Brooksville Florida — March 1965

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Keywords: robot, holes, footprints, saucer, spaceship, actuator, goettl, bemiss, leaves, insanity, florida, glory, prints, universal, circul, inches, geiger, measured, variable, counter, scene, debris, edltlcma, highiy, forifarded
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1. DATE 7'1111 GROUP 2. LOCATION . NUMIER OF OIJECTS 5. LENGTH OF OISIRVATION 10 Seconds i n Fli.rrht 6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION :round- Vi su"' l 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 10. CONCLUSION 11. llllfl suARY AND ANALYSIS FTD SEP 63 0329 (TOE) ,.,.., ... edltlcma ef th&l fora J M u .. d. Lt n~rm \lr!S :1otified ' r1d co . .,ta..:ted by thE! rcdio s tc.tion ov;ner and sight. ~12 conducted a n erso:1al highiy nervous. Photos ne a r t 3iG::t. is being forifarded with t he report. ?~raj o~ Q.uintani lla requested Lt Duncan to contact local ~alice Gnd forest rangers at the to~er a~d advisee h~ that in:f'ortMtion released to the press should be made through SAFOI. I~Iajor Quintanilla asked it the ~oles ~ad been measured as to distance between marks and depth of t:1e holes and vhether a geiger counter check of t~e a r e a had been 1il8.de. Reply t o both questions was negative. Since the investigating official did not have a geiger counter at his disposal Conve!'s?.ti or. i P:!:O offi~e :-..t : :s. -:Di ll. on 9 :1ar F6oTPA D.S COMBINATION ACTUATOR SHOCK STRUT TWO-WAY ACTUATOR PISTON PIN-'l'YPE UNIVERSAL SNUBBING CENTERING CYLINDER UNIVERSAL JOINT VARIABLE PIVOT AXIS SYSTEM FOR CONCEPT L-17 P~r convers..ttion lst Lt Edward J.1 Goettl , I acDill AFB, Florida and !Larilyn :-'old Lt th;)t received report nt Q,;QO hours, t hour ago. To '.d him "'Je needed core inforcation There w-ere many footprints around the spaceship. They "tvere not underneath where the a.~ledged spaceship Landed, they approached the door of the alleged spaceship. ?oot prints were approximately one man's average step apart, approximat~ly size eleven. The ridges on thepr.mts did not look like any kind of fishing boots, shoes, or anything he had seen. \-:hat they appeared to him was that somebody cut a steel grater that is in the sidewalk and fit it to the bottom of a shoe. There were so many prints that he did .wet count them. There were too ~Y foot prints to take in one picture The holes \;ere not measured by him. A Dr C Bemiss tool< e::cact measurements and we can get in contact with him t trough Lt Alexander) FTD, Patrick 1~, F l a . Dr Bemiss had said that there -v1a s no re.dioacti vi ty present. The holes were epproxL~ately s~x inches dee~ 2~d ~ight inches across and approxim~tely ten and one-ha :..f feet 'J.part. T'ner~ "'.fe!'e four holes. Asked h!.rn vrhy they didn't take picture c:f all holes ~t once. They vier-e too f.J.r ~p2rt t o g~t i:1 o~e photo al!d the ~e were c lu.~-r;>s of g r ass in t h e ;.;3y. t s k::a ni1n \-Thy the y ~ld..YJ. 't t~ke ~-l p:"!o"to of ench hole. !-!e re:):.ied that t!1ey just J i d!l. 't. He s Jid you _wo. 1,:e =:.:-;:-::.!:~ i n this :--,.ls::..:esa. I said I re:.i3e d this and he rep :i~d th.=t ti~y -:.;ou:=. ::t:now the ::eX: tiiJe. The holes did ~ot ... ppear t c be d..:pr:..s.:.; :.J .: ~=-'1.:..d. they appe~:-t o r.e d:.tg ~Vi th an in.5tiU1le nt. They .ioo:<:-:: i -:"::2J d i d :10~ o"tta::..n an offlcia_ ~tc;-c.:: .. 1ent. from the stl~riff. Ro...,e-.rer, tht:: d_.~ri.f:i. di. !". ' -2Ve-:-_ k:lY . .; who :.tr -.rr:.a until thi.:; i ncldent. ..