Nature of the Alien : ET's, Demons or Gov't Plot? : Pt 14

NATURE OF THE ALIEN : ET's, DEMONS OR GOV'T PLOT? : PT 14

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Last Updated : June 23, 2007

Capt. Robert L. Salas And Malmstrom AFB UFO Incident, Layout
Of LCC's And LF's, US President Has Power To Push The Button,
Missile Silos Shut Down By UFO's, Lt. Colonel Dwynne Arneson,
Echo-Flight LLC UFO Incident, Other UFO Sightings In Montana,
Electromagnetic Pulse Is Cause For Grave Concern, Are Aliens
Trying To Protect Us From Our Own Nuclear Destruction?, Other
Malmstrom AFB UFO Possibilities, Coverup Of Malmstrom AFB UFO

One interesting account comes from Captain Robert L. Salas. A
retired U.S. Air Force officer, (1964-1971), Salas served as
a SAC, or Strategic Air Command, Launch Controller. In other
words, Salas was stationed at one of the many nuclear missile
launch sites which dot the country, and was thus responsible
for the launch of Minuteman nuclear-tipped ICBM missiles at a
time when the Cold War was still in progress. In his video-
taped testimony to The Disclosure Project, Salas describes a
UFO-related event that occurred on March 16, 1967, in central
Montana, at the Oscar-Flight Launch Control Center, or LCC.
Salas was the DMCCC, or Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander
of the underground complex, or capsule, as they are called.
In his own words, Captain Salas states:

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"My security guard says, 'Sir, there's a glowing red object
hovering right outside the front gate; I'm looking at it
right now. I've got all the men out here with their weapons
drawn' . . . The nuclear-tipped warheads went into a "no-go"
condition, meaning they could not be launched. That morning,
we lost anywhere from between sixteen to eighteen ICBMs at
the same time UFO's were in the area and were observed by
airmen. Bob Kominski headed up the organization to look at
all aspects of these shutdowns. He was told by his boss that
the Air Force said, 'Stop the investigation. Do no more on
this, and do not write a final report.' This is very unusual;
especially in light of the fact that headquarters was stating
that this was of extreme importance."

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Captain Salas also stated, (although I am not certain that it
was a part of this same interview), that "many of the guards
that reported this incident were sent off to Viet Nam". This
line of action, if it is true, would be consistent with what
we discussed earlier regarding how some UFO observers would
be threatened into silence; and in extreme cases, they would
even be eliminated entirely. The disastrous war in Viet Nam
would undoubtedly be the perfect cover-up for the government
to rid itself of these men; and the evidence of a UFO event,
as witnessed by these men, would be buried forever. Did the
U.S. Government actually resort to these tactics? I really
don't know. Captain Salas seems to hint that it was so.

Given the nature of his experience, Captain Salas obviously
shared his UFO account with eager listeners and readers on
more than one occasion. In discussing his UFO experience on
what may have been a separate occasion from the above-noted
interview, Salas adds a few more details to what occurred on
the early morning of March 16, 1967. He states:

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"The UFO incident happened on the morning of March 16, 1967.
. . . on duty at Oscar Flight as part of the 490th Strategic
Missile Squad, and there are five launch control facilities
assigned to that particular squadron . . . and I received a
call from my topside security guard . . . and he said that he
and some of the guards had been observing some strange lights
flying around the site, around the launch control facility. I
said, 'You mean UFO?' He said, well, he didn't know what they
were, but they were lights, and were flying around. They were
not airplanes. They were not helicopters. They weren't making
any noise . . . [A little later] our missiles started
shutting down one by one. By shutting down, I mean they went
into a 'no-go' condition, meaning they could not be launched.
These weapons were Minuteman One missiles, and were of course
nuclear-tipped warhead missiles . . . this incident was of
extreme concern to SAC headquarters because they couldn't
explain it."

