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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 …Allen and Anderson, Norman. Dis- cusses the nature of the universe; astronomy and cosmology, published by…
  • p. 23 …REPORTS CHASE At 12 a.m., Norman J. Muscarello, 18, of 2051/2 Front Street, Exeter…
  • p. 26 …Within that same hour, Norman Muscarello, an 18-year-old resident of Exeter, was hitchhiking home…
  • p. 28 …1 2 and 3 Unidentified woman motorist Norman J. Muscarelle, 205 Front St., Exeter, N.H…
  • p. 29 …I preceded to the residence of Norman Muscarello and discovered that he was out of State…
  • p. 30 …The duration of the observation was about 10 minutes by Officer Bertrand and Norman Muscarello and…
  • p. 51 …The witnesses were Norman Muscarello and Officers Ber- trand and Hunt of the Exeter, N.H…
  • p. 52 …place between midnight and 2 a.m. Norman Muscarello, who first reported this object before we…
  • p. 54 6042 The UFO sighted by Norman Muscarello was identical to the UFO sighted later by Muscarello…
  • p. 65 …from the Purcell area north through the Norman area to Chandler and back through Meeker and…
  • p. 66 …Two individuals—names given—spotted a UFO between Norman and Purcell. "Tinker AFB looking at it…
  • p. 67 …There he found Norman J. Muscarello, 18, of Exeter who had come to the sta- tion…
  • p. 69 …Or what did the five citizens of Norman, Okla., see looking at a white globe 30…
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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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Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.