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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. 41 …Ruppelt did not go as far as Keyhoe in suggesting the extraterrestrial UFO hypothesis, but he…
  • p. 56 …Some, but not all of the ground witnesses, observed this final fast climb-out, I was…
  • p. 65 …I predict that'social psychologists'are going to have a field day,in a few years…
  • p. 69 …The fact that the second object did go out of the field only to return to…
  • p. 82 …Although there are on record a few cases where fast-moving UFOs were accompanied by explosive…
  • p. 203 …questions and faulty knowledge. "Things cannot go that fast in the atmosphere—spaceflight is impossible—trips…
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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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