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'Unidentifieds' as a sort of blot on the escutcheon. Somehow we scientists should be able to come up with answers for these things." Major Quintanella agreed that it was "impossible to prove that flying saucers do not exist," and that the Air Force should persist in investigating UFO sightings. "We are spending millions to get our spacecraft to the moon and beyond. Imagine what a great help it would be to get our hands on a ship from another planet and examine its power plant." Although Major Quintanella may have uttered that statement with his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek, the public displays of ostentatious denials to mask the private inquiries and laborious research are becoming much more apparent to even the casual observer. On April 5, 1966, Dr. Harold Brown told the House Armed Services Committee that there is no evidence to support the claims that the UFO's are spaceships. The formal hearing on UFO's was prompted by the rash of sightings in Michigan in March. "You might call the study of UFO's a study in puzzlement," Dr. Brown said as he credited the Michigan saucers to "marsh gases." Dr. Brown concluded by saying: "The Air Force is hiding nothing." Nothing? When Dr. J. Allen Hynek held his press conference to dismiss the Michigan sightings as will-o'- the-wisps in a swamp, he was honest enough to add this disclaimer: "Scientists in the year 2066 may think us very naive in our denials." On April 6th, Several persons reported seeing an unidentified flying object three miles south of lowa City, lowa. Howard Fountain, who lives in this area, said that he saw a red light slowly descending at an altitude of 2,000 to 3,000 feet. lowa City police and highway patrolmen said the object appeared to them to be nearly motionless. Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Wilson and their three children observed two bright red lights moving in a circular pattern for about 15 minutes.