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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.
“flares”14 pages
- p. 39 …This experience taught me much about lay misinterpretations of
observations of aircraft, planets, meteors, balloons, flares…
- p. 40 …Semi-secret
advanced
technology
(new
test vehicles,
satellites,
novel
weapons,
flares,
re-entry
phenomea,
etc.).
5…
- p. 62 …his
alarm
clock,
looking
at
it,
when
flare
-like
illumination
"lit
up
the
whole bedroom",
just…
- p. 134 …seemed
to
rule
out
balloons, airplanes, lens
flare,
mirages,
et
cetera.
Since
one of
the
cinetheodolites…
- p. 135 …reflec-
tions on airplanes, atmospheric mirages, optical flares, birds, balloons,
insects, satellites, et cetera. For example…
- p. 144 …On some frames they flare up and then disappear from view in 0.25 sec-
onds…
- p. 145 …Actual
measurements show a slight "bleeding" or flaring of about 10% to 20%.
The rectangular flat…
- p. 146 …Thus no
flaring
of the
images
could
be
expected.
The
author
noted that the
sections
of…
- p. 185 …rule
out
various
forms
of
optical
lens
flare,
atmospheric
mirages,
or
cloud
reflections.
From
analyses
of…
- p. 187 181
enhanced
by
flaring,
halation,
adjacency
effects,
etc.)
is
also
not
compatible
with the photographic
experi…
- p. 188 …range
relationship,
involve
light
scattering in
the
atmos-
phere,
optical
aberrations,
flaring
at
the
lens surfaces…
- p. 199 …So
some
comparison
analysis
has
been
made
for
exampleof
the
magnesium
flares.
A
magnesium
flare
has…
- p. 242 …The
astronomer may also witness such
events, e.g., the flares on Mars (Salis-
bury, 1962…
- p. 243 …Brilliant flares of
light occasionally seen on the surface
of Mars are too short in duration…
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SYMPOSIUM ON UNIDENTIFIED
NI di. FLYING OBJECTS
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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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