It's hard for me to believe, but I think it's true that my first visit here was a very long time ago, in the early 1960s, when I was a congressman and serving on the House Committee on Science and Astronautics, and came here with Wernher von Braun.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
U.S. Department of Defense: Remarks by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Seventh Annual Space and Missile Defense Conference. Wednesday, August 18, 2004.
http://www.defenselink.mil/transcripts/2004/tr20040818-secdef1201.html
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is a pleasure to welcome all the members of this distinguished panel, and particularly to welcome Dr. Allen Hynek, who is a son of Illinois, and presently serves in the Department of Astronomy and Director of the Lindheimer Astronomical Research Center. Dr. Hynek is a member of a number of scientific societies, and has served in the Government service as well as in the academic community. As his Congressman I am delighted he has been invited to appear on this panel, and we certainly look forward to his comments.
-- Donald Rumsfeld
UFO Symposium 1968: Introduction
http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/intro.
Members of the Committee on Science and Astronautics: "Donald Rumsfeld, Illinois" Symposium On Unidentified Flying Objects, U.S. House of representatives, Committee on Science and Astronautics July 29, 1968.
UFO Symposium 1968: Memebers
http://ncas.sawco.com/ufosymposium/members.html
http://www.rense.com/general52/rum.htm
Dr. Allen Hynek had told me a very interesting thing many years ago.
He went to Washington. Allen was on a visit, and he got an appointment with Rumsfeld. He had been for many many years a consultant for the Air Force on UFOs phenomena. He actually knew Rumsfeld. He said that they chatted about this and that in Rumsfeld’s office and then he said. I turned to him and I said, Don I have to ask you something. I have been in this for years looking at the UFO phenomena. I feel like at this point in my life I am in a position of need to know.
-- Bud Hopkins
http://www.presidentialufo.com/donald_rumsfeld.htm
Allen Hynek had told me the same story about his attempt to get Rumsfeld to give him access to the UFO info.
-- Stan Friedman
UFO UpDates Mailing List
http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/2003/nov/m27-024.shtml