Six years ago, in 2005, delineated the beginning of a major project that to this day probably stands as the most important tool on the NICAP website:  The UFO Chronologies. And in 2009 we began  the second major project, the new RADCAT, which is the re-issue and processing of all the radar cases in the Blue Book files and elsewhere. A year ago we started another major, AVCAT (Aviation Catalog), to update directories on old cases and create AVCAT dirs for new ones regarding sightings of UFOs from aircraft.

As briefly mentioned above, in the fall of 2005 we began a major update of Richard Hall's NICAP UFO Sighting Chronologies. In nothing short of a crash program we produced qualitative and quantitative summaries for the most important years in UFO history: 1947-1952.  By the end of 2006 we had drastically updated (with links to detailed key cases) from pre-1947 to 1969. That total group emcompassed the Air Force Project Blue Book years and the BB files.  In January 2007 we established the goal to update the remaining chronos at a rate of one per month, beginning with 1970. In July of that year we were able to add hundreds of foo-fighter sightings to the WWII period with the help of Keith Chester. The plan was to have all the chronos up and updated by March 15, 2010. We were able to accomplish this goal several months early. If you are looking for anything important (sightings or events or dated documents), these chronos are the definitive source.

In December of 2005 we had posted a massive updated chrono on 1952. This included documentation but was basically a major update on sightings. In 2012 we plan a major update on documented history AND new sighting listings!

There have been millions of UFO sightings, but bona fide UFOs are more rare. We have on record, 215,000  sightings on computer (UFOCAT, Donald A. Johnson). In addition we have massive evidence in the form of 11 different Categories

   * Category 11 - 3,000-plus sightings from aircraft by  Dr. Richard Haines and over 240 cases listed on the NICAP site with the AVCAT Project. To see the actual breakdown by month see: http://www.nicap.org/avcat_brief.htm
 

   * Category 10 - Over 200 cases involving a nuclear connection, several radiation injury cases, plus incidents from Robert Hastings files.

   * Category   9 - With the RADCAT Project we have produced 460 RADCAT directories along with supporting documents from the Blue Book files. To see the actual breakdown and cases filed, see this doc report

http://www.nicap.org/09-RADCAT/RADCAT_cases_added_by_month.doc

   * Category   8 - Photographic Evidence. 10,685 cases (as of August 2011) by Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos and the Anomaly Foundation.

   * Category   7 - Humanoid Cases (hundreds) and Abduction Reports

   * Category   6 - Over 5600 Physical Trace cases documented, 4104 involving UFO visual sightings (CUFOS).

   * Category   5 - Medical Cases. Being compiled

   * Category   4 - Over a hundred cases of UFO sightings involving animal reactions on the NICAP site alone by Joan Woodward.

   * Category   3 - E-M Effects. Over 500 cases associated with UFO sightings (CUFOS) and 185 E-M cases documented involving UFOs near aircraft (Dr. Richard Haines). 250 listed on the NICAP site.

   * Category   2 - Hundreds, if not thousands, of excellent close encounters by credible observers whose testimony in court would be taken at face value
   * Category   1 - Probably millions of reports of nighttime objects (Nocturnal Lights)  or daylight objects seen at a distance.
   * About 1600 (701 originally) UNKNOWNS listed in Project Blue Book files (Brad Sparks).