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Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968.

U.S. House of Representatives · 1968-07-29 · 256 pages · text from the file's own layer

This is the printed record of a July 29, 1968 symposium on unidentified flying objects held by the Committee on Science and Astronautics of the U.S. House of Representatives, chaired by Rep. J. Edward Roush. The committee heard statements from six scientists: J. Allen Hynek, James E. McDonald, Carl Sagan, Robert L. Hall, James A. Harder and Robert M. L. Baker. It also printed papers from Donald Menzel, Stanton Friedman, Frank Salisbury and others. Hynek argued that puzzling UFO reports from competent witnesses deserve serious scientific study.

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98
Mr.
Rousii.
Suppose
we
discover
there
is life
on
Mars,
in
some
form,
wouldn't
this
almost
cinch
your
case,
and you
could
say
there
is
extra-
terrestrial
life?
Dr.
SAGAN.
Yes,
sir;
it
certainly
would, but
not
cinch
our
case
about
extraterrestrial intelligence.
'Conceivably, there
might
be
a low
form
on
Mars. If
there
is
Martian
life,
it
is
of
interest
how
low
it
is.
If
there
is
intelligence
on
Mars—but we
don't
know
there
is
intelligence
on
Mars—then
we
don't
have
to
grasp
that
evolution
process.
Mr.
Rousx.
I
would
like
to
finish
this
morning's
session
just
by
telling
of
a
cartoon
I
saw
which
I
think
Dr.
Hynek
perhaps
saw
and
enjoyed
as
much
as
I
did.
It
showed a
flying
saucer
hovering over the
Earth,
with
little
green
men
looking
down,
and
one
turned
to
the
other
and
said,
"Do
you
suppose
it is
swamp
gas
?"[Laughter.]
Dr.
HYNEK.
That
is
a
good
statement to
close
the
session
on.
Mr.
Rousn.
We
shall
reconvene at
2
o'clock
this
afternoon.
(Whereupon,
at
12:15
p.m.,
the hearing
was
recessed
to
reconveneat
2
p.m.)

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