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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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  • p. 7 …with scientific training) should be designated to work with the cor- responding university team for that…
  • p. 8 …Accordingly, it is requested that a working scientific panel composed of both physical and social scientists…
  • p. 10 …birds, kites, spurious radar indications, hoaxes, fire- works, and flares. Aircraft, satellites, balloons, and the like…
  • p. 19 …We have used as a working hypothesis, when first confronted with a report, that a conventional…
  • p. 20 …I would recommend that: (1) se- lected "unknowns" continue to be worked upon and due publicity…
  • p. 24 …Thanks again for your hard work on our behalf. Sincerely, DICK HALL.
  • p. 32 …Parker Blodgett, works as a correspondent for the "Haverhill (Mass.) Gazette" newspaper and was asked by…
  • p. 57 …Well, sir, scientists have a somewhat different way of working. They gather data quietly without fanfare…
  • p. 61 …Hynek will work from Selfridge Air Force Base near Mount Clements, the Air Force said. In…
  • p. 77 …Unreported local flights by privateaircraft pose the most frequent problem in this detective work. Strange blips…
  • p. 84 …couldn't help be acquainted with their work. Mr. 'CHORD. What is the makeup of this…
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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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