E-005103LANDMARK CASE · HIGH CORROBORATIONDATE PRECISION: rangeRECORD COMPLETENESS: 100%
Walker AFB Atlas Missile-Site UFO Cluster
1963–1964; individual witnesses remembered winter 1963/64 and other dates approximately; Barry Krause wrote contemporaneously on December 20, 1964Walker AFB Atlas missile field, New Mexico, New Mexico, United States
Hastings compiles multiple 579th Strategic Missile Squadron accounts of unusual lights or silent objects near Atlas missile sites, especially Sites 8 and 9. A December 1964 letter from Airman Barry Krause to NICAP reports frequent sightings, a KC-135 being directed toward one event, frightened guards, and alleged classification of incident reports.
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“Jerry Nelson told Hastings that over roughly a month at Atlas Site 9, on several occasions guards urgently reported silent objects hovering above the silo and directing lights downward; Nelson remained in the underground capsule and did not see the objects himself.”
“Hastings reproduces a December 20, 1964 letter from Airman 2nd Class Barry L. Krause to NICAP stating that UFO sightings were frequent at Walker Atlas sites, especially Site 8; one report involved SAC directing a nearby KC-135 toward a maneuvering light, after which the object departed rapidly. Krause also wrote that guards were frightened and that incident reports were described to him as top secret.”
“Roger Goss told Hastings that during his Site 9 sightings he never knew of a missile going off alert because of a UFO report; malfunctions he knew about were maintenance problems. Philip Moore likewise said he recalled no equipment effects at his Site 7 during a separate Walker report.”