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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. 36 …Let me say that the National Acadeiny is undertaking an evaluation of the University of Colorado…
  • p. 81 …I sent all of the relevant information on this ease to the University of Colorado UFO…
  • p. 100 …In October 1966 the University of Colorado was selected by the Air Force Office of Scientific…
  • p. 134 …Hartmann of the University of Arizona, and Prof. Roy Craig of the University of Colorado. At…
  • p. 204 …Menzel, a native of Colorado, received his Ph. D. from Princeton University in 1924. After one…
  • p. 210 …of known hoaxes, such as the ingenious one perpetrated by students of the University of Colorado…
  • p. 211 …and an additional year of analysis by the University of Colorado have disclosed no tangible evidence…
  • p. 212 …Rocky Ford High School, Rocky Ford, Colorado Academic scholarship received from the University of Colorado: B…
  • p. 213 …28, 1930; and graduated from the University of Colorado with a B. Mus. Educ. in June…
  • p. 217 …Such an example is the unfortunate selection of the University of Colorado team headed by a…
  • p. 226 …Aspects of Magnetogasdynamic Re-entry." Presented at the 10th Midwestern Mechanics Conference, Colorado State University, August…
  • p. 239 …Air Force, NICAP, APRO, and the University of Colorado Project—not to mention a number of…
  • p. 241 …Full Professor, Colorado State 1961-66. Professor and Head, Dept. of Plant Science, Utah State University…
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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.