1. OA TE ~ TIME GROUP 6 Nov G4 07/0QooZ 4. NUMBER OF OIJECTS 2. LOCATION Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 10. CONCLU)ION ~ Astro ~Meteor) 2 . Other (Rock) l!isual observation of meteor. Physical Specimen Analysis ietermined to be Rock. S. LENGTH Of OISI .. YATION 11. I .. IIP SUMMARY ANO ANALYSIS briet y observed meteor. Attempted to recover obj in nearby river 1-6.-T_Y_P_E_O_F_O_B_S_EA_Y_A_T_I_O_N I-'ed. Obtained 23 pound sample and portion forwarded tor analysi~. ~pectrographic and chemical analysis indicated tba~ object did ground visual ~ot have apace residue. SAMPLE CONSUMED IN ANALYSIS . 9. PHYSICAL EYIOINCI FTO SEP 6l 0-329 (TD!) FTD (TDEl~) lvright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433 18 January 1965 Hayden C Heves Associate Director 3005 West Eubanks Oklahoma City Dear Hayden, Tnis is in reply to your letter of 26 December 1964. We received the Ray Stanford motion picture. It vas forwarded to Chicago, Illinois for duplication by Kodak and returned to us. The original film was sent to you, airmail, registered, special delivery on the 11th of.ranuar,y under Register Number 664380. We do hope that it arrived in time for your lecture on the 12th. The images on the Ray Stanford film depicts clouds, a contrail and the planet Venus. In an independent evaluation of the movie the object vas determined to be the p lanet Venus. Doctor .r Allen Hynek. has also evaluated the movie and be bas determined the !cage to be the planet Venus. We appreciate your forvarding this film for our evaluation. Regarding the fragments which you sent us on 9 November 1964. This fragment vas forwarded and remained in the Post Offic e for approximately six veeks. There vas an amount of postage due and ve did not receive this object in our !:lbop until the 23rd of December. \ole submitted the fragment to ASD for analysis and the Bovser-Morner Testing Laboratories, Incorporation conducted the spectrographic Semi-Quantative Analysis. The object vas given preliminary tests and determined to have no space residue. The rock appears to be common to that portion of Oklaho;na. A copy of the lab report is attached. Perhaps these events vill clarifY the statements in our letter of 11 Decer:1ber 1964 to you. No contact has been made vith Doctor l(1ng or Doctor Hynek on this particular object. I vould like to point out that meteor observations of this nature w-ould be reported by rnany more observors and that should the object be a meteorite, the absence of sound vould indicate that the impact point vould be in excess of 300 z:::dles from the point of observation. T~e Fact Sheet is in the process of being printed. A courtesy copy vill be for\larded to you upon completion. lve are enclosing the statistics vhich vill be included as attachments to the basic information. We are attaching a list of the UFO organizations and hobby clubs. \le ~ould appreciate any additions of which you are aware and/or comments regarding discontinuations of those no longer active. Please feel free to publish any infornation regarding evaluations such as the Pocus City sighting. Information regarding evaluations by the Air Force is al~ays available to individuals and the press. It is good public relations practice for evaluations to appear in the ne~spapcr. This does much to clarify reports and to eliminate doubt in the minds of some readers. The information supplied to you by our office regarding personal opinions and policy and data of this nature is for your jnforma- tion on~, since all information regarding nolicy must be released through the Air Force rather than in the form of a personal letter. six page article