PROJECT 10073 RECORD l. 041E TIME GROUP 2. LOCATION Sloan, Nevada 3. ~lltiRCE 10. CONCLUSION 1. NUMB R OF OBJECTS .... ~: Other (Drop or developnent on ~. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS a> Secords f,. lYPE OF OBSERVATION Groum-Visual '3. FrlOTOS B v Copy in File 9 . PHYSICAL EVIDENCE Pure hazy white solid object observed fro a> secollia in t.l.igh fmm SE to NW. PhotoP,ra~d. Photo analysis m Of s tla t the i JJB ge edr,es are not sharp both toregDUUnd ani back~JOlUlCI iua~es are. Nothi~ on prints to intll.cate a solid ob.')ect. No li~ between featnrea on blo..,. Inage ap~ars to be ared. Image oould be caused by a drop or developer on the on ard then wiped ott. Considering the apparent high speed of the object a.'1d the Glow speed of the camera, one wuld expect the object to be blurred in the photograph, u.11less the ra..'1ge wa s Gre'-\t. T'nere i~ li ttlc indication in the photoGraph of ima notion. There is no indication of c ru nNESTIGATIVE ACTION: (During period 20 Aug -10 Sep 65) led eight cut negatives which had apparently been cut with scissors. The edges were quite rough. Microscopic examination showed that the eight frames matched, that they were part of the sanr roll, and that the UP'O :picture was the last frame. onal con- tact prints were made vhich duplicated the print Mr first gave the Investigating Ot:ticer. Apparently the print was dodged". All of the marks in the print are in the negative. The three verti- cal "light" lines in the print have not been explained. They appear similar to those vhich could appear on a fr~1c which has rested cm:era film pressure plate for a long time; hovever, camera has no pressure plate. Neither t negative nor the print look non:~l. Ho~ver, no positiv~ proof of tl:e c~u3e of the uro image ar.d other marks couJd be found. It was thoue;;:t :1otewort~:..y that the three vertic.:1l lii1es stop shar:)l~ .1t t he edge o: t:--!e negati -.-e and do r!Ot car~' over ii!to the o.dj;J.Cei.'lt l!iC!'03CO~iC eYidct.ce c.= -cO.{) photo~:::'J.p:1s of the neg:1ti ve did no c a cc::lposi te ~::...:: ture, d oub2.e exposure) etc. ?our ~di tio:-::.~-:~=:!.nts ( } .. lso a tta c !1ed) of t l1e UFO nes2.ti ve were us:.ng pa.~:-~= di:'ferc~:.t contr=-..st. nothing of significance 'l'he origi:1a.l int and :.11 net;ati ";es will be returned to Ar durin; the interrogation, tnat 11c ~r=ts t::l.n.ki~ ._,_ r yir:.g ~o sell :e ]lcture to r. I FE or some ot~1e:-c publication. To avoid the J.~tac~x:rnt of any .-\ir Force label or cor:n.1eut, t,he pri:1-t c..:'lCi .. 1~gati ves will be returned w1 thout any USAF letter: C:l"'~lope or "official:: coJ:u!lent. One logical expl3nation was developed to explain how the photograph could have been made: Assurni ng that the negative w::.s 1~,-i~ open in 2. d.:'.:~:: ~"Coo .:;.ni ting dev-elopment, a drop oi' :1e,:c lo!JC : ~ould hc1.ve splas:1ed. onto it; after o. minute or so the d ro:p could _uve been '\liped off '\.r:i. t h the euge of the hani; subsequently t he neg:::ti ve could l!ave been developed.. This sequence would have produced a sliGhtl~' da~l~r tail :.md a muc .. :. L:a1l-i:cr ll?O, or blob, or. t:1e negative due -co over development. The expert::i in the SSD/...