----- End Quote -----

Let me point out that in earlier accounts of his experience,
Salas had said that he was the DMCCC at the November-Flight
Launch Control Center; while in more recent ones, he states
that he was actually the DMCCC at the Oscar-Flight LCC. On
May 15, 2000, Captain Salas and Jim Klotz, (the admin of the
CUFON website), clarified that further research and witness
testimony had confirmed that Salas was actually stationed at
the Oscar-Flight LCC. Perhaps this obvious difference was a
memory slip on his part. However, since both LCC's were under
the jurisdiction of the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron, in
my view, this was just a minor discrepancy; and it doesn't by
any means diminish the overall credibility and truthfulness
of Salas' account. Please bear in mind that these astounding
events transpired forty years ago; and that is sufficient
time for anyone to forget a few of the facts, or to mix them
up by mistake. There's no intentional malice when we do this.

In fact, as I continued my research for this series, I came
across some addition information on the NICAP website, where
Captain Salas explains how initially, he was under the false
impression that he was on duty at the Echo-Flight LCC when
these events occurred. However, he soon realized that this
could not be, because the Echo-Flight Launch Command Center
was not the responsibility of the 490th Strategic Missile
Squadron to which he was assigned. As you will see shortly,
apart from the great amount of time which has elapsed since
the UFO event occurred, Salas' confusion may also have been
due to the fact that more than one LCC had UFO sightings on
that day. Salas also mentioned that sometimes they would man
LCC's that were outside of their own squadron's control.

Out of all of the different versions of Salas' story that I
found scattered across the Internet, the following one seems
to be one of the more detailed and up-to-date accounts of the
UFO encounter that occurred at Oscar-Flight LCC on March 16,
1967. This is because, (as Salas points out in his testimony
on the NICAP website), other people who served with him at
that time, stepped forward and helped him to fill in some of
the missing details of his account. I found this information
on the Computer UFO Network website. An even longer version
of Salas' testimony can be found on the NICAP website. In the
interest of getting this information out, I have relied upon
the "Fair Use" clause, (Section 107 of the Copyright Code),
and am sharing Salas' testimony in its entirety, as it is
found on the CUFON website:

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"My recollection is that I was on duty as a Deputy Missile
Combat Crew Commander below ground in the LCC, during the
morning hours of 16 March 1967.

Outside, above the subterranean LCC capsule, it was a typical
clear, cold Montana night sky; there were a few inches of
snow on the ground. Where we were, there were no city lights
to detract from the spectacular array of stars, and it was
not uncommon to see shooting stars. Montana isn't called "Big
Sky Country" for no reason, and Airmen on duty topside
probably spent some of their time outside looking up at the
stars. It was one of those airmen who first saw what at first
appeared to be a star begin to zig-zag across the sky. Then
he saw another light do the same thing, and this time it was
larger and closer. He asked his Flight Security Controller,
(FSC, the Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) in charge of Launch
Control Center site security), to come and take a look. They
both stood there watching the lights streak directly above
them, stop, change directions at high speed and return
overhead. The NCO ran into the building and phoned me at my
station in the underground capsule. He reported to me that
they had been seeing lights making strange maneuvers over the
facility, and that they weren't aircraft. I replied: "Great.
You just keep watching them and let me know if they get any
closer."

I did not take this report seriously and directed him to
report back if anything more significant happened. At the
time, I believed this first call to be a joke. Still, that
sort of behavior was definitely out of character for air
security policemen whose communications with us were usually
very professional.

A few minutes later, the security NCO called again. This time
he was clearly frightened and was shouting his words:

"Sir, there's one hovering outside the front gate!"

"One what?"

"A UFO! It's just sitting there. We're all just looking at
it. What do you want us to do?"

"What? What does it look like?"

"I can't really describe it. It's glowing red. What are we
supposed to do?"

"Make sure the site is secure and I'll phone the Command
Post."

"Sir, I have to go now, one of the guys just got injured."

Before I could ask about the injury, he was off the line. I
immediately went over to my commander, Lt. Fred Meiwald, who
was on a scheduled sleep period. I woke him and began to
brief him about the phone calls and what was going on
topside. In the middle of this conversation, we both heard
the first alarm klaxon resound through the confined space of
the capsule, and both immediately looked over at the panel of
annunciator lights at the Commander's station. A 'No-Go'
light and two red security lights were lit indicating
problems at one of our missile sites. Fred jumped up to query
the system to determine the cause of the problem. Before he
could do so, another alarm went off at another site, then
another and another simultaneously. Within the next few
seconds, we had lost six to eight missiles to a 'No-Go'
(inoperable) condition.

