The Science and Astronautics Committee of the U. S. House of Representatives will conduct a one-day Symposium on unidentified flying objects on Monday, July 29, in the Committee rooms of the Rayburn Building.

Six outstanding scientists have been invited as participants to discuss specific aspects of the problem. These discussions will include atmospheric, meteorological, physical and psychological phenomena that are related to the problem. They represent a sampling of scientists who have taken more than a casual look at the UFO evidence and who feel that it is important to secure clarifications of the nature of the UFO phenomena.

The one-day seminar will be chaired by Congressman J. Edward Roush, a member of the Science and Astronautics Committee. Congressman Roush has been an interested observer for sometime of the American public's reaction to the twenty years of reported sightings. He believes that the Congress and the public will benefit from the responses of various members of the scientific community to these accounts.

Expressing himself as "neither a believer nor a skeptic rather an interested agnostic on the subject of UFO's," Congressman Roush says he feels that the scientific import should be analyzed rather than the more emotional approach; that the views of these outstanding members of the scientific community would serve a purpose in informing the American Congress and the American public.

Following presentations on specific aspects of the problem, the scientific experts invited will respond to questions from members of the Committee and will be allowed time to discuss their presentations with one another.

The meeting will be an open session of the Committee.

The names of the six Scientists who will participate in the Unidentified Flying Objects Symposium on Monday, July 29, were announced today by the House Committee on Science and Astronautics.

Congressman J. Edward Roush, Symposium chairman, said the participants are

• Dr. James E. McDonald, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona;

• Dr. J. Allen Hynek, head of the Department of Astronomy, Northwestern University;

• Dr. Robert L. Hall, head of the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago;

• Dr. Robert M. L. Baker, Jr., Senior Scientist, Systems Sciences Corporation;

• Dr. James A. Harder, Associate Professor of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, and

• Dr. Carl Sagan, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University.

Congressman Roush said the Symposium participants were selected because of their particular interest and competence in the various fields that are related to atmospheric, meteorological, psychological and physical phenomena.

The chairman said he was certain their contributions would assist the committee in a better understanding of the technical and scientific facts surrounding the basic phenomena associated with UFO's. He added the Symposium would also provide the committee with an assessment of the impact of UFO sighting reports during the past 20 years on the scientific community.

The hearing will be open to the public and will begin at 10 a. m. In Room 2318, Rayburn House Office Building, July 29. It is also the intention of the Committee to publish the results of the Symposium and the papers presented by the participants.