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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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“Open Minds”9 pages

  • p. 7 …With the range in mind, then, we have invited six outstanding scientists to address us today…
  • p. 46 …Expert psychological opinion is badly needed in assessing such reports (expert but not close-minded opinion…
  • p. 68 …we scientists are by no means as open-minded and fearlessly independent as we are sometimes…
  • p. 92 …origin which the committee must have in mind. I'm delighted to tell about contemporary scientific…
  • p. 97 …those views, and you simply keep an open mind and pursue whatever facts are at hand…
  • p. 140 …Nevertheless, it still is an open possibility in my mind. It seems reasonable, therefore, to undertake…
  • p. 215 …The Open and Closed Mind. N.Y .: Basic Books, 1960. Sprinkle, R. L. Scientific Attitude Survey…
  • p. 217 …The keys to scientific achievement have several notches, but the material is comprised of competent open…
  • p. 244 …We should, in deference to the scientific method, examine with a completely open mind any evidence…
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133.
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ANY
UNUSUAL SEX PRACTICES. (FALSE)
182.
I AM
AFRAID LOSING
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I
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PERIODS
IN WHICH I CARRIED
ON
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KNOWING LATER WHAT
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337.
I
FEEL
ANXIETY ABOUT SOMETHING
OR
SOMEONE ALMOST ALL THE
TIME.
(TRUE)

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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.