Organisation

NICAP

1956-10-24 – 1980-01-01what this date marks is not recorded

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena - an influential civilian UFO research group that argued the U.S. government was concealing genuine UFO evidence and recruited senior former military and intelligence officials to its board.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufo", "aerial phenomen". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

5 of 10 connections resolve to a document you can open. 1 carries no citation at all.

Documents3 behind these connections2 more that name it

Documents behind these connections

Unidentified Flying Objects 1966-04-05
Do Records Show Proof of UFOs? 2018-02-09
No title recorded DOW-UAP-D092 1966-04-19/1967-05-16

Also named in documents we hold

This entity's name appears in the 3 documents below. That is the entire claim. Nothing here is evidence for anything on this map, no connection rests on it, and it says nothing about what the document is about. It is a place to look next.

The UFO Evidence

named as the issuing body

National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), Washington, D.C.

No title recorded DOW-UAP-D092already cited above

The release calls it “DAF Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967”. Release filename only, and it describes the file inexactly: the file holds records of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board ad hoc committee (1966) AND of the University of Colorado (Condon) study (1967). No single title page covers it. It is not adopted as a title here.

named on a page we have read · p. 34

…be the one proposed by Mr. Richard Hall, Deputy Director of NICAP. His is an active hypothesis whereas McDonald's is passive.…

Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects

named on a page we have read · p. 84

1. NICAP Special Bulletin, May, 1960: Admiral Hillenkoeter was a NIC…

10 connections

ColourJournalistsIncidentsScientistsGovernment

→ Donald Keyhoe

Keyhoe was its director in March 1966

Unidentified Flying Objects
printed p. 6051 checked against the page
← Jimmy Carter a reference; no pages of it are held

NICAP evaluated his 1969 sighting report

Do Records Show Proof of UFOs?
← Richard Hall

Deputy Director

No title recorded DOW-UAP-D092
PDF p. 34 checked against the page
← Raymond E. Fowler document, no page cited yet

chairman of its Massachusetts technical investigating subcommittee

Unidentified Flying Objects
→ Exeter Incident document, no page cited yet

backed the investigation and submitted its complete file to Congress

same document as the row above
→ Roscoe Hillenkoetter names a source we do not hold

served on its board of governors, 1957-1962

Official government / corporate service records
← Maj. Dewey Fournet names a source we do not hold

joined its founding Board of Governors

NICAP.org (Fournet, board since 1957)
← Stanton Friedman names a source we do not hold

member; read its monthly newsletters

Kathleen Marden - Stanton Friedman page
→ Bolender Memo (1969) names a source we do not hold

surfaced and cited it as evidence of a hidden post-Blue Book reporting channel

NICAP
← Wilbert B. Smith nothing behind it

his Project Magnet findings covered in early UFO research

1 correction to this record

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NICAP → Donald Keyhoe

Keyhoe was its longtime director (1957-1969)

Keyhoe was its director in March 1966

THE RECORD CARRIES NEITHER YEAR AND NOT THE WORD "LONGTIME". Folio 6051 reprints a Washington Post article of 29 March 1966 which says "Keyhoe now is director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, an organization whose major aims are to evaluate all UFO sightings". That fixes the directorship at one month and says nothing about when it began or ended. A caveat was considered and rejected: a caveat scopes a modifier the document does not reach, and here the document reaches neither year, so there is nothing to scope. Read as an image 2026-08-25.