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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.

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  • p. 9 …Scientific Societies: American Association for the Advancement of Science; Astronomy Society(secretary). Specialty: Astrophysics. Fields of…
  • p. 24 …Member, American Meteorological Society Commission on Publications, 1966- present. Member, Advisory panel for weather modification, National…
  • p. 91 …American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1967: Problems of Journalism, Proceedings of the 1967 Convention of the…
  • p. 213 …UFO Research; a paper which will be presented at the annual meeting of the American Society…
  • 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…
  • p. 220 …Friedman is on the Board of Directors of the UFO Research Institute of Pittsburgh and on…
  • p. 226 …Friedman has talked about UFOs to these groups (partial list) : Engineering Society of Detroit Engineering Society…
  • p. 240 …UFOs—atmospheric or extraterrestrial? Talk presented to the Chicago Chapter of the American Meteorological Society, May…
COMMI1rEE
ON
SCIENCE
AND
ASTRONAUTICS
GEORGE
P.
MILLER,
California,
Chairman
OLIN
E.
TEAGUE,
Texas
JOSEPH
E.
KARTH,
Minnesota
KEN
HECHLER,
West
Virginia
EMILIO
Q.
DADDARIO,
Connecticut
J.
EDWARD
ROUSH,
Indiana
JOHN W.
DAVIS,
Georgia
WILLIAM
F.
RYAN,
New
York
THOMAS
N.
DOWNING,
Virginia
JOE
D.
WAGGONNER,
JR.,
Louisiana
DON
FUQUA,
Florida
GEORGE
E.
BROWN,
JR.,
California
WILLIAM
J.
GREEN,
Pennsylvania
EARLE
CABELL,
Texas
JACK
BRINKLEY,
Georgia
BOB
ECKHARDT,
Texas
ROBERT
0.
TIERNAN,
Rhode
Island
BERTRAM
L.
PODELL,
New
York
CHARLES
F. DUCANDER,
Executive
Director
and
Chief
Counsel
JOHN
A.
CARSTARPHEN,
Jr.,
Chief
Clerk
and
Counsel
PHILIP
B.
YEAGER,
COU4I8el
FRANK
R. HAMMILL,
Jr.,
Counsel
W.
H.
BOONE,
Chief Technical
Consultant
RICHARD
P.
HINES,
Staff
CO/Mita/a
PETER A.
GERARD',
Technical
Consultant
JAMES E.
WILSON,
Technical
Consultant
HAROLD A.
GOULD,
Technical Consultant
PHILIP
P.
DICKINSON,
Technical Consultant
JOSEPH
M.
FELTON,
Counsel
RICHARD
E. BEEMAN,
Minority
Staff
ELIZABETH
S.
KEENAN,
Scientific
Research
Assistant
FRANK
J.
GIROUX,
Clerk
DENIS C.
QUIGLEY,
Publicationa Clerk
JAMES
G.
FULTON,
Pennsylvania
CHARLES
A.
MOSHER,
Ohio
RICHARD
L.
ROUDEBUSH,
Indiana
ALPHONZO
BELL,
California
THOMAS
M. PELLY,
Washington
DONALD
RUMSFELD,
Illinois
EDWARD
J.
GURNEY,
Florida
JOHN W. WYDLER,
New
York
GUY VANDER
JAGT,
Michigan
LARRY
WINN,
JR.,
Kansas
JERRY
L.
PETTIS,
California
D. E.
(BUZ) LUKENS,
Ohio
JOHN
E.
HUNT,
New
Jersey

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