Government & military · Research & investigation
Hector Quintanilla Jr.
Project Blue Book officer and investigative author
Who they are
Hector Quintanilla Jr. was a Project Blue Book officer who wrote about Air Force UFO investigation. His account of the 1964 Socorro report describes site examination, sample tests and inquiries about aviation activity. It preserves the unresolved classification while reporting no material finding that established an extraterrestrial vehicle.
He gives readers an official investigator’s account to compare with the eyewitness report.
Selected contributions
- Authored an investigation account documenting Socorro’s unresolved status and the examination of reported traces.Source ↗
Selected works
Report · 1966
The Investigation of UFO’s
Quintanilla describes Air Force UFO investigation, including the unresolved Socorro report and tests of physical traces. His account preserves an unidentified classification without claiming recovered evidence of an extraterrestrial craft.
Original 1966 attribution supported by the prior audit; linked digital text also carries a May 8, 2007 posting date.
Reading scope & citation
Reuses documented prior inspection: Read the Socorro discussion, classification, investigative results and conclusions. The article’s other historical examples were not fact-checked.
In the timeline
- Apr 24, 1964Lonnie Zamora reports a landing near Socorro
Biography sources
- The Investigation of UFO’s ↗Studies in Intelligence / Central Intelligence Agency