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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. 4 …continue to investigate such phenomena with an open mind and with the finest technical equip- ment…
  • p. 9 …report with a scientific approach and an open mind. The third phase of the program is…
  • p. 58 …open as a possible hypothesis. I don't think we should ever close our minds to…
  • p. 70 …with his left arm lying in the open window. Although he was wearing a long-sleeved…
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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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