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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  • p. 11 …14, and outdated Project Blue Book press releases. Nonmilitary UFO publica- tions should be requested from…
  • p. 57 …They gather data quietly without fanfare, without the press looking over their shoulder. They may work…
  • p. 59 …Last year, project Blue Book, the small Air Force unit created to keep tabs on these…
  • p. 63 …press yesterday amid a torrent of reports about new objects being sighted everywhere in the United…
  • p. 64 …The United Press International, in a dispatch in the evening of August 2, named eight States…
  • p. 65 …Later that day an Associated Press dispatch from Oklahoma City stated flatly that Tinker and Caswell…
  • p. 71 …The sightings have been the most numerous since 1957." So summarized a United Press International dis…
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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.