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Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB10-336
Collection	NARA-Maxwell


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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 10
Document Code	N/A

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MAXW-PBB10-337

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THE   UNIVERSITY^ OF   ARIZONA

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TUCSON.     ARI Z O N A      85721
INSTITUTE   Ol:   ATMOSPHERIC   PHYSICS
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July 14, 1966
Major Hector Quintanilla, Jr.                                >        >
Project Bluebook
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio                          
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Dear Major Quintanilla:
Following our second unsuccessful effort to locate in the
Bluebook files any record of the B-36 incident at Davis-
Monthan AFB, I have asked Maj."R. H. Pestalozzi to put down,
in a letter to me, an account of such details as he can still
remember with confidence.  I enclose, for your insertion into
the Bluebook files, a copy of Maj. Pestalozzi''s letter of
July 7, 1966.   ''        \
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Please file with it my present letter of transmittal, since.
I shall put down a few additional pertinent points.
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Ma j . Pestalozzi hjas told me, in previous conversations, that
he was an air intelligence officer from about 1950 to 1960, and
was stationed at Davis-Monthan during 1951-53.  Field investiga-
tion of UFO sightings was one of his routine duties, not only at
Dayis-Monthan but also at other duty stations.  The B-36 case,
which he believes occurred in 1952, was one in which he himself
happened to be an observer.  Although he has now made a number of
efforts to run down ''clues to the precise date, the latter still
remains uncertain, as I indicated to you in my last visit at
WPAFB on June 30.
He recalls filing a rather thick report on this B-36 case,
the thickest he ever filed on a UFO.  jit included,not only his
own observations and those of the B-36 crew which he personally /
interrogated, but also that of an airman who was standing beside
him during most''of the time of l*is own.observatipn.  The airman
(whose name he has forgotten) was coming out of the base hospital
just as Pestalozzi was about to enter (for treatment of an
injured knee).  Pestalozzi pointed out to me today that approxi-
mately six or seven other Air Force personnel at scattered loca-
tions around the base also reported seeing the UFO''s from the
ground.  Bepause their descriptions matched closely those given
by himself and the airman, Pestalozzi did not (at least as far
as he-now recalls)1 include them in his official report.
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j ,1 have queried Pestalozzi closely about the length of time
during which he had the UFO''s under observation.  He estimates
it at something like five minutes.  He actually saw the two
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