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FBI file: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Part 01
Federal Bureau of Investigation · 25 pages · text by OCR
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.
“Sightings”8 pages
- p. 2 …THE WASHINGTON DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23. 'Project Skylight'
# New Group Setting Sights on Saucers
By…
- p. 7 …The magazine will include dramatic, authentic sightings by veteran pilots and other competent witnesses; behind-the…
- p. 8 …newsletter containing recent UFO (or flying saucer) sightings, reports on secret developments, exciting articles by scientists…
- p. 9 …JANAP 146 i Defense document re reporting intelligence sightings.
That the attached suggested letter be forwarded…
- p. 10 …We have been told that on certain occasions FBI agents ordered,or warned to UFO sightings…
- p. 11 …Have FBI agents told witnesses not to talk about UFO sightings?
Does the FBI officially investigate…
- p. 12 …The Federal Bureau of Investigation does not investigate sightings of unidentified flying objects. When the details…
- p. 18 …purpose was set out as reporting UFO, sightings and developments. We have received no derogatory data…
# FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION FREEDOM OF INFORMATION/PRIVACY ACTS SECTION COVER SHEET
SUBJECT: NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS
COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA
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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. 25 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.