Congress / policymaker

Joseph Karth

1961-01-01year known, day not recorded

Democratic Representative from Minnesota; led a three-member House subcommittee that held secret closed-door hearings on UFO sightings in 1961, summoning Air Force witnesses - a precedent Gerald Ford cited five years later in his own push for a congressional UFO investigation.

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→ Gerald Ford names a source we do not hold

his 1961 secret hearings were the precedent Ford cited

Congressional hearing records
→ Project Blue Book names a source we do not hold

summoned Air Force witnesses in his 1961 hearings

USAF Project Blue Book records; Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (1956)