F.E. Warren missile site sightings (1965)
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Contents 7
| Date | 31 July 1965-2 August 1965 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Nuclear & missile sites (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Robert Hastings |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 67 |
| Year | 1965 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 1965 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 12 |
Over three nights from 31 July to 2 August 1965, Air Force personnel at F.E. Warren Air Force Base near Cheyenne, Wyoming, and its surrounding Minuteman missile sites reported large numbers of unidentified lights and objects. An official report from the base's 90th Strategic Missile Wing logged 148 objects reported by 143 personnel, and the episode became part of a wider wave of sightings across the Midwest that summer.[1][3]
The sightings
On 31 July, Cheyenne residents phoned local radio stations about objects with flashing red and green lights. The reports reached the base command post, and all missile sites were told to watch for them. According to the wing's report to the Air Force Foreign Technology Division, personnel reported 75 objects seen by 70 people on 31 July, 29 objects seen by 27 people on 1 August, and 44 objects seen by 46 people on 2 August.[1]
Most objects were described as round, though some were oval, cigar- or pencil-shaped, ranging in apparent size from a pinhead to a nickel. Some flew in V, echelon or cross formations, with lights flashing every one or two seconds and no sound. One command-post entry described a silent orange "blob" about 20 feet across, descending to about the height of a one-storey building; two airmen at the Golf-1 missile site reported an extremely bright object moving fast at high altitude without visible propulsion. On 1 August a civilian reported a daytime oblong object that tumbled, split in two and left in different directions.[1][3]
Nebraska and the wider wave
Similar reports came from the Army ammunition depot at Sidney, Nebraska, and the volume of calls overloaded communication lines to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and NORAD. That same week hundreds of sightings of lights were reported across Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas.[2][3][4]
Official explanation
On 2 August 1965 the Air Force publicly attributed many of the reports to stars and planets, and duty officers pencilled "Jupiter" next to some entries. The next day a Project Blue Book spokesman told an Oklahoma newspaper that the explanation applied to Wyoming, not Oklahoma. Astronomers at two regional planetariums objected that the stars and planets named were not visible at the reported times.[3]
Later accounts
Researcher Robert Hastings published the wing's report and has since interviewed former Warren missile officers who describe other UFO incidents at the base in the 1970s, including a reported object over a Minuteman silo in 1973 and a landing near a launch control centre in 1974; these later accounts are second-hand or uncorroborated.[1][5]
People and topics
- U.S. Air Force — The U.S. military service that ran the official UFO projects from 1947 to 1969.
- F.E. Warren Air Force Base — A Wyoming Minuteman missile base linked to UFO reports.
- Project Blue Book — The Air Force's public UFO investigation from 1952 until its closure in December 1969.
- Robert Hastings — Researcher who has collected accounts of UFOs at nuclear weapons sites, author of UFOs and Nukes.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
On the Timeline
- Martin Marietta engineer's papers (1965) (17 May 1965) — Jacques Vallée says a Martin Marietta engineer was upset when his papers were seen.
- Lockbourne AFB object and Kecksburg (10 December 1965) — An Air Force guard says he watched over an object brought from Pennsylvania before it went to Wright-Patterson.
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References
- Robert Hastings, "Yet another nuclear missile launch officer talks about UFOs at F.E. Warren AFB" · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- Blue Book file: missile site in Nebraska, August 1965, UFO Scans · ufoscans.com · archived copy
- Marilyn A. Hudson, "When UFOs harried the Air Force in Wyoming and Nebraska", UFO Skies (Jan 2022) · ufoskies.blogspot.com · archived copy
- Blue Book file: Cheyenne, Wyoming, August 1965, UFO Scans · ufoscans.com · archived copy
- UFO reports and atomic sites — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
- UFOs visited nuclear weapons sites, former Air Force officers say — History News Network · historynewsnetwork.org · archived copy
- Blue Book file: Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1965 — UFO Scans · ufoscans.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
- ufohastings.com · ufohastings.com · archived copy
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