My UFO-Related Story

 First, on my part, I've never seen evidence of any UFOs.

For about three years, I worked with this guy in the mid-1980s....who had come into the Air Force around 1975.  His original field?  Security police. 

Toward the end of three years, we sat alone in the vault and he told me this story related to the three brief years that he was in the security police (later cross-training out of the field).  

On his first assignment, he ended up in the NW of the US at a ICBM missile silo base.  His job was to go out for a 24-hour shift and be one of the three guys at the entry point, or in the truck patrolling the grounds around the silo.

For the first six months of this period....nothing much happened and he found the work to be fairly dull.

Then one night....around 1 AM....there's this bright light hovering UFO around the silo area.  He and the second guy....were in the truck and just parked to a point to observe this.  The third guy was asking over the radio (seeing the light)....what the hell was going on.  

About five minutes passed, and then the UFO rises and eases away.

As morning shift ended....the three went back to the base and reported the incident.

OSI agents came to debrief (interrogate) them.  Probably three hours were wasted, and the OSI guys kept trying to rebuild the story (as if nothing happened).  Eventually, the three compared notes and decided it's better to end this (nothing happened).

A couple of days passed.

Another shift occurs.  This time....around midnight....the UFO comes down again, and this time.....all hell breaks loose in the missile silo center (deep down in the ground) with blinking lights and it's obvious that the UFO is uploading data or checking out the system.  The two officers are on the phone and trying to get some come-back from the three Security Police.

Morning comes, and the five return to base, where the OSI guys are called in again.  The three Security Police just say in a direct voice.....they didn't see anything much.  The two silo officers?  They jabbered away all morning....trying to describe the incident.  The three enlisted?  They leave within an hour....nothing to say about the incident.

Around six months pass, and my associate gets a one-year tour of duty to Turkey.  Later, he leaves the police job, and retrains.  

I asked him....so what do you think it really was?  There's a pause here, and he said....they obviously know the process of control, and that the silo has strategic importance, and that the nuke missile is something that they are concerned over.  Beyond that....if they wanted to make a big hostile threat....they would have already done so.  In his mind, they just wanted to watch and observe.

For over thirty years, the one-hour talk we had....has been on my mind. 

From the Air Force management prospective.....they considered any report like this....to be fraud and made up.  They did everything possible to make you think that.  So after a while.....you just accepted that and played the game of not seeing anything or reporting anything.  

It's kinda funny in today's atmosphere to think about the 'forget-it-strategy'.