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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. 11 …Project Blue Book Information Office, SAFOI, Washington, D.C. Anyone observing what he considers to be…
  • p. 22 …CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. (Attention, Speaker John W. McCormack…
  • p. 24 …NATIONAL INVESTIGATIONS COMMITTEEON AERIAL PHENOMENA, Washington, D.C., September 15, 1965. RAYMOND FOWLER, Wenham, Mass. DEAR…
  • p. 25 …NICAP, Washington, D.C. From: Raymond E. Fowler, chairman: Subcommittee. NICAP Massachusetts Investigating U.S. Weather…
  • p. 26 …A phone call to the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon in Washington, D.C., put…
  • p. 27 …27, 1965 PENTAGON DOESN'T BELIEVE UFO EXETER SIGHTINGS WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Pentagon believes that…
  • p. 51 …Air Force, Washington, D.C. DEAR MAJOR JACKS: This is a formal inquiry concerning the official…
  • p. 53 …Air Force, Washington, D.C. (Attention: John P. Spaulding, lieutenant colonel, U.S. Air Force, Chief…
  • p. 58 …House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. DEAR CHAIRMAN RIVERS: No doubt you have noted the recent…
  • p. 61 …Representative Weston Vivian, Democrat, of Michigan, left for Washing- ton, D.C., Monday after conferring with…
  • p. 64 …Air Force.) WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Air Force handling of the unidentified flying objects (UPO's…
  • p. 65 …Air Force.) (By Bulkley Griffin) WASHINGTON, D.C.—Research into the matter of the unidentified flying…
  • p. 66 …Griffin, executive editor of the Evening Express, Washing- ton bureau.) WASHINGTON, D.C.—One of the…
  • p. 68 …Griffin, executive editor of the Evening Express, Wash- ington bureau.) WASHINGTON, D.C.—A good 2…
  • p. 69 …Griffin, executive editor of the Evening Express, Wash- ington bureau) WASHINGTON, D.C.—The case of…
  • p. 70 …Bulkley Griffin (last of six articles) ) WASHINGTON, D.C.—This is the final one of half…
  • p. 73 …MENDEL RIVERS, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. MY DEAR SIR: Thank you for the very…
  • p. 75 …located at 1536 Connecticut Avenue NW., Washington, D.C. Documented evidence and authentication re- quired to…
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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.