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PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD

|  1. DATE | 5 Dec 55 | 2. LOCATION | McIntosh, Minn | 12. CONCLUSIONS | ☐ Was Balloon ☐ Probably Balloon ☐ Possibly Balloon ☐ Was Aircraft ☐ Probably Aircraft ☑ Possibly Aircraft  |
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|  3. DATE-TIME GROUP | Local GMT 05/2105Z | 4. TYPE OF OBSERVATION | ☑ Ground-Visual ☐ Air-Visual ☐ Ground-Radar ☐ Air-Intercept Radar |  | ☐ Was Astronomical ☐ Probably Astronomical ☐ Possibly Astronomical  |
|  5. PHOTOS | ☐ Yes ☑ No | 6. SOURCE | civilian |  | ☐ Other ☐ Insufficient Data for Evaluation ☐ Unknown  |
|  7. LENGTH OF OBSERVATION | 1…

Witness
Rec 7 19 48 55
RC190
WPG185 YMB134 YYC16STMGAG66H
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ACTN01 19

RR RJEDEN RJEDWP RJEPHQ
DE RJEDNG 30A
R 071800Z
FM COMDR 31ST ADIV SNELLING AF STA ST PAUL MINN
TO RJEDEN/COMDR ADC ENT AFB COLO
RJEDWP/COMDR ATIC WRIGHT PATTERSON AFB OHIO
RJEPHQ/D/I HQTRS USAF WASH DC

BT
//UNCLASSIFIED//OIN 7348A PD UFOB PD (1) DES OF OBJECT (A) LIKE A
BASEBALL BAT (B) GRAPEFRUIT (C) YES SILVER (D) ONE (E) N/A (F) LOOKED
LIKE IT WAS IN THREE PARTS, BUT STILL IN ONE PART, LIKE IT WAS DIVIDED
(G) NOEN (H) VERY LOUD, LIKE A TRAIN (I) NONE (2) DES OF COURSE OF
OBJ (A) THE SOUND (B) 45 DEGREE (C) 45 DEG 180DEG (D) GOING DOWN AND
TOWARD THE SOUTH, SPINNING AND THEN WOULD DRIFT, T…

Postmarked 4 March 69

Dear Sir,

I am forwarding a letter to your office regarding a U.F.O. sighting that I had sent to Dr. Edward U. Condon at the University of Colorado. They returned my letter the other day with a note stating that the project office there was closed and no further work is being done on the study. And they suggested that I send it to you.

I hope that you will excuse me for not sending the letter to you first but I didn't know who to send it to, and I became a little concerned after reading the conclusion of Dr. Condons report in the paper.

Sincerely,

NCIO Nov 1955

TDPT (UFO)/Lt Marano/typed 10 Mar 69/sac
10 MAR 1969

UFO Observation

Mr. [redacted]
Oroville, California 95965

Reference your UFO observation of November or December 1955. Although your sighting is too old to investigate, we are including it in our files for information purposes. Thank you for reporting your sighting to the Air Force.

H
HECTOR QUINTANILLA, Jr, Lt Col, USAF
Chief, Aerial Phenomena Branch
Aerospace Technologies Division
Production Directorate

TDPT (UFO) Official File C

RECEIVED FEB 24 1969

Dear Dr. Condon

I have read the report recently that you and your group of scientists released to the press regarding UFO's.

The conclusion of your report plus a few other factors have prompted me to write this letter. I would like to report a sighting that my brother and I made in 1955, either the last part of Nov. or the first part of Dec. The biggest reason that I am reporting it now is because I have never read or heard of another sighting quite like it. This thought has been haunting me for quite awhile and so I would like you to be the judge of whether it was a si…

2

At the time of the sighting & was living in San Jose Calif. with my oldest brother. We were returning to San Jose from a pleasant hunting trip in Gridley. We were on the highway headed south between Milpitas and San Jose, it was approx. 11: p.m. and the weather was as clear as a bell. I was riding on the passenger side, looking out the window when out of the corner of my eye & saw a flash. As I looked up I saw what appeared to be a meteor just striking our atmosphere and falling toward us at a tremendous rate of speed. It kept coming and wouldn't burn out. It scared me and excited m…

3 When I looked back at it, it was coming to a stop at an elevation of approx. 1,500 to 2,000 ft. and I would estimate it to be approx. 1/4 of a mile from us horizontally. It was approx. 50 ft. to 75 ft. in diameter. It looked just like a large ball of "white hat" fire. At first it was kind of hard to tell what shape it was exactly, because of the tremendous brilliance and glow, but as it began to cool you could see that it was nearly round. I would say slightly elliptical. We were so awe struck that we had no idea what we were witnessing. The object stayed there hovering for about five minute…