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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. 
 
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CONGRESSMAN 
GERALD R. 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 
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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 
astrophysicis…

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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: 
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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,ult…

Rep. George P. Miller, Chairman 
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, Chairman 
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March 28, 1966 
Ronald Coiier of Los Angel~s,. who identifies himself as "a scientist from 
M.I.T.," urges that you 11do everything in your l>ower to make Air Force 
Project Blue Book (the AF name for its ttudy and verdicts on UFO reports) 
known to the people." 
Are we to assume that everyone who says be has seen UFO's is an unreliable 
witness? 
A UPI story out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, dated March 21, 1966, states that 
"at least 40 persons, incl\.lding 12 policemen, said today that they saw 
a strange flying objec·t …

CONGRESSMAN 
GERALD R. FORD NEWS 
RELEASE 
R-Michigan, today s 
Republican members 
and Astronautics, u 
Ford 
HOUSE REPUBLICAN LEADER 
FOR RELEASE TUESDAY, P.M. 
MARCH 28, 1966 
House M ority Leader Gerald R. Ford, 
to the chairmen 
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on Armed Se~v~es and cience 
committee or 
tigate the 
the Air F~e explanation 
t he recent 
sightings in Michigan and describes tb.e "swamp gas • version given by 
astrophysicist J. Allen Hynek as "flippant." 
Ford has received a number of telegrams and letters from individuals 
anxious to see a congressional investigation of UFO's. 

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March 28, 1966 
Rep. George P. Miller, Chairman 
Science and Astronautic• Committee 
u. s. House of Repreeentatives 
Washington, D,C. 
Dear Chairmen Miller and Rivera: 
Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, Chail'1ND 
Armed Servicee Committee 
u. s. Houle of Repre1entativea 
WaahiDgton, D. c. 
No doubt you have noted the recent flurry of new1paper stories about 
unidentified flying objectl (UFO's). 
I have taken special interest in 
these accounts because many of the late•t reported sightinga have been 
in my home state of Michigan. 
The Air Force sent a consultant, astrophysicist Dr. J, Allen …