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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  10 October 65 10/1500Z | Huntsville, Alabama  |
|  3. SOURCE Civilian | 10. CONCLUSION Astro (METEOR) ? Call -  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS One | Flight of 35 deg arc, 5-10 seconds. Possible daylight meteor contrail  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION 5-10 seconds | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION Ground-Visual | Object was described as a jinking spot of light, moving across the zenith with rather incredible speed. Appeared a glowing white light, rather than as an illuminated object. It crossed from about ten deg ap…

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Office of Record

FTD (TDEW)
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 45433
17 January 66

Huntsville, Alabama 35802

Dear [redacted]

We are reviewing our October 65 case files and find that your report of 10 October does not contain sufficient information for an evaluation. Request you complete the attached FTD Form 164 and return it in the envelope provided.

Sincerely,

HECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr, Major, USAF
Chief, Project Blue Book

October 14, 1965

Chief, Office of Investigation, UFO
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Sir:

A recent experience of mine produced a phenomenon of vision that seemed quite unusual, and I am writing you to make you aware of what, to me, at least, is a new facet of visual observation.

At about ten oclock on Sunday morning, October 10, 1965, we were experiencing a particularly clear day here in Huntsville. The sky was cloudless and of a particularly intense blue associated with superior visibility. The inevitable trace of haze between my home and Monte Sano, sev…

What I wish to offer, is the particularly unusual nature of the visual image. As I said, the plane appeared as a point of light, and seemed to have some tenuous "tail feathers" and my first reaction was that it looked exactly as an incandescent gnat would, jinking along overhead on a fast and generally straight course.

I would offer as explanation of the jinking motion, that I was seeing at the very limits of visibility, having located the plane almost purely by accident, it would seem, and that at this level of visibility, the servo loop, so to speak, between retinal signals and directing mu…

Chief, Office of Investigation, UFO
Department of the Air Force
The Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C.