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This is an excerpt from the record of the April 5, 1966 House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs, which the Internet Archive holds. It includes correspondence about the September 3, 1965 Exeter, New Hampshire sighting involving Raymond E. Fowler, Project Blue Book and the Exeter police officers, plus a letter on the matter from Minority Leader Ford. Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Major Hector Quintanilla and Secretary Harold Brown testify. They say the police officers' observation remains unidentified and that no radar data or jet scrambles were involved.
6069 can people, I would assume a picture of this kind would be disturbing in just the same way that Life's story of what happened to some dogs up in BaltimOre has now resulted in legislation being recommended to the House. You have no explanation or haven't looked into the series of photo- graphs that appear on pages 26 and 27 of Life magazine, and pages 24 and 5?6 Dr. HYNEiK. I just learned of the Life article last week. Mr. STRAvtoN. Is fhat correct, Doctor? -Dr. HYN1"K. That is correct I have not exaffil-Od the photographs and information pliblished by Life. Mr. STRAToN. Has anybody examined them inethe Air Force? Major QI NTANMLA. Mr. Stratton, we have asked for the negatives of those pictures, but t h otcitizens will not tfrt thenegatives over tdthe Air Force. You cannot force them to turn them over to the Air Force. Mr. SRmvroN. They turned them over to Life magazine, haven't they? Major QUINTANILJmA. You will have to ask them; I don't know. Mr. STRATrON. What has Life got? Major QUINTAgImLA. I don't know, sir. Mr. STRATTON. How can you haveexamined this without finding oint what Life has? Maj0QMNTANILLA. What is that, sir? Mr. STRATToN. How can you have examined these particular in- stances without flindh1g out what Life has? Major QUNTANILLA. The Air Forwhas not investigated 1hes6' in- stances, sir, and tle'D'h6to5graphs have not been examined because the negatives have never been t0red overtthe Air Force. Mr. STRATroN. You have not been in touch with Life magazine to find ot WhAit they have? * Major QYINTAIMIJA. No, sir; we have not. Mr. STRATmro. Don't you thihk it might be well to undertake to make an effort toffiid'out whetlbr Life has the negatives, for exffi)le, or whethrthey have been intowh with theifidivdtitals concerned? Major Qi WTALLA. Yes, sir. Mr. STRATI'dN. Well, I think, Mr. Secretaryias I just said, I am very much impressed with the doctor's statement, and with yours, but this kind of thing in Life magazine makes it appear that tliere is some- thing there, and you say'that you have examiniU these thin-gs, and there is nothing~there, and I tlifhkthat you'ought to6have exanihed this sothat we can lave an explafation of these particular phenomena. The CHAIR[Ai. Let me say something. We cannot ask the SecretTry to look int every flfagazin6that is ptib- lished, or every periodical that comes out of everybody's printing press. Now, it seems to me like Life magazine is not exemptdl ot ex- cluded, ifthey are as interested as they appear to be intlhtg flgazine, that comes to my office free, flWhich I seldom look into-that is y responsibility, I have other things to do-it looks to me like these people who give such great disSfiihfftion to these thiigs would be interested in seeing what the DOIias, w ithloit *+inpoitngO6ftthe Sec- retary of Defense the responiBlllity of tracking down everythityrtflat comes out of everybody's camera. I do not know why we should im-
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