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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Secretary
BROWN.
To
the
best
of
my
knowledge,
no
one
in
the
AirForce
and
no
one
in
the
executive
branch has
expressed
such
a
be-
lief.
Nor
have
I
ever
heard
a
Member
of Congress
make
such
a
state-
ment.
I
know
of
no
one
of
scientific
standing
or
executive
standing,
or with
a
detailed
knowledge
of
this,
in
our
organization
who
believes
that
they
come
from
extraterrestrial
sources.
The
CHAIRMAN.
But
you have
found
parts
of
meteors
and
things
of
this
character
that
have
been continuing to
hit
the
earth forever?
Secretary
BROWN.
Meteors,
of
course,
are
of
extraterrestrial
origin.
I
am
talking
about
extraterrestrial
flying
craft.
The
CHAIRMAN.
Objects that are
made
for
the
purpose of
coming
to earth?Secretary
BROWN.
That
is
right.
The
CHAIRMAN. That
is
what
I
have
in
mind.
Secretary
BROWN.
That
is
right.
The
CHAIRMAN.
So
then
your
testimony,
or your answer
in
re-
sponse
to
my
letter
in
effect is
that
there are
things caused
by
various
phenomena,
reflection
of
radar waves,
the northern
lights,
somebody
has
said
marsh
gases.
Secretary
BROWN.
Yes;
that
is
another
explanation
of
some
of
the
phenomena.
The
CHAIRMAN.
As
well
as
meteors?Secretary
BROWN.
Yes,
sir.
The
CHAIRMAN.
What
else?
Secretary
BROWN. Some
of
them
turn
out
to
be
balloons.
Some
of
them
turn
out
to
be
aircraft
seen
under
peculiar
circumstances,
and
so
on.
And
we
can
explain
95
percent
of
them
this
way.
This
does not
imply
that
a
large
part
of
the
remaining
5
percent,
the unexplained
ones, are
not
also
of
this
character,
but
we
simply have
not been
able
to confirm
this
because
we
don't
have enough
information
about
these
sightings.
It
may
also
be
that
there are
phenomena,
the
details
of which
we
don't
understand,
which
are natural
phenomena, and
which
account
for
some
of
the
sightings
we
have not
identified.
In
certain instances,
I
think
a
further
scientific
explanation
is
a
possibility.
Therefore,
we
will
continue to
develop
this
approach.
The
CHAIRMAN.
Now, we
have
here
Dr.
Hynek,
and Major
Quintanilla.
We
have
these
two
gentlemen
who
are
authorities
on
the
Blue Book.
One
is
a
scientist,
the other
is
the
UFO
project
officer.
Now, we
have
asked that
you
gentlemen come.
Dr. Hynek,
is
there
anything you would
like
to
say
to us?
Dr.
HYNEK. Mr.
Chairman,
the
press
has
recently treated
me
rather
unkindly.
The CHAIRMAN.
You
ought
to be chairman of
this
committee.
Dr.
HYNEK. The
press
has
described
me
as
"a
puppet of the
Air
Force" and has
stated
that
I
say only
what
the Air Force
tells
me
to
say.
I
would
like
to
do
something which
may
be a
little
daring,
andread to the committee a
statement
I
have prepared which has
cer-
tainly
not been
dictated
by
the Air Force.
The CHAIRMAN. At
this point,
I
want you
to turn the loud speaker
up. 50-066
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