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which might consume an inordinate amount of time, plus focusing 

 undue attention on the "UFO buff's" who might unduly divert the 

 committee from mure important missions. 



Representative J. Edward Roush (Democrat of Indiana) was the 

 most outspoken advocate on the committee who supported the need 

 for public hearings. Chairman Brooks, who sanctioned committee 

 inquiries on a wide variety of subjects, drew the line against any in- 

 vestigation of UFO's because he feared that such a hearing would 

 bring public ridicule against the committee. Chairman Miller also 

 declined to sanction any UFO inquiry on the grounds that the subject 

 properlv belonged within the jurisdiction of the Air Force and the 

 Armed Services Committee. Congressman Roush bided his time, bring- 

 ing up the issue casually on a number of occasions, realizing that gentle 

 prodding and compromise worked better with Chairman Miller than 

 direct confrontations. Finally in 1968 Roush worked out a formula 

 which met Miller's approval: Roush offered to chair a one-man 

 "Symposium" which would appear to be something less than a formal 

 committee hearing. Roush agreed to limit the meeting to one day, to 

 allow only bona fide scientists to testify, not to set up a special sub- 

 committee for the purpose, and not to issue any kind of official report 

 of the proceedings other than the text of the recorded symposium 

 itself. 



Six participants all accepted invitations and appeared at the sym- 

 posium on July 29, 1968: Dr. James E. McDonald, Institute of Atmo- 

 spheric Physics, University of Arizona; Dr. J. Allen Hynek, head of 

 Department of Astronomy, Northwestern University; Dr. Robert L. 

 Hall, head of Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at 

 Chicago; Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, Jr., senior scientist, Computer Sci- 

 ences Corp.; Dr. James A. Harder, associate professor of civil engineer- 

 ing, University of California at Berkeley; and Dr. Carl Sagan, Depart- 

 ment of Astronomy, Cornell University. In addition, prepared papers 

 were presented by Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Harvard College Observa- 

 tory; Dr. R. Leo Sprinkle, Division of Counseling and Testing, Uni- 

 versity of Wyoming; Dr. Garry C. Henderson, senior research scientist, 

 space sciences, General Dynamics, Fort Worth, Tex.; Dr. Stanton T. 

 Friedman, Westinghouse Astronuclear Laboratory; Dr. Roger N. 

 Shepard, Department of Psychology, Stanford University; and Dr. 

 Frank B. Salisbury, head, Plant Science Department, Utah State 

 University. 



In opening the Symposium, Representative Roush declared: 



We approach the question of unidentified flying objects as purely a scientific 

 problem, one of unanswered questions. Certainly the rigid and exacting discipline of 

 science should be marshaled to explore the nature of phenomena which reliable 

 citizens continue to report. 



