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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.
Wi---,ro
were
you located
whet
-
,
you
saw
the object?
(Circle
One):a. Inside
a
buildiag
b.
In a car
0
Outdoors
S.
In
at
airpla
le
e.
At
sea
f.
Other
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5
26.
Were
you
(Circle
One):
a.
It,
the
busies
section
of
city?
b.
In the
residential
sectio:,
of
a
city?In open oou-trysido?
S.
Flying near
a,
:-Irfield?
e.
Flyiag
over
a
city?
f.
Flyillg
over
open country?
g.
Other
27. What were
you
doing
at
the
time
you saw
the
object,
ad
how
,
2id
youhappen
to
aotice
it?
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28 If
you
were
MOVING
IS AS
AUTCCOBILZ
or
other
vehicle
at
the time, then
complete the following questions:
28.1 What diractioa
were
you
moviag? (Circle One):
a.
North
c.
Last
e.
South
g.
West
b.
Northeast
S.
Southeast
f.
Southwest
h.
Northwest
28.2 Nov
fast
were
you
mov-ng? miles
per
hour
28.3 Did
you stop
at
any
time while observing object?(Circle One):
MS
NO29.
That
direction were you looking
when you
FIRST SAW
the
object?(Circle
One)t
a.
North
c.
Last
e.
South
g.
West
()Northeast
S.
Southeast
f.
Southwest
h.
Northwest
30.
That
dirctio , were you
looking
when
you LAST SAW the object?(Circle
OnW
°North
c.
Last
e.
South
g.
West
b.
Northeast
S.
Southeast
f.
Southwest
h.
Northwest
31.
14
If
you
are familiar with bearing
estimate
the
number
of degrees thealso the the -umber of
degreaes
it
31.1
,Then
it
first appeared:
a.
Pron.
true North
terms(a.gular direction),
try
to
object
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. Prom horizon

Cases discussed

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