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This US Air Force Project Blue Book file, hosted by the Sign Historical Group, centres on a 13 November 1968 letter from Lt Col Hector Quintanilla, Jr., chief of the Aerial Phenomena Branch, evaluating the 24 October 1968 UFO sightings at Minot AFB. It attributes the ground sightings to the star Sirius and a B-52, and the B-52 radar contact and radio loss possibly to a plasma. It also includes a sequence of events, witness summaries, star tables, an Eielson AFB case card and notes on autokinesis.
SEQUENCE OF EVENTS 0030 Airman Isley sighted light in the east (117) 0230 A1C O’Conner sighted bright light (117) SSgt Smith sighted bright star light (117) 0308 SSgt Bond, A1C Adams, A1C Jablonski sighted light in SSE (Ltr fm Lt Col Werlich & 117s) 0320 SSgt Smith, A1C Bajgiar, A1C Vennedall sight UFO (Ltr fm Lt Col Werlich) 0324 SSgt Wagla, A1C Allis, A1C Derr sight UFO (Ltr fm Lt Col Werlich) 0325 SSgt Halko, A1C Jenkins, A1C Richardson sight UFO (Ltr fm Lt Col Werlich) 0335 B-52 on heading 290° asked to look for orange light 15 to 16 miles at 1 o’clock position (reply affirmative?) “A/C roger I see a . . . (garbled)” (Transcript from tape) 0345 A1C O’Conner no longer sees light (117) 0352 B-52 in haze. Weathers radar places object at three miles at 1 o’clock. B-52 cannot see. (Transcript of tape) 0358 B-52 loses transmission to tower. (Transcript of tape) Between 0400-0402 B-52 regains ability to transmit. (Transcript of tape) 0406:15 B-52 scope photos start (scope photo) 0406:51 B-52 scope photos end (scope photo) 0413 Controller tells 52 that missile site personnel advise that they don’t see anything any more. 0415 SSgt Smith last sighted light (117) 0417 A/C requests final to touchdown at 0440 (Transcript of tape) Atch# 1
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 23 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.