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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. 4 …policy regarding UFO sightings reported to you in releasing information on said sightings to the press…
  • p. 8 …Our group also investigate UFOs sightings of true sighting in a scientific fashion, the hoax we…
  • p. 24 …which offers memberships and publications giving authentic sighting reports and up-to-date developments about 'Unidentified…
  • p. 26 …Request for Information on Sightings of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Area 1…
  • p. 27 …ever received any such reports concerning the sightings or investigations of such objects. If so, would…
be irresponsible. As a result, this organization was considered one to which the Bureau's name should not be connected even through membership of FBI employees. (62-103581)

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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.