PROJECT BLUE BOOK

PROJECT 10073 RECORD
1. DATE · TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION
9 Oct 66 10/0200z Altavista, Virginia 2
3. SOURCE 10. CONCLUSION
Civilian (other) INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR EVALUATION
4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS
20
5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 1. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
3 minutes 'SEE CASE
6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION
Ground Visual
7. COURSE
Varied 1
8. PHOTOS
n Yes
No
9. PHYSICAL PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
17 Yes 7 Yes
No
FORM
FTD SEP63 0-329 (TDE) FTD SEP 63 0-329 Previous editions Previous ditione form ma be used, be used.
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Mrs
Altavista, Virginia 24517
Dear Mrs.
Reference your unidentified observation of 9 October 1966.
The information which we have received is not sufficient
for evaluation. Request you complete the attached FTD Form
164 and return it in the envelope provided.
6 We wish to thank you for reporting your observation to the
Air Force.
Sincerely,
CTOR QUINTANILIA, Jr, MajOr, USAF

and her husband
2030 and 2100 an object described as the size of a babketball held at arms I length
flew in front of the car, at tree top level from east to west. No shape to the
object and was described as a glowing while light. No sound was heard from the
object. Object flew the west, made 2 sharp turns, then "Evaporated" (her word)
Object sighted for around three mimutes total. Mrs also stated she had
seen other U.F.O.s ther times.
I called Mrs again on 12 0ct 1966. I S talked to her at length about her
sightings. She is aged 49, runs a beanty shop and is a housewife. She seemed
quite i quite intelligent intelligent on the telephone and spoke at at length in considerable length in considerable detail.
On the r night in question, Mrs. Saw three U.F.O.s three in a row U.F.O.s three in a row one after one after
the other for approximately thirty seconds total. Three differant paths, two paths, two
fairly close to the same path, the third Was very different. They They were all as were all as
bright as the brightest the brightest star only bigger. She said She said they were too fast to be a fast to be a
jet aircraft. jet aircraft. Her house is is situated on a situated on a hill, under under the landing the landing pattern of the
Lynchburg Virginia airport. airport She stated she She stated she can can recognize various types of Air-
craft on sight, and on sight, and these were not aircraft not aircraft. She also also stated stated the people in
Altavista Altavista have have become become accustomed to sightings of accustomed to sightings of U.F.0.s, and she can can give the give the
names of other people in altavista iho have seen U.F.0.S. On the night in question
the weather was clear, no clouds and no wind. When I had finished talking to her
we both hung up, and within mimutes she ha called me back to give me more info.
she said that she would be watching her television set, when little horizontal
streaks would appear. Usually within a few seconds of this occuring, a U.F.0.
would be sighted by her She said the Television provided the first clue to
the presence of U.F.O.s in the area. She said little streaks were the same
kind that appeared during leiciap cloud-to-cloud lightning, and were not the
Same as caused by faulty ignition on a car, or when an over
Frauke Fof
FRANK C. FOX
CAPT USAF
FV3021798 S
4500th Air Base Wing
Langley Air Force Base Virginia
23365