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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  14 January 65 15/00002 | Mammoth, Arizona  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | UNRELIABLE REPORT  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  One | Three white lights forming an equilateral triangle. Lights size of ordinary light bulb. Initial observation the lights appeared to be motionless above a parking lot. SW sound or other details noted. Lights were at 45 deg elevation 70-80 deg azimuth moving to point were motionless, then began to move at a speed of 40-50 mph. As lights moved to the NW an A/C w…

HEADQUARTERS
12TH STRATEGIC AEROSPACE DIVISION (SAC)
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, ARIZONA, 85707

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

REPLY TO: BDO / LtCol R H Amy
SUBJECT: Unidentified Flying Object
21 January 1965

TO: AFSO (FED)
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, 45433

1. The following unidentified flying object sighting occurred on 14 January 1965.

a. Description of the object:

(1) The object appeared to be three white lights about the size of an ordinary light bulb, and spaced about 15 feet apart in an equilateral triangle.

(2) Same as above.

(3) Same as…

(4) The lights at first appeared motionless, then slowly began to move to the northwest at an estimated speed of 40 to 50 miles per hour. After the object began moving to the northwest an aircraft was observed to be approaching from the southeast of the object as if attempting to intercept the object. The observer was definite that he saw an aircraft. He was familiar with the normal navigation lights and rotating beacon. He claimed the aircraft made the sound of a propeller driven aircraft. The aircraft never caught the object. The observer stated the object appeared to speed up as the aircraf…

(2) N/A

g. Weather and winds - Aleft conditions at time and place of
sighting:

(1) Observer reported clear sky.

(2) Winds recorded at Davis-Monthan AFB were: surface 160/02,
6000' - 140/05, 10,000' - 090/05, 16,000' - 100/10, 20,000' - 090/05,
30,000' - 250/30, 50,000' - 280/10.

(3) No ceiling.

(4) Visibility forty (40) miles.

(5) Only high thin broken clouds.

(6) No thunderstorms in the area.

(7) Vertical temperature gradient was approximately six (6)
degrees centigrade warmer than standard. Gradient because standard
at 33,000' MSL and was colder than standard above this level.
Trepop…

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UFO Sighting, Mammoth, Arizona, 15 Jan 65 18 Feb 65

Dr J Allen Hynek
Dearborn Observatory
Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

Dear Dr Hynek,

Since your may be in the Arizona, New Mexico area in the near future there is an additional report still requiring more data. The sighting occurred on 15 Jan65; a copy of this report is attached. Request you contact the witness if deemed necessary.

Sincerely,

HECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr
Major, USAF
Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch

1 Atch
a/s

cc: PGE/Mr Sweeney

DEARBORN OBSERVATORY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60501
16 April 1965

Major Hector Quintanilla
Foreign Technology Division
Box 9434
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Dear Major:

I am sorry to be so late in reporting on the Manoth, Arizona investigation, but here it is finally.

I drove from Tucson to Manoth on the evening of March 22 and called upon Mr. [redacted] his home in San Manuel, Arizona which is just a short bit from Manoth. We then drove to the classified area of the Magna Copper Company, which in itself is an impressive operation. The region is extremely …

Major Rector Quintanilla
April 16, 1965
Page 2

5. The original report stated that the object disappeared over the horizon to the northwest. In conversation this was still maintained, but when asked to point to the place where the object disappeared, it was in the southeast. The notion of the object was definitely from northwest to southeast, thus a possible satellite trajectory. However, a satellite would not explain the three equal light which both "witnesses" insisted upon.

6. The winds reported were from the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base which is apparently some distance away. Surface wind…

Major Hector Quintanilla
April 16, 1935
Page 3

He would not be the kind, however, to manufacture a hoax, and so I think he definitely saw something, possibly even of the Monticello variety. But the case is not tractable with the information we have and I would say we might call this a case of "inadequate" rather than "insufficient information." He gave us sufficient information, but it was of such a sort as to be too inadequate and inaccurate to attempt a solution.

From his data, I would be hard pressed to prove that either aircraft or UFO's existed. The whole sight was probably an aircraft,…