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my name is Robert solace contrary to

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what it says on the card I was not a

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lieutenant colonel in the Air Force I

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was in the Air Force active duty after I

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graduated from the Air Force Academy in

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1964 until 1971 and separated as a

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captain in March of 1967 I was stationed

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at Malmstrom Air Force Base Montana as a

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missile launch officer that man missiles

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on an early morning of March 16 1967 I

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got a call from my security guard

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primary security guard upstairs we had

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about six as I recall flight security

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Airmen upstairs I was downstairs 60 feet

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underground in a capsule monitoring and

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controlling ten nuclear-tipped Minuteman

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missiles I got a call that morning that

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they were seeing strange lights flying

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in the sky I disregarded that call told

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him to call me when something more

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significant happened I got another call

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subsequent to that call and this time

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was the more intense tone in the in the

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guards voice is very clearly very

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frightened he said there was a a bright

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glowing a red object hovering outside

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the front gate

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it was oval-shaped he had all the other

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guards out there with her weapons drawn

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right after that call I woke up my

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commander was on a rest period Fred

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Maiwald retired colonel now and told him

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about the phone calls as I was telling

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him about the phone calls my weapons

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start going down one after the other

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they went into a no-go condition what we

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call no

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they were unlaunchable we lost somewhere

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between six and eight weapons that

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morning within minutes of having

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received that second phone call of a UFO

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hovering outside the front gate again

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that morning was after reporting it to

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the command post we we were informed

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that a similar very similar incident

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happened at Echo flight I was at Oscar

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flight they lost all ten of their

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weapons and under similar circumstances

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very similar circumstances where UFOs

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were sighted over the launch facilities

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they had they had maintenance crews and

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security crews out there that had spent

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the night and they were reporting UFOs

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over those sites and the commander of

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that flight was Eric Carlson he's he

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also separated as a captain and the

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deputy commander was Walt Fiegel retired

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as of the TAC curl we have those

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witnesses that I just mentioned the

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names I just mentioned are have spoken

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of this event before and they will back

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up this story we also have documentation

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that I received through FOI request from

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the Air Force outlining the echo flight

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incident and including in in that

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documentation a reference to UFOs we

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have telexes covering this incident and

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in one telex it it says the fact that no

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apparent reason for the loss of 10

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missiles can be readily identified his

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cause for grave concern of his

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headquarters this was from sac

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headquarters so we've received we've got

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those telexes i've got about 12

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witnesses it'll verify parts of this

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story including of a man who

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investigated the incident afterwards for

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the Air Force and you'll hear a little

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bit more about that with from the next

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witness and also another guard that

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witnessed the UFO in that same time

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period and another officer who retired a

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full colonel who had other reports of

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UFOs mm-hmm and ciliary to that excuse

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me I've got the complete report on a

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Minot North Dakota incident that was by

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Air Force Base North Dakota which

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happening August in 1966 very similar

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UFO decided over

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missile silos and also a UFO incident

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that was that was investigated by the

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Air Force immediately after our incident

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within a week I willing to testify to

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the truth of all these matters that I've

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spoken about this in front of Congress

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under oath thank you