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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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  • p. 5 …Carl Sagan, associate professor of astronomy, Center for Radiophysics and Space Research, Cornell University 86 Dr…
  • p. 8 …Carl Sagan, Department of Astronomy and Center for RadiophYsics and Space Research, Cornell University; Dr. Robert…
  • p. 91 …Our next participant is Dr.Carl Sagan. Dr. Sagan is associate professor of astronomy in the…
  • p. 92 …CARL SAGAN, DEPARTMENT OF ASTRONOMY, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, ITHACA, N.Y. Dr. SAGAN. Thank you very much…
  • p. 95 …electrical pulses he can't explain? Dr. SAGAN. Yes, sir. There are now five objects in…
  • p. 96 …t that a rather arbitrary statement? Dr. SAGAN. I don't think so. Perhaps you can…
  • p. 98 …UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS* (by Carl Sagan) Unidentified flying objects (UFO's) is the generic term for…
  • p. 101 …CARL SAGAN, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University. Thank you. Mr. HECHLER. Dr. Sagan, there have been…
  • p. 102 …trying to do things in Australia? Dr. SAGAN. To the best of my knowledge there is…
  • p. 103 …I believe you coauthored a book with a Russian, is that correct? Dr.SAGAN. That is…
  • p. 104 …say there is extra- terrestrial life? Dr. SAGAN. Yes, sir; it certainly would, but not cinch…
  • p. 113 …one basket. I certainly agree with Dr. Sagan's view that there are these very intense…
  • p. 143 …See, for ex- ample, Shklovskii and Sagan (1966), chapters 27, 28, 30, and 34. (6) Technological…
  • p. 151 …and Sagan C. (1966) Intelligent Life in the Universe, Holden-Day, Inc. San Francisco. 23) Singer…
  • p. 196 …a real free for all. Dr. Sagan. Dr. SAGAN. I just wanted to underline one point…
  • p. 197 191 Dr. SAGAN. That is just what I was going to say. Certain velocity and altitude…
  • p. 199 …barium, although that seems somewhat unlikely. Dr. SAGAN. So some comparison analysis has been made for…
  • p. 203 …McDonald, Dr. Harder, Dr. Hynek, and Dr. Sagan, I believe that you people have made a…
  • p. 225 …R.; Sagan, C., "A Search for Life on Earth at KilometerResolution," Icarus, Vol. 5, January 1966…
  • p. 245 …While Sagan (1963) fails to see any pattern be- cause of the noise, other investigators feel…
  • p. 251 …Cri- terion Books, New York. 285 pp. Sagan, C. 1963. Unidentified flying objects. The Encyclopedia Amen…
S.
164
Normal
Value SubJect
Serologic
Test:
PTA-ABS
negative negative
(Flourescent Treponemal
Antibody Absorption
Test)
Brucella Agglutination
negative negativeCoccidioidomycosis negative negative
D.
Summary
of
Positive Findings
1.
Optic Nerve changes:
(see
Neuro-ophthalmologic
Evaluation).
2.
Bromides
and atropine detected
in
urine.
E.
Discussion
and Creditability
Score:Since
the
head
of
the
optic nerve
(disc) is
directly
visible
for
examination,
its
state
is
often used
as
a
reflection
of
the condition
of
the other
nerves.
It
can
be
reasonably
conjectured
that the
same
meta-
bolic or toxic insults
that
have
produced
the abnormal appearance
of
the
subject's optic nerve are also subtlely influencing his other
nervous
system functioning
(even
although
no
gross neurologic
signs
can be elicited).
One likely effect
of
such changes
would be
increased irritability and assoc-iated behavioral effects. These would also
be
expected
to
occur
as
a
result
of
the
bromide
or
atropine toxicity (associated with the
subject's excessive
use
of
non-proprietary sleeping medication).
In
this ease,
the
subject's abnormal liver function (reversed
A/G ratio,
etc.)
increases
the danger of
such toxicity because
of
his impaired
ability
to
bind, detoxify,
and excrete both bromides and atropine. Halluci-nations are among
the
outstanding
toxic
effects
of
both these drugs
(Ref.
2).
It
would
thus not be unlikely that the
contents
of the
sleeping
pills
have
not
only
contributed
to the
subject's current psychic disequilibrium
buthave specifically affected his propensity
to
"see things".
Creditability score
75%.
Ref. 2.
Walker,
S.
Psychiatric Signs and Symptoms Due
to
Medical
Problems, CC. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. 1967

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.