PROJECT BLUE BOOK

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1. DATE TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
6 NOv 64 07/0600Z Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
. Astro (Meteor) 2. Other (Rock)
civilian
4. NUMBER R OF OBJECTS Visual observation of meteor. Physical Specimen Analysis
Betermined to be Rock.
muttiple
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SU ANALYSIS
brief Boy observed meteor. Attempted to recover obj in nearby river
bed. Obtained 23 pound sample and i portion forwarded for analysis.
6. TYPE OF OBSERYATION Spectrographic and chemical a analysis indicated that object did
ground visual hot have space residue.
7. COURSE SAMPLE CONSUMED IN ANALYSIS.
falling
8. PHOTOS
0 Yes .
No
9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
$x. *x••
ONo O No
FORM
FTD SEP63 0-329 (TDE) FTD SEP 63 0-329 (TDE) form may bo used.

under Register Number 664380. We do hope that it arrived in time for
your lecture 12th. The images on the Ray Stanford film depicts
clouds, a contrail and the planet Venus. In an independent evaluation
of the movie object was determined to be the planet Venus. Doctor
J Allen Hynek has also evaluated the movie and he has determined the
image to be e the planet We appreciate your orwarding this film
for our evaluation.
Regarding the fragments which you sent us on 9 you sent us November 1964. This
fragment was forwarded and remained in the Post Office for fragment was forwarded and remained in the Post Office for approximately
six weeks. There was an amount of postage due and we did not receive amount of postage due and we did not receive
this object in our shop until the 23rd of December. We submitted the We submitted the
fragment to fragment to ASD for analysis and the Bowser-Morner Testing Laboratories,
Incorporation Incorporation conducted the spectrographic the spectrographic Semi-Cuantative Semi-Quantative Analysis. The Analysis. The
object was given preliminary tests and tests and determined to have no space to have no space residue.
The rock appears to be to be common to common that portion of Oklahoma. A copy of the A copy of the
lab lab report is attached. is attached. Perhaps these events these events will clarify the the statements statements
in our letter of 11 December 1964 letter of 1l December 1964 to to you. you. No contact has contact has been been made with
Doctor King or Doctor Hynek on this particular King or Hynek on this particular object. I would like to object. I would like to
point out that meteor observations of this nature would be reported by
many more observors and that should the object be a meteorite, the absence
of sound would indicate that the impact point would xcess of 300
miles from the point of observation.
The Fact Sheet is in the process of being printed. A courtesy copy will be
forwarded to you enclosing the statistics which
will be included as attachments to the basic information.

the Air Force rather form of a personal letter.
Your six page article is being returned with a few comments by Sgt Moody.
These comments are for your information and/or guidance in future articles.
The following comments or nformation appear pertinent.
(1) The Air Force accepts only scientific fact regardin life and
intelligence on ot age in spec n.
(2) Information from n almost 9,000 cases indicates that unidentified
flying objects exist as reports of aircraft, balloons, stars, planets,
missiles and a multitude of known conventional objects and phenomena.
There has been no indication that these objects are from outer space
under intelligent control. The letter of 23 Sep 47 did not state that
UFOs UFOs are real,it real,it requested requested an a investigation to determine investigation to determine IF they were were
real real and all cfficial all official conclusions and all information information to to date indicates date indicates
that that given sufficient sufficient information a information a valid valid explanation explanation for the cause of cause
each each report be made. made.
3 We would statement of the information in your
files which files which indicates indicates ey are objects of interplan are objects of interplar - ry origin.
Sincerely, Sincerely,
5 Atchs
Major, USAF Major, USAF l. Analysis of 1. Analysis of Fragments Fragments
Chief, Project Blue Book Chie 2. Statistics
3. Bibliography
4. List of Organizations
5. Six page article &
comments
2

be a meteorite that I
tarium along formation I had. Did you send
the fragment'to King at , or to Dr. Hynek ? Dr.
King has the originial part and I forwarded several
fragment3to Dr . Hynel vour letter 11 December
you suested that you analyze any specimen may
forward. I do not understand one of yo!e sentences.
" I also su gested that samples of these fra ments, as
there is a possibility that they are meteorites or tekites
- indicated King be sent to Dr. Hynek". Have you
to the Planetarium stated that he believed the fragments
to be meteorites or tektites. .eteoritcs has almost been
eliminated and the cain belief is tekites, but in a letter
from Dr King dated December le he stated the fra ments
appears to be
to release eny informetion 'on it.
I am looking forward to the new Fact Sheet.
toobtain a copy of the letter dated
September 28, 1047 and the list of oo active oreanizations?

