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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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“Open Minds”4 pages

  • p. 4 …continue to investigate such phenomena with an open mind and with the finest technical equip- ment…
  • p. 9 …report with a scientific approach and an open mind. The third phase of the program is…
  • p. 58 …open as a possible hypothesis. I don't think we should ever close our minds to…
  • p. 70 …with his left arm lying in the open window. Although he was wearing a long-sleeved…
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;1.1( you ca cr.:;ti:, ,te the speed Of the object? ?age 8
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If you ... .swered YsS. the, what speed would you estimate? MPH
41. Do you thi-k you ca estirzte how far sway fron, you the object was?
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If you a.swered YSS, the how far away would you say it was? /00 Fs.a
42. Did the Object(s) cause any i.terfere-ce with the operatio.. of:
(Circle Where applicable) RADIO? TVZ LIGHTS? OTHsR? NJOAli,--
I? you u..derli.‘ed a .y of above, explai.. the i..terZere“ce below:
43. ,ies a photo take,: oZ the Object(s)? (Circle One) Y,:6 NO
*lould you be willi g to submit a copy? (Circle Ore) Y..3 NO
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c. College
d. Post graduate f. Other.sspecial traiLi_g?
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