After reporting this incident to the Command Post, I phoned
my security guard. He said that the man who had approached
the UFO had not been injured seriously but was being
evacuated by helicopter to the base. Once topside, I spoke
directly with the security guard about the UFOs. He added
that the UFO had a red glow and appeared to be saucer shaped.
He repeated that it had been immediately outside the front
gate, hovering silently.

We sent a security patrol to check our LFs after the
shutdown, and they reported sighting another UFO during that
patrol. They also lost radio contact with our site
immediately after reporting the UFO.

When we were relieved by our scheduled replacement crew later
that morning, the missiles had still not been brought on line
by on-site maintenance teams.

Again, UFOs had been sighted by security personnel at or
about the time Minuteman Strategic missiles shut down."

----- End Quote -----

Please note that Captain Salas said that five Launch Control
Centers are under the jurisdiction of the 490th Strategic
Missile Squadron, which, according to my research, has been
stationed at the Malmstrom Air Force Base for almost forty
years. Information from the mid 1990's indicates that these
five LCC's are Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, and Oscar. As I
mentioned earlier, the 490th Strategic Missile Squadron was
not responsible for the Echo-Flight LCC. A map I found shows
two LCC's located in Fergus County, Montana, about fifteen
miles to the north/northeast of the town of Lewistown. These
two Launch Control Centers, Echo-Flight LCC and Oscar-Flight
LCC, each control ten LF's, or Launch Facilities. An LF is a
military term for a missile silo. Each Launch Facility has
one missile. Currently, most of these missiles are probably
Minuteman III "G" model missiles, although some of the LF's
may already be equipped with the newer Minuteman IV
missiles.

To put things in perspective, Malmstrom AFB is located about
eighty-five to one hundred miles west of these two LCC's and
their accompanying missile silos. It is just to the east of
Great Falls, Montana. The 490th Strategic Missile Squadron
is responsible for a total of fifty missile silos; ten per
LCC; and thus, a total of fifty Minuteman ICBM missiles. At
the Global Security website, I found the following
description of the LCC and LF layout:

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"The Minuteman missile is maintained on alert in an unmanned,
hardened underground launch facility (LF) approximately 80
feet deep, 12 feet in diameter, and covered by a 100-ton
blast door which is blown prior to missile launch. A launcher
support building (LSB) buried near the launch tube contains
environmental control equipment and standby power sources. An
electronic surveillance system is used at the LF to detect
intruders. The missiles are deployed in "circular" flights of
ten missiles controlled by a single, centrally located launch
control center (LCC) manned by a Missile Combat Crew. The LCC
contains all equipment needed by the crew to control and
monitor the missile and the LF. Each LCC is separated from
the others by a minimum of 14 miles and is buried at a depth
of 40 to 100 feet below grade. The missile alert facility
(MAF) topside contains living quarters and support equipment
for the facility meager (FM), cook, and security personnel.
The 490 MS consists of 50 LFs, located at least three miles
from adjacent missiles for survivability, arranged in five
flights (Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, and Oscar), all
redundantly interconnected by a buried, hardened cable
network which connect them with the LCCs. Each LCC
continually monitors the operational status and security of
the ten missiles and LFs in its own flight and has the
capability to control, monitor, and launch all 50 missiles in
the squadron. Launch, if directed, must be commanded by at
least two different LCCs in the squadron or by the airborne
launch control center (ALCC) aboard a modified EC-135."

----- End Quote -----

Personally, I find all of this information very sobering, if
not a bit unnerving. It shows how very serious the U.S.A. is
regarding its defensive system. Perhaps the part that alarms
me the most, is how easily an American president can launch
an attack, if he deems it prudent to do so. There is no one
between him and the LCC's. If he gives the order, they must
follow it. Consider this:

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"The primary mission of each alert duty crew is the same: be
prepared at any moment, upon receipt of valid execution
orders initiated by the President of the United States, to
launch one or more intercontinental ballistic missiles
against enemy targets. The missile crew in effect responds
directly to the President. There is no intermediate or
intervening authority."

