(NICAP.org)
The whole UFO case report:
“Fran Ridge:
August 24, 1966 (corrected date); Minot AFB, North
Dakota (BBU)
Radar operators picked up a UFO maneuvering over the
base at 100,000 feet .
The LCF’s sophisticated radio equipment, that enables it to receive firing
instructions from coordinating centers and transmit them to the silo Launch
Facilities (LFs) was blocked out by static when the UFO hovered directly over
it. Raymond E. Fowler, project supervisor on a Minuteman missile program near
Boston, says he talked with an Air Force officer who had been in on this
incident which took place in a subterranean Launch Control Facility (LCF) of
the North Dakota Minuteman site. Asked to comment on Mr. Fowler’s allegations, an
Air Force spokesman in Washington declared that SAC, that operates the site,
‘could find nothing in its unit histories to confirm the presence of
unidentified flying objects over it or indeed malfunctions in its equipment on
the date mentioned.’
Despite the Air Force’s denial Dr. J. Allen Hynek
insists that the base was buzzed by a UFO. ‘I went there as the Air Force
representative and talked to the people concerned after it happened,’ he says.
Dr. Hynek was at that time acting as scientific consultant to Project Bluebook.
Mr. Fowler says he was told that communications between land strike-teams
(armed jeep patrols) dispatched to a spot where the first UFO appeared to land
and intercepting aircraft (Note; F-106’s) were completely jammed by strong
radio interference. Moreover, he says, missile site control found intense
static disrupting communications with its strike-teams. After UFOs had streaked
away, Air Force Intelligence teams, descended on the base telling those who had
seen or heard anything to keep quiet. Fowler cites an AF regulation (80-17)
last updated in 1966, that establishes a system for reporting UFO sightings to
the Aerospace Defense Command at Colorado Springs and imposes penalties for the
unauthorized disclosure of UFO information. But says an Air Force spokesman:
‘We're out of the UFO business.’ ”
NICAP.org presents U.S.
Aerial view of Minot Air Force
Base, North Dakota
(wikimedia.org photo)
(tageo.com photo)