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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 ...
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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.
“Sightings”60+ pages
- p. 4 …Based
upon
10,147 reported
sightings
from
1947 through
1965,
a
summary
of
which
is
attached…
- p. 5 5993
(The information referred to is as follows:)
Sightings of unidentified flying objects
Year Total
sightings…
- p. 6 …The
association
of
the
sightings
with
swamps
in
this
particular
instance
is
more
than
coincidence.
No…
- p. 7 …In
19
years
and more
than
10,000
sightings
recorded
and
classified,
there
appears
to
be…
- p. 9 …The Air Force base
nearest the location of a reported sighting is charged with the responsibility…
- p. 10 …TYPES OF UFO IDENTIFICATIONS AND EVALUATIONS
There are various types of UFO sightings. Most common are…
- p. 11 …or
discovered
by
the
Air
Force
that
sightings categorized
as
unidentified
represent
technological
developments or
principles…
- p. 12 …Total UFO (object) sightings 1
Year Total
sightings Unidentified '
Source
1947 122 12 Case files.
1948…
- p. 13 …Insufficient data
Other
Sate11iLe
Unidentified
Total
ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTINGS
Meteors
Stars and planets
Other
Total
OTHER CASES…
- p. 16 …It
mentioned
10,000
-odd
sightings
of
these
mysterious
objects.
I
note
it
has
a
picture…
- p. 17 …don't
have enough
information
about
these
sightings.
It
may
also
be
that
there are
phenomena…
- p. 18 …The
fact
that the
recent sightings in
Michigan
caused
a
reaction
far
out of
proportion to…
- p. 19 …would have been recognized, or that
the sighting
had no
validity to begin with.
The
UFO…
- p. 20 …responsibility
to
point
out
that
enough
puzzling
sightings
have
been
reported
by
intelligent
and
often
technically…
- p. 21 …Also,
there
should be far
more
radar
sightings.
During
the
international
geophysical year,
I
was
in…
- p. 22 …Sightings
such as the Exeter, N.H.,
sighting
have and
are
occurring throughout the world at…
- p. 23 …6, 1965
POLICE, CIVILIANS SIGHT UFO IN EXETLII AREA
EXETER.—At least five people here, including…
- p. 24 …ANOTHER
SIGHTING
Officer
Eugene
Bertrand's report
on
the
trio's
sighting
of the
strange
object…
- p. 26 …He
finally made a run for the farmhouse as the object sailed out of sight. Unable…
- p. 27 …The
Hampton
police will
tell
you
that too
many
reliable
people
have
reported these
sightings
to…
- p. 28 …Unfortunately,
this
newspaper
used
his
statement
to
explain
the
sightings
in
the
Seabrook
area
which
borders…
- p. 29 …I
then
drove
out
to
the
sighting
area
of
sightings
two
and
three,
and
interviewed
residents…
- p. 30 …As the police
officer played his flashlight beam back and forth over the field, Muscarello
sighted…
- p. 31 …e.d.t., Officer Hunt sighted what appeared to be the same object
hovering in the…
- p. 32 …The
sightings
Sighting
No.
1:
There
is
enough
similarity
between the
unidentified
woman's
report
and…
- p. 33 …It
is
possible
concerning
sighting
No.
5
that
someone
could
have
been
monitoring the
police
radio…
- p. 48 …your sighting?
If you s.,cwered Y..S was it followi-g or attempti g to…
- p. 51 …The UFO sighting took place between the Clyde Russell and Carl Dining prop-
erties along Route…
- p. 52 …Norman Muscarello,
who first reported this object before we went to the sight saw it somewhere…
- p. 53 …The sighting of various unidentified objects by you and Mr. Nor-
man Mascarello was investigated by…
- p. 54 6042
The UFO sighted by Norman Muscarello was identical to the UFO sighted
later by Muscarello…
- p. 55 …They are either daytime sightings or night-
time sightings. I will describe one, which may not…
- p. 56 …I
would
say
at the
moment,
considering
the
recent
re-
ported
sightings
in
Michigan,
that
it…
- p. 57 …The sightings are moving eastward toward my district. Laughter.
One question Doctor, as to these statistics…
- p. 58 …Chairman, until the sightings get a little closer to
my district,I have no further questions…
- p. 59 …But
Air Force
officials
assigned to
check
up
on
these sightings
seem
so
bored
and
skeptical…
- p. 60 …Maybe
all
of
these reported
sightings
are
whimsical,
imaginary
or
unreal.
But
we
need
a
more…
- p. 61 …Three
times
within
a
week,
residents
of the
nearby
community
of
Dexter have
reported
sighting objects…
- p. 62 …23,
1966
FIRST
UFO's
OF
SEASON
ARE
SIGHTED
Spring's
first
flying
saucers
have
sprouted…
- p. 63 …torrent
of
reports
about
new
objects
being
sighted
everywhere
in
the United
States.
The
believers
repeatedly…
- p. 64 …Its persistent endeavors to
explain all the UFO sightings as misidentification of ordinary objects, such as…
- p. 65 …This
sum-
marizes
the
messages
dealing
with
UFO
sightings
that passed over the Okla-
homa
Highway…
- p. 66 …The time of reported sightings, the
azimuth and elevation of the reported sightings supports this conclusion…
- p. 67 …The
New
Hampshire
sighting
is
of
significance
on
another ground.
It involves
the
reported
effect
of…
- p. 68 …20,
19661
THOSE
"FLYING
SAUCERS"—AIR
FORCE
BRUSHES OFF
FLOOD
OF SIGHTINGS IN
SOUTHWEST
(Editor's…
- p. 69 6057
But
Tinker
AFB
itself
must
have
received
dozens
of
calls
during the
heavy
sighting
period…
- p. 70 …But
Blue
Book
had
this
sighting
listed
as
"Astro
(Antares)."
Radar
does
not
pick
up
stars…
- p. 71 6059
of
investigating
the
sightings,
and
the
public.
The
conclusions
reached
have
been
assisted
by
two…
- p. 72 …However,
because of the
fact that analyses of
UFO
sightings
depend
pri-
marily
on
the personal…
- p. 73 …the
observer
of the
cause
of
his
sighting.
The
National
Investigations
Committee
on
Aerial
Phenomena
is…
- p. 74 …accelerate hori,
zontally or vertically out of sight in a matter of 5 to 10 seconds…
- p. 75 …and
was
sighted
by
87
students.
an
assistant
dean
and
the
local
civil
defense
director.
Whatever…
- p. 76 …Hynek, a
bearded
man who
has
investigated
a
hundred
other "sightings" for the Air
Force
in…
- p. 77 …Arnold's
widely
publicized
report
set
off
the
first
of
the
modern
epidemics
of saucer
sighting…
- p. 78 6066
Of the sightings so far checked out, less than 2 percent of the total are…
- p. 79 …Bates has
pointed
out
there
have
been
UFO
sightings
in
New
Hampshire,
Vermont
not
to
be…
- p. 80 …almost
synonymous
with
the
number
of
space
sightings
we
have
had
reported
here today,
namely,
in…
- p. 82 …The other item that has really led to all this concern
today are these sightings in…
- p. 83 …These
two
sightings,
although
separated
by some 65
miles,
were
a
localized
phenomenon.
They
were
in…
- p. 84 …This
committee
does not
always
agree with
your
ex-
planation
of
the
various
sightings?
Dr.
HYNEK…
[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
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U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
50-066 0 WASHINGTON : 1966
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