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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. 3 …55 UNIDENTIFLED FLYING OBJECTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES, Washington, D.0 ., Tuesday, April…
  • p. 5 5993 (The information referred to is as follows:) Sightings of unidentified flying objects Year Total sightings…
  • p. 7 …Thus the recom- mendations which follow are made simply from the scientific point of view. III…
  • p. 11 …Initial contact for this purpose is through the following address: Project Blue Book Information Office, SAFOI…
  • p. 22 …Without objection. (The letter to Congressman Bates is as follows:) WENHAM, MASS., April 1, 1966. CONGRESS…
  • p. 23 …FOWLER, Chairman NICAP Massachusetts Subcommittee. (The attachments to the previous letter are as follows:) Excerpt from…
  • p. 26 …Fuller) When the tidal wave of reports about unidentified flying objects hit even the august pages…
  • p. 35 …saw the object. /0 HOURS MINUTLS SZCONDS 5.1 Circle one of the following to indicate…
  • p. 36 …Did you observe the object through any of the following? a. 0yeglasses NO d. WiLidoW glass…
  • p. 38 …Haw large did the object or objects appear as compared with one of the following objects…
  • p. 43 …5. ,:stimate how long you saw the object. 5.1 Circle one of the following to…
  • p. 44 …Did you observe the object through any of the following? a. Eyeglasses NO d. Wi,dow…
  • p. 46 …Draw a picture that will show the motio:, that the object or objects made. Place a…
  • p. 47 …Wi---,ro were you located whet - , you saw the object? (Circle One):a. Inside a buildiag…
  • p. 48 …In the following larger sketch place a- "A" at the position the object was whe:. you…
  • p. 52 …In other words, both Patrolman Hunt and myself saw this object at close range, checked it…
  • p. 53 …The sighting of various unidentified objects by you and Mr. Nor- man Mascarello was investigated by…
  • p. 58 …illuminated objects a Q we can. (The material above referred to is as follows:) CONGRESS OF…
  • p. 65 …as Tinker." Both Tinker and Caswell followed the object, which once disappeared and then reappeared, for…
  • p. 66 …Other reports followed through the afternoon and night. All this from just one State's highway…
  • p. 67 …When the object moved the lower lights were always forward of the others." In this case…
  • p. 69 …whose patrol car was allegedly followed by an unidentified flying object (UFO) so that they hit…
  • p. 70 …The bulk of the object was plainly visible and appeared to be triangular shaped with a…
  • p. 71 …no energetic and thorough effort to investi- gate the unidentified flying object phenomenon is being made…
  • p. 77 …It was an object. Maybe it'll come back if all these people would stay away…
  • p. 80 …As they left their normal orbit they could be tracked and followed? Dr. HYNEK. Yes, sir…
  • p. 82 …Chairman,and we will I think continue to follow our ground rules— The CHAIRMAN. You get…
  • p. 87 …Was there not a sighting, back it seems to me in 1947, when an object was…
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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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