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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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  • p. 12 …in a peasant society whose eyes were never turned toward the skies. Can we afford not…
  • p. 13 …for a proper and definitive study will never develop. I recall an encounter I had sometime…
  • p. 16 …A very character- istic statement by those making the reports is: "I have never seen anything…
  • p. 18 …They also usually request anonymity which is always granted. (4) UFO's are never seen at…
  • p. 19 …Other misconceptions are that UFO's are never reported by scien- tifically trained people, are never…
  • p. 20 …it has never been considered worthwhile to improve the data -gathering process because the whole subject…
  • p. 27 …he is looking at something he has never seen before. I like Dr. Hynek's phrase…
  • p. 37 …at the Ontario Hydro Commission plant has never been identified, but initially thetentative suspicion was centered…
  • p. 39 …cover- ing innumerable intriguing cases I had never before heard of, and (above all) after the…
  • p. 43 …diminish in sig- nificance, though they can never be overlooked. A frequent objection to serious consideration…
  • p. 45 …out- of-the-way rural areas but never over large cities? Why don't large groups…
  • p. 48 …Smith emphasized that they were never certain of sizes and distances, but that they had the…
  • p. 53 …is deceased), I believe that there has never been any dispute as to the observed facts…
  • p. 59 …Many other sources could be cited to show that the intimation that UFOs are never seen…
  • p. 65 …After the 'official "explanation" was publicized, he decided he'd never report another one. I predict…
  • p. 68 …In the ensuing two decades, he has never again seen anything like it. Clearly, the probability…
  • p. 69 …Moore never got a sufficiently clear view to identify any finer details if any were present…
  • p. 75 …the past twenty years, cases that ought never have been so labelled, had the evaluators kept…
  • p. 76 …Ground radar stations never detected the unknown that was seen visually and contacted by airborne radar…
  • p. 77 …strong, bright pips, said that "anomalous propagation never entered our heads as an explanation." Howard S…
  • p. 78 …7) but could never close with the unknown as its continued on its north- bound course…
  • p. 80 …All three said they had never before seen anything like it. Munger decided to phone his…
  • p. 81 …The photos were shortly taken by Base military authorities and were never seen again by the…
  • p. 87 …referred to repeatedly in Menzel's writings, never with any quantitative discussion of precisely what he…
  • p. 100 …visual observations of classical UFO's have never been made by profes- sional astronomers. For example…
  • p. 101 …how the promised political or social intervention never materializes. Psychological Factors. The psychologist Carl Jung pointed…
  • p. 125 …Oh, heavens, I never suggested that, I hope. Mr. BOONE. Well, let me say, science fiction…
  • p. 159 …He has not ever been exposed to any toxic substances, has never had to take any…
  • p. 168 …He said he had never had the experience of deja-vu episodes or of performing acts…
  • p. 171 …It never occurred to him to call anyone else's attention to the light (probably because…
  • p. 172 …He had never seen anything like it before and in fact had never previously had the…
  • p. 173 …He has taken only two sick days in the entire five years and is never late…
  • p. 174 …He never has fantasied actively taking his own life, however, and feels it would be very…
  • p. 175 …He never was one to participate in extracurricular activities, but always maintained a part-time job…
  • p. 176 …Prior to seeing that light, he apparently never experienced a deja vu, or any illusory or…
  • p. 194 …If the observer being studied is truly sociopathic and has never de- veloped a super -ego…
  • p. 203 197 This data, which most people have never seen or even heard of, is published in…
  • p. 206 …They never have had enough sCientists in the project. They have failed to follow up certain…
  • p. 221 …Isn't it true that UFOs have never been sighted on radar? No, it is not…
  • p. 243 …make such an all- inclusive negative statement. Never- theless, many of the arguments are highly compelling…
  • p. 244 …A balloon reported as a UFO was never out of sight of its launchers. A perplexing…
  • p. 247 …al- though he apologizes because he has never had the time to make a thorough search…
  • p. 249 …two leads appeared, but other witnesses could never be located), but his ap- parent sincerity was…
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(The
biography
of
Dr.
Sprinkle
follows:)
R.
LEO
SPRINKLE,
PH.
D.,
UNIVERSITY
OF
WYOMING,
LARAMIE,
WYO.
Name:
Ronald
Leo
Sprinkle.
Born:
August
31, 1960,
Rocky
Ford,
Colorado, U.S.A.
Education:
Elementary
Education:
Washington
School,
Rocky
Ford,
Colorado
High
School:
Rocky
Ford High
School,
Rocky
Ford,
Colorado
Academic
scholarship
received
from
the
University
of
Colorado:
B.A.
in
Psychology, Education,
Sociology,
and
History,
University
of
Colorado,
August
1962.
M.
P.
S.
(Master
of
Personnel
Service)
in Counseling, University
of
Colorado,
August
1956.
Ph.
D.
in
Counseling
and
Guidance,
University
of
Missouri,
August
1961.
Professional
Experience:Residence
hall
supervisor,
Men's
Residence
Halls, University
of
Colorado,
1954-1956.
Instructor-Counselor,
Counseling
Services,
Stephens
College,
Columbia,
Missouri, 1956-1959.
Acting
Director
of
Extra
Class
Activities,
Stephens
College,
Columbia,
Missouri, 1955-1961.Assistant
Professor of Psychology,
University
of
North Dakota,
Grand
Forks,
North Dakota,
1961-1964.Assistant Director
of Counseling
Center, University
of
North
Dakota,
1962-1963.
Director,
Counseling
Center, University
of
North Dakota,
1963-1964.Associate
Professor of
Guidance
Education,
University
of
Wyoming,
1964-1965.'Counselor
and
Assistant
Professor of Psychology,
University
of
Wyoming,
1965-67.
Counselor
and
Associate
Professor
of Psychology,
University
of
Wyoming,
1967.
Professional
Affiliations:
Member
of
the
American
Psychological
Association,
(Divisions
of Counseling
Psychology,
and
the
Society
for the
Psychological
Study
of
Social
Issues).
Life
member
of
the
American
Personnel
and
Guidance
Association,
(Divi-
sions
of
American
College
Personnel
Association, Association
of Counselor
Education
and
Supervision, Association
for
Measurement
and
Evaluationin
Guidance,
and
professional
member
of National Vocational
Guidance
Association).
Licensed
as
Professional Psychologist in
Wyoming,
January
1, 1966.
Certified
as
Counseling
Psychologist
by
the
Board
of
Examiners, North
Dakota
Psychological
Association,
May
11, 1962.
Member
of
American
Association
of University Professors.
Member
of
Psi
Chi
(Psychology
Honorary).
Associate
Member
of
Parapsychological
Association.
Member
of
Wyoming
Personnel
and
Guidance
Association.
Member
of
Wyoming
Psychological
Association.
Member
of
American
Society of
Clinical
Hypnosis.
Life
Member
of
American
Association
for the
Advancement
of
Science.
Professional Organizational
Activities:
State delegate to
the
annual
meeting of the
American
Association
of
State
Psychology Boards,
St.
Louis, Missouri,
August,
1962.
Secretary,
Board
of
Examiners, North
Dakota
Psychological Association
(NDPA),
1962-63.
President,
Board
of
Examiners,
NDPA,
1963-64.
Member
of Commission
VIII, Student Health Programs,
of the American
College
Personnel
Association,
APGA,
1962
to present.
(Chairman
of
sym-posium sponsored
by Commission VIII
at the
APGA
Convention, Minne-
apolis,
Minnesota, April 13, 1965.)

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