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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.

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  • p. 11 …14, and outdated Project Blue Book press releases.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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UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
HEARING
BY
COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES
OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
EIGHTY-NINTH CONGRESS
SECOND SESSION
APRIL 5, 1966
[Pages of all documents printed in behalf of the activities of the House
Committee on Armed Services are numbered cumulatively to
permit a comprehensive index at the end of the Con-
gress. Page numbers lower than those in
this document refer to other
subjects.]
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
50-066 0 WASHINGTON : 1966

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