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.
I
would
like
to
know who
he
is
and what
his
responsibilities
are
before
I
comment
on
this,
Mr.
Bates.
Certainly,
from
the information
contained in the
letter
that
you
quote,
he
appears
to
occupy
a
position
of
some
responsibility.
Mr.
BATES.
It
does
seem
to
be.
And
as
I
read the
letter
which he
has
written
to
me,
it
is
certainly
written
by a
well-educated person.
And
of
course,
we
here
all
kinds of
comments on
the
other
side
of
the
issue
now,
with
this
Lunar
II
excursion
around
the
moon,
people
say
I
sup-
pose the people
up
there are
making
the
same
kind of
reports
as the
doctor
has
just
made
to
us.
They
are
making
these
kinds of
state-
ments.
Doctor,
to
be
more
specific,
the
paper which
I
have—Mr.
Chairman,
I
would
like
to
get
unanimous
consent
to
insert
in
the
record
the
in-
formation
which has
been provided
to
me.
The
CHAIRMAN.
Without
objection.
(The
letter
to
Congressman
Bates
is
as
follows:)
WENHAM,
MASS.,
April 1, 1966.
CONGRESS
OF
THE
UNITED
STATES,
House
of
Representatives,
Washington,
D.C.
(Attention,
Speaker
John
W.
McCormack).
DEAR
SIR:
My
name
is
Raymond
E.
Fowler.
I
am
employed
as
a
project
administrative engineer
in
the
Minuteman Program
Office
for
Sylvania
Electric
Products,
Waltham,
Mass.
I
am
presently
serving
as chairman
of
a
Technical
Investigating
Subcommittee
for
the National
Investigations
Committee on
Aerial
Phenomena,
Wash., D.C.
The
reasons for
my
writing
are twofold,
firstly—I
have
been
asked
by
NICAP
to
submit
to
you our
subcommittee's complete
file
covering
our
investigation
of
the Exeter,
New
Hampshire
UFO
sighting
witnessed
at
close
range
by
local
citizens
and
police
officers
on
September
3, 1965.
I
am
sure that
you
are
aware
of
this
sighting
as
it
gained nationwide
publicity
recently
through
NICAP-backed
articles
in
the
Saturday
Review
and Look
magazines.
Secondly,
I
do
want
to
put myself
on
record
as
supporting the claims
and
views of
NICAP
and
others
which
indicate
that
congressional
hearings
on
the
matter of
UFO's
are
long overdue.
I
feel
that the
American
people
are
capable of understanding
the
problems
and
implications
that
will
•arise
if
the true
facts
about
UFO's
are
made known
offically.
The
USAF
public
information
program and
policy,
as
directed
by
the
Pentagon,
of underrating the
significance
of
UFO's
and
not
releasing true,
perti-
nent
facts
about
UFO's,
is
not
only
a
disservice
to
the
American
people
now
but
in
the long
run
could
prove
to
have
been
a
foolish policy
to
follow.
After years
of study,
I
am
certain
that there
is
more
than
ample
high
-quality
observational
evidence
from
highly trained
and
reliable
witnesses to indicate
that
there are
machinelike
solid
objects
under
intelligent
control operating
in
our
'atmosphere.
The
aerodynamic performance
and
characteristics
of the true
UFO
rule
out
manmade
or natural
phenomena. Such
-observational
evidence
has
been
well
supported
in
many
instances
by
reliable
instruments such
as cameras,
radar,
geiger-counters,
variometers,
electrical
interference, physical indentations in
soil
and
scorched areas at landing
sites,
etc.
I
am
reasonably sure that
if
qualified civilian scientists
and
investigators
areable to
come
to this conclusion,
that the
USAF,
supported
by
the
tremendous
facilities
at
its
disposal,
have
come
to
the
same
conclusion
long ago.
However,
present
official
policy deliberately
attempts to
discredit
the
validity
of
UFO'sand
a
wealth of
data
and
facts
are not
being
released to the
public.
I
trust that
you
will
examine
the attached
UFO
report
and
related corre-
spondence
in
detail.
Sightings
such as the Exeter, N.H.,
sighting
have and
are
occurring throughout the world at night
and
in the daytime.
It
is
high time that
the real facts
about
UFO's
are
released.
A
public information
program
should