Minot Radar-Visual Missile-Field UFO Case

“The book summarizes the October 24, 1968 Minot case as involving overlapping reports from missile security/maintenance teams, base weather radar, and a B-52’s airborne radar and crew, and notes that the Project Blue Book file contains more than 130 pages.”

“For October 24, 1968, Hastings summarizes missile-field visuals, Minot weather-radar tracking, and B-52 airborne radar tracking. McCaslin recalled a return as large as or larger than a KC-135, while Ritchey activated the radarscope camera.”

“Former intelligence officer Richard Clark told investigators that he calculated a mean speed of about 3,900 mph from an apparent two-mile displacement during a three-second B-52 radar sweep.”

“Hastings quotes Project Blue Book’s November 13, 1968 conclusion that ground observations could be Sirius/B-52, the B-52 radar contact and UHF loss could be plasma or ball lightning, and the airborne visual could be Vega, a ground light, or plasma.”

“Hastings reproduces Quintanilla’s November 13, 1968 conclusion that ground visuals could be Sirius and the B-52, radar/UHF effects could be plasma or ball lightning, and the airborne visual could be Vega, a ground light, or plasma.”

“Hastings reports that while the object paced the B-52, outgoing UHF transmissions temporarily failed while reception continued; transmission resumed when the object moved away and interference reportedly recurred during a later close overflight.”

“Partin later described an orange oblong object with illuminated window-like features; Runyon recalled a large orange oval/tubular form with a crescent-like illuminated portion and explicitly cautioned that his dimensions were estimated roughly 32 years later.”