Documents / Report
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.
AT 0300 local 24 October 1968 AZIMUTH ELEVATION Regulus 78 10 Capella 85 80 Castor 88 50 Pollux 91 45 Procyon 112 30 Betelgeuse 138 47 Sirius 138 28 Rigel 158 35 Aldebaran 164 60 Aries 235 45 Deneb 315 22 Vega 331 4 AT 0400HOURS LOCAL, 24 OCTOBER 1968 Mars 83 at horizon Jupiter 82 just below horizon Regulus 89 20 Capella __ 90 Castor 91 58 Pollux 106 55 Procyon 126 37 Sirius 152 24 Betelgeuse 159 50 Rigel 175 35 Aldebaran 190 80 Aries 251 47 Deneb 324 15 Vega 341 at horizon Atch 3-1
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.