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Page ID (PID)	MAXW-PBB10-337
Collection	NARA-Maxwell


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Roll Description	Maxwell Blue Book 10
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Major Hector -Quintanilla
July 14, 1966 * I 
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UFO''s overtake the westbound B-36, and he held *them under
observation as__the aircraft_pa_ssed_ overhead until ^lie______l
objects departed.  His recollection, as of today, was ] that
his ^ine of sight to the B-36 at the time the UFO''s moved
into position was at an angle of elevation of about
50 degrees ''(estimated uncertainty about 5-10 degrees) ;        l
and the UFO''s departed when the line of sight to the air-
craft was about the same angle above the western horizon.
The aircraft ''was almost due east of the base when the
objects joined it, and it lay due west when-, they departed.
Its heading was almost due west during the entire period
 of observation.  (In an earlier conversation, Maj. Pestalozzi
estimated the total time of observation at perhaps 3 minutes.
The latter time,would be a bit more compatible with an esti-
mated flight altitude of 20,000 ft and the estimated angles
of line of sight.  But every one of these estimates is [based
on recollections of an event 14 years old, so perhaps all that is
now warranted is the conclusion ~th''at the UFO''s paced the B-36 for
"several minutes."  The latter time is compatible! with the fact
that all of the crew, save the pilot, were able to get back to
the starboard blister to see the UFO before it left.)
As he sketched the relative positions, Maj. Pestalozzi
recalled an important detail.  The UFO near the aircraft was at
a level distinctly lower than the mid-section of the fuselage
.(see sketch) .  He recalled that the crew described looking some-
what down upon it, and.the blister itself is below mid-section.
This may explain why there was no marked aerodynamic disturbance
of the aircraft''s flight characteristics, one of the very puzzl''ing
features of the incident.
Maj. Pestalozzi''s enclosed account does not directly state
it, but he has .mentioned to me that the B-36 crew was a bit shaken
by this experience.  He pointed out to me that, after the UFO''s
departed, the B-36 radioed Davis-MOjhthan control tower and
demanded permission to land immediately.  It was just affjjpr they
landed jthat Operations called him over to interrogate jfe9 crew.
MajI Pestalozzi has related!to me a number of other UFO cases
which he investigated in the early 1950''s in the Southwest.  I
regrjet that our seajrch of ,the Blueboo.k files during my June 7-8
visit did not turn up the one at Sequoia National Park where the 
ranger and his wife were driving in a jeep when overtaken1 by a
disc-shaped-UFO.  Maj. Pestalozzi said the rush of air bent tree-
tops, blew the ranger''s hat off, and left .the ranger with the
impression that it had even rjocked the jee/p.  This would be a
good case study.  If yjou ever run across it, I''d like to know of
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