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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 …Psychology, Stanford University 223 Dr. Frank B. Salisbury, head, Plant Science Department, Utah State University 235
  • p. 214 …informed description of various UFO hypotheses, see Salisbury, F. B., The scientist and the UFO. Bio…
  • p. 216 …References are cited which offer hypotheses ( Salisbury, 1967) to account for UFO observations, and posi- tions…
  • p. 225 …18 Salisbury, F. B., "The Possibilities of Life on Mars," Proceedings Conference on the Exploration of…
  • p. 226 …67 Salisbury, F. B. "The Scientist and the UFO", Bio Science, January 1967, pp. 15-24…
  • p. 241 …Salisbury follows:) Frank Boyer Salisbury. Born: Provo, Utah, August 3, 1926. Married 1949; six children. B…
  • p. 242 …Cur- rent speculation about life on Mars (Jackson and Moore, 1965; Salisbury, 1962, 1966) would be…
  • p. 243 …These ideas have recently been discussed in considerably more detail elsewhere (Salisbury, 1966). There was an…
  • p. 251 …The Encyclopedia Amen - Salisbury, F. B. 1962. Martian biology. Science, 136: 17-26. Salisbury, F. B…
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