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The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap)

Central Intelligence Agency · 2001-03-12 · 186 pages · text by OCR, confidence 100%

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Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0 Date Location Time Description 2/3 Pettit, Texas (Near Levelland) ---- Two grain combines failed as UFO passed. 2/3 Nr Levelland, Texas About midnight Large elliptical object on road; car lights and engine failed; UFO rose; when it blinked out, headlights came back on. (Jim Wheeler) 2/3 Nr Levelland, Texas About Midnight Man saw UFO on road, car lights and engine failed. (Jose Alvarez) 2/3 Nr Levelland, Texas 12:05 p.m. Glowing blue-green object on road, car lights and engine failed. (Newell Wright) 2/3 Nr Levelland, Texas 12:15 a.m. Elliptical UFO on road; car lights and engine failed each time object pulsed to bright phase; UFO rose straight up with explosive sound. (Frank Williams) 2/3 Nr Levelland, Texas 12:45 a.m. Round, glowing orange UFO landed, changed to blue-green; truck lights and engine failed; UFO took off straight up. (Ronald Martin) 2/3 17 miles N of Levelland, Texas About 1:00 a.m. Fire Marshal Ray Jones reported seeing a "streak of light," car lights dimmed and engine "almost died." 2/3 Nr Levelland, Texas 1:15 a.m. Elliptical UFO on road, truck lights and engine failed; UFO rose with a "thunderclap." (James Long) 2/3 Levelland, Texas 1:30 a.m. Sheriff Weir Clem and deputy saw oval red light while investigating reports of same. 3 White Sands, New Mexico 3:00 a.m. Army jeep patrol reported elliptical UFO which descended, hovered. 3 Cincinnati, Ohio About 6:00 p.m. Round white UFO leaving reddish trail, just above treetops; rose rapidly out of sight. 3 Scotia, Nebraska About 6:00 p.m. Boy saw oblong object with apparent antenna, at low altitude as if about to land; object circled (emitting hum) and moved away. (Boy felt numbness.) [Section VIII]. 3 Nr Calgary, Alberta, Canada 7:00 p.m. Very large blinking light passed over car; motor coughed and headlights flickered. 3 White Sands, New Mexico 8:00 p.m. Second Army jeep patrol reported UFO maneuvering above test base. 3 Nr Monroe, Louisiana Night Bright object hovering near ground reported to police; UFO "suddenly rose rapidly straight up and vanished into the sky." 3 Barahona, Dominican Republic ---- Numerous people observed disc-shaped UFOs from an estimated distance of 100 yards; objects hovered about 2 minutes, moved away rapidly. 3 Johannesburg, South Africa ---- Cylindrical UFO observed hovering for 2 hours; ascended out of sight. 3/4 Ararangua, Brazil 1:20 a.m. Airline pilot saw red light describe arc near plane; aircraft electrical equipment affected. [Section X] 3/4 Sao Vicente, Brazil 2:00 a.m. Disc approached, hovered near Itaipu Fort; sentries severely burned. [Section VIII] 3/4 Elmwood, Illinois About 2:30 a.m. Police chased elongated reddish UFO; cruiser lights affected. 3/4 N.M. desert 4:30 a.m. Salesman saw round ball of red light size of moon, hovering, moving slowly above desert. 4 Nr Orogrande, New Mexico 1:10 p.m. James W. Stokes, high altitude research engineer at White Sands, saw elliptical UFO sweep across highway twice; car radio and engine failed. 4 Stinnet, Wisconsin 4:45 p.m. Minister, others, saw silvery disc move slowly overhead. 4 Kodiak, Alaska 10:00 p.m. Policeman saw fiery red object trailing greenish-yellow vapor pass low over school; interference on cruiser radio. 4 Toronto, Ontario, Canada ---- Television interference (audio); viewers were called outdoors to see UFO. 4 Johannesburg, South Africa Night Cylindrical UFO caught in searchlight beams. November 5 (By time zones) Eastern Standard Time 5 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Early morning Fiery disc in sky; electric power failed. 5 New York, New York 4:30 a.m. Disc with dome and visible "portholes" hovered, sped away. 5 S. Springfield, Ohio About 4:50 a.m. Police saw brilliant blue light in sky; two cars had engine trouble. 5 Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 3:10 p.m. Round, brilliant orange UFO hovered, revolving; television blacked out. 5 Norfolk, Virginia 4:00 p.m. White glaring object (no shape discernible) sped overhead at "a pretty good clip;" observed by electric power company employees. 5 Haverhill, Mass. 4:30 p.m. GOC spotters watched disc-like UFO bob around in sky. [Section VII] 5 Aiken, Georgia Night Bright yellowish cigar-shaped object observed twice, finally disappeared over horizon. Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model (mean confidence 100%); expect the odd misread word. 186 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.