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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.
“United Press”7 pages
- p. 11 …14,
and
outdated Project
Blue
Book
press
releases.
Nonmilitary
UFO
publica-
tions
should
be
requested
from…
- p. 57 …They gather data quietly without fanfare, without the
press looking over their shoulder. They may work…
- p. 59 …Last
year, project
Blue Book,
the small Air Force
unit created to
keep
tabs
on
these…
- p. 63 …press yesterday
amid
a
torrent
of
reports
about
new
objects
being
sighted
everywhere
in
the United…
- p. 64 …The United Press International, in a dispatch in the evening of August 2, named
eight States…
- p. 65 …Later
that
day an
Associated
Press
dispatch
from Oklahoma
City
stated
flatly
that
Tinker
and
Caswell…
- p. 71 …The
sightings
have
been the
most numerous
since 1957."
So summarized
a
United Press
International
dis…
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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.