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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. 12 …Total UFO (object) sightings 1 Year Total sightings Unidentified ' Source 1947 122 12 Case files. 1948…
  • p. 22 …subcommittee's complete file covering our investigation of the Exeter, New Hampshire UFO sighting witnessed at…
  • p. 27 …Moreover, officials suspect other local UFO landings have gone unreported. As Lieutenant Cottrell said, "If I…
  • p. 64 …17, 1966 THOSE "FIXING SAUCERS"—AIR FORCE EXPLAININGS-AWAY OF UFO's DEEPENS MYSTERY (Editor's…
  • p. 65 …This valuable document, which was not observed in the files of Project Blue Book, will be…
  • p. 68 …The Fowler charges are in the files of Blue Book and of NICAP. Fowler talked with…
  • p. 71 …The conclusions reached have been assisted by two more examinations of the files of Project Blue…
  • p. 78 …However, some of these files remain officially open and the investigations on them continue. Dr. J…
  • p. 85 …In the situation at Exeter, N.H., did you have a report filed to you folks…
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32. In the followi-g Sketch, imagine that you are at the poi,t shown.
Place a. "A" 0- the curved lie to show how high the object was above
the horizo, (Skyli .o) whe, you ?IRS saw it. Place a "B" on the oluz
curved liue to show how high the object was above the horizo., (skyline)
whe- you LAST saw it.
33. In the following larger sketch place a- "A" at the position the object
was whe:. you 7/RST saw it, a.d a "B" at its positio., who, you LAST
saw it. (Refer to scalier sketch as a, exar,ple of "how" to complete
the larger sketch.)
33.1 were there a v KNOWN aircraft, the sky dung
(Circle One):
your sighting?
If you s.,cwered Y..S was it followi-g or attempti g to i-tercept
the U.:ide-tified Plyi-g Object: (Circle One): Y..b NO
If you a-swered Y,.o please circle TYPa of aircraft:
nILIT,0Y: C • RI VAT.? 2ROP.f.LL
Hew ray engines did the aircraft have?

Cases discussed

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Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 88 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.