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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.

  • p. 5 …McDonald, Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz 18 Dr. Carl Sagan, associate professor of…
  • p. 8 …James E.McDonald,senior physicist, the Institute of Atmospheric Physics, the University of Arizona • Dr. Carl…
  • p. 23 …McDonald is presently with the University of Arizona. He is a senior physicist, Institute of Atmospheric…
  • p. 24 …of Physics, University of Arizona, 1954-56, Pro- fessor, 1956-57. Associate director, Institute of Atmospheric…
  • p. 38 …McDonald, Senior Physicist, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, and Professor, Department of Meteorology, The University of Arizona…
  • p. 39 33 years now with the dramatic goal of a search for life in the universe, I…
  • p. 80 …A colleague of mine at the University of Arizona was out photographing desert flowers on a…
  • p. 129 …Wells Allen Webb, an applied chemist with a master of science degree from the University of…
  • p. 134 …Hartmann of the University of Arizona, and Prof. Roy Craig of the University of Colorado. At…
  • p. 151 …the Universe, Holden-Day, Inc. San Francisco. 23) Singer, S. (1963) in Problems of Atmospheric and…
  • p. 190 …3, by the Center for Meteorite Studies, Arizona State University, May, 1966. 13 SHOEMAKER, E. N…
  • p. 216 210 SOME USES OF HYPNOSIS IN UFO RESEARCH (By R. Leo Sprinkle, University of Wyoming) ABSTRACT…
  • p. 244 …the files of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, 3190 E. Kleindale Road, Tucson, Arizona. They were…
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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.