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Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968.

U.S. House of Representatives · 1968-07-29 · 256 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the printed record of a July 29, 1968 symposium on unidentified flying objects held by the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, chaired by Rep. J. Edward Roush. The committee heard statements from six scientists: J. Allen Hynek, James E. McDonald, Carl Sagan, Robert L. Hall, James A. Harder and Robert M. L. Baker. It also printed papers from Donald Menzel, Stanton Friedman, Frank Salisbury and others. Hynek argued that puzzling UFO reports from competent witnesses deserve serious scientific study.

  • p. 27 …So also when you deal with multiple-witness cases in UFO sight- ings. There is an…
  • p. 30 …A verylarge number of objects were involved. There were several different groups of objects, all described…
  • p. 31 …They spotted the first of three disc-like objects that came over Longview that morning. The…
  • p. 32 …He has made statements that simply do not fit what is known about meteorological objects. I…
  • p. 43 …A frequent objection to serious consideration of UFO reports, made by skeptics who have done no…
  • p. 48 …altitude range(climb -out) that, taken together with the fact that the nine objects were seenwell…
  • p. 53 …It was not only a multiple-witness case, but also a multiple-object case. My checking…
  • p. 54 …But that unidentified aerial objects moved in numbers over Farmington on 3/17/50 seems clear…
  • p. 56 …Galbraith, operator of the airport, who, with his wife, watched the object and Robert G. Butler…
  • p. 57 …Thus the object would appear to move against the wind since it must have been below…
  • p. 58 …Two objects, domed on the top but nearly fiat on the bottom, shaped like a cup…
  • p. 59 …Many other multiple-witness cases could be cited, some from my own inter- viewing experience, far…
  • p. 80 …I have interviewed four witnesses who sighted the object from two separate locations involving lines of…
  • p. 107 …whether there were multiple witnesses and whether there was contact among these multiple witnesses, whether observation…
  • p. 108 102 without tremendous anxiety or concern, an object hovering, moving about, going through gyrations. Twice it…
  • p. 115 …They tried to approach the object and it retreated; when they remained stationary, the object approached…
  • p. 116 …Immediately after losing sight of the object, the officers returned to the sheriff's office and…
  • p. 147 …The possibility of multiple hypotheses, i.e. that the Utah UFO's are the result of…
  • p. 176 …allfour teat objects (a pencil, key, blotter, and the color yellow). Simplecalculations (multiplication, division, addition, and…
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SYMPOSIUM ON UNIDENTIFIED
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HEARINGS
BEFORE THE
COMMITTEE ON
SCIENCE AND ASTRONAUTICS
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NINETIETH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
JULY 29, 1968
[No. 7]
Printed for the use of the Committee on Science and Astronautics
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