is being returned with a fe~ comments by Sgt Moody. These COt:Jments are for your information and/or guidance in future articles. The folloving comments or points of information appear pertinent. (1) The Air Force accepts only scientific fact regarding life and intelligence on other planets and does not engage in speculation. (2) Information from almost 9,000 cases indicates that unidentified flying objects exist as reports of aircraft, balloons, stars, planets, missiles and a multitude of kno~ conventional objects and pheno~ena. There has been no indication that these objects are fro~ outer space under intelligent control. The letter of 23 Sep 47 did not state that UFOs are real,it requested an investigation to determine IF they ~ere real and all official conclusions and all information to date indicates that given sufficient information a valid explanation for the cause or each report couldbe made. (3) We vould appreciate a statement of the information in your files ~hich indicat~s that they are objects of interplanetary origin Sincere 1.y, -<aE:croi('QumTANin.A~ Jr Major, USAF Chief, Project Blue Book 1. Analysis of Fragments 2. Statistics 3. Bibliography 4. List of Organizations 5 Six page article & colllltents INVESTIGATION INTERPLANETARY INTELLIGENCE UNIDENTIFIED OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. ~ecember 26, 1964 1!aj or Hector 'Quintnnill a., Jr. FTD (TrEW) Wright-Patterson AF~, Ohio Dear Uujo~ Quintanilla: W. F. RIEFER H. C. HEWES Associot~t D~tector D~puty Director Thank you for your two most recent letters in c.nS\\Cr to my reauest. I hope your Christcos b~S a hnppy one I still h ave n o t heard from .. ,;ill let\ you ],now as soon as I do .S:1close CO!>Y thr.t '\Vas ::lade fro:n the lo mm novie tha t 1" ilY' sent :ne. :lease return as soon as possible bec?.use I ''ill need it o : J:lt!t4n.ry 1 2 . lmam ~iviu; e. lecture to abo t 75 sorori1.y me::1bers ( e.nd husbrmes) ( Free, all I ,,il l ~et is m:1y h~ ~or.1e ~embers ) I thou~l1t you :niuht lil\e to see t !1e film for ) "O . rse~f. On ~ovember 9 , :S SC'nt you sev,.r.-1 fro.l,.:nC'nt 'Lelieved to be a r:teteori te J ... l:at I recei vecl .fro. the l:irk71nt,ric :!l c.ne- to:rium o.lor:g '-:-ith \.bn.t inforr.1o.tion 1 hC'.d. Did you send the fr a~:ncnt to Dr. !~inz nt .-ASA, or to .Cr. l~ynek ? Dr. i:i nc; has t.:1e origini c.l 2 3 t>OHnd ~o.1.rt r.nd I forwn r f e<! several fragment) :o Dr ::y:-tel<. ln your lrt1.er o 11 Dece,r.ber you su. e ~tee thnt you can c n E~ l.rze r ny ~;>ecir::ens I onv for hr.rd. I d o r:ot unrlerstr.nd or .. c of .70!:e sentences " I c.lso su '"este(l "tilat snJ:-t:>l~s of these fra. ments, ~s t!lere i s t'. possibility thot they nr,. net~ori tes or te!ti tcs i ndicr..te(' ~y Dr. l.in.; b e sent to Dr . I:yr.e1(". I!c:ive you correspor~ce(! with Dr. !-:in;; 0 :1 d~i~ ? .Or. !-:inti ifi a letter to the Plnnet~riun s'tcteci tha't h" hel ie\ed tl:e frc...,~ents to be :r:eteorites o r tC'l~tit~s ... etcorites he.::. c.l:i':ost l.Jce!'l eliminnte<l nnd the ~in belief i s tel i!<';,, :Jut i r. n l etter nppe!!rs 1.0 ue o f orc'i.~j') ~corit:ccou;:; bn. .. ul"t roc!,., n nC. not to relcnse r..n'. i:l.!'Orr.J"'tion o.1. jt. I a:n lookin ... for,:r: r < to i.he nev: t'nct 3i.~ct . tolo bi.o l n ~ co:-y of t!:n lct-...er dutccl it l.c IJOS~ible I ni.)precinte "the in.for:r.ntion \,'hich you h ave sent and you can be sure that it will no L be pt::,li !;ited. I did feel that ~ follow up story " n s c1tle o :i the Scpt~mbcr 11, Ponca ~i ty si.._hting nn d t:c fo 'lo\'.in,: n rticlc !l_:>en.red or. Dcce'lltcr D . I told you \\hilt' I sa'S nt ~ori._.ld,-Patterson, thnt we vould ?U~lish infor tion of si tir!