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CAPRI News

Committee on Aerial Phenomena Research Investigations, 1967 to 1969 onwards

United States
Country
1967 to 1969 onwards
Published
6
Issues Indexed
Pending
Articles Catalogued

History

CAPRI News was the newsletter of the Committee on Aerial Phenomena Research Investigations, a US civilian-research organisation founded on 1 October 1967. The archive holds six issues: Volume 1 Number 6 (July 1968), Volume 2 Number 1 (October to November 1968, the Special Anniversary Issue), Volume 2 Number 2 (December 1968 to January 1969), Volume 2 Number 3 (February to March 1969), Volume 2 Number 4 (April to May 1969), and Volume 2 Number 5 (June to July 1969). The Volume 1 Number 6 dating places the first issue around February 1968, four months after the formal founding. The publication ran approximately bi-monthly with member-only distribution and an explicit copyright notice permitting reproduction with credit to CAPRI.

The 1 October 1967 founding date places CAPRI inside the post-Commodore-Hotel wave of civilian-research organisations that formed after the June 1967 New York Congress of Scientific Ufologists. The Congress is documented through the archive's Congress of Scientific Ufologists page. CAPRI's founding three and a half months later, with the same UFO-investigations editorial framework and the same case-reporting bulletin format, places it inside the same organisational lineage as the broader Moseley-Barker-Stringfield civilian-research wing.

The Robert F. Kennedy letter
The July 1968 Volume 1 Number 6 issue runs as a "CAPRI Exclusive" what the publication calls a "Letter from the Late Robert F. Kennedy." Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on 6 June 1968, one month before the July issue was published, which dates the underlying letter to before his death. The text and provenance of the letter sit inside the broader documentary question of which sitting United States senators of the period had been in correspondence with civilian-research organisations on UFO matters, a question that recurs through the later Stuart Symington, Barry Goldwater, and Daniel Inouye correspondence that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s.
From the Archive

For the founding event CAPRI's October 1967 organisation followed, see the Congress of Scientific Ufologists 1967 Commodore Hotel proceedings. For the contemporary civilian-research record at the larger institutional scale, see APRO Bulletin and NICAP UFO Investigator. For the parallel small-press operations of the same 1968 to 1969 period, see the wider newsletter archive. The archive holds six issues spanning Volume 1 Number 6 (July 1968) through Volume 2 Number 5 (June to July 1969).

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