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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. 18 …Some of these statements which lead to mis- conceptions are: —(1) Only UFO "buffs" report UFO…
  • p. 19 …One great misconception is that only UFO buffs report UFO's; quite the opposite is the…
  • p. 25 …saw their very impressive and sur- prising UFO files, the pattern of which is entirely different…
  • p. 39 …files and modes of operation of both private and official (i.e., Project Bluebook) UFO investigative…
  • p. 41 …Misinter- preted natural phenomena (Hypothesis 3) do explain many sincerely -submitted UFO reports; but, as I…
  • p. 45 …It summarizes about 750 UFO cases in the NICAP files up to about
  • p. 46 …Reference 7 is another now -accessible source of extremely significant UFO documentation; it is unfortunate that…
  • p. 54 …Longview, Wash., July 8, 1949 Many of the UFO cases I am citing are drawn intentionally…
  • p. 60 54 terrestrial hypothesis for UFOs, incomprehensibility must be expected as almost inevitable. Hence there is more…
  • p. 63 …NICAP files. The article, by Post reporter Jimmie Woods, represents one of those rare UFO feature…
  • p. 68 …5) remarks that an astronomer working under con- tract to the official UFO investigatory program interviewed…
  • p. 70 …UFO sightings by meteorologists could be extended very con- siderably by drawing on my file of…
  • p. 72 …the UFO problem in the ensuing two-year period. Many details from the official file on…
  • p. 75 …In my files are many other "balloon" cases from the past twenty years, cases that ought…
  • p. 76 …The third target was spotted visually by myself," Hemphill's signed statement in the case -file…
  • p. 78 …25), who evidently drew his information from the official files. Ruppelt (Ref. 5) states that when…
  • p. 79 …unknowns in official files to be ignored. A famous case in UFO annals involved a B…
  • p. 86 …explanations for classic UFO cases that have been made in the official files in the last…
  • p. 91 …Official file on October 15, 1948 Fukuoka case, Project Bluebook. 43. Melbourne (Australia) Sun, December 16…
  • p. 120 …During that night, and several succeeding nights, there were many reports of UFO's over northern…
  • p. 128 …THE UFO PROPULSION PROBLEM By way of introducing the propulsion problem of UFO's, I will…
  • p. 185 179 rod N.T.TuDE tOURIE 3• MOTION OF UFO SYSTIM a..„. — 73 2.3 2…
  • p. 206 …for a UFO. This viewpoint is absolutely nonsense and the Air Force files bear witness to…
  • p. 207 …But such behavior does not imply, as the UFO addicts argue, the presence of an intelligence…
  • p. 208 …He watches the UFO for a minute or two until it finally disappears. He cannot be…
  • p. 218 …UFO presence. This can be done with existing information. Up- date and upgrade the files with…
  • p. 224 …claimed to have observed a UFO. Interestingly enough the official files con- tain fewer than 12…
  • p. 239 …Indeed, at present the scientific study of the UFO problem is greatly hampered by the circumstance…
  • p. 244 …The dotted line represents "re- liable" sightings in the files of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization…
  • p. 245 …Many radar sightings of UFO's are on file. In a few cases, a UFO has…
  • p. 247 …He states that he has on file more than 300 UFO sightings prior to the 20th…
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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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