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From: jan@cyberzone.net (Jan Aldrich)
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:29:52 -0800
Fwd Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 23:50:00 -0500
Subject: Charleston AFB, SC, 1975

The 1975 flyover reports were very interesting.  Not all
reports have been published.  Perhaps the report below was
related to that activity.  It is too bad this report was not
followed up at the time.   The name has been deleted per the
writer's request.

--
Jan Aldrich
Project 1947
http://www.iufog.org/project1947/

>To:  National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena


Dear Sirs:

I just finished reading an article in the Sunday newspaper
magazine, Parade.  The article, UFO's vs.  USAF, described
incidents which were identical to one with which I had some
personal involvement.  Though I can't pinpoint the exact time,
the incident occurred in late 1974 or early into 1975.

I was a staff sergeant in the Air Force, working an evening shift
at Charleston AFB, SC., xxxxxxxxxxxx Section.  I received a call
from a chief petty officer at the Charleston Navy Weapons Station
(nuclear storage area).  He wanted to know whether we had any
information on the three helicopters (or whatever) which were
hovering over the storage area.  He said they were just hovering
and each was shining a bright light which was scanning the area.
I informed the chief that I had no flight plan information on
helicopters or any other aircraft which would be in that area.  I
took his name ad number and told him I would call back if I found
out anything.  I then called the airport control tower.  They
informed me that tower personnel had been and were observing the
three lights and had assumed them to be helicopters on a VFR
flight plan.  when I explained that the objects were over the
weapons station, tower attempted radio contact with no response.
The tower controller also checked with airport radar w ho could
not pick the objects up on scope nor had they had any radio
contact.  I then called the Jacksonville, Fla.  Air Traffic
Control Center.  The controller there also had no information on
the "helicopters".  I made one other call in trying to determine
information on the objects.  The Charleston AFS, an Air Defense
Command radar site, is located near the municipal terminal side
of the airport.  The person I spoke to there (airman) seemed
vague, unconcerned and unresponsive to the information but said
they would check on it.  I then called the navy chief to let him
know I had struck out.  He said the objects had just left the
area heading in the direction of the ocean.  A final call to the
control tower revealed that they had just observed the objects
disappear from view, out to seat at a very low altitude.

The incident described is accurate to the best of my memory.
It left me a bit shaken and greatly concerned about our air
defense and security procedures.  Since there was nothing about
the incident in the news the next day nor any apparent concern
from military superiors, I decided to "tip" Mr.  Hal Boykin, a
local TV anchor man.  He gave a brief report a couple of days
later.  Basically all that was reported was that Charleston navy
officials had confirmed the incident and had it under
investigation.

As you can tell, the incident I have described is very similar or
identical to the ones in the Parade article with nuclear storage
areas being the "target" of the objects.  However, this incident
happened several months prior to any of those.  It happened in a
different geographical area and to the Navy instead of the Air
Force.  Could this have been the initial practice run as a
prelude to the sightings mentioned in the article?

There still may be a casual record of the Charleston sighting in
the dispatchers log book at base operations.  These logs are
usually kept for a longer period than routine office files.
Regardless, four civilian employees are still there who should
have some recall of the incident.  They are Mrs.  Lois Wells,
Mr.
McFarland, Mr.  Froman and Mr.  Thornburg.  I'm not sure, but I
think Mr.  Froman was my shift supervisor when the incident
happened.

Personally, I do not believe these were UFO's in the traditional
sense.  I believe they were penetration of our security and
defense either by our own forces for the purpose of testing the
system or by a foreign adversary for reconnaissance purposes.  I
only hope that the former was the case.

I hope this information will be of some use to your organization.
 It has been bugging me for sometime now.  Since I am a career
NCO still on active duty with the Air Force, I request you keep
my name and that I used to work at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
confidential.  I am not authorized to give out this type of
information and am subject to punitive measures for doing so.

Respectfully,