洲际导弹与核武器基地的不明飞行物证言

Robert L. Hastings 

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尽管绝大多数美国人完全不知道它的存在，但 UFO/Nukes 连接现在已经非常有据可查。通过《信息自由法》解密的空军、联邦调查局和中央情报局文件建立了一个令人信服的、持续的美国核武器地点不明飞行物活动的模式，这种活动可以追溯到 1948 年 12 月。  

30 多年来，我一直在采访前和退休的美国空军人员，了解他们直接或间接参与了与核武器相关的不明飞行物目击事件。这些人——从退役上校到前飞行员——报告了对国家安全具有明显影响的非同寻常的遭遇。事实上，根据他们合乎逻辑的结论，鉴于全面的全球核战争将导致可怕的后果，所报道的事件具有全球影响。  

在他们的经历中，我的前/退休美国空军消息来源担任的职位从核导弹发射和目标官员到导弹维护人员，再到导弹安全警察。所描述的事件发生在 1963 年至 1996 年期间在 Malmstrom、Minot、FE Warren、Ellsworth、Vandenberg 和 Walker 空军基地。其他消息来源驻扎在冷战时期 B-52 核轰炸机所在的沃特史密斯和洛林空军基地。 

迄今为止，我已经采访了 50 多名参与战略空军司令部基地或偏远地点的各种不明飞行物相关事件的人。我在这里选择了其中 20 人的陈述。在我即将出版的《UFO/Nukes Connection 》一书中，将对这些材料进行更深入的讨论。  

下面的证词无疑是轶事证据。然而，它是由受美国政府委托负责大规模杀伤性武器的操作或安全的人提供的——通常是不情愿的。因此，每个来源都经过并通过了严格的背景调查和性格测试，旨在以合理的确定性确定他们的心理稳定性和可靠性。 

目前，冷战时期的国际紧张局势已经消退。因此，美国和俄罗斯目前正在缩减其核武库。尽管如此，大量的核武器仍然存在，并且可能会在片刻的通知中释放出来。因此，这些武器仍然是对人类未来的潜在威胁。 

下面描述的事件毫无疑问地表明，我们的核武器计划是拥有极其先进技术的人的持续兴趣来源。值得注意的是，所报道的不明飞行物活动偶尔会超越单纯的监视，似乎涉及对我们的战略武器系统的直接和明确的干扰。  

考虑到这些和类似的说法——数量太多且令人难以置信——我会认为，正如其他人在我之前所说的那样，自二战结束以来 UFO 现象的高度存在是核时代到来的直接后果。认为这是对我们这个时代广泛的不明飞行物目击事件的唯一解释是冒昧的、简单化的，而且无疑是不准确的。尽管如此，我相信与核武器有关的事件对于理解手头的奥秘来说是不可或缺的。 

任何希望与我联系的人都可以通过hastings444@att.net联系我。

我的来源： 

蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地（1966-67 年）：  

第 1 中尉 Robert C. Jamison —前美国空军民兵洲际弹道导弹目标军官（战斗目标小组指挥官），第 341 导弹维修中队，蒙大拿州马姆斯特罗姆空军基地：  

贾米森说，他协助重新启动了十架民兵洲际弹道导弹的整个“飞行”，这些导弹在空军安全警察在附近发现不明飞行物后立即莫名其妙地同时关闭。贾米森确信事件发生在蒙大拿州刘易斯敦附近的一次导弹飞行中，可能是奥斯卡飞行。根据贾米森对相关事件的描述，该事件可能发生在 1967 年 3 月 24 日/25 日晚上。

贾米森说，虽然他和其他团队正准备对受灾的航班做出反应，但作为预防措施，他们被命令留在马尔姆斯特罗姆，直到来自现场的所有不明飞行物报告都停止。他进一步表示，他的团队在被派出之前收到了一份特别简报，在此期间，他们被指示立即报告在往返导弹场的途中发现的任何不明飞行物。如果在重新启动程序期间其中一个导弹发射井出现不明飞行物，则指示小组进入发射井的人员舱口，并留在地下，直到不明飞行物离开附近。根据贾米森的说法，陪同该小组的空军警卫将留在外面，并将有关不明飞行物的信息传递给基地指挥所。  

贾米森说，当他在导弹维修机库等待被派往外地时，他无意中听到临时指挥所的双向无线电通讯，与另一个不明飞行物有关，在该镇附近的一个峡谷的地面上发现了另一个不明飞行物。腰带。他说他回忆起听说一名高级指挥官——无论是马尔姆斯特罗姆的基地指挥官，还是第 341 战略导弹联队指挥官——与其他人员在现场。基于这些回忆，贾米森似乎在描述 1967 年 3 月 24 日至 25 日在蒙大拿州贝尔特发生的 UFO 目击事件。 

贾米森说，导弹关闭事件发生后，大约两周的时间里，他的团队在被派往现场之前，立即收到了与上述相同的特殊不明飞行物简报。  

贾米森说，在全飞行导弹关闭大约两周后，他的团队对另一次部分关闭做出了回应——涉及四到五枚洲际弹道导弹。在被派遣之前，贾米森的团队收到了一份报告，称导弹故障是在飞行的发射控制设施上空发现不明飞行物后立即发生的。贾米森回忆说，这起事件发生在位于大瀑布城南部或西南部的航班上，可能是印度航班，并且发生在白天。  

贾米森说，他随后与几个人交谈过，主要是导弹保安人员，他们目睹了各种与不明飞行物有关的事件。他报告说，他们的经历“明显动摇”了他们。 

评论：至少有五名其他前或退休的美国空军人员——都是 1967 年驻扎在马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地的民兵导弹发射官——此前曾透露他们对 UFO 参与两起独立的大规模导弹关闭事件的了解。其中一位，前导弹作战机组副指挥官罗伯特·萨拉斯与研究员吉姆·克洛茨一起对这些事件进行了广泛调查。他们对 1967 年 3 月事件的揭示性摘要可在以下网址找到：  

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm   

上面的文章还讨论了空军正式否认 UFO 参与了马姆斯特罗姆空军基地（Echo Flight）的一次官方承认的全飞行导弹关闭事件，尽管导弹发射官员的证词相反。官方否认可以在第 341 战略导弹联队的“单位历史”中找到。  

值得注意的是，单位历史学家大卫甘布尔告诉克洛茨，在为官方历史编制材料时，他了解到有关马尔姆斯特罗姆导弹场内不明飞行物活动的报告。当他进行询问时，Gamble 从知情人士那里得到了“不合作”。他进一步表示，上级已经对“导弹关闭事件的不明飞行物方面”进行了书面修改。单位历史的最终版本指出，“在故障发生期间，Echo Flight 区域周围的不明飞行物 (UFO) 的谣言已被证实。”  

Salas 和 Klotz 写了一本详尽而有说服力的书，《褪色的巨人》，扩展了他们早期的在线报告。 

如果贾米森的回忆是正确的，并且他确实对奥斯卡飞行的大规模导弹关闭做出了回应，这与有据可查的腰带不明飞行物目击事件在同一天，那么萨拉斯和克洛茨为奥斯卡活动提出的日期是 3 月 16 日， 1967 年——似乎是错误的。萨拉斯现在已经承认了这种可能性，但是，克洛茨仍然对替代日期持怀疑态度。  

在我在 NICAP 和 NCP 网站上发布与 Jamison 相关的材料之前，我将其发送给 Klotz 以供他审查。他回答说：“我认为，虽然目击者对​​‘事件’的记忆往往很清楚，但对日期的记忆往往不太准确。我是一个文件驱动的人，我希望看到一些关于多个事件的文件证据。缺乏这一点，我只想保持开放的想法，即记忆可能是在马尔姆斯特罗姆的“单一”与不明飞行物相关的导弹关闭事件。当然，证人证词的迹象表明，很可能已经发生了多个事件。” 

作为记录：我也希望看到与关闭事件有关的未更改文件。在 1980 年代初期，我试图通过《信息自由法》访问特别调查办公室 (OSI) 与马尔姆斯特罗姆洲际弹道导弹站点 UFO 目击事件有关的文件，结果却被告知所有此类文件都已解密。然而，多个来源的证词强烈表明并非如此。我认为 David Gamble 的上述评论很能说明问题。在我看来，可能揭示与导弹关闭有关的真实事实的文件将无限期地隐藏起来，而那些支持官方版本事件的文件，包括单位历史，有时会被解密。 

我还将与 Jamison 相关的材料发送给 Bob Salas。他回答说：“我感兴趣的是贾米森收到的简报，内容是如果他们在现场工作时看到不明飞行物，该如何应对。这将进一步表明，在贾米森之前，[发射设施]有过与不明飞行物有关的经历。去现场。我们也从我们目前正在保护的来源收到了类似的信息。”  

萨拉斯继续说道，“我 [现在] 认为，奥斯卡航班更有可能在回声航班 [关闭] 之后的某个日期坠毁，而且很可能与腰带目击事件发生在同一天。其中一个因素是导致我的“意见”是在发出的[现已解密的]电传和单位历史中缺乏关于两次航班坠毁的评论。如果这两个航班在同一天坠毁，那将是提到。我认为，奥斯卡后来没有被提及的原因是因为那时空军希望对其保密，并通过表明问题日益严重和持续存在来避免泄漏的可能性。媒体上的头条新闻相当多。”  

萨拉斯总结道：“请记住，从我们采访过的维护人员那里听到的所有消息，关于不明飞行物活动的谣言和评论非常猖獗。在奥斯卡关闭后，我个人接到了一名军士的电话，实际上是在求我来谈谈告诉他和其他人关于这件事的事情。相信我，基地到处都是，一些部队被吓坏了。”  

总之，贾米森的声明很重要，因为它们表明，在派遣导弹维修小组重新启动洲际弹道导弹之前，空军完全了解 UFO 参与了至少两次导弹飞行关闭事件。具体来说，根据贾米森的说法，第341导弹维修中队采取了一定的预防措施，并正式实施了各种程序，以保护小队在战场上的安全。在这方面，他的证词是史无前例的。 

参谋军士。Louis D. Kenneweg — 蒙大拿州马姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 341 导弹维修中队前民兵洲际弹道导弹维修员： 

在 1967 年导弹关闭事件发生时，参谋军士。Louis D. Kenneweg 被分配到位于马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地的第 341 导弹维修中队 (MIMS)。他在 MIMS 机库的职责包括向他的中队的其他成员发布技术订单包 (TO)。正如 Kenneweg 解释的那样，“每个维修团队都需要将 TO 带上卡车。该套件包括书籍或手册，其中包含技术人员可以查找而不是依赖记忆的技术信息。还有一个塑料套子的检查表，有点像飞行员的飞行前检查表，他们会在从导弹上卸下弹头之前使用它。当然，发生这种情况时有很多监督。”

虽然日期不确定，但一天晚上，大约晚上 11 点 45 分，Kenneweg 开车去上班时，他注意到天空中有一些不寻常的东西。“当我沿着与航线平行的一条道路行驶时，”他说，“我看到了一些我最初认为是私人飞机的灯在闪烁的东西。当我看着它越来越近时，我意识到它根本不是在眨眼，而是在曲折。先是这里，然后是那里，飞行速度太快，不能坐飞机。然后隐约出现在航线上。我起晚了，我知道我的时间不多了，但我还是停了下来。我打开车门，下车，专注于灯光。我尽可能长时间地观看它，没有上班迟到。我记得我对自己说，这位飞行员会遇到很多麻烦，穿过跑道，或者至少穿过空军基地的财产。我不记得它离我那么近，但我确实记得它消失在 [MIMS] 机库上空的低向南轨迹中的图像。当然，它比看起来要远得多。那时，它不再“闪烁”，而是散发出更多的光芒。在一个多云的夜晚，它看起来像月亮大小的明亮光，虽然我不记得它是多云的。”

到达 MIMS 机库后，Kenneweg 遇到了一片热闹非凡的景象。“当我进入机库时，我注意到有许多卡车正在装载，”他说，“比我在同一时间看到的要多得多。”  

Kenneweg 仍然对奇怪的锯齿形灯光感到困惑，他走向空军警察办公室，在那里，AP 经常被指派陪同维修小组进入导弹场，一旦他们打开大门，就保护他们的卡车和发射井。当他到达时，他注意到那里的活动也异常活跃。Kenneweg 询问值班的空中警察中士，基地是否有直升机。中士回答说，直升飞机没有雷达，不夜间飞行。  

Kenneweg 继续说道，“回到办公室，我几乎把货架上的所有 [TO] 工具包都发了出去。我记得对自己说，“我的工具包快用完了，这是一个忙碌的夜晚。” 现在，我没有查看签出表来查看在我轮班之前已经签出了多少套件，但是当我值班时，我确实记得它们几乎都被签出了。今天我在脑海中数了数，并试着在架子上看到它们，我们有一堵墙，有 3 个架子，可以容纳 25 个左右。”  

很明显，很多导弹要么正在进行例行维护，要么同时出于其他原因退出战略警戒状态。 

当维护团队返回 MIMS 机库时——Kenneweg 最初认为已经过了大约三个小时，但经过思考，现在认为已经超过 24 小时，在他的下一个轮班期间——其中一名技术人员暗示出事了导弹领域发生了平常的事。“其中一个人向我提到，那天晚上发生了一些非常奇怪的事情，”肯纽格说，“需要两个人才能携带 TO 套件，而他身后还有其他人，排队等候办理登机手续，他们都点头表示同意。但这家伙说，他当时不能说。他说他会在军营告诉我这一切。好吧，就像我之前说的，我正忙着在红狮晚餐俱乐部工作 [第二份工作]，并没有 真的没有和那个特定的飞行员进行那种严肃的静坐谈话。但军营里一片喧哗。关于他们如何到达[导弹发射井]并没有发现损坏以及所有电池如何耗尽的故事。我还听说过一个故事，在雷达上看到了 [UFO]，然后它们就消失了。”  

他继续说：“我们的导弹基地都有一个第三电力系统。主要电源由蒙大拿电力公司提供。电线杆、变压器和电线。第二个系统是柴油发电机，第三个是筒仓内的备用电池。许多报告回来说，他们没有发现栅栏、电线、变压器、微波入侵系统、三英尺厚的混凝土防爆门上的锁或电池没有损坏。因此，没有证据表明入侵者或动物、闪电或火灾造成损坏。只有三个电源消失了，电池没电了。”  

Kenneweg 认为该事件并非孤立事件。“我记得，”他说，“在其他一些晚上，这些家伙会在同一时间段内回来，看起来有点动摇。” 

评论：  根据 Kenneweg 对他自己的 UFO 目击事件的描述，在此期间，该物体似乎曾一度接近或飞越 Malmstrom 的飞行路线，我推测 UFO 可能在基地的核武器储存区 (WSA) 附近进行了短暂的机动，该基地的核武器储存区 (WSA)位于主跑道以东。WSA包含民兵导弹核弹头，称为再入飞行器（RV）。对显示 WSA 的 Malmstrom 航拍照片的回顾，再加上对 Kenneweg 在 MIMS 机库附近可能位置的分析，得出了这一猜想。无论如何，几年后在 WSA 发生的另一起不明飞行物目击事件已得到另外两个消息来源的证实。参见蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地 (1975)。 

一级飞行员大卫·休斯——蒙大拿州马姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 341 战斗防御中队前空军警察： 

休斯说：“我从 1966 年 1 月到 1967 年 8 月驻扎在马尔姆斯特罗姆。我是一名空军警察，被分配到第 341 战斗防御中队的‘B’飞行。我在 Foxtrot [飞行发射控制设施] 工作。许多夜晚，我们在蒙大拿州乔托和奥古斯塔之间的天空中观察到了一道光。”  

他继续说：“这盏灯将以令人难以置信的速度移动，进行直角移动，并持续数小时。在向联队司令部寻求更多信息时，我们经常被告知这是一颗 Telstar 卫星而受到侮辱。有一次，在基地 [空中交通管制] 塔台工作的其他朋友告诉我们，飞机起飞是为了寻找出现在他们屏幕和当地机场屏幕上的奇怪雷达回波。第二天，这被否认了，但如果没记错的话，当地报纸第二天就有一篇报道。这一定发生在 1967 年初或 1966 年末的某个时间。”  

休斯总结道：“我所知道的是，在巡逻的许多晚上，一些奇怪的事情吸引了我们的注意力。我们每天晚上从奥古斯塔巡逻到乔托，[经常]看到一些让 UFO 概念可信的东西。对我们来说，“不明飞行物”仅仅意味着它是一个不明飞行物，可能来自我们的军队或来源不明。我们从不相信卫星的故事。然而，当我们得知这些喷气式飞机已经出事并在第二天被拒绝时，我们就知道出了问题。”  

蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地（1975 年）： 

参谋军士。Joseph M. Chassey——蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 341 导弹维修中队前民兵洲际弹道导弹维修技师： 

