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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. 5 …Our radar and optical space surveillance and tracking systems are even more restrictive and thus, even…
  • p. 6 …One space surveillance site operates a detection radar (FPS-17) and a tracking radar (FPS-79…
  • p. 10 …radar would have the advantage over a conventional "dish" radar in that it could track at…
  • p. 55 …to 0.01° for fine tracking. Needless to say, such radars often miss even well-known…
  • p. 56 …The radar "lock-on" and tracking-data- analysis program would be especially designed to avoid satellites…
  • p. 64 …Both scientists and members of the public are quite aware we have many monitoring radar systems…
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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