\ero3p2..cc p 10to la't said t he y could reuroducc the UFO effect in this nanner . li.lile this cic;ht explain the picture, it does not explain story, unless it is a hoax. In t~lis view, llr ecupation has been t en into consider~tion. Also conside s u uicture of a :-e:portedly h igh speed object with a caznera having a slow shutter speed. The pi1otograph indicates neither tmage raotion nor camera root ion {as in the case of panning) . The inves "i' however, lU' 1nd1 viduaJ -quite Angeles area. officer believes that this is an attempted hoax; appeared to be a rather normal, sincere am honest unlike many of the "koolts" who frequent the I.os Attempts were made to gain access to the photo lab and personnel concerned at Technicolor Corperation where the film was allegedly developed. Hawver, the attempts were unsuccessful. One cormoont of possible significance .was obtained from an executive in the corpora- tion. He stated that their in-house facilities for processing personal photography was for color film only, that processing of black and ~h.:. te film was not IJermi tted, but that a bootleg job could have oeen done. l.fr ted that the processi:1g of personal f'ilm was pe.n:Ii t-eed chnicolor and that he paid t ne norn:al ( con:pa:1.y) price to have this fiL:l 1-'rocessed Ca}Jtaln, t:s:~ SSD ( SSF.-\ - L?C) PHOTO ~"--AL. VSIS REPORT 65-43 ,AOI .1 0' ,AOII DATI Ot RIPORT - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT REPORT W"'.cAR SlOAN NEV' ADA DATI 20 l-tARCH 196.5 PHOTOGRAPHY h Prints of UFO Frame 1. PURPOSE: This report ans~vers Work Orde r 65-107 from Major Quintanilla Jr. (TDEH/UFO ). to analyze one photo taken near Sloan, Nevada on 20 March 1965. The following analys'is was perfo~ed by the combined effort of DPA (Photo Interpreter) and DPP (Photo Processing) personnel 2. /u'IALYSIS: . The print sho~-rs rocky grot:.nd. lri th a large hill on the right side. The sky covers about half of the print. In the 5A7 is a large -vrhite oval ixr.a.ge. A do:na appears on top of t he oval. The cor.:plete ir.1age has a light trail. infer from the interrogation by Captain Charles F. Reich;.-.uth (SSD), of Xr. t.ook the p~cture, t hat the object lias far away at t :1e tin e of photo- graphy. s be the case, tC.e size of the object would be huge. There is nothi~g to indicate that t he object or i~Age is solid. The edges of the i~age are not s harp, but the bac~ground and foreground are. No banding, lines or detail of any kind are visible on the object tc show that it is solid. A line should be visible .between the dor.ie and. bott o::1 oval of the object. Such a line is not present. The camera used to take the picture has a behin~-the-lens shutter. This type shutter would not smear an image. This image appears to be s meared. 3. ,;e agree with the analysis done at SSD, that the image could be caused by a drop of developer on the emulsion, then wipecloff ?SO TO ANALYSIS BY: C;u.RT~FS C. ANSPAUGH :st Lt,; USAF ?hoto Interpreter RJ BERT L. BASE ,.../ I Photo AnaWsis /l. ';.~ionj WILBER PRICE, JR. L (' Director, Photo Exploita~on Directorate JUitf.lfOt .,,, ,,,~ .. tl t[J. l(P I,)J t lliCil'"'" 5rOCa 'WI~ ... i U1tiO NAME (Roquoator fill In 1 throueh 9) Request Photo: P. Nultor or Doacrl,tlon 8 . Date Desired 9. Today' Doto 3. Etentlon p,.lect Nr 6. Donalty/Siao P"oto Dealrod 7. Nr. of Co,loa Follow-up Dotot Typo of Retention 0 Por,.anont D lncOMinl Mount D Orlllol 0 Outgo In 1. MAMt (Requestor fill in 1 throueh 9) Request Photo: P. NuMber or Description Date Deairetl 9. Totlay'a Date FTD JAN 2 o" 110 3. Eatentlon Pretect Nr. Oenaity/SI&e Photo Desire~ Hr. ef Coplee Follow-up Dates Tr,. of RetentiOft n Permanent Out .. int D MACHIN[ COMPUTATION ENG IN[[RING ANALYSIS PHOTO ANALYSIS PPT NUMBER: A6ol0301 DESCRIPTION OF WORK: Recpeat photo analysis be performed OD the attached neptives REFERENCE MATERIAL~ Ltr fa SSD (SSlPA) 20 Sep 65, Investiption o-r UFO Sightins Near Sloan, Bewacla, on 00 Mar 65 with 4 atchs. ~equest all reference material be returned upon letion ot analysis. REQUESTED BY ----SYMBOL TDtffl/U:ro I CEftTI,Y THAT THIS WORK IS AUTHORIZED BY M AND THAT IT HAS THE FOLLOWING PRIORITY AND DEADLINE WITHIN MY DIVISION . DEADLINE DATE OF APPROVING DIVISION CHIEF DATE ENG-INEERING SUPPORT MONITOR ,INAL WORK TO 8 IN FORM OF : OtNGINEERING