Ford Press Releases - UFO, 1966 — Page 25586

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The original documents are located in Box D9, folder “Ford Press Releases - UFO, 1966” of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections

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The original documents are located in Box D9, folder “Ford Press Releases - UFO, 1966” of the Ford Congressional Papers: Press Secretary and Speech File at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. Copyright Notice The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. The Council donated to the United States of America his copyrights in all of his unpublished writings in National Archives collections. Works prepared by U.S. Government employees as part of their official duties are in the public domain. The copyrights to materials written by other individuals or organizations are presumed to remain with them. If you think any of the information displayed in the PDF is subject to a valid copyright claim, please contact the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. 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FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER NEWS RELEASE FROM THE OFFICE OF HOUSE MINORITY LEADER GERALD R. FORD, R·MICH. FOR RELEASE ON RECEIPT MARCH 25, 1966 WASHINGTON--House Minority Leader Gerald a. Ford, R·Mich., today country. because t d he believe• a .f&n~ional inquiry would be worthwhile Amer1\!_l! eople are bec~ing alamed by the UFO stories. Hen reports f ted that Air Fo ce 1n1ati~atora have been checking on such r years bu hav c .. e p th nothing conOlueive. e +w ai ier'tf1i&rd.~~.._~.....,-._, me thing for a tommitte o conduct a number of hearinss and to executive branch (of the sighted these objects." "I think the American better if there was a full-blown investigation of these incidents, which some persons allege have taken place." /J I I .. ' CONGRESSMAN GERALD R. FORD HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER NEWS RELEASE FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, P.M. MARCH 28, 1966 NOTE TO ALL NE~S MEDIA: House Minority Leader Gerald R. Ford, R-Michigan, today sent the attached letter to the chairmen and the ranking Republican members of the House Committees on Armed Services and Science and Astronautics, urging that one committee or the other investigate the subject of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO's). Ford is not sati~fied with the Air Force explanation of the recent sightings in Michigan and describes the "swamp gas" version given by astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek as 11 flippant.li Ford bas received a number of telegrams and letters from individuals anxious to see a congressional investigation of UFO's. # # # ' c 0 p y March 28, 1966 Rep. George P. Miller, Cha~rma~ Science and Astronautics Committee. U, s. House of Representatives Washington, D.C. R¢p. L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman Armed Services Committee ·u. s. House of Representatives Washington, D. c. Dear Chairmen Miller and Rivers: ~ ...... . ~ ... '-\ No doubt yo.u have not~d the rec~.t fl)lrry of newspaper stories about unidentified flying objects (UFO' s). I have taken special interest in these accounts because many of the latest reported sighting& have been in my home state of·Michtgan • . . . The Air Force sent a c;o~s,ultant, astrophysicist Dr. J~ Allen Hynek of Northwestern University, to Michigan to investigate the :various r·eports; and he dismissed all of. them as the 'product of college-student pranks or sw8D1p gas or an impr,es_sion created by the rising crescent moon and the planet Venus. I do not agree that all of these reports can be or should be so easily explained away. Because I think.tberell,18y be substance to ~ome of these reports and because I believe tbe ~erican people are entitled to a more thorough explanation than has been given them by the Air Force to date, I am proposing that either the Science and Astronautics Committee or the Armed Services Committee of the House schedule hearings on the subject of UFO's and invite testimony from both the executive branch of the government and some of the persons who claim to have seen UFO's. I enclose material which I think will be helpful to you in assessing the advisability of an investigation of UFO's. May I first call to your attention a column by Roscoe Drummond, published last Sunday in which Mr. Drutm11ond says, "Maybe all of these reported sig…

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