Department of the Air Force Committee to Review Project Bluebook, 1966-1967

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MEMORANDUM FOR RECORD
10 August 1966
SUBJECT:
Visit by Mr. William P. Wietzel, NICAP
1. Today I was visited by Mr. William Wietzel, an investigator for the
National Investigating Cormnittee on Aerial Phenomena.
Mr. Wietzel did
not have an appointment but just dropped in, presuma.bly to discuss the
in April 1966.
report of the SAB Ad Hoc Committee to Review Project "Blue
ok."
This
we did; however, the discussion soon deteriorated to an ind
nt of the
way in which Major Quintella had handled the Ravenna, Ohio,
0 siting
With regard to this particular siting, the main criticism
of Major Q;uintella seems to be that his interviews with the people who
had sited the UFO were restricted to about three mi.nutes each via the
telephone.
However, in all fairness, it should be pointed out that
Major Quintella did visit the scene of the Ravenna siting at a later date.
2.
I neither concurred with Mr. Wietzel's opinion of Major Quintella nor
d.id I defend Major Quintella strongly.
I did point out that, hopefully,
the university teams now being formed will provide scientific information
that can eliminate the type of personality conflict that apparently exists
between NICAP and Major Quintella.
3.
There was some additional discussion of the pertinent information con­
cerning the Ravenna siting of which Mr. Wietzel was a principal NICAP
investigator.
He has completed a lengthy and voluminous report of this
siting that is impressive in size if not in content.
I asked Mr. Wietzel
if NICA.P investigated every UFO siting as thoroughly as they had apparently
investigated this one.
The obvious answer was no because NICAP has
limited resources.
I then pointed out that the Air Force also has limited
resources and cannot spend as much time on each UFO siting as it would like.
We parted amiably at an impasse.
He did not convince me, and I certainly
did not convince him.
HARO
A. STEINER, Lt Colonel, USAF
Assistant Secretary
USAF Scientific Advisory Board
NW 90306"
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