07-30-2024, 05:42 AM
When it comes to Major Hector Quintanilla I'm reminded of this Hitchens quote on Kissenger.
Pretty convenient how Klass and Menzel finally wangled their way into Project Bluebook under the reign of Major Hector Quintanilla - also interesting that during that period there was some truly ridiculous UFO explanations (and pretty nasty character assassination of UFO witnesses).
Here's what Bluebook's Chief Scientific Consultant thought of the chap - there are even claims that Major Quintanilla (and his subordinate Sgt Moody) went back through the old Bluebook files and 're-edited' many of the evaluations to reduce the numbers of actual unknowns at any cost.
Quote:• If you gave the man an enema you could bury him a matchbox"
Pretty convenient how Klass and Menzel finally wangled their way into Project Bluebook under the reign of Major Hector Quintanilla - also interesting that during that period there was some truly ridiculous UFO explanations (and pretty nasty character assassination of UFO witnesses).
Here's what Bluebook's Chief Scientific Consultant thought of the chap - there are even claims that Major Quintanilla (and his subordinate Sgt Moody) went back through the old Bluebook files and 're-edited' many of the evaluations to reduce the numbers of actual unknowns at any cost.
Quote:"When Major Quintanilla came in, the flag of the utter nonsense school was flying at its highest on the mast. Now he had a certain Sgt. Moody assisting him...Moody epitomized the conviction-before-trial method. Anything that he didn't understand or didn't like was immediately put into the psychological category, which meant "crackpot." He would not ever say that the person who reported a case was a fairly respectable person, maybe we should look into it, or maybe we should find out. He was also the master of the possible: possible balloon, possible aircraft, possible birds, which then became, by his own hand (and I argued with him violently at times), the probable; he said, well, we have no category "possible" aircraft. It is therefore either unidentified or aircraft. Well, it is more likely aircraft; therefore it is aircraft.... An "unidentified" to Moody was not a challenge for further research. To have it remain unidentified was a blot... and he did everything to remove it. He went back to cases from Captain Gregory's days and way back in Ruppelt's days and redid the files. A lot that were unidentified in those days he "identified" years and years later".
Dr J Allen Hynek, Chairman of the Department of Astronomy at Northwestern University and scientific consultant for Air Force investigations of UFOs from 1948 until 1969 (Projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book.
