E-005106LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: exactRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Minot Missile-Field Radio Interference / Radar Case
August 24, 1966Minot AFB missile field, North Dakota, United States
Hastings summarizes an Air Force preliminary report publicized by J. Allen Hynek: a missile officer experienced radio static while guards reported a nearby UFO; a strike team reportedly encountered similar radio interference as an object appeared to land, and base radar reportedly tracked two objects. Raymond Fowler later publicly described the case; an Air Force spokesman said SAC unit histories did not confirm the event.
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“Hastings summarizes J. Allen Hynek’s published description of an Air Force preliminary report: on August 24, 1966 a missile officer experienced radio static while security guards reported a nearby UFO; a strike team dispatched toward an apparent landing area also encountered radio interference, and Air Force radar at Minot reportedly tracked two objects.”
“Hastings also reproduces a 1973 Christian Science Monitor account in which Raymond Fowler described the case and Hynek said he had visited Minot as the Air Force representative and spoken with personnel. An Air Force spokesman responded that SAC could find nothing in its unit histories confirming the UFO or equipment malfunctions on the date cited.”