Documents / Hearing transcript
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.
“UFO Files”31 pages
- 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…
1
120
—
110
-.-
100
—
90
—
80
70
—
60
—
50
—
40
—
30
-.-
20
—
0
1947
1948
1949 1950
1111
1951
1952
1953 1954 1955
1956 1957
20
2.5
30
2
AllanItc
Ocean
Nan,.
BAYONNE
SPAIN
VICHY.
.Z
•GELLES
/....
TULLE,
USSEL
•Lyai..--c\--'
„."
LONGEAC
.
fdo
O
p
ordo•ne
R.
E
PUY
LENCOUACO
GOO
"'
•
To.ulousa
SWITZ
L Genera
arse.
Medderroneon
Sea
ITALY
NI a
Cases discussed
- The Miracle of the Sun at Fátima 1917
Except for the Fatima incident... Walsh, Our Lady of Fatima - The Kenneth Arnold Sighting 1947
June 24, 1947... Mr. Arnold, reported "nine peculiar-looking aircraft" - The Father Gill Sightings at Boianai 1959
Boiani, New Guinea, June 26, 27, 1959... Father W. B. Gill - The Lonnie Zamora Incident, Socorro 1964
terrain of the Socorro, New Mexico, sighting, April 24, 1964. Zamora first sighted the object - The Exeter Incident 1965
Exeter, New Hampshire, September 3, 1965... Patrolman Eugene Bertrand - Michigan "Swamp Gas" Sightings: Dexter and Hillsdale 1966
the subsequent one in the Michigan swamps
About this file
Hearing transcript, from the govinfo collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 256 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.