Ford UFO Files

RADIO TAPE FOR FIFTH DISTRICT STATIONS, MARCH 30, 1966.
My friends of the fifth congressional district, this is your congressman,
Jerry Ford, speaking to you from the nation's capital.
As you know, I have requested a congressional investigation of unidentified
flying objects, UFO's, as they are called.
I am most serious about this; but, of cours~this is the kind of subject
that lends itself to some flak, a little criticism, and a shower of compliments.
One day this week, I felt an unidentified flying object whiz past my ear--
my right ear, naturally. Upon close inspection, I had no more trouble
identifying this particular UFO than the Air Force did in telling the people
of Michigan they have been seeing swamp gas.
The UFO I encountered was a brickbat tossed by an irate gentleman who
believes Congress could use its time to much better advantage than in investigating
what he calls ''UFO hysteria."
But this was one of the few criticisms I encountered in the more than
50 letters I have received siacefirst proposing that UFO's be investigated by
either the House Armed Services Committee or the House Science and Astronautics
CODIIlittee.
Many of the letters I have received are from Michigan--from Grand Rapids,
Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Algonac, Petoskey, Port Huron, Utica, Grosse
Pointe, Bay City, and other points.
But there is interest all over the country, and everyone but the wielder
of the aforementioned brickbat is urging that I follow up (r\
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there be a congressional investigation of UFO's. I fully
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