From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 06-17-1986
  Subject: 1966 FORD TO ASK INQUIRY

SOURCE:  NYT (WASHINGTON, DC)
  DATE:  26 MARCH 1966


FORD TO ASK INQUIRY

House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford announced yesterday he would ask
the chairmen of the House Armed Services Committee and the Science and
Astronautics Committee to consider a "full blown" investigation of
unidentified flying objects.  Several hundred persons have reported
seeing mysterious lights in Mr. Ford's home state of Michigan this week.
No Congressional leader has called for such an investigation before.
Mr. Ford said he was in Michigan Thursday night and yesterday morning
"and I can assure you there is interest and I suspect public concern"
over the sightings.  If swamp gas caused the lights, Mr. Ford said, USAF
should have no hesitancy in explaining that to a committee.