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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.
“Nevers”8 pages
- p. 5 …Witnesses have described glowing lights—lights that seem to move but
never far from a definite…
- p. 19 …is
apt
to
miss diamonds."
Scientists
should never be
guilty
of poverty ofhypotheses.
And
in dealing…
- 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…
W.-
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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.