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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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“Exeter”18 pages

  • p. 22 …Sightings such as the Exeter, N.H., sighting have and are occurring throughout the world at…
  • p. 23 …When Exeter police investigated a parked car on the Exeter-Hampton bypass at about 12:30…
  • p. 24 …Topping the strange activities, Exeter police reported that a telephone call from an unidentified pay station…
  • p. 26 …Raymond Fowler, was just completing a survey on an alleged landing of a UFO in Exeter…
  • p. 27 …The editors at the Manchester Union Leader and the Exeter News -Letter will tell you that…
  • p. 28 …Muscarelle, 205 Front St., Exeter, N.H. 18 Route 10L, Epping to Exeter, N.H. Route…
  • p. 29 …He had been visiting in Amesbury, Mass., and had been thumbing rides hoMe to Exeter. As…
  • p. 30 …Route 150 about 3 miles south of Exeter, N.H. The duration of the observation was…
  • p. 31 …at the Route 85-100 bypass in Exeter. He radioed Officer Bertrand who told him it…
  • p. 32 …Chase, a nurse, was on duty at the Exeter Hospital during the sightings and told me…
  • p. 51 …The witnesses were Norman Muscarello and Officers Ber- trand and Hunt of the Exeter, N.H…
  • p. 52 …The town of Exeter is within the traffic pattern utilized by air traffic control in the…
  • p. 53 …HUNT, Exeter Police Department, Exeter, N.H. GENTLEMEN: The sighting of various unidentified objects by you…
  • p. 66 …an unidentified flying object (UFO) occurred near Exeter, N.H., last September. As narrated, it was…
  • p. 67 …The sequence of events near Exeter began at 1 o'clock in the morning of last…
  • p. 68 …So many have reported seeing it (the Exeter UFO) and their descriptions jibe so closely that…
  • p. 70 …which at least one person in the Exeter, N.H., ease reported being followed. Chief Deputy…
  • p. 85 …Bates was talking about, Exeter, N.H., the one Mr. Fuller has written about in several…
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