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Loring Flight-Line UFO Report During/After Cuban Missile Crisis

Fall 1962; Hastings narrows the account to the Cuban Missile Crisis or a few days afterward from the temporary tandem Chrome Dome mission patternLoring Air Force Base, Maine, Maine, United States

A pseudonymous former 42nd Field Maintenance Squadron jet-engine mechanic told Hastings that a UFO appeared above the Loring flight line as a tandem Chrome Dome B-52 mission returned amid an unusual emergency response. A former coworker confirmed the tandem return and emergency mobilization but said he did not remember the UFO; Hastings explicitly calls the case incomplete and withholds most details pending corroboration.

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Encounter · Reported Encounter Observation

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CLAIM-510003unverified
“A pseudonymous former Loring jet-engine mechanic told Hastings that an unidentified craft appeared above the flight line as two Chrome Dome B-52s returned during an unusual emergency response. Hastings used the temporary tandem-mission pattern to narrow the event to the Cuban Missile Crisis or a few days afterward.”
UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
SRC-002102 · “John Smith” Loring AFB / tandem Chrome Dome retrospective account; uploaded PDF pages 137-140
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Encounter · Government / Documentary Record

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CLAIM-510004reported
“Hastings states that the witness’s former coworker confirmed the tandem Chrome Dome return and unusual maintenance/emergency mobilization, but claimed not to remember the UFO. Hastings explicitly says the case is incomplete, lacks supporting testimony for the UFO itself, and requires more rigorous investigation.”
UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites
SRC-002102 · Coworker partial corroboration and Hastings’s explicit incompleteness caveat; uploaded PDF pages 138-141
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Loring Flight-Line UFO Report During/After Cuban Missile Crisis (Fall 1962; Hastings narrows the account to the Cuban Missile Crisis or a few days afterward from the temporary tandem Chrome Dome mission pattern): Evidence Dossier & Witness Reports | ANOMALY | ANOMALY UAP Archive & Controlled Vocabulary