Case File · AARO · Cold War Sightings (1953-1969) Declassified May 8, 2026 · PURSUE Release 01

1966 UAP Sighting — AARO Records

UFO Visual Sighting

Hector Quintanilla, Jr. authored "The Investigation of UFOs" in the Fall of 1966, published in Studies in Intelligence. The article details the CIA's involvement in UFO investigations and analysis.

Fall 1966
Unknown location
Source document: PURSUE doc 213
Source document: PURSUE doc 213 · Source: declassified document

Background

A UFO/UAP incident extracted from page 46 of aaro historical record vol1 2024, an All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) document published in 2024-2025. The incident is dated Fall 1966 and located in Unknown location.

What the document records

Hector Quintanilla, Jr. authored “The Investigation of UFOs” in the Fall of 1966, published in Studies in Intelligence. The article details the CIA’s involvement in UFO investigations and analysis.

Witnesses on file: not specified in the released document.

Status of the case

The page-level assessment recorded in the document is: no agency assessment. AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.

Sources