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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. 4 …for analysis, or for which the in- formation suggests an hypothesis but the object or phenomenon…
  • p. 6 …in this area that in swamps the formation of H2S and CH, from rotting vegetation Is…
  • p. 9 …However, in some instances, essential in- formation cannot be obtained, and no further action can be…
  • p. 18 …in some cases, has led to the formation of civilian orga- nizations dedicated to the investigation…
  • p. 22 …Chairman, I would like to get unanimous consent to insert in the record the in- formation…
  • p. 27 …night was stars and planets in unusual formations." (This is the official Air Force "explanation" for…
  • p. 65 …be flying four to a formation in a diamond -type formation. Cushing has reported four of…
  • p. 70 …stationary objects and two moving in the formation, Project Blue Book proposed that the two stationary…
  • p. 72 …For your in- formation, the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board has been asked to…
  • p. 73 …NICAP, in the 9 years since its inception, has amassed sufficient factual in- formation, documentation, 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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