Project 10073 Record — St. Paul, Minnesota, July 1966

This document contains a Project 10073 record regarding a UFO sighting in St. Paul, Minnesota, on July 16 and 17, 1966. The primary report comes from a letter written by a businessman on behalf of a group of four individuals—two schoolteachers, a housewife, and himself—who observed an object in the southern sky on the night of July 16. The object was described as having a green light in the front and a yellowish light in the back, traveling at a high speed in a north-northwest direction. The witness noted that the object appeared to swerve before disappearing behind trees, only for a second light to appear shortly after, moving southward. The following night, a similar object was observed by the original four witnesses plus four additional individuals. The object followed a similar path and disappeared into a cloud flurry. The witness compared the speed of the object to that of a falling meteorite. Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr., of the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB, forwarded this information to Dr. J. Allen Hynek at Northwestern University for further investigation. Major Quintanilla explicitly requested that the investigation be handled quietly to prevent undue publicity that might complicate the analysis. The official conclusion recorded on the Project 10073 form is that there was insufficient data for evaluation.