查西说，在 1975 年秋天的一个晚上，他通过双向无线电传输向空军安全警察发出警报，称有一艘不明飞行器在基地的武器储存区上空盘旋。  

查西说，这一事件第二天在导弹机械车间被广泛讨论。后来他从一位朋友那里听说了更多细节，他是一名直升机加油员。 

显然，两架基地直升机紧急追赶入侵者，入侵者迅速飞向十英里外的蒙大拿州贝尔特。当追击的直升机接近城镇时，这艘身份不明的飞船迅速折回马姆斯特罗姆——将他们远远抛在后面——并再次在 WSA 上空盘旋了一小段时间，最终离开。  

查西表示，该物体被描述为极亮的光，并且由于其卓越的能力而被认为是真正的不明飞行物。他强调说：“它完全超过了直升机。我们听说它很快就拉到了贝尔特，然后又回到了基地。”  

1975 年 10 月下旬从空军离职的查西认为，这起事件发生在他离开马尔姆斯特罗姆前不久。 

评论：美国空军 1975 年 10 月的文件，通过信息自由法解密，证实在密歇根州沃特史密斯空军基地和缅因州洛林空军基地的武器储存区发现了其他不明飞行物。当时，每个基地都有 B-52 核轰炸机中队。在沃特史密斯，最初的目击报告称这艘身份不明的飞行器为“直升机”，然而，附近一架 KC-135 飞机上的雷达操作员后来跟踪到这架飞行器以大约 1000 节的速度飞行，比任何已知的直升机都快得多。在 Loring，一些报道提到 WSA 附近有一架“不明直升机”。然而，一名 B-52 地勤人员的目击者称，这架“直升机”呈亮橙色，呈足球形状，一直在无声地盘旋。（有关这些案例的详细讨论，请参阅 Lawrence Fawcett 和 Barry Greenwood 的权威书籍，明确意图，后来重命名为UFO 掩饰。）  

罗伯特·佩舍中校（美国空军退役）——蒙大拿州马姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 37 空中救援中队直升机分队第 5 支队前指挥官：  

Peisher 已经证实了 Joseph Chassey 关于 1975 年秋天的一个晚上，一艘不知名的飞行器在 Malmstrom 的核武器储存区上空盘旋的事件的描述的准确性。然而，Peisher 说，尽管他的部队的直升机确实参与了拦截事发时，他本人已被调往另一个中队，“很久以后”才听说。  

Peisher 还表示，当地民法执法部门曾向他介绍过 1975 年夏秋两季发生的一系列牛残害事件，其中许多发生在民兵导弹发射场附近。他说，他和喀斯喀特县副警长 Keith 上尉沃尔弗顿确定在马尔姆斯特罗姆的导弹场边界内发生了 80 多次这样的破坏，其中一些非常靠近各种洲际弹道导弹发射设施（发射井）。

Peisher 进一步表示，他曾被非正式地告知在马尔姆斯特罗姆的民兵导弹基地发生的多起不明飞行物事件，其中包括 1975 年秋天的一个晚上，一个“足球场大小”的不明飞行物无声地飞过回声发射控制设施。 . 

评论：以下逐字摘录是 NORAD 1975 年 11 月的日志条目，通过《信息自由法》解密。我自己的评论和澄清遵循一些条目（括号中）： 

第 24 NORAD 地区高级主管日志（马姆斯特罗姆空军基地，蒙大拿州）： 

75 年 11 月 7 日 (1035Z) 接到第 341 战略空军指挥所 (SAC CP) 的电话，称以下导弹位置报告看到一个从红色到橙色到黄色的大型物体：M-1、L-3、LIMA 和 L -6…指挥官和副行动（DO）通知。 

75 年 11 月 7 日 (1203Z) SAC 告知蒙大拿州哈洛顿的 LCF 观察到一个物体发出的光照亮了现场车道。 

75 年 11 月 7 日 (1319Z) SAC 建议 K-1 说，他们东边的非常明亮的物体现在在他们的东南方，他们正在用 10×50 双筒望远镜观察它。物体上似乎有灯（几个），但没有明显的图案。头顶上的橙色/金色物体似乎也有灯光。SAC 还告知女性平民报告，她们在刘易斯敦以西 6 英里的位置以南看到了一个物体。  

（请注意，所有这些报告都提到了对空中“物体”的观察。显然，安全警报小组无法将它们识别为军用或民用飞机。）  

75 年 11 月 7 日 (1327Z) L-1 报告说，其东北方向的物体似乎正在从它发出一个黑色物体，呈管状。在这段时间里，除了已知交通之外，监控无法检测到任何类型的轨道。  

（换句话说，当 SAT 首次报告这些目击事件时，马姆斯特罗姆空军基地和大瀑布国际机场的“监视”——即雷达人员——无法探测到导弹发射场附近的任何未知空中物体。正如我们将看到的，雷达随着目击报告的不断展开，最终与不明飞行物建立了联系。） 

75 年 11 月 7 日 (1355Z) K-1 和 L-1 报告说，随着太阳升起，它们所看到的物体也会升起。 

75 年 11 月 7 日（1429 年）来自 SAC CP：太阳升起时，不明飞行物消失了。指挥官和 DO 通知了。 

75 年 11 月 8 日 (0635Z) K-4 的一个安全营员小组报告了带有白光的不明飞行物，在白光后面 50 码处有一盏红灯。K-1 的人员看到相同的物体。 

75 年 11 月 8 日 (0645Z) 高空人员捡起 10-13,000 英尺高的物体。轨道 J330，EKLB 0649，18 节，9,500 英尺。对象多达七个，少则两个 A/C。  

（测高雷达最终证实了不明飞行物的存在，随着时间的推移，数量在 2 到 7 个之间变化。） 

75 年 11 月 8 日 (0753Z) J330 未知 0753。静止/七节/12,000…两架 F-106…NCOC 通知。  

（雷达证实，一个 12,000 英尺高空的不明飞行物在以 7 节或 9 英里/小时的速度恢复飞行之前，已经盘旋——也就是说，是“静止的”。此后不久，两架 F-106 争先恐后地拦截它.) 

75 年 11 月 8 日 (0905Z) 来自 SAC CP：L 站点有战斗机和物体；战士没有找到目标。  

75 年 11 月 8 日 (0915Z) 来自 SAC CP：来自四个不同的点：观察到的物体和战斗机；当战斗人员到达该地区时，灯光熄灭；当战斗机离开时，灯又亮了；到NCOC。  

（在四个不同地点的 SAT 人员观看时，不明飞行物与 F-106 玩猫捉老鼠，当喷气式飞机接近它们的位置时熄灭它们的照明，并在战斗机返回基地后重新照亮自己。北美防空司令部作战行动中心——NCOC——在科罗拉多斯普林斯，立即被告知了这一事件。） 

75 年 11 月 8 日 (1105Z) 来自 SAC CP：L-5 报告物体速度增加——高速，高度升高，现在无法分辨物体与恒星。到NCOC。  

75 年 11 月 9 日 (0305Z) SAC CP 致电并建议在站点 L-1、L-6 和 M-1 观察 UFO 的 SAC 工作人员。在哈洛顿以北 20 英里处，2 到 4,000 英尺处，物体呈淡黄色明亮的圆形光。 

75 年 11 月 9 日 (0320Z) SAC CP 报告刘易斯敦东南部的不明飞行物，橙色白色圆盘物体。NORAD 地区第 24 监视检查区。监控无法进行高度检查。  

（请注意 UFO 具有“圆盘”或碟形形状。11 月 9 日和 10 日的更多日志条目证实，位于各种导弹发射井附近的 SAT 团队继续报告 UFO。） 

日志条目结束 

蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地（1992 年）： 

参谋军士。Joseph M. Brown——蒙大拿州马姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 343 导弹安全中队前安全警察： 

评论: 我第一次知道乔布朗的经历是在他在研究员罗恩赖特的三合会研究网站上发布了一个简短的总结之后。在赖特的帮助下，我找到了布朗并采访了他。 

布朗说，1992 年春天的一个晚上，他和他的安全团队伙伴被派往 Alpha Flight 导弹发射井 A-3。由于现场的警报系统故障，两人小组被监视在发射设施附近的安全露营车中，一名男子值班，另一名男子睡觉。“我相信那是 3 月或 4 月，”布朗告诉我，“站点顶部安全性已关闭——IMPSS（改进的民兵物理安全系统）——如果我没记错的话，顶部没有电源。”  

大约凌晨 4 点 30 分，布朗注意到一道明亮的白光在天空中不规则地移动。布朗在他的在线帖子中写道：“这盏灯在天空中做了一些疯狂的事情，突然改变方向，移动得非常快，然后停下来，然后朝另一个方向射去。我看了大约 15 到 20 分钟。”  

然后灯光似乎向筒仓靠拢了。“我开始被吓到了，”布朗写道，“所以我伸出卡车的窗户，开始敲打露营车的外壳以唤醒 [我的搭档]。他终于走到前面，问我怎么了。我指着灯告诉他我已经看了大约 20 分钟，但我不知道那是什么。他上了卡车的乘客侧，我们一直看着这东西在做杂技。” 

布朗决定向 10 英里外阿尔法飞行发射井 A-10 的另一个安全小组发送无线电。“他们犹豫地回应说他们正在注视着这盏灯，”他写道。阿尔法飞行发射控制设施的飞行安全控制员（FSC）显然无意中听到了这番交流，因为他突然插嘴询问两个安全小组之间焦急的无线电聊天。每个人都确认他们正在观察天空中疯狂运行的奇怪光芒。 

布朗写道，团队一直在观察不明飞行物，直到早上 6:30 到 7:00 左右，它突然似乎直线上升并悬停。“我们仍然可以看到光线，但现在天已经亮了。随着它变得更亮，我们可以在光线所在的地方辨认出一个黑色的形状。我们有双筒望远镜，但即使有它们，你也只能看到一个模糊的三角形轮廓。我无法估计物体的高度。” 

返回马尔姆斯特罗姆后，布朗和他的搭档私下与安放在阿尔法飞行筒仓 A-10 的安全小组进行了商谈。四名警卫同意他们不会提及目击事件，并且都表示担心他们向飞行安全管制员报告可能产生的影响。 

当保安人员将武器归还给军械库时，他们突然被命令向分配给他们中队的一名上尉报告。布朗记不起这名军官的名字，但记得他对这一意想不到的事态发展非常担心。船长让这些人描述他们所看到的。他仔细听着，然后尖锐地建议他们不要讨论目击事件。布朗告诉我，“在这一点上，船长说，好吧，我认为你什么都没看到，我不会到处谈论它。你们在 PRP 下，记住这一点！”  

评论：这里有一个明显的例子，仅提及 PRP（人员可靠性计划）就有效地恐吓军事 UFO 目击者保持沉默。国防部的这项指令适用于那些使用或围绕核武器工作的人，并规定了他们在工作内外的行为。如果一个人的指挥官判断他或她的行为不可靠，并且对武器的安全构成潜在威胁，通常会下令对该人进行心理检查。根据其结果，接受审查的个人可能会被解除职务。 

布朗说，在阿尔法飞行经历几天后，他听说当晚在马尔姆斯特罗姆发生了一些不寻常的活动。谈到这些传闻中的事态发展，他告诉我，“[我的一个朋友] 是 [导弹] 维修中队的一名技术中士，他真的去野外有点不寻常。他通常会在基地制造麻烦。他和我从来没有真正讨论过发生了什么……[但]他确实告诉我，那天晚上派出了很多维修人员。老实说，我们很多人都害怕公开谈论这件事，尤其是在被队长告知我们不应该谈论任何事情之后。”  

蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地（1995 年）：

据Tech报道，一名要求匿名的民兵导弹维修技术人员目击不明飞行物。中士 杰夫·古德里奇（美国空军退役） ——蒙大拿州马姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 341 维修中队^导弹处理前组长： 

1995 年 1 月 20 日凌晨，由两名安全警察组成的警报响应小组正开车前往印度飞行发射控制设施，这时他们注意到南部天空中有一道奇怪的光。当他们经过民兵 I-4 发射井时，其中一名男子用无线电通知了在那里工作的导弹维修小组，并询问其负责人是否也能看到光。回应是肯定的。 

后来向古德里奇报告了这一发现的导弹维修技术员说，这盏灯“很大”，并在其表面显示出许多较小的灯——红色、橙色、黄色、绿色和蓝色。不明飞行物一直在低空缓慢地穿过导弹场。技术人员坚持认为该物体不是飞机或直升机。因为他是导弹维修小组的成员，而不是安全警察，所以他不知道警报响应小组随后是否向印度飞行发射控制设施的飞行安全管制员报告了不明飞行物。 

评论：这个不明飞行物并不是 1995 年 1 月在蒙大拿州报告的第一个。国家不明飞行物报告中心 (NUFORC) 发布的目击数据库中的简短条目表明，1 月 5 日晚上，马姆斯特罗姆空军基地的一名未透露姓名的空军军官曾打电话给 NUFORC 转达一份他刚刚从谢尔比镇的某个人那里收到的目击报告。大约晚上 9 点，身份不明的人观察到两个物体在天空中无声移动了大约两分钟。虽然无法确定它们的形状，但没有任何声音显然让目击者觉得很不寻常，因此给马姆斯特罗姆打了电话。谢尔比几乎正好位于魁北克飞行民兵导弹场的北部边界——Q-18 发射井位于城镇以东不到两英里的地方，就在 2 号公路以北。 

NUFORC 数据库中的另一个条目显示，两天后，也就是 1 月 7 日下午 3 点左右，一名身份不明的妇女致电 Malmstrom AFB，称其目击了不明飞行物。不幸的是，条目中没有指定目击的位置。 

第三次打给 NUFORC 的电话发生在 1 月 18 日——就在向 Tech 报告的印度航班事件发生前两天。中士 杰夫·古德里奇。报告中心的日志指出，“一位匿名来电者报告了在蒙大拿州费尔菲尔德和鹿屋之间报告的多起不明飞行物目击事件。通话期间的背景噪音听起来像是来自某种运营中心的通信噪音。”  

来电者告诉 NUFORC，他在一个小时内收到了来自 Fairfield 和 Deer Lodge 之间的人的多份 UFO 目击报告。或许值得注意的是，费尔菲尔德位于酒店飞行民兵导弹场的地理中心附近，发射井 H-9 位于城镇的西部边缘，就在 408 号公路以北。此外，如果一个人离开费尔菲尔德并沿直线向西南行驶朝着 Deer Lodge — 最终离开酒店场地并直接穿过 Golf Flight 导弹场地。 

简而言之，Fairfield 和 Deer Lodge 之间近一半的乡村位于 Malmstrom 的民兵导弹发射场的边界内。尽管还没有证据表明报告的不明飞行物靠近酒店或高尔夫航班内的特定筒仓，但来自 Deer Lodge 的来电者仍在转发来自“火箭牧场”国家中心的人们所做的目击报告。NUFORC 发布的三份目击报告可在 http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlMT.html找到。 

蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地（1996 年）： 

技术。中士 杰夫·古德里奇（美国空军退役） ——蒙大拿州马尔姆斯特罗姆空军基地第 341 维修中队导弹处理前组长： 

古德里奇说，1996 年 2 月 2 日，他和一名军官（我不会在此提及）观察到五个三角形物体的松散结构在位于马姆斯特罗姆以西的蒙大拿州大瀑布城上空飞行。在目击事件发生时，两人都在距离主基地几英里的偏远地点导弹卷筒转移大楼工作。  

第一次看到时，这些物体大约在地平线以上 75 度。他们没有发出两个人能辨别的声音，也没有留下任何轨迹。由于距离和眩光，在任何飞船上都看不到任何表面细节。古德里奇指出，这些物体齐齐飞行，从北向南缓慢移动。有两次，所有五个人都出现了 10-15 秒一动不动。第二次悬停后，物体突然加速，向西南划出一道弧线，很快就消失在地平线上。 

古德里奇估计这些物体的高度为 15-20,000 英尺。这一猜测部分基于在马尔姆斯特罗姆空中交通管制塔台工作的人员对他的陈述。在与他们联系后，他被告知在目击时雷达上没有发现任何异常——但也被告知塔没有跟踪 10,000 英尺以上的飞机。在与基地的空中交通管制塔台取得联系后，古德里奇立即致电大瀑布国际机场。那里的管制员也否认在他目击时追踪了未知的飞机。 

鉴于古德里奇报告不明飞行物的形状是三角形的，一些怀疑论者可能会说他和这名军官只是观察到了 F-117A“隐形”战斗轰炸机的飞行。由于其独特的设计，机载 F-117A 从某些角度看起来几乎是三角形的。此外，飞机的隐身能力可以解释为什么飞行没有被雷达跟踪。  

然而，由于古德里奇确信他和警官曾两次观察到所有五个物体都短暂盘旋，因此这个平淡无奇的提议似乎不太可能解决。F-117A 是一架了不起的飞机，但它不能在空中一动不动。此外，古德里奇将不明飞行物描述为亮白色，并且由于它们的位置相对于太阳的变化，偶尔会出现眩光。F-117A 被漆成黑色，在所有照明和大气条件下，在天空中显得很暗。 