NIcap does. I hope you do t mind. All future infor-
mation will not bereleased unless stated for release.
De sur to read the new issue of True. XICAP artigle
"U.S. Air Force Censorship si.ltin.s". Enclosed
is a copy article I sent to True.errors and all.
I do not beli they will publish it, but had to state
the other sid .ns I saw it. Writin, artic new for
me. Maybe in get tter.
en believes the UFO
is a satellite. (Stated in a letter to Joan ) I
wrote about why she thought this, but have not re-
ceived a reply.
Must close for now.
Ver /truly yours,
ayden C. Hewes wewes
Associate Associate Director Director
IIO FO IIOFO
3005 W. Eubanls
I 1
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Dear Major Quintanilla:
The enclosed newspaper article will give you infor-
mation on the enclosed unknown particles. These were
given to by Mr Dale Johnson of irkpatric
Planetarium (Oklahoma Science ndation, INe.
I have talked have a tape interview with
the two boys the two boys. We hav graphs of the main main part part
of the Meteorite landing area. nding ar ea
Let me know as soon as passi passibl what the elements are the elements are
identified as. The Planetarjum was also interested in identified as. Planetarjum vas also interested in
a copy analysis. nalysis.
Thanks... Thanks..
truly yours,
Hayden C. Hewes, Hayden C. Hewes,
Associate Director
3005 W. Eubanks

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Meteorite Gave City Boy
Once In A Lifetime Show
By FRANK LEE times. tests he has been able to make
Preliminary analysis of23 About midnight Friday indicate the matter discover-
pounds of matter, which pur Rick was in front of his home ed by Rick and Bruce had
portedly hurtled from space near his car when he looked existed at extremely, high
to earth late Friday night to the sky and saw a shooting temperatures.
indicates there is a very star flash downward. The area where the
strong possibility 16-year- hardened, lava-like mass was
old Rick Barnes; 3020 SW Next he saw a shower of found had been burned and
53, witnessed an occurrence sparks. He thought this charred by intense heat.
seldom seen in most life happened when the object hit Johnson explained that
the ground and, according to meteorites fall into three
Dale Johnson of the Kirk- general classifications. One
patrick Planetarium, this has a very high nickle-iron
might possibly have been the content.
) case. Others are composedof
2 Rick, thought it hit the siliceous (or stony) material
ground-not-to-fas from-hie and mietal."Another kind con-
T home. sist mostly of siliceous with
Early Saturday morning Early-Saturday morning sist mostly of siliceous mostly siliceous
Rick and a friend, Bruce Rick and a friend, Bruce material with only traces of
Baskerville of 5312 S. Monte metal. Johnson believes this
Place, began searching a stony variety is what Rick stony variety is what Rick
vacant field in the aren he and Bruce found.
thought his "meteorite'! had Johnson said Rick has do-
hit. nated all but a small piece
Near the 3500 block of SW of his "meteorite' to Kirk- of his "meteorite' to Kirk
53 Rick and Bruce found patrick Planetarium. The
what they thought to be the small piece he's keeping for
"meteorite' half submerged a memento and to show in
among some debris in'a his school science class.
shallow creek. Dale Johnson
came out from the plane-
tarium to examine the find.
Having studied Having studied the 23 the 23
pounds of matter over the pounds of matter over the
past weekend Johnson said it no
appears very possible Rick
Barnes and Bruce Basker-
ville actually did find the
remains of a meteorite..
Johnson said the planetar-
ium is not equipped i to make
a complete analysis but what

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Oklahoma Science & Arts Foundation, Inc. N. W. 10sh & May Ave.
Oklahoms City 7, Oklahoma P. O. Box 5232
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Sample Identi cation: 4-199
Calcium 6.00
Copper .02
Magnesium 2.5
Silicon 29.0
Iron 9.0
Nickel Nickel .02 .02
Sodium 1.0 1.0 -
Aluminum 4.0
Manganese .15 .15
Titanium 1.50
Zirconium .05
Molybdenum Molybdenum .01
Vanddium Trace
Barium .03
Strontium .03
Chromium .10
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Meteorite Recovered Recovered
Bruce Bruce Baskerville, left, 5312 S. Monte Pl., and Rick B Baskerville, left, 5312 S. Monte Pl., and d Rick
listen as. Dale Johnson, staff member at Kirkpatrick listen as. Dale Johnson, staff member at Kirkpatrick Barnes, center, 3020 SW 53rd Pl., 53rd PI.,
what is believed to be meteorite the boys found in believed to be meteorite the boys found planetarium, points out planetarium, points_ out a piece piece of
Youn UST in southwest Oklahoma southwest Oklahoma City Saturday. Saturday
Young Barnes saw the meteorite fall about midnight Friday. The piece of material weighs
23 pounds.
23-Pound Meteorite
Found In Field
City
Two teen-age boys Satur- Baskerville, 5312 S. Monte
day found what is believed to Pl., found He said he went out to his
he a 23-pound the meteorite car about this time and saw
meteorite Saturday morning in an open. a 'shooting star'' flash down-

