Documents / Hearing transcript
This is the printed transcript of an April 5, 1966 hearing of the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services on unidentified flying objects. Air Force Secretary Harold Brown testified that 9,501 of 10,147 sightings from 1947 through 1965 had been identified and that no threat or extraterrestrial evidence had been found. The record includes the Scientific Advisory Board ad hoc committee report recommending university studies and the Air Force's marsh gas explanation for the Dexter and Hillsdale, Michigan sightings. Members also questioned J. Allen Hynek and Maj. Hector Quintanilla about the Exeter, New Hampshire case.
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6000 "The World of Flying Saucers," by Menzel and Roy. A scientific examination of the classic UFO reports. "Tht Moon. Meteorites, and Comets," Dated 1963, by Middlehurst and Kuiper, Continuous analysis of Soviet moon photos. Chapter on Siberian meteorite and photos or comets computation of various comet orbital photos. "The Nature of Light and color in the Open Air," by Minnaert, Dover Publica- tions. This is an excellent paperback written in understandable lay language. "Meteors," by Oliver. Standard text by foremost authority on meteors. "Photographic History of Mars," 1905-61, by Slipher, E. C., published by Lowell Observatory. "Anatomy of a Phenomenon," by Valle, Jacques. "First Man to the Moon," by Von Braun, Wernher. Total UFO (object) sightings 1 Year Total sightings Unidentified ' Source 1947 122 12 Case files. 1948 156 7 Do. 1949 186 22 Blue book, page 108. 1950_ 210 27 Case files. 1951 169 22 Do. 1952 1, 501 303 Blue book, page 108. 1953 509 42 Case files. 1954 487 46 Do. 1955 545 24 Do. 1956 670 14 Do. 1957 1,006 14 Do. 1958_ 627 10 Do. 19ov 390 12 Do. 1960 557 14 Do. 1961 591 13 Do. 1962 474 15 Do. 1963 399 14 Do. 1964 562 19 Do. 1965 886 16 Do. Total 10, 147 646 1 Compiled Jan. 17, 1966.
Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.