Documents / Hearing transcript

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. 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…
172
SCALE
SCORES
FOR
MmPI
CASE
NO: 00000
AGE
37
MALE RPSI
NO: 00000
SCALE
?LFKHSDHY
PD
MF
PA
PT
SC
MA
SI
RAW
0
2
5
16
11 30
30 16
31
11
21
15 12 40
K
-C
0
2
5
16 19
30
30
22
31 11
3
31
15 40
T
-C
0 43 53
55
70
82
75 57
71
58
7
45
66
SCALE
ES
MT
A
R
LB
CA DY
DO
RE
R
SD,CN
SO SO-R
RAW
41 16
13
20
9
18
27 17
224
18 34
59 24
T
-C
45
42
51
59
49 66
58 56 54
0
73 32
23
CRITIC
IL
THESE TEST ITEMS.
WHIC
ERE
JSWERED
IN
THE DIRECTION
INDI-
CATED'
MAY
REQUIRE FURTHER NVE TIGATION
BY
THE
CLINICIAN. THE
CLINICIAN
IS CAUTIONED,
HOW
AGAINST OVERINTERPRETATION
OF
ISOLATED RESPONSES.
133.
I
HAVE
NEV
NDULGED IN
ANY
UNUSUAL SEX PRACTICES. (FALSE)
182.
I AM
AFRAID LOSING
MY
MIND.
(TRUE)349.
I
HAV
E
ANG AND
PECULIAR THOUGHTS.
(TRUE)
156.
I
HAVE
PERIODS
IN WHICH I CARRIED
ON
ACTIVITIES WITHOUT
KNOWING LATER WHAT
I
HAD BEEN DOING.
(TRUE)
337.
I
FEEL
ANXIETY ABOUT SOMETHING
OR
SOMEONE ALMOST ALL THE
TIME.
(TRUE)

Cases discussed

About this file

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.