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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. 19 …Are we making the same mistake the French Academy Sciences made when they dismissed stories of…
  • p. 23 …but in the National Science Foundation or through the National Academy of Sciences or scientific bodies…
  • p. 24 …Member, Panel on Weather and Climate Modification, National Academy of Sciences, 1905-present. Member, ESSA-Navy…
  • p. 36 …Have you had any reaction from the National Academy of Sciences? Dr. MCDONALD. Yes, I received…
  • p. 91 …to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and to the National Academy of Sciences, as well…
  • p. 100 …The National Academy of Sciences agreed to appoint a panel to review the report when it…
  • p. 132 …to the Astronomi- cal Councile of the Academy of Sciences of USSR in Moscow in 1967…
  • p. 204 …member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a…
  • p. 205 …President of the United States, to a member of the National Academy of Sciences, or at…
  • p. 211 …after an official statement from the National Academy of the U.S.S.R. appeared in…
  • p. 226 …B., "Observations Concerning Magnetoaerodynaanic Drag and Shock Standoff Distance," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
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(The biography of Dr. Salisbury follows:)
Frank Boyer Salisbury.
Born: Provo, Utah, August 3, 1926. Married 1949; six children.
B.S. rniversity of Utah 1951; M.A. Utah 1962; Ph.D. California Institute
of Technology 1955.
Army Air Force 1945.
Field is plant physiology.
Assistant Professor of Botany,Pomona College 1954-5.
Assistant Professor of Botany, Colorado State 1955-61.
Full Professor, Colorado State 1961-66.
Professor and Head, Dept. of Plant Science, Utah State University 1966—.
Member: AAAS ; Society of Plant Physiology; Ecological Society; Astronauti-
cal Society.
Interests: Physiology of flowering; space biology; physiological ecology.
The following reprint from Bio-Science, volume 17, No. 1, 1967,
pages 15-24, was submitted by Dr. Frank B. Salisbury, head, plant
sCience department, Utah State University, as summarizing his views
on UFO's.

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Hearing transcript, from the govinfo collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.