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

U.S. House Committee on Armed Services · 1966-04-05 · 88 pages · text from the file's own layer

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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  • p. 30 …They ran to the cruiser where Bertrand immediately put in a radio call to headquarters for…
  • p. 31 …After returning Officers Bertrand and Hunt to headquarters, both the major and lieutenant returned to the…
  • p. 52 …DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE, HEADQUARTERS,8TH AIR FORCE(SAC), Westover Air Force Base, Mass.,Novembr…
  • p. 61 …The AirForce's Michigan headquarters in Battle Creek would not comment. Two persons who slogged through…
  • p. 63 …Hynek set up his headquarters at Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount Clemens, Mich., near the southern…
  • p. 64 …do a thorough job of investigating sightings. Headquarters of the Air Force investigation and conclusions on…
  • p. 65 …August 5, from the various highway patrol headquarters over the State. This valuable document, which was…
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ADDENDUM II
(UFO Report, September 3, 1965, Kensington, N.H. (Bertrand-Hunt-Muscarello))
Subject: Weather, September 3, 1965, a.m.
To: NICAP, Washington, D.C.
From: Raymond E. Fowler, chairman:
Subcommittee.
NICAP Massachusetts Investigating
U.S. Weather Forecast: Skies: Clear. Wind direction: Northwest, Wind
velocity: 5 miles per hour. Temperature: Lower fifties.
Respectfully submitted.
RAYMOND E. FOWLER,
NICAP Investigator.
50-066 0-66—No.55-4

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