Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ...

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given
any
indication
of
threat
to
our
national security;
(2)
there
has
been
no
evidence
submitted
to
or
discovered
by
the
Air
Force
that
sightings categorized
as
unidentified
represent
technological
developments or
principles
beyond
the
range
of
present-day
scientific
knowledge;
and
(3)
there
has
been
no
evidence
indicating
that
sightings categorized
as
unidentified
are
extra
terrestrial vehicles.
The
Air
Force
will
continue to
investigate
all
reports
of
unusual
aerial
phe-
nomena
over
the
United
States.
The
services
of
qualified scientists
and
tech-
nicians
will
continue
to
be
used
to
investigate
and
analyze
these
reports,
and
periodic
reports
on
the
subject
will
be
made.
The
former chairman
of the
House
Armed
Services
Committee,
Mr.
Carl
Vin-
son,
recently
commented on
the
conduct
of the
UFO
program by
the
Air Force
and
stated
that
congressional
hearings
on
this
subject
are
unnecessary.
The
Air
Force
does
not
deny
the
possibility
that
some
form
of
life
may
exist
on
other
planets
in
the
universe.
However,
to
date,
the
Air Force
has
neither
received
nor
discovered
any
evidence
which
proves
the
existence
and
intraspace
mobility
of
extra
terrestrial
life.
The
Air
Force
continues
to
extend
an
open
invitation
to
anyone
who
feels
that
he
possesses
any
evidence
of
extra
terrestrial
vehicles
operating
within
the
earth's
near
space
envel‘pe
to
submit
his
evidence
for
analysis.
Initial
contact
for
this
purpose
is
through
the
following
address:
Project
Blue
Book
Information
Office,
SAFOI,
Washington, D.C.
Anyone
observing
what
he
considers
to
be
an
unidentified flying
object
should
report
it
to
the
nearest
Air Force
base.
Persons
submitting
a
UFO
report to
the Air
Force
are
free
to discuss
any
aspect
of
the
report
with anyone.
The
Air
Force does not
seek
to limit discussion
on
such
reports
and
does
not withhold
or
censor
any
information
pertaining to
this
unclassified
program.
NONAVAILABILITY
OF MATERIALS
The
following
items are for
internal
use
only
and
are not
available
for
dis-
tribution
to the
public.
These
concern
internal
management
and
procedures
for
forwarding
UFO
reports to
the
appropriate
agency:
1.
Air
Force
Regulation
200-2.2.
JANAP
146.
The
Air Force
has
no
films,
photographs,
maps,
charts,
or
graphs
of
un-
identified
flying objects.
Photographs
that
have
been submitted for
evaluation
in conjunction
with
UFO
reports
have
been determined
to
be
a
misinterpretation
of
natural
or
conventional
objects.
These
objects
have
a
positive
identification.
The
Air Force
no
longer
possesses,
and
thus does not
have
for
distribution,
outdated
reports
on
Project Sign, Project
Grudge, Blue
Book
Special
Report No.
14,
and
outdated Project
Blue
Book
press
releases.
Nonmilitary
UFO
publica-
tions
should
be
requested
from
the
publisher,
not
the
Air
Force.
SUGGESTED READING MATERIAL
Books
listed
below
deal
with
facts
and
theories
about our
solar universe,
the
sun,
planets,
comets,
meteorites,
the
universe,
stars, constellations,
and
galaxies;
telescopes,
the computation of time as
it
relates
to
astronomy,
star
maps
and
charts,
and
the
history
of astronomy.
"Sky and
Telescope,"
by
Sky
Publishing
Corp.,
Harvard
College
Observatory,
Cambridge, Mass. Monthly magazine,
60
cents
percopy.
"Weather
Elements,"
by
Blair,
published Prentice Hall.
Has
an
excellent
chapter
on
often
misidentified
weather phenomena.
"Planets, Stars,
and
Space,"
by
Chamberlain, Joseph M.,
and
Nicholson,
Thomas
D. An
illustrated,
untechnical explanation of the earth,
planets, stars,
and
theuniverse.
Prepared
in cooperation with the
American
Museum
of NaturalHistory.
"Junior
Science
Book
of
Stars,"
by
Crosby, Phoebe.
An
easy
to read,
exciting
story of
what
scientists
know
about the
stars, planets,
the
Moon, and
the
Milky
Way.
"Challenge of the Universe,"
by Hynek,
J. Allen
and
Anderson,
Norman.
Dis-
cusses the nature of the universe;
astronomy and
cosmology, published
by
Scholastic Press.
"The
Story of the
Stars,"
by Maloney, Terry.
An
introduction to the universe;
our
solar system, our galaxy,
and
other galaxies.
Many
interesting illustrated
analogies help build concepts of
size
and
distance. Includes reference to the
Van
Allen radiation belts
and
zodiacal light observation of 1960.