Documents / Hearing transcript

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.

6034
Page
4
20.
Draw a picture
that
will
show
the
motio:,
that
the
object
or
objects
made. Place
a.
"A"
at
the
begi,ni.
-
,g
of
the
paths
a
"B"
at
tha
e.,d
of
the
path:
a
.d,
show
a
y cha
.ges
LI
direction during
the
course.
N.
.
cLe
t
..i
.
,
- -
2....
cl
i
ivecA
.s
,
6
,..3
CO
,
-
A.,
0
-4--
.
•
d)
(
52)
21.1FPOSSIBL:;,trytoguessorestimatewhat
the
real size
of
the object
was
in
its
longest
dimer.sio...
/0/fr Feet.
22.
How large did
the
object
or
objects appear
as
compared
with
o.,e
oZ,
the
followl,ig
objects "held"
1.:
the ha
4
at
about
arm's
1a“gth7
(Circle
One):
a.
Head
of
a pi“
g„Silver
dollar
b.
Pea
h.
Baseball
C.
Dime
I.
Grapefruit
d.
Nickel
j.
Basketball
k.
Other
P
Quarter
.
Half-dollar
22.1
CIRCL,...
ON,:
of
the
following
to
indicate how
cartei...
you
are
of
your
a_swer
to
Questio_
22.
a.
Certain
.
0
Not very
sure
b.
Fairly certain
d.
Uncertai.
(
-,/
bHs....
k
C
.
,
r
II
0
i
Py.,
IP
I.
r.-
I;
r4
ft
uc
e__
OF
.2
1
,
1
2.-
--
cir4,1-r-s .
23. How
did
the object
or
objects
disappear from view?
7)
A. o
c
?
a-
L
.
,..,,,
4€_
,
fl
IA
o
it
.
.
,...
e
.-,
1_
:'
i...)
.
.
24. In
order that
you
ca.
give
as
clear
a
picture
as
possible
of
what yousaw, we would
like for
you
to imagine
that
you could construct the
object that
you saw.
Of
what type
HAMRIAL
would you make
it? How
A LARG..;
would
it
be, a.d what
Slit
-t2...,
would
it
have? Describe
in
your
1.
1
.
Cr.r,
words a
commol object
or
objects which when placed
up in thesky would give the
SaLe
appearaxe
as
the object which you saw.

Cases discussed

About this file

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.