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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some
respectability
to
the
interest
the
American
people
have
in
this
phenomena. Perhaps
we
can,
by
further
activity
on
the part
of
this
committee,
and
you
on
your
part,
and
by
the
public
reading
what
youhave
said
today,
cause people to
be
more
responsive
and
to
report
what
they
see.
Perhaps
we
can
thereby give
an
air
of
respectability
to
these
sightings
which
will
permit
people
to
go
ahead
without
being
embar-
rassed
or
ashamed
of
reporting
what
they
have
seen.
Does
anyone
else
have
anything
here?
Mr.
FULTON.
Mr.
Chairman,
sightings
of
UFO's
in
western
Pennsyl-vania
have
now
increased
to
the
point
where
interested
citizens
have
established
a
UFO
Research
Institute
with
a 24
-hour answering
service,
to
investigate
reports
and
sightings.
In
my
congressional
district,
there
is
the
Westinghouse
astronuclear
plant,
whose
fine
work
is
well
known
to the
members
of our
committee.
As
I
have
been asked
by
Mr.
Stanton
T.
Friedman, a
nuclear
physicist
at
Westinghouse
who
makes a
hobby
of
investigating
UFO
sightings
and
publicly
speaking
on
the
subject,
it
is
a
pleasure to
insert
a
state-
ment by
Mr.
Friedman,
"Flying
Saucers
Are
Real"
into
the
record
at
this point.
He
is
one
of
the
few
observers
with
the
candor
to
con-
clude
and
so
state
that
"the
earth
is
being
visited
by
intelligently
controlled vehicles"
from
outer
space.
(Mr.
Friedman's
statement follows:)
SUMMARY
OF
"FLYING
SAUCERS
ARE
REAL"BY
STANTON T. FRIEDMAN, NUCLEAR
PHYSICIST
After
considerable
study,
first-hand
investigation,
and
review of
a
great
variety
of
data,
I
have
concluded that the
evidence
is
overwhelming
that the
earth
is
being
visited
by
intelligently
controlled vehicles
whose
origin
is
extraterrestrial.
This
does not
mean
that
I
know
why
they are
here,
where
they
come
from,
how
they
operate,
why
they
don't
seem
to
be
talking to
us.
It
also
does not
mean
that
I
believe
that everything that
people see that they
cannot
identify
is
an
extra-
terrestrial
spaceship.
Quite the
contrary,
I
believe
that
most
things
that
people
report
as
UFO's
can
be
identified
as
relatively
conventional
phenomena
seen
under
unconventional circumstances
just
as most
isotopes
cannot
fission
or
fusion,
most
chemicals
don't
cure
any
diseases,
most
people
cannot
run
a
four-minute
mile,
and most
women
don't
look
like
Brigitte
Bardot.
The
scientific
approach
to
any
problem
is
to
sift
the information
to
find
that
which
is
relevant to
the
solu-
tion
of the problem at
hand.
The
fact that
most
initially
strange
objects in
the
sky
and on
the
ground can
be
identified is
totally
irrelevant to
the
question
of
the
existence
of
extraterrestrial
spaceships.
Also
irrelevant
are the
facts
that
we
cannot
yet
comfortably
visit
other
planets,
that
some
of
us might behave
differ-
ently
from
the
way
our
visitors
act,
that
we
have
not
yet
publicly
been exposed
to
pieces
of
such
a
vehicle,
or
to
an
extraterrestrial
humanoid on
television.
While
almost everyone
has
heard of
flying
saucers
and has
an
opinion
about
them, most
people including the
non
-believing scientists
who
have
made
such
definite
statements
about
their
non-existence
are ignorant not only of the
facts
concerning
UFO's
but
also
of the technology that
might
aid
one
in
understanding
the
vehicles'
motion, the
possibility
of
interplanetary
and
interstellar travel,
or
the
possibility
of
life
on
Mars.
Sightings
of
UFO's
are
relatively
common
and have
occurred
all
over the
world.
One
out of every
25
adult
Americans has
seen
a
UFO.
Judging
from
the
one
detailed,
official,
scientific
investigation
that
has been
published,
one
-fifth
of the
sightings
can be
labelled
as Unknowns. These
Unknowns
are completely
separate
and
distinct
from
the
20%
of the
2199
sightings
which were
labeled"Insufficient
Information" because
some
vital piece of data
was
missing.
Many
of the
Unknowns
are reported
by
highly trained,
competent witnesses
who
have
close-up sightings lasting for
many
minutes.
UFO's have been observed
on radar
and been subsequently labelled
as Unknowns. There have been simultaneous
radar and
visual sightings.
Comparisons between
Knowns and Unknowns
clearly
showed
definite differences in color,
shape,
size, velocity, maneuverability, etc.