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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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25.
Where
were
you located
when yousaw
the object? (Circle
One):
a.
Inside
a
building
b. In
a
car
(
Outdoors
4,?'
In
al
airpla.e
e. At
sea
f.
Other
Page
5
26.
Were
you
(Circle
One):
a.
In the
business
section
of
city?
b.
In the
reside,,tial
section
of
a
city?In open cou-tryside?
$
i
:
Flying
near
a.
airfield?
e.
Flying
over
a
city?
f.
Flying
over
open country?
g.
Other
27.
What
were
you
doing
at
the time
you saw
the
object,
a.xl
how did
youhappen
to
notice
it?
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10
1;
5
5
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28.
Nfil
If
you
ware
MOVING IN AN AUTOMOBILZ
or
other
vehicle
at
the time, then
complete
the
...ollowing
guestio,s:
28.1 What direction
were
you moving? (Circle One):
a.
North
c.
:last
e.
South
g.
West
D.
Northeast
S.
Southeast
f.
Southwest
h.
Northwest
28.2 Haw
fact
were
you
roving? miles per
hour
28.3 Did
you stop
at
a..y
time
while observing
object?
(Circle One):
YLS
NO
29. What direction were
you
looking when you
FIRST SAW the
object2(Circle
One):
a.
North
c.
Last
e.
South
g.
West
6>Northeast
d.
Southeast
f.
Southwest
h.
Northwest
30.
What
dirrtio.
were
you
loakiAg
who...
you
LAST SAW the object?(Circle
One)
North
c.
Last
e.
South
g.
West
b.
Northeast
S.
Southeast
f.
Southwest
h.
Northwest
31.
14/if
If
you
are familiar with bearing
estimate
the
number
of
degrees thealso the the -umber of
degreees
it
31.1
When
it
first
appeared:
a.
From true North
terms(a-gular direction),
try toobject was
from
true
North and
was
upward from
the
horizon(elevation)
degrees
degrees
degrees
degrees
b.
From horizon
31.2
When
it
disappeared:
a.
From true North
b.
Froro
horizon
,

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