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and it's uh 1968 uh Minot Air Force Base

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and that is a Strategic Air Command

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nuclear missile base and that was going

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on it was at the height of the Cold War

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and we have about 14 different Witnesses

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so I thought we would kind of check out

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the documents here so we have Minot Air

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Force Base 68 Air Force documents what

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happened according to Lieutenant Moreno

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at about oh 300 hours local a B-52 that

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was about 39 miles Northwest of Minot

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Air Force Base and was making practice

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penetration cited an unidentified blip

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on their radar initially the target

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traveled approximately approximately two

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and a half miles in three seconds or at

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after passing from the right to the left

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of the plane it assumed a position off

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the left wing of the 52. the blip stayed

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off the left wing for approximately 20

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miles at which point it broke off scope

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when the target was close to the B-52 it

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neither of the two transmitters in the

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B-52 would operate properly but when it

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broke off both returned to normal

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function so they have this UFO sighting

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and When the UFO gets close to the B-52

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their communication Transmissions go

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down at about this time a missile

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maintenance man called in and reported a

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citing a bright orange red object the

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object was hovering at about a thousand

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feet or so and had a sound similar to a

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jet engine The Observer had stopped his

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car but he then started it up again as

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he started to move the object followed

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him and then accelerated and appeared to

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stop about six to eight miles away the

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Observer shortly afterward lost sight of

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it in response to the maintenance man's

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call the B-52 which had continued its

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penetration run was vectored towards the

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visual which was about 10 miles

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Northwest of the base the B-52 confirmed

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having cited a bright light of some type

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that appeared to be hovering just over

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or on the ground

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14 other people in separate locations

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also reported citing a similar object

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also at this approximate time security

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alarm for one of the sites was activated

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this was an alarm for both the outer and

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inner ring when guards arrived at the

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scene they found that the outer door was

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open and the combination lock on the

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inner door had been moved

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here we go Minot Air Force Base 68

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the documents the break-in if it was a

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person

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Lieutenant Moreno asked if it was going

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with the win and explained how we've had

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trouble with hot air balloons and he

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gave the description duration Etc

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Colonel warlick informed Lieutenant

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Moreno that if he was familiar with the

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geography he would see why this wouldn't

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be possible there must be four or five

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farmhouses within 10 mile radius and

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Grano with six to ten small dwellings

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and the areas deserted at this time of

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the morning I doubt that there would be

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any activity like this the sighting was

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about 11 miles from November 7th site

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November 7 is a missile site that's

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where one of the nukes missiles are this

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is a sensitive subject anybody that

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could unlock the padlock wouldn't be a

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prankster from the farm area there are

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keys for these padlocks and it's hard to

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judge how many keys have been made it

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looks like a Navy hatch and underneath

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it is the combination lock pranksters

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just couldn't go and open it the person

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what else would it be

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would have to know how to open it we

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have had about three occurrences in the

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last two or three years doing this all

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three of these cases were tracked back

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to air police guys who had been in the

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service on these areas it is not a

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serious offense 99 out of 100 chance

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instead of a person a human being

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accomplished this thing then it had to

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be somebody who had a key to the padlock

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Lieutenant Moreno told Colonel warlick

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that we have no evidence though that the

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UFO events did this Colonel warlick

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agreed but said that a lieutenant

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examined the area the next day and could

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find no evidence of cars tire tracks

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Footprints Etc Colonel wurlich said that

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he didn't know if an examination

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investigation was going on or not but

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felt they probably were looking into it

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Communication System malfunctions the

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unusual part is the B-52 was in the

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middle of a sentence and the voice just

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quit transmitting right in the middle of

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the word

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because we had an accident a couple of

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weeks ago we were quite interested

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Ground Control asked them if they had

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any trouble to give a mode a squawk the

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airplane changed both UHF and neither

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would transmit but they could receive

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and each time to show that they could

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receive they hit the squawk which will

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last for about 30 seconds each time

