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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.

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  • p. 4 …seemed to rule out balloons, airplanes, lens flare, mirages, et cetera. Since one of the cinetheodolites…
  • p. 5 …as reflections on airplanes, atmospheric mirages, optical flares, birds, balloons, insects, satellites, et cetera. For example…
  • p. 12 …On some frames they flare up and then disappear from view in 0.25 seconds or…
  • p. 13 …Actual measurements show a slight "bleeding" or flaring of about 10% to 20%. The rectangular flat…
  • p. 14 …Thus no flaring of the images could be expected. The author noted that the sections of…
  • p. 51 …rule out various forms of optical lens flare, atmospheric mirages, or cloud reflections. From analyses of…
  • p. 52 …Map of Great Falls, Montana, including hypothetical UFO paths. 180 enhanced by flaring, halation, adjacency effects…
  • p. 53 exhibited angular dimensions of about 4 by 1 milliradians, whereas their elliptical, Sun-reflection flare image…
  • p. 54 …range relationship, involve light scattering in the atmosphere, optical aberrations, flaring at the lens surfaces, diffraction…
  • p. 66 …So some comparison analysis has been made for example of the magnesium flares. A magnesium flare…
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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