much higher when the rock
struck, due to heavy rains
Friday.
He said he found the
debris on which the meteorite
came to rest burned and
charred from the intense
heat, even though complete-
ly under water.
Thompson, an amateur
astronomer and science
major, said other pieces of
rock were found in the field
Sunday. Two pisces, one
smaller and apparently the
leading edge of the
'meteorite," were found to-
This Is The Spot gether. The bigger chunk
weighed 21 I pounds and the
Dale Johnson lifts piece of "meteorite" from charred debris smaller two pounds.
creek bed in Southwest Oklahoma City. Two boys found He said this could be one
piece of material in the field ofter one them saw a variety of meteorite called
"shooting star" about midnight Friday. a "stoney" and they plan
to take a cross section of

with an Oklahoma City or-
ganization known as the
Interplanetary Intelligence
of Unidentified Flying Ob-
jects (MOUFO).
Hayden C. Hewes, asso-
ciate director. of  the
HIOUFO, has sent a frag-
ment of the cinder to
Wright-Patterson .Air
Kiripatrick Pianetarium's Dale Johuson examines Force Base in hopes of ob- c  o  pn punod-au-no o iou jo  B jou 'u -un 4  .-1
taining a military evalua- w  n woo po aad  oo oq
sedpected meteorite that feil In southwestern Okiaha tion. SBM
ma CHy. Hewes also is planning
to conduct a search Satur- . uo Jdp
Planetarium Probing day of a 300 acre area sur-
rounding the spot where
the cinder was found. He
is hopeful of finding more
Fiery Cinders particies the suspected
meteorite, and possibly a
larger/ portion than the
original find. Johnson says
this is possible. o  quc  o nc o toc we  e e
Unique Find? Repert ou Way: ie   d i
Johnson sent & detailed mp  -L i tot 'wr e 8 ' J 8 de p po nom
report Wednesday to Dr.
H. H. H. H Nininger, Sedona,
By Jack Tayjor By Jack Taykor Ariz., meteörite expert, In Ariz., meteörite expert, in
A 23-pound cinder that cinder that "There 'are only about "There'are only about an attempt t to gain his in-
fell in felt in soutbrwest soutbwest Okdahorta Okahomta Lour 'ebserved fails four 'ebserved. fails and terest and opinion. terest and opinion.
City Friday night has been He also plans to write to He also plans to write to -u -xe -xa
identified finds yearly in the entire finds yearly in the entire a New a New Mexico University c  e r a et o
aimost pesitively aimost pesitively world," he said. "So if this. -u 'pius
as part of a meteorits as part of a meteorite that expert on so-cailed "green expert on so-called "green
crashed to earth during crashed to earth during 8 is the real MeCoy. it is a the rea fire-balis." fire-balls." a particular e n a e Dnu as Giq -a n u jo Jepun
type of meteoritie meteoritic pheno- pheno- o jo e u
heavy, 3-day meteor heavy, 3-day meteor show. showe rare find." a a ee  hd s osuyo. epun paeng
er,an er.an official of official of the Kirk-r Krk Ground Scorched menon. And he plans to menon. And he plans to o Jo  ot e  e
obtain a chemical analy analy- pi osuo 'suo I pns ossor J0 uosuyo pasng
pafrick Planetarium said Planetariu The cinder was' spotted sis, probably
Thursday. by Rick Barnes, 30o SW sis, probably by cutting a by cutting a
'From all Indications 53, as it shot dowrward. cross-section.
that's what it is," said The Oklahoma City find "2ec0
leaving a trail of light late tentatively has been
Dale Johnson, geologist, Friday night. Barnes also
amateur. astronomer and saw it crash_into a soggy
assistant. director of the creek bottom which was 1
planetarium. left scorched by the cin-
He's Sold der....
Privately, , Johnson says Other witnesses reported
he is convinced it - seeing it fall to earth.
meteorite that fell from. Barnes and another
the direction of Tauris, al- youth, Bruce. Baskerville,
though from not that dis- 5312 S Monte Pi.. recov-
tance. ered the object and other
Officially, Johnson said
.he is waiting for r final con- portionsoneabout 10
firmation from experts in pounds-and turned most
the meteorite field. (See FIERY-Page 2)

