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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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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.

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