302537664.pdf

|  1. DATE - TIME GROUP | 2. LOCATION  |
| --- | --- |
|  8 February 65 09/0555Z | Elk Grove, Village, Illinois  |
|  3. SOURCE | 10. CONCLUSION  |
|  Civilian | Astronomical (MOON)  |
|  4. NUMBER OF OBJECTS | Regraction of setting moon.  |
|  One |   |
|  5. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 11. BRIEF SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS  |
|  Not Reported (Minutes) | Case used in NBC Documentary. Investigated by Dr Hynek. SEE CASE FILE.  |
|  6. TYPE OF OBSERVATION |   |
|  Ground-Visual |   |
|  7. COURSE |   |
|  Stationary |   |
|  8. PHOTOS |   |
|  ☐ Yes ☑ No |   |
|  9. PHYSICAL EVIDENCE |   |
|  ☐ Yes ☑ No | …

DEARBORN OBSERVATORY
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 60201
June 3, 1965

Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr.
Box 9494
FTD Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton, Ohio

Dear Major:

Sighting, Elk Grove Village, Ill.
February 8, 1965

This is an account of the NBC "Documentary on UFO'S" treatment of the
Elk Grove Village case. I was present throughout the entire interview
and filming, although I did not take part in it. The witness was a
, who is a photogenic girl of about 26 and reasonably
well self-possessed. Her story follows and then I'll give a few details
of how the filming was done.
…

Major Quintanilla
3 June 1965
Page 2
Elk Grove Village, February 8, 1965

dashed to the bedroom to get her husband and hauled him out to look. They both went to the window to look. At that time the object was definitely gone.

I questioned her closely on the edges of the object and she maintained that the ovals of light had a definite periphery and were not fuzzy. She drew them for the cameras many times and the best description I can give here is that they were simply two ellipses at right angles to each other, two ellipses of rather low eccentricity.

The filming of this whole episode took f…

Major Quintanilla
3 June 1965
Page 3
Elk Grove Village, February 8, 1965

to hear the NICAP people regaling one of the NBC crew members and with some real cock-and-bull stories. They didn't know that I was listening. Along with the usual vilification of the Air Force and their secrecy, they were tossing around some real oddball stories about friends of theirs having gone to the basement of the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, and wandering into a forbidden region where they found "little green men", or at least models of them. They were shooed out of this "restricted" area. Then the …

Major Quintanilla
3 June 1965
Page 4
Elk Grove Village, Ill., February 8, 1965

orange-ish tinge than reported by . However, in the absence of her reporting the moon, and coupled with the fact that the moon was certainly in any event within a few degrees of the reported sighting, considerable doubt must be thrown on there having been a separate globe from that produced by the setting moon.

NBC wishes me to come in at the end of this documentary to discuss these sightings. It ought to be easy, since the Barrington Hills case is almost certainly a meteor, this case is probably the moon, but the…