House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs, April 5, 1966

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The Air Force totals 10,147 UFO reports and states that 646 of them remain
unexplained by provable natural phenomena.
Maybe all of these reported sightings are whimsical, imaginary or unreal.
But we need a more credible and detached appraisal of the evidence than we are
getting.
Maybe there Isno intelligent life on other planets. Many scientists think other
planets could not sustain such life. But we don't really know.
One fact about the UFO's gives me pause. There have been no really solid
reports of creatures being seen getting off landed saucers. To venture from one
planet to another involves great intellectual curiosity and I would think it almost
impossible for someone from outer space, once here, to stifle that curiosity to the
extent of not trying to make personal contact with Earth people.
Conceivably, we have been seeing only preliminary unmanned orbitings of the
Earth precisely controlled at great distances. But we don't know.
We need to get all the data drawn together in one place and examined far more
objectively than anyone has done so far, A stable public opinion. Will come
from a trustworthy look at the evidence, not from belittling it.
[From the Washington Evening Star, Mar. 25, 19661
DEPUTY SHERIFF "SHOOTS" A UFO OVER MIOHIGAN
ANN ARBOR, MICH.-A Michigan deputy sheriff said an unidentified flying
object sighted over southern Michigan last week was trapped---on film-and still
another UFO was reported yesterday.
Deputy Sheriff David 'Fitzpatrick of Washtenaw (Ann Arbor) County took
the photographs with a tiny camera roughly the size of a man's two forefingers
held together.
Prints were delayed because the tiny film had to be sent to Forest Hills, N.Y.,
for development.
The new sighting of an unidentified flying object near Holland, Mich., came
from both Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nichols, who live across Michigan's southern
Lower-Peninsula near Saukottick. They said it flew across a highway ahead of
them, no more than 150 to 200'feet high.
Nichols, 24, said the object appeared about halt the size of an automobile and
was "a round circle glowing red on'he inside and white on the outside."
Nichols' description, fits roughly that given by several'of more than a score who
have reported sightings in the Ann Arbor area in the last 10 days.
Fitzpatrick, however, said the two objects he photogra phed gave off a bill-
liant yellow-white light in graceful swoops which he and Sheriff's Sgt. N. K.
Schneider observed from about 4 a.m. to 7 ahn., March 16.
The photographs show two distinct streaks of light in the sky high above
street lights leading into Milan. No details of the objects are visible In the
photographs blow up to 8 by 10 il hes from thetiny film.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a Northwestern University astrophysicist, was sent here by
the Air Force to investigate recent reports.
He has scheduled a news conference in Detroit today to discuss his probe.
Meanwhile, reports of Unidefiffled flying objects moved south into Ohio today.
A farmer who lives near Upper Sandusky in northwestern Ohio told sheriff's
deputies that an object shaped "like a top" or a "Christmas tree upside down"
hovered over a wooded area on his property early today.
Deputies were called to the farm three times, but the farmer said the object,
with lights on Its outer edges, disappeared each time before they arrived.
[From the Detroit News, Mar. 23, 1960J
PHOTO ADDS NEW WRINKLE TO SAUCERS
(By Douglas Bradford)
While Air Force officials prowled through the countryside for some sign of the
strange night visitors that have been zipping through southeastern Michigan
skies, a Monroe area boy came up with what he said was a picture of one.