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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.

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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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  • p. 214 …A Survey of Persons Interested in UFO Reports.") CONCLUSIONS If these reports by UFO observers are…
  • p. 215 …and spiritual implications of UFO phenomena. Establishment of a continuing research center could provide for those…
  • p. 217 …Research Group. Dr. Henderson is a member of Alpha Chi, the American Geophysical Union, the Society…
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The
development
of
some
of the
techniques
described
here
and
the
preliminary
experimental
tests
of
these
techniques
on
UFO
materials
were
carried
out
as
one
part
of
a
more
general
project
on
psychological
scaling
and
data
analysis
sup-
ported
by
Grant
No.
GS
-1302
from
the
National
Science
Foundation
to
Harvard
University.
The
author
is
indebted
to
the
Foundation
for
its
support
and,
also,
to
Miss
Shelley
Meltzer
for
her
extensive
assistance in
the
project.
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