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Baker report, 1968 congressional hearings
NICAP · 1968 · 68 pages · text from the file's own layer
This NICAP extract reproduces the statement of Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, Jr., a Computer Sciences Corporation scientist and UCLA engineering faculty member, to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics symposium on unidentified flying objects on July 29, 1968. Baker reviews his analyses of the Utah, Montana, Venezuela and Vandenberg films. He argues that current radar and optical sensors are poorly suited to detecting anomalistic phenomena and urges a well-funded, long-term interdisciplinary research program. The extract ends with panel discussion including Hynek and Hall.
“Life”12 pages
- p. 7 …solely on the
detection of intelligent extraterrestrial life; it should be justified by the possibility of…
- p. 10 …to presuppose the existence of
intelligent extraterrestrial life operating in the environs of the earth, or…
- p. 11 …seek out possible
communications from other intelligent life sources in the universe. See, for example, Shklovskii…
- p. 15 …H., "The Ducks, Geese and Swans of North America," American Wild Life Institute, 1943.
(9) Headley…
- p. 20 …and Sagan, C. (1966) Intelligent Life in the Universe, Holden-Day, Inc. San Francisco.
23. Singer…
- p. 39 …He never has fantasized actively taking his own
life, however, and feels it would be very…
- p. 40 …He seems basically apathetic about both his
present and future life. Although constricted but not highly…
- p. 43 …is an oral character who shows a moderately severe passive-dependent life style. This is evidenced…
- p. 44 …What had actually occurred was the first major hallucinatory experience of his life. In a twilight…
- p. 56 …to presuppose the existence of
intelligent extraterrestrial life operating in the environs of the Earth or…
- p. 59 …Eye-witness testimony determines individual life and death decisions in
courtrooms. On an even grander scale…
- p. 62 …uncovered by exploring the
observer's fantasy life, listening for slips of the tongue, or attempting…
SYMPOSIUM ON UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS
HEARINGS
BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETIETH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
JULY 29, 1968
[No. 7]
Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
WASHINGTON: 1968
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