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good afternoon my name is Robert solace

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in 1967 I was a first lieutenant

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stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base

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Montana I was a missile launch officer

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and in March on march 24th 1967 I was on

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duty at what we called Oscar flight

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it is a underground capsule

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Harden's site about 60 feet underground

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we had security guards topside

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the main guard is called a flight

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security controller my commander at the

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time was lieutenant Fred Maiwald now

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Colonel retired colonel Fred my wall

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sometime in the evening hours on March

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24th I received a call from one of my

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top side guards the flight security

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controller stating that they had been

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observing strange lights in the sky

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making odd maneuvers and wanted to

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report it I thought it was kind of

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strange report but I took it seriously

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you have to understand we were

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protecting nuclear weapons and we

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reports we generally got were very

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professional at any rate I kind of

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dismissed the call he called back about

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five minutes later this time he was

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screaming into the phone saying they're

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looking at an object a red glowing

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object hovering just above our front

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gate the Asajj echt was about thirty

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feet in diameter he couldn't make out

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too much the details of the object only

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that it was pulsating and

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and he had all the guards out there he

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was very frightened wanted me to give

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him direction I think I said something

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like make sure nothing comes inside the

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perimeter fence

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he immediately hung the phone up we I

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went to wake my commander Fred Maiwald

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who was taking a rest break started to

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tell him about the phone call and just

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as I told him our missiles began going

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into what's called a no-go condition or

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unlaunchable essentially they were

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disabled when this object was still

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hovering over our site our launch

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control facility at that point we went

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through our procedures he reported to

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back to the command post the incident we

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also had some security lights meaning

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security incursions at some of the

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launch facilities so I called the guard

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back upstairs and directed that a

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security team be sent out at this point

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the guard told me the object had left at

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high speed again silent no noise

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the security guards got out to the

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launch facility and reported back that

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they were seeing this object again they

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also lost radio contact the this

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incident terminate at that point we we

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reset the the security alarms but the

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missiles themselves were still disabled

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we had to call in for maintenance

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maintenance teams to come out and and

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bring them back up on alert the the main

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indication we got from our equipment was

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this was guidance and control system

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failure

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I want to I want to emphasize that the

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security people upstairs had no control

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authority over they had no equipment up

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there no ability to affect any kind of

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system shutdown on our missiles all the

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control systems were underground we were

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relieved the next morning I reported

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back to the command post I'm sorry the

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the base Nostrum reported to our

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squadron commander he was why does the

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she didn't know how to explain the event

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he asked him specifically if it could

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have been an Air Force exercise and he

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assured me that it was not an airforce

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exercise there was also a member of the

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Air Force Office of Special

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Investigations in in the room he ordered

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us to not ever talk about this I even

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signed a nondisclosure statement to that

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effect this was and I didn't talk about

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it until 1994 I was able to come across

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a little paragraph in a book called

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above top secret by Timothy good and on

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page three on one of that book there's a

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short paragraph about missiles being

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shut down while UFOs were overhead at

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that point with the help of mr. James

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Klotz my investigator we requested the

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Air Force to send us documents about

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this shutdown not mentioning the word

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UFO we we did get the Air Force to

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declassify what was what we'll call the

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echo flight incident let me back up a

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little bit during the report to the

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command post my commander Fred Weil

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turned to me and said the same thing

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happened at another site that at the

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time I thought he meant that that

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evening but it turns out the same thing

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had happened a week earlier at another

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site and and he was probably referring

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to the echo flight at any rate at that

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point when we start when we got the echo

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flight incident Declassified I was able

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to or I felt I was able to come forward

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and start talking about it because I

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thought that's where I was it wasn't

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until later I found out it was an Oscar

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flight and

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that dotto lay our flight had gone down

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of ten missiles but the echo flight also

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went down about a week earlier on March

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16th we have extensive documentation on

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the echo flight incident that we

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received from the Air Force under

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Freedom of Information Act we have the

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testimony of Walt Fiegel who was the

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deputy missile crew commander at Echo

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flight we have I have a couple of

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letters from the commander Erik Carlsson

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Colonel Maiwald

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has I gave me a radio

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I'm sorry a telephone interview about

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this in 1996 and I've got that on tape

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and he's given me permission to use that

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so we've got auto wreck audio recordings

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of some of these witnesses we've got

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written statements we've got

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documentation from the Air Force all of

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us supporting what I just told you

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you