CONGRESS IS BEING PRESSED FOR 'FLYING SAUCER' PROBE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP68-00046R000200090014-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 12, 2014
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: October 23, 1961
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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cer" enthusiasts, who think it Is
up to Congress to find out whether
earthbound mortals are being
evidence.
But at the entetion of public
hearings, MI Committee Chair-
man. Brooks said
watched from outer space, as
some scientists Say, are due for "Well, if the hearings are not
a rebuff at the hands of the new to be public, there's no use hold
hairman f the H " "-
iing hearings' at all," objected,
c oouse space.
committee, California's George P.Iliarth, And that ended the matter.
Miller. The explanation given by Brooks
"The Air Force is the expertwas "the press will make fun of
on that subject," miner tokens. Anyhow, our committee has
NANA. "But if the civilian groups much,more serous business on
think it is trying to silence in- hand.'
quire, let them bring ue the evi- But the UFO fans are not takin
donee, and we'll consider it." . a "no. They announce they will
This refers to a running fpud be back when Congress neon-
heteeen several civilian groups vanes, to press for a hearing,
interested in Unidentified Flyingl Could it be that some of these
Ohtects (UFO). about which see- flying objects are in, reality a
erat hooks and much other lit-:kind of stew weapon which the
ereture has been written, and the, kir Force wants to hide from,a
Air Force. ipotential enemy? "If so," retorts
* a former admiral, who was in n
e? Thee see that every time an position to know about such
official investigatinn gets under things. "they are the hest kept
??.iy the Air Force uses its in-'secrets in our history.
Hoene(' to squelch It. ; Speaking is Adm. R. H,
Hillen-
Earlier this year the House sci-lkootter, who headed the Central
elicit and astronautic.e committee, intelligence Agency form 1947 to
more commonly called the space 1950. He says:
committee, then chairmaned by', '"Theee UFO seem to be under
the, late Overton Brooks of Lou-tintelligent control. They have had
isinna..was on the verge of start-plenty of time to be hostile and
in" an inquiry. Brooks mimed a they have not shown any hostili-
stibceenniittee on unidentified fly.:ty. If they had displayed hostility
in objects headed by Rep. Jo-to this country Cney might be the
seph E. Karth of Minnesota :invention of some other nati9n.
Karth made preparations to hold The public has a right to know
hearings. Spokesmen for the fact*. elOrlitreee is the body
such Orr.nruzations ;15 the Uniden-lo investigate."
tried Elyine Objects Research * *
center I twOlift and the National The mao who thinks it "atm.
Inveetieation Committee on Aerial lutelv certain" that we are being
Phenomena (NICAPI made prepewattihed from outer space is A1-
belt W. MOTS,' former Air For&
official, whose job was to evalts.
ate't/To0 data, I
And Dr. Clyde W. Tornbaugh,
the map who discovered the planet
Pluto: reports: 1 ?
"These things, which do appear
to be directed, are unlike any;
phenomena I have ever observed,*
Other stars in our galaxy may
have hundreds of thousands ofe
habitable 'worlds swirling about'
them. Races on these worlds may
have been able to utilize the tre-
mendous amounts of power reit
quired to bridge the space beel
tween the stars."
Pear Admiral D. S. Fahrneeet
Ret., asserts that "reliable re4
ports indicate that there are ob-I
jects corning into our atmosphere;
at very high speeds. The way they
change position indicates that
their motion is directed."
Rep. John W. McCormack of
Massachusetts, the House ma.
jority leader and its speaker
pro tern ht the absence of ail- .
leg Speaker Sam Rayburn, and
who is also the godfather of
the Howie space etimmittee
which he got started on Ito way,
Is mit, of thopt who favors con-
gressional hearings. ? A
"I feel the Air Force is not
giving out all the .nforrnation it
ihas on UFOs." he insists.
"These UFOs must he in a very 4"
high state of perfection and de-'
velopment," he added. "Whether'
they come fron .to some' otheri-
planet. we don't (now. We can't,
say they do until we find life no
another planet. But so many ex-i
pert witnesses have seen them,
that you can't. disregard so many
unAmpetchable %trines."
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