Missile Shutdowns

Whatever they are, they keep visiting the silos. Launch officers keep testifying.

March 16, 1967: at Malmstrom AFB's Oscar Flight, ten Minuteman ICBMs dropped offline in sequence while security teams reported a glowing object over the gate — per the sworn testimony of launch officers Robert Salas and Frederick Meiwald, and partially corroborated by unit histories acknowledging an unexplained full-flight shutdown that day. Boeing's engineering investigation found no cause. The Air Force position: electronic noise pulse, origin undetermined. One of the few UFO cases where the documented effect is a nuclear weapons system, which is why hearings keep returning to it.