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1. DATE 2. LOCATION 12. CONCLUSIONS
0 Was Balloon
Ost 59 Telephone Ridge, Oregon QO Probably Balloon
}. DATE-TIME GROUP 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION G. Fossiny Balser
QO Was Aircraft
Local —-- 28 Ground: Vi sual 0 Ground-Radar Q Probably Aircroft
. 05152 0 Air Vi aval D Air-Intercept Radar |2 Possibly Aircraft
5. PHOTOS 6. SOURCE QO Was Astronomical
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Cant. H. Qrintanilia Jr.
U.S.A.*,

aight Patterson Air Foree Rase
Dayton, Ohio

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TO: Hq USAF SAFOI PB (Mrs.

l. A letter from Mr. Newport,
Oregon, to Capt Hector Quintanilla contained a report of an obser-
vation in October 1959. Mr. Qj reqested an evaluation of his
observation. Mr. Qi sighting cannot be related to any conven-
tional phenomenon such as an aircraft,balloon or astronomical body.
The brightness and clearness of the object and the locale of the
sighting tend to rule out mirages and reflections. From the infor-
mation presented, we are unable to identify or evaluate his obser-
vation.- 3

FOR THE COMMANDER

Colonel, USAF
Deputy for Technology
and Subsystems

Nevnort, Oresdn

Patterson Air “orce Base

Near Cantain Quintanilla:

Reading an article in the Sunday Oregohaah this mortiing, reminds me of an

incident that took place while I was hunting in eastern Oregon in October 1959.
This cannot be of any interest to you, but since I have to clean the gg@mage out
this morning, I thought that I would delay it. First let me say that I have never
seen a flving saucer, a space ship, or anything with green heads, or portholes on
it. I am the manager of a department store, have a college education, as has my
wife, am 1 years old, and am not a "nut" so keep this under your hat,

In October 1959, the exact date escapes me at the present, but it was during the
third or fourth week of the month(I could find out the exact date with some little
hunting around) My wife, young son and daughter, and I went hunting with a rancher
in eastern Oregon, the exact spot was Telephone Ridge, and is about 0 miles east

of Mnterprise, Oregon. The children were in bed, the time was about 9:15 P.M.

and my wife, I and the obher couple were sitting around the camp fire drinking cole
Don't get any ideas, because we do not drink anything but co*fee on hunting trips,
we huné, The moon was out and almost directly overhead. Broken cumuvlous clouds wer
in the sky, and they may have covered about one fourth of the sky in broken patches.
‘le were camed at about 5,000 feet and we estimate the clouds to have been at about
10,900 to 12,000 feet. From out cam sight which was in an open meadow we observed
from about 10 miles away what appeared to be headlights on a car or truck come over
the top of a hill. As we watched we could see that they were not truck lights since
they were up in the sky as they came closer. I say they, but mean it, since we say
just one light in the sky. It came to within approx two or three miles of us taking
2 period of about fifteen minutes to reach this spot. It then stayed in this spot
for almost half an hour. ‘Je looked at it thru our rifle scopes. and could see notnhi
out this bright light. It was as bright and clean as a carbon arc light, and it see
to pulse just a littl= as thougn it were caused by an engine of four cycle origin,
cut it did pulse. At no time did we ever see anything but the bright lignt. We con
not see anything around the edge nor a shape, nor anything that Bhe light came from.
The bright light was the third point of a line. Our camp was one, a pine tree appro
90 feet high and about 200 yards away was the sacond, and the light was the third.
We could see enough of the tree by the moonlight so we could see that the light did
not move, After about naif an hour during which time we talked about shootinz at it
bub how do the explain to the government, or to little green men that you thought yo

were shooting at flying saucers? After the half hour with the angle of the light
being at almost 35decrees from the ground thru our line of sight with the tree, ¢

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light shot straight up in the air, passed thru the broken cloud layer, and as it di
70, it make a large reflection flare across tha bottom of the clouds. ‘Ne did not se
it after that, yet the clouds were not solid, and we should have Had a glimpse of it
after it passed thru the’clouds. This light passed thrn an angle of about 5 degree
in one and a half seconds] I would like to see something that could accelerate at
that speed from a standing start, and the color of the licht did not change except
when it was going up it did not seem to have the slicht pulse that it did while it
was standing still. Mayvde it was moving so fast we could not see it pulse. About
two minutes after the light dissapeared, two jets, I supnose from -ioses Lake, came

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pretty fast because we did not hear them until they vere at about 2 o clock, and

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o'clock. At no time did we ever see anything but tne one

i the clouds were brpemen, anc we have talked since about
seeing this, but know that it could not have been a weather balloon, or any other
object wind driven, because there was no wind. I would certainly lixe to have you
explain this one, and if you people come up within the next couple of years with

a flying saucer propelled by light, or asing light as a force to drive it, you had
better let me know, because I would hate like hell to shoot down one of these things
and see the faniliar Air forne insignia on the side. I don't know that this will

do anything but add to all of the other stuff you have on UFO's but at least it may
make it more interesting. I thought of writing to “oses Lake and asking them if
they sent up two jets on that night, and what for, but figured that I would get a
wise reply from some PR man who thought I was a nut. All of this information is
true Captain, and there are four of us who saw exactly the same thing. Just to give
you a little something more to work on oelow is a small sketch of our camp, and of
the distance and angles as I remember them, My college mathimatics is too rusty
for me to figure out the distances so I leave it to you. I would like to hear from
you though, as to what speed you come up with for this "light " that we saw.

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