杰夫在他的目​​击报告中包括了两张手绘的物体图。第一个描绘了它们在天空中相对于彼此的位置。第二个说明了每个物体的形状——一个等腰三角形——两条边的长度相等。第三个较短的边位于每个物体飞行时的后缘。  

我问古德里奇，他能否确定不明飞行物是否在目击期间的任何时候飞过或盘旋在洲际弹道导弹设施上空。他回答说，当这些物体转向西南并离开市区后，它们会短暂地飞越印度飞行导弹场。然而，他说，他们似乎并没有在附近逗留。相反，他们继续稳步远离，最终从视野中消失。（还应该注意的是，当这些物体接近大瀑布时，它们必须飞越位于城市北部的其他导弹场，但是，我不知道目前在公共领域有任何信息可以表明距离很近在任何洲际弹道导弹 LCF 或 LF 上发生的与目击有关的事件。）  

FE 沃伦空军基地，怀俄明州（1965 年）： 

评论：从 1965 年 8 月 1 日凌晨 1 点 30 分开始，怀俄明州 FE 沃伦空军基地的各种人员——包括基地指挥官——给 Wright-Patterson 空军基地的空军 UFO 计划蓝皮书打电话，报告了在沃伦空军基地的几起不明飞行物目击事件。民兵导弹基地。 

那天晚上派出并记录了蓝皮书电话的军官是安斯波中尉。1972 年，该项目的文职科学顾问 J. Allen Hynek 博士在他的《UFO 体验：科学探究》一书中发表了一份总结这些电话的备忘录。 

下面插入的是 Lt. Anspaugh 备忘录中的逐字记录： 

凌晨 1 点 30 分 – 怀俄明州夏延附近的美国空军指挥所的斯内林上尉打来电话说，当地广播电台接到了 15 到 20 个电话，说有一个巨大的圆形物体发出几种颜色但没有声音，被看见了在城市上空。基地的两名军官和一名飞行员管制员报告说，在直接在基地作业上空看到后，该物体已开始迅速向东北移动。

凌晨 2 点 20 分 – 怀俄明州夏延附近弗朗西斯·E·沃伦空军基地的基地指挥官约翰逊上校打电话给代顿，说苏军基地的指挥官在凌晨 1 点 45 分看到了五个物体，并报告了所谓的配置之前通过 E 站点报告的两个 UFO。据报道，在凌晨 1 点 49 分，E 航班的成员看到了与 G 航班在凌晨 1 点 48 分报告的似乎相同的[编队]。E航班派出两个安全小组进行调查。

凌晨 2 点 50 分 – 又发现九个不明飞行物，凌晨 3 点 35 分，位于内布拉斯加州悉尼的苏军基地指挥官威廉姆斯上校报告说有五个不明飞行物向东移动。

凌晨 4 点 05 分——约翰逊上校又给代顿打了一个电话，说早上 4 点 00 分，Q 航班报告说看到了九个不明飞行物；四个在西北，三个在东北，两个在夏延上空。

凌晨 4 点 40 分 – 空军指挥所的豪威尔上尉致电代顿和国防情报局报告说，凌晨 3 点 00 分，H-2 站点的战略空军指挥小组报告说有一个白色椭圆形不明飞行物直接在头顶上方。后来战略空军司令部通过了以下信息：弗朗西斯·E·沃伦空军基地报告（B-4 站点凌晨 3:17）——一个飞碟，位于夏延以东 90 英里处，高速下降，呈椭圆形和白色，带有白线在它的两侧，它的中心有一道闪烁的红灯向东移动；据报道，他们降落在该地点以东 10 英里处。

3:20 AM – 在站点以东报告了七起不明飞行物。

凌晨 3 点 25 分 – E Site 报告了六个垂直堆叠的不明飞行物。

凌晨 3 点 27 分 – G-1 报告有一个上升，同时，E-2 报告有两个额外的不明飞行物加入了七个，总共九个。

3:28 AM – G-1 报告有不明飞行物进一步下降，向东移动。

3:32 AM – 同一地点有不明飞行物攀爬和平整。

凌晨 3:40 – G 站点报告在 70′ 方位角有一个 UFO，在 120′ 有一个 UFO。现在三个从东边来，垂直堆叠，穿过另外两个，五个都向西。 

总结结束 

二等飞行员罗伯特·汤普森（Robert R. Thompson）——前空军警察，第 809 战斗防御中队，在怀俄明州沃伦空军基地： 

汤普森说，1965 年的一个晚上，他在魁北克飞行发射控制设施值班，当时他接到了来自地下发射舱的电话。导弹作战机组指挥官让汤普森和他的搭档走到外面，直视上方。两个空警以为这是什么玩笑，还是照办了。直接在头顶，汤普森看到八个固定的灯，比星星更亮更大，分成四对组合在一起。由于它们的高度和亮度，无法确定物体的形状或其他细节。 

汤普森说，一盏灯最终离开了它的位置，开始在其他灯之间漫游，慢慢地从一对到另一对移动。他和他的伙伴观察了这个神秘的空中编队大约 10 分钟，然后向导弹指挥官报告了这一发现。作为回应，汤普森获悉，位于科罗拉多州夏延山的 NORAD 早些时候已通知 FE Warren，其雷达正在追踪在魁北克发射控制点附近盘旋的 8 个未知物体。显然，沃伦的指挥中心已经打电话给 LCF 并要求导弹指挥官核实他们的存在。 

汤普森说，“直到我向发射指挥官报告后，我才确定我们看到了什么。当他告诉我关于夏延山不明飞行物的报告时，我听他的声音就知道他不是在开玩笑。” 汤普森说，他和他的搭档从未被听取过汇报，也没有被警告对这件事保持沉默，但他再也没有向导弹指挥官提起过这件事。 

也许重要的是，上面插入的蓝皮书备忘录可能会证明汤普森的报告。具体来说，这个条目： 

凌晨 4 点 05 分——约翰逊上校又给代顿打了一个电话，说早上 4 点 00 分，Q 航班报告说看到了九个不明飞行物；四个在西北，三个在东北，两个在夏延上空。 

然而，由于汤普森不记得他自己在“Q”或魁北克航班上看到的日期，这可能是也可能不是上面提到的同一事件。 

无论如何，汤普森的目击事件并不是在此期间魁北克航班上报告的最后一起不明飞行物事件。不到一周后，他所在单位的另一个人找到了他，并告诉了他一个更加戏剧性的事件。 

“我们工作了三天，休息了三天，”汤普森说，“一个工作人员会接替另一个工作人员。目击事件发生后不久，当我的工作人员返回 LCF 时，一位熟人走过来告诉我，当我们下班时，他在 Q-Flight 的一个发射设施中参与了另一次 UFO 目击事件。”  

据此人称，他和他的搭档有一个晚上一直在执行监视任务，当时他们正坐在一辆停在导弹发射井旁边的安全警报小组 (SAT) 露营车里。毫无预兆，车辆开始剧烈摇晃。他连忙把头探出窗外，只见一盏非常明亮的大灯无声无息地盘旋在露营车的正上方。几秒后，震动停止，光芒迅速消失。 

SAT 警卫继续告诉汤普森，他和他的搭档后来接受了 OSI 特工的汇报，并被命令不要谈论这件事。然而，尽管有这个警告，他还是觉得有必要与汤普森比较笔记，汤普森自己的不明飞行物经历发生在不到一周前，并且是魁北克飞行导弹警卫的常识。 

在听到这个奇怪的故事后，汤普森找到了露营车事件当晚在魁北克值班的士官（NCOIC），并要求他进行核实。令他惊讶的是，NCOIC 这样做了。此外，他告诉汤普森，他亲眼目睹了 UFO 盘旋在 LF 上空。  

“有问题的发射设施是最靠近 LCF 的，”汤普森说，“尽管它在五英里甚至六英里之外，但 NCOIC 告诉我，在事件发生当晚，他看到了一个非常明亮的光在它的位置上空盘旋。” 

汤普森说，他后来听说各种导弹飞行中的不明飞行物活动已经持续了大约一个月。 

评论：虽然涉及露营者的奇怪报告与史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格 1977 年的电影《第三类亲密接触》中的场景惊人地相似，但不明飞行物研究人员吉姆·克洛茨和汤姆·图利恩从一名前美国空军导弹警卫那里听到了几乎相同的说法。 1968 年驻扎在北达科他州的迈诺特空军基地。 

第 2 级飞行员 Terry Stuck — 前空军警察，第 809 战斗防御中队，FE Warren AFB，怀俄明州： 

斯塔克说，1965 年夏天的一个早晨，他在奥斯卡飞行 LCF 报到时，被告知离开的夜班警卫发现了不明飞行物。“夜间小组观察到快速移动的灯光或物体，”Stuck 说，“车辆以令人难以置信的速度移动。” 

显然，在换班期间，即将离任的安全小组负责人还向抵达的导弹指挥官通报了不明飞行物。卡住无意中听到了交流。“OIC（负责官员）是一名机长——我不记得他的名字了，”Stuck 说，“我记得他说过他曾在韩国当过飞行员，观察过不明飞行物并报告了这一事件。他说他们已经把他送到了基础精神科医生那里，基本上阻止了他的职业发展。” 

这个故事的寓意对 Stuck 和即将离任的安全团队负责人来说很清楚：小心你报告的内容，因为可能会产生影响。Stuck 不知道团队负责人是否曾就该事件提交过正式报告。无论如何，在上面插入的蓝皮书计划备忘录中都没有提到奥斯卡飞行不明飞行物目击事件。也许它发生在那个时期的另一个日期，或者它确实发生在 8 月 1 日，但没有报告。 

在这些事件发生几天后，Stuck 再次在奥斯卡飞行 LCF 上发现了自己的不明飞行物。“这些观察，”他回忆道，“实际上是在发射控制安全设施前进行的，该设施位于地面，面向主要发射控制设施的出入口。我永远无法确定[不明飞行物]的大小或形状。当我看到他们时，他们在极远的地方，并且以令人难以置信的速度进行直角转弯。我从来没有听到任何声音。” 

FE 沃伦空军基地，怀俄明州 (1973-74)： 

第 1 中尉 Walter F. Billings —前民兵洲际弹道导弹发射官（导弹作战机组副指挥官），第 90 战略导弹联队，FE 沃伦空军基地，怀俄明州： 

我在下面插入了比林斯给我的第一封信的摘录，其中有一些澄清（在括号中）和与语法和标点符号有关的小修改：  

亲爱的黑斯廷斯先生， 

…我于 1972 年 1 月下旬从范登堡空军基地（我在那里）接受了民兵 I 的训练，抵达怀俄明州夏安的 FE Warren 空军基地。副导弹指挥官，并被分配到一个中队，担任第二中尉的典型职责。后来，我在 Minuteman I 中被训练为 [导弹] 联队的训练官，其中包括协助新来的人训练和运行模拟器，以及其他职责。[这些是] 1973 年春天之前的标准职责。  

作为一名中尉，和许多其他人一样，[我] 回到 FE Warren 的学校学习将于 1973 年安装的新民兵 III 系统。经过培训和评估，警戒职责被分配到对那些已经完成培训的人来说是新系统。随着新导弹系统的安装，我们将继续保持警惕。在那些日子里，FE Warren 有 200 枚导弹处于警戒状态，而且非常活跃。 

恐怕我将提供的日期有些模糊。早在 1993 年 9 月，我就为这个领域的出版物写了我的经历，即便如此，日期也不准确。此外，某些导弹术语可能并不准确。我忘记了一些条款。很抱歉，我没有保留这些事件发生时的私人日志。 

第一次活动发生在 1973 年秋季。此时，超过一半的 LCC（发射控制中心）已转换为 Minuteman III，我在 Golf LCC 保持警惕。已经是深夜了。连接所有 20 个 LCC 的 UHF 无线电开启了来自印度 LCC 的紧急谈话。在那些日子里，UHF 无线电一直打开，如果一个 LCC 与他们的 SAT（安全警报团队）或其他 LCC 通话，所有 20 个 LCC 都听到了谈话。在印度机组人员在他们的一枚导弹上收到外部安全区 [警报]，并派他们的 SAT 机组人员进行标准调查旅行后，我们开始通过无线电听到所发生的事件。  

从 SAT 和印度 LCC 机组人员之间的 UHF 无线电通信中，我们听到，当卡车驶向导弹发射井时，发射井的内部安全区 [警报] 已被触发。到达目标筒仓附近后，SAT 团队观察到一个明亮的不明飞行物在筒仓上方盘旋。LCC 机组人员建议 SAT 团队不要继续前进，仅观察。大约一分钟后，不明飞行物缓慢移动了数千英尺，然后以很高的速度飞驰而去。当晚还有 19 名其他值班的 LCC 机组人员听到了印度 LCC 机组人员和 SAT 团队之间的对话。 

在下一批机组人员解救并返回 FE 沃伦空军基地后，当晚所有值班的机组人员都被告知，他们不会向平民或新闻媒体透露他们在 UHF 无线电中听到的内容。对那些不听这一警告的人提出了严厉的处罚。 

我们，整个 LCC 机组人员，开始从其他运营和维护人员那里听到谣言和故事，即奥夫特空军基地的 SAC 总部已派 OSI（美国空军特别调查办公室）乘坐直升机调查这一事件。那天晚上的印度船员根本不会谈论这件事。导弹维修中有报道称，该导弹已经过仔细检查，他们发现三个弹头上的目标磁带（将氢弹弹头引导至目标）据说在那天晚上被不明飞行物擦除了。不用说，我只是听说这些事情发生了。在接下来的一周里，这些故事是在导弹专家之间讲述的，但他们是可靠的人，没有就这个话题与平民或媒体交谈。然而，中队指挥官再次警告我们， 

第二起事件涉及整个导弹维修人员，我相信有六名士兵和一名军官。这也发生在 1973 年末。在一个深秋的夜晚，一枚民兵 III 导弹正在研究解决一些常规问题。整个维修人员都观察到了不明飞行物。不明飞行物似乎正在观察这项工作，并在接近导弹发射井附近机动时被看到了整整五分钟。事故发生大约三天后，一名导弹维修中尉告诉我这件事。  

第三起事件发生在 1974 年初春。当我早上和我的船长一起到达查理 LCC 开始警戒值班时，当晚值班的上士和两名安全警察告诉我们，发生了一件奇怪的事。他们告诉我们，一个不明飞行物实际上降落在 LCC 附近，并被三人观察到，并且每分钟都向楼下的操作人员报告。当我们问到这个问题时，因为我们正在为 LCC 船员解救我们的职责，他们不会和我们谈论这件事。几天后，我听说参谋中士在向我们讲述他所看到的事情时遇到了一些麻烦，并且 OSI 再次参与其中。 

当我在 SAC 时，我个人在执勤时并没有直接参与 UFO 事件。然而，在 1974 年 6 月期间，在怀俄明州杜布瓦与其他三名中尉一起露营时，我们观察到 UFO 飞得相对较低。在上述三起事件中，这与向我们描述的情况相似。由于我们四个人都是空军中尉，我们知道这个低空飞行的物体不是飞机。从那时起，我对这个主题产生了兴趣，并且也阅读了一些关于这个主题的文章。 

我可以告诉你，这三起发生在 FE Warren AFB 的事件确实发生了。那是很久以前的事了，我相信从那以后发生了许多其他事情。从那以后，我再也没有找到任何关于这三起事件的书面陈述。这可能是因为当时的情况很好地掩盖了，或者他们被认为不够重要而无法理会。不过，我怀疑后者是否属实。 

我一直想知道，不明飞行物在其上方盘旋的导弹到底发生了什么，以及弹头目标磁带是否真的被擦除了。 

我祝你在这个主题上所做的任何研究都好运。我怀疑你会从那些可能知道真相的人那里得到任何帮助。我确信我多年前观察到的掩盖仍然有效。 

感谢您的关注。 

真挚地， 

沃尔特·F·比林斯

2002 年 10 月 18 日

评论：为了获得对比林斯声明的知情观点，我将他的信转发给退役的美国空军中校菲利普摩尔，他曾在 1978-79 年担任 FE 沃伦空军基地第 321 战略导弹中队的指挥官。摩尔认为这封信完全可信。在 2005 年 6 月 12 日给我的电子邮件中，他写道：“比林斯的声明完全可信，尽管他的日期和术语有警告，但他的支持事实是正确的。”

然而，我也将这封信寄给了另一位前民兵导弹发射官，他在描述民兵 III 的制导系统时对比林斯使用“目标磁带”一词持怀疑态度。（虽然民兵一号导弹使用了这种磁带，民兵三号没有。）

当我请摩尔就这一特殊差异发表评论时，他回答说：“[关于] 比林斯使用‘磁带’来指代 [指导] 系统的维护部分，旧的磁带系统已被插件系统取代. 我想我记得当 MMI 被停用时，比林斯在 FE Warren，MMIII 取代了它，在 MMI 服役并在 MMIII 接受了再培训。旧术语慢慢消亡，新系统通常被称为“磁带”在 MMIII 到位后的一段时间内，直到老前辈们习惯了新的术语。”

