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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. 25 …saw their very impressive and sur- prising UFO files, the pattern of which is entirely different…
  • p. 39 …files and modes of operation of both private and official (i.e., Project Bluebook) UFO investigative…
  • p. 41 …Misinter- preted natural phenomena (Hypothesis 3) do explain many sincerely -submitted UFO reports; but, as I…
  • p. 45 …It summarizes about 750 UFO cases in the NICAP files up to about
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  • p. 54 …Longview, Wash., July 8, 1949 Many of the UFO cases I am citing are drawn intentionally…
  • p. 60 54 terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs, incomprehensibility must be expected as almost inevitable. Hence there is more…
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  • p. 72 …the UFO problem in the ensuing two-year period. Many details from the official file on…
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  • p. 78 …25), who evidently drew his information from the official files. Ruppelt (Ref. 5) states that when…
  • p. 79 …unknowns in official files to be ignored. A famous case in UFO annals involved a B…
  • p. 86 …explanations for classic UFO cases that have been made in the official files in the last…
  • p. 91 …Official file on October 15, 1948 Fukuoka case, Project Bluebook. 43. Melbourne (Australia) Sun, December 16…
  • p. 120 …During that night, and several succeeding nights, there were many reports of UFO's over northern…
  • p. 128 …THE UFO PROPULSION PROBLEM By way of introducing the propulsion problem of UFO's, I will…
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  • p. 206 …for a UFO. This viewpoint is absolutely nonsense and the Air Force files bear witness to…
  • p. 207 …But such behavior does not imply, as the UFO addicts argue, the presence of an intelligence…
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  • p. 218 …UFO presence. This can be done with existing information. Up- date and upgrade the files with…
  • p. 224 …claimed to have observed a UFO. Interestingly enough the official files con- tain fewer than 12…
  • p. 239 …Indeed, at present the scientific study of the UFO problem is greatly hampered by the circumstance…
  • p. 244 …The dotted line represents "re- liable" sightings in the files of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization…
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  • p. 247 …He states that he has on file more than 300 UFO sightings prior to the 20th…
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APPENDIX
1
July
1968
BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF
ROBERT
M.
L.
BAKER,
JR.
00001
"Elements
of
Churm's
Objects"
(with
M.
W.
Corn,
G.
L.
Matlin,
and
Silvia
Rachman), Minor
Planets Circular,
1100,
July
15,
1954.
00002 "Optimal
Thrust
Angle
Program
for
Transit
Between
Space
Points,"
Douglas
Aircraft
Company
Report
SM19180,
July
1,
1955.
00003
"Keplerian
Missile
Trajectories Modified
by
Initial
Thrust
and
Aerodynamic
Drag,"
Douglas
Aircraft
Company
Report
SM-19234,
August
1,
1955.
00004
"Approximation
to
Missile Trajectories
on
a
Rotating
Earth," Douglas
Aircraft
Company
Report
SM-19235,
May
7,
1956.
00005
"Satellite
Librations"
(with
W.
B.
Klemperer),
Astronautica
ACTA,
III,
"Ease.
1,
16-27, 1957.
00006
"Units and
Constants for Geocentric Orbits"
(with
Samuel
Herrick and
C.
G.
Hilton),
American
Rocket
Society
Reprint
No.
497-57; Proceedings
of
the
8th International
Astronautical
Congress,
Barcelona, 1957, 197-235.
00007
"Orbits"
(with
Samuel
Herrick)
Aviation
Age,
March
1958, 70-77,
Vol.
28, #9.
00008
"Transitional
Correction
to
the
Drag
of
a
Sphere
in
Free
Molecule
Flow"
(with
A. F.
Charwat),
The
Physics
of
Fluids,
1,
No.
2, 1958, 73-81.
00009
"Drag
Interactions
of Meteorites
with the
Earth's
Atmosphere,"
disserta-
tion
submitted
in
partial fulfillment
of
the
degree
of
PhD
at
UCLA,
May,
1958,
xii
+
183
pp.
00010 "Passive
Stability
of
a
Satellite
Vehicle,"
Navigation,
6,
No.
1,
Spring
1958,
64-5.
00011
"Navigational
Requirements
for
the
Return
from a
Space
Voyage,"
Naviga-
tion,
6, No.
3,
Autumn
1958, 175-181.
00012
"Practical Limitations
on
Orbit Determination,"
Institute
of Aeronautical
Science Preprint
No.
842,
July
8-11, 1958,
10
pp.
00013 "Astrodynamics
and
Trajectories of
Space Vehicles," Space Technology
Lecture Series,
sponsored by
the
Long
Island
IRE
and
the
American
Rocket
Society,
November
13, 1958.
00014 "Encke's Method and
Variation
of
Parameters as
Applied
to
Re-entry
Tra-
jectories,"
American
Astronautical Society
Reprint
No. 58-36, August 19,
1958,
13
pp. and Journal of the
American
Astronautical Society,
6, No. 1,
1959.

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