~s as it turned out to be ~r.d not c~ro~ the c:~-,ln.i:u .. c.: si htin:.,s ~s oes. I hone .~ou c~o not, mi:'1c :.11 .futt:re infor- matiot: ''ill not 'Je}releascd unless stn'lcc~ for rcle~sc. De sur~ to read the nc'' issue o f ':'rue. XIC.:\1' nrtiule "ti. S . Air Force Censorshi p of l:Io'O si ... Ltin'-'s'' Bncloscd is a copy of the article I sent to True, e r rors n.nd ~11. I c1o not believe they y.ill publish i t , Lut I had to state the other si~e.us I saw it. ~ritinb a rticles is new for aybe i n timcthcy i,ill t.,et ':letter . n believes thP. CPO s i "".I~ tin~ s it St. re ter sburg ntellitc. (Stn.ted ir. r. letter to Joa n ) I ~ llbout \\hy she thou~;ht t!\ i s , but have not re- ei vee.~ a reply. ose for now. ' a{ en C . ::ewes Associate ~ircctor INVESTIGATION INTERPLANETARY INTELLIGENCE UN I DENT I FlED OKLAHOMA CITY, OKLA. November 9 , 1964 Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr. Hq,FTD (APSC) ~'" r. . Yrigh.t-Pa tterson AFB, Ohio 4543 3 W. F. RIEFER H. C. HEWES Associate Director Deputy Director Dear Major-euintanilla: The enclosea newspaper article will give you infor- mation on the enclosed unknown particles. These were given t o me by ~r. Dale Johnson of the Kirkpatric Planetarium (Oklahoma Science & Arts Foundation, IKe. P .O.Box 5232, O~lahoma City.; I have talked with Dale and have a tape interview with the two boys. We have photographs of the main part of the ~leteori te and of the landing area. Let me know as soon as possible what the elements are identified as. The Planetartum was also interested in a copy of thernalysis y n C. Hewes, ssociate Dir~ctor 3005 VI. Eubanks OnCe( Jrl}tlJilitetime ShoW ' PreHmlnary analysis Of2!#' ~About~ !llidnJgbt .Friday .Pounda ~ matter, whic)i -l*ck"was ln rront or his home . portedly hurtled from space:' ,near h1s ,carwhen he looked . tO earth late-Frida1 rpg to the sky and saw a shooting indicates, there. 1..-, a very .:.:_star flash downward~ . strong .posslbDtey 'l~yea.r-.r ~' ~ ' old Rick Bai-nes 3020 sw Next. he sawr a shower of 53 witnessed an ~currenC. ,sparks. He thought this seidom sien 1n most llt.. happened when the object hit ; the ground and, according to Dale Johnson ol the Kirk. patrick Planetarium, thJs might possibly have been the 1 Rick. thought It hit the -IJouncl ~toofar flcJm hie .. EarlY Saturday morning Rlck-' and a trlend,~Bruce Baskerville ol 5312 s: Monte Place, began aearchlrw a - ncant field ln the &re'l he thoe.wht his umeteortt.~-had ri .tbe 3Soo bi~tt9r sw 53~ .. B'ek and Bruee round wMt--they thought to ~the ''meteolite" halt: submerged' tests he has been able to make indicate the matter discover- ed by Rick and Bruce had ; existed at extremely ; high temperatures. : t ' 1 The area where the hardened, lava..like mass was round had been burned and charred by intens e heat. Johnson explained that meteorites fall into three ieneral classilications. One has a very high nickl&-iron Others are composed of siliceous (or stony) material IM'"trfetar:-Another kind con-.... sist mostly ~ siliceous with slit mostly d siliceous material with only traces of metal. Johnson believes this stony variety ls what Rick and Bruce Cound. ~ Johnson said Rick has de>- nated all but a small piece . ot his "meteorite" to Kirk. patrick Planetariwn, The small piece he's keeping for a memento and to show 1n his school science class. ' am~ ~<~m debrU in' a abDow creek. Dale Johnson came... out. t:rom the :plan tarium to examine the find~ Havf.rw studied the 23 Pounds or matter over the put weekend Johnson said it appears very possibltt Rick Barnes ' and Bruce Basker- ville actually did find the remains of a meteorite. ,~ Y Johnson said the planetar- ium Is not equipped to make a complete analysi s but what ~B-6w8ER-MORNER fJa~ -tab-ou:d:o'T.le~, !lnc ....... . CHE~STS INSPECTORS ENGINEERS fo .. ncfecl UUl LA.BORA.TORY REPORT Report toa Univeraity of Cincioaati Cincizmati, Ohio Report Ofta Spect~oaraphic Sevd-Quantativa Aaalyaia la .. eNtory No.a Yeur Marla Identificati.OD: U11gnesium J'~ogaoeae Molybdenum 420 DAVI S I..'C:NUc M All AODitESS P. O. BOX 5 1 DAYTON I , O HIO .January 7, 1965 Reapectfu1ly ubmitted, Client - 3 Spectrographer (Rat ASDR 804) I. o ( SupF"rtlnl Element) 2 . OAT~ 3 . F OR S E RVICE I N SU I'>F'ORT 0 F : 4 . Flt..E OR t..EOGER NO. NO. INITIATIN G Et..E ... ENT ~. OAT cqM tt..ltTION RE O . e . P~IOAITY PAOJ IEC T SUrO~Ijqq~7ENT 7 . S~CURITY CI..ASSI,ICATION P AII:C:I!:OII:NC:E RATING OF WORI( REOUitSTI!:O /)N<!.t_JS . hsf'Oo/ A/C T Y P 11!:, '-4001!:1.. AND SEAl AI.. NO. PROGRAM STRUCTURE IO~SC:AIIItTION 0 .. WORK tJt:r~JI'iG' CONTINUED O N AEVIEAS C SIC I[ D rolf UU 0 1" lfl!SPONSlBLl! l!L l!:lfii!NT A~lltAOVII:O BY 13, CHill: .. (Raepone lb t e E t-. .. u ) .S~r /l.t#oJ) y 1 4 . IES T IMATI!:O C:OMIItl.. ETION 17. REASON: OZJ COM Pl. E TFI.) D CANC&:I..I..EO F O R USI! 0 1" SUPPO R T TNO ELEMENT IS. PAOJI!CT ENGI NII:CA O R P t.. ANN I! A ORGN SYMI!IOI.. EXT CLOSING A CTIO N tl C H I I!:" (Supportln B,_menl) 18. Cl-411!, (Suppottlnll E l""'80>1) 21. CHIEF (Ruponel b l a Elt!menl) AP.WP.O.AUO 64 50 M : : ::t~;: \\ Meteo'rite Recovered Bruc. ao;iervl~ left. 5312 S. Monte Pl.. and Ride Barnes, center. 3020 SW 53rd Pl ., as. Oai. Joh11son, staff member at Kirkpatrick ' p lanetarium, p oints_ out a piece of J what" is befleved fa be meteori1e the boys found in southwest Oklahom'b City Saturday . Bamn saw the metecvite fall about midnight Friday. .The p iece of material weighs ' 23 pounds. , Two teen-age boys Satur- ' Jay f ound what Is believed to "" a 2~nd meteorite Bas kerville, 5 312 S. ~lonte Ho said he wont out to his Pl., found the metcl)ritc cor abotJt this time and saw Saturday morning j n a o o.pcn . a ' 'sho.)ting 3t:lr wllich apparently fell tO Ute earth in Southwest Oklahoma 4 City Friday night . ~ ':\he boys, Rick _Barnes, This Is The Spot Dole Johnson lifts piece of "mcteo,.ite" from charred debris in creek bed in Southwes1 Oklohomo City. Two boys found the piece of material in the field after one of them sow o ' "shoot stor'' obout midnight Friday. the \ a cant field whe,c Barnl's said the meteorite ap.P(Wred to have fallen. They said they found the material half submerged in ~;t::i~ wa ter on some debris in a C>ck which cut. a cros s the The "falling star" was not picl(t>d up on radar at Tinker 1\l H !Jut s e\eral )1cr~ons Te- pOl ted seeing lhe nash of light around 'midnight. Dale Johnson, Kirkpatrick Planetarium staff member, wa<) <: lied to rxamine Ute f1 I dl U\.. SJ ul the tJO) s inJCtcd they h<td found the J ohnson said water in the creek In whlch lhe meteorite landed apparently had been much higher when Ute rock struck, due to heavy rains HC' 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 amaleu r ar!Tonomer arid science major , said other piece!> of rock were found in Ute field Su~day. Two p!...ccs, one smaller and apparently the 1 e a d i n g edge or the "meteorite." were found tc>- gethu.-The bigger chunk Zl pounds and the smc~ll r t\lrO pounds. He said this couJd be one variety of meteorite called a " stoney" and they plan to take a cross section of lhe material for verification. He said a crater might be found in the field where an even larger chunk could have "We plan totrylogetsome experts in here to determine if it is a meteorite," Thomp... s on sa icl.