~n object o the d:.:Je.:slvns -:ts.t ~e d e s cribed cou2..d have l onded. ~rea w1 t hout distur':::ir:G the terr~ i:: (trees a.::d brus~). Howe1er: _ ~.. s _i d that :..1e::;. t:_e spa.;eshi:::> -:-.-:.0k off it :rea~ed 3 dust disturb,nce t.1e 2ir sendL:.g bits of d-=bris ove:-tne ground. There ~.'ls no evider.c= of gro'tnd debris. As:ted Lt :ioe:."":l to obt a:!.n measure.nent s of footprints etc. He ~ou Ld r:ot obtain tae:-:'1 :lev.- 3 :.. ~ rained the day afterwards and washed thew tl\.ray L~ Goett~'s ~ersonal opinion w~s that he didn't bel i In :: stat ~z1nt to :::1.cDill intes:.: ::.tion t~.r . . r. said the obj...:ct :lad a. total hei~:t a t tre scene with feat am Ol~itted this portion in his wa a speech X1fXlOOOOOOCX X JfX'XJC(t'i (How deter.-aincd) st~te111ent t~rith ~lse trhen he ,.,~!1t ur. to :.~ s;~D..rted to say t;1ere \-la s :x:>?~e bushcs then stop. 0 d ch,:u16ed his stc:.t e - idn't describe t e color of the object on t he scene ~dth said the Robot man ca1:1.e \ri~hin 15 feet from the bushe, then he he was. He !1 rst said he \-tas stooping down behi...-n the cushes. 'tras he tmen the Robot thing cat1e up to the bushes)? 3a.:..d rf!e ~ot up again" ani too!~ another pictur of me. CIHO ~ HE)? trent Hithin 100 feet of the re .::cu goi:'1g to coun t steps object. t!earing glasses an:i ~ls . 1r"l.th t her.t bei:1g circul er. on ~.one vWO Di ... ter ot obJect ob says 20-30 tt, accordiDS to d~ensions -14f tt in di ot boles it vaa poaaibl7 onl)' 1 aya 4-5 iDcbes d r 4 inches deep. Mac Dill AYS says , 6 inc he deep. Pboto shows ho lea 7 -k inch diameter. fboto abov leaves in hole are not cn~ahed. It aomethina the size of this hip -would have landed, leaves and sre would have been pushed to bot ot hole. Also hole looka like it vas dua with 11 sand shovel or aaethiq like a pole diger. . Picture ot hole s indica tee so.ethiJla laraer h1 t ript tbe hole, about lf 1Dcbea vide circ:Jna bole. Sketch did not indicate thl. alread7 1D wh how cmld he take ott tor buahes. "Open1D8 under the saucer II and he sot inside s said he saw only one robot" Tape said "the7 re aoing up one at a tiJie, atter they-were all 1n there." "It a rigbt near us vas supposedly the onl7 witness) Lt Qoettle said there were no footprints under alleged saucer. News cl1pp1ns ''There was some kind of an openins under the saucer . " ., r it went up 'inside'' It didn't so down to area hov catld he see a so up in to the ship, vhen chamber was underneath ship and ship was onl7 4-tt off IZ'Ound. Neva c 1 .:PPl~n said "'he didn't so very tar from saucer reterring totbe robot. voulcl have JnJ.S vi thin 100 tt ot saucer and robot came to 15 tt of Reee 's, robot had to gone farther away from saucer. -Photo shows a brush and tree area. He w could a person see an object 700 yards a~y, only ten foot hilh, diamter 15-30 ft, squating on a tour legged landing so s cared he couldn't blink an eye, just hov could be remember and move so much. One article says, "it dropped pi~ces aod looked, and I found some very, queer vri tina on 1 t . ot materal." Tape says "then I went down kind ot writing material ~ith some very icl a in his sl:, 'J.ta s'l:d, it ,r-,_dc ~.hist,lt l: id in his tape th--.:re ,,rere ::-"-nY footpt%L1ts, j .e photos onl~t x ehow 011e p~rsons. The holes ~re to shallo; for an ob,'ect :.his si~e to r1 :!:c. 1lso the leaves in t he to!.