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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.
6075 and you, Dr. Brown, are going to tell us-here is what I meant to tell you-and this is far from the truth. I know of nothing else to ask him. I think we have explored every-thing. Mr. Strattft haveyou had ahy aifteithoughts Mr. STRAToN. Just one question.Was there nota sghting, back it seems to men in 1947, when an objet was observed on radar, either at National Airport or B6lling, both coming in and going out? It seems to me there was also a visual si ghting that went along with that. Do you-Major Quintanilla, I don't know how long you have been follow 4thl,6ut is tin your records at ail ? Major QhiNtAIT-LA. I am sure that if the sighting was reported to the Air Force it is on record, but I am not aware of ths is-ptfltlOAr one, sir. Mr. STRA?1ON. It seems to me both! the radoirafd'Othe rpioted V1sual sighting were relatively- in agreement. I just wonderedif y6h were familiarvith it? The CHAmUAN. Thank you, Mr. Stratton. Are there ainy other-questions from any other memfibet of the com- mittee? Mr. ICHORD. We will be back here at 2:30 The CHWAMAN. The committee will reconvene at 2:30for the pur- pose of taking tfp 412. Dr. Brown, we have no more requirement for the major and Dr. Hynek, and the resumpotion of'the hearing, this Affernoon will be in executive session. It will had todo with 412. We wIllltfik6p where we left off. Dr. Brown, if y6'a faid Gehoeral McConnell will be back at 2:30, we wil meet. We don't plAt'hvo a meeting Thursday, because I thifik a lot of members will have gone, if we flhish on Wednesday. But we do want to meet this afternoon, andt6oorrow, and -hwaybe tomorrow afternoon. Then I think we may be able to flfiish with Dr. Brown before-the recess. At 2:30, Dr. Brown. And I want to thank you, Dr. Brown, forprodftdng tliitsiiiforhation. (Whereupon, at 11:55 a.m. the committee was adjourned to-recon- vene at 2:30 p.m. of the same day.)
Hearing transcript, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 37 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.