On 2 March 1971, James E McDonald gave evidence before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee conducting hearings on the “Civil Supersonic Aircraft Development (SST)”. Following James E McDonald’s evidence, Representative Conte provoked laughter in the hearing room by stating, “A man who comes here and tells me that the SST flying in the atmosphere is going to cause thousands of skin cancers has to back up his theory that there are little men flying around the sky”.

 

 

A UFO hoax in Maynard, Iowa by students in the sociology class of John Forkenbrock begins during night of 13^th April 1971.

 

 

 

 

During April 1971, the journal Industrial Research publishes the results of a poll of its readers conducted in January 1971, indicating that 54% believed that UFOs “definitely” (20%) or “probably” (34%) existed.

 

 

 

 

On 4 September 1971, a joint US-USSR conference relating to SETI was held in Byurakan, Soviet Armenia.