本文的沃克空军基地部分讨论了摩尔中校自己与洲际弹道导弹相关的不明飞行物经历。

FE 沃伦空军基地，怀俄明州（1980-81 年）： 

一等飞行员 Jay DeSisto —前空军警察（执法），第 90 安全警察中队，FE 沃伦空军基地，怀俄明州： 

评论：Jay DeSisto 的“UFO”经历与我的其他前/退休美国空军消息来源所报道的有些不同。出于这个原因，我选择将他对我的陈述全部包含在内。 

DeSisto 说：“我是 1980-81 年驻扎在 FE Warren 的头等舱飞行员。我曾在第 90 安全警察大队担任 LE（执法）。尽管我只是一名飞行员，但我被分配到基地巡逻队，很快就被提升为上士。回想起来，我能回忆起很多次当我担任服务台警长时，武器储存区的安保人员会联系我并报告头顶上的“灯光”。我通常会派一名基地巡逻员到该地区确认目击事件，但我不记得有任何具体结果。我相信我会在办公桌上报告这些事件。” 

“虽然我驻扎在那里时从未经历或听说过任何‘不明飞行物’，但有几次我们在休息日被叫去巡逻基地周边，因为据称有卫星在头顶拍照。我一直想知道那些回忆是关于什么的。这很奇怪。同样，从来没有人提到过不明飞行物，它总是“卫星”。这些回忆都没有发生在我担任服务台警长期间。”  

“在我在沃伦任职期间，‘卫星’事件是聚集的，而不是分散的。我似乎记得他们会连续两三个晚上发生。我记得有 3 次我的航班不得不报到额外值班。有一次我们在基地外的一家酒吧里，当我们回到基地时，守卫告诉我们立即到军械库去获取武器。尽管我们一直在喝酒，但他们还是给我们发了武器，我们被贴在基地核武器储存区的外围。使用执法人员来执行这项职责是不寻常的，因为这通常是安全警察人员的职能。” 

“在另外两次我们在军营被联系并被告知向军械库报告并获取武器。其中一次，我被派往武器储存区，另一次我被派驻在战斗指挥中心门口。每次我被召回执勤时，我们的飞行队长，一个名叫罗伯特·摩尔的技术中士，都会解释有关卫星的情况。在这些情况下，我们的集团总部非常活跃。我们的中队指挥官伯纳尔·F·科尔森少校经常在场。” 

“对我们来说，因为卫星头顶而被召来执勤真的没有意义。让我们穿上战斗装备和武器似乎很奇怪。我们刚刚接受了“卫星”的解释，但由于我们被唤醒的方式和目前的指挥活动，我们知道这些事件与我们参与的任何类型的准备反应演习都非常不同，这些演习频繁且例行公事. 在国防部检查或全球护盾演习期间，我们经常被要求执行额外任务，但在卫星事件期间，情况再次发生了变化，指挥级工作人员的匆忙和紧张的举止也完全不同。” 

评论：我的其他消息来源之一表明，FE Warren 上方报告的神秘卫星可能实际上是参与验证 1979 年美苏 SALT II 协议的苏联卫星，该协议限制了每个国家战略导弹发射器的数量。然而，鉴于 DeSisto 声明的细节，这个理论似乎不太可能。无论如何，苏联卫星情景无法解释据报道在基地核武器储存区上方低空盘旋的不明灯光。  

DeSisto 表示，空军安全警察在 1980 年和/或 1981 年期间“多次”发生了这些目击事件。值得注意的是，空军特别调查办公室 (OSI) 的解密文件证实了类似的 UFO 报告， 1980 年 8 月，新墨西哥州柯特兰空军基地外的曼萨诺武器储存区附近。 

此外，在 1980 年 12 月，在萨福克郡英美基地发生的一系列著名的目击事件中，当它引导类似激光的光束进入或靠近本特沃特斯空军基地武器储存区时，又观察到了另一个不明飞行物，英国。 

沃克空军基地，新墨西哥州 1963-65：  

评论：今日佛罗里达 报纸专栏作家比利考克斯对杰里尼尔森和吉恩兰姆进行了初步采访。他的文章《不明飞行物困扰导弹机组》于 2001 年 6 月发表。 

第 1 中尉 Jerry C. Nelson — 新墨西哥州沃克空军基地第 579 战略导弹中队前阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹发射官（导弹作战副指挥官）： 

纳尔逊说，有几次，在阿特拉斯站点 9 的地下发射舱处于戒备状态时，地面的导弹警卫疯狂地报告说有一个无声的、非常明亮的不明飞行物在该站点上空盘旋。正如他告诉《今日佛罗里达》专栏作家比利考克斯的那样，“警卫很害怕。这些物体会在筒仓上空盘旋，并在不发出任何声音的情况下将灯光照射在它们身上。” 尼尔森告诉我，在一个月左右的时间里，他亲自参与了“可能超过 3 次但不到 10 次”这样的事件。他还记得目击事件发生在“至少六个月，也许更像是一次在 1962 年 10 月古巴导弹危机之后，该中队处于高度戒备状态。 

奇怪的是，当纳尔逊将这些事件通知导弹中队的指挥所时，他的报告遭到了明显的冷漠。直到很久以后，他才得知特别调查办公室的特工就他对类似事件的了解采访了另一个人。 

第一中尉菲利普·摩尔——前阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹发射官（导弹作战副指挥官），第 579 战略导弹中队，沃克空军基地，新墨西哥州： 

以中校身份退休的摩尔说，1964 年秋天的一个晚上，他的导弹指挥官丹吉尔伯特少校在阿特拉斯 7 号站点的发射舱内处于戒备状态，接到了来自他们“姐妹站点”之一的非凡电话”，Site 6 或 Site 8。另一个站点的指挥官报告说，一束极强的光反复直接在站点上空盘旋，飞驰而去，返回，然后再次盘旋。显然，现场的一名士兵，也许是保安人员，观察到了这一活动并将其报告给导弹指挥官。 

Moore 表示，Site 7 自己的一些入伍人员，包括 Tech. 中士 杰克·内文斯（Jack Nevins）被命令戴上“筒仓帽”以监视情况。Moore 说：“他们报告说，UFO 从 Site 6 的方向缩放到 Site 8 的方向，并在运动结束时盘旋了一段时间……他们都将其描述为一种移动极快的无声光——即走即停，没有加快速度或放慢速度。我记得的普遍评论是，每个人都认为它是一个不明飞行物，并且它直接盘旋在站点 6 和 8 上，没有其他地方。因此，它对这些网站特别感兴趣。” 

Moore 表示，Site 7 的工作人员从未接受过汇报，也从未警告过不要讨论该事件。“换句话说，”他说，“没有正式讨论或承认。” 摩尔总结道：“我个人认为 UFO/ICBM 之间的联系是有原因的。我知道空军在感觉到官方需要时会掩盖事实。洲际弹道导弹站点上的不明飞行物可能是这些官方需求之一。” 

一等飞行员托马斯·卡明斯基——前阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹发射设施专家，第 579 战略导弹中队，沃克空军基地，新墨西哥州： 

卡明斯基说，1964 年的一个晚上，可能是 1965 年的一个晚上，他曾在沃克空军基地东北部的阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹发射场之一，当时导弹指挥官 D—— 上尉指示他在上面观察不明原因的灯光，这些灯光一直在向网站报告。卡明斯基说，他在很远的地方观察到两个类似恒星的物体，它们一致移动。  

当他向导弹指挥官报告他的观察结果时，卡明斯基被告知该基地正在用雷达跟踪这些物体，并已派出两架喷气式战斗机进行拦截。此后不久，他观察到喷气式飞机试图接近身份不明的灯光，然后突然加速并超越了拦截器。灯光消失在积云中，紧随其后的是战士们。片刻之后，喷气机从云中出现，但灯光不再可见。战斗机改变航向并返回基地。  

第二天早上，返回沃克空军基地后，卡明斯基的导弹小组例行听取了汇报。他说，“在那次简报中，我的船长问，‘这两个不明飞行物怎么了？’ 回答是，“什么不明飞行物？” 我的上尉说，“你派战士上来的那些人！” 他们说，“我们没有派出任何战士。” 我们知道那是那次谈话的结束！” 

卡明斯基还表示，他曾经观察到另一个不明飞行物展示，不是在远程导弹基地之一，而是在沃克空军基地本身。“我的兵营至少有一半看到了这一点，”他说，“那是在晚上，天空中有两三盏灯——可能四五盏灯——在空中移动。它们看起来像星星，但时不时会转 90 度。但不是一下子——它们是独立移动的。他们显然知道他们不会碰上对方。我不明白为什么我们没有听到任何音爆。这让我很困扰。他们呆在[天空]的同一个大致区域。大约 15 分钟后，放大镜，它们消失了。” 然后他补充说，“实际上，[UFO目击事件]在基地相当普遍。我想很多人都看到了。这不是你讨论的事情。” 

第 1 中尉尤金·兰姆— 前阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹发射官（导弹作战副指挥官），第 579 战略导弹中队，沃克空军基地，新墨西哥州： 

兰姆说，虽然他没有亲眼目睹沃克阿特拉斯基地发生的任何与不明飞行物有关的事件，但他曾与一名前导弹机组指挥官交谈过。几十年后，这个人承认，他曾短暂地离开发射舱，前往顶部观察导弹发射场守卫疯狂报告的奇怪的空中灯光。据兰姆说，警官告诉他，灯光令人不安，因为它们移动不规律，而且比喷气式飞机快。他告诉兰姆，他对所有类型的飞机都很熟悉，但从未见过像阿特拉斯发射井上空的非凡展示。据兰姆说，这位前军官曾说：“这些不仅仅是灯光。这是另一回事。” 

兰姆总结道：“人们在欢乐时光、下班后或我们离开现场后谈论[目击事件]，但就官方声明而言，它保持得很安静。据我所知，我们从未作为一个整体了解过它。”   

二等飞行员 Barry L. Krause——前阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹设施专家，第 579 战略导弹中队，沃克空军基地，新墨西哥州： 

我没有亲自采访克劳斯，他于 1973 年去世。然而，1964 年 12 月 20 日，他写信给一个民间 UFO 研究组织，即国家空中现象调查委员会 (NICAP)，报告了一系列正在进行的与 UFO 相关的事件在他的中队的阿特拉斯洲际弹道导弹基地。克劳斯在信中表示，他曾就目击事件询问的一些导弹安全警察转移了他的问题，称这些事件已被列为“最高机密”。克劳斯还表示，在某一时刻，不明飞行物事件变得如此多和不祥，以至于一些导弹警卫不愿报到。 

评论：克劳斯 1964 年写给 NICAP 的信是在沃克空军基地的不明飞行物事件正在进行时写的，这封信非常重要，因为它提供了对导弹发射场一些目击事件的不请自来的当代描述。我要感谢 Richard Hall 与其他研究人员分享克劳斯的信。  

埃尔斯沃思空军基地，南达科他州（1966 年）： 

参谋军士。Albert Spodnik（美国空军退役） ——前机电技术员，第 44 导弹维修中队，埃尔斯沃思空军基地，南达科他州： 

Spodnik 说，1966 年的一个夏夜，他和一名机电团队技术人员被派往发射设施（发射井）Juliet-3 以纠正电气故障。由于某种原因，该站点的商业电源和应急电源系统同时出现故障，导致民兵 I 型导弹暂时无法使用。用空军的话来说，洲际弹道导弹已经“脱离警戒状态”。 

在发射设施恢复供电后，斯波德尼克和他的搭档开始了自动启动程序，这将使导弹恢复正常运行状态。当他们离开地下筒仓休息时，技术人员的安全护送人员提醒他们注意机组人员驾驶室的双向无线电突然兴奋地进行了交流。这三个人听着，得知一支武装的空军安全警报小组已奉命调查附近发射设施 Juliet-5 触发的安全警报。此外，那里的导弹突然进入警戒状态。与 Juliet-3 一样，该站点失去了商业电力，其用于为备用电池充电的柴油发电机未能启动。 

当安全警报小组到达 Juliet-5 时，他们报告说有一个奇怪的物体坐在导弹发射井周围的安全栅栏内的地面上。当 Spodnik 和他的同伴窃听时，他们听到飞行安全控制器命令 SAT 接近该物体。显然心烦意乱，队长回应说他不会这样做。他说他的团队停在发射设施的大门外，但不会再往前走了。然后他报告说，这个神秘物体是圆形的，显然是金属的，并且放在三脚架起落架上。 

当这出戏在广播中播出时，斯波德尼克和他的同伴迅速爬上乘员驾驶室的车顶和平台，以便更好地观察大约四英里外的相邻导弹发射井。凝视着平坦开阔的地形，他们注意到一股强烈的光芒似乎笼罩了整个发射设施，比那里的安全灯亮得多。 

此时，飞行安全控制员已将情况通知朱丽叶飞行的发射指挥官。Spodnik 只能听到飞行安全控制员和安全警报小组之间的无线电对话，但发射指挥官显然已经命令小组接近不明物体。队长再一次拒绝了。他用紧张的声音突然请求允许向那个物体开火。作为回应，飞行安全管制员大喊：“否定！在你知道发生了什么之前不要开枪！” 然后他告诉激动的安全小组负责人，发射指挥官已命令这些人待命，同时他打电话给埃尔斯沃思空军基地的导弹指挥所。片刻之后，团队负责人被告知一架直升机正被派往现场。 

Spodnik 说，在指挥所接到 UFO 降落的通知大约 30 分钟后，他看到远处有直升机，因为它接近了受灾的发射设施。大约五分钟后，有人对着收音机喊道：“好了！” 瞬间，斯波德尼克看到了朱丽叶 5 号正上方的明亮白光，以极快的速度垂直上升。他说，虽然他看不到物体本身，但它下面的光看起来像是“倒置的手电筒光束”。 

骚动平息后，斯波德尼克和他的搭档完成了他们在朱丽叶 3 号的工作并返回了基地。抵达后，导弹维修指挥官出人意料地迎接了他们和他们的安全护送人员，他们立即询问他们在发射设施是否看到或听到任何异常情况。保安欣然承认窃听双向无线电，承认他对朱丽叶 5 号发生的事情感到困惑。 

斯波德尼克和另一名技术员紧张地对视了一眼，冲动地否认目睹了任何不寻常的事情。两人都告诉指挥官，他们在整个访问期间都在地下发射设施，使导弹恢复警戒状态。 

当我问斯波德尼克为什么他不承认收听无线电聊天时，他回答说，他和他的伙伴之前听说过有关导弹技术人员因报告洲际弹道导弹基地发生的奇怪事件而被解雇的谣言。“我们听说有人报告说看到了东西，”他说，“不一定是不明飞行物，只是任何无法合理解释的古怪事物。那些人被命令到[基地]医院报告，检查并因精神不适合服兵役而出院。” 斯波德尼克承认，他个人并不知道有谁受到过这种方式的对待，但有关这方面的谣言一直在他的中队内流传。 

Spodnik 无疑指的是国防部的一项名为“PRP”的法规——人员可靠性计划。如前所述，该指令旨在规范使用或围绕核武器工作的人员的行为。根据其指导方针，潜在的严重后果等待上级判断为心理不稳定的人。我采访过的几位前空军导弹人员表示，由于这项规定，他们也担心报告自己的不明飞行物目击事件，而且往往没有。 

斯波德尼克说，维修指挥官听到他的否认后，怀疑地看了他一眼，然后命令两名技术人员第二天一大早到他的办公室报到。到达那里后，斯波德尼克注意到指挥官随身带着一个穿着便服的人。这个人没有被介绍，没有说什么，也没有做笔记，而是专注地听着斯波德尼克和他的伙伴回答指挥官关于前一天晚上发生的事情的问题。现在非常紧张，这对夫妇仍然坚持他们的故事——他们什么也没看到，也没听到。经过几分钟的审讯，维修指挥员命令两人到岗报到。 

Spodnik 进一步表示，他和他的搭档都没有再看到他们的保安护送。通常，标准值班轮换会确保同一个人被指派在 Spodnik 未来的某个维护呼叫中陪同，但这从未发生过。斯波德尼克认为护送人员已被转移到另一个基地，但从未了解他突然离开的原因。 

评论：我不愿透露姓名的第二位前第 44 导弹维修中队技术员已独立证实了 Spodnik 帐户中的基本要素，特别是不明飞行物降落在导弹发射井的安全围栏内。此人估计该事件发生在 1966 年 6 月下旬或 7 月上旬，就在他从空军离职之前。 

埃尔斯沃思空军基地，南达科他州（1992 年）： 

据Tech报道，两名民兵导弹维修人员目击不明飞行物，我不愿透露姓名。中士 杰夫·古德里奇（美国空军退役） ——前民兵导弹技术员，第 44 野战导弹维修中队 (FMMS)，埃尔斯沃思空军基地，南达科他州： 

