Documents / Official release
This file from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library holds press releases and statements that House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford issued between January and April 1966. Most cover Vietnam policy, the war on poverty, inflation, foreign aid, the federal budget and changes in his press staff. An April 21, 1966 statement says the Air Force told Ford it would contract a university with no close Air Force ties to have scientists study unexplained UFO sightings and make the report public. According to Ford, his call for congressional hearings led to this study.
CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER NEWS RELEASE FOR R~LEASE TUESDAY, P.M. NQ'!.'E TO ALL NEWS MZD!A: House M:.nority Le!lde!' Gerald P.• Ford, R-Hich:!..gan, toc:!a:" s<.2.nt tha atl;ache:l lett-er to the chai.r'2len and the rank:tng Republi~an m~bers of the House Committees on A~med Services and Science and Astronautics s urging that one com:cdttee or the othe.r inve.st.:l..gate the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's). Ford is not sa::isfied wit.h the Air Fcrce explanation of the recent sightings in l.fichtgan and deecr:!.bes the "ewe.mp gas" vs:::.sion gi,Ten by astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek as "flippant." Fol·d has received a number of,\elegrams and letteo.·s from individuals anxious to see a congressional investigation of UFO's.
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 55 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.