----- End Quote -----

Given his obsession with his so-called "Axis of Evil", I can
only imagine how President Bush would react if he felt the
United States was seriously threatened by Iran, North Korea,
or any other member of the nuclear club.

As I'll be sharing in a moment, the Echo-Flight LCC observed
UFO's, and experienced missile shut-downs that same morning
in March of 1967. The testimony of Captain Salas appears to
be corroborated by Lt. Colonel Dwynne Arneson, who seems to
be describing the very same events discussed by Capt. Salas.
In his testimony to The Disclosure Project, Arneson stated:

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"I was the top-secret control officer at Malmstom AFB for
the 20th Air Division. I happened to see a message that came
through my communications center. It said . . . that 'A UFO
was seen near missile silos' . . . and it was hovering. It
said that the crew going on duty and the crew coming off
duty all saw the UFO just hovering in mid-air. It was a
metallic circular object; and from what I understand, the
missiles were all shut down. What I mean by 'missiles going
down', is that they went dead. And something turned those
missiles off, so they couldn't be put back in a mode for
launching."

----- End Quote -----

The previous UFO incident, as described by Salas and Arneson,
is commonly referred to in UFO circles as the Malmstrom AFB
UFO Incident. The CUFON, (Computer UFO Network), site offers
additional information which helps us to fill in some of the
details which are not included in the previous quotes from
Captain Salas and Lt. Colonel Arneson; and tells us what was
happening at the Echo-Flight Launch Control Center, at the
same time that UFO's were also being observed about fourteen
miles away at the Oscar-Flight LCC. Again, relying upon the
"Fair Use" clause, I am sharing the following information
written by Jim Klotz, as found on the CUFON website:

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"In central Montana, Thursday morning March 16 1967, Captain
Eric Carlson and First Lieutenant. Walt Figel, the
Echo-Flight Missile Combat Crew, were below ground in the
E-Flight Launch Control Center (LCC) or capsule. The Echo
Flight LCC was located between Winfred and Hilger, about
fifteen miles north of Lewistown.

Missile maintenance crews and security teams were camped out
at two of the Launch Facilities (LFs), having performed some
work during the previous day and stayed there overnight.
During the early morning hours, more than one report came in
from the security patrols and maintenance crews that they had
seen UFOs. A UFO was reported directly above one of the
E-Flight (LF) or silos. It turned out that at least one
security policeman was so affected by this encounter that he
never again returned to missile security duty.

Around 8:30 a.m., Figel, the Deputy Crew Commander (DMCCC),
was briefing Carlson, the Crew Commander (MCCC), on the
flight status when the alarm horn sounded. One of the
Minuteman missiles they supervised had gone off alert (become
inoperable). It was one of the two sites where maintenance
crews had camped out on-site. Upset, thinking that the
maintenance personnel had failed to notify him as required by
procedure when maintenance work is done on a missile, that
the missile was going 'off-alert' status, Figel immediately
called the missile site.

When Figel spoke with the on-site security guard, he reported
that they had not yet performed any maintenance that morning.
He also stated that a UFO had been hovering over the site.
Figel recalls thinking the guard must have been drinking
something. However, now other missiles started to go off
alert in rapid succession! Within seconds, the entire flight
of ten ICBMs was down! All of their missiles reported a
"No-Go" condition. One by one across the board, each missile
had became inoperable. When the checklist procedure had been
completed for each missile site, it was discovered that each
of the missiles had gone off alert status due to a Guidance
and Control (G&C) System fault. Power had not been lost to
the sites; the missiles simply were not operational because,
for some unexplainable reason, each of their guidance and
control systems had malfunctioned.

Two Security Alert Teams (SAT, "strike teams") were
dispatched from Echo to those sites where the maintenance
crews were present. Figel had not informed the strike teams
that one of the on-site guards had reported a UFO. On arrival
at the LF's, the SAT reported back that UFOs had been seen
hovering over each of the two sites by all of the maintenance
and security personnel present at each site.

