6 May 1966
(Meriden Journal, Meriden – Southington, Connecticut)
The article focuses mainly on
the UFO inquiries of the U.S. Air Force:
Quote from the article:
“Last year, 886 UFO sightings
were turned in, and the Air Force attempted to track down every one of them. Sixteen
of the sightings were never explained.
Air Force Secretary Harold
Brown, a nuclear physicist, has said that he will urge a number of universities
to form scientific teams to probe in depth 100 selected sightings reported this
year.
The Air Force states that,
after 19 years of collecting data, it has no proof that U.S. security has been
threatened by ‘flying saucers’ or any other unidentified form of flying body. There
is no evidence to support the belief voiced by many that mysterious devices
from outer space exist.
The astronomers admit, however,
that they rarely attempt to scan the Earth’s atmosphere.
There is one exception, the
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass. Its observers state
that its lower-tracking telescopes pick up hundreds of unidentified objects
which they have no time to check out.”
Harold Brown,
former U.S. Secretary of Defense (1977-1981)
(at the time of the 1966 UFO Hearings,
Brown was Secretary of the Air Force)