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Stories198 · page 10

The Farmington Saucer Armada

March 17, 1950 · Main Street, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico

UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources

35Partially documented

Radar-Visual Sighting Over Dayton and Wright-Patterson AFB (ATIC)

March 8, 1950 · Dayton Municipal Airport, Vandalia, and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

UAP · Sphere · 12 sources

50Partially documented

Kodiak Naval Radar-Visual Encounters: P2V-3 Patrol Plane and USS Tillamook

January 22, 1950 · Naval Air Station Kodiak, Kodiak, Alaska

UAP · Other · 18 sources

51Partially documented

Mount Palomar Observatory Sightings and Cosmic-Ray Counter Anomalies

October 14, 1949 · Palomar Observatory, Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California

UAP · Formation · 18 sources

36Partially documented

Clyde Tombaugh sighting, Las Cruces

August 20, 1949 · Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico

UAP · Formation · 19 sources

22Thinly documented

The Norwood Searchlight Disc Sightings

August 19, 1949 · Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Norwood, Ohio (also Madeira and Milford, Ohio)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 22 sources · 12 photos

45Partially documented

Rogue River Disc Sighting, Gold Beach, Oregon

May 24, 1949 · Rogue River near Elephant Rock, about 2 to 2.5 miles upstream of the mouth, Gold Beach, Curry County, Oregon

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

36Partially documented

The Jackson "Megaphone" Object: Pilot Thomas A. Rush and Blue Book Incident 233 (1949)

January 1, 1949 · In the air east of Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, on approach to North Jackson Airpark

UAP · Cigar · 15 sources

30Partially documented

The Fukuoka F-61 Black Widow Radar-Visual Intercept

October 15, 1948 · About 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, off the northwest coast of Kyushu, over the Korea Strait

UAP · Cigar · 16 sources

46Partially documented

The Villa Santina Encounter: L. R. Johannis and the Red Disc of Raveo

August 14, 1947 · Chiarsò valley, lower slopes of Col Gentile, near Raveo and Villa Santina, Carnia, province of Udine, Friuli

UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources

13Thinly documented

The José Higgins Encounter at Goio-Bang, Paraná

July 23, 1947 · Colônia Goio-Bang, northwest of Pitanga (today Luiziana), Paraná

UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

16Thinly documented

Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs

July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland

UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources

32Partially documented

Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings

July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

40Partially documented

The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave

c. 1947 · United States (nationwide, heaviest in the Pacific states: California, Washington and Oregon)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources

55Partially documented

The Malta fishermen's "submarine" with little men on deck

c. 1947 · At sea, 20 miles south of Malta, central Mediterranean

UAP · Being / humanoid · 10 sources

11Thinly documented

The USAT Delarof Sphere, Aleutian Islands (1945)

c. 1945 · Open sea past Adak, Aleutian Islands, Alaska

UAP · Sphere · 12 sources

25Thinly documented

The Nicholas Roerich Expedition Sighting, Kukunor District, 1927

August 5, 1927 · Kukunor district, near the Humboldt chain (Danghe Nanshan / Ulan Daban), Qinghai

UAP · Egg · 35 sources

19Thinly documented

The USS Supply "Remarkable Meteors"

February 28, 1904 · Pacific Ocean, about 300 miles WSW of San Francisco (36°20′ N, 127°36′ W)

International waters

UAP · Formation · 16 sources

22Thinly documented

Names22 · see all

NICAP Organisation · 174 stories
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
APRO Organisation · 74 stories
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Richard Hall Person · 28 stories
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
Tim Printy Person · 15 stories
A sceptic who writes in SUNlite, Tim Printy has offered his own readings of several classic cases.
Ted Bloecher Person · 14 stories
Researcher and investigator Ted Bloecher spent decades cataloguing strange encounters.
Fran Ridge Person · 13 stories
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
Frank Edwards Person · 11 stories
Frank Edwards was a broadcaster and author who carried older sighting stories to a wider audience.
Raymond E. Fowler Person · 10 stories
A patient investigator of close encounters.
Donald A. Johnson Person · 9 stories
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
Dan Wilson Person · 7 stories
A researcher behind the scenes.
Francis Ridge Person · 6 stories
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.
Fund for UFO Research Organisation · 6 stories
A research fund that kept the Air Force's unsolved cases in view.

Documents141 · see all

National Investigation Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) Case (Delet Ed) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1965-01-01· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …Richard Harris Hall, Acting Director of NICAP. Though Major William Kehoe, founder of NICAP, is still listed as Director of…
- p. 2 …The most recent UFO sighting of considerable interest to NICAP was the series of pick-ups of UFO's on…
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) (PUBD Is Unknown FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1953-01-04· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 1 National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) Appears to be a fairly loose structure but rather efficient. Stuart Nixon ( background…
- p. 3 …The following is apparently the xa organizational structure and relationships within NICAP:
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) (PUBD Is Unknown) FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1953-01-01· 2 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP) Appears to be a fairly loose structure but rather efficient. Stuart Nixon ( background…
- p. 2 …The following is apparently the xm organizational structure and relationships within NICAP:
UFO's- Visitors from Space? Food for Future Thought FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2014-06-12· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …the NICAP, or National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. WE CONTACTED Richard Hall, a former Hartford area resident and now…
Air Force Says Unidentified Flying Objects Are 'Serious' FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2014-06-12· 1 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …Hillenkoetter (Ret.) a NICAP board member and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency said in a statement that a…
FBI file: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Part 02 FOIA release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 28 pages· 11 pages mention it
- p. 12 …Information available to the Bureau reflects that NICAP was formed in 1956. A form letter which the NICAP distributed in…
- p. 13 BAC, New Orleans handling correspondence from the NICAP to avoid any inference that we hold views. either favorable or unfavorable…

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Videos18 · see all

NICAP Edwards AFB audio directory

From The Edwards AFB Radar-Visual Incident

Wanaque, New Jersey, January 11-12, 1966. Gordon Lore (NICAP) interviews witnesses

From Wanaque Reservoir Sightings

NICAP OFFICIAL YOUTUBE video

From Travis Walton Abduction

NICAP-linked YouTube story

From America West Airlines Flight 564 (Cactus 564) sighting

The 1949 Norwood, Ohio, searchlight UFO incident

From The Norwood Searchlight Disc Sightings

The Secret Utah and Montana UFO Films

From The Mariana UFO Film

Captain James Howard UFO

From The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus

UFO Education: The Levelland Sightings

From The Levelland UFO Case

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