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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.
• HOUSE COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES 2D SESSION, 89TH CONGRESS L. MENDEL RIVERS, PHILIP J. PHILBIN, Massachusetts F. EDWARD HEBERT, Louisiana MELVIN PRICE, Illinois 0. C. FISHER, Texas PORTER HARDY, JR., Virginia CHARLES E. BENNETT, Florida JAMES A. BYRNE, Pennsylvania SAMUEL S. STRATTON, New York OTIS G. PIKE, New York RICHARD (DICK) ICHORD, Missouri LUCIEN N. NEDZI, Michigan ALTON LENNON, North Carolina WILLIAM J. RANDALL, Missouri G. ELLIOTT HAGAN, Georgia CHARLES H. WILSON, California ROBERT L. LEGGETT, California DONALD J. IRWIN, Connecticut JED JOHNSON, JR., Oklahoma FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado RODNEY M. LOVE, Ohio FLOYD V. HICKS, Washington HERVEY G. MACHEN, Maryland SPEEDY 0. LONG, Louisiana E. S. JOHNNY WALKER, New Mexico SANTIAGO POLANCO-ABREU, Puerto Rico, Resident Commissioner II South Carolina, Chairman WILLIAM H. BATES, Massachusetts LESLIE C. AREND& Illinois ALVIN E. O'KONSKI, Wisconsin WILLIAM G. BRAY, Indiana BOB WILSON, California CHARLES S. GUBSER, California CHARLES E. CHAMBERLAIN, Michigan ALEXANDER PIRNIE, New York DURWARD G. HALL, Missouri DONALD D. CLANCY, Ohio ROBERT T. STAFFORD, Vermont RICHARD S. SCHWEIKER, Pennsylvania PROFESSIONAL STAFF JOHN R. BLANDFORD, Chief Counsel PHILIP W. KELLEHER, Counsel FRANK M. SLATINSHEK, Counsel WILLIAM H. COOK, Counsel EARL J. MORGAN, Professional Staff Member RALPH MARSHALL, Professional Staff Member JOHN FORD, Professional Staff Member
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