UFO activity at the Hanford Plutonium Plant

Former US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered Above the Hanford Atomic Plant During World War II

First Attempted Intercept of a UFO by a Military Fighter?

UFO incursions at U.S. atomic/thermonuclear weapons sites, from the 1940s onward, are detailed in thousands of declassified Army, Air Force, Navy, FBI, and CIA documents. Moreover, hundreds of U.S. military veterans have now discussed their involvement in one or more of those incidents in video interviews.

One of them, former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Junior Grade Clarence R. “Bud” Clem, says that a UFO monitored one of our fissile materials facilities—the Hanford plutonium-production plant in Washington State—on three different nights in January 1945, some seven months before Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed. Clem says that members of his Navy Hellcat F6F fighter squadron chased them away.

UFOs and Nukes researcher Robert Hastings first learned of the incidents when Clem wrote to him in 2009, but it was not until December 2013 that funds became available to capture the former fighter pilot on video. The edited, four-minute interview may be seen here:

In July 2014, UFO historian Jan Aldrich revealed that his research group, Project 1947, had secured World War II-era documents from Headquarters Fourth Air Force, which referred to overflights of the Hanford site by “unidentified aircraft”. One of them, dated January 23, 1945, and directed to the Commanding General of the Army Air Forces and the Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Training, states:

Resulting from an unidentified aircraft flying over the Hanford Engineering Company Plant at Pasco, Wash. on at least three nights in the past month (this Company is engaged in undisclosed projects for the War and Navy Departments) this HQ was requested by [Western Defense Command], about ten days ago, to move one [battery] of searchlights from Seattle to the Pasco plant. The Thirteenth Naval District has made arrangements for Naval Air Station, Pasco, to employ both radar and fighter aircraft in attempting interception of these unidentified aircraft. The airspace over the Hanford Company is both a Danger area and a Restricted area. Our battery of searchlights has been in place since 15 January; one incident has occurred since that date in which a brief radar contact was made—attempted night interception again failed.

So here we have an official document referring an unidentified aircraft flying over the Top Secret Hanford atomic materials production plant on three occasions in January 1945. At least one of those “aircraft” was tracked on radar and successfully eluded the U.S. Navy fighter sent up to intercept it.

In conclusion, declassified military documents confirm the events described by former USN fighter pilot Bud Clem. Unfortunately, when Robert Hastings attempted to notify Clem of the discovery of those documents by Jan Aldrich, in July 2014, he learned that Clem had passed away the previous month.

Source: Robert L. Hastings

A thirty-five-year-old New York State Power Authority police officer that worked as a security guard at the Indian Point nuclear reactor complex located on the Hudson River at Buchahan, New York just south of Peekskill, Tells his incredible story. (From the book Night Siege by Dr J. Allen Hynek and Philip J. Imbrogno Chapter 11 Page 140)

The object consisted of ten or more lights arranged in a boomerang pattern. It appeared to be hovering about a quarter of a mile from one of the gates to the complex, and at that distance, they could not make out any shape... He estimated the object was at least 300 feet from one end to the other.

Dr. Robert Jacobs is a former first lieutenant in the United States Air Force and former Bradley University college professor who claims to have filmed a UAP shooting down an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile in September of 1964 while working at Vandenberg Air Force Base near Big Sur, California. Jacobs says he believes the saucer-shaped craft he witnessed on the film of the missile test was of extraterrestrial origin and may have been warning humanity against the use of nuclear weapons.

September 1964 ICBM Test

According to Jacobs, he was the Officer-in-Charge of Optical Instrumentation in the 1369th Photographic Squadron at Vandenberg Air Force Base during the incident, and in 1964, he was approached by his superiors to help determine why so many of the ICBMs being tested were failing. “We called them ‘inter-county ballistic missiles’ because so many of them blew up on launch,” Jacobs joked in an early 2000s interview with the Disclosure Project. In that same interview, Jacobs says his superiors tasked him to provide the engineers with good enough “sequential engineering photography” to help determine the cause of the failed tests. Jacobs says he was provided use of a powerful Boston University (BU) telescope owned by the Air Force, and after some work, he and his team found a suitable spot 124 miles away and about 3,400 feet in elevation in Big Sur, where they would film the missile test from the side to provide the necessary angle required by engineers.

“For my stunning achievement in finding a place where I could look back at Vandenberg Air Force Base from up north, and for figuring out how to transmit the timing up there, and for getting the thing set up, I was awarded the Air Force Guided Missile Insignia,” explained Jacobs. “I was the first photographic officer in the Air Force to get the…they called it the missile badge. It was a highly coveted thing at the time.”

