PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD
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1. DATE 2 LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
28 Jul 59 Corpus Christi, Texas 0 Probably Balloon
4 TYPE OF OBSERVATION 0 Possibly Balloon
3. DATE-TIME GROUP
Local Ground-Visual Ground-Radar 0 Was Aircraft
Probably Aircraft
GMT not stated AirVisual Air-Intercept Radar Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE Was Astronomical Veaues
Yes 00 Probably Astronomical
No Civilian Possibly Astronomical
7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8. NUMBER OF OBJECTS 9. COURSE 0 Other.
Insufficient Data for Evaluation
0 Unknown
not given 1
10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. . COMMENTS
Dr Hynek was at Pasadena & observed Film not received fo analysis.
films of purporte taken by Case carried as insuf ient data.
winness in ti Texas whid
photographing Venus Immge of obj
was real & appeared on succeeding frames.
Possible light on c according to lENUS
Dr Hynek. Dr Hynek.
See See Film 7-3745-453
8mm 8 mm
FICM IN Fium IN SPECIMIN FICE. SPECIMEN FIGE.
ATIC FORM 329 ATIC FORM 9 (REV 26 SEP 52)
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had a very interesting trip to Pasadena, and
BENN while t ere, by utter c ance, I ran into the publisher of
the now defunct magazine, 'Saucers'. He is a. young student
CASE and oddly enoug a close frie graduate student in
astronomy at Harvard. Do tell Menzel!) They showed
ne some mc the_incident.of
Decemer , 1957,1 and another being of July 28, 1959. The
eemu Tike balloons to me, but the second I am
not sure of. The second shows very fine color movies of
Venus in the dagtime, and for this reason alone, I think
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enclose one enlargement. The
image is real, S as it apnears after freme, but it
micht very well Light plane.
I have recer a publication "by
our friends in Akron and Cleveland. t is entitled Electro-
Maretic Effects Associated Wi th Unidentified Flying Objects,
and it is quite well preoared and presented in a non sensa-
ti nal manner. I am afraid we are going to hear more about
this. If by some chance you have not received copy, I
will send you mine
Have the stereos of the Louisiana in yet?
* obtaived the filve.
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This case contains
1 3×5"photo
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July28,1955
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know as soon as I do. Enclosed is the copy that was made
from the l6 mm rovie that nay sent me. Please return as
soon as possible because I will need ii January 12.
Imam givin n lecture to abo t 75 sorority members ( and
husbands)
I thought see the film fo yo.rsedf.
On November 9, I sent you several fra,ment believed to
be a meteorito thatI received fron the lirkpatric Plone-
tarium alorg vith vhet information I had. Lid you send
to the Planetarium stated that he helieved the fragments
to be meieorites or tektites. heteorites has almost been
eliminated and the ainbelics tekiles. n lotter
from Dr dated ecember l3 stater fra_ments
appears to be of ordiuary scorinceous basalt rock., and not
to release eny information on it.
I am lookin_ forward to the now Fact Sheet.
Would it be posaible tobbtain letter dated
September 28, 1017 and' the list of oo activ re or.anizntions?

motion picture. It was forwarded to Chicago, Illinois
for duplication by Kodak and returned to us. The original film was
sent to you, airmail, registered, special delivery on the llth ofJanuary
under Register Number 664380. We do hope that it arrived in time for
The images on the film depicts
clouds, a contrail and the planet Venus. In an i independent evaluation
of the movie the object was determined to be the planet Venus. Doctor
hshas also evaluated the movie and he has determined the
image to be the planet Venus. We appreciate your forwarding this film
for our e luation,
us on 9 November 1964. This
fragment was forwarded and remained in the Post Office for approximately
six veeks. There was an amount of postage due and we did not receive
this object. in our shop until the 23rd of December. We submitted the
The rock appears to be common to that portion of Oklahoma. A copy of the
lab report is attached. Perhaps these events will clarify the statements
in our letter of 1l December l964 you. No contact has been made with
Doctor King or Doctor Hynek on this particular object. would like to
point out that meteor observations of this nature would reported by
many more observors and that should the object be meteorite, the absence
of sound would indicate that the impact point would excess 300
miles from the point of observation.
The Fact Sheet is in the process printed. courtesy copy will be
forwarded to you enclosing the sta atistics which
will be included as attachments to the basic information.

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(2) cases indicates that unidentified
flying objects exist as reports of aircraft, balloons, stars, planets,
missiles and a n multitude of known conventional objects and phenomena.
There has been no indlcation that these objects are from outer space
under intelligent control. The letter of 23 Sep 47 intelligent control. The letter of 23 Sep 47 did not state did not state that that
UFOs are real, it requested an investigation to determine IF t real, it requested an investigation to determine IF they were they were
real and all official conclusions and all and all official conclusions and all information to date information to date indicates indicates
that given sufficient information a valid that given sufficient information a valid explanation explanation for the for the cause of
each each report could be made. report could be made.
We would appreciate a statement of the information appreciate a statement of the information in your
they are objects of inte are objects of inte ary origin. ry origin.
Sincerely,
HECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr 5 Atchs 5 Atchs
Major, USAF l. Analysis of Fragments
Chief, Project Blue Book 2. Statistics
3. Bibliography
4. List of Organizations
5. Six page article &
comments
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