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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. 5 …Witnesses have described glowing lights—lights that seem to move but never far from a definite…
  • p. 19 …is apt to miss diamonds." Scientists should never be guilty of poverty ofhypotheses. And in dealing…
  • p. 54 …I have had some correspondence with him, but I have never met him. Mr. BATES. Is…
  • p. 72 …There has never been an order issued by the Secretary of the Air Force to suppress…
  • p. 75 …Wishes he'd never seen one. Frank should have been born in the day of Dan…
  • p. 76 …It never for a minute occurred to him that the United States hadn't had a…
  • p. 78 …If the Martians don't know this by this time they will never know it. Spying…
  • p. 81 …have not been examined because thenegatives have never been turned over to the Air Force. Mr…
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34.
What
were
the weather
co
ditio..s
at
the time
you
saw
the
object,'
1
1
34.3
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Or.e)
1
1
0
Dry
a.
Cold
b.
eg
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t4st,
or
light
rain
Cool
c.
Loderate
or
heavy
rain
'i
c.
darm
1
d.
Snow
d.
Hot
1
e.
Dou't
remember
e.
Don't remember
I
35.
dhe-
did
you
report
to
some official that
you
had
seen
the object?
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Official
or
Organizatio.
Name(s) Day
Moth
Year
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c.
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wid
d.
Do,:it
remember
34.1
CLOUDS(Circle
(:)e)
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oky
b.
Hazy
c.
scattered
clouds
d.
Thick
or
heavy clouds
e.
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remember
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34.4
T,..N.PoRATUR(Circle
One)
1
36.
Have
you read literature pertai
I.g
to
Unide-tified
Flyi,.g
Objects?
(Circle
One)
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)
NO
If
Y.6.
how much? (Circle One) A
LITTL.i
MOD.:.RAT,:LY? oL....7JSIVOLY?
1
17
37. 4as
a
.yci,.e
else with you
at
the time
you saw
the object?
(Circle
One)37.1
IF
you answered did they see
the object too?
(Circle One)
NO
37.2 Please
list
their
.ames
a
d addresses
if
you
circled
'Y.:6:
(Attach
separate sheet
for above)
38. Was
this
the
first time that
you had
see.,
object(s) like this/
(Circle One) NO
38.1
If
you
a
-wared
00,
the:.
whe,, where, a d
under what
circurtsta
cos
did
you
sea the other o-e(s)?
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•
-
39.
1.,
your opi,io
,
what
do YOU thi_k
the object(s)
was
a
d
what might
have caused
it?
PO
A..0
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