NOT[ D COMPUTATION OPt REPORT WORK REQUEST APPROVED DEADLINE DATE PRIORITY NUMBER WO"IIC 0"0~" N U at 81 It FTO SEP 64 462 Prevaoua edltlOnl mey b Ulttd . Jllljtawaee ,aar ~. , t4 S1ib"1DI m.a., ....... , . ID Jlanla -t kte& ID ... " '1lle JbDto eSalr' -.uw. au pzaSn't ill ozd8r a'7 zaetam t1a1ra to OBmiRATOR: ,\TTN OF': st.: BJ F.:CT : H!ADQUARTERS SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION AIR fORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE lOS ANGELES AIR FORCE STATION Air Force Unit ftost OHice, los Angeles, California 900"5 r&(1DS) Attzu WPAD1 O!lio 1. BlrhNDCe to tbta latter ancl te .... a.J.c.bl'latb, 19();. .A'ttac ta m.bel' 1, 2 3 :tor :retentioa. 4 is t~tted at tbe ze~n ~ SeQ'#I\nt )body .n be to ss~ mt lat.r than 30 1965. !leS&tives be Se otember ,)x d. ne tives am -orint .for tw ae d eal.r.Jc i.e a.;D (SS7A) At,tll: CAp\ Re1cbmt.b Lae .. lea Air Air,._ Uld.~ ftft Ofttn JfiOI ~t:tu, g?A, IJaftS~taat.10D at UJO Si&b'\lD& bile laMa COIIPletel aal 1.8 WI _.. ~ prlat ta ...ter that a7 retuc a 'Uiea to , co l, USA~' ~M SU.ba18teM 1. ~to AoalJS1 O.RIGI!IA1'0R: ~UB.JF.CT : HEADQUARTERS SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE LOS ANGElES AIR FORCE STATION Air Foret Unit Post OHke, los Angeles, California 900~5 Investigation of UFO Sighting Hear Sloan, ~ievo.da, on 20 Ilal,Cil 1965 F'ID('ID8) Attn: Major Quintanilla (TDEW) WP ..u'B, Ohio . 1. Reference attachment to this letter and telephone conversation between Captain Reic th, SSFA, and Sergeant )body, 'IDEfl, on 14 September 1965. Attac nts number 1, 2 and 3 are for retention. At number 4 is transmitted at the request of Serseant lbody am =m1st be returned to SSFA not later than 30 September 1965. 2. earlier requested taat the negatives be returned to h.in1 atel.y. He was contacted on 17 September and agreed to let us nave the negatives and the print for two more ':eeks. I n t:1e interests of c tions it would be desir;J.ble to l1ave the negatives in b:y 1 October. 1. UFO Investi~a~ion Re)Q~t 2. 4 pi1.nts of t:1e U!?O l'ra."Jle lr,-, IYi .' U~AF ~)i F-:rc g~ T s<..hnology 3. 3 Microphotos o~ brain structure !n fra~res 7 .;.nd 3 4. a Uegati ve::; and 1 :print of th.e UFO Investigation 1 3 deptember l }J5 TIME AND PL\CE: near Sloan, Nevad~ RERlR'rEr 1 BY : Residence: A.,urth Holly- Calif., tel: The source of this UFO repert visited the SSD PIO Office (SSE) on 12 .. i.Ug--u.st 1965 ani provided the. below infol,natiOi1j Capt :ti n Charle s i.1eichr.ru.t:1., 3SF . .\, conducted the interrogation. nas iJe~n e:c:::.:..o yed pob Los Angel~s, California, rp. for over ni l~s out ::>:' W-s Vegas (nea r t he general a.re3. of S lo..:1n, Hc v a.do.) e n _"'u-:~ -:o Los -~:~e les. :~t about 1530 hour s he .'jto.:.JI~ the car on t. sill~ o:' -::~.~ :. "':: :id ~o c h:L.1::!;e ~.s shoes which ,.;ere boti1ering 111m. .\ft~r he ~:~.!d .:;to::>:;~d .:e sight~d che UFO a t about t l:e 10:00 o ' c lock positi~:l r e .L' .. ci v e ~ ::..:...3 .:3.r ( es~io:ated b e aring about 150). 'i?he t.Q'O trav~:.l..:d in 3 ge~era: c ction fro~ southea3t to ~ortbT t patn, passing i n front ::>f !'.is c:.1r 3t wn o.t -1ppeared to be a consiuerabl..! d istance. Hr a.fte~ first geeing t he UFO, took a cmnera. wh..ich he had in the car, got out of t he c a r , placed t he carne:::-c.. on t he hood and i n tne ge r:.era l direction oi' the UFO just before it disappeared and s na pped t h e :;ictt;.re without using t he viewfinder "in the l~opes tha-c he oight ; e t a !)icture of it before it disappC!a.rcd". The -.-~eather vas clea~ -no clouds or haze. w:~en ~he ooject was first sighted it was at an angle of about 30 -40 above the horizon, distance or altitude unkno1m. When t he object passed in front of the car it was at an angl