before the night of November the area the following day uncover-
1964 was over he would witness an ed a small burned area 24"x36" in
occurrence s seldom seen in most I life- over 200 small fragments
midnight Mr. Barnes which Approximatelly 800
times. About observed a were found. fragments
went out to his car and yards away hundreds of
"shooting star" about the size of a found in the strect which ap-
overhead. It made no were broke off f during the last
basketball go n in colot and parently
sound, was 2 blue-green houses. moments of flight.
disappeared behind a row of analysis the 21
Next he saw a shower of sparks and Preliminary indicated there WaS a
explosion. The first ques- pound object 3 meteorite.
heard an his mind was, strong possibility it was the
tion that entered The main fragment was sent to
"What had landed?" Aeronautics and Space Ad-
next morning with the National Houston, Texas.
Early the Mt. .Bruce ministration Lab at
3 help of a help of a good good friend, The result t of a very of a very preliminary preliminary ex- ex-
Baskerville, they they searched the 300 searched the 300 X-ray X-ray diffraction diffraction and
there they thought the ob- they thought t the ob- amination by showed showed the speci- speci-
acre area there acre area crossing a creek, a creek, optical methods
ject landed. While crossing men not to be not to be a meteorite. a meteorite. The The speci- speci-
which cuts which cuts across the field they no- the field they no- men to be fragment of fragment of
ticed an odd looking object half sub- zobject half sub- men men appeared appeared basalt" similar
ticed an odd looking oordinary ordinary "Scoriaceous "Scoriaceous basalt" similar
merged in the creek. rocks found in the surface lava found in the surface lava
- : was placed to the to to New Mexico. Also prelimi- New Mexico. Also prelimi-
A telephone call flows in flows in by the the Smithson-
- Kirkpatrick Kirkpatrick Planetarium and Mr. nary examination by Nation-
Dale Johnson, weat out to investi- went out to investi- ian Institution, United State
Dale Johnson, in Washington classified
al Museum product rather than
! ! it as an artificial it as ana artificial semi-
i a meteorite. A spectrographic Air
1 analysis by the U.S. Air U.S.
i i quantative quantative the the 16 clemeents elemeents
Force indentified
on in the in the objects. objects. Institution sug:
The Smithsonian had
gested gested that the wrong object object
t een recovered. So the case reopen-
1 ed and a fragment that was recover-
3 ed from the small burned area was
i IIOUFO scientific panel
sent to N. N. Kohanowski, associ-
1 member and geo-
ate professor of mining
1
1 kota.
1 "I have advanced the study of the
a specimen sent in by you as far as the ran out of
I material lasted. Is simply
1 the white matter filling the cavities
3 - of the rock before completing the
I chemical analysis. There was, how.
METORITE FRAGMENT ever, enough of the "hard rock"
-2G V. Critchfield complete examination.
Photo by O. phase to
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EA
Information Onl:
Source: Interp lity, Oklahoma
Novemb 1964
The fragment was 5/16 th ot an I maya add that both urbanite and
inch long. Dark gray in color, scori- clinoenstatite are monoclinin pyro-
atic in structure and with amydales xenes. The thomb of plagioclase was
of  friable white material. All in possibly oligoclase formed at t the ex-
all, your specium resembled closely pense of whatever existed at the core
what is known in terrestrial petro- of that grain.
graphy as "amydoloidal melaphyre." The above mentioned composition
This term has now become antiquat- does not fit any form in classification
ed since it embodies rocks of rather terrestrial I rocks. We cannot call
wide variation in composition. it 'amygdaloidal olivine basalt"
On a detailed examination this since the specimen contains very lit-
specimen, however, differs, consider- tle plagioclase and no feldspathoids.
ably from all froms of terrestrial I pet- Therefore, I will use the older and
rography. now antiquated name of "amygda-
When examined under a binocular loidal melaphyre" to approximately
microscope at 40 x magnification, define this rock."
the walls of cavities were found to be "I have entertained several intri-
lined fith triangular faces of mag- guing s speculations in regard t
netite, this fact netite, this fact according for rather for rather guing speculations in regard to pro- to pro-
of of the the cedence of that specimen.
strong strong magnetism specimen. I think I think that we can rule out the out the
Such cavities cavities were filled with afri- possibility that you picked
at'e white mass mass which which obviously obviously you up some up some
consisted of several minerals: minerals: two fragments s of terrestrial rocks that be- oft terrestrial rocks that be-
or more more white ones, some limonite came scattered came scattered d by the impact by the impact tof that of that
ones, meteorite. .To the best of my know- To the best of my know-
(yeilow powerand rater well powerand rater well form- ledge melaphyres do not out crop in
ed crystals of forsterite ed crystals of forsterite (Olivine).A (Olivine). vicinity of Oklahoma City. Also, the of Oklahoma City. Also, the
drop drop of concentrated hydrochloric fragments were were much too fresh to too fresh to
acid placed onto this fragment on have laid f for years on the surface of
45 cold has completely dissolved the the Earth.
white minerals and decomposed the The fragments like the one I have
olivine. This dissolution W1S accom- could not have chipped off or spail- could not have chipped off or spail-
panied with a vigarous efferescence ed off the outer surface of a meteo-
indicating presence presence of carbonic acid rite since the rite since the minerals of the frag- minerals s of the frag-
radicals. Calcium Calcium and sodium were ments were not altered by heat of
identified chemically in that drop of chemically in that drop of friction between friction between the air and the rush- the eair and the rush-
solution soln but by the time the drop has meteorite. The
been consumed. ing filling of cavities
After the above mentioned acid would have been destroyed-calcite
treatment, the specimen washed decorposed and crystalline olivine
was fused to beads.
and a thin section prepared from it: The possibility that would pro-
a slice of the rock only 0.0012 of an bably fit best is that the meteotite
inch thick and sealed between glass was orginally quite bit larger and
plates. that its outer portions spalled off.
Since in preparation of this this This fragment thus came from the
section the gas bubbles of the rock interior of the meteorite where the
were ground to a mere outline, mag- meteorite was cracking due to sud-
netite lining such cavities has become den expansion of heated crust. Frag-
all but ground off. The mass of the ments corresponding to the heated
rock then showed to consist of: Ur. discoloration and bv rounding.
banite, which is a manganese rick To my knowledge it is the second
aegirine, Clinoenstatite, Forsterite occurrence of amygdaloidal mela-
(Olivine), Plagioclase-a few thin phyre among meteorites but then our
laths and one fairly large e rhomb with knowledge of meteorites is rather
isotropic (dark) core. Unidentified scant-only about 1600 meteorites
fine grained material-NOT I glass. have been catalogued i so far."
24

