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in the middle of the Cold War across

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remote stretches of the northern United

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States the Air Force kept ballistic

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missiles and B-52 bombers on constant

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alert

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on the night of October the 24th 1968 at

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Minot Air Force Base in Minot North

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Dakota

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Airmen first class Mike O'Connor was

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dispatched to make a routine repair at

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one of the missile sites

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we made our turn to come down the road

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to the missile site

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and out of the corner of my eye I

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observed

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a what I thought was a farmer's yard

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light but it looked awful bright

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and as we proceeded down the road the

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object appeared to lift off the ground

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and parallel us down the road until we

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came to the missile site

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at which point we got out of the truck

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and it just kind of hovered there

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staff sergeant Bill Smith was in charge

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of security for 10 nuclear missiles that

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night he reported seeing strange objects

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these objects would rise and would speed

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up they would slow it down they would

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hover

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they would Dart very quickly one way or

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the other

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we were just not really sure that these

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the Minot control tower diverted a B-52

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to investigate

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Captain Brad Runyon was The B-52s

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co-pilot

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the air traffic controller asked us if

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we would mind going out to this one area

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and looking for something I was curious

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I said well what are we looking for and

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they said well you'll know it if you

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find it

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the navigator on the B-52 Captain

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Patrick McCaslin suddenly identified an

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object on his radar screen

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I saw a return faint One Sweep bright

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the next large off our right wing three

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o'clock

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at about three miles

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and at that point I asked the radar

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navigator to turn on the camera which

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would then take pictures of whatever was

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these pictures of the radar screen show

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the object flying in formation with the

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B-52

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this thing was climbing out with us and

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maintaining the same heading we were

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that was unusual

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but what really watered my eyes

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when was it when this thing backed away

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and allowed us to turn inside of it

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when the object suddenly disappeared

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from the radar the bomber turned back to

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find it co-pilot Runyan was the first to

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spot what appeared to be a glowing craft

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hovering near the ground when things

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like that are happening it seems like

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time to stand still

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my estimate overall object was a minimum

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of 200 feet in diameter and it was

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it had a metallic cylinder attached to

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another section that was shaped like a

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crescent moon

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I felt that this Crescent Moon part was

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probably the command center

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I tried to look inside the thing but all

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I could see was a yellow glow

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at that point I was

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fairly sure if I was looking at an alien

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spaceship something they'd come here

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from some other

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Planet other than the Earth

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co-pilot Runyan and the other crew

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members of the B-52 reported their

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citing when they returned to the Base

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According to Blue Book's investigation

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the crew of the B-52

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and 16 Witnesses on the ground said they

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saw a UFO that night

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in its final report Blue Book concluded

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none of those Pilots saw a start I know

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those Pilots I know what their training

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was

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I know how many stars they'd seen in the

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course of their careers and they were

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not looking at the stars

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it bothers me that blue book blew it off

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I don't think this this

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incident has ever been adequately

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explained

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then

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an alarm goes off from one of the

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missile silos and uh well anyway uh

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so uh turns out that uh this was what

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was told to us at the briefing by a

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general officer the following day

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so uh air police were dispatched to the

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check on the missile alarm and uh

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so the first air policemen that were

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sent out didn't check in when it should

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have so it sent others to

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check on them and the second group found

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the first group unconscious around their

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vehicle with a paint burned off the top

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of their vehicle and when they came to

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they uh they said that uh you know

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something some object that they thought

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was going to sit down on top of them and

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uh so they started running those last

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that they knew but I doubt they didn't

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Swatch their vehicle or anything so it

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didn't sit down on

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and uh

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so uh but anyway uh it turns out that uh

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the reason that the alarms were set off

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is a 20-ton concrete lid

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covering the top of the missile silo had

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been removed and uh

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chain link fence around the thing had

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been squashed there was radioactivity

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around and uh

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the inner alarm down inside The Silo had

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also been activated

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well it turns out that the uh there were

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two ways to remove the uh the concrete

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lid you either have a large crane to

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lift 20 tons and set it off to the side

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or they have explosive charges that blew

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it off in case one launched the missile

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and go to war explosive charge that and

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been activated so these things aren't on

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a mechanism no no

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it's just it's just a big concrete lid

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just sitting outside

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yeah they blow it off yeah so but the

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thing was move to the side yeah it was

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off to the side someplace it wasn't on

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top of the the missile silo anyway no

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and the chip there's a chain link fence

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yes tight around

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oh well just just to keep mainly keep

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animals out I guess people and uh but a

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part of it had been uh flattened just

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squashed there weren't any any tracks

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around other than you know just right

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there at the chain link fence now we

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want to point out that the written

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account of the sighting doesn't say

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anything no no this was just told to us

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that file was such of an important

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nature to their Force