Captain Don Crawford's crew relieved the Echo Flight crew
later that morning. Crawford recalls that both Carlson and
Figel were still visibly shaken by what had occurred.
Crawford also recalled that the maintenance crews worked on
the missiles the entire day and late into the night during
his shift to bring them all back on alert. Not only had
missiles been lost to our deterrent forces, but had remained
out of service for an entire day!

Because of this unique incident, as an ex-Missileer describes
it: "All Hell broke loose!" Among the many calls to and from
the E-Flight LCC one was to the MCCC of Oscar-Flight which
links to the equally dramatic story of what happened in
another LCC that same morning."

----- End Quote -----

So as you can plainly see by the previous testimonies, the
personnel at two different Launch Control Centers and their
adjoining Launch Facilities, had observed UFO's on that same
morning in March of 1967. Furthermore, ICBM missiles at both
locations became inoperative for reasons that were unknown
to the personnel there. At the Echo-Flight Launch Command
Center, all ten Minuteman missiles were mysteriously taken
offline; and at the Oscar-Flight LLC, according to Salas'
commander, five missiles were disabled. However, Capt. Salas
continues to believe that it was more than five. Finally,
both groups of people reported these UFO events to their
superior officers, not realizing that the other LCC was
experiencing the very same thing.

While I have concentrated on the major events which occurred
at the Echo-Flight and Oscar-Flight Launch Control Centers,
please note that there were other UFO sightings which were
directly related to these two events, but which occurred not
only before them, but after them as well; and they happened
in the very same general region of Montana. Again, I'm going
to share some additional information from the CUFON website:

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"According to articles from the Great Falls Tribune newspaper,
on February 8, 1967 Louis DeLeon saw two strange objects in
the sky which did not look like airplanes and they glowed an
orange and red color while driving east of Chester, Montana.
Later, ten miles east of Chester, Jake Walkman was awakened
by a bright light at his home. From his back yard he sighted
a "flying saucer" shaped object. The next evening, George
Kawanishi, a foreman for the Great Northern Railroad, saw a
bright ball of light in the sky directly above the Chester
train depot. These are but a few of the sightings which
preceded the missile shutdown incidents later in March.

It was during this same period, according to Col. Don
Crawford (USAF ret.), that a two person SAT, assigned to Echo
Flight, was performing a routine check of the missile launch
facilities a few miles north of Lewistown, Montana. As they
approached one of the launch facilities, an astonishing sight
caused the driver to slam on his brakes. Stunned in
amazement, they watched as, about 300 feet ahead, a very
large glowing object hovered silently directly over the
launch facility. One of them picked up his VHF hand
microphone and called then Captain Don Crawford who was the
DMCCC on duty that evening.

"Sir, you wouldn�t believe what I�m looking at," he said.

He described what they were seeing. Crawford didn�t believe
him at first but the young airman insisted he was telling the
truth, his voice revealing his emotional state. Eventually
Crawford took him seriously enough to call the Command Post
to report it. The officer on duty at the Command Post refused
to accept the report and simply stated, "We no longer record
those kinds of reports," indicating he didn�t want to hear
about the UFO. Crawford unsure of what to tell his shaken
security guard, decided to give the guard his permission to
fire his weapon at the object if it seemed hostile.

"Thanks, sir, but I really don�t think it would do any good,"

A few seconds later the object silently flew away.

There were sightings in the area before and after the missile
shutdown incidents by military personnel and civilians."

----- End Quote -----

Following these events, naturally, an official investigation
was undertaken in order to find out exactly what had caused
the launch mechanisms to simultaneously fail on all the ICBM
missiles. It was theorized that an electromagnetic pulse, or
EMP, from an unknown source might have been the culprit. Is
it possible that this EMP may have originated from the UFO's
that visited the two LCC's that morning? If so, were their
occupants, be they humans or aliens, conveying the message
that they are concerned about humanity's destructive nature,
and our dangerous fixation with WMD, or weapons of mass
destruction?

