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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. 10 …Keeping track of manmade objects in orbit about the earth is the responsibility of the North…
  • p. 21 …radar sightings. During the international geophysical year, I was in charge of the optical satellite tracking…
  • p. 26 …wide number of observations, corrobo- rated by radar trackings from the Tinker and Carswell Air Force…
  • p. 63 …It amounted to an argument that thousands of competent persons— including radar controllers, qualified pilots, and…
  • p. 64 …homa City) had tracked four of the unidentified flying objects on its radar screen at one…
  • p. 66 …There has been no confirmation that any of the sight- ings reported were tracked on radar…
  • p. 72 …All objects which have been picked up or tracked on radar have been identified as flocks…
  • p. 77 …Strange blips on radar screens have occasionally unsettled personnel at track- ing stations—e.g., two…
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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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Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.