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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. 5 …Illinois, Chicago, Ill_ 100 Dr. James A. Harder, associate professor of civil engineering, University ofCalifornia 113…
  • p. 8 …Hall, head of the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago; Dr.James A.Harder…
  • p. 27 …in Redlands, Calif., which I think Dr. Harder may be able to tell still more about…
  • p. 29 …the instance at Redlands, and perhaps Dr. Harder can fill you in in more detail. On…
  • p. 58 …of Redlands. Because I understand that Dr. Harder will be giving a fairly detailed report of…
  • p. 97 …investigate these things, I think requires some harder evidence than is now at hand. It is…
  • p. 118 …Harder, will you proceed. (The biography of Dr.Harder is as follows:) DR. J. A. HARDER…
  • p. 119 …Dr.HARDER.Thank you,Mr.Chairman. Your committee has asked me to comment on the problem…
  • p. 123 …nature? Dr.HARDER.Yes, that is right. Mr. WYDLER. All right. Dr. HARDER. In my statement…
  • p. 125 …Go ahead, Dr.Harder. Dr. HARDER. The instances in which physical fragments of UFO's have…
  • p. 127 …statement? Dr. HARDER. That concludes my statement. PREPARED STATEMENT OF DR. JAMES A. HARDER I am…
  • p. 196 …HYNEK. I will certainly grant that. Dr. HARDER. I would only respond to Mr. Boone by…
  • p. 197 …no question it can be done. Dr. HARDER. I would agree the amount of effort that…
  • p. 198 …BAKER. I have a question of Dr. Harder about the Ubatuba magnesium. Was this magnesium terrestrial…
  • p. 199 193Dr. HARDER. This was done by a neutralization analysis on a very tiny slicer. It would…
  • p. 201 …attendance of the entire series. Dr. Harder. Dr. HARDER. Following on something that Dr. Hynek said…
  • p. 203 …Baker, and Dr. Hall, Dr. McDonald, Dr. Harder, Dr. Hynek, and Dr. Sagan, I believe that…
CONTENTS
STATEMENTS
Page
Dr.
J.
Allen
Hynek,
head,
Department
of
Astronomy,
Northwestern
University,
Evanston,
Ill
3
Prof.
James
E.
McDonald,
Department
of
Meteorology,
University
of
Arizona,
Tucson,
Ariz
18
Dr.
Carl
Sagan,
associate professor
of
astronomy,
Center
for
Radiophysics
and
Space
Research,
Cornell University
86
Dr.
Robert
L.
Hall,
head,
Department
of Sociology, University of
Illinois,
Chicago,
Ill_
100
Dr.
James
A.
Harder,
associate professor
of
civil
engineering,
University
ofCalifornia
113
Dr.
Robert
M.
L.
Baker,
Jr.,
senior
scientist,
System
Sciences
Corp.,
650
C
North
Sepulveda
Boulevard,
El
Segundo,
alif
126
PREPARED
PAPERS
Dr. Donald
H.
Menzel,
Harvard
College
Observatory
198
Dr.
R.
Leo
Sprinkle, Division
of Counseling
and
Testing, University
of
Wyoming
206
Dr.
Garry C. Henderson,
senior
research
scientist,
Space
Sciences,
General
Dynamics
210
Dr.
Stanton
T.
Friedman,
Westinghouse
Astronuclear
Laboratory
213
Dr. Roger
N.
Shepard,
Department
of Psychology, Stanford
University
223
Dr.
Frank B.
Salisbury,
head,
Plant
Science
Department,
Utah
State
University
235

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