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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. 7 …We approach the question of unidentified flying objects as purely a scientific problem, one of unanswered…
  • p. 9 …Civilian with U.S. Navy 1944. Scientific Societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science; Astronomy…
  • p. 10 4 subject as rank nonsense, the product of silly seasons, and a peculiarly American craze that…
  • p. 11 …Thus my scientific reticence was based on a carefully weighed decision. In attempting analysis of the…
  • p. 24 …American Association for Advancement of Science, American Meteorological Society, Sigma Xi, American Geophysical Union, Royal Meteorological…
  • p. 30 …witnesses, members of the staff of the American Newspaper Publishers Associa- tion, were the witnesses in…
  • p. 46 …Scientists will tend to be put off by some of his scientific commentary, as well as…
  • p. 47 …Information on some of these, as well as on smaller American groups, can be found in…
  • p. 76 …have been ignored as indicators of some scientifically intriguing problem demand- ing intensive study.2. Case…
  • p. 91 …UFOs—An International Scientific Problem, paper presented at a Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Canadian Aeronautics…
  • p. 118 …Navy, 1944-45.Scientific Societies: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancementof Science, Society of…
  • p. 131 …Phillips, American Scientist, v. 53, no. 1, p. 32). Fused silica fibers have been stressed to…
  • p. 132 …Baker's professional society memberships include the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, Phi…
  • p. 147 …REFERENCES (1) The "American Nautical Almanac" 1950. (2) H. 0. No. 214, "Tables of Computed Altitude…
  • p. 156 …00060 "Influence of Martian Ephemeris and Constants on Interplanetary Trajectories," Chapter in Exploration of Mars, American…
  • p. 202 …25 adult Americans has seen a UFO. Judging from the one detailed, official, scientific investigation that…
  • p. 204 …Originally operated jointly by Harvard and the University of Colorado, this scientific institution is now wholly…
  • p. 213 …a paper presented in a symposium sponsored by Division 21, Engineering Psychology, at the American Psychological…
  • p. 214 …As a member of the Parapsychological Association and the American So- ciety of Clinical Hypnosis, I…
  • p. 215 …1) The Scientific Attitude Survey ( Sprinkle, 1962) is not useful in assessing "scientific" attitudes, and/or…
  • p. 217 …Henderson is a member of Alpha Chi, the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists…
  • p. 220 214 Professional affiliations include the American Physical Society, the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of…
  • p. 223 …of the Astronautical Sciences'the American Engineer 2020 Industrial Research,' Scientific Research'8 Aviation Week and…
  • p. 225 …A., "UFO's Merit Scientific Study," Science, October 21, 1966, and Astro- nautic8 d Aeronautics, December…
  • p. 226 …of Baltimore Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Local sections of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics…
  • p. 251 …Scientific American, 200: 117-128.
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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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