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Eugene Bertrand

1965-09-03Exeter Incident

Exeter, New Hampshire patrolman who returned to the field with Muscarello and saw the object at close range. Four years in the Air Force on refuelling operations, which he cited in writing to Project Blue Book as the reason he could not have mistaken it for a military exercise.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "blue book". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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Unidentified Flying Objects 1966-04-05

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Unidentified Flying Objectsalready cited above

named on a page we have read · p. 6039

…evaluation of this incident, a letter was forwarded to Mr. Eugene Bertrand and Mr. Dave Hunt of the Exeter Police Department requestin…

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responding patrolman who saw the object at close range

Unidentified Flying Objects
printed p. 6016 checked against the page
→ David Hunt

co-signed the December 1965 letter disputing the Air Force explanation

same document as the row above
printed p. 6040 checked against the page
→ Hector Quintanilla Jr.

co-signed the 2 December 1965 letter to him rejecting the Big Blast and weather-inversion explanations

same document as the row above
printed p. 6040 · PDF p. 52 checked against the page

Caveat The word "rejecting" is this project's summary and not the officers' own language. They do not write that they reject the Air Force explanations; they set out why the timing rules Big Blast out, state that the weather was clear, and ask for help against the suggestion that they made the story up or were incompetent observers. Read the folio for their wording.

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Eugene Bertrand → Hector Quintanilla Jr.

wrote to him rejecting the Big Blast and weather-inversion explanations

co-signed the 2 December 1965 letter to him rejecting the Big Blast and weather-inversion explanations

THE LETTER IS SIGNED BY BOTH PATROLMEN and this line said one man wrote it. Folio 6040 ends "EUGENE BERTRAND, Patrolman. DAVID HUNT, Patrolman." Link 1226 already records that Hunt co-signed the same December 1965 letter, so the map carried two descriptions of one document that disagreed about who wrote it. The claim is otherwise unchanged: both the Big Blast and the weather-inversion rejections are on the folio, and the date is now stated because the folio states it.