Unidentified flying objects: hearing before the Committee on Armed Forces of the House of Representatives, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, April 5, 1966 ...

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not
overly
populated
but
certainly
not
completely
sparse.
Why
would
they
be
the only
four
people
to
see
this?
This
is
a
problem
we
are
faced
with
on
many
reported
sightings.
Therefore,
I
find
it
most
difficult
to
ascribe
a
physical
tangibility
that
there
was
an
actual craft
here.
I
would
rather seek
some
other
scientific
explanation.
Mr.
BATES.
With
respect
to
your
response
on
that
particular
case.
In
the
New
Hampshire
situation,
two
women
apparently
saw
this
object
which
they
said
was
the
size
of
a
house.
They
reported
it
at
the
police
station.
And
then the
officer
came
out.
He
saw
it
when
he
got
there.
So
there
is
someone
who
did
see
it
in addition
to thepeople
who
reported
it
originally.
Dr.
HYNEK.
Yes.
Mr.
BATES.
You
have
no
decision
with
respect
to
the
New Hamp-
shire
case?
Dr.
HYNEK.
I
would
not
offer
or
venture
any
conclusion
to some-
thing
I
had
not
personally
investigated.
Mr.
BATES.
This
particular
case
has
been
referred
to
a
study
group,
the
New
Hampshire
case,
or
has
it
not,
or
is
it
a
dead
issue?
Dr.
HYNEK.
No
case in
the
Air Force
files
that
is
unidentified
is
a
dead
issue.
Mr.
BATES. Is
it
just
in
limbo
now,
or
is
somebody
still
looking
into
it?
Dr.
HYNEK.
I
would
say
at the
moment,
considering
the
recent
re-
ported
sightings
in
Michigan,
that
it
is
in
limbo.
Mr.
BATES.
Do
you
expect to
investigate this
further?
Would
this
be
one
that
you would
prefer to
the panel?
Dr.
HYNEK.
Yes
sir.
I
think
this
is
one
they should take
a
look
at.
The
CHAIRMAN.
b0
you
think they should
be
examined
further?
Dr.
HYNEK.
I am
sorry,
sir?
The
CHAIRMAN.
Do
you
think
this
panel,
about
whom
the
Secre-
tary
has spoken, should
go
into
this
further
and
make a
report?
Dr.
HYNEK.
Yes,
sir;
I
do.
The
CHAIRMAN.
There
are
five
such
cases,
or
four,
of
some
unex-
plained
phenomena;
is
this
a
fact?
Dr.
HYNEK.
Yes
sir;
there are
at
least
that
many.
The
CHAIRMAN.
Mr.
Secretary,
do
you
plan to
have
this
board
lookinto these?
Secretary
BROWN.
We
will
continue
our
investigations
of
all
of
these,
Mr.
Chairman.
I
have
this
recommendation
to
establish
a
civilian
panel
from
the
Scientific
Advisory Board, and
I
believe
I may
act favorably
on
it,
but
I
want
to explore further the nature
of
such
a
panel,
and
the
ground
rules, 'before
I
go
ahead with
it.
I
don't
want
to have a
group of
people
come
in for
just
1 day and make
a
shallow
investi-
gation.
They
have
to
be prepared to look into
a
situation
thorough-ly if
they are to
do any
good.
The CHAIRMAN. If you cannot explain these things,
and you
are
our
source
of
beginnings,
how on
earth could
a
subcommittee of
this
committee explain
them?
Dr.HYNEK. Are you looking to
me
for
an answer?
The CHAIRMAN. If
I
'conducted
a hearing
on
this
it
would go on
and on, and on,
if
I
let it,
I
would imagine.