PROJECT 10073 RECORD 1. DATE TIME GROU.P 2. LOCATION 3. S~Uf~CE 10. CONCLUSION ~ivilian Othe r (~OA~C) i. NUMBER OF OBJECTS Photo an~lyais indicates that the pic~ures o~ the obje~t dl~ ~07 ~oo~ese~t the visual conditton3 o f the sl6htln~. S. LENGTH Oi= 03SeRVATION 11. BRit:F SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS 15 sec::>nd.s Thr~e :po;.aro;_d phot o s t a ken in 15 s~conds of ob.j~?-ct repo:rtt?dly _-T_Y_P_E_O_F_O_s_s_e_R_V_A_T_IO-N----1 30 ..i.'i; in d iumeter. Object r::ae1e turn a na. went over 1:.ne hor i ::on in 15 seconds. Photos taken through car wlndow (open). Photos ~ro~nd-visual 1 and 2 sho~ed the object ~he same dis~ance fro~ t~e ca~era -.-C-O_U_R_S_E -11ens, and the third slightly farther a~ay. All prints showed o~re-r hori ~on :ocr y., Cooies of 9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE objec~ Hithin 50 ft of camera lens. Size 3Ssumed to be about one ft in di~eter and less than 3 ft. FTD SEP 63 0-329 {TOE) PreYlaua ecUtlon ollhlefoaa --~be u .. d. 1-tl~MO ?'OR '.rTIE RECORD: CONVERSNfiO~ \1/ITH CAP.r REICHNU'!'R, SSD r~gardin He cwill try to stick the photo3, the Marines reports ohd a fet~ cox>aents in an evelope this afternoon. II~ had spoke tor appro t~ 3! hours la3t Thursday, 24 September 1965. s had contacted Mr and returned the original : pictur~s to Mr SUpposed~ NORAD and Bo~ing contacted him the day after the lh otos appeared in the newspaper. He said that Mr appeared to be a1 the up and up. A g~ntlemen from .NORAD vith credentials had vi3it~d r~garding the phtographs. t1r orig"! nals to this man n thout any receipt. Ee had given them to th~ Marines without any receipt and gotten them back so figured he vou ld do the same to iiOP..AD, said if be got them back he would gi "'e t~e:n to Capt Reichmuth vi thout a receipt also. SArt-ui and Capt Re!ch.~th bave tried to f~nd out w-ho the gentler.lan from UOR.~D was. So far nobody knows. A -oerson from I NPIC of St Louis had call~d regarding phtooa. The reason they were upset about the news releases was that some estimates given by the photo peopl~ at SSD were that the object vas maybe 5-8t in diameter or 30-60 ft in diameter. One photo th~ man vas sitting in a truck. They are sending all the measurements of the truck etc ~.nth the photos. The photo lab was unable to do a good analysis or take ~"lytime because of a job they -were working on. HEADQUARfERS SPACE SYSTEMS DIVISION AIR FOI!C!; SYSTEMS COMMAND UNITED STATES AIR FORCE LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE STATION Air Force Unit Post Office, los Angeles, Colifornio 90045 SSF.\ (Capt Reich.muth/643-3310) I-t~.estigatiou Report, UFO Sightint;, 3 AU3ust J 9u5, Santa Jma, CalJ fornia Hajor Quint::L"1l1la l. ansmitted here~nth are the re3ults of the cubjcct L70 invest i - gc.~i.G:-1 conducted by Captain Charles F. Rzichl!luth, USAF, Space Syster.!s Div:!.s.i.on (SSF.A), Los .\.ngeles Air Force Station, Los !111gcles, Cr!lif. 2. T:"'lis rt involv~s t h e oightin.g ~.nd. photos;:co.~hy o1 e:. l170 1)y Nr e.-:tployed by the Orar~e County Road Depa~tnent, offices located in Santa Ana, Californla. Original Pol~roid pl~to gr:~:?hs are not available as of this date, and Hill b~ forwarded when ar~ if made available . FO ~ T:-u: COM~IAND3R 1. Basic r p t IAW ;\J.7a 200-2 2. !Tarrati ve rpt o...'>1.d e.3sesscent Copy oi"' U31~1C G-2 (El Tore l!arine Air Fe.cili t~.r) Investi- e;ation Rpt 3 8XlO ~lo~sy prints of UFO Zerox coples o f .. \tch 4 Zarox co~ies of newspaper articles :re UFO S.BOI, 1l3.ohil1..gton DC, Att:1: 1lis3 (;ITIO~ ~niCn ~Ill uL ? 'Ilif f IUjE J ! Sf HI,~ IS