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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.
“UFO Files”9 pages
- p. 12 …Total UFO (object) sightings 1
Year Total
sightings Unidentified '
Source
1947 122 12 Case files.
1948…
- p. 22 …subcommittee's complete
file
covering
our
investigation
of
the Exeter,
New
Hampshire
UFO
sighting
witnessed
at…
- p. 27 …Moreover,
officials
suspect
other
local
UFO
landings
have gone
unreported.
As
Lieutenant
Cottrell
said,
"If
I…
- p. 64 …17, 1966
THOSE "FIXING SAUCERS"—AIR FORCE EXPLAININGS-AWAY OF UFO's DEEPENS
MYSTERY
(Editor's…
- p. 65 …This
valuable
document,
which
was
not observed
in
the
files
of
Project
Blue
Book,
will
be…
- p. 68 …The
Fowler
charges are
in
the
files
of
Blue
Book
and
of
NICAP.
Fowler
talked
with…
- p. 71 …The
conclusions
reached
have
been
assisted
by
two
more
examinations
of
the
files
of
Project
Blue…
- p. 78 …However, some of these files remain officially open and the investigations
on them continue.
Dr. J…
- p. 85 …In
the
situation
at Exeter,
N.H.,
did
you have a
report
filed
to
you
folks…
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.