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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.

  • p. 7 …We approach the question of unidentified flying objects as purely a scientific problem, one of unanswered…
  • p. 9 …Civilian with U.S. Navy 1944. Scientific Societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science; Astronomy…
  • p. 10 4 subject as rank nonsense, the product of silly seasons, and a peculiarly American craze that…
  • p. 11 …Thus my scientific reticence was based on a carefully weighed decision. In attempting analysis of the…
  • p. 24 …American Association for Advancement of Science, American Meteorological Society, Sigma Xi, American Geophysical Union, Royal Meteorological…
  • p. 30 …witnesses, members of the staff of the American Newspaper Publishers Associa- tion, were the witnesses in…
  • p. 46 …Scientists will tend to be put off by some of his scientific commentary, as well as…
  • p. 47 …Information on some of these, as well as on smaller American groups, can be found in…
  • p. 76 …have been ignored as indicators of some scientifically intriguing problem demand- ing intensive study.2. Case…
  • p. 91 …UFOs—An International Scientific Problem, paper presented at a Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Canadian Aeronautics…
  • p. 118 …Navy, 1944-45.Scientific Societies: Fellow of the American Association for the Advancementof Science, Society of…
  • p. 131 …Phillips, American Scientist, v. 53, no. 1, p. 32). Fused silica fibers have been stressed to…
  • p. 132 …Baker's professional society memberships include the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, Phi…
  • p. 147 …REFERENCES (1) The "American Nautical Almanac" 1950. (2) H. 0. No. 214, "Tables of Computed Altitude…
  • p. 156 …00060 "Influence of Martian Ephemeris and Constants on Interplanetary Trajectories," Chapter in Exploration of Mars, American…
  • p. 202 …25 adult Americans has seen a UFO. Judging from the one detailed, official, scientific investigation that…
  • p. 204 …Originally operated jointly by Harvard and the University of Colorado, this scientific institution is now wholly…
  • p. 213 …a paper presented in a symposium sponsored by Division 21, Engineering Psychology, at the American Psychological…
  • p. 214 …As a member of the Parapsychological Association and the American So- ciety of Clinical Hypnosis, I…
  • p. 215 …1) The Scientific Attitude Survey ( Sprinkle, 1962) is not useful in assessing "scientific" attitudes, and/or…
  • p. 217 …Henderson is a member of Alpha Chi, the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists…
  • p. 220 214 Professional affiliations include the American Physical Society, the American Nuclear Society, the American Institute of…
  • p. 223 …of the Astronautical Sciences'the American Engineer 2020 Industrial Research,' Scientific Research'8 Aviation Week and…
  • p. 225 …A., "UFO's Merit Scientific Study," Science, October 21, 1966, and Astro- nautic8 d Aeronautics, December…
  • p. 226 …of Baltimore Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory Local sections of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics…
  • p. 251 …Scientific American, 200: 117-128.
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207Publications:
"Measured
vocational
interests
and
socio-economic
'background
of
college stu-
dents."
The
College
of
Education Record,
University
of
North
Dakota,
1962,
47,
No.
4, 54-56.
"Counselor
competence
and
the
nature of
man."
The
College
of
Education
Record,
University
of
North Dakota,
1962, 47,
No.
5, 70-73.
With
Gillmor,
D.
"A
first
step in evaluation."
The
Superior Student.
(
Inter
-
University
Committee
on
the Superior Student,
Boulder,
Colorado)
1964, 6,
No.
2, 30-33.
"Psychological
implications
in
the
investigation
of
UFO
reports."
In
Loren-
zen,
L.
J.
and
Coral
E.
Flying saucer
occupants.
N.Y.:
A
Signet
Book,
1967.
Pp.
160-186.Professional
Research
and
Writing:
"Permanence
of
measured
vocational
interests
and
socio-economic
back-
ground":
Unpublished
Ph.D.
dissertation,
sponsored
by
Dr.
Robert
Callis,
University
of
Missouri, 1961.
"Student
health
and
demands
for
academic accomplishment:
an
attitude
survey
of
students
at
the
University
of North Dakota."
Unpublished
manuscript
presented
at
the
American
Personnel
and
Guidance
Association
(Commission
VIII,
Student Health
Programs),
Boston,
Massachusetts,April 8, 1963.
"A
hypothetical
view
of
communication
and
human
evolution."
Unpublished
manuscript
presented
•at
the
North
Dakota
-South
Dakota
PsychologicalAssociation
Convention,
May,
1963.
Received
a
small grant
($278.00)
from
the
Grants
-In
-Aid
Committee,
Society
for the
Psychological
Study
of
Social Issues, in
support
of
a
study
to
in-
vestigate
the
relation
of
personal
attitudes
and
scientific
attitudes.
(
Sur-
vey of
persons
interested
in
UFO
reports.)
*
(Manuscript
has
been
rejected
by
the Journal
of
Social Issues.)
**Military
History:
United
States
Army,
Artillery,
1952-1954
;
graduated
as
Honor
Student
No.
1,
Class
No.
A-5324,
7th
Army
NCO
Academy,
Munich,
Germany;
served
as
corporal in
194th
F.A.Br.,
Wertheim,
Germany.
Personal
Hobbies:
Reading;
composing
verses
and
songs;
observing
and
participating
in ath-
letics;
travel;
home
work
-shop
activities.
Personal Information:
Married
on June
7,
1952
to
Marilyn
Joan
Nelson
(born
in
Gurley,
Nebraska,
on
April 28,
1930;
and
graduated
from
the
University
of
Colorado with
a
B.
Mus.
Educ.
in
June
1953)
; oldest
son,
Nelson
Rex
Sprinkle,
born Febru-
ary
20,
1958; younger
son,
Eric
Evan
Sprinkle,
born
on March
22,
1961;
youngest
son,
Matthew David
Sprinkle,
born
on
May
4,
1964;
daughter,
Kristen
Martha,
born
on
April 16, 1967.
PREPARED STATEMENT BY
R.
LEO
SPRINKLE, PH.
D.
To The
Honorable
J.
Edward
Roush,
M.
C.,
Ind.,
Chairman,
Symposium on
Unidentified
Flying
Objects,
The
Committee on
Science
and
Astronautics
(The
Honorable George
P.
Miller,
M.
C.
Calif.,
Chairman),
The
House
of Representa-
tives,
Washington,
D.
C.
20515.
From
R. Leo
Sprinkle,
Ph.
D., Counselor
and
Associate
Professor of
Psy-chology, University
of
Wyoming,
Laramie,
Wyoming
82070.
Re
Symposium on
Unidentified
Flying
Objects.
*Psychological
Problems
in
Gathering
UFO
Data: a
paper
presented in
a
symposium
sponsored
by
Division
21, Engineering Psychology, at the
American
Psychological Associa-tion
convention,
Washington,
D.C.,
September 4,1967.
**Some
Uses
of
Hypnosis
in
UFO
Research;
a
paper
which
will
be
presented
at
the
annual meeting
of the
American
Society of
Clinical
Hypnosis;
Chicago,
III.;
October 10-13,
1968.

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