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|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 12 August 64 13/0500Z  |
| --- | --- |
|  2. LOCATION | Brokkens Corner, Montana  |
|  3. SOURCE | Civilian  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | One  |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 2 - 3 Minutes  |
|  6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | Ground-Visual  |
|  7. COURSE | Rising  |
|  8. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No  |
|  9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE | ☐ Yes ☑ No  |
|  10. CONCLUSION | P (Record) (J.A.H.)  |
|  11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS | Initial sighting of object appearing to be a burning haystack: Crescent shaped becoming oblong. Orange, flame colored. Observers stopped car and went back for anothe
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Major Quintanilla
27 May 1965
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Brecken's Corner, Montana
12 August 1964 Case

# HERE'S ONE LESS UNKNOWN FOR 1964

This was the setting moon seen through broken clouds from a moving car. I talked with Mr. [redacted] for twenty minutes or so. It did not sound like too accurate a report. Mr. [redacted] made such statements as "had never seen the moon moving so fast"; took back the part about rising high. Never more than five degrees above the horizon; said it seemed like ten miles away. It was crescent shaped and dark orange in color. Local time of moonset was 21:54.

He went out to look f
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INCOMING MESSAGE
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH
UNCLASSIFIED
AP IN: 59676 (14Aug 64)A/Joe
pg 1 of 3

ACTION: NIN-7

INFO: XOP-1, XOPX-5, SAFOS-3, DIA-15 (32)
SMB A118

SUSPECTED DUPLICATE
ZCZCHQD897ZCQJB185
RR RUEAHQ
ZNR ZFD RUWHCS
CCSC841ZCNDA822
ZCNDA822
RR RUWGALE RUWALE RUCDSQ RUEAHQ RUEAHQ RUWBKN RUCSBR
DE RUWHND 10 13/2337Z
ZNR
R 132145Z
FM 91CM BTSPTGP GLASGOW AFB MGNT
TO RUWGALE/ADC
RUWALE/9AEROSP DIV ENT AFB COLO
RUCDSQ/AFSK FTD WRIGTT PATTERSON AFB OHIO
RUEAHQ/CSAF
RUEAHQ/OSAF WASH DC
INFO RUWBKN/15AF MARCH AFB CALIF
RUCSBR/SAC
BT
UNCLAS BC 5062. 194 -$:, 9AEROSP DI
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INCOMING
MESSAGE 59676 (14 Aug 64) DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
UNCLASSIFIED
PAGE 2 RUWHND 10 UNCLAS

APPEARED TO BE FLAME. (4) ONE. (5) N/A. (6) NONE, EXCEPT AS IN (1) ABOVE. (7) NONE. (8) NONE REPORTED. (9) OBSERVERS STATE FIRST IMPRESSION WAS THAT OF BURNING HAYSTACK. THEY WERE DRIVING IN THEIR AUTOMOBILE, AND AFTER STOPPING AND TURNING AROUND WITH THE THOUGHT OF ASSISTING IN EXTINGUISHING THE FIRE, THE OBJECT APPEARED CRESCENT SHAPED, POSSIBLEY DUE TO CHANGE IN ANGLE OF OBSERVATION. AS OBJECT ROSE FROM THE EARTH AND ANGLE OF OBSERVATION CHANGED ONCE AGAIN, IT APPEARED OBLONG. AT THIS TIME T
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INCOMING
AMESGAS 9676 (14Aug 64)
PAGE 3 RUWHND 10 UNCLAS
DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE
STAFF MESSAGE BRANCH
DECLASSIFIED

SOUTH, GLASGOW, MONT, MR. [REDACTED] SAME ADDRESS, AND
MR. [REDACTED], GLASGOW, MONT. ALL THREE ADULTS AND CONSIDERED RELIABLE. G. (1) 15 MILES VISIBILITY, WINDS 110 AT 8 KTS. (2) SURFACE 110 DEGREES AT 8 KMOTS; 6,000, 120 AT 9; 10,000, 300 AT 14; 16,000, 310 AT 24; 20,000, 310 AT 32; 30,000, 280 AT 65; 50,000, 290 AT 52. (3) HIGH CLOUDS ABOVE 20,000 FEET. (4) 15 MILES. (5) TWO-EIGHTS. (6) NONE. H. NONE REPORTED. I. NONE. J. N/A. K. BASE COMMANDER, GLASGOW AFB, MONT. L. NONE.

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