就在 1992 年 10 月 27 日午夜之前，第 44 FMMS 的两名成员，一等飞行员迈克尔 R—–，一名车辆控制员，和一等飞行员杰森 B—–，一名民兵机电团队技术员，正在接近中队的行动机库时，他们看到一群明亮的白光以刚性的形式快速移动。虽然实际上看不到任何固体物体，但灯光相对于彼此的位置没有变化这一事实使目击者得出结论，它们被安排在一艘非常大但看不见的飞船的表面上。 

在R—–和B—–的注视下，光编队直接朝着民兵导弹维修机库移动，在上面盘旋了片刻，然后移开，消失在一排低矮的云层后面。两位观察者都估计，在最接近的地方，该物体距离他们大约四分之一英里。 

到达工作地点后，受惊的目击者兴奋地向在场的人讲述了这一发现。晚上的时候，机库里没什么事情，除了车辆和设备部分的少数人外，空荡荡的。 

第二天，另一位导弹维修技师杰夫·古德里奇也得知了这一事件。古德里奇对 UFO 有着长期的兴趣，并且是 Mutual UFO Network 的认证实地调查员。使用该组织的标准目击问卷，不到两天后，他让R—–和B—–独立记录了他们的经历细节。 

R—–写道：“外面有点雾……当我第一次看到它的时候，我以为它是一架飞机，但它移动得太平稳太快了，没有噪音。我简直不敢相信。我非常惊讶。这是一个很棒的景象。它似乎在离地面三到五百英尺高的地方盘旋，[然后]它就在空中消失了。” 

B—– 在他的报告中写道：“当我从我工作的机库向外望去时，我注意到了这一点。我向正在开车的迈克指出了这一点。起初我以为是飞机，但它太大了。没有像大多数飞机那样闪烁的灯光，[它的]形状就像我从未见过的飞机一样。我吓坏了[并且]迈克几乎从路上跑了，试图更好地观察它……它消失在基地上方的云层后面。 

每个飞行员都绘制了 UFO 本身的图纸，以及它在天空中相对于机库的位置。在 R—– 的照片中，灯光看起来类似于一串珍珠，描绘了一个看不见的芸豆形物体的假定边界。B—– 绘制了基本相同的图片，但一些灯光远离对象边缘。他还将它描绘成具有更多的回旋镖形状。 

R—– 描绘了 UFO 直接在导弹维修机库上空盘旋，而 B—– 描绘了该物体从北面接近设施，并（如箭头所示）进入云堤。 

在问卷的其他地方，在标题为“物体描述”的部分，R—–写道，不明飞行物的表观宽度是“满月大小的 2-3 倍”。B—– 而是描述了这些灯，写道每个灯都出现了“星星大小的 2-3 倍”。然而，在“个人账户”部分，他写道，该物体本身比飞机大得多，并且在他绘制的整个灯组的一幅画中，他添加了标题，“大约。300 英尺长”。 

两名目击证人都没有被正式听取汇报。不明飞行物是否出现在雷达上尚不清楚。 

来源证词结束 

Although the vast majority of Americans are completely unaware of its existence, the UFO/Nukes Connection is now remarkably well-documented. Air Force, FBI, and CIA files declassified via the Freedom of Information Act establish a convincing, ongoing pattern of UFO activity at U.S. nuclear weapons sites extending back to December 1948.  

For more than 30 years, I have been interviewing former and retired U.S. Air Force personnel regarding their direct or indirect involvement in nuclear weapons-related UFO sighting incidents. These individuals—from retired colonels to former airmen—report extraordinary encounters which have obvious national security implications. In fact, taken to their logical conclusion, the reported incidents have planetary implications, given the horrific consequences that would result from a full-scale, global nuclear war.  

At the time of their experiences, my former/retired USAF sources held positions ranging from nuclear missile launch and targeting officers, to missile maintenance personnel, to missile security police. The incidents described occurred at Malmstrom, Minot, F.E. Warren, Ellsworth, Vandenberg, and Walker AFBs, between 1963 and 1996. Other sources were stationed at Wurtsmith and Loring AFBs, where B-52 nuclear bombers were based during the Cold War era. 

To date, I have interviewed over 50 individuals who were involved in various UFO-related incidents at Strategic Air Command bases or remote sites. I have selected the statements of 20 of those persons for presentation here. An expanded discussion of this material will appear in my forthcoming book, The UFO/Nukes Connection.  

The testimony below is admittedly anecdotal evidence. Nevertheless, it is offered—often reluctantly—by persons who were entrusted by the U.S. government with the operation or security of weapons of mass destruction. As such, each source was subjected to, and passed, rigorous background checks and personality tests designed to ascertain, with a reasonable degree of certainty, their psychological stability and reliability. 

For the moment, the international tensions of the Cold War era have receded. Consequently, the U.S. and Russia are currently downsizing their nuclear arsenals. Nevertheless, vast numbers of nukes still exist and may be unleashed at a moment’s notice. Therefore, these weapons remain a potential threat to the future of the human race. 

The events described below leave little doubt that our nuclear weapons program is an ongoing source of interest to someone possessing vastly superior technology. Significantly, the reported UFO activity occasionally transcends mere surveillance and appears to involve direct and unambiguous interference with our strategic weapons systems.  

Considering these and similar accounts—too numerous and credible to dismiss—I would argue, as others have before me, that the heightened presence of the UFO phenomenon since the end of World War II is a direct consequence of the advent of the Nuclear Age. To suggest that this is the only explanation for widespread UFO sightings during our own era would be presumptuous, simplistic, and undoubtedly inaccurate. Nevertheless, I believe that the nuclear weapons-related incidents are integral to an understanding of the mystery at hand. 

Anyone wishing to contact me may do so at hastings444@att.net.

My Sources: 

Malmstrom AFB, Montana (1966-67):  

1st Lt. Robert C. Jamison—Former USAF Minuteman ICBM targeting officer (Combat Targeting Team Commander), 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana:  

Jamison states that he assisted in the re-start of an entire “flight” of ten Minuteman ICBMs which had simultaneously and inexplicably shut down immediately after a UFO was sighted in their vicinity by Air Force Security Police. Jamison is certain that the incident occurred at one of the missile flights located near Lewistown, Montana, perhaps Oscar Flight. This event probably occurred on the night of March 24/25, 1967, based on Jamison’s portrayal of related events.

Jamison said that while his and other teams were preparing to respond to the stricken flight, they were ordered—as a precaution—to remain at Malmstrom until all UFO reports from the field had ceased. He further states that his team received a special briefing prior to being dispatched, during which it was directed to immediately report any UFO sighted while traveling to or from the missile field. In the event that a UFO appeared at one of the missile silos during the re-start procedure, the team was directed to enter the silo’s personnel hatch, and remain underground until the UFO had left the vicinity. According to Jamison, the Air Police guard accompanying the team was to remain outside and relay information about the UFO to the base Command Post. Jamison’s own team re-started three or four missiles but did not observe any unusual aerial activity.  

Jamison said that while he was at the missile maintenance hangar, waiting to be dispatched to the field, he overheard two-way radio communications at the temporary Command Post, relating to another UFO having been sighted on the ground in a canyon near the town of Belt. He states he recalls hearing that a top commander—either Malmstrom’s base commander, or the 341st Strategic Missile Wing commander—was on-site with other personnel. Based on these recollections, it appears that Jamison is describing the well-documented Belt, Montana UFO sighting of March 24/25, 1967. 

Jamison said that immediately after the missile shutdown incident, for a period of approximately two weeks, his team received a special UFO briefing, identical to the one described above, before being dispatched to the field.  

Jamison said that approximately two weeks after the full-flight missile shutdown, his team responded to another, partial shutdown—involving four or five ICBMs. Prior to being dispatched, Jamison’s team received a report that the missile failures had occurred immediately after a UFO was sighted over the flight’s Launch Control Facility. Jamison recalls that this incident took place at a flight located south or southwest of Great Falls, possibly India Flight, and during daylight hours.  

Jamison said that he had subsequently spoken with several individuals, mostly missile security guards, who had witnessed various UFO-related incidents. He reports that they were “visibly shaken” by their experiences. 

Comment: At least five other former or retired USAF personnel—all Minuteman missile launch officers stationed at Malmstrom AFB in 1967—have previously divulged their knowledge of UFO involvement in two separate, large-scale missile shutdown incidents. One of these individuals, former Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander Robert Salas, has extensively investigated these events, together with researcher Jim Klotz. Their revealing summary of the March 1967 incidents may be found at:  

http://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm   

The article above also discusses the Air Force’s formal denial of UFO-involvement in the one officially-acknowledged, full-flight missile shutdown incident at Malmstrom AFB—at Echo Flight—despite the missile launch officers’ testimony to the contrary. The official disavowal is found in the 341st Strategic Missile Wing’s “unit history”.  

Significantly, the unit historian, David Gamble, told Klotz that while compiling material for the official history, he had learned of reports of UFO activity within Malmstrom’s missile fields. When he made inquiries, Gamble received “no cooperation” from those in-the-know. He further said that written changes regarding “the UFO aspect of the missile shutdown incident” had been made by superiors. The final version of the unit history states, “Rumors of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO) around the area of Echo Flight during the time of the fault were disproven.”  

Salas and Klotz have written a thorough and persuasive book, Faded Giant, which expands upon their earlier online report. 

If Jamison’s recollections are correct, and he did indeed respond to a large-scale missile shutdown at Oscar Flight on the same date as the well-documented Belt UFO sighting, then the date proposed for the Oscar event by Salas and Klotz—March 16, 1967—would seem to be in error. Salas has now acknowledged this possibility, however, Klotz remains skeptical about the alternate date.  

Prior to my posting the Jamison-related material on the NICAP and NCP websites, I sent it to Klotz for his review. He responded, “I think that while witnesses’ memories of ‘events’ tend to be pretty clear, memories of dates tend to be less accurate. I am a document-driven guy and I’d like to see some documentary evidence of multiple events. Lacking this, I only wish to keep open the idea that memories may be of a ‘single’ UFO-related missile shutdown event at Malmstrom. Certainly the indications from witness testimony are that multiple events may well have occurred.” 

For the record: I too would like to see unaltered documents relating to the shutdown events. In the early 1980s, I attempted to access, via the Freedom of Information Act,  Office of Special Investigations (OSI) files relating to UFO sightings at Malmstrom’s ICBM sites, only to be told that all such documents had already been declassified. However, multiple source testimony strongly suggests otherwise. I think David Gamble’s comments above are telling. In my opinion, the documents that might shed light on the true facts relating to the missile shutdowns will remain hidden indefinitely, whereas those supporting the official version of events, including unit histories, will sometimes be declassified. 

I also sent my Jamison-related material to Bob Salas. He responded, “What is interesting to me is the briefing Jamison received about how to respond if they sighted a UFO while working in the field. This would be a further indication that there had been experiences with UFOs at [Launch Facilities] prior to Jamison going out to the sites. We have also received similar information from a source we are protecting at this time.”  

Salas continued, “I [now] think it is more likely that Oscar Flight went down on some date after the Echo Flight [shutdown] and that it could very well have been on the same day as the Belt sighting. One of the factors that lead me to that ‘opinion’ is the lack of comment about two flights going down in the [now-declassified] telex that went out, and in the unit history. If the two had gone down on the same day, that would have been mentioned. The reason, I think, Oscar wasn’t mentioned later is because by then the Air Force wanted to keep a secrecy lid on it and avoid the possibility of a leak by the indication of a growing and continuing problem. That would have made quite some headlines in the press.”  

Salas concluded, “Remember, from all we have heard from the maintenance people we have interviewed, the rumors and comments [about UFO activity] were rampant. I personally received a call from an NCO after the Oscar shutdowns, practically begging me to come talk to him and others about the incident. Believe me, it was all over the base and some of the troops were flat scared.”  

In conclusion, Jamison’s statements are important because they indicate that the Air Force was fully aware of UFO involvement in at least two missile flight shutdown incidents prior to dispatching the missile maintenance teams to restart the ICBMs. Specifically, according to Jamison, the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron undertook certain precautions and formally implemented various procedures to protect the teams’ safety while in the field. In this respect, his testimony is unprecedented. 

Staff Sgt. Louis D. Kenneweg—Former Minuteman ICBM maintenance clerk, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana: 

At the time of the 1967 missile shutdown incidents, Staff Sgt. Louis D. Kenneweg was assigned to the 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron (MIMS) at Malmstrom AFB. His duties at the MIMS hangar included issuing Technical Order kits (T.O.s) to other members of his squadron. As Kenneweg explained, “Each of the repair teams would be required to take T.O.’s in the truck with them. The kit included books or manuals that would contain technical information that the technicians could look up rather than rely on memory. There was also a check list in plastic sleeves, kind of like a pre-flight checklist for a pilot, that they would use before removing the warhead from the missile. Of course there was an awful lot of supervision when that occurred.”

Although the date is uncertain, one night, around 11:45 P.M. Kenneweg was driving to work when he noticed something unusual in the sky. “As I traveled down one of the roads parallel to the flightline,” he said, “I saw something that I first thought was a private plane’s lights, blinking. As I watched it get closer, I realized that it wasn’t blinking at all, but zig-zagging. First here, then there, traveling too fast for a plane. Then looming over the flightline. I got up late, and I knew that I had little time, but I stopped anyway. I opened the car door, got out, and focused on the lights. I watched it as long as I could, without being late to work. I remember saying to myself that this pilot was going to be in a lot of trouble, coming across the runway, or at least across the Air Force Base property. I don’t remember it traveling that close to me, but I do remember the image of it disappearing in a low southerly trajectory over the [MIMS] hangar. Of course, it was much farther away than it appeared. At that point, it wasn’t ‘blinking’ anymore but had more of a glow. It appeared as a bright light the size of the moon, on a cloudy night, although I don’t remember it being cloudy.”

Upon arriving at the MIMS hangar, Kenneweg was confronted by a scene of high activity. “As I entered the hangar I noticed that there were numerous trucks being loaded,” he said, “many more than I had ever seen all at the same time.”  

Still puzzled about the strange, zig-zagging light, Kenneweg walked toward the Air Police office, where APs were routinely assigned to accompany the maintenance teams into the missile fields, guarding their trucks and the silos once they opened the gates. When he arrived, he noticed an unusual level of activity there as well. Kenneweg asked the Air Police sergeant on duty whether the base had any helicopters up. The sergeant replied that the helicopters didn’t have radar and didn’t fly at night.  

Kenneweg continued, “Back at the office, I issued almost all of the [T.O.] kits on the shelf. I remember saying to myself, ‘I’m running out of kits, this is a busy night.’ Now, I didn’t check the sign-out sheet to see how many kits had been checked out before my shift, but while I was on duty, I did recall that they were almost all checked out. As I count them off in my head today, and try to see them on the shelf, we had a wall with 3 shelves that would hold 25 or so.”  

Clearly, a lot of missiles were either undergoing routine maintenance, and/or had gone off Strategic Alert for another reason, all at the same time. 

When the maintenance teams returned to the MIMS hangar—Kenneweg first thought that it had been some three hours later, but upon reflection, now believes that it was more than 24 hours later, during his next shift—one of the technicians hinted that something out of the ordinary had taken place in the missile field. “One of the guys mentioned to me that some very weird things were going on that night,” said Kenneweg,  “It takes two guys to carry the T.O. kit, and there were other guys behind him, waiting in line to get checked in, and they were all nodding their heads in agreement. But this guy said that he couldn’t talk about it right then. He said he would tell me all about it back at the barracks. Well, like I have said before, I was busy working [a second job] at the Red Lion Supper Club and didn’t really have that serious sit-down conversation with that particular airman. But the barracks was buzzing. Stories about how when they got to the [missile silos] and found no damage, and how all the batteries were dead. I also heard a story that [UFOs] were seen on radar, then they were gone.”  

He continued, “Our missile sites each had a tertiary power system. The main power source was delivered by Montana Power. Telephone poles, transformers and wire. The second system was the diesel generators, and the third was the battery back-up within the silo itself. Numerous reports came back saying that they had found no damage to the fences, wires, transformers, microwave intrusion system, locks on the three-foot-thick concrete blast doors, or to the batteries. So, no evidence of damage from intruders or animals, lightning or fire. Just three sources of power vanished and the batteries were dead.”  

Kenneweg believes that the incident was not isolated. “As I recall,” he said, “there were other nights where the guys would come back and look a little shaken, all within that same time-period.” 

Comment:  Based on Kenneweg’s description of his own UFO sighting, during which the object appeared to be near or over Malmstrom’s flightline at one point, I have speculated that the UFO may have briefly maneuvered near the base’s nuclear Weapons Storage Area (WSA), which is located just east of the main runway. The WSA contains Minuteman missile nuclear warheads, known as Re-entry Vehicles (RVs). A review of aerial photographs of Malmstrom, which show the WSA, coupled with an analysis of Kenneweg’s probable position near the MIMS hangar, lead to this conjecture. Regardless, another UFO sighting at the WSA, some years later, has been confirmed by two other sources. See Malmstrom AFB, Montana (1975). 

