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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.
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- p. 3 …HAROLD BROWN, SECRETARY OF AIR FORCE
Secretary
BROWN.
This
is
in response of your
recent request…
- p. 4 …In
evaluating
these sightings,
the
Air Force has
used
carefullyselected
and
highly
qualified
scientists,
engineers, technicians…
- p. 9 …scientific facilities available to the Air Force can be used to assist
in arriving at an…
- p. 10 …The Project Blue Book Office has direct contact with all elements of the Air
Force and…
- p. 11 …Air
Force
Regulation
200-2.2.
JANAP
146.
The
Air Force
has
no
films,
photographs,
maps…
- p. 17 …The
press
has
described
me
as
"a
puppet of the
Air
Force" and has
stated
that…
- p. 18 …ALLEN
HYNEK,
SCIENTIFIC
CONSULTANT
TO
THE
AIR
FORCE
Dr.
HYNEK.
My
name
is
J.
Allen
Hynek…
- p. 19 …famous
reports
illustrate
the
method
the
Air Force has
used with
great
success in finding
logical…
- p. 20 …Air
Force
is
interested in
the
phenomena
which
cause
reports
on
a
scientific
basis;
(3)
use…
- p. 26 …Later,
however, the Air Force made it a point to release a statement that the radar…
- p. 27 …It
was
about
100
feet
in
the
air,
and
about
200
feet
away
from
us.
I…
- p. 32 …Route 150
told
me
that:
(a)
An
Air
Force
officer
had
gone around
to
all
the…
- p. 52 …Since one of us (Patrolman Bertrand) was in the Air Force for 4 years en-
gaged…
- p. 53 …DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE,
Office of the Secretary,
U.S. Air Force,
Washington, D.C…
- p. 57 …Air Force, and they feel, I understand, that the Air Force has
done a fine job…
- p. 62 …The
Air
Force,
which has
investigated
more
than
10,000
such
reports since
1947, sent
Northwestern…
- p. 67 …Hector
Quintanilla, in
charge of Blue Book,
states
that the 8th Air Force
SAC
(
Strategic
Air…
- p. 70 …The
report to
Blue
Book
of the
investigating
officer
from
Ellington
Air Force
Base
believes
the…
- p. 75 …if
not
the
public trust
in
the
Air
Force
when
irrefutable
proof
of the
existence
of…
- p. 76 …Hynek, a
bearded
man who
has
investigated
a
hundred
other "sightings" for the Air
Force
in…
- p. 77 …use.
To
assist
Project
Bluebook,
there
is
an
UFO
officer
stationed
at
every Air Force
base…
- p. 79 …I
would
simply
hope
that the Secretary
of
the
Air Force
and
thedoctor could
assure
me…
- p. 85 …to
us.
Mr.
SCHWEIKER.
They made
no
mention of
planes
scrambling
from
Pease
Air
Force Base…
- p. 87 …I am sure that if the sighting was reported to
the Air Force it is on…
[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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