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Stories198 · page 7

The Nevada Fireball: The Las Vegas UFO Crash of 1962

April 18, 1962 · Las Vegas and Nellis AFB, Nevada, with reports from New York, Colorado, Utah and Reno

UAP · Other · 36 sources

57Partially documented

Ronald Wildman's Aston Clinton Road Encounter

February 9, 1962 · Road through Aston Clinton, near the end of Ivinghoe Road, east of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources

20Thinly documented

The Pacific Smoke Ring: BOAC, Pan Am and the S.S. Iberville

September 21, 1961 · North Pacific Ocean, between Tokyo and Honolulu, northwest of Midway

International waters

UAP · Other · 8 sources

26Thinly documented

Betty and Barney Hill Abduction

September 19, 1961 · US Route 3 near Indian Head, Lincoln, New Hampshire

UAP · Being / humanoid · 61 sources

43Partially documented

Joe Simonton's Space Pancakes, Eagle River, Wisconsin

April 18, 1961 · Joe Simonton's farm, four miles from Eagle River, Vilas County, Wisconsin

UAP · Disc / saucer · 26 sources

26Thinly documented

The JB-57 "Poached Egg" Encounter North of Launceston

November 15, 1960 · About 15 miles north of Launceston, over the Tamar estuary, Tasmania

UAP · Disc / saucer · 10 sources

28Thinly documented

The Red Bluff Incident: Two Highway Patrolmen and the Silent Object

August 13, 1960 · Hoag Road, east of Corning, Tehama County, California

UAP · Egg · 18 sources

32Partially documented

The March Locomotive Depot Sighting

c. 1960 · March locomotive depot, Hundred Road, March, Cambridgeshire (Isle of Ely / Fenland), England

UAP · Sphere · 10 sources

19Thinly documented

Redmond, Oregon UFO Incident

September 24, 1959 · Redmond and Roberts Field, Deschutes County, Oregon

UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources

47Partially documented

The Killian Case: American Airlines Flight 139 Paced by Three Lights

February 24, 1959 · About 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania (airliner route toward Ohio)

UAP · Formation · 17 sources

41Partially documented

Loch Raven Dam car-stall encounter (Philip Small and Alvin Cohen)

October 26, 1958 · Bridge over Loch Raven Reservoir near Loch Raven Dam, Towson area, Baltimore County, Maryland

UAP · Egg · 19 sources

25Thinly documented

Monon Railroad Freight No. 91 Encounter (Wasco to Kirklin, Indiana)

October 3, 1958 · Monon Railroad line between Wasco, Frankfort and Kirklin, Clinton County, Indiana

UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources

22Thinly documented

The Trindade Island Photographs

January 16, 1958 · Ilha da Trindade (Trindade Island), Trindade and Martim Vaz, Espírito Santo, South Atlantic

UAP · Disc / saucer · 46 sources · 13 photos

47Partially documented

Tamaroa Hovering UFO and Power Failure

November 14, 1957 · Tamaroa, Perry County, Illinois

UAP · Unknown · 15 sources

12Thinly documented

The Hammond and Whiting Police Chase of a Beeping Sky Object

November 10, 1957 · Hammond and Whiting, Lake County, Indiana

UAP · Unknown · 11 sources

18Thinly documented

The Olden Moore Landing and Radiation Case, Montville, Ohio

November 6, 1957 · Field west of Montville, Geauga County, Ohio

UAP · Disc / saucer · 16 sources

28Thinly documented

The Rene Gilham Light Beam Burn Case, Merom, Indiana

November 6, 1957 · Outskirts of Merom, Sullivan County, Indiana

UAP · Disc / saucer · 15 sources

23Thinly documented

The Danville State Trooper Chase and Radio Failure (1957)

November 6, 1957 · Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois (north on Route 1, then west to Oakwood and south on Sugar Creek Road toward Fairmount)

UAP · Orb / light · 12 sources

25Thinly documented

USCGC Sebago radar-visual sighting, Gulf of Mexico

November 5, 1957 · Gulf of Mexico, about 200 miles south of the Mississippi delta

International waters

UAP · Unknown · 11 sources

41Partially documented

Kirtland AFB control-tower sighting

November 4, 1957 · Kirtland Air Force Base control tower, Albuquerque, New Mexico

UAP · Egg · 21 sources

49Partially documented

Names22 · see all

NICAP Organisation · 188 stories
A civilian group, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena looked into sightings the Air Force had brushed aside.
APRO Organisation · 78 stories
A civilian research group with investigators in the field.
Richard Hall Person · 28 stories
Richard Hall worked for NICAP.
Tim Printy Person · 16 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.
Donald A. Johnson Person · 13 stories
A compiler of day-by-day UFO chronologies, built on the UFOCAT database.
Fran Ridge Person · 13 stories
Fran Ridge is a NICAP researcher and archivist whose notes appear across several Cold War radar and airline cases.
Dan Wilson Person · 12 stories
A researcher behind the scenes.
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.
Richard H. Hall Person · 9 stories
A NICAP researcher and compiler.
Francis Ridge Person · 8 stories
A researcher with NICAP, Francis Ridge compiled and catalogued cases for the organisation's files.

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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