 Hector Quintanilla

Hector Quintanilla, Jr. (May 7, 1923 – May 18, 1998) was a United States Air Force (USAF) Lieutenant Colonel, best known as the last chief officer of Project Blue Book, the USAF's official unidentified flying object investigative arm.Born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico in 1923, Hector Quintanilla, Jr. immigrated to the United States at age six with his parents and three brothers in 1929.