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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. 15 …the meteor? (If the town is small please give county as well.) (3) Give the date…
  • p. 24 6012 a nearby farm building, casting a brilliant glow over the dwelling, while the farm animals…
  • p. 60 …Deputy Sheriff David Fitzpatrick of Washtenaw (Ann Arbor) County took the photographs with a tiny camera…
  • p. 61 …William VanHorn, 41, the county civil defense director for 10 years, said hewatched the unidentified object…
  • p. 62 …Stanley McFadden, Washtenaw County sheriff's deputy, said he and Deputy David Fitzpatrick watched the object…
  • p. 64 …in the sky. "The Sedgwick County sheriff's office at Wichita, Kans., said the Weather Bureau…
  • p. 76 …saw the red glow as they stumbled around in the dark; so did Washtenaw County Deputy…
  • p. 84 …First I would like to request the Beaver County photograph be included in the Air Force…
  • p. 86 …Is the Beaver County sighting unexplained or is that explainable, this photograph I referred to? Major…
[No. 55]
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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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