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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.

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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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  • p. 12 …in a peasant society whose eyes were never turned toward the skies. Can we afford not…
  • p. 13 …for a proper and definitive study will never develop. I recall an encounter I had sometime…
  • p. 16 …A very character- istic statement by those making the reports is: "I have never seen anything…
  • p. 18 …They also usually request anonymity which is always granted. (4) UFO's are never seen at…
  • p. 19 …Other misconceptions are that UFO's are never reported by scien- tifically trained people, are never…
  • p. 20 …it has never been considered worthwhile to improve the data -gathering process because the whole subject…
  • p. 27 …he is looking at something he has never seen before. I like Dr. Hynek's phrase…
  • p. 37 …at the Ontario Hydro Commission plant has never been identified, but initially thetentative suspicion was centered…
  • p. 39 …cover- ing innumerable intriguing cases I had never before heard of, and (above all) after the…
  • p. 43 …diminish in sig- nificance, though they can never be overlooked. A frequent objection to serious consideration…
  • p. 45 …out- of-the-way rural areas but never over large cities? Why don't large groups…
  • p. 48 …Smith emphasized that they were never certain of sizes and distances, but that they had the…
  • p. 53 …is deceased), I believe that there has never been any dispute as to the observed facts…
  • p. 59 …Many other sources could be cited to show that the intimation that UFOs are never seen…
  • p. 65 …After the 'official "explanation" was publicized, he decided he'd never report another one. I predict…
  • p. 68 …In the ensuing two decades, he has never again seen anything like it. Clearly, the probability…
  • p. 69 …Moore never got a sufficiently clear view to identify any finer details if any were present…
  • p. 75 …the past twenty years, cases that ought never have been so labelled, had the evaluators kept…
  • p. 76 …Ground radar stations never detected the unknown that was seen visually and contacted by airborne radar…
  • p. 77 …strong, bright pips, said that "anomalous propagation never entered our heads as an explanation." Howard S…
  • p. 78 …7) but could never close with the unknown as its continued on its north- bound course…
  • p. 80 …All three said they had never before seen anything like it. Munger decided to phone his…
  • p. 81 …The photos were shortly taken by Base military authorities and were never seen again by the…
  • p. 87 …referred to repeatedly in Menzel's writings, never with any quantitative discussion of precisely what he…
  • p. 100 …visual observations of classical UFO's have never been made by profes- sional astronomers. For example…
  • p. 101 …how the promised political or social intervention never materializes. Psychological Factors. The psychologist Carl Jung pointed…
  • p. 125 …Oh, heavens, I never suggested that, I hope. Mr. BOONE. Well, let me say, science fiction…
  • p. 159 …He has not ever been exposed to any toxic substances, has never had to take any…
  • p. 168 …He said he had never had the experience of deja-vu episodes or of performing acts…
  • p. 171 …It never occurred to him to call anyone else's attention to the light (probably because…
  • p. 172 …He had never seen anything like it before and in fact had never previously had the…
  • p. 173 …He has taken only two sick days in the entire five years and is never late…
  • p. 174 …He never has fantasied actively taking his own life, however, and feels it would be very…
  • p. 175 …He never was one to participate in extracurricular activities, but always maintained a part-time job…
  • p. 176 …Prior to seeing that light, he apparently never experienced a deja vu, or any illusory or…
  • p. 194 …If the observer being studied is truly sociopathic and has never de- veloped a super -ego…
  • p. 203 197 This data, which most people have never seen or even heard of, is published in…
  • p. 206 …They never have had enough sCientists in the project. They have failed to follow up certain…
  • p. 221 …Isn't it true that UFOs have never been sighted on radar? No, it is not…
  • p. 243 …make such an all- inclusive negative statement. Never- theless, many of the arguments are highly compelling…
  • p. 244 …A balloon reported as a UFO was never out of sight of its launchers. A perplexing…
  • p. 247 …al- though he apologizes because he has never had the time to make a thorough search…
  • p. 249 …two leads appeared, but other witnesses could never be located), but his ap- parent sincerity was…
AFTERNOON
SESSION
Mr.
Rou
-
sx.
The
committee
will
be
in
order.
This
afternoon
we
are
going
to
hear
first
from Dr.
Robert
L.
Hall.
Dr.
Hall
is
professor
and
head
of
the
Department
of
Sociology at
theUniversity
of
Illinois,
and
has
been
since
1965.
He
too
has
a
distinguished
career.
Dr.
Hall,
we
are
glad
to
welcome
you
as
a
participant
in
this
symposium, and
you
may
proceed.
(The
biography
of
Dr.
Hall
is
as follows:)
DR.
ROBERT
L.
HALL
Born
February
25, 1924,
at
Atlanta, Georgia.
Married;
3
children.
EDUCATION
Yale
University,
1941-42.
B.A.
1947.
University
of
Stockholm,
Sweden,
1947-48.University
of Minnesota,
1949-52.
M.A.,
1950.
Ph.D.,
1953.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1.
Instructor,
Extension
Division,
University
of
Stockholm,
Sweden,
1948.2.
Research
Assistant,
University of
Minnesota,
1950-52.
3.
Social
Psychologist in
the Air
Force
Personnel
&
Training
Research
Center,
1952-1957.
Engaged
in
research
on
performance
of
bomber
crews, the
role
of the
aircraft
commander, and
processes
of
evaluation
of small teams.
4. Assistant Professor
(1957-1960)
and
Associate
Professor
(1960-62) of
Soci-
ology.
Teaching
social
psychology,
especially
the
processes
of
mass
communication
and
opinion
change. Conducting
research
on
social
psychological
aspects of higher
education
and
effects
of
social
interaction
on
the learning
process.
5.
Program
Director
for
Sociology
and
Social
Psychology, National
Science
Foundation,
1962-1965.
Administered
a
program
of
research
grants
and
related
activities
to
strengthen Sociology
and
Social
Psychology
in
universities
in
the
United
States
and
to
bolster
understanding
in these
fields
through
basic
research.
6. Associate Professor of Sociology
and
Psychology (1965-66)
and
Professor
of
Sociology
and
Head
of the
Department
of
Sociolgy
(
since
1966),
University
of
Illinois
at Chicago
Circle.
PUBLICATIONS
A
number
of
articles
in
Sociological
and
Psychological journals
and
chaptersin professional
books.
A
few
selected publications
are
listed
below:
Social influence
on
the
Aircraft
Commander's
role,
"American
Sociological
Review"
1955, 20,292-299.Military Sociology,
1945-1955.
"Chapter
in Sociology in
the United
States
of
America,"
ed.
by
Hans
Zetterberg,
Paris:
UNESCO,
1966.
Group
performance under feedback that confounds
responses of
group
mem-
bers.
"Sociometry," 1957, 20, 297-305.
The
informal
control
of everyday
behavior.
Chapter
in "Controlling
Human
Behavior," ed.
by
Roy
Francis, Social Science
Research
Center, University
of
Minnesota;
1959.
Two
alternative learning in interdependent dyads. Chapter
12
in
"Mathematical
Methods
in
Small Group
Processes," ed.
by Joan
Criswell,
H.
Solomon,
and
P.
Suppes, Stanford Univ. Press: 1962.
The
educational influence
of dormitory roommates."Sociometry," 1963, 26,
294-
318
(
with
Ben
Willerman)
.
The
effects
of
different social
feedback conditions
upon performance in dyadic
teams. Chapter in
"Communication and
Culture," ed.
by A. G. Smith, 1966,
353-364.
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