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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.
“meteor”12 pages
- p. 4 …as bright
stars
and
planets,
comets
and
meteors,
and
fireballs
and
auroral streamers.
Other major
sources…
- p. 6 …with
wide
field
of
view;
the
Harvard meteor
project
of 1954-58 provided
some
3,300…
- p. 10 …Most common are reports of
astronomical sightings, which include bright stars, planets, comets, fireballs,
meteors, auroral…
- p. 12 …This is an excellent paperback written in understandable lay language.
"Meteors," by Oliver. Standard text by…
- p. 13 …data
Other
Sate11iLe
Unidentified
Total
ASTRONOMICAL SIGHTINGS
Meteors
Stars and planets
Other
Total
OTHER CASES
Hoaxes…
- p. 14 Statistics
for 1965
1
Astronomical
Aircraft
Balloon
Insufficient
dataOther
Satellite
Unidentified
Pending
Total
ASTRONOMICAL
CASES
Meteors…
- p. 15 6003
FIREBALL
REPORT
Persons
observing
a
fireball
or
meteor
should
report
the
information to the
American…
- p. 17 …But
you have
found
parts
of
meteors
and
things
of
this
character
that
have
been continuing…
- p. 19 …unusual
or
surprising
circumstances—balloons,
birds,
satellites
'
meteors,
air-
craft,
stars—yet,
in
all scientific
honesty…
- p. 21 …I
excluded meteors,
which
do come from
extraterrestrial
Sources.
Mr.
BATES. Is
this
your
conclusion,
Doctor…
- p. 66 …Some of the
reports were the aquarid meteor showers which occur between July 26 to
August…
- p. 76 …Suit
pants
or
not,
they
started
down
toward
whatever
it
was.
"I
thought
a
meteor
had…
[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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