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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.

  • p. 17 …At an airport in Mon- tana several pilots gathered outside the hangars to wait and watch…
  • p. 116 …Back, 1968) or previously exposed in com- mon to the information that they incorporate into a…
  • p. 133 …one taken in Montana—termed by us as the Mon- tana film—and one taken in…
  • p. 142 …objects and (if possible) airplanes, birds, com- mon meteors, etc. It should, however, be designed to…
  • p. 187 …reported by Mariana and verified by the Mon- tana film itself, except that the jets were…
  • p. 210 …Or at least that is the com- mon argument advanced by UFO buffs. Radar is cursed…
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