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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.

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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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2.
Motion
of
unidentified
flying
objects
relative
to foreground.
In
Figs.
3a and 3b
the dotted
lines
represent
what
would be
the
locus of
the
data
points
if
the
objects
remained the
same
linear
distance
apart
and
moved
linearly
in
a
horizontal plane.
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headings,
A,
of 169°
to 177°
are
exhibited. All of
the
data
seems
to
be
con-
sistent
with
the
foregoing
assumptions
and
with
a
head-
ing of 171°.
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course,
one cannot
absolutely
rule
out
some
otherother
curvilinear
motion
of
the
objects.
However,
any
such motion would
necessitate
the
coincidence
of
azimuth,
altitude,
and
separation,
all
varying
propor-
tionally
in
some
very
peculiar
fashion
to
a
tolerance
of
1%.
Figure
4
is
a
map
of
Great
Falls,
Montana, and
includes
overlays of the
UFO
system's
motion at
various
hypothetical
distances.
(No
absolute determination of

Cases discussed

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