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House Symposium on UFOs (1968)

1968-07-29what this date marks is not recorded

Symposium held 29 July 1968 by the House Committee on Science and Astronautics in room 2318 of the Rayburn Building, convened by Rep. J. Edward Roush. Six scientists testified - Hynek, McDonald, Sagan, Robert L. Hall, Harder and Baker - and six more submitted prepared papers, including Menzel, Stanton Friedman, Sprinkle, Shepard, Salisbury and Henderson. Roush opened by saying the committee took no stand and was there to listen and learn; full-committee chairman George Miller stated it was not a criticism of the Air Force.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "ufos". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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ColourJournalistsScientistsGovernmentCongress
  • opened the scientific testimony
    Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects
    printed p. 2  ·  PDF p. 8 checked against the page
  • testified; his testimony and prepared paper occupy printed pp. 18-85 of the record
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • testified as an astronomer at Cornell
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 86  ·  PDF p. 92 checked against the page
  • Robert L. Hall document, no page cited yet
    testified on the sociology of UFO reporting
    same document as the row above
  • testified as an engineer
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • Robert M. L. Baker Jr. document, no page cited yet
    testified on photographic and film evidence
    same document as the row above
  • submitted a prepared paper
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • submitted a prepared paper from Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • submitted a prepared paper
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • submitted a prepared paper
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • submitted a prepared paper
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • submitted a prepared paper
    same document as the row above
    printed p. III  ·  PDF p. 5 checked against the page
  • J. Edward Roush document, no page cited yet
    convened and chaired it
    same document as the row above
  • full-committee chairman; said it was not a criticism of the Air Force
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 2  ·  PDF p. 8 checked against the page
  • Edward Condon document, no page cited yet
    held while the Condon study was under way at Colorado
    same document as the row above
  • his plasma hypothesis was argued against in the record
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 80  ·  PDF p. 86 checked against the page
  • his 1960 statement on UFOs was quoted into the record
    same document as the row above
    printed p. 32  ·  PDF p. 38 checked against the page

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House Symposium on UFOs (1968) → James E. McDonald
testified; the most forceful case for serious study
testified; his testimony and prepared paper occupy printed pp. 18-85 of the record
"Most forceful" is a ranking the document does not make and the charter forbids. Replaced with the page span, which the contents page gives directly. NOT called "the longest" - see the note on this bind.

Notes on this record

The category

Recategorised from "incident" to "inquiry" on 26 August 2026. A convened proceeding is not an incident: an incident is something that happened to somebody, a hearing or panel is something an institution did, on a published date, producing a record this project holds. While filed as an incident this node rendered in plain body text on the timeline, indistinguishable from a person's name, because the colour rule marks government bodies and programmes and "incident" is not marked.