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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.

  • p. 28 …It carries a rec- tangular sign carrying white flashing lights. It was not airborne during the…
  • p. 29 …He dismissed the incident and after watching the light source for a few minutes to reassure…
  • p. 55 …four huge red lights and an even larger brighter single white light. As it came closer…
  • p. 60 …Fitzpatrick, however, said the two objects he photographed gave off a bril- liant yellow -white light…
  • p. 62 …It had a blue light on one end and a white light on the other," he…
  • p. 69 …The first ones were orange lights, the ones that joined them had red and green lights…
  • p. 75 …Others are football shaped and aglow with pulsating lights. Last week the manifestations seemed almost to…
  • p. 76 …It had red and white lights "which at times had a bluish tinge" and made continuing…
[No. 55]
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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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