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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.
“Cooper”5 pages
- p. 21 …Secondly,I recommend that the United States seek the cooperation
of the United Nations in establishing…
- p. 113 …Finally, on the idea of UN cooperation, this had not occurred to me,
but I think…
- p. 127 …The third point would be the cooperation of the Air Force for
logistics and high-speed…
- p. 175 …He
was cooperative and he gave the impression of wishing to be highly candid.
Stream of…
- p. 214 …Richard
Hall,
former
assistant director
of
NICAP,
cooperated
in
a
study of the
attitudes
of
persons…
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APPENDIX
3
Reprints
of
"OBSERVATIONAL EVIDENCE
OF
ANOMALISTIC
PHENOMENA"
and
"FUTURE
EXPERIMENTS
ON
ANOMALISTIC
OBSERVATIONAL
PHENOMENA"
by
Robert
M.
L. Baker,
Jr.
and
"ESTABLISHING
OBSERVER
CREDITABILITY:
A
PROPOSED
METHOD"
by
Sydney Walker,
III,
M.D.
Cases discussed
- The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima 1917
Except for the Fatima incident... Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
June 24, 1947... Mr. Arnold, reported "nine peculiar-looking aircraft" - The Father Gill Sightings at Boianai 1959
Boiani, New Guinea, June 26, 27, 1959... Father W. B. Gill - The Lonnie Zamora Incident, Socorro 1964
terrain of the Socorro, New Mexico, sighting, April 24, 1964. Zamora first sighted the object - The Exeter Incident 1965
Exeter, New Hampshire, September 3, 1965... Patrolman Eugene Bertrand - Michigan "Swamp Gas" Sightings: Dexter and Hillsdale 1966
the subsequent one in the Michigan swamps
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Hearing transcript, from the govinfo collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.