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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.

  • p. 26 …m., Officer Bertrand was called on his car radio and instructed to take the boy back…
  • p. 29 …1 At approximately 12:30 a.m., e.d.t., Officer Bertrand came upon one woman…
  • p. 32 …sky between 9 and 9:30 p.m. on September 5, 1965. Since Venushad set and…
  • p. 60 …Schneider observed from about 4 a.m. to 7 a.m., March 16. The photographs show…
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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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Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.