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Ford Press Releases, January - April 1966: 12130682

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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.

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CONGRESSMAN
GERALD R. FORD
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER
FOR RELEASE ON THURSDAY, P.M.,
APRIL 21, 1966
STATEMEN'r BY HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GERALD R. FORD, R·MICHlGAN.
NEWS
RELEASE
The Air Force bas informed me it is arranging for a study by high-caliber
scientists of some of the UFO sighting& which have never been explained.
This study will be placed under contract soon after July 1, start of the new
fiscal year. It will be carried out by a university which has no close ties with
the Air Force so that the findings will be completely objective, Air Force of~ials
tell me.
Those people engaged in the study will be high-caliber scientists who have
never taken a position on UFO's, the Air Force said. It will be made clear to them
that they are not being hired to come up with findings in support of previous Air
Force statements regarding UFO's, I am informed.
The Air Force said there is too much effort iDvolved to ask these scientiats
to make this study without pay.
The re~ort will definitely be made public, the Air Force assured me. The
whole purpose of the study is to clear the air as far as the public is concerned.
This, of course, was my purpose in recently requesting that public hearings
on the subject of UFO's be conducted by either the House Armed Services Committee
or the House Science and Astronautics Committee.
It was as a result of my call for a congressional investigation that the Air
Force now is arranging for a study of UFO's by topflight scientists not connected
in any way with the Air Force.
I would have preferred a congressional investigation with witnesses to include
reliable persons from among those who say they have seen UFO's. I still think this
would be beneficial, But the UFO study by a panel of scientists, with the report-'-... ~ ...... ; -... ,\
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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.