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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 2. LOCATION | 12. CONCLUSIONS  |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  11 Dec 63 | McMinnville, Oregon | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon  |
|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☐ Possibly Aircraft  |
|  Local GMT 1/1500Z | Ground-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Air-Intercept Radar ☐ | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  5. PHOTOS | 6. SOURCE | ☐ Other UNIDENTIFIED ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown  |
|  ☐ Yes ☐ No | civilian |   |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSE…

2 December 1964

Dear [redacted]

Your recent letter to Doctor J. Allen Hynek has been forwarded to the Air Force as part of the case file on your sighting of 11 December 1963 at McMinnville, Oregon.

Since you expressed a desire to know of the final evaluation and/or disposition of the sighting, we regret to say that we are unable to provide you with an evaluation. Dr. Hynek considered the possibility of a light aircraft; however, the circumstances would not support this evaluation. Balloons do carry lights and are usually battery operated however, the motion of the object was not consistent …

HEADQUARTERS
FOREIGN TECHNOLOGY DIVISION
AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO

REPLY TO
ATTN OF: TDEW

SUBJECT: UFO Sighting, McMinnville, Oregon, 11 Dec 63 25 Nov 64

TO: Hq USAF SAFOI PB
Wash D C 20330

This office has a UFO report from [redacted], Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. As [redacted] has requested that he be informed of our evaluation the following is a suggested reply:

Dear Dean [redacted]:

Your recent letter dated 12 Nov 64 to Doctor J Allen Hynek has been forwarded to the Air Force as part of the case file on your sight…

HEADQUARTERS
AIR DEFENSE COMMAND
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
FORT AIR FORCE BASE, COLORADO, 80912

AREA CODE 303
TEL: 635-6911
EXT: 3524

REPLY TO
ATTN OF: ADOIN

SUBJECT: UFO

23 Jan 64

TO: Foreign Technology Division
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

The attached letter, received through the Air Force Academy, is forwarded for your information.

FOR THE COMMANDER

ERNEST C. PARSONSON
Lt Colonel, USAF
Deputy Director of Intelligence

1 Atch
Ltr fr Linfield College
dtd 6 Jan 64

Unfield College
MENINVILLE, OREGON

January 6, 1964

UFO Investigation Office,
U. S. Air Force,
Colorado Springs, Colo.

Dear sirs:

This address has been given me as appropriate for the present report; please forward if so indicated.

As a college professor of math and astronomy I have been a skeptic regarding mysterious objects in the sky, supposing them to be optical illusions or familiar items not recognized by the observers. The attached notes of a month ago have left me without any good theory of what I saw. Perhaps they will interest someone else.

Very truly yours,

Dean of Faculty

Observation of December 11, 1963, 7:00 am, McMinnville, Oregon

I glanced out the bathroom window on the north side of the house and saw what appeared to be a bright star, due north, just above the horizon -- below the tallest trees and nearly central in a break among lower trees. It appeared about as bright as Jupiter. No bright star can be seen in that position from here, though Capella is visible there in summer evenings from a few degrees farther north. I guessed that it might be a nova, which could be checked by looking nearly overhead in early evening. I stepped in the next room to get m…

FTD (3DEW)
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
2 Mar 64

Dr J Allen Hynek
Evanston, Illinois

Dear Allen,

Reference the attached sighting of , Linfield College, McMinnville, Oregon. It seems as though a reply is in order to . Could you help us with this matter.

We have received the weather data from the Rome, Italy sighting of 20 - 22 August 1963. This was one of the four cases carried as pending. Our initial evaluation was a mirage or refraction of some sort. However, in the additional information, the observer indicates that the object passed over his car. I am enclosing a translation of the additi…

5 November 1964

Linfield College
McMinnville, Oregon

Dear [redacted]:

This letter may come as a surprise to you, and indeed a belated surprise. It is actually an answer to your letter of January 6 to the "UFO Investigation Office" of the U. S. Air Force. Although the letter was transmitted to me much earlier this year, extensive travels and an inevitable misplacing of correspondence has caused this delay.

For a number of years, I have acted as consultant to the Air Force on unidentified aerial sightings. The continued flow of reports (and I stress the word reports) continues to puzzle me, …