~ are not pressed into ~ ground. ~'lith an object, ui th speed i.'l excess to 5,000 mph, \.ould surely distribute t:...e grass, sa:--0, a rl debris around t::e hole and area. Hernando County Sberitts ottice, Brooksville, Florida, area code 305, 796-3541 On 16 March 1965 ve placed a call to the abovennmber. Be was iD a meetiJ:Ja at the We spoke to waa case. was out there at the same time the Air Force ott1ce actually so out to the siptins itaelt. He didn't so out to the paper quotes thea u soing out there, and we would like a law entorec ... nt' op1u1on. aaid it waa prett7 aoft eartb. we told h1Ja that tbere were contradictor, atat..enta. vere so1D8 out there to the aipt1DS but they had to set a car out ot the sand tbat was stuck. said it was bard to believe atory. He thought tba was just baving his day ot glory. we tcld him that ve needed a motive tor s doing something of thia sort. said he fel t getting older and wanted his picture in the paper and got his day ot glory, like some people get there day in jail .he gets hil in g lory . P~ychictry. A type of :psyc.::o-3 is charoct!?rized b;;' ~.oss of . .:o:1te. -:t ,. i th the environment and b~ disintegration of the perso.'1a l i t;r . It includes de!Ilentin pra e cox a nd some related forr:ts of insanity. De~e~ti~ preacox A coii1r.lon form of insanity, developing usually in late o.dolescencc or early adult life, and ~haracterized by loss of interest in people 3Dd things, loss of effective participation -practical or sociel life, incoherence of thought and action, and blunting of emotior.. ! ca~e~ of the hebeprenic type it is charactistic also by silly , in cases of the peranoid type, bydelusions, and in cases of the catatoni~ by negativistic, stereotyped, cataleptic actions an~ attitudes, and by periods of excitement and of stupor. Hq usAF ( .~.li'crr) washington 25, D.C In aoco1dance with JJ1l 200-2, the attached _.. ial Intellig~ce P.eport, ( DD FoJ~m 1396), dated 3 March 196', !a .w-1 t FOR THI CO~IJlt E. D. STU!Vi:SANT Colonel, U$AF Dep Coadr for Opw Attr: T'O-E NOT~!: J'ltf doellfftnt eontelne lttlw ... tlon lletlnl ,,.. ,..,.,.., de/ene of tlte UnUIf Tit trnernfe~tlon tlte rlatlon ol lie !'ltle repo.t contelrw Lr~Prooeeeed lnlotffletlo n PIM rwllor pollcle eltould not be old content In an' _.,.,_, to an .... utlto.laed ., MOflllld eoll, on tlte Mele ol title report. pereon le JWOitl&lled b' law. t. t:'OUNTiqY. 2. SUBJECT: J . ISC NUMSER: e. OAT OF IN,ORMATION: (CIIItcalfon nd Control llltl,..e) I . DATE OF REPORT: 10. NO. OP' PAGES: 12. OUGINATOA: 1 . PLACE AND DATE OP' ACQ: noPill ;\F'.9 J 11. PAEPA.-ED BY: td~ard,. Goettl, 1st Tt., I. EVALUATION: SOURCE .:.F INP'OAMATION _....;t;.;."' Brooks,:i lle, Florida I e.' APPROVING AUTHORITY: 15. SUMMAftY: 1 . JFO sighted by ; :r. , ~Jroo!<::;ville, Florida. a . Description or ifFO as 20 to 30 f'eet in -:lian:eter; t otal h :d . .gh t 1 0 teet; "'Jl)r was .l b l us , green, red p~ple or t~v :!')lors Gf :;. soap bu:-,bl.;. 1':, "( e :vas only one UFO sigbted. ( 4) fi"e~ ture s were variable pi t~:1 blades on th.") ou~er ri. .1 J .fa at lo;:-:: ~n0 ") -1~ i nches :.Jida; 7-8 circul:ar stap s Jhioh folded ii!i',~.> ~.:1a IY:k--:J c)~ the 'f?O; t"hought r~1s lJSed t o t urn t~1e b poin~cd +.na uo:.c .... -, h i n t-;lice . E.ac h ti~c thG box p::-0\Juc~y.: _ ~-'~sf. J.i~il:n 1:0:::: f1acih bulb. 7ha r :.>und .-lquare box had an o-:Ja:1i..ng on to?, tr.~o ~u+.~ons -)~i -:: ,3~ s~.:~(~ a~ tt.~ t on and :t s. ll i:~le in the r.tiddle. "'1'\e box :-;as 6 x 6 i~';':!t~'3s b. ~nner of ~bservation t-~as ground-viso~1. uas ~alking throu gh the oJo'::>ds h~ clrtl~!!J ho he saw it fir~t. i1c circled arou nd .1nJ !,ir] (L .... Blenlc) tl OIIT .. IaUTION 8Y O .. IQINATOAI 17. OOWNQAAOINQ DATA~ 18. ATTACHMENT DATA: