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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. 5 …They can appear for hours at a stretch and sometimes for a whole night. Generally, there…
  • p. 6 …tions of that night—it was clear and there was little wind at either location— were…
  • p. 10 …At night, balloons carry running lights which cause an unusual appearance when observed. Reflection of the…
  • p. 22 …have and are occurring throughout the world at night and in the daytime. It is high…
  • p. 23 …the night. When Exeter police investigated a parked car on the Exeter-Hampton bypass at about…
  • p. 24 …Then at 3:30 p.m. Officer Hunt reported from his cruiser that he had again…
  • p. 26 …We talked successively and at length to Mr. Fowler; Lieutenant Cottrell of the Exeter police; the…
  • p. 27 …There was no noise at all. It was about 100 feet in the air, and about…
  • p. 28 …I arrived at the Exeter police station at 6:40 a.m., on September 11, and…
  • p. 32 …at the Carl Dining field, many cars pull up and watch for the object at night…
  • p. 36 …If you saw the object at NIGHT, TWILIGHT, or DAWN, what did you notice co-cer…
  • p. 44 …If you saw the object at NIGHT. TWILIGHT, r WN, what did you notice co:.cerni…
  • p. 53 …This sighting at Exeter, N.H., on the night of September 2 has been given considerable…
  • p. 55 …They are either daytime sightings or night- time sightings. I will describe one, which may not…
  • p. 59 …A stable public opinion will come from a trustworthy look at the evidence, not from belittling…
  • p. 60 …Conceivably, we have been seeing only preliminary unmanned orbitings of the Earth precisely controlled at great…
  • p. 61 …he pointed it at a "flying saucer" over his home Friday night. Detroit News photographers say…
  • p. 62 …The latest was Monday night at Hillsdale College, where a county civil defense director, a former…
  • p. 63 …Allen Hynek, chairman of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and scientific consultant to the…
  • p. 64 …Running along with these explainings- away is an apparent Air Force lack of enthusiasm—especially at…
  • p. 65 …The radar at TinkerAir Force Base located the object. A little later, continued the highway patrol…
  • p. 66 …came in the night of August 1. The sheriff's office at Chandler reported two UFO…
  • p. 69 …highway patrol network the night of August 2. "The security officer at Tinker Field reports he…
  • p. 70 …by a UFO the same night—September 3—on which at least one person in the…
  • p. 75 …When they began "barkin' and bellerin' " at 8 o'clock that Sunday night, Frank ran outside…
  • p. 76 …The ground between his house and the swamp is hummocky, rolling, hut the night was clear…
  • p. 77 …the flash of photo recon strobe lights at night. All satellites and most weather balloons and…
  • p. 78 …Allen Hynek, director of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern Uni- versity, who is heading up the Ann…
  • p. 83 …I talked with some of these briefly, but spoke with at least 15 persons in considerable…
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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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