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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. 2 …WILSON, California ROBERT L. LEGGETT, California DONALD J. IRWIN, Connecticut JED JOHNSON, JR., Oklahoma FRANK E…
  • p. 60 …Mich., came from both Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols, who live across Michigan's southern Lower…
  • p. 61 …A patrolman, Robert Hunawill, said he and other residents of the area saw similar craft before…
  • p. 66 …attacked from a different angle by Director Robert Risser of the Oklahoma Science and Art Foundation…
  • p. 69 …But another culprit, the scientific community, must bear blame according to an August article by Robert…
  • p. 70 …McCoy and Deputy Sheriff Robert W. Goodewere on routine patrol near Damon, Tex.—which is around…
  • p. 76 …Dexter Police Chief Robert Taylor and Patrolman Nolan Lee saw the red glow as they stumbled…
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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.