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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.

  • p. 11 …The Air Force does not deny the possibility that some form of life may exist on…
  • p. 16 …Secretary, I have before me some pages from Life magazine. I don't know what the…
  • p. 20 …They are highly responsible people, in various walks of life, that have reported them. And that…
  • p. 60 …Maybe there is no intelligent life on other planets. Many scientists think otherplanets could not sustain…
  • p. 75 …GRAY, Huntington Beach, Calif. From Life magazine, Apr. 1, 1966 A WELL -WITNESSED "INVASION”—BY SOMETHING…
  • p. 77 …In the following report Life Correspondent Bill Wise tells of the Air Force's efforts to…
  • p. 80 …You mentioned something from Life magazine, Mr. Chairman. There were two pictures in Life magazine I…
  • p. 81 …I just learned of the Life article last week. Mr. STRATTON. Is that correct, Doctor? Dr…
  • p. 82 6070 pose on the Secretary the requirement to track down Life magazine and say give me…
  • p. 84 …Stratton was inquiring, how close was the Life magazine article to April Fool's Day? Mr…
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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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