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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. 30 …You have to go right to the local town to get press coverage in most cases…
  • p. 33 …We canstudy it in the United States, but if we ignore what is happening in France…
  • p. 48 …I have spoken with United Air Lines personnel who have known Smith for years and vouch…
  • p. 75 …With so much radar equipment deployed all over the world, and especially within the United States…
  • p. 76 …Nowra, Australia, September, 1954 The first UFO case to command general press attention in the Australian…
  • p. 105 …and Social Psychology in universities in the United States and to bolster understanding in these fields…
  • p. 130 …Lorenzen, The Willeam- Frederick Press, New York, 1962) written by Dr. Olavo T. Fontes. Briefly, several…
  • p. 151 …H. (1953) Flying Saucers, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 16) Minas, J. S. and Ackoff, R…
  • p. 205 …His book, "Our Sun," published by the Harvard University Press, is one of the so-called…
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Biographical Sketch for Dr. Sydney Walker, III
July 22, 1968
Sydney Walker III, M.D. is a 36 year old neuropsychiatrist who
was born in Chicago, raised in Pasadena, did undergraduate study
at UCLA, followed by graduate work in physiology and pharmacology,
and received his medical training at Boston University School of
Medicine. Following some neurosurgical training, he did university
residencies in both psychiatry and neurology. He has contributed
numerous articles in both these specialities and is the author of a
recently published book, Psychiatric Signs and Symptoms due to
Medical Problems, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1967.
His interest in neuro-opthalmology has been more recent and has
emerged from his research in connection with the preparation of
another monograph, The Neuropsychiatric Evaluation of the Eye
Witness (to be published in late 1968).

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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.