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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.
“bright lights”13 pages
- p. 6 …with
flashlights
or car
-
lights
would
indicate
that
the
glow
seemed
bright
to
dark
-adapted
eyes…
- p. 10 …Most common are reports of
astronomical sightings, which include bright stars, planets, comets, fireballs,
meteors, auroral…
- p. 26 …They reported to him that an airborne object, bright
red and flashing, had been trailing then…
- p. 27 …I
could
see
five
bright
red
lights
in
a
straight
row.
They
dimmed
from
right to…
- p. 29 …Its
lights
were
so
bright that
the
Russell
home was
bathed
with
a
red glow.
The…
- p. 30 …a straight row of
four extraordinarily bright red pulsating lights coming into the field at tree…
- p. 36 …Bright moo.light
: c. b. Dull noo.light
d. Don't remember c. No moonlight- dark…
- p. 44 …A
few
•
Bright moo.light
C5?
Dull
noonlight
.
Don't remember
c.
No
noo.light- dark…
- p. 61 …thing
they
saw
was
bright
and
shiny with
flashing
colored
lights
while
the
camera
recorded
a…
- p. 67 …The
lights
were
so
bright
I
was
unable
to
make
out
any
form.
"There
was
no…
- p. 70 …There
was
no
noise
or
any
trail.
"The
bright
purple
light
illuminated
the
ground
directly
underneath…
- p. 77 …The
most
common
reports
stem
from
bright
stars,
planets
and
meteorites, particularly
when
viewed through broken…
- p. 83 …There
were
several
isolated
reports
by
people
who
said
that
yes,
they
saw
a
bright
light…
[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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