Video · 5 April 1966

Hynek and Air Force Secretary Harold Brown at a press conference (1966 news footage)

Red Panda Koala’s UFO History Archive · 5 April 1966 · 1 min · Watch the original

Archival TV news footage from the day of the hearing, not a recording of the session itself. Brown’s “the hearing this morning was public” dates the stand-up to 5 April 1966 — the only public UFO hearing he sat as Air Force Secretary. The upload’s narration that Hynek joined Blue Book in 1952 and appeared with him “17 years later” (about 1969) is wrong. No full audio or video of the session is known to survive; the printed transcript is the primary record.

Key moments

  1. 0:18 J. Allen Hynek: Hynek, Project Blue Book's scientific consultant: “None of the evidence that I have examined would indicate any proof at all that we are being visited by extraterrestrials.”
  2. 0:30 Harold Brown: Air Force Secretary Harold Brown, asked what the Air Force is hiding: “We have not been hiding anything; the investigations have been made public… the hearing this morning was public for just that reason.”

Transcript

From automatic captions; names and terms may be misspelled. Check the original video before quoting.

0:00 Dr heinik a noted astronomer from Harvard and Northwestern universities has been a persistent investigator of UFO cases in 1952 he was asked by the Air Force to join Project Blue Book their UFO Investigation Unit 17 years later he joined Air Force secretary Herold Brown at a press conference to announce the team's conclusions none of the evidence that I have examined would indicate any proof at all that we are being visited by extraterrestrials what is the Air Force hiding in this investigation we have not been hiding anything the investigations have been made public the explanations of those where there is a clear explanation have been made public the hearing this morning was public for just that reason an astrophysicist Dr Alan heck investigator for the Air Forces said I don't like a mystery a mystery is an itch that should be scratched he concluded I've recommended that competent science quietly study the

1:01 cases when evidence from responsible people appears to Warrant such a study the Air Force has told Congress it probably will name a scientific panel to investigate UFOs in depth we support such an independent study to clear away the doubt if not the air from flying

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