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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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189 is as well, an obvious positive application for these assessments. The psychiatric evaluation, for example, can be useful for further screening for the strengths of observer candidates who have already been ruled medically and neurologically intact. In addition to making some sound predictions about accuracy ofreported observations, the psychiatrist could also explore the candidate's ability to appropriately re- spond, under stress, to what he has seen. This aspect of an individual's make-up is of grave importance (as implied earlier) in some military, security, and other key positions. Bibliography I. BAKER, R. M. L., JR., "Observational Evidence of Anoma- listic Phenomena," and "Future Experiments on Anom- 9. alistic Observational • Phenomena," Journal of the 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Astronautical Sciences, January-February 1968. An Intro- duction to Astrodynamics, Academic Press, 1967, pp. 319-333. DE WAELE, J. P., "An Experimental Critique of Testi- mony," Revue de Proit Penal et de Criminologic, 44: 955- 980, 1963-65. BRAINERD, H., Current Diagnosis and Treatment, Lange Medical Publ. Los Alt., Calif., 1968. WALSH, F. B., Clinical Neuro-ophthalmology, 3rd Ed., Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, Md. 1957. SMITH, J. L., Opticokinetic Nystagmus, C. C. Thomas, Springfield, III. 1966. MEtuurr, H. H., A Textbook of Neurology, 4th Ed., Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, Pa. 1967. WALKER, S., III, Psychiatric Signs and Symptoms Due to Medical Problems, C. C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1967. CAMERON, N., Personality Development and Psychopathology. A Dynamic Approach, Houghton, Mifflin, Boston, Mass. 1963. WALKER, S., III, "The Neuropsychiatric Evaluation of the Eye Witness," To be published.
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.