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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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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 above. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.