Ironically, as amazing as these events were, and even though
they presented a danger from a defensive point of view, to
this day, the United States Air Force continues to maintain
that no UFO incident has ever presented a danger to national
security. This statement directly contradicts what actually
happened following the Malmstrom AFB UFO incident. I found
out that beginning in that same year, 1967, a major upgrade
of the weapons system at Malmstrom AFB was begun. Further-
more, a second major upgrade was initiated in April, 1977.
Known as the Improved Launch Control System Program, among
other improvements, this second systems upgrade provided
electromagnetic pulse protection for some of the weapons
system hardware and software. The upgrade was completed on
March 1, 1979.

Obviously, this EMP protection came about as a result of the
UFO intrusions at two LCC's that morning in March of 1967.
So it seems to me that the military does in fact view UFO's,
at least some UFO's, as being a direct threat to maintaining
national security. In fact, in one declassified message that
was sent from SAC headquarters during that time, it clearly
states that the fact that all ten LF's were simultaneously
neutralized, was a "cause for grave concern" at SAC
headquarters.

Allow me to point out that I'm not saying that the occupants
of all UFO's are a threat to humanity, as I honestly don't
know what their intentions are concerning the inhabitants of
Planet Earth. I don't know if they are hostile or not. As I
have already stated, going by the amount of information that
I have collected, it may very well be that some of them are
good, while others are evil. If they are real, perhaps they
are not much different from ourselves. Contrary to being a
threat to us, these testimonies concerning the Malmstrom AFB
UFO events would seem to indicate that, if anything, they
are trying to prevent us from destroying ourselves. Through
our modern technology, we have become a threat to ourselves.
If alien intelligences exist, they obviously don't want us
humans to carry our violence-prone nature into Outer Space.

While I've said that the occupants of the Malmstrom AFB UFO's
may have intentionally knocked out the missiles at those two
LCC's, in order to send humanity a clear message regarding
the use of WMD, there also exists the possibility that they
may not have even been aware that their crafts were having
such an effect on the hardware and software at the LF's that
day. Finally, while I have mentioned UFO occupants, perhaps
we should also consider the possibility that these were not
manned crafts at all. Perhaps they were remotely controlled
crafts, similar to those that are currently used by the U.S.
military. Considering all of the information we have gone
over, it may very well be that the events which occurred at
these two locales, were actually psychological experiments
being conducted by the military on their own people. Maybe
they were testing some of their own new technology, in order
to see how effective it would be against a foreign enemy's
nuclear missiles. It is a possibility worth considering.

What I also find disturbing, is the fact that while the U.S.
Government has long maintained that UFO's do not exist, in
the case of the Malmstrom AFB UFO incident, all of the info
concerning it, that was included in the 1967 unit histories
for the 341st Strategic Missile Wing, was immediately buried
and classified, so that it would never come to light. In his
testimony that is found on the NICAP website, Captain Salas
states in part concerning the intentional cover-up:

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"After that day, and through the time of my transfer from the
base in June 1969, none of the crews, including ours, ever
received any additional information on the incident. There
was never a report of investigation that was released to the
missile crews or any other explanation given of the incident.
This was also unusual because we were given regular briefings
about any technical areas of concern regarding the readiness
of our weapons."

"The first unit history (January - March 1967, pg. 38) also
has a brief statement suggesting reports of UFO activity. It
states the following: "Rumors of Unidentified Flying Objects
(UFO) around the area of Echo Flight during the time of fault
were disproved. A Mobile Strike Team, which had checked all
November Flight's LFs (launch facilities) on the morning of
16 March 67, were questioned, and stated that no unusual
activity or sightings were observed." This statement was
informative in that there would be no reason to query the
November Flight strike team (security) about rumors of UFOs
in the area of Echo Flight. This is the only reference to
UFOs regarding this incident in any of the documents received
from USAF and the statement is simply untrue. None of the
reports we received from guards or maintenance personnel were
ever retracted."

----- End Quote -----

In short, the U.S. Air Force was blatantly lying by stating
that no UFO's had been seen in the area of the Echo-Flight
Launch Command Center on that day. As Captain Salas states,
the men who were directly involved in the incident, and who
actually saw the UFO's, never retracted their statements;
meaning that they stood by them. So why does the official
USAF record, (the unit histories), state that "no unusual
activity or sightings were observed"?

Please go to part fifteen for the continuation of this
series.

Go To Part Fifteen . . .