~-:l~DATETIME G~OUP PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD 2. LOCATION Telephone Ridge, Oregon 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION I Local :~Ground-Visual 0 Ground-Radar 5. P HOTOS 6. SOURCE r:1v:i1ien 7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 8 . NUMBER O F OBJECTS ov e r 30 r.1ins 10. BRIEF SUMMARY OF SIGHTING 11. C OMMENTS : Letter fro~ ~tness to light which ~as stationc~ l o r about t hr rising suddenlythroug~ clouds ~nd ou t of sight i n 2 seconds. Rptd to Air Yorce by letter 5 yrs aft~r ~ightir-g . C P ORM J 29 ( R ltV 26 SEP 52) 12. CONCLUSIONS 0 Wos B alloon 0 Probably Balloon 0 P ossibly Balloon Was Aircraft Probably Ai rc:roft Possibly AI rc:rah Was Astronomical P robobl y Astronomical Pos:~ibly Astronomical Other lf.' IDZNTTI'TI:.I; InsuFficient Doto for Evaluation i1u.:;4iftZM a 't'fK, _ 'Ibis 1a 1n respO.U.e to your recent. ietter to -~ ~tn Hector Quintan1'11& ot. the Project Blue Book orr1~a-at Wright-Patterson.Atr Force Base, on tha auhJeot oc an Un1dent1f ObJect you obser~ed m .october ot 1959. Orego~-. .. on n1v1s1on Cant . H. (.~nintanilla lJr ,Jr ielJ t. Pa ~ terson J\:i r Force Rase Dayton, Ohio HEADQUARTERS FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION AIR ~OACE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNIT&O STATES AUII JWO .. CE W .. I4U4TII'ATTitiiiiON Alit JWO .. CE sE, OHIO Request for UFO Indormation SAFOI PB (Mrs. 1. A letter from Mr. Newport, Oregon, to Capt Hector ~intanilla contained a report an obser- vation 1n October 1959. Mr. requested an. evaluation of his observation . Mr. 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 ot the sighting tend to rule out mirages and reflections. From the infor- mation presented, ve are unable to identity or evaluate his obser- FOR TBP: COMMAmlER Colone , USAF ty for Technology and Subsystems YOU -HE NUCLEUS OF SECURITY! G::1-= tain ~e ... ro:-Quinta!!illa .Jr Sright ? atterson aywn, '"'hi o :\ir ~or-ce Base Dear Ca-:>tain Quintanilla: ~eading an a rt.icle i n the Sunday Orego:ilai:il this :r1orlbing, ren~inds rne ~f a n incident. that, took place ~-1hile I w~s hunt.ing in eastern Oregon in October 1959. This cannot ba of any in~er~st to you, but since I have t o clean the ggaage out r.lis morning , I thought that I would delay it. First let me s a y that I have never seen a flying saucer, a space ship, or anyt~hlng ,.ri t h green he13.ds, or portholes o n a.m the manager of a depart!"lent store, have a college edncation, as has my "'rife, am 41 years old, and am not a "nut '' so keep this under y our 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-~ome little ~unting around) My' wife, y?ung s o n and daughter, and I went hunting ioli th a ranche r in eastern Oregon, the exact spot was Telephone rtidge, and is about 40 miles east of 3nterprise, Oregon. The c hildren we!'e in bed, the ti;ne was about 9:15 P.~H. a.."ld my iri.fe, I and the ohher couple were si tt1.ng a:-ound the camp fire drinking coi':'e ~on't get any ideas, becausa we do not dri~ anything but co~fee on hunt~ng trips, -;.re hunti. The moon was out and almost ciirectly o~.rerhead. Broken cumulous clouds 111er in the sky, and they ""ay have co"~ ... ered about one fourth of the sky in broken p3.tc~es. ~Je were ca.rnned at about 5,000 feet and 'lie estimate the c:ouds to have been a t about 10,000 to 1 2,000 feet. From out camp sight which was in an open meadow we observed from about 10 miles away what appeared to b e headlights on a car or truck come over the top of a hill. As we watched we could see that th~J were not truck ligbts since they were up in the sky as they came closer. I s a y they, but mean it, s~nce we sa~ just one light in the sky. I t. came t o 1rithin approx tt~o or t'b..ree miles of us tak i:1g a period of about fifteen minutes to reach this spo t . I t then stayed in this spot for almost half an hour. :le looked a t i t t hrt.l our rifle sco?as. a!'ld could see nothi b11t t his bri~ht light. It ~s as bright a.'"'ld clean as a carbon arc light, and i t sa~ to pulse j1lSt a li;:.t,l .: as though i t were cause d b~.