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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. 23 …area. The incidents occurred early Friday morning. According to those who saw the unidentified flying object…
  • p. 26 …of town along Route 150, near Kensington. According to his statement to the police, he looked…
  • p. 53 …This report was submitted to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in accordance with APR 200-2…
  • p. 54 …of the details of their sighting but according to Officer Bertrand, the object they described was…
  • p. 63 …are so superior to anything we have." According to Keyhoe. UFO's have been observing the…
  • p. 67 …and in it an hysterical woman, who according to the officer's report to the investigative…
  • p. 69 …But another culprit, the scientific community, must bear blame according to an August article by Robert…
  • p. 77 …is respon- sible for initiating the investigation. According to Maj. Hector Quintanella, Jr., a physicist who…
  • p. 86 …to the same point,there it was,according to the police officer's testimony. Dr. HYNEK…
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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
HEARING
BY
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
APRIL 5, 1966
[Pages of all documents printed in behalf of the activities of the House
Committee on Armed Services are numbered cumulatively to
permit a comprehensive index at the end of the Con-
gress. Page numbers lower than those in
this document refer to other
subjects.]
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
50-066 0 WASHINGTON : 1966

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