On 29 July 1968, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics holds a “Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects”, chaired by Congressman J Edward Roush. Oral evidence was heard from six speakers: Dr J Allen Hynek, Dr Carl Sagan, Dr Robert L Hall, Dr James E McDonald, Dr James A Harder and Dr Robert M L Baker. Statements were submitted by Dr Donald Menzel, Dr Leo Sprinkle, Dr Garry Henderson, Stanton T Friedman, Dr Roger N Shephard and Dr Frank B Salisbury. (Commonly referred to as “the Roush Hearing”).
Web Resources
Transcripts available online on various websites, including the following
http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/contents.html
http://www.project1947.com/shg/symposium/contents.html{text}
Book References
Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 40-217 of the Putnam hardback edition.
For discussion of the Roush Hearings see the following:
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Achenbach, Joel in his “Captured by Aliens” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 56-57 (in Chapter 5), 377 (in the Notes) of the Simon and Schuster hardback edition. |
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Barry, Bill in his “Ultimate Encounter” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-187 (in Chapter 15) of the Corgi paperback edition. |
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Berliner, Don with Galbraith, Marie and Huneeus, Antonio in their “UFO Briefing Document : The Best Available Evidence“ (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 220-222 (in the Appendices, section entitled “Congressional Hearings on UFOs”) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Blum, Ralph and Blum, Judy in their “Beyond Earth: Man’s Contact with UFOs” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-169 (in Chapter 15) of the Bantam paperback edition (with the same page numbering in the Corgi paperback edition). |
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Brookesmith, Peter in his “UFO: The Government Files” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 59-60 (in Chapter 3) of the Parragon hardback edition. |
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Clark, Jerome in his “The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 368 of the Visible Ink Press softcover edition in an entry entitled “McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)”. |
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Cohen, Daniel in his “The World of UFOs” (1978) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 108-109 (in Chapter 13) of the Lippincott hardback edition. |
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Condon Report (“Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects”, Edward U Condon (Director) and Daniel S Gillmor (Editor) (1969)) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 68-69 (in Section 2 “Summary of the Study”, by Edward U Condon), 967 (in Section 6, Chapter 2 “Process of Perception, Conception, and Reporting”, by William K Hartmann) of the uncorrected version submitted to the Air Force (with the same page numbering in the 3 volume paperbound edition distributed by the National Technical Information Service, US Department of Commerce) at pages 49-50, 584-585 of the Vision hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Bantam paperback edition). The first of these editions has the same page numbering as the edition available free online at the following links: |
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Cousineau, Phil in his “UFOs: A Manual for the Millenium” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 83-84 (in Chapter 3) of the Harper Collins paperback edition. |
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Craig, Roy in his “UFOs – An Insider’s View” (1995) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 242-244 (in Chapter 15) of the UNT softback edition. |
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Davidson, Keay in his “Carl Sagan: A Life” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 228-229 (in Chapter 8) of the Wiley softcover edition. |
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Dennett, Preston E in his “One in Forty : The UFO Epidemic” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 291-293 (in Chapter 40) of the KB hardback edition. |
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Dick, Steven J in his “Life on Other Worlds“ (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 155-156 (in Chapter 5) of the |
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Dick, Steven J in his “The Biological Universe” (1996) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 298-299 (in Chapter 6) of the |
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Dolan, Richard M in his “UFOs and the National Security State: Volume 1: 1941-1973” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 443-444 (in Chapter 8) of the Keyhole softcover edition, at pages 346-348 of the 2002 revised Hampton Road softcover edition. |
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Druffel, Ann in her “Firestorm : Dr James E McDonald's Fight for UFO Science” (2003) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 78-79 (in Chapter 4), 224-247 (in Chapter 9), 252 (in Chapter 10), 327 (in Chapter 13) of the Wild Flower Press softcover edition. |
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Fitzgerald, Randall in his “The Cosmic Test Tube” (1998) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 126-128 (in Section 2) with a one sentence summary at page 371 (in the Guide To Books) of the Moonlake Media softcover edition. |
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Flammonde, Paris in his “Ufo Exist!” (1976) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 412 (in Chapter 20) of the Ballantine Books paperback edition. |
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Fowler, Raymond E in his “UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 107-109 (in Chapter 8) of the Exposition Banner hardback edition, at pages 104-106 of the Bantam paperback edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton in his “Flying Saucers and Science : A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs” (2008) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 50-52 (in Chapter 1) of the New Page softcover edition. |
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Friedman, Stanton T in his “Top Secret – MAJIC” (1997) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 27 (in Chapter 2), 142 (in Chapter 7) of the Michael O’ Mara hardback edition. |
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Fuller, John G in Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger’ “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 13-16 (in the Introduction) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 7, 8-11, 18, 38 (in the Introduction), 40, 60-63 (in Chapter 1), 112-114 (in Chapter 3), 186-189 (in Chapter 8) of the Putnam hardback edition. Edited and annotated transcript of the Roush hearings presented at pages 40-217. |