Airman 1st Class David Hughes—Former Air Policeman, 341st Combat Defense Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana: 

Hughes stated, “I was stationed at Malmstrom from January 1966 through August 1967. I was an Air Policeman, assigned to ‘B’ Flight, with the 341st Combat Defense Squadron. I worked at the Foxtrot [Flight Launch Control Facility]. Many nights we observed a light in the sky between Choteau and Augusta, Montana.”  

He continued “This light would move at incredible speeds, make right-angle moves, and continue for hours. When seeking further information from wing command, we were often insulted when told it was a Telstar satellite. On one occasion we were told by other friends working in the [air traffic control] tower at the base that aircraft had been launched to seek to identify a strange radar echo that had appeared on their screens and on the screens of the local airport. This was later denied the next day, but if memory serves, the local newspaper had an story on it the next day. This must have happened sometime in early 1967, or late 1966.”  

Hughes concluded, “All I know is that some strange things consumed our attention many nights while on patrol. We patrolled from Augusta to Choteau each night and [frequently] saw something that lent credance to the UFO concept. To us, ‘UFO’ simply meant it was an Unidentified Flying Object, either from our military or some unknown source. We never believed the satellite story. However, when we learned that the jets had been scrambled and the next day it was denied, then we knew something was up.”  

Malmstrom AFB, Montana (1975):  

Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Chassey—Former Minuteman ICBM maintenance technician, 341st Missile Maintenance Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana: 

Chassey states that one night in the fall of 1975, he overhead a two-way radio transmission alerting Air Force Security Police about an unknown craft hovering over the base’s Weapons Storage Area.  

Chassey said that the incident was widely discussed at the missile mechanical shop the following day. He later heard additional details about it from a friend, who was a helicopter re-fueler. 

Apparently, two base helicopters had been scrambled to chase the intruder, which rapidly flew toward Belt, Montana, some ten miles distant. As the pursuing choppers neared the town, the unidentified craft quickly doubled-back to Malmstrom—leaving them far behind—and again hovered over the WSA for a short period of time before finally departing.  

Chassey states that the object was described as an extremely bright light and was assumed to have been a bona fide UFO because of its superior capabilities. He emphasized, “It flat outran the helicopters. We heard that it zipped out to Belt and back to the base in no time.”  

Chassey, who separated from the Air Force at the end of October, 1975, believes that the incident occurred shortly before he left Malmstrom. 

Comment: USAF documents from October 1975, declassified via the Freedom of Information Act, confirm other UFO sightings at the Weapons Storage Areas at Wurtsmith AFB, Michigan, and Loring AFB, Maine. At the time, each base hosted B-52 nuclear bomber squadrons. At Wurtsmith, initial sighting reports referred to the unidentified craft as a “helicopter”, however, the radar operator aboard a nearby KC-135 aircraft later tracked the craft traveling at approximately 1000 knots, far faster than any known helicopter. At Loring, some reports mentioned an “unidentified helicopter” near the WSA. However, eyewitness accounts from a B-52 ground crew indicated that the “helicopter” was bright orange, football-shaped, and had hovered silently. (For an extended discussion of these cases, consult Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood’s authoritative book, Clear Intent, later re-named The UFO Cover-Up.)  

Lt. Col. Robert Peisher (USAF Ret.)—Former Commanding Officer, Detachment #5, 37th Air Rescue Squadron helicopter unit at Malmstrom AFB, Montana:  

Peisher has confirmed the accuracy of Joseph Chassey’s account regarding the incident during which an unknown craft hovered above Malmstrom’s nuclear Weapons Storage Area, one night in the fall of 1975. However, Peisher said that even though his unit’s helicopters had indeed been involved in the intercept attempt, he himself had already been transferred to another squadron when the incident occurred, and had only heard about it “much later”.  

Peisher also states that he had once been briefed by local civilian law enforcement about a series of cattle mutilations, many of which had occurred near Minuteman missile sites, during the summer and fall of 1975. He states that he and Cascade County deputy sheriff Captain Keith Wolverton determined that more than 80 such mutilations had occurred within Malmstrom’s missile field boundaries, some quite near various ICBM Launch Facilities (silos).

Peisher further states that he had been informally told about multiple UFO incidents at Malmstrom’s Minuteman missile sites, including one event during which a UFO “the size of a football field” had silently flown over the Echo Launch Control Facility one night in the fall of 1975. 

Comment: The following verbatim excerpts are NORAD log entries from November 1975, declassified via the Freedom of Information Act. My own comments and clarifications follow some of the entries (in parentheses): 

24th NORAD Region Senior Director’s Log (Malmstrom AFB, MT): 

7 Nov 75 (1035Z) Received a call from the 341st Strategic Air Command Post (SAC CP), saying that the following missile locations reported seeing a large red to orange to yellow object: M-1, L-3, LIMA, and L-6…Commander and Deputy for Operations (DO) informed. 

7 Nov 75 (1203Z) SAC advised that the LCF at Harlowton, Montana, observed an object which emitted a light which illuminated the site driveway. 

7 Nov 75 (1319Z) SAC advised K-1 says very bright object to their east is now southeast of them and they are looking at it with 10×50 binoculars. Object seems to have lights (several) on it, but no distinct pattern. The orange/gold object overhead also seems to have lights on it. SAC also advised female civilian reports having seen an object bearing south of her position six miles west of Lewistown.  

(Note that all of these reports refer to the observation of aerial “objects”. Apparently, the Security Alert Teams could not identify them as either military or civilian aircraft.)  

7 Nov 75 (1327Z) L-1 reports that the object to their northeast seems to be issuing a black object from it, tubular in shape. In all this time, surveillance has not been able to detect any sort of track except for known traffic.  

(In other words, when these sightings were first reported by SATs, “surveillance”—that is, radar personnel—at Malmstrom AFB and Great Falls International Airport could not detect any unknown aerial objects near the missile sites. As we shall see, radar contact with the UFOs was finally established as the sighting reports continued to unfold.) 

7 Nov 75 (1355Z) K-1 and L-1 report that as the sun rises, so do the objects they have visual. 

7 Nov 75 (1429) From SAC CP: As the sun rose, the UFOs disappeared. Commander and DO notified. 

8 Nov 75 (0635Z) A security camper team at K-4 reported UFO with white lights, one red light 50 yards behind white light. Personnel at K-1 seeing same object. 

8 Nov 75 (0645Z) Height personnel picked up objects 10-13,000 feet. Track J330, EKLB 0649, 18 knots, 9,500 feet.  Objects as many as seven, as few as two A/C.  

(Height-finding radar finally confirmed that UFOs were present, varying over time between two and seven in number.) 

8 Nov 75 (0753Z) J330 unknown 0753. Stationary/seven knots/12,000…two F-106…NCOC notified.  

(Radar confirmed that one UFO, at an altitude of 12,000 feet, had hovered—that is, was “stationary”—before resuming flight at a leisurely 7 knots, or 9 mph. Shortly thereafter, two F-106s were scrambled to intercept it.) 

8 Nov 75 (0905Z) From SAC CP: L-sites had fighters and objects; fighters did not get down to objects.  

8 Nov 75 (0915Z) From SAC CP: From four different points: Observed objects and fighters; when fighters arrived in the area, the lights went out; when fighters departed, the lights came back on; To NCOC.  

(As SAT personnel at four different locations watched, the UFOs played cat-and-mouse with the F-106s, extinguishing their illumination as the jets approached their position and re-illuminating themselves after the fighters returned to base. The NORAD Combat Operations Center—NCOC—in Colorado Springs, was immediately informed of this incident.) 

8 Nov 75 (1105Z) From SAC CP: L-5 reported object increased in speed — high velocity, raised in altitude and now cannot tell the object from stars. To NCOC.  

9 Nov 75 (0305Z) SAC CP called and advised SAC crews at Sites L-1, L-6, and M-1 observing UFO. Object yellowish bright round light 20 miles north of Harlowton, 2 to 4,000 feet. 

9 Nov 75 (0320Z) SAC CP reports UFO southeast of Lewistown, orange white disc object. 24th NORAD Region surveillance checking area. Surveillance unable to get height check.  

(Note the reference to the UFO having a “disc” or saucer shape. Several more log entries from November 9th and 10th confirm that UFOs continued to be reported by SAT teams positioned near various missile silos.) 

END OF LOG ENTRIES 

Malmstrom AFB, Montana (1992): 

Staff Sgt. Joseph M. Brown—Former Security Policeman, 343rd Missile Security Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana: 

Comment: I first learned of Joe Brown’s experience after he posted a brief summary of it on researcher Ron Wright’s Triad Research website. With Wright’s assistance, I located Brown and interviewed him. 

Brown states that one night in the spring of 1992, he and his security team partner were posted at Alpha Flight missile silo A-3. Due to an alarm system malfunction at the site, the two-man team was staked-out in a security camper near the launch facility, with one man on duty while the other slept. “I believe it was March or April,” Brown told me, “site top-side security was down—the IMPSS (Improved Minuteman Physical Security System)—and if I remember correctly, there was no top-side power.”  

At about 4:30 a.m., Brown noticed a bright white light moving erratically across the sky. In his online posting, Brown had written, “This light was doing some wild things in the sky, sudden direction changes, moving very fast, then stopping, then shooting off in another direction. I watched this for about 15 to 20 minutes.”  

Then the light appeared to move closer to the silo. “I started getting spooked,” Brown wrote, “so I reached out the window of the truck and started banging on the camper shell to wake [my partner] up. He finally came around the front, asking me what was wrong. I pointed to the light and told him I’d been watching it for around 20 minutes and I didn’t know what it was. He got into the passenger side of the truck and we kept watching this thing doing its acrobatics.” 

Brown decided to radio another security team posted at Alpha Flight silo A-10, located some 10 miles away. “They responded hesitantly that they were watching this light,” he wrote. The Flight Security Controller (FSC) at the Alpha Flight Launch Control Facility apparently overheard this exchange, because he suddenly broke into the conversation to inquire about the anxious radio chatter between the two security teams. Each confirmed that they were observing the strange light as it raced wildly around the sky. 

Brown wrote that the team continued to watch the UFO until around 6:30 to 7:00 a.m., when it suddenly appeared to go straight up and hover. “We could still see the light, but by now it was starting to get daylight. As it got brighter, we could sort of make out a black shape around where the light was. We had binoculars, but even with them, all you could see was a fuzzy outline of sort of a triangle. I can’t estimate the height of the object.” 

Upon returning to Malmstrom, Brown and his partner privately conferred with the security team posted at Alpha Flight silo A-10. The four guards agreed that they would not mention the sighting, and all expressed concern about possible repercussions resulting from their report to the Flight Security Controller. 

As the security guards returned their weapons to the armory, they were suddenly ordered to report to a captain assigned to their squadron. Brown can not recall the officer’s name but remembers being very concerned by this unexpected development. The captain asked the men to describe what they had seen. He listened carefully and then pointedly suggested that they not discuss the sighting. Brown told me, “At this point, the captain says, well I don’t think you saw anything and I wouldn’t go around talking about it. You guys are under PRP, remember that!”  

Comment: Here is an apparent instance in which the mere mention of the PRP—Personnel Reliability Program—effectively intimidated military UFO witnesses into silence. This Department of Defense directive pertains to those who work with or around nuclear weapons, and dictates their conduct both on and off the job. If an individual’s commanding officer judges his or her behavior to be unreliable, and a potential threat to the security of the weapons, a psychological examination of that person is usually ordered. Depending on its outcome, the individual under scrutiny risks being relieved of duty. 

Brown stated that a couple of days after his experience at Alpha Flight, he heard that there had been some unusual activity at Malmstrom that same night. Referring to these rumored developments, he told me, “[A friend of mine] was a Tech Sergeant in the [missile] maintenance squadron, and it was a bit unusual for him to actually go to out in the field.  He normally trouble-shot stuff on-base. He and I never got to really discuss what had happened…[but] he did tell me that a lot of maintenance folks were sent out that night. Quite honestly, a lot of us were afraid to talk about it openly, especially after being told we should not talk about anything by our Captain.”  

Malmstrom AFB, Montana (1995):

UFO sighting by a Minuteman missile maintenance technician, who requests anonymity, as reported to Tech. Sgt. Jeff Goodrich (USAF Ret.)—Former Team Chief of Missile Handling, 341^st Maintenance Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana: 

In the early hours of January 20, 1995, an Alert Response Team, composed of two security police, had been driving to the India Flight Launch Control Facility when they noticed a strange light in the southern sky. As they passed by Minuteman silo I-4, one of the men radioed a missile maintenance team working there, and asked its leader whether he could see the light too. The response was affirmative. 

The missile maintenance technician who later reported the sighting to Goodrich said that the light was “large”, and displayed numerous smaller lights—red, orange, yellow, green, and blue in color—across its surface. The UFO had been moving very slowly across the missile field, at low altitude. The technician insisted that the object was not an airplane or helicopter. Because he was a member of the missile maintenance team, and not a security policeman, he did not know whether the Alert Response Team had subsequently reported the UFO to the Flight Security Controller at the India Flight Launch Control Facility. 

Comment: This UFO was not the first to be reported in Montana during January 1995. A brief entry in the sighting database published by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) indicates that on the evening of January 5th, an unnamed Air Force officer at Malmstrom AFB had called NUFORC to relay a sighting report which he had just received from someone in the town of Shelby. At about 9 p.m. the unidentified person had observed two objects moving silently through the sky for about two minutes. Although their shape could not be determined, the absence of any sound had apparently struck the sighting witness as unusual, and so a call was made to Malmstrom. Shelby is located almost exactly on the northern boundary of the Quebec Flight Minuteman missile field—with silo Q-18 situated less than two miles east of town, just north of Route 2. 

Another entry in the NUFORC database indicates that two days later, on January 7th, at about 3 p.m., an unidentified woman had called Malmstrom AFB regarding a UFO sighting.  Unfortunately, the location of the sighting is not specified in the entry. 

A third call to NUFORC occurred on January 18th—just two days prior to the incident at India Flight reported to Tech. Sgt. Jeff Goodrich. The reporting center’s log states, “An anonymous caller reports multiple UFO sightings reported between Fairfield and Deer Lodge, Montana. Background noise during call sounds like communications noise from some kind of operations center.”  

The caller told NUFORC that he had received multiple UFO sighting reports, over the period of an hour, from persons located between Fairfield and Deer Lodge. Perhaps significantly, Fairfield lies near the geographic center of the Hotel Flight Minuteman missile field, with silo H-9 situated at the western edge of town, just north of Route 408. Furthermore, if one leaves Fairfield and travels southwest—in a straight line toward Deer Lodge—one will eventually exit the Hotel field and cross directly into the Golf Flight missile field. 

In short, nearly half of the countryside between Fairfield and Deer Lodge lies within the boundaries of Malmstrom’s Minuteman missile fields. Although no evidence has yet surfaced which would place the reported UFOs in close proximity to specific silos within either Hotel or Golf Flight, the caller from Deer Lodge was nevertheless relaying sighting reports made by persons calling from the heart of “Rocket Ranch” country. The three sighting reports published by NUFORC may be found at http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxlMT.html. 

Malmstrom AFB, Montana (1996): 

Tech. Sgt. Jeff Goodrich (USAF Ret.)—Former Team Chief of Missile Handling, 341st Maintenance Squadron, Malmstrom AFB, Montana: 

Goodrich states that February 2, 1996, he and an officer, whom I will not identify here, observed a loose formation of five triangular-shaped objects flying above Great Falls, Montana, which is located just west of Malmstrom. At the time of the sighting, both had been working at the Missile Roll Transfer Building, a remote site located some miles from the main base.  

When first sighted, the objects were about 75-degrees above the horizon. They made no sound that the two men could discern, and left no contrails. Due to distance and glare, no surface detail was visible on any of the craft. Goodrich noted that the objects flew in unison, moving slowly from north to south. On two occasions, all five appeared motionless for 10-15 seconds. After the second hover, the objects suddenly accelerated, made a sweeping arc to the southwest, and soon disappeared over the horizon. 

Goodrich estimated the objects’ altitude to be 15-20,000 feet. This guess was based, in part, on statements made to him by personnel working at Malmstrom’s air traffic control tower. After contacting them, he had been told that nothing out of the ordinary had been detected on radar at the time of the sighting—but was also told that the tower didn’t track aircraft above 10,000 feet. Immediately after contacting the base’s air traffic control tower, Goodrich called Great Falls International Airport. The controllers there also denied tracking unknown aircraft at the time of his sighting. 

Given that Goodrich reported the UFOs’ shape to be triangular, some skeptics might say that he and the officer had merely observed a flight of F-117A “stealth” fighter-bombers.  Due to its unique design, an airborne F-117A can appear, from certain angles, to be nearly triangular. Moreover, the aircraft’s stealth capability would explain why the flight had not been tracked on radar.  

However, because Goodrich is certain that he and the officer had twice observed all five objects briefly hovering, this prosaic proposal would seem an unlikely solution. The F-117A is an amazing aircraft, but it can not remain motionless in the air. Furthermore, Goodrich described the UFOs as being bright white in color and occasionally exhibiting glare as their position varied in relation to the sun. An F-117A is painted flat black and appears dark against the sky, under all lighting and atmospheric conditions. 

