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

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that of a football. This was roughly the same description given by a man and
his son who reported that they saw an eerie object land In a swamp Sunday
night 45 miles northeast of here near Ann Arbor.
The Air Force announced it was bringing in Dr. H. Allen Hynek, chairman of
Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., and scientific
consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book program to track down the
reports of unidentified flying objects.
Dr. Hynek set up his headquarters at Selfridge Air Force Base, Mount
Clemens, Mich., near the southern Michigan section where the objects have
been reported several times lately.
"It was definitely some kind of vehicle," Mr. Van Horn said. "Through the
glasses [binoculars] it was either round or long."
The object's shape was briefly outlined by lightning as it veered over and
near the dormitory before retreating into the swamp, Miss Kohn said. It stayed
there for 4 hours before vanishing, witnesses said.
[From the Washington Post, Mar. 29, 19661
TaBuTH ABOUT FLYING OBJECTS HIDDEN BY AiR FORcE, FAITHFUL SAY
(By Howard Simons, Washington Post Staff Writer)
Firm believers that unidentified flying objects are for real and from a far-off
super-civilization met the press yesterday amid a torrent of reports about new
objects being sighted everywhere in the United Sattes.
The believers repeatedly charged the Air Force with deliberately hiding the
truth, which if it were known "would bring forth one of the greatest stories of
the century."
The believers also "fully backed" Representative Gerald Ford, Republican,
of Michigan, who wants a congressional investigation of unidentified objects
which have lately plagtqed his home State.
But most of all, the bbltevers want to be believed aid loved.
"We want the Air Force merely to end its secrecy on sightings and stop ridi-
culing competent witnesses," said retired Marine Corps Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, a
UFO skeptic until his conversion.
Keyhoe now is director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial
Phenomena, an organization whose major aims are to evaluate all UFO ghtings;
get the Air Force to own up t6 t t'uth' and tb expose UFO charlAtans who keep
seeing "little green men."
Keyhoe and his colleagues, including scientists, engineers, military personnel,
and pilots, scorn the thought of "little green men."
Had a visitor from afar ever set foot on the earth? the serious students
of UFO's were asked.
There was only one case suggesting so, said committee staff member and
former Newsman Donald Berllner. It happened In April 1964 near Socorro,
N. Mex., where police officers saw two small suited occupants get out of a UFO.
"They were small and suited," noted a reporter. "How could you be sure
they were not green?"
"We have no reason to believe they were green," wryly quipped Berliner.
The committee's case for believing tha t IO's are for real was put to the press
by Keyhoe. It amounted to an argument that thousands of competent persons-
including radar controllers, qualified pilots, and missile trackers-had sighted
objects; roughly 100,000 persons in all.
The Air Force, which has been investigating UFO reports since 1948, has
steadfastly maintained there is no evidence any flying object has come from
somewhere else in the universe.
Keyhoe's view, shared by the committee's board of governors, is radically dif-
ferent. The committee concludes, Keyhoe said yesterday, that "these things are
real and must be extraterrestrial because they are so superior to anything we
have."
According to Keyhoe. UFO's have been observing the earth for 200 years. He
gave two reasons, essentially, for why no contact has been made with whoever
it is that pilots the UFO's.
One reason is that the Air Force has orders to scare the UFO's away.
A second reason is that until lItibins demonstrated the atomic bomb and space
flight the UFO people regarded earth as too -prhilitlve a society to bother with
other than for surveillance purposes.