Jacobs says that on September 4th, 1964, a date confirmed by Mansmann, he and members of his team were operating the telescope to film a “dummy” ICBM test launch, which was an unarmed version of the Atlas 5 rocket designed to deliver nuclear payloads.

“We were testing to see if we could launch a nuclear warhead into orbit, slightly above the nuclear chaff,” he explained, “so the Russians would aim their anti-missile missiles at the chaff (released by the missile), and our little warhead would fly over and obliterate Moscow.”

Jacobs says the launch went smoothly, and he and his team soon spotted the missile breaking through the fog and streaking toward the sky. His team used the M-45 tracking mount with 180” lenses to focus on the missile, and the big BU telescope “swung over and got it, and we followed the thing.”

Jacobs says they followed the missile through its launch stages until they heard their camera run out of film. He and his team did not witness anything unusual during the filming, and the BU telescope was connected to a kinescope for recording, meaning they were not watching the test through that telescope.

“We sent the film on down to Vandenberg,” he explained, “and I don’t know exactly how long it was after the event; it might have been a day or two, I was called into Major Mansmann’s office at the first strategic division’s aerospace headquarters.”

Jacobs says he entered the major’s office where he saw Mansmann and two unnamed men in grey suits, something he later described as “very unusual.” A film screen and a 16mm film projector were set up, and Mansmann asked Jacobs to sit on a couch. The major proceeded to play the film, which depicted the launch that Jacobs and his team had filmed a day or two earlier, and he was struck at the high quality of the imagery produced by the BU telescope.

“Because of the length of the telescope, as the Atlas missile entered the frame, we could see the whole third stage….filling our frame.”

Jacobs says he watched the missile go through all four “stages” as each one burned out as planned. He says he looked at the major with satisfaction that their filming had been a success, but Mansmann directed his attention back to the film, telling him, “watch carefully now, Lieutenant Jacobs.”

“Into the fame came something else,” recalled Jacobs. “It flew into the frame like this (motions with his hands), and it shot a beam of light at the warhead.” Jacobs notes that the missile and the unknown object were flying at “several thousand miles an hour,” a figure he later pegged at between 11,000 mph and 14,000 mph.

“So this thing fires a beam of light at the warhead,” he continues, “hits it, and then this thing flies up like this (demonstrates the object moving above the missile into its flight path), fires another beam of light, goes around like this (depicts the object moving to the other side of the missile), fires another beam of light, goes down like this (depicts object below and behind the missile), fires another beam of light, and then flies out the way it came in.”

Jacobs says that at this point, the missile tumbled out of its flight path and fell to the ocean below. “Now, I saw that,” he exclaims. “I don’t give a god damn what anybody else says about it. I saw that on film!” Jacobs says that at this point, Major Mansmann stopped the film, looked at him, and asked, “Were you guys screwing around up there?” Jacobs says he confirmed that his team had not altered the film in any way. Jacobs then says he recalls Mansmann asking him, “what was that?” to which he replied, “It looks to me like we got a UFO.”

Source: https://enigmalabs.io/library/97213748-296c-429d-93e5-31131ec02202

Operation Ivy - UFO Sightings During Nuclear Testing in the Pacific

In his 1956 book, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, former U.S. Air Force Captain and Project Blue Book chief Edward J. Ruppelt wrote:

“...in November or December [1952] the U.S. was going to [test] the first H-bomb during [Operation] Ivy...Some people in the Pentagon had the idea that there were beings, earthly or otherwise, who might be interested in our activities in the Pacific...Navy and Air Force security forces who [went] out to the tests were thoroughly briefed to look for UFOs...Nothing that fell into the UFO category was seen during the entire Ivy series of atomic shots.”

The Pentagon’s concern undoubtedly resulted from numerous nukes-related UFO incidents which had occurred during the previous four years, as confirmed by documents declassified via the Freedom of Information Act. Two of those, pertaining to ongoing sightings at the Los Alamos and Sandia atomic laboratories, in New Mexico, may be found at www.ufohastings.com/documents.

Although Ruppelt wrote that there were no UFO sightings during Operation Ivy—at least none had been reported to Blue Book—I have interviewed two former sailors, serving on two different ships during the operation, who say otherwise. 