Jeff included two hand-drawn diagrams of the objects in his report about the sighting. The first one depicts their positions relative to one another in the sky. The second illustrates each object’s shape—an isosceles triangle—with two sides of equal length. The third, shorter side was on the trailing edge of each object as it flew.  

I asked Goodrich if he could determine whether the UFOs had flown or hovered over ICBM facilities at any time during the sighting. He replied that after the objects turned southwest, and left the city limits, they would have briefly passed over the India Flight missile field.  However, he said that it did not appear that they had lingered in that vicinity. Instead, they continued to move steadily away, and eventually faded from view. (It should also be noted that when the objects approached Great Falls, they had to have flown over other missile fields located north of the city, however, I am not aware of any information currently available in the public domain to suggest a close-proximity incident at any ICBM LCF or LF, relating to the sighting.)  

F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming (1965): 

Comment: Beginning at 1:30 A.M. on August 1, 1965, various personnel at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming—including the base commander—telephoned the Air Force’s UFO Project Blue Book, at Wright-Patterson AFB, to report several UFO sightings at Warren’s Minuteman missile sites. 

The officer who fielded and logged the telephone calls to Blue Book that night was a Lt. Anspaugh. A memorandum summarizing these telephone calls was published in 1972 by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the civilian scientific consultant to the project, in his book The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. 

Inserted below are the verbatim entries in Lt. Anspaugh’s memo: 

1:30 A.M. – Captain Snelling, of the U.S. Air Force command post near Cheyenne, Wyoming, called to say that 15 to 20 phone calls had been received at the local radio station about a large circular object emitting several colors but no sound, sighted over the city. Two officers and one airman controller at the base reported that after being sighted directly over base operations, the object had begun to move rapidly to the northeast.

2:20 A.M. – Colonel Johnson, base commander of Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, called Dayton to say that the commanding officer of the Sioux Army Depot saw five objects at 1:45 A.M. and reported an alleged configuration of two UFOs previously reported over E Site. At 1:49 A.M. members of E flight reportedly saw what appeared to be the same [formation] reported at 1:48 A.M. by G flight. Two security teams were dispatched from E flight to investigate.

2:50 A.M. – Nine more UFOs were sighted, and at 3:35 A.M. Colonel Williams, commanding officer of the Sioux Army Depot, at Sydney, Nebraska, reported five UFOs going east.

4:05 A.M. – Colonel Johnson made another phone call to Dayton to say that at 4:00 A.M., Q flight reported nine UFOs in sight; four to the northwest, three to the northeast, and two over Cheyenne.

4:40 A.M. – Captain Howell, Air Force Command Post, called Dayton and Defense Intelligence Agency to report that a Strategic Air Command Team at Site H-2 at 3:00 A.M. reported a white oval UFO directly overhead. Later Strategic Air Command Post passed the following: Francis E. Warren Air Force Base reports (Site B-4 3:17 A.M.) –A UFO 90 miles east of Cheyenne at a high rate of speed and descending—oval and white with white lines on its sides and a flashing red light in its center moving east; reported to have landed 10 miles east of the site.

3:20 A.M. – Seven UFOs reported east of the site.

3:25 A.M. – E Site reported six UFOs stacked vertically.

3:27 A.M. – G-1 reported one ascending and at the same time, E-2 reported two additional UFOs had joined the seven for a total of nine.

3:28 A.M. – G-1 reported a UFO descending further, going east.

3:32 A.M. – The same site has a UFO climbing and leveling off.

3:40 A.M. – G Site reported one UFO at 70′ azimuth and one at 120′ . Three now came from the east, stacked vertically, passed through the other two, with all five heading west. 

END OF SUMMARY 

Airman 2nd Class Robert R. Thompson—Former Air Policeman, 809th Combat Defense Squadron, at F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming: 

Thompson states that he was on duty at the Quebec Flight Launch Control Facility one night in 1965, when he got a telephone call from the underground launch capsule. The Missile Combat Crew Commander asked Thompson and his partner to walk outside and look straight up. Thinking this was a joke of some kind, the two Air Policemen nevertheless complied. Directly overhead, Thompson saw eight stationary lights, much brighter and larger than stars, grouped together in four pairs. Due to their altitude and brilliance, it was not possible to determine the objects’ shape or other details. 

Thompson said that one light eventually left its position and began to roam among the others, moving slowly from pair to pair. He and his partner watched the mysterious aerial formation for about 10 minutes, before reporting the sighting to the missile commander. In response, Thompson was informed that NORAD, located at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, had earlier notified FE Warren that its radars were tracking eight unknown objects hovering in the vicinity of the Quebec launch control site. Apparently, Warren’s Command Center had called the LCF and asked the missile commander to verify their presence. 

Said Thompson, “I wasn’t sure what we were seeing until I reported back to the launch commander. When he told me of the report of UFOs from Cheyenne Mountain, I could tell by his voice that he wasn’t joking.” Thompson states that he and his partner were never debriefed, or warned to remain silent about the incident, but he never again mentioned it to the missile commander. 

Perhaps significantly, the Blue Book memorandum inserted above may lend credence to Thompson’s report. Specifically, this entry: 

4:05 A.M. – Colonel Johnson made another phone call to Dayton to say that at 4:00 A.M., Q flight reported nine UFOs in sight; four to the northwest, three to the northeast, and two over Cheyenne. 

However, because Thompson can not remember the date of his own sighting at “Q” or Quebec Flight, it may or may not have been the same incident noted above. 

In any event, Thompson’s sighting was not the last UFO incident to be reported at Quebec Flight during that period. Less than a week later, he had been approached by another individual in his unit, and told about a far more dramatic incident. 

“We worked three days on, three days off,” Thompson said, “One crew would relieve the other. Shortly after the sighting, when my crew returned to the LCF, an acquaintance came up and told me that while we were off-duty, he had been involved in another UFO sighting, at one of Q-Flight’s Launch Facilities.”  

According to this individual, he and his partner had been on stake-out duty one night, and were sitting in a Security Alert Team (SAT) camper that was parked next to the missile silo. Without warning, the vehicle began to shake violently. He quickly leaned his head out the window and saw a large, very bright light silently hovering directly above the camper. After a few seconds, the shaking ceased and the light rapidly departed. 

The SAT guard went on to tell Thompson that he and his partner had later been debriefed by an OSI agent and ordered not to talk about the incident. However, in spite of this warning, he had nevertheless felt compelled to compare notes with Thompson, whose own UFO experience had occurred less than a week earlier, and was common knowledge among the missile guards at Quebec Flight. 

After hearing this strange story, Thompson approached the Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC) who had been on duty at Quebec the night of the camper incident and asked him to verify it. To his surprise, the NCOIC did so. Furthermore, he told Thompson that he had personally seen the UFO as it hovered over the LF.  

“The Launch Facility in question was the one located closest to the LCF,” said Thompson,  “Even though it was five, maybe six miles away, the NCOIC told me that, on the night of the incident, he had seen an extremely bright light hovering over its location.” 

Thompson said that he later heard that the UFO activity at various missile flights had continued for about a month. 

Comment: Although the bizarre report involving the camper is strikingly similar to a scene in Steven Speilberg’s 1977 movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, UFO researchers Jim Klotz and Tom Tulien have heard a nearly-identical account from a former USAF missile guard who was stationed at Minot AFB, North Dakota, in 1968. 

Airman 2nd Class Terry Stuck—Former Air Policeman, 809th Combat Defense Squadron, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming: 

Stuck states that one morning in the summer of 1965, while reporting for duty at the Oscar Flight LCF, he was informed about a UFO sighting by the departing night-shift guards. “The night team had observed fast-moving lights or objects,” said Stuck, “vehicles moving with incredible speed.” 

Apparently, during the shift-change, the departing security team leader also informed the arriving missile commander about the UFOs. Stuck overheard the exchange. “The OIC (Officer in Charge) was a Captain—I don’t recall his name,” said Stuck, “I do remember him saying that he had been a pilot in Korea and had observed UFOs and had reported the incident. He said they had sent him to the base psychiatrist and had basically put a stop on advancements in his career.” 

The moral of this story was clear to Stuck and the departing security team leader: Be careful what you report because there may be repercussions. Stuck did not know whether the team leader had ever filed an official report about the incident. In any event, the Oscar Flight UFO sighting incident is not mentioned in the Project Blue Book memorandum inserted above. Perhaps it took place on another date during that period, or perhaps it did indeed occur on August 1st, but went unreported. 

A few days after these events, Stuck had his own UFO sighting, again at the Oscar Flight LCF.  “The observations,” he recalled, “were actually made in front of the launch control security facility which was at ground level, facing the access gate of the main launch control facility.  I was never able to determine the size or shapes [of the UFOs].  When I saw them, they were at extreme distances and were doing right [-angle] turns at unbelievable speeds.  I never heard any sounds.” 

F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming (1973-74): 

1st Lt. Walter F. Billings—Former Minuteman ICBM launch officer (Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander), 90th Strategic Missile Wing, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming: 

I have inserted below excerpts from Billings’ first letter to me, with a few clarifications (in parentheses) and minor modifications relating to grammar and punctuation:  

Dear Mr. Hastings, 

…I arrived at F.E. Warren AFB in Cheyenne, Wyoming, in late January of 1972 from Vandenburg AFB [where I] had been trained in Minuteman I. After further training at F.E. Warren [I] was sent with the operations crews as a Deputy Missile Commander and assigned to a Squadron for the typical duty as a 2nd lieutenant. I was later trained as a training officer for the [missile] wing in Minuteman I, which encompassed assisting new arrivals in training and running simulators, and other duties. [These were] the standard duties until the Spring of 1973.  

As a first lieutenant, along with so many others, [I] went back to school at F.E. Warren to learn the new Minuteman III system that was to be installed during the year of 1973. After training and evaluations, alert duties were assigned for the new system to those that had completed their training. We were to go on alerts as the new missile system was installed. In those days, F.E. Warren had 200 missiles on alert and was very active. 

I am afraid that the dates that I will provide are somewhat vague. I wrote my experiences for a publication in this arena back in September 1993, and even then the dates were not exact. Also, some of the missile terminology may not be exact. I have forgotten some of the terms. I am sorry that I did not keep a private log of these events, back when they occurred. 

The first event took place in the Fall of 1973. Over half of the LCCs (Launch Control Centers) had been converted to Minuteman III by this time, and I was on alert at Golf LCC. It was late at night. The UHF radio linking all twenty LCCs opened up with urgent talk from India LCC. In those days, the UHF radio was turned on, at all times, and if one LCC spoke to their SAT (Security Alert Team) or other LCCs, all twenty LCCs heard the conversation. After the India crew received a Outer Security Zone [alarm] on one of their missiles, and sent their SAT crew out for the standard investigation trip, we began to hear over the radio the events that developed.  

From the UHF radio communication between the SAT and the India LCC crew, as we listened, we heard that as the truck was heading to the missile silo, the Inner Security Zone [alarm] had been tripped at the silo. Upon arriving near the subject silo, the SAT team observed a bright UFO hovering above the silo. The LCC crew advised the SAT team to proceed no further and to observe only. Approximately a minute later, the UFO moved off slowly for several thousand feet and then sped off at a high rate of speed. The conversation between the India LCC crew and the SAT team was heard by 19 other LCC crews on duty that night. 

Upon relief by the next crew and upon return to F.E. Warren AFB, all crews on duty that night were informed that they would not speak to civilians or the news media about what they had heard on the UHF radio. Severe penalties were mentioned for those that did not heed this warning. 

We, the LCC crews in general, began to hear rumors and stories, from other officers in operations and maintenance, that SAC headquarters at Offut AFB had sent the OSI (USAF Office of Special Investigations) to investigate this incident by helicopter. The India crew of that night would not speak of the incident at all. There were stories from missile maintenance that the missile in question had been carefully examined and that they found the target tapes (which guide the H-bomb warheads to their targets) on the three warheads had supposedly been erased that night by the UFO. Needless to say, I only heard that these things had occurred. These stories were told between missile guys over the following week, but they were reliable people, who did not speak to civilians or the press about this subject. However, the squadron commanders warned us, again, not to speak of the incident. 

The second incident involved an entire missile maintenance crew, I believe six enlisted men and one officer. This also occurred in late 1973. A Minuteman III missile was being worked on for some routine problem during one of those late fall nights. A UFO was observed by the entire maintenance crew. The UFO appeared to be watching the work and was seen for a full five minutes as it maneuvered close to the missile silo. This was told to me by a missile maintenance 1st lieutenant, approximately three days after the incident occurred.  

The third incident took place in early Spring of 1974. As I was arriving at Charlie LCC in the morning with my captain, to begin an alert duty, we were told by the staff sergeant and two security police who had been on duty that night, of the strange thing that had happened. They told us that a UFO had actually landed near the LCC and had been observed by the three, and that a minute-by-minute report had been given to the operations crew downstairs. When we asked about this, as we were relieving the LCC crew for our duty to begin, they would not talk about it with us. I heard a few days later that the staff sergeant was in some sort of trouble for speaking to us about what he saw, and that the OSI was again involved. 

While I was in SAC, I personally was not directly involved with a UFO incident while on duty.  However, during June of 1974, while on a camping trip in Dubois, Wyoming, with three other lieutenants, we observed a UFO flying relatively low. It was similar to the ones that were described to us, in the above three incidents.  Since all four of us were Air Force lieutenants, we knew that this low-flying object was not an aircraft. From that time forward, I have had an interest in this subject and have read some on the subject as well. 

I can tell you that these three incidents at F.E. Warren AFB did occur. It was a long time ago and I am sure many other things have happened since. I have not been able to find any written statements of these three incidents since. This could be because there was a very good cover-up of the situation at that time, or they were not deemed important enough to bother with. Though, I doubt that the latter is true. 

I have always wondered as to what really happened to the missile that had the UFO hovering above it, and if the warhead target tapes had really been erased. 

I wish you good luck on any research that you may do on this subject. I doubt that you will receive any help from those that might know the truth. I am sure that the cover-up that I observed many years ago is still in effect. 

Thank you for your interest. 

Sincerely, 

Walter F. Billings

10/18/2002

Comment: In an effort to obtain an informed perspective on Billings’ statements, I forwarded his letter to retired USAF Lt. Col. Philip Moore who, in 1978-79, had been the Commander of the 321st Strategic Missile Squadron at F.E. Warren AFB. Moore found the letter to be entirely credible. In an e-mail to me, dated 6/12/05, he wrote, “Billings’ statement is totally believable, and his supporting facts are correct in spite of his dates and terminology caveats.”

However, I also sent the letter to another former Minuteman missile launch officer who skeptically questioned Billings’ use of the term “target tapes”, when describing the Minuteman III’s guidance system. (While the Minuteman I missile utilized such tapes, the Minuteman III did not.)

When I asked Moore to comment on this particular discrepancy, he replied, “[Regarding] Billings use of ‘tapes’ to refer to the maintenance part of the [guidance] system, the old tape system was replaced by a plug-in unit system. I think I remember that Billings was at F.E. Warren at the time MMI was deactivated and MMIII replaced it, having served in MMI and retrained in MMIII. Old terminology dies a slow death and the new system was often referred to as ‘the tapes’ for awhile after MMIII was in-place, until the old-timers got used to the new terminology.”

Lt. Col. Moore’s own ICBM-related UFO experience is discussed in the Walker AFB section of this article.

F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming (1980-81): 

Airman 1st Class Jay DeSisto—Former Air Policeman (Law Enforcement), 90th Security Police Squadron, F.E. Warren AFB, Wyoming: 

Comment: Jay DeSisto’s “UFO” experiences are somewhat different from those reported by my other former/retired USAF sources. For that reason, I have chosen to include his statement to me in its entirety. 

DeSisto states, “I was an Airman First Class while stationed at FE Warren, in 1980-81. I worked as an LE (Law Enforcement) with the 90th Security Police Group. I was assigned to base patrol and very soon promoted to the position of Desk Sergeant, even though I was only an airman. Thinking back, I can recall numerous occasions when I was on duty as Desk Sergeant when the security personnel at the Weapons Storage Area would contact me and report ‘lights’ overhead. I would usually dispatch a base patrolman to the area to confirm the sightings but I cannot recall any specific outcomes. I am sure I would have reported these incidents in the desk blotter.” 

“While I never experienced or heard of any ‘UFOs’ while stationed there, there were several times when we were called in for duty on our days off to patrol the base perimeter because there were satellites allegedly overhead taking pictures. I always wondered what those recalls were about. It was strange. Again, no one ever mentioned UFOs, it was always ‘satellites’. None of those recalls happened while I was on duty as the Desk Sergeant.”  

