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Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ...

U.S. House Committee on Armed Services · 1966-04-05 · 88 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the printed transcript of an April 5, 1966 hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services on unidentified flying objects. Air Force Secretary Harold Brown testified that 9,501 of 10,147 sightings from 1947 through 1965 had been identified and that no threat or extraterrestrial evidence had been found. The record includes the Scientific Advisory Board ad hoc committee report recommending university studies and the Air Force's marsh gas explanation for the Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan sightings. Members also questioned J. Allen Hynek and Maj. Hector Quintanilla about the Exeter, New Hampshire case.

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HOUSE
COMMITTEE ON
ARMED
SERVICES
2D
SESSION,
89TH
CONGRESS
L.
MENDEL
RIVERS,
PHILIP
J.
PHILBIN,
Massachusetts
F.
EDWARD
HEBERT,
Louisiana
MELVIN
PRICE,
Illinois
0.
C.
FISHER,
Texas
PORTER
HARDY,
JR.,
Virginia
CHARLES
E.
BENNETT,
Florida
JAMES
A.
BYRNE,
Pennsylvania
SAMUEL
S.
STRATTON,
New
York
OTIS
G.
PIKE, New
York
RICHARD
(DICK) ICHORD,
Missouri
LUCIEN
N.
NEDZI,
Michigan
ALTON LENNON,
North
Carolina
WILLIAM
J.
RANDALL,
Missouri
G.
ELLIOTT
HAGAN,
Georgia
CHARLES
H.
WILSON,
California
ROBERT
L.
LEGGETT,
California
DONALD
J.
IRWIN,
Connecticut
JED JOHNSON,
JR.,
Oklahoma
FRANK
E.
EVANS,
Colorado
RODNEY
M. LOVE,
Ohio
FLOYD
V.
HICKS,
Washington
HERVEY
G.
MACHEN,
Maryland
SPEEDY
0.
LONG,
Louisiana
E.
S.
JOHNNY WALKER,
New
Mexico
SANTIAGO POLANCO-ABREU,
Puerto
Rico,
Resident
Commissioner
II
South
Carolina,
Chairman
WILLIAM
H.
BATES,
Massachusetts
LESLIE
C.
AREND&
Illinois
ALVIN
E.
O'KONSKI,
Wisconsin
WILLIAM
G.
BRAY,
Indiana
BOB
WILSON,
California
CHARLES
S.
GUBSER,
California
CHARLES
E.
CHAMBERLAIN,
Michigan
ALEXANDER
PIRNIE,
New
York
DURWARD
G.
HALL,
Missouri
DONALD
D.
CLANCY,
Ohio
ROBERT
T.
STAFFORD,
Vermont
RICHARD
S.
SCHWEIKER,
Pennsylvania
PROFESSIONAL STAFF
JOHN
R. BLANDFORD,
Chief
Counsel
PHILIP
W.
KELLEHER,
Counsel
FRANK
M.
SLATINSHEK,
Counsel
WILLIAM
H.
COOK,
Counsel
EARL
J.
MORGAN,
Professional
Staff
Member
RALPH
MARSHALL,
Professional
Staff
Member
JOHN
FORD,
Professional
Staff
Member

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