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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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234 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. REFERENCES Edwards, F. Flying saucers—serious business. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1966, (Also Bantam paperback S3378). Fuller, J. G. Incident at Exeter. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1966, (Also Berkeley Medallion Paperback, TM 757, 375). Fuller, J. G. The interrupted journey. New York: Dial Press, 1967, (Also Dell Paperback 4068). Glucksberg, S., Krauss, R. M., & Weisberg, R. Referential communication in nursery school children: Method and some preliminary findings. Journal of Ex. perimental Child Psychology, 1966, 3, 333-342. Hall, R. H. (ED.) The UFO evidence. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 1536 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., 1964. Johnson, S. C. Hierarchical clustering schemes. Psychometrika, 1967, 32,241-254. Krauss, R. M., & Weinheimer, C. Changes in reference phrases as a function offrequency of usage in social interaction: a preliminary study. Psychonomic Science, 1964, 1,113-114. Krauss, R. M., & Weinheimer, S. Concurrent feedback, confirmation, and the encoding of referents in verbal communication. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1966, 4, 343-346. Kruskal, J. B. Multidimensional scaling by optimizing goodness of fit to anonmetric hypothesis. Psychometrika, 1964, 29, 1-27. Lorenzen, C. E. Flying saucers: the startling evidence of the invasion from outer space. New York: Signet, 1966, ( Signet Paperback T3058). McDonald, J. E. UFOs—atmospheric or extraterrestrial? Talk presented to the Chicago Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, May 31, 1968. (See, also, his contribution to this volume.) Michel, A. The truth about flying saucers. New York: S. G. Phillips, 1956. (Also Pyramid Paperback T-1647) Michel, A. Flying saucers and the straight-line mystery. New York: Criterion Books, 1958. Noll, A. M. Stereographic projections by digital computer. Computers and Automation, 1965, /4, No. 5. Olsen, T. M. (Ed.) The reference for outstanding UFO sighting reports. UFOIRC, Inc., Dept. SM 518, P.O. Box 57, Riderwood, Maryland, 21139, 1966. Reiff, R., and Scheerer, M. Memory and hypnotic age regression. New York: International Univ. Press, 1959. Rosenberg, S., Nelson, C., and Vivekananthan, P. W. A multidimensional ap- proach to the structure of personality impressions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1968 (in press). Rosenthal, R. Experimenter effects in behavioral research. New York: Mere- dith Publishing Co., 1966. Ruppelt, B. J. The report on unidentified flying objects. New York: Doubleday, 1956. (Also Ace Books paperback 0-537) Schumach, M. Palette-packing cop. New York Times Magazine, August 24, 1958. Shepard, R. N. The analysis of proximities : Multidimensional scaling with an unknown distance function. I. Psychometrika, 1962, 27, 125-140. II. Psycho-metrika, 1962, 27, 219-246. Shepard, R. N. Recognition memory for words, sentences and pictures. Journalof Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1967, 6, 156-163. (a) Shepard, R. N. Tornadoes: Puzzling phenomena and photographs. (Letter to Editor). Science, 1967,1.55, 27-28. (b)
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