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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.
“The Times”49 pages
- p. 3 …Mendel
Rivers
(chairman
of
the
committee),
presiding.
The
CHAIRMAN.
Let
the
committee
come
to order.
Members…
- p. 4 …or taken
place at that
time.
In
evaluating
these sightings,
the
Air Force has
used
carefullyselected…
- p. 5 …The investigating personnel
have not had the time to investigate all of these. It has been…
- p. 8 5996
The name of this project is Blue Book (attachment 1). Procedures for con-
ducting this…
- p. 9 …Some examples are
the omission of the duration of the sighting, date, time, location, pesition in…
- p. 10 …Positive knowledge of the location of all satellites at
all times enables rapid identification of satellite…
- p. 11 …the
sun,
planets,
comets,
meteorites,
the
universe,
stars, constellations,
and
galaxies;
telescopes,
the computation of time…
- p. 15 …Give
the
date,
hour,
and
minute
when
the
meteor
appeared;
also
kind
of
time
used.
(4…
- p. 19 …the
new
phenomenon
simply
did
not
fit
the
accepted
scientific
outlook
of
the time.
Thus,
the…
- p. 20 …possibly
encompass
at
the present time.
*
* *
If
the
preliminary
survey of the
problemshould bear
me
out…
- p. 22 …It
is
high time that
the real facts
about
UFO's
are
released.
A
public information…
- p. 26 …flying objects hit even the
august pages of the New York Times last summer, we made…
- p. 27 …At
the time of the September
3,
1965
UFO
sighting
I
checked
with the
manager
of…
- p. 28 …Unfortunately,
this
newspaper
used
his
statement
to
explain
the
sightings
in
the
Seabrook
area
which
borders…
- p. 29 …Frightened thoroughly
he
crouched
down
beside
the stonewall
which runs
along
the
field.
Several
times
it…
- p. 30 …There is confusion concerning the exact times of the sighting. The police
stated that the newspaper…
- p. 31 …had revealed no aircraft in the area during the time sighting No. 3 occurred;
(2) that…
- p. 35 …dhen did you see the object?
3 2. Time of day: I-
"OUR MINUTaS
(Circle One…
- p. 36 …Did the object: (Circle One for each question)
a. Appear to stand still at ay time…
- p. 39 …What
were
you
doing
at
the time
you saw
the
object,
a.xl
how did
youhappen…
- p. 41 …What
were
the weather
co
ditio..s
at
the time
you
saw
the
object,'
1
1…
- p. 43 …Daylight
Saving Time
b. Standard
Time
4.
Additional
Where were you when you saw"the object…
- p. 44 …Did the object
move
behid
something
at
a,y
time, particularly
a
cloud?
(Circle
One): YUS…
- p. 47 …What were
you
doing
at
the
time
you saw
the
object,
ad
how
,
2id
youhappen
to…
- p. 49 …What were the weather co ditio.s at the time you saw the object?
34.1…
- p. 51 …Dave Hunt of the Exeter Police Department re-
questing clarification of the time of the sighting…
- p. 52 …Another fact is that the time of our observation was nearly an hour after
2 a…
- p. 53 …Time of the reported UFO was the night of
August 2-3, 1965, and specifically 03…
- p. 54 …I look forward to the time that Government policy
will become more relaxed on the UFO…
- p. 55 …As it came closer to the car—the
little 12-year-old girl in the back…
- p. 57 …may degrade the quality of the data, because we
have a hard enough time getting details…
- p. 58 …That is all that ought to be in at this time.
The CHAIRMAN. Without objection, we…
- p. 59 …The
time has
come
for the President or Congress
to
name
an
objective
and
respected
panel…
- p. 60 …Deputies
were
called
to the
farm
three times,
but the
farmer
said
the
object,
with
lights…
- p. 61 …Harvey
said
Vivian
also
planned
to
talk
with the
U.S. Air Force.
Three
times
within…
- p. 62 …Fitzpatrick
watched
the
object
fly
over
their
car about
the
same
time
the
Mannors
reported
it…
- p. 63 …Mich.,
near
the southern
Michigan
section
where
the
objects
have
been
reported several
times
lately.
"It…
- p. 64 …Extracts from dispatches sent out at that time by the two national wire serv-
ices will…
- p. 65 …times
meager,
or
upon
the
Air
Force
statements.
The
Department
of
Public
Safety of
the
State…
- p. 66 …The time of reported sightings, the
azimuth and elevation of the reported sightings supports this conclusion…
- p. 67 …Several persons apparently observed
it,
three
of
them,
in-
cluding
two
policemen,
at
one
time.
The…
- p. 68 …at
this
time
of
year,
a
haze
that
reflects
things
from
the ground, the
fre-
quency…
- p. 69 …time
to investigate;
scientific
knowledge of
some
sort resides
in
the
UFO
phenomenon,
said
the
writer…
- p. 74 …times and are very familiar to the Air Force; in
addition to being definitely beyond the…
- p. 76 …it
was
proba-
bly
time
for
a new
visitation
from
the mysterious
little
men
from
outer…
- p. 78 …If the Martians don't know this by this time they
will never know it.
Spying…
- p. 80 …some
time
we
have
even
had
space
conventions
down
in
the
Ozarks,
in
the
last
13…
- p. 84 …As
the
major has
pointed out,
time
and
again
when we
request
the
negatives,
they
are…
- p. 86 …We requested the negative.
Mr. SCHWEIKER. He submitted it to the Beaver Times. They pub-
lished…
[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
[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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