In March 1952, the Air Technical Intelligence Center ( ATIC ) established an Aerial Phenomena Group to study the reported sightings, and a new name was assigned to the program — Project Blue Book.

Brown was an early investigator of UFOs and in 1956 helped found the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ).

He served as DCI and director of the CIG and the CIA from May 1, 1947 to October 7, 1950 and after his retirement from the United States Navy was a member of the board of governors of National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena ( also known as NICAP ) from 1957 to 1962.

The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena was formed in 1956, with the organization's corporate charter being approved October 24.

The British Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) published in 2006 the " Scientific & Technical Memorandum 55 / 2 / 00a " of a four-volume, 460-page report entitled Unidentified Aerial Phenomena in the UK Air Defence Region, based on a study by DI55 ( a section of the Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence of the Defence Intelligence Staff ) codenamed Project Condign.

The first significant UFO interest group in the US was the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization ( APRO ), formed in 1952 by Coral and James Lorenzen.

The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ), which formed in 1957 and shut down in the 1970ṣ, whose Board of Directors included former Director of Central Intelligence and first head of the Central Intelligence Agency, VADM Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, was, at one time, the largest UFO organization in the country, with numerous chapters.

Fascinated, Hopkins joined the now-defunct UFO research group National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ) and began reading many UFO books and articles.

In 1957 Keyhoe became head of the civilian UFO group NICAP ( National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ).

Early evidence of the shift in Hynek's opinions appeared in 1953, when Hynek wrote an article for the April 1953 issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America titled " Unusual Aerial Phenomena ," which contained what would become perhaps Hynek's best known statement:

In 1957 he was affiliated with the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena.

The Panel noted that the general absence of Russian propaganda based on a subject with so many obvious possibilities for exploitation might indicate a possible Russian official policy …. The Panel took cognizance of the existence of such groups as the " Civilian Flying Saucer Investigators " ( Los Angeles ) and the " Aerial Phenomena Research Organization ( Wisconsin ).

In 1958, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ), a civilian UFO research group, requested that the Air Force release the panel's report.

LaPaz's informal scientific study for the Air Force quickly became formal, being called the " Conference on Aerial Phenomena ", convening at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in mid-February to review the data.

# REDIRECT National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena

The National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena ( or NICAP ) was a civilian unidentified flying object research group active in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Most of MUFON's early members had earlier been associated with Aerial Phenomena Research Organization ( APRO ).

# REDIRECT National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena

He reported the incident to the Manchester Aerial Phenomena Investigation Team ( MAPIT ), who investigated it.

After examining hundreds of UFO files from the Air Force's Project Blue Book and from the civilian UFO groups National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena ( NICAP ) and Aerial Phenomena Research Organization ( APRO ), and investigating sightings reported during the life of the Project, the Committee produced a Final Report that said the study of UFOs was unlikely to yield major scientific discoveries.

# REDIRECT Aerial Phenomena Research Organization

* Aerial photo of Davis County from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* University of Alabama's Cartographic Research Laboratory Historic Aerial Photos Collection for Athens and Limestone County

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* Aerial image of Marble Hill from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial image of Whitefish point from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial image ( 2002 ) and topographic map of UW campus from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial Archaeology Research Group

* Aerial photo from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial photo of Coors Field from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial photo (& topographic map )-Michie Stadium from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial image of Sportsman's Park and Robison Field from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

Also of note was the Aerial Defence Research and Development Establishment ( ADRDE ) known as " X3 " which was a 3 storey building erected in 1942.

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* Aerial photo of bridge from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial photo from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial view of park from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

Scientists from Russian Central Research Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Survey and Cartography () confirmed calculations of Belarusian geodesists that the geographical centre of Europe is located in Polotsk.

* Aerial image of school campus from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial image from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial photo from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial photo (& topographic map )-WSU campus from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

* Aerial photo from USGS via Microsoft Research Maps

At the end of 1928 the Central Research Institute of Geodesy, Aerial Surveying and Cartography ( TsNIIGAiK ) was founded on his initiative ; he worked there as a director ( 1928 – 1930 ) and as a deputy director of science ( 1930 – 1937 ).