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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. 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…
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