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Project Blue Book case file (combined PDF)

US Air Force, hosted by NICAP · 40 pages · text by OCR

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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  • p. 1 …Ohio Brooklyn, New York Colorado Springs, Colorado Santa Ana, California Gregory, Texas Albuquerque, New Mexico Sioux…
  • p. 5 …flying object taken by Rex Heflin of Santa Ana, California, is based on enlargements made from…
  • p. 8 Santa Ana, California 3 Aug 65 FLYING OBJECT CAUGHT ON FILM IN CALIFORNIA: On August 3rd…
  • p. 9 …14 August 1965 PROJECT UFO Report LOCATION Santa Ana, California DATE 3 August 1965 PHOTOGRAPHY AS…
  • p. 10 …Heflin, employed by the Orange County Road Department, offices located in Santa Ana, California. Original Polaroid…
  • p. 11 …Duffield interviewed at his residence, 1107 West Nyack street, Santa Ana, California on 1960 on 10…
  • p. 13 …May at Santa Ana, California reported that they had received no complaints of interference on UHF…
  • p. 14 …None (sound covered by nollceptors at MCAF, Santa Ana) i. Kona ## 2. Desorption of a chemical…
  • p. 16 # BASIC REPORT IAW AFR 200-2 UFO, 3 August 1965, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA 1. Description of…
  • p. 17 …Myrtle Street, Santa Ana, California (observer has moved to 1008 N. Parton in Santa Ana); telephone…
  • p. 18 …His supervisor, Mr Herman Kimmel (400 W 8th Street, Santa Ana, telephone number 547-0547), considers…
  • p. 20 # FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY NARRATIVE REPORT AND ASSESSMENT UFO, 3 AUGUST 1965, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA 1…
  • p. 21 …On or about 18 September, Frank Hall of the Santa Ana Register contacted Mr Heflin, borrowed…
  • p. 22 …Both Frank Hall of the Santa Ana Register and Sergeant Dolyak of the G-2 office…
  • p. 23 …On 23 September the investigating officer went to the Road Department offices in Santa Ana and…
  • p. 28 …Heflin said he was working near the Santa Ana Marine Corps air facility when he caught…
  • p. 29 …during his sighting of the object he tried to contact his base station in Santa Ana…
  • p. 30 …NEWSPAPER UNKNOWN ( CLIPPING SENT IN ) ## UFO Photo Released SANTA ANA, Calif. (UPI)—A county highway department…
  • p. 31 …11.4.1 METROPOLITAN ORANGE COUNTY'S WATCHFUL NEWSPAPER SANTA ANA, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA SUNDAY SEPTEMBER…
  • p. 32 …Beflin, employed by the Orange County Road Department, offices located in Santa Ana, California. Original Polaroid…
  • p. 33 …This concerns the above-named constituent, residing at 1003 North Perton Street, Santa Ana, California, who…
  • p. 35 …diameter and eight feet thick, near the Santa Ana Marine Corps air facility, streaking overhead like…
  • p. 38 # Countian Took Pictures Of Unidentified Object BY FRANK HALL Register Staff Writer SANTA ANA-Rex Heflin…
  • p. 39 # The Register METROPOLITAN ORANGE COUNTY'S WATCHFUL NEWSPAPER SANTA ANA, ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER…
# BASIC REPORT IAW AFR 200-2

UFO, 3 August 1965, SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA

1. Description of object:

a. Object has a basically circular shape not unlike a man's flat, summer straw hat (see photographs, Atch 4).

b. Size of object: estimated to be about 30' in diameter with a vertical dimension of about eight feet.

c. Color was silver or metallic except for dark areas which appeared to be black.

d. One object only.

e. Not applicable.

f. See Atch 4 for details on features. Observer stated that when the UFO was tilted so that he could see the underside that he observed a small, narrow, rotating beam of light which began at the center of the underside of the object and ran to the outside edge of the object. The color of the light appeared to be either whitish or metallic such as that which could indicate light reflection from a relatively slow moving propeller or other rotating blade. In photo Nr 2 there is a faint indication of such a line running from the center outward at a relative bearing of about $ 2 8 0^{\circ} $ . Officials in the G-2 office at El Toro stated that the light line was clearly visible in the original photo.

g. None observed.

h. No sound heard.

i. See photographs in Atch 4.

2. Description of course of object:

a. Object first noticed out of corner of observer's eye while driving an Orange County Road Department vehicle.

b. See photographs.

c. See photographs.

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