“The ‘satellite’ incidents were clustered, not spread-out, during my tenure at Warren. I seem to recall they would occur two or three nights in a row. I recall three times when my flight had to report for extra duty. One time we had been out at a bar off-base and when we returned to the base, the gate guards told us to immediately report to the armory to obtain weapons. Even though we had been drinking, they issued us weapons and we were posted on the perimeter of the nuclear Weapons Storage Area on base. It was unusual to use Law Enforcement personnel for this duty in that it was normally a function of the Security Police personnel.” 

“On two other occasions we were contacted at our barracks and told to report to the armory and obtain weapons. One of those times, I was posted at the Weapons Storage Area and another I was posted at the Combat Command Center doorway. Each time I was recalled for duty, our Flight Chief, a Tech Sergeant name Robert Moore, explained the situation regarding the satellites. During these instances our group headquarters was very active. Our squadron commander, Major Bernal F. Koersen, was usually present.” 

“It really did not make sense to us that we were being called in for duty because of a satellite overhead. It seemed odd to have us don combat gear and weaponry. We just accepted the explanation of ‘satellites’ but, because of the way we were rousted for duty and the command activity present, we knew these incidents were very different from any type of readiness response exercise we had participated in, which were frequent and routine. We were often called in for extra duty during DoD inspections or Global Shield exercises, but again, during the satellite incidents, there was a different feel to the situation and the hurried and tense demeanor of command-level staff was quite different.” 

Comment: One of my other sources suggests the possibility that the mysterious satellites reported above FE Warren were actually Soviet satellites involved in the verification of the 1979 U.S./Soviet SALT II agreement, which limited the number of strategic missile launchers in each country. However, given the specifics of DeSisto’s statement, this theory seems unlikely. Regardless, the Soviet satellite scenario would not explain the unidentified lights reported hovering at low altitude above the base’s nuclear Weapons Storage Area.  

DeSisto states that those sightings, by Air Force Security Police, had occurred on “numerous occasions” during 1980 and/or 1981. It should be noted that declassified documents from the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) confirm similar reports of UFOs, in August 1980, near the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, outside Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. 

Furthermore, another UFO was observed in December 1980, as it directed laser-like beams of light down into, or near, the Bentwaters AFB Weapons Storage Area, during the now-famous series of sightings at the Anglo-American base, in Suffolk, England. 

Walker AFB, New Mexico 1963-65:  

Comment: Florida Today newspaper columnist Billy Cox conducted the initial interviews with Jerry Nelson and Gene Lamb. His article, “UFOs Haunt Missile Crew”, was published in June 2001. 

1st Lt. Jerry C. Nelson—Former Atlas ICBM launch officer (Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander), 579th Strategic Missile Squadron, Walker AFB, New Mexico: 

Nelson states that on several occasions, while on alert in the underground launch capsule at Atlas Site 9, missile guards at ground-level had frantically reported a silent, very bright UFO hovering over the site. As he told Florida Today columnist Billy Cox, “The guards were scared. These objects would hover over the silo and shine lights down on them without making any noise.” Nelson told me that he had personally been involved in “probably more than three but fewer than ten” such incidents, over a period of a month or so. He also remembered that the sightings had occurred “at least six months, maybe more like a year” after the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, when the squadron had been placed on high-alert. 

Oddly enough, when Nelson notified the missile squadron’s Command Post about the incidents, his reports met with apparent indifference. Only much later did he learn that agents from the Office of Special Investigation had interviewed another individual regarding his knowledge of a similar incident. 

1st Lt. Philip Moore—Former Atlas ICBM launch officer (Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander), 579th Strategic Missile Squadron, Walker AFB, New Mexico: 

Moore, who retired as a Lieutenant Colonel, states that one night in the fall of 1964, while on alert in the launch capsule at Atlas Site 7, his missile commander, Major Dan Gilbert, received an extraordinary call from one of their “sister sites”, either Site 6 or Site 8. The commander at the other site reported that an extremely bright light was repeatedly hovering directly over the site, racing away, returning, and hovering again. Apparently, one of the enlisted men at the site, perhaps the security guard, had observed this activity and reported it to the missile commander. 

Moore states that some of Site 7’s own enlisted men, including Tech. Sgt. Jack Nevins, were ordered up to the “silo cap” to monitor the situation. Moore states, “They reported the UFO zooming from the direction of Site 6 to the direction of Site 8 and hovering for awhile at the end of the movement…They all described it as a silent light that moved extremely rapidly—instant go and instant stop, no getting up to speed or slowing down. The common comment I remember was that everyone thought it was a UFO, and that it was hovering directly over Sites 6 and 8 and nowhere else. Thus, it was specifically interested in those sites.” 

Moore states that the Site 7 crew were never debriefed and never warned not to discuss the incident. “In other words,” he said, “there was no official discussion or acknowledgment.” Moore concluded, “I personally believe that there is something to the UFO/ICBM connection. I know the Air Force covers-up when it feels the official need. UFOs over ICBM sites could be one of those official needs.” 

Airman 1st Class Thomas Kaminski—Former Atlas ICBM Launch Facilities Specialist, 579th Strategic Missile Squadron, Walker AFB, New Mexico: 

Kaminski states that he had been at one of the Atlas ICBM launch sites northeast of Walker AFB one evening in 1964, possibly 1965, when the missile commander, Captain D——, directed him topside to view unexplained lights which had been reported to the site. Kaminski states he observed two star-like objects at a great distance, moving in unison.  

When he reported his observations to the missile commander, Kaminski was told that the base was tracking the objects on radar and had scrambled two jet fighters to intercept them. Shortly thereafter, he observed the jets attempting to approach the unidentified lights, which then put on a burst of speed and outran the interceptors. The lights disappeared into a Cumulous cloud, followed by the fighters. Moments later, the jets emerged from the cloud but the lights were no longer visible. The fighters changed course and returned to base.  

The next morning, upon returning to Walker AFB, Kaminski’s missile team was routinely debriefed. He states, “During that briefing, my captain asked, ‘Whatever happened to the two UFOs?’ The response was, ‘What UFOs?’ My captain said, ‘The ones you sent the fighters up after!’ They said, ‘We didn’t sent up any fighters.’ We knew that was the end of that conversation!” 

Kaminski also states that he had once observed another UFO display, not at one of the remote missile sites but at Walker AFB itself. “At least half of my barracks saw this,” he said, “It was at night and there were two or three lights—possibly four or five—that were moving around in the sky. They looked like stars but, from time to time, they did 90-degree turns. Not all at once though—they moved independently. They obviously knew that they wouldn’t run into each other. I don’t understand why we didn’t hear any sonic booms. That bothers me. They stayed in the same general area [of the sky]. After about 15 minutes, zoom, they were gone.” Then he added, “Actually, [sightings of UFOs] were fairly common on base. I think that a lot of guys saw them. It wasn’t something that you discussed.” 

1st Lt. Eugene Lamb—Former Atlas ICBM launch officer (Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander), 579th Strategic Missile Squadron, Walker AFB, New Mexico: 

Lamb states that while he had not personally witnessed any of the UFO-related incidents at Walker’s Atlas sites, he had once spoken to a former missile crew commander who had. This individual admitted, decades later, that he had briefly left the launch capsule to go topside to observe strange aerial lights being frantically reported by the missile site’s guard. According to Lamb, the officer told him that the lights were unsettling because they had been moving erratically, and faster than jets. He told Lamb that he was familiar with all types of aircraft but had never seen anything like the extraordinary display in the sky above the Atlas silo. According to Lamb, the former officer had said, “These were not just lights. This was something else.” 

Lamb concluded, “People talked about [the sightings] at Happy Hour, after work, or after we got off-site, but it was kept pretty quiet as far as official statements went. To my knowledge, we were never briefed about it as a unit.”   

Airman 2nd Class Barry L. Krause—Former Atlas ICBM Missile Facilities Specialist, 579th Strategic Missile Squadron, Walker AFB, New Mexico: 

I did not personally interview Krause, who died in 1973. However, on December 20, 1964, he wrote to a civilian UFO research organization, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), to report an ongoing series of UFO-related incidents at his squadron’s Atlas ICBM sites. In the letter, Krause stated that some of the missile security police whom he had queried about the sightings had deflected his questions by saying that the incidents had been classified “top secret.” Krause also stated that, at one point, the UFO incidents had become so numerous, and ominous, that some of the missile guards were balking at reporting for duty. 

Comment: Krause’s 1964 letter to NICAP, written while the UFO incidents at Walker AFB were ongoing, is extremely important because it provides an unsolicited, contemporary account of some of the sightings at the missile sites. I would like to thank Richard Hall for sharing Krause’s letter with other researchers.  

Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota (1966): 

Staff Sgt. Albert Spodnik (USAF Ret.)—Former Electro-Mechanical technician, 44th Missile Maintenance Squadron, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota: 

Spodnik states that one summer night in 1966, he and a fellow Electro-Mechanical Team technician were dispatched to Launch Facility (silo) Juliet-3 to correct an electrical malfunction. For some reason, both the commercial power supply to the site and the emergency power systems had simultaneously failed, rendering the Minuteman I missile temporarily inoperable. In Air Force parlance, the ICBM had “gone off alert status”. 

After restoring power to the launch facility, Spodnik and his partner began an automated start-up procedure which would return the missile to normal operational status. When they left the underground silo to take a break, the technicians’ security escort alerted them to a sudden, excited exchange over the Crew Cab’s two-way radio. As the three men listened, they learned that an armed Air Force Security Alert Team had been ordered to investigate a triggered security alarm at nearby Launch Facility Juliet-5. Furthermore, the missile there had abruptly dropped off alert status. As with Juliet-3, the site had lost commercial electrical power and its diesel-powered generator, designed to charge back-up batteries, had failed to start. 

When the Security Alert Team arrived at Juliet-5, they reported that a strange object was sitting on the ground inside the security fence that surrounded the missile silo. As Spodnik and his companions eavesdropped, they heard the Flight Security Controller order the SAT to approach the object. Obviously upset, the team leader responded that he would not do so. He said that his team was parked outside the gate to the launch facility but would go no further. He then reported that the mysterious object was round, apparently metallic, and resting on a tripod landing gear. 

As this drama was unfolding over the radio, Spodnik and his companions quickly climbed up on the Crew Cab’s roof and flat bed to get a better view of the adjacent missile silo, which was about four miles away. Gazing across the flat, open terrain, they noticed an intense glow that seemed to envelop the entire launch facility, much brighter than the security lights located there. 

By this time, the Flight Security Controller had notified Juliet Flight’s Launch Commander about the situation. Spodnik could only hear the radio conversation between the Flight Security Controller and the Security Alert Team, but the Launch Commander had apparently ordered the team to approach the unidentified object. Once again, the team leader refused. In a strained voice, he abruptly asked for permission to fire on the object.  In response, the Flight Security Controller yelled, “Negative! Don’t shoot until you know what’s going on!” He then informed the agitated security team leader that the Launch Commander had ordered the men to stand-by while he called the Missile Command Post at Ellsworth AFB. After a few moments, the team leader was told that a helicopter was being sent to the site. 

Spodnik states that about 30 minutes after the Command Post had been notified about the UFO landing, he saw the helicopter in the distance, as it approached the stricken launch facility. When it was about five minutes away, someone screamed into the radio, “There it goes!”  Instantly, Spodnik saw a brilliant white light directly above Juliet-5, ascending vertically at enormous velocity. He said that while he couldn’t see the object itself, the light beneath it had the appearance of an “inverted flashlight beam”. 

After the furor had subsided, Spodnik and his partner finished their work at Juliet-3 and returned to the base. Upon arriving, they and their security escort were unexpectedly met by the missile maintenance commander, who promptly asked them if they had seen or heard anything unusual while at the launch facility. The security guard readily admitted to eavesdropping on the two-way radio, confessing that he was baffled by what had taken place at Juliet-5. 

Glancing nervously at each other, Spodnik and the other technician impulsively denied having witnessed anything out of the ordinary. Both men told the commander that they had spent the entire visit to the launch facility underground, restoring the missile to alert status. 

When I asked Spodnik why he had not admitted to listening to the radio chatter, he replied that he and his partner had previously heard rumors about missile technicians being relieved of duty for reporting strange occurrences at ICBM sites. “We heard about people reporting seeing things,” he said, “Not necessarily UFOs, just anything oddball that couldn’t be explained rationally. Those guys were ordered to report to the [base] hospital, examined, and medically discharged as mentally unfit for military service.” Spodnik admitted that he didn’t personally know of anyone who had been treated in this manner, but rumors to that effect had been circulating within his squadron. 

Spodnik was undoubtedly referring to a Department of Defense regulation known as “PRP”—Personnel Reliability Program. As mentioned earlier, this directive is designed to govern the behavior of those who work with or around nuclear weapons. Under its guidelines, potentially severe consequences await those judged by their superiors to be psychologically unstable. Several former Air Force missile personnel whom I have interviewed have said that, because of this regulation, they also had concerns about reporting their own UFO sighting, and often did not. 

Spodnik said that the maintenance commander, upon hearing his denial, eyed him suspiciously and then ordered the two technicians to report to his office early the next morning.  Upon arriving there, Spodnik noticed that the commander had with him an individual dressed in civilian clothes. This person was not introduced, said nothing, took no notes, but listened attentively as Spodnik and his partner answered the commander’s questions about the events of the previous evening.  Now very nervous, the pair nevertheless stuck to their story—they had seen and heard nothing. After a several-minute interrogation, the maintenance commander ordered the two men to report to duty. 

Spodnik further stated that the neither he nor his partner ever saw their security escort again. Ordinarily, standard duty rotation would have ensured that the same individual be assigned to accompany Spodnik on some future maintenance call, but this never occurred. Spodnik assumed that the escort had been transferred to another base, but never did learn the reason for his sudden departure. 

Comment: A second former 44th Missile Maintenance Squadron technician, whom I will not identify, has independently confirmed the essential elements in Spodnik’s account, in particular the landing of the UFO inside the missile silo’s security fence. This individual estimates that the incident occurred in late June or early July, 1966, just prior to his separation from the Air Force. 

Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota (1992): 

UFO sighting by two Minuteman missile maintenance personnel, whom I will not identify, as reported to Tech. Sgt. Jeff Goodrich (USAF Ret.)—Former Minuteman missile technician, 44th Field Missile Maintenance Squadron (FMMS), Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota: 

Just before midnight on October 27, 1992, two members of the 44th FMMS, Airman 1st Class Michael R—–, a vehicle controller, and Airman 1st Class Jason B—–, a Minuteman Electro-Mechanical Team technician, were approaching the squadron’s operations hangar when they saw a group of bright, white lights moving rapidly in rigid formation. While no solid object was actually visible, the fact that the lights did not vary in their positions relative to one another led the witnesses to concluded that they were arranged across the surface of a very large but unseen craft. 

As R—– and B—–  watched, the light formation moved directly toward the Minuteman missile maintenance hangar, hovered over it momentarily, and then moved away, disappearing behind a bank of low clouds. Both of the observers estimated that at its closest approach, the object was approximately a quarter-mile from them. 

Upon arriving at work, the startled eyewitnesses excitedly told those present about the sighting. At that time of night, there wasn’t much happening at the hangar and it was relatively empty except for a handful of people in the vehicles and equipment sections. 

The next day, another missile maintenance technician, Jeff Goodrich, also learned of the incident. Goodrich had a long-standing interest in UFOs, and was a certified field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network. Using that organization’s standard sighting questionnaire, he had R—–  and B—–  independently record the details of their experience less than two days later. 

R—– wrote, “It was kind of foggy out…When I first saw it, I thought it was an airplane, but it moved too smooth and swiftly without noise. I couldn’t believe it. I was totally amazed. It was an awesome sight. It seemed to hover about three-to-five hundred feet over the ground and [then] it just sort of disappeared in the air.” 

In his report, B—– wrote, “I noticed it when I looked out over the hangar where I work. I pointed it out to Mike, who was driving. At first I thought it was an airplane but it was way too big. There were no flashing lights like on most planes and [its] shape was like no plane I’ve ever seen. I was freaked out [and] Mike almost ran off the road, trying to get a better look at it…It disappeared behind the clouds above the base.” 

Each airman made drawings of the UFO itself, as well as its position in the sky, relative to the hangar. In R—–’s picture, the lights appear similar to a string of pearls, delineating the presumed boundary of an unseen kidney bean-shaped object. B—–  drew essentially the same picture, but with some of the lights positioned away from object’s edge. He also depicted it as having more of a boomerang shape. 

R—–  drew the UFO hovering directly over the missile maintenance hangar, whereas B—–  depicted the object approaching the facility from the north, and (as indicated by an arrow) moving into the cloud bank. 

Elsewhere on the questionnaire, in the section titled, Object Description, R—–  wrote that the UFO’s apparent width had been “2-3 times the size of a full moon”. B—–  instead described the lights, writing that each one appeared “2-3 times the size of a star.” However, in the Personal Account section, he wrote that the object itself had been much larger than an airplane and, in one of his drawings of the entire cluster of lights, he added the caption, “Approx. 300 ft. long”. 

Neither sighting witness was officially debriefed. It is unknown whether the UFO appeared on radar. 

END OF SOURCE TESTIMONY