United States · 24 October 1968

Minot AFB and its Minuteman missile field, 1968

Documented

The B-52 radar recorded a target that travelled approximately 25 miles in 3 seconds, the aircraft radar and radio both failed while it sat off the left wing, and fourteen airmen guarding nuclear missiles watched an object appear to come down near launch facility Alfa-43.

Where
Minot AFB and its Minuteman missile field, North Dakota
When
24 October 1968
Who reported it
14 missile-security personnel at separate launch facilities plus a B-52 crew
Entities described
None reported
Handled as
INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED
Evidence class
GOV-1

The record

An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.

The document is attached to this entry.

What is not settled

The file evaluation blocks read Probable (AIRCRAFT)(B-52), Probable Astro (SIRIUS) and Possible (PLASMA). Radio and radar faults on B-52s were not rare.

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