◆ SpookStack

Declassified Document Archive & Reader
Log In Register
Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

CIA RDP81R00560R000100010001 0

186 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP) · 186 pages OCR'd
← Back to feed
September 4 56--Copenhagen, Denmark. Radar tracking of several UFOs at about 1800 mph. [VIII] September 6, 1956--Pasadena, California. Western Airlines pilot reported erratically moving white lights to Air Defense Command; visual confirmation from ground. [V] September 11, 1956--Baltic Sea, Radar sightings of "mysterious objects": flying at speeds of 2,000 to 2,500 mph. , ina curved course, during previous three weeks. (Altus (Okla.) Times-Democrat; -11-56.) Early November 1956--Malibu, Calif. Flat oval object with three window-like markings on underside flew low, through searchlight beam. [XII] November 8, 1956--Miami, Florida. Pan American Airways radar tracked a UFO at 4000 mph. [VIII] November 14, 1956--Nr. Mobile, Alabama. Capital Airlines pilot sighting of maneuvering light. [I] November 19, 1956--Frankfurt, Germany. blue-white, elliptical UFOs. [X] November 24/25, 1956--Nr. Pierre, South Dakota. (Wide- spread UFO sightings for several days.) State police chased UFO, Air Force jets scrambled. [VII] December 1956--Far East. Air Force jet pilot tracked UFO on radar; observed visually as ‘‘large round object.’’ [I] December 27, 1956--Los Angeles, Calif. Real estate investor saw three spherical UFOs reflecting sunlight. [VII] V-formation of 1957 January 21, 1957--Army Intelligence report on ‘large shiny metal ball,’? disc, other UFOs over APO Army base. [IV] January 24, 1957--Indiana. Commercial pilot and many others saw four brilliant white lights, in-line formation; trailing object larger, egg-shaped and pulsating. [V] February 13, 1957--Burbank, California. Police received many calls about oval-shaped objects over city. Officer Robert Wells, who went to investigate, confirmed sighting. [XII] March 8, 1957--Nr. Houston, Texas. UFO paced plane, moved up and down at high speed. [V] March 9, 1957--Nr. San Juan, Puerto Rico. Pan American Airways pilot took evasive action as fiery round, greenish-white object passed plane. [V] March 23, 1957~-Long Beach, California. Four UFOs tracked on CAA radar, widespread visual sightings. [VIII] March 29, 1957--Off East Coast, Florida. Pan American Airways pilot observed brilliant pulsating light, confirmed by radar. [V] April 4, 1957--Wigtownshire, Scotland. Three radar posts tracked a UFO which flashed across the sky at 60,000 feet, dove to 14,000 feet, circled and sped away. [VIII] May 12, 1957--Moab, Utah. Round, blue-green UFO sped past below observer’s altitude. [IV] June 15, 1957--Lancashire, England. Saturn-like UFO with ‘portholes’’ observed through telescope in bright daylight. [XII] June 18, 1957--Jackson, Mississippi. Physics professor sighted UFO with ‘‘a halo of light around it and what appeared to be three portholes.”’ [VI] June 18, 1957--Pacific Ocean, 150 miles off San Francisco. Captain and crew of freighter Hawaiian Fisherman saw three brightly lighted objects ‘‘like small moons.’’ [IT} June 30, 1957--Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Disc-like object paced, maneuvered around airliner. [X] July 1957--Azusa, California. ‘‘Dise with amber lights around edge made wobbling vertical descent. [XII] July 1, 1957--Avon, Mass. Cigar-shaped UFO with green lights like windows. [XII] July 4, 1957--Nr. Campos, Brazil. Disc with dome and port- holes paced airliner. [X| July 9, 1957--Hamilton, Ont., Canada. Attorney saw speeding, white elliptical UFO. [X] July 31, 1957--Calistoga, California. Businessman watched two erratically maneuvering brilliant white objects. [VII] August 1, 1957--Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Large glowing object hovered 20 minutes, sped away. [VII] August 14, 1957--Nr. Joinville, Brazil. Varig Airlines pilot observed domed disc, which affected aircraft engines. [X] and rnia. Retired Navy pilot watched disc wobble, climb away. [IV August 20, 1957--Fujisawa City, Japan. observed above beach, photographed. [VIII] September 17, 1957--Ft. Devens, Mass. Army report on eight round, orange UFOs which flew over base, one oscillating up and down. [IV] September 26, 1957--Paris, France. Confidential report, from U.S. Embassy officer and wife, of bright elliptical UFO. [Xx] October 7, 1957--Cape Canaveral, Fla. White oval object seen near Cape for second consecutive night. [XII] October 8, 1957--Bua Province, Fiji Islands. Natives in small boat saw UFO descend vertically, hover about 20 feet above sea. October 8, 1957--Nr. Boston, Mass. Pan American Airways pilot saw a brilliant object flying at high speed in daylight. [Vv] October 15, 1957--Fountain County, Indiana. Farmer reported silver disc which hovered over his combine as he worked in field; combine engine failed when UFO rose. [VIII] October 16, 1957--Australia. Round UFO sighted by former Commander-in-Chief of Royal Australian Air Force. [X] October 21 (or 29), 1957--Nr. London, England. RAF pilot sighted UFO near atomic base, confirmed by radar. [VIII] October 22, 1957--Pittsburgh, Pa. Family saw six UFOs in two separate groups, changing position in formation. [II] October 23, 1957--Kent, England. Disc travelling on edge. [x0] Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : CIA-RDP81RQ05G0R000400010001-0 0 ] Cylindrical UFO November 1957 “Flap” [See Section XII for detailed November 1957 Chronology] November 2, 1957--Levelland, Texas. Elliptical UFOs sighted repeatedly on or near roads, many cars stalled. November 3, 1957--White Sands, N.M. Army Jeeppatrol sight- ings; UFO observed twice near old atomic bunker. November 4, 1957--Alamogordo, N.M. James Stokes, White Sands engineer, watched elliptical UFO swoop over mountains, car stalled. November 4, 1957--Elmwood Park, Illinois. Reddish elongated object at low level pursued by police in squad car. November 5, 1957--Gulf of Mexico, off New Orleans. Coast Guard cutter Sebago repeatedly tracked UFO on radar, once saw planet-like speeding light. About same time, airman at Keesler AFB, Miss., saw elliptical UFO accelerate rapidly and disappear in clouds. [VIII] November 5, 1957--East St. Louis, Illinois. Three Alton & Southern Railroad employees saw two silvery, egg-shaped UFOs. November 5, 1957--Haverhill, Mass. Ground Observer Corps reported a circular or spherical glowing object which appeared to vibrate up and down and from side to side while hovering. [VII] November 5, 1957--Long Beach, California. Air Force Major, others at Municipal Airport saw 6 shiny circular UFOs ‘‘changing course instantaneously without loss of speed like planes ina dogfight.’’ November 6, 1957--Nr, Danville, Illinois. State Police chased UFO for 15 miles, experienced radio failure. November 6, 1957--Nr. Atlanta, Ga. Three truckers inde- pendently reported seeing reddish elliptical objects on the road. November 6, 1957--Montville, Ohio. Olden Moore case; low, hovering Saturn-like disc, abnormal radioactivity later detected in area. [IX, XII] November 7, 1957--Lake Charles, Louisiana. Silvery disc hovered, car motor failed. November 7, 1957--El Paso, Texas, Times: "Some of the na- tion's top scientists are 'pretty shook up' about the mysterious flying objects sighted in New Mexico and West Texas skies this week, said Charles Capen (a scientist at White Sands). 'This is something that hasn't happened before,’ (he said)." November 10, 1957--Hammond, Indiana. Police chased an elongated UFO; electromagnetic interference reported. November 11, 1957--Nr. Los Angeles, California. Airline passenger saw elliptical UFO flying low over ground below plane. VII November 11, 1957--San Fernando Valley, Calif. Rocketdyne engineers observed three UFOs climbing at high speed. [VI] Approved For Release 2001/04/02 : C1A-RDP81R00560R000100010001-0
OCR quality for this page
Community corrections
First editor: none yet Last editor: none yet
No user corrections yet.
Comments
Document-wide discussion. Follow the Community Standards.
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.

