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Stories198 · page 8

Fort Itaipu incident: the burned sentries

November 4, 1957 · Fortaleza de Itaipu, Ponta de Itaipu, Praia Grande, São Paulo

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

18Thinly documented

James W. Stokes Car-Stop Encounter near Orogrande, New Mexico

November 4, 1957 · US Highway 54, about 8 to 10 miles south of Orogrande, Otero County, New Mexico

UAP · Egg · 21 sources

36Partially documented

The Elmwood Park Police "Hide-and-Seek" Object

November 4, 1957 · Elmwood Park, Cook County, Illinois (chase ending near Elmwood Cemetery, River Grove)

UAP · Cigar · 11 sources

16Thinly documented

White Sands Proving Ground Army patrol sightings near Trinity Site (1957)

November 3, 1957 · Trinity Site bunkers, northern range of White Sands Proving Ground, near Stallion Site, New Mexico

UAP · Egg · 16 sources

29Thinly documented

The Nawaca Fishermen Encounter (Nabouwalu, Fiji)

October 8, 1957 · Coastal waters between Nabouwalu and Nawaca, Bua Province, Vanua Levu

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

19Thinly documented

Caso Lemos Ferreira: Portuguese Air Force F-84G formation encounter

September 4, 1957 · Night route between Ota and Spain, reported over Cáceres, Córdoba, Portalegre and Coruche

UAP · Sphere · 17 sources

24Thinly documented

Fort Belvoir Black Ring Photographs (Condon Case 50)

September 1957 · Fort Belvoir U.S. Army facility, Virginia

UAP · Other · 24 sources · 6 photos

45Partially documented

Gordon Cooper's Edwards AFB Saucer Landing and His UFO Letter to the United Nations

May 2, 1957 · Askania Site #4, Edwards Air Force Base, Kern County, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources

38Partially documented

The Dover Strait Radar Object and the Javelin Scramble

April 29, 1957 · St Margaret's Bay, Kent, and the English Channel (tracks over Somerset and out past Land's End)

UAP · Unknown · 9 sources

40Partially documented

West Freugh Radar Incident

April 4, 1957 · RAF West Freugh and the Luce Bay bombing range, Wigtownshire, Scotland

UAP · Unknown · 26 sources

48Partially documented

Capital Airlines Flight 77: the skeptic captain and the blue-white light (1956)

November 14, 1956 · Southeast of Jackson, Alabama, on the approach to Mobile

UAP · Orb / light · 18 sources

26Thinly documented

Agrinio truck engine failure under a glowing object

c. 1955 · Mountain road near Agrinio (Agrinion), Aetolia-Acarnania, western Greece

UAP · Unknown · 11 sources

15Thinly documented

Keflavík Airfield Ten White Objects Sighting

May 4, 1955 · Keflavík Airfield, Reykjanes peninsula, southwest Iceland

UAP · Formation · 14 sources

21Thinly documented

The French UFO Wave of 1954 (la vague de 1954)

September 1954 · France, nationwide (Quarouble, Prémanon, Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Biot, Ambleteuse, Bélesta and hundreds of other communes)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources · 1 photos

45Partially documented

TWA Constellation and Boston tower white-disc sighting (Captain Charles Kratovil)

June 1, 1954 · About 10 miles north of Boston, Massachusetts (in flight toward Idlewild, New York)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

28Thinly documented

Port Swettenham "Flying Cigar" Sightings

March 12, 1954 · Port Swettenham harbour (now Port Klang), Klang, Selangor, Federation of Malaya; second sighting also over Cheras

UAP · Cigar · 16 sources

24Thinly documented

The Lockheed Sighting: Kelly Johnson and the WV-2 Crew

December 16, 1953 · Lindero Ranch near Agoura and the Santa Barbara Channel, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources

27Thinly documented

The BEA "Two Saucers Rim-to-Rim" Sighting over the English Channel

October 9, 1953 · English Channel, on the London Airport (Heathrow) to Paris Orly route

International waters

UAP · Disc / saucer · 6 sources

24Thinly documented

Ellsworth AFB Radar-Visual Case and F-84 Pursuit, South Dakota, 1953

August 5, 1953 · Black Hawk Ground Observer Corps post and Ellsworth Air Force Base, near Rapid City, South Dakota

UAP · Other · 24 sources

60Well documented

The Kingman, Arizona Crash-Retrieval Claim

May 21, 1953 · Near Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona (exact site disputed)

UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

15Thinly 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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