (Unidentified Flying Objects) Published by National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) 1536 Connecticut Ave. , N. W. Washington 36, D. C. Richard H. Hall Editor Washington D. C. May 1964 Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 ~ COPYRIGHT NOTICE STATINTL Copyright 1964, National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. All rights reserved, except that newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations may quote up to 750 words without special per mission. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Art: Eric Aldwinckle, Eugene Bergeron, Richard Hall, James Kemple, Earl J. Neff (cover design), Dr. John Pagano, Edward L. Smith, Walter N, Webb. Editorial: Maj. Donald E., Keyhoe, USMC (Ret)., Consultant. Other research, proof-reading and typing assistants: Don Berliner, Mrs. Lelia S. Day, Carmen Johnson, Joan Lusb…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ooo cccccc ccc cccccecceccecseceeeneccsececeeeeneeeessenensaeteseaeeesessaneseesaeeseseeeeeeeeessnaseeeesieeentagesseesessesssasasessseeesseesges i Abstract. Explanation of NICAP and its policies. Statement by Board of Governors. Section I. CROSS-SECTION DIGEST 0........cccccececcccccecccentee eres eee ee eeeeceeeaseeee epee eeeecenseeseneeeeeraeaaeesensneanienneagenans 1 Sample cases showing general features of UFO reports. Section II. INTELLIGENT CONTROL ooo... cceesnecceceecteessceesecsnesenenepeecesaecae…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 CONTENTS (Con't) Page Section X. FOREIGN REPORTS. ooo.....ccccccceceececenceeee ne eeeneeseeeeeenssaseneesnaeees pe eeeeeccecccsnaeeneeeeesesseeuense cen esse saeees 118 A survey of reports from other countries, attitudes of foreign governments, and world-wide interest in UFOs. Section XI. THE UFO CHRONOLOGY o.00...cccccccccceceee teeeee esse ssceseseessseesscseeeseee cues ecneneseaeseasnsee enaeeeseeetaneseeeeseegs 129 Chronological listing of sightings, statements and events. Section XII. PATTERNS ooo.cccccccccccccccccseseeeses…

Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 INTRODUCTION In an article for Yale Scientific magazine, April 1963, Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Chief scientific consultant to the Air Force on UFOs) said: ‘‘. . .there are more reports per year now than there were in the early years of the ‘flying saucer era’... [UFO reports] have been coming to the Air Force at the rate of better than one a day over the past fifteen years. . . the daily press no longer carries such reports, except perhaps as fillers, because monotonously repeated items do not constitute news. But it is just this repet…

At the heart MRProved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 matter is the effect of an authoritarian military system on scientific investigation. Science requires free and open discourse among scientists, individual initiative, and an atmosphere of inquiry not restricted by arbitrary regulations. Virtually all of the Air Force analyses have been conducted in secrecy, affording the scientific community as a whole no opportunity to cross-check and review the methods and reasoning used. Only end results have been released to the public, and often (without explanation) these have…