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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.
“Works”11 pages
- p. 7 …with
scientific
training)
should
be
designated
to
work
with
the
cor-
responding
university
team
for that…
- p. 8 …Accordingly, it is requested that a working scientific panel composed of both
physical and social scientists…
- p. 10 …birds, kites, spurious radar indications, hoaxes, fire-
works, and flares.
Aircraft, satellites, balloons, and the like…
- p. 19 …We
have
used as
a working
hypothesis,
when
first
confronted with
a
report,
that
a
conventional…
- p. 20 …I
would
recommend
that:
(1)
se-
lected
"unknowns"
continue
to
be
worked upon
and due
publicity…
- p. 24 …Thanks
again for
your hard
work
on our
behalf.
Sincerely,
DICK HALL.
- p. 32 …Parker
Blodgett,
works
as
a
correspondent
for
the "Haverhill
(Mass.)
Gazette"
newspaper
and
was
asked
by…
- p. 57 …Well, sir, scientists have a somewhat different way
of working. They gather data quietly without fanfare…
- p. 61 …Hynek
will
work from
Selfridge
Air Force
Base
near
Mount
Clements, the Air
Force
said.
In…
- p. 77 …Unreported
local
flights
by
privateaircraft
pose the
most
frequent problem
in
this detective
work.
Strange
blips…
- p. 84 …couldn't
help
be
acquainted
with
their
work.
Mr.
'CHORD.
What
is
the
makeup
of
this…
[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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