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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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  • p. 54 …I have had some correspondence with him, but I have never met him. Mr. BATES. Is…
  • p. 72 …There has never been an order issued by the Secretary of the Air Force to suppress…
  • p. 75 …Wishes he'd never seen one. Frank should have been born in the day of Dan…
  • p. 76 …It never for a minute occurred to him that the United States hadn't had a…
  • p. 78 …If the Martians don't know this by this time they will never know it. Spying…
  • p. 81 …have not been examined because thenegatives have never been turned over to the Air Force. Mr…
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34. What were the weather co ditio.s at the time you saw the object?
34.1 CLOUDS(Circle One) 34.2 4IND(Circ1e One)
Clear sky (!5, No wi,d
a. Hazy blight breeze
'c.Dcattered clouds c. btro.g wi.d
d. Thick or heavy clouds S. Don't remember
e. Don't remember
34.3 42.ATHDR(Circle One) 34.4 MMPF.RATURC(Circle One)
9Dry a. Cold
. Fog, mist, or light rain Cool
c. Moderate or heavy rain c. 4arm
d. Snow d. Hot
e. Don't remember e. Don't remember
35. 4he. did you report to some official that you had seen the object?
Official or Organizatio, Name(s) Day Month Year
'Deck Oct, -tly,eit.ft- -P,'D 3 6 s-
01 F-1 c< —
36. Have you read literature pertai.isg to Unidentified Flying Ob ectst
(Circle One) E), NO If YS, how much i (Circle One)421:10011010
MOD,RATLLY? .XT.NSIVDLY?
37. 4as a yac else with you at the time you saw the object?
(Circle One) CD NO
37.1 11 you answered Y,,..s, did they see the object too?
(Circle One) %eNO
37.2 Please list their ,tames a d addresses if you circled YDS:
(Attach separate sheet for above)
r-- 38. das this the first time that you had seen at object(s) like this?
(Circle One) NO
38.1 If you a swered NO, the, whet, where, a d under what circumstaces
did you see the other o-e(s)?
39. In your opi.do., what do YOU thi-k the object(s) was a d what might
have caused it? c-Do
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