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Greenwell, J Richard in “The Encyclopedia of UFOs” (1980) (edited by Ronald Story) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 85 (in an entry entitled “Congressional Interest in UFOs”) of the NEL hardback edition. |
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Hall, Michael David in his “UFOs : A Century of Sightings” (1999) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 297 (in Chapter 7) of the Galde Press softcover edition. |
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Hall, Richard in “The UFO Evidence: Volume 2 – A Thirty Year Report” (2001) (edited by Richard Hall) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 12 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “Master Chronology”) of the Scarecrow Press hardback edition. |
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Hartmann, William K in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 2) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Jacobs, David Michael in his “The UFO Controversy in America” (1975) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-238 (in Chapter 9) of the Indiana hardback edition, pages 207-211 of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Kettelkamp, Larry in his “Investigating UFOs” (1971) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 20 (in the unnumbered chapter entitled “UFO’s Under Study”) of the Target softcover edition. |
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Keyhoe, Donald E in his “Aliens from Space” (1973) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 148-154 (in Chapter 10) of the Signet paperback edition, pages 170-177 of the Panther paperback edition. |
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Kinder, |
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Klass, Philip J in “The UFO Invasion” (1997) (edited by Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr and Joe Nickell) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 39-40 of the Prometheus hardback edition (part of Chapter 2 at pages 29-43, “The Condon UFO Study”). The relevant chapter is a reprint of an article in the Skeptical Inquirer 10, number 4 (Summer 1986). |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game” (1989) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 15 (in Chapter 1) of the updated Prometheus softback edition. |
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Klass, Philip J in his “UFOs Explained” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 274-275 (in Chapter 25), 347-349 (in Chapter 30, “Congress, UFOs and N-Rays”) of the Random House hardback edition, at pages 325-326, 412-414 of Random House paperback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald H in “UFO's: A Scientific Debate” (1972) (edited by Carl Sagan and Thornton Page) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 129 (in Chapter 6) of the Barnes and Noble hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Norton paperback edition. |
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Menzel, Donald in a written statement to the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at page 205 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: |
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Peebles, Curtis in his “Watch the Skies!” (1994) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 183-185 (in Chapter 12, entitled “The Condon Report” – in a section entitled “The Roush Hearings”) of the Smithsonian hardback edition, at pages 221-223 of the Berkley paperback edition. |
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Quintanilla, Hector (Major) in his unpublished manuscript entitled “UFOs: An Air Force Dilemma” (copyright 1974) at pages 63-64, 80 of the manuscript, at pages 76-77, 93 of the NIDS pdf version available free on-line on various websites, including at the following link: http://www.projectbluebook.us/UFOs%20An%20Air%20Force%20Dilemma%20By%20Quintanilla.pdf http://www.nidsci.org/pdf/quintanilla.pdf
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Randles, Jenny in her “The Little Giant Encyclopedia of UFOs” (2000) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 73 (in Part 1, “A UFO Timeline”) of the |
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Roush, J Edward (Congressman) in the Roush Hearing (the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Astronautics "Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects" on 1968.0729) at pages 1-2 of the transcript of the Ninetieth Congress, Second Session, Number 7. Edited and annotated transcript presented by Fuller, John in his “Aliens in the Skies” (1969), with the relevant extract appearing at pages 40-42 (in Chapter 1) of the Putnam hardback edition. Complete transcript available free online at the following links: |
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Sachs, Margaret and Jahn, Ernest in their “Celestial Passengers – UFOs & Space Travel” (1977) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 168-173 (in Chapter 29) of the Penguin paperback edition. |
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Sachs, Margaret in her “The UFO Encyclopedia“ (1980 (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 150-152 (in an entry entitled “House Science and Astronautics Committee Hearings”) of the Corgi softback edition. |
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Salisbury, Frank in his “The Utah UFO Display: A Biologist’s Report” (1974) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 236 (in the Appendix entitled “Annotated Bibliography”) of the Devin Adair hardback edition. |
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Saunders, David R and Harkins, R Roger in their “UFOs? Yes!” (1968) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 233-234 (in Chapter 24) of the Signet paperback edition. |
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Smith, Marcia S in her “The UFO Enigma: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, UG 633, 76-52 SP” (1976) at pages 72-80 (in Chapter 5) of the Congressional Research Service stapled edition. |
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Spencer, John in his “The UFO Encyclopedia” (1991) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page 260 (in an entry entitled “Roush, Representative J Edward”) of the Guild hardback edition (with the same page numbering in the Avon softcover edition) at page 305 of the Headline paperback edition. |
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Strieber, Whitley in “Dark Object” (by Don Ledger and Chris Styles) (2001) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at page xvi (in the Introduction) of the Dell paperback edition. |
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Time-Life (Editors of) in “The UFO phenomenon: Mysteries of the Unknown” (1987) (available on Amazon USA and on Amazon UK) at pages 116-118 (in Chapter 4) of the Time-Life Book hardback edition. |
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