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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can
people,
I
would assume
a
picture
of
this
kind
would
be
disturbing
in
just
the
same
way
that
Life's
story
of
what
happened
to
some
dogs
up
in
Baltimore
has
now
resulted
in
legislation
being
recommended
to
the
House.
You
have
no
explanation
or
haven't
looked
into
the
series
of
photo-
graphs
that
appear
on
pages
26 and
27
of
Life
magazine,
and
pages
24 and
25?
Dr.HYNEK.
I
just
learned
of
the Life
article
last
week.
Mr.
STRATTON.
Is
that
correct,
Doctor?
Dr. HYNEK. That
is
correct,
I
have
not
examined
the
photographs
and
information
published
by
Life.
Mr.
STRATTON.
Has
anybody
examined
them
in
the
Air
Force?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
Mr.
Stratton,
we
have
asked for the
negatives
of
those
pictures,
but
the
citizens
will
not
turn
the
negatives
over
to
the
Air
Force.
You
cannot
force
them
to turn
them
over
to
the
Air
Force.
Mr.
STRATTON.
They
turned
them
over to Life
magazine,
haven't
they?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
You
will
have
to
ask
them;
I
don't
know.
Mr.
STRArroN.
What
has
Life got?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
I
don't
know,
sir.
Mr.
STRArrox.
How
can
you
have examined
this
without
finding
out
what
Life has?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
What
is
that,
sir?
Mr.
STRATTON.
How
can
you have examined
these
particular
in-
stances
without
finding
out
what
Life
has?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
The
Air Force has
not
investigated these
in-
stances,
sir,
and
the
photographs
have
not been
examined
because thenegatives
have
never been turned over to the
Air
Force.
Mr.
STRArroN.
You
have
not been
in
touch with Life
magazine
to
find
out
what
they
have?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
No,
sir;
we
have
not.
Mr.
STRATTON.
Don't you
think
it
might
be
well
to
undertake
to
make
an
effort
to
find
out whether
Life
has
the
negatives,
for
example,or whether they
have
been
in
touch with the
individuals
concerned?
Major
QUINTANILLA.
Yes,
sir.
Mr.
STRATTON.
Well,
I
think,
Mr.
Secretary, as
I
just said,
I am
very
much
impressed with
the
doctor's
statement,
and
with
yours,
but
this
kind of thing
in
Life
magazine
makes
it
appear
that
there
is
some-thing
there,
and you say
that
you have examined
these things,
and
there
is
nothing
there,
and
I
think that
you
-
ought
to
have examined
this
so that
we
can have an
explanation
of
these particular
phenomena.
The
CHAIRMAN. Let
me
say something.
We
cannot ask the Secretary to look
into
every
magazine
that
is
pub-
lished,
or every
periodical
that
comes
out of
everybody's printingpress.
Now,
it
seems
to
me
like
Life magazine
is
not exempted or
ex-
cluded,
if
they are as
interested
as they appear to be in
this
magazine,that
comes
to
my
office
free,
and which
I
seldom look into—that
is
my
responsibility,
I
have
other things to
do—it
looks to
me
like these
people
who
give such great dissemination to these things
would beinterested in seeing
what
the
DOD
has, without imposing on
the Sec-
retary
of Defense the
responsibility
of tracking
down
everything that
comes out of everybody's camera.
I do not
know why we
should im-