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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. 12 …Total UFO (object) sightings 1 Year Total sightings Unidentified ' Source 1947 122 12 Case files. 1948…
  • p. 22 …subcommittee's complete file covering our investigation of the Exeter, New Hampshire UFO sighting witnessed at…
  • p. 27 …Moreover, officials suspect other local UFO landings have gone unreported. As Lieutenant Cottrell said, "If I…
  • p. 64 …17, 1966 THOSE "FIXING SAUCERS"—AIR FORCE EXPLAININGS-AWAY OF UFO's DEEPENS MYSTERY (Editor's…
  • p. 65 …This valuable document, which was not observed in the files of Project Blue Book, will be…
  • p. 68 …The Fowler charges are in the files of Blue Book and of NICAP. Fowler talked with…
  • p. 71 …The conclusions reached have been assisted by two more examinations of the files of Project Blue…
  • p. 78 …However, some of these files remain officially open and the investigations on them continue. Dr. J…
  • p. 85 …In the situation at Exeter, N.H., did you have a report filed to you folks…
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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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