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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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Occupation: Employed by Orange County Road Department as a highway traffic investigator. Mr Heflin has been with the department for 15 years.
Background, education and experience:
a. Completed three and one half years of college towards Business Administration degree. OJT with Road Department - traffic engineering, surveying, drafting, and inspection techniques with varying degrees of experience in all subject areas. His supervisor, Mr Herman Kimmel (400 W 8th Street, Santa Ana, telephone number 547-0547), considers him best qualified as a traffic investigator. Mr Heflin is also a former reserve police officer. He dropped his police duties because of increase in responsibility with his job in the highway department.
b. Mr Heflin's supervisors consider him to be a valuable employee possessing a good personality (friendly, good-natured, alert, mature, and normal in all respects). Based on a three and one half hour interview with Mr Heflin, the investigating officer could find no evidence to disagree with this estimate. Mr Heflin's supervisors also felt that his experience as a traffic investigator and inspector qualify Mr Heflin as an experienced, if not trained, observer.
## 7. Weather conditions: See Atch 3 of basic letter.
8. There was helicopter activity to the south (behind) of the location of Mr Heflin during the time of the UFO observation. Mr Heflin did not look for or see the helicopter since this was a common activity, however, he could hear the helicopter operating. In addition to the above weather conditions, it was confirmed that the weather was generally sunny, clear overhead, but that a large amount of ground haze existed which obscured vision in a horizontal direction or at angles of elevation below $ 3 0^{\circ} $ . Visibility in a horizontal direction was estimated to be less than one mile.
9. No interception or identification action was taken on the date of sighting, however, a check made by the Marine Corps investigators indicated that no UFO was observed on the Marine Corps Air Facility radar at the time of the reported UFO observation.
## 10. See paragraph 8.
11. Investigating officer was Captain Charles F. Reichmuth, USAF, Director, Technical Support Directorate, Deputy for Foreign Technology, Space Systems Division, Systems Command. Document, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 40 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.