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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. 2 …STRATTON, New York OTIS G. PIKE, New York RICHARD (DICK) ICHORD, Missouri LUCIEN N. NEDZI, Michigan…
  • p. 24 …Our New York No. 2 Subcommittee in Chautauqua County (western New York.) and an intelligent young…
  • p. 26 …even the august pages of the New York Times last summer, we made a mental note…
  • p. 61 …He said it emitted wavering orange, red * * *. From the New York Times, Mar. 22, 1966 FORTY…
  • p. 62 …they satellites or airplanes." From the New York Times, Mar. 23, 1966EIGHTY-SEVEN MICHIGAN COEDS…
  • p. 64 …On Tuesday, August 3, the New York Times and other newspapers carried an Associated Press dispatch…
  • p. 67 …animals had been reported in a New York State case about 2 weeks before the Exeter…
  • p. 76 …fired a .22 rifle at a New York crow—and hit a fireworks factory—back in…
  • p. 86 …When an airliner leaves New York for San Francisco, it is seen over Ohio, Nebraska, and…
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••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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