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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.
“Encounters”21 pages
- p. 11 …occurrences of electro-
magnetic phenomena in UFO encounters.
It would be foolhardy to attempt to present…
- p. 12 …This is the first problem a scientist encounters when he takes a look
at the UFO…
- p. 13 …I
recall
an
encounter
I
had
sometime ago
with
the
then
chief
scientist
at
the
Pentagon…
- p. 21 …reason to doubt, reports in-
volving close encounters with unexplainable craft, with physical effects
on animals…
- p. 25 …area off and on rather casually,
mainly encountering sincere laymen who do not recognize an aircraft…
- p. 26 …Over and over
you encounter that. People are reluctant to report what they are
seeing. There…
- p. 27 …You do encounter cases from
time to time where you end up thinking, well, this person…
- p. 39 …educational; yet on a few occasions I encountered witnesses of
seemingly high credibility whose reports lay…
- p. 42 …SOME REMARKS
ON
INTERVIEWING
EXPERIENCE
AND
TYPES
OF
UFO
CASES
ENCOUNTERED
1.
Sources
of cases
dealt…
- p. 44 …Occasionally one encounters witnesses for whom the chance of prior knowl-
edge is so low as…
- p. 45 …But
they
constitute
four
commonly
encountered
categories
that are of
interest
here.
Examples
will
be
found…
- p. 75 …true
state
of the
UFO
problem,
we
encounter
disturbingly
large
amounts
of
misinformation.
As
with
other…
- p. 82 …I have
encountered cases where severe bodily damage was done, or where evident hazard
of damage…
- p. 83 …Similar instances were encountered in my
checks on Australian UFO cases. There are probably of the…
- p. 85 …scattered reports of in-
juries in UFO encounters, warrants no panic response but does warrant far…
- p. 88 …Inversion
layers
are
essentially
horizontally,
and
the
actually-
encountered
values
of the
inversion
lapse
rates
are…
- p. 95 …The first suggestion made by
the British at Cambridge,when they encountered this phenomenon was
perhaps…
- p. 96 …That
takes
us
into
ques-
tions
of
the theory
of
relativity,
which has
had
previous encounters…
- p. 110 …I
have
encountered
similar
things in
academic
colleagues
from
a
variety
of
fields,
finding
they
are…
- p. 237 …19 x
25
or
475
subject
-photograph
encounters.
These
could
now
be compared
with the
descriptive…
- p. 242 …the study of the
phenomena, it would encounter many
difficulties in knowing what approach
to take…
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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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Cases discussed
- The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima 1917
Except for the Fatima incident... Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
June 24, 1947... Mr. Arnold, reported "nine peculiar-looking aircraft" - The Father Gill Sightings at Boianai 1959
Boiani, New Guinea, June 26, 27, 1959... Father W. B. Gill - The Lonnie Zamora Incident, Socorro 1964
terrain of the Socorro, New Mexico, sighting, April 24, 1964. Zamora first sighted the object - The Exeter Incident 1965
Exeter, New Hampshire, September 3, 1965... Patrolman Eugene Bertrand - Michigan "Swamp Gas" Sightings: Dexter and Hillsdale 1966
the subsequent one in the Michigan swamps
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Hearing transcript, from the govinfo collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.