NICAP

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Influential civilian UFO organization active from 1956 to 1980

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This is a scan of “The Ufologist Establishment,” an article by Jesse Kornbluth from the November 1976 issue of OUI magazine. Written in the immediate aftermath of the Travis Walton case, it examines the competing roles of APRO, NICAP, MUFON, and independent researchers—along with the personality clashes, competing methods, and credibility concerns within 1970s UFO investigation.

mediaSep 2

Probed ingest of: Pentagon seeks access to vast private UFO records collection

Brandi Vincent’s DefenseScoop report examines AARO’s proposed subscription to the National UFO Historical Records Center, led by David Marler. The linked federal notice specifies pre-1990 data, metadata and analysis, a one-year base with four options, and a sole-source justification built around unique archive holdings. The central distinction is access for AARO researchers versus public disclosure; the notice itself promises no public release.

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Deep ingest
Aug 5

Probed ingest of: “I Saw a Triangle Shaped UFO At a NASA Hangar!” -Dylan Borland Tells All

Gene Sticco’s August 1 X post carries a Blackgrove Business News analysis of Washington Headquarters Services’ reported plan to sole-source AARO a multi-year subscription to the National UFO Historical Records Center’s pre-1990 archive. It examines the notice’s commercial-product language against the Center’s public statements about continuing digitization and cloud-access funding, separating reported procurement terms from Blackgrove’s interpretation and the records still needed to verify the award.

🚨A New UAP Study: SCU Publishes Comprehensive Analysis of UAP Operational Presence A new report from the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies looked at three decades of cases, 1945 through 1975, using Project Blue Book 'unknowns' and NICAP data. Instead of treating sightings as isolated incidents, they tracked behavior over time. The idea is that it stops the usual dismissal loop where everything gets written off one case at a time. What emerged was behavior that appeared to be paced and con...

Date: Arizona 1955 Blue Book report: Military pilot flying in B-25 a/c as instructor, turned to student & first saw object which he described as largе (120-130feet across) metallic, disc shape, looked like two pie tins placed together at their rims. During time of sighting, object changed its position to both face and observers's a/c with both its edge forward, and w/its curcular surface exposed to view. Object paralleled aircraft and disappeared after approx 7 minutes. Blue Book report Nicap...

This just released West of the Rockies radio/podcast explores the 1967 Brockport (NY) UFO incident that blazed across at least 30 miles of western NY night sky at approximately 2:00 am on August 1, 1967. The large flaming orange acorn-shaped fireball glided slowly and silently parallel to the horizon at an altitude of approximately 200 feet. It was seen and reported by four different law enforcement officers, covered by multiple newspaper reports, and verified by a NICAP investigation. This p...

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Deep ingest
Jul 16

Probed ingest of: Tom Delonge's UFO Timeline Part 2: The Core Story

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