-an -e-.,gj_ne of four cycle origin, but it did pulse. At no time did. we ever see anyr,hing but ~.he bright light. .,./e cou not see anything around the edge nor a shape, nor a~ything that ~he l ight came f~om. The bright light ilas the third point of a l ine. Cur ca-np Has r:ma, a pine t r e e appr-::> 90 feet high and about 200 yards atlay l<TaS the s a conci, a.'ld t.he light was the thir d . ':Je could see enough o f t he tree by the moonligh t so ..,1e could see t hat the light did not moYe. After about half an hour during whici1 t ir.:e :ve t alke d about s h oo ting at i t but ho-:-l do the explai n t o the gov~rrunen"':., or to little g reen rnen tha t you thought y o =-r-e shoo7-ing at flying saucers? After the half hour \\tj t h the a:1gle o f the lig~t ~eing :~.t al::tost 35dagree s f rom the ~rounri t hru otl!' l i ne of s ight with the .... ree, the ~iah:. sho:. straic;ht up :.n the air, pas~ed :.1-Tu +h~ b rc-'.t:en cloud 1.a~er, and as it did -:-=>, it na.'<e 3 lar g e ::-e.i'lect~on f l are acrosa t.h~ b ot-t.om o f the r:loneis. le did not s= i ~ 1fter -:.h~t:.. yet t':!e cl0uds 'rer e not .:>'11 i d , a:-tci F 9 s~ould har~ nad a gli:;pse of :. t ~=--~r it p~s~ed th~ "':.he~ clouds . This ligh~ ?as3~ tltru an angle ? 1 about. 45 degr i.n one and a half s econdsJ I W~"~uld l ii('3 to see ">O!"lath.in~ tha t C')'lld accelerate at ~'M=.n. speed from a st.anding start , and t!i~ color o f the li?ht c:..d not chmge except :(:en i t ,.ra3 g?ing up it ~i.d not se~.n to "la v e t:1e sli--;:1t. puls e .l.ha t it d:..d ;rril~ it. as sta:1di.:1g still. l!ay~'3 it, was rno'Tin~ s o fast we co .tid not. sae it pulse. About j AJn , ..,Tr.es aftar the li~ht dissapea:-ad, ~-"'o j er..s, I sn;: ose f:-om . oses La< a , came pret-tv f.a '1ot:ause ''e riid ~o-, h~ar thP.T"' nntil the>y M.::.re at about ? o clock, t=tnd t\~on the sond "as at 1 2 o' c:-:>ck. ;\r:, no ti.me did 'e ~v::.--s~e a;rrt;hin~ bur. t1~ rm~ li~ht. Th-3::-e Has no ...,.'d.:1d, t:;/3 clourls \-Jere bD~=m, <:L"ld -..;e h~Jre t-!..lkc::d :ince abo ~t so.-:ing this, but know that i:. could not h2.ve b r:en a vJaa.~he: 'r.~all.oon, o r any oth~= object Hind driven , because t!lere '\'as no Nind. I ':voul d cer tainly liKe to havo you ~<plain t s on e , and if you people co~e up ~thin ~he next co:>uol~ of y ears with a rl ng saucer propelled b~ light, o r using l ight as a force to drive it, you had better let Me kno~"' because I vJould hate like hell to shoot doim one of thes~ things and see the faniliar Air foroe i nsignia on the side. I don ' t knmo~ that this ~Nill do anything but add to all of the other stuff y o u have on liFO's but a t least it may ma:<e it more ; nte r efJ ting. I thought of writing t o "ose s Lake and a~ king t.hem if they sent u~ t110 jets on tha t night, and -:..1hat for, but figured that I would get a "tdse reply from some PR man "'ho thought I was a nut. All of this informa t i on is true Captain, and there are f our of us 1vho saw exactl y the same thing. Jus"G to give you a little something mor e t o Wo'!"k on below is a small sketch of our c an;>, and of the distance and angles as I !"emember t hem. l'JY college rnatf1imatics i s too rusty f o!" me to .::'ig,..tre out the ris r.a.'1ces so I l eave it to you . I '\milld like to hear from you though, as to what speed you co .e up ld t h for this "light that we sajl.