E-005305LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: yearRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Airborne Launch Control Aircraft / Silver-Globe Report
1975; exact date not rememberedAirspace near Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota, South Dakota, United States
Frank Hale told Hastings that a silver globe maneuvered around and briefly accompanied an Airborne Launch Control System aircraft returning toward Ellsworth AFB before rapidly departing west. Hale did not report the event at the time and no equipment malfunction is alleged.
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“Hale recalled a silver globe stopping, climbing vertically, accelerating and briefly accompanying the Airborne Launch Control aircraft before shooting away to the west.”
“Hale did not report any malfunction or other technical effect on the aircraft; Hastings’s suggestion that the object may have been observing the nuclear command-and-control aircraft is interpretive rather than demonstrated.”