Continue Exploring

Use the strongest next step for this document: continue reading, jump to the topic hub, or move into the matching agency collection.
Continue Reading at Page 140
Jump straight to page 140 of 186.
Reader
CIA Documents & Reading Room Archive
Open the CIA agency landing page for stronger archive context.
CIA
THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP) Topic Hub
See the topic overview, related documents, and linked subtopics.
Hub

Agency Collection

This document also belongs in the CIA Documents & Reading Room Archive landing page, which is the stronger starting point for agency-level browsing and for searches focused on CIA records.
CIA Documents & Reading Room Archive
Open the agency landing page for introduction text, topic links, and more CIA documents.
CIA

Explore This Archive Cluster

This document belongs to the Intelligence Operations archive hub and the more specific THE NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEE ON AERIAL PHENOMENA (NICAP) topic page. Use these hub pages when you want the broader collection context, linked subtopics, and more documents around the same archive thread.
Related subtopics
Cambridge Five Spy Ring
41 documents · 2950 known pages
Subtopic
MKULTRA
28 documents · 928 known pages
Subtopic
Interpol
17 documents · 1676 known pages
Subtopic
Basque Intelligence Service
10 documents · 965 known pages
Subtopic
Release 2000 08
2 documents · 77 known pages
Subtopic
08 08 Cia-Rdp96-00789R000100260002-1
1 documents · 4 known pages
Subtopic