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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.
“Exeter”18 pages
[No. 55] UNIDENTIFLED FLYING OBJECTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D.0 ., Tuesday, April 5, 1966. The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10:35 a.m., the Honorable L. Mendel Rivers (chairman of the committee), presiding. The CHAIRMAN. Let the committee come to order. Members of the committee, Secretary Brown and General McCon- nell are back this morning for the purpose of responding to questions. At the end of our last hearing I asked that Secretary Brown give us some information with respect to unidentified flying objects. I under- stand that he is prepared to do that this morning and I also understandthat he has with him Dr. J. Allen Hynek, consultant to Project Blue Book, which is the group charged with responsibility with respect to UFO's. Also present this morning is Maj. Hector Quintanilla, Jr., UFO project officer. I think it would be well to get the UFO business out of the way first. So I will ask Dr. Brown to give us his report at this time. Mr. Secretary, see if you can shed some light on these highly illumi- nated objects. We can't just write them off. There are too many responsible people who are concerned. Mr. Ford has come out, he has a pretty good size stature in the Con- gress, and so tell me what you know, Mr. Secretary, and let's see if we can have some answers. Go ahead, Mr. Secretary. Secretary BROWN. Mr. Chairman, I have a letter here which is ad-dressed to you, and I signed it. Let me run through it quickly, because it summarizes pretty well what our views are on unidentified flyingobjects. Following that, if there are some questions, I can try to answer them, or the Chief, or Dr. Hynek, or Major Quintanilla. The CHAIRMAN. Why don't we have the doctor come up to the table now, because when we start asking questions we will have him there, and we will just go all over the board. Sit at the end of the table, Doctor. Go ahead, sir. STATEMENT OF HON. HAROLD BROWN, SECRETARY OF AIR FORCE Secretary BROWN. This is in response of your recent request for information concerning Air Force activities in the area of reportedunidentified flying objects. Within the Department of Defense the Air Force has the respon-sibility of investigating reports on unidentified flying objects and of (5991)
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