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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. 249 …Socorro, New Mexico, April 24, 1964. Patrolman Lonnie Zamora was following a speeder when he saw…
  • p. 250 …The terrain of the Socorro, New Mexico, sighting, April 24, 1964. Zamora first sighted the object…
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busy
to
remain
for periods
of
weeks
to
months,
local
people
could
be
hired
and
trained
in
the
proper
techniques.
Such
a
procedure
might
eventually
re-
ward
us
with
the
kind
of
tangible
datawith
which
science
is
used
to
dealing.
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