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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. 129 123 What can we learn about the propulsion of UFO's from the information pro- vided…
  • p. 183 …Paper was pre- sented at an AAS Seminar at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. A manuscript…
  • p. 203 …done six years ago at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory showed that trips to the stars in…
  • p. 226 …541, "Interactions of Spacecraft and Other Moving Bodies With Natural Plasmas," December 1965, Jet Propulsion Laboratory…
  • p. 228 …1965, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 182 pages, 829 references. 15. Jarvinen, P. 0., "On the Use of…
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5. The fundus photos were taken with a Zeiss fundus camera
containing a built-in strobescopic light source. The pupils were dilated with
1% Neo-Synephrine. The previously noted defects of absent cupping, mottled
retinitis, and arteriovenous disproportion are readily documented in these
photos.
6. Perimetry was pervformed with a Matalene hand perimeter,
using both a white (5mm.) and red (5mm.) test object. The patient was tested
both at 50 and 10 footcandles of illumination. The fields show bilateral

Cases discussed

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Hearing transcript, from the govinfo collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.