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Stories198 · page 9

The Tujunga Canyon Contacts

March 22, 1953 · Big Tujunga Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, California

UAP · Other · 23 sources

18Thinly documented

F-94 and Ground Radar Sighting at Nemuro, Hokkaido, 1953

February 7, 1953 · Nemuro AF Detachment, Nemuro, Hokkaido (also listed as "Korean area" and "Okinawa")

UAP · Unknown · 12 sources

40Partially documented

The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review

January 14, 1953 · Washington, D.C. (exact building unresolved; CIA headquarters and the Pentagon both claimed)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos

46Partially documented

The F-94 Interceptor Encounter near Hanford (Odessa Case)

December 10, 1952 · Odessa, Washington (popularly placed near the Hanford plant)

UAP · Sphere · 20 sources

49Partially documented

B-29 radar-visual encounter over the Gulf of Mexico (Karas, Naumann / "Harter and Coleman")

December 6, 1952 · Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, about 190 miles from Galveston, Texas

UAP · Other · 23 sources

47Partially documented

William Squyres and the Propeller-Rimmed Disc, Pittsburg, Kansas

August 25, 1952 · Yale road, about 200 yards north of US Highway 160, northeast of Frontenac, near Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas

UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources

24Thinly documented

Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept

August 5, 1952 · Haneda Air Force Base, Tokyo (now Tokyo International Airport), Japan

UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources

61Well documented

Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept

August 1, 1952 · Bellefontaine Air Force Station (Campbell Hill) and the Dayton area, Ohio

UAP · Sphere · 19 sources

54Partially documented

Pottstown F-94 Starfire Encounter

July 23, 1952 · Pottstown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

UAP · Other · 15 sources

26Thinly documented

Goose Bay AFB radar-visual sighting: "target suddenly enlarges"

June 19, 1952 · Goose Air Base (now CFB Goose Bay), Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador

UAP · Unknown · 25 sources

44Partially documented

Savannah River Plant Discs over the 400 Area, Ellenton, South Carolina

May 10, 1952 · 400 Area (D Area heavy-water plant), Savannah River Plant, near Ellenton, South Carolina

UAP · Disc / saucer · 21 sources

28Thinly documented

The Spitsbergen Flying Saucer Crash

1952 · Hinlopen Strait, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard

UAP · Disc / saucer · 22 sources

25Thinly documented

The Puerto Maldonado "Smoking Saucer" Photograph

July 19, 1951 · Puerto Maldonado and Iberia, Madre de Dios, Peru

UAP · Cigar · 14 sources · 2 photos

34Partially documented

The New Delhi Flying Club Cigar

March 15, 1951 · Delhi Flying Club hangar, Safdarjung Aerodrome, New Delhi

UAP · Cigar · 17 sources

32Partially documented

The Mount Kilimanjaro Sighting from an East African Airways Lodestar

February 19, 1951 · Above Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), seen from a Lodestar over southern Kenya

UAP · Cigar · 14 sources

29Thinly documented

The Bethune Encounter: US Navy Flight 125 off Newfoundland

February 10, 1951 · North Atlantic, about 200 miles northeast of Argentia, Newfoundland (the 'Gander' case)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources

33Partially documented

The Sioux City Mystery Plane

January 20, 1951 · Sioux City municipal airport (now Sioux Gateway Airport), Sioux City, Iowa

UAP · Other · 18 sources

38Partially documented

The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap

October 1950 · Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tennessee

UAP · Other · 23 sources

58Partially documented

Seymour Hess sighting at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, 1950

May 20, 1950 · Lowell Observatory, Mars Hill, Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona

UAP · Sphere · 15 sources

21Thinly documented

TWA Flight 117 "red wheel" sighting, Goshen, Indiana

April 27, 1950 · Over Goshen toward South Bend, Indiana

UAP · Disc / saucer · 10 sources

27Thinly 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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