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-Meteorite Gave City Boy
71
Once In A Lifelime Show
By FRANK LEE times. tests he has been able tomake
Preliminary analysis of 23 About midnight Friday indicate the matter discover-
pounds of matter, which pur- Rick was in front of his home ed by Rick and Bruce had
portedly hurtled from space near his car when he looked existed at extremely high
to earth late Friday night, to the sky and saw a shooting temperatures.
indicates there is a very star flash downward. The area
strong possibility 16-year- where the
old Rick Earnes, 3020 SW Next he saw a shower of hardened, lava-like mass was
53, witnessed an occurrence sparks. He thought this found had been burned and
seldom seen in most life- happened when the object hit charred by intense heat.
the ground and, according to Johnson explained that
Dale Johnson of the Kirk- meteorites fall into three
patrick Planetarium, this general classifications. One
might possibly have been the has a very high nickle-iron
case. content.
) Others are composed of
2 Rick thought it hit the siliceous (or stony) material
1 ground ·not to far from his and metal. Another kind con-
: home.
Early Saturday morning sist mostly of siliceous with
: Rick and a sist mostly of siliceous
friend, Bruce material with only traces of
Baskerville of 5312 S. Monte metal. Johnson believes this
Place, began searching a stony variety is what Rick
vacant f field in the are he and Eruce found.
thought his "meteorite" had Jchnson said Rick has do-
hit. nated all but a small
Near the 3500 block of SW I piece
53 Rick and Bruce found of his "meteorite"' to Kirk-
what they thought to be the patrick Planetarium. The
"meteorite" half submerged small piece he's keeping for
among some debris a memento and i to show in
in a his school science class.
shallow creek. Dale Johnson
came came out out from from the plane-
tarium to examine the find. tarium to examine the find.
Having Having studied studied the the 23 23
pounds of of matter over the matter over the
past weekend Johnson said it
appears very possible Rick
Barnes and Bruce Basker- and Bruce Basker-
ville actually did find the
remains of a meteorite.
Johnson said the planetar- Johnson said the planetar-
ium is not ium is not equipped equipped to make to make
a complete a complete analysis but what
1