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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.
“disappeared”20 pages
- p. 5 …a definite place or lights which suddenly disappeared and popped
up at another place. The locale…
- p. 6 …The
disappearance of the
lights
when
people
got
close
with
flashlights
or car
-
lights
would
indicate…
- p. 9 …conditions, and the manner of appearance or disappearance. If the
element is missing and there is…
- p. 15 …going.
(5)
In
what
direction
did
it
disappear
(or
in
what
direction
was
it
last
seen…
- p. 21 …An
then
they
see
them and
they
disappear
and
they
don't
know
where
they go…
- p. 23 …Shortly thereafter the "thing" disappeared silently, as quickly as it had ap-
peared. 'Muscarello then hitched…
- p. 24 …Then
the
object
disappeared
rapidly
in the
distance.
ANOTHER
SIGHTING
Officer
Eugene
Bertrand's report
on…
- p. 26 …Department
of Public Safety, and the story disappeared from the pages of the press.
Skepticism is…
- p. 29 …Then
it
moved
'back
over the Carl Dining
field
and
disappeared over the
trees.
Muscarello
pounded…
- p. 31 …Shortly after this he looked
for it again but it had disappeared. Since there was little…
- p. 38 …How did the object or objects disappear fr?r view?
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- p. 39 …From horizon
31.2
When
it
disappeared:
a.
From true North
b.
Froro
horizon
,
- p. 46 …How
did
the object
or
objects
disappear from view?
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c
?
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.
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4…
- p. 47 …From
horizon
31.2
When
it
disappeared:
a.
From true North
b. Prom horizon
- p. 52 …Immediately after
the object disappeared, we did see what probably was a B-47 at high…
- p. 60 …object,
with
lights
on
its
outer edges, disappeared each time
before
they
arrived.
From
the Detroit…
- p. 65 …and
Caswell followed the
object,
which once
disappeared
and
then reappeared, for
some
time.
Later
that…
- p. 67 …Then
the
thing
had
disappeared.
Officer
Bertrand
took Muscarello with
him
in
his patrol
car
and…
- p. 69 …stood
still,
then
went
east
and
suddenly
disappeared
from
sight.
The
first
ones
were
orange
lights…
- p. 77 …hour
before
making a
tight
turn
and
disappearing.
But
these
can
generally
be
traced to pulsating…
[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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