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Maj. Hector Quintanilla takes over Project Blue Book

Name: Maj. Hector Quintanilla takes over Project Blue Book
Start: 1963
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

When: 1963
Where: Wright-Patterson AFB, OH
Sources: 1 public source

Project Blue Book staff in 1963, with new chief Maj. Hector Quintanilla seated in the center U.S. Air Force, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Hector Quintanilla succeeded Lt. Col. Robert Friend at the Air Force's Project Blue Book and led it until it closed in December 1969, through the Socorro case and the 1966 Michigan sightings. His later unpublished memoir defended the Air Force's handling of reports.

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FirsthandUFOs: An Air Force Dilemma (unpublished manuscript, Lt. Col. Hector Quintanilla, with NIDS preface) (opens in a new tab)Internet Archive / 1974

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