302544886.pdf

PROJECT 10073 RECORD

|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  25 September 65 26/000Z | Rodeo, New Mexico  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | UNIDENTIFIED ☑  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | Motion tends to rule out reflection or mirage of ground lights.  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  6. Minutes | Two white objects side by side. Size of a size. Possible small dust trail at first sighting. First assumed to be auto driving on desert. Appeared to be near the base of a 6,000 ft mountain. Observed from car. Appeared in North moving W…

January 13, 1966

Dear Major:

This is to report to you the result of my visit to Holloman Air Force Base at Alamogordo, New Mexico, and on my visit to Deming, New Mexico to interview Dr. and Mrs. [redacted] who made a report from Rodeo, New Mexico on 25 September 1965, on a sighting which we carry as "unidentified". I was authorized to make the Holloman trip but the Deming, New Mexico trip occurred to me after I got to New Mexico. It turned out that I had to go less than 100 miles out of my way in order to interview the two witnesses concerned. I informed you of my intention to visit Deming b…

DEARBORN OBSERVATORY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201

January 19, 1906

Major Hector Quintanilla USAF
Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio 45433

Dear Major:

This is the second part of my report on my trip to New Mexico.

On the day after I visited Holloman Air Force Base I drove by private car to Deming, New Mexico, which is 60 miles west of Las Cruces, where I had stopped on my way back from Holloman. I had noted that the sighting of 25 September 1965, made at Rodeo, New Mexico, was made by a Dr. and Mrs. [redacted] of Deming, New Mexi…

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W. 75
Douglas vs. Re Rodes, M. Mex.
Apache
4.2 miles
M. Mex.
4.2 miles
M. Mex.
4.2 miles
M. Mex.
4.2 miles
M. Mex.
4.2
Fordsburg

They had been coming north on U.S. 80 from Douglas and had just gotten past the small town of Rodeo and quite near a settlement known as Apache. They had just passed a tiny side road which leads to a settlement known as Animas and which is accordingly known as Animas Road, when they saw at about their 2 o'clock position what at first appeared to be truck lights heading down toward them. It was about 10:00 P.M. at night and the night was clear and dark, with no m…

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As he sped on the object not only continued to come toward him but seemed to go sideways and keep at the relative position about at right angles to them. Dr. [redacted] sped on, saying that his thoughts were that "they can't go sideways and keep up with us." The lights got so close that they lit up the interior of the car, according to their report. This had now been going on for about 3 minutes, according to both of them. At this point, Dr. [redacted] said that his wife had exclaimed: "George, they are going to get us." The lights now seemed to be drifting over them and brilliantly illum…

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Here again we need the aid of a psychologist to help evaluate how such a report can get started, and also why they seem anxious to report it. If there were no tangible lights present throughout this whole experience, the psychologist has a real job ahead of him to explain how two people can have virtually the same hallucination, and one which seems so patently real to both of them.

Sincerely yours,

Allen Hynk
J. Allen Hynek
Director

JH:ar

RODEO, NEW MEXICO
25 SEPTEMBER 1965

At approximately 8:00 P.M., 25 September 1965, two objects first appeared near the base of a small 6000 foot mountain, nine and one-half miles northeast of Rodeo, New Mexico. The objects appeared to be on or near the surface, moving westward on an intersecting course with the observer's north bound automobile. The lights were at an estimated angular separation of one to two degrees. The driver and his wife first thought it was another automobile driving across the desert, but as the objects approached he realized that they were approximately 30-50 feet abov…

UNCLASSIFIED
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH
INCOMING MESSAGE

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AF IN: 19214 (2 Oct. 65) E/gm
ACTION: NIN-7
INFO: XOPX-8, XOP-1, SAFOS-3, DIA-1 (21)

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UNCLAS/DCOI 08788 OCT 65. FOR USAF (AFNIN), SEC AFF(SAFOI).

UFO. THIS REPORT IS SUBMITTED IAW PARA 14, AFR 200-2, INFORMAT AS DIRECTED.

A(1) ROUND
A(2) DIME
A(3) WHITE
A(4) TWO
A(5) SIDE BY SIDE
A(6) NONE
A(7) POS…