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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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1; . 0 DATA SHEET Page one
This questionnaire has been prepared so that you can give as much
information as possible concerning the "Unideatified Flying Object"
that you have observed. Please try to answer as many guestio,s as
you possibly can. The information that you give will be used for
research purposes. Your name will not be used it connection with
any statements, conclusions, or publications without your permission.
Tha.k you very much for your cooperatio, in this matter.
Investigator: National Investigation Committee Aerial Phenomena
::aymond L. Towler Vi=??4,,kil-or-V
13 Friecd Court
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1. dhen did you see the object?
3 2. Time of day: I-
"OUR MINUTaS
(Circle One): or P.M.MONTH Y.AR
3. Time zone: (Circle One): 0,astern (Circle One): gi) Daylight
b. Central Saving Time
C. Mountain b. Standard
d. Pacific Time
e. Other
4. ghere were you whet you saw the object?
KE:A/,5iii1.7-0A/ XX- V-- Nearest Postal Address City or TOum State or Country
Additional remarks:
5. Qstimate how long you saw the object. /0
HOURS MINUTLS SZCONDS
5.1 Circle one of the following to indicate how certain you are of
your answer to Question 5. .
a. Certain c. Not very sure
(E;Fairly certai.. d. Just a guess
6. What was the condition of the sky?
(Circle One): a. Bright daylight d. Just a trace of daylight
b. Dull daylight e. Otrace of daylight
c. Bright twilight f. Don't remember
7. If you saw the object during DAYLIGHT, TWILIGHT, or DAWN, where was the
, SUN located as you loC:ted at the object?
a. In front of you c. To your right e. Overhead
0 b.. In ba: ,:,:l S. To yo:;:.- 7 :_t f. Don't reme
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Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.