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This Project Blue Book case file compilation, hosted by NICAP, covers Rex Heflin's photographs of a UFO taken near Santa Ana, California, on 3 August 1965. It includes an Air Force investigation report by Captain Charles F. Reichmuth, a USMC El Toro G-2 report, an FTD photo analysis dated 14 August 1965, correspondence with Ralph Rankow and Congressman James B. Utt, and newspaper clippings. The analysis concluded the object was about one to three feet in diameter, close to the camera, and could not be the size reported.
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# The Register METROPOLITAN ORANGE COUNTY'S WATCHFUL NEWSPAPER SANTA ANA, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 22, 1965 Daily 10c-Su # Marine Brass Fix Gaze On Heflin UFO Photos SANTA ANA - The Marine Corps is taking a close look at photographs which purportedly show a flying saucer hovering over the Irvine Ranch. The photos which Rex Heflin, 37, a county highway investigator, said he took last Aug. 3 will be forwarded to the 11th Naval District Headquarters in San Diego after El Toro Marine intelligence officers complete their scrutiny, it was learned. Marine spokesmen said they would make no effort to identify the object in the photograph. Meanwhile, Heflin was in a quandary over orders which he has received by telephone. One call, he said, came from a man who identified himself as a colonel with the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD). This man, Hef lin said, asked that no further statements be made about the UFO. "He requested that I not discuss the matter further with the press," Heflin said. Heflin also said he had been contacted by telephone by a man who said he was a Boeing Aircraft Co. engineer. A check with both NORAD headquarters and the Boeing Co. offices disclosed that nobody officially representing these agencies had contacted Heflin. Col. D. R. Dinsmore, an Air Force official in the Pentagon, said the photos have not come to "our official attention yet," but if they do, a special team at Wright Patterson Air Force (Turn To Page A2, Column) ## Saucer Photos (Continued from page A1) Base, Dayton, Ohio, will be responsible for the investigation. Since The Register first published the three photos taken by Heflin, the road investigator has been deluged with inquiries and three invitations to join "flying saucer" clubs. Heflin said he would like to get his photos back from the Marine Corps. Heflin said he took the pictures on Myford Road between the Santa Ana Freeway and Valencia with a camera he carries in his truck for his work. Heflin said he spotted the "saucer" hovering at about 150 feet. He said he was about an eighth of a mile from the object. He estimated it to be 30 feet in diameter and 8 feet thick. Heflin watched it about 15 seconds before it "accelerated like a jet" and disappeared over Saddleback peaks east of Santa Ana. Heflin said he was reticent to report the flying saucer incident to the press or the military because "I knew I'd be branded some sort of a nut." At the urging of a superior in the county highway department, Heflin sent his pictures to Life Magazine soon after they were taken, but they were rejected because the topic was "too controversial," he said.
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