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there's quite a bit of this the

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Navigator watched the paint disappear as

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fast as it appeared

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my personal opinion is that it couldn't

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be a malfunction because they

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transmitted before and afterwards the

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aircraft was not checked out afterwards

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because the transmission was working

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have been enough to point out the

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transmission

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so we have radar

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and we have visual

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investigator needed help ask didn't get

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it colonel wurlick said he would be

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flying tomorrow and Monday Colonel

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warlick said that he had done the

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initial investigation in accordance with

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the regulations

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and I met the limit of my capabilities

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Colonel warlick I can send supplemental

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data and will if we make our desires

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known and inform what specific

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information we need Colonel warlick said

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that we were hoping for technical

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assistance and we didn't get it

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Lieutenant Moreno told warlick we felt

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that he was doing an adequate job as far

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as technical data Colonel warlick said

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that this was his first report and

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didn't know how to ask questions or

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anything

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and he had spent too much time on it

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already

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plasma suggested as cause talked to Mr

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Goff

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who was quite familiar with Airborne

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Radars Mr Goff said that from the

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evidence available at this time it would

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appear to him that the sightings may

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have been precipitated by some type of

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ionized air plasma similar to ball

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lightning he felt that a plasma could

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account for the radar blip loss of

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transmission and some of the visual

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sightings the entry of the missile site

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is being investigated by local

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authorities and with the information at

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our disposal at this time no explanation

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you know what they're talking about

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it's an orb

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the witnesses an interesting additional

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testimony so all these people were

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at 0308 hours the initial report was

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received from a maintenance team in

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route from November 8 to November 7

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again to missile sites

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and A1C O'Connor was the maintenance

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team Chief and he stated that all

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members of the team observed the lighted

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object they further stated that it was

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reddish orange in color a very large

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object with flashing green and white

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lights after they entered November 7 if

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the object came directly over ahead with

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the sound of a jet engine

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Sergeant bond to the FSC at November

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Fleet stated that the object which

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looked to him as the sun came near the

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hendred antenna November 1. it then

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moved to the right and he sent the s.a.t

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out to check and see what it is the

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object then moved about one mile away

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with the November security alert team

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following they came within a half a mile

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from where it appeared to be landing

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when it reached the surface the lights

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became dimmer and finally went out after

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this they could see nothing Sergeant

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Smith at Oscar won saw the object

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separate in two parts and go in opposite

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directions and return and pass under

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each other at this time Gillette Fleet

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and Mike fleet team observed the same

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things and described it in the same way

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the approximate grid coordinate of the

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apparent Landing was at aa43 the entire

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observation period as near as can be

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determined was about 45 minutes

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and these are just like the kind of

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breakdowns the timeline of events I'm

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not going to go through all these

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obviously because there's a lot of them

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but you can see that this is a real

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event

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you know

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we have a breakdown minute by minute

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object now appears one mile away object

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now reverse Direction and moving towards

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site now 600 feet from sight and lower

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from 800 feet

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two are seeing no jet engines heard now

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very clearly moving Southwest of site

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and gaining altitude just our Insight

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now when it passed oversight it looked

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like two headlights moving real slow

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when oversight could hear engines the

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final conclusion was by Foreign

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technology division visual star and a

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plane

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radar and communication issues plasma

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great case we have visual we have radar

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that clocked it at 3 000 miles per hour

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well beyond anything humans could

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and now the best part of this the most

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interesting part of this case is to me

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the break-in part and I'm going to play

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some testimony from somebody that was

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there

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and what somebody told him about that

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aspect oh an alarm goes off from one of

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the missile silos this is what was told

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to us at the briefing by a general

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officer the following the air police

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were dispatch to uh check on the missile

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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 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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squash their vehicle or anything so it

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didn't sit down on them

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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 covering the

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top of a missile silo had been removed

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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 there weren't any any

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tracks around other than you know is

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this right there at the chain link man

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that's file was such of an important

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nature to the Air Force