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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 …Athlough Musearello's story was extraordinary, Patrolman Bertrand drove him back to the scene of the…
  • p. 24 …ANOTHER SIGHTING Officer Eugene Bertrand's report on the trio's sighting of the strange object…
  • p. 25 6013 • ADDENDUM II (UFO Report, September 3, 1965, Kensington, N.H. (Bertrand-Hunt-Muscarello)) Subject: Weather…
  • p. 26 …2, 1965 ADDENDUM IIA (UFO RPT, SEPTEMBER 3, 1965, KENSINGTON, N.H. (BERTRAND- HUNT-MUSCARELLO)) TRADE…
  • p. 27 …find two better officers than Hunt and Bertrand. "If I didn't believe these guys, I…
  • p. 28 …25 a.m. 3 Officer Eugene F. Bertrand (Exeter 32 _do Do. Police Department) Pickpocket Road…
  • p. 29 …Next, I went to the home of Officer Bertrand and drove him back to the area…
  • p. 30 6018 returning, so Bertrand and Muscarello advanced into the field. As the police officer played his…
  • p. 31 …Neither would venture an opinion as to what the object was but Officer Bertrand stated that…
  • p. 32 …It is possible that the object she pointed outto Officer Bertrand was Jupiter and not the…
  • p. 51 …Eugene Bertrand and Mr. Dave Hunt of the Exeter Police Department re- questing clarification of the…
  • p. 52 …Since one of us (Patrolman Bertrand) was in the Air Force for 4 years en- gaged…
  • p. 53 6041 Mr. EUGENE F. BERTRAND, Jr., Mr. DAVID R. HUNT, Exeter Police Department, Exeter, N.H…
  • p. 54 …Air Force regards the UFO sighted by Officers Bertrand and Hunt as an unknown. I am…
  • p. 67 …Officer Bertrand took Muscarello with him in his patrol car and they returned to the field…
[No. 55]
••11111111W,
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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