Tom Kramer served as a radioman seaman aboard the U.S.S. Curtiss AV-4 during Ivy. He reports seeing a UFO a few days before the first megaton-yield hydrogen device, code-named “Mike”, was detonated. 

Kramer said that on the night in question a movie had been shown on the ship’s fantail and was attended by many of the crew. After it ended, and almost everyone had gone below, Kramer and some two-to-three dozen other crewmen were ordered to stow the mess benches used for the screening. Suddenly, he saw a strange object in the sky. Kramer said that it was round, bright white, and made no sound. He said that while he couldn’t estimate its actual size, the UFO appeared to him as somewhat smaller than a dime held at arm’s length.

“The object was almost motionless when I first saw it,” Kramer said, “then it zigged one way for a very short distance, zagged another short distance, then took off like a bat out of hell.” He estimated that the entire sighting had lasted less than ten seconds. Kramer told me that no one had debriefed him or anyone else he knew after the incident, even though there had been open discussion of the sighting among at least some of the crew.

In 2007, another former U.S. Navy sailor, Abelardo “Abe” Marquez, posted a message at the Atomic Veterans History Project website, saying that he had seen a UFO in the fall of 1952, while serving aboard the U.S.S. Fletcher DD-445 during Operation Ivy. I contacted Marquez and asked if I might interview him. He readily agreed and told me,

“At the time of the sighting, I was a seaman apprentice. That particular night, I was a lookout. My duty started at 3:45 a.m. I was on my way to the bridge when I noticed that the ship was going really fast. Full speed, it seemed like. When I walked up the deck on the port side, I saw two people standing there. So I asked them, ‘What’s going on? Why are we going really fast? Did we pick up a sonar contact?’ But these two guys said, ‘No, it’s that light up in the sky,’ and they started pointing at it. 

At first, I couldn’t see it, but then it got larger. It was like a bright star, but it wasn’t twinkling like a star. I watched it for a little while. It looked like a little white round ball coming straight down, vertical. 

I went up on the bridge and went on duty. When I relieved the watch, someone told me to keep an eye on the light. It was still coming down, getting bigger and bigger. You know, just a round white light. But it was bright, real bright! All of a sudden, it stopped. That got my attention! It was just hanging there.”

I interrupted Marquez and asked about the apparent size of the object. I said, “Would it have been the size of a dime held at arm’s-length?” Marquez paused for a few seconds then replied, “Yeah, I think it was about that size, or a little larger. Not the size of a full moon, but pretty close.” 

Then he continued, “Captain Rawlings was already there on the bridge. The door to the pilot house was maybe six-feet, eight-feet from the lookout’s position. I could hear the captain and the other officers through the doorway. They were talking among themselves about the light. They didn’t know what it was. I heard someone say that there was no radar contact.

I was looking at the light. It was still hanging there in the sky, still off the port side. By that time I had those big binoculars that are kept on the bridge. It was just a round white light. It had no tail lights, no [jet engine] flame, no nothing. I didn’t see a metal craft, just a round light. I don’t know how far it was from the ship, maybe a half-mile or a mile. Then, after about four or five minutes, all of a sudden it took off, straight up, at about the same speed it had descended. Pretty soon it was so small you couldn’t see it anymore.”

I asked Marquez to estimate the date of the UFO incident, relative to the detonation of the Mike device. He replied, “Oh, I would say it was five to seven days before Mike. Something like that.” I asked Marquez if he or anyone else was debriefed about the incident. He replied, “I don’t know if the officers on the bridge were debriefed, but my buddy on lookout with me wasn’t and I wasn’t.”

Because neither Abe Marquez nor Tom Kramer can remember the exact date of their respective sightings during Operation Ivy, it’s not possible to say that they observed the same object on the same night. However, each witness described a round white object, silent and capable of hovering, and each estimated that their sighting had occurred about a week before the all-important Mike shot.

Operation Castle

Operation Castle—a series of six, mostly high-yield thermonuclear weapon tests—took place at the Pacific Proving Ground between March 1st and May 14th, 1954. Two researchers, Patricia Broudy and Daniel Wilson, independently discovered a reference to a dramatic UFO sighting which had occurred during the tests, embedded in a military report containing over five hundred pages of material relating to operational maneuvers and logistics. 

The record of the incident originally appeared in a transcribed ship’s deck log—within a Defense Nuclear Agency report titled CASTLE SERIES, 1954, DNA 6035F, United States Atmospheric Nuclear Weapons Tests—which was declassified in 1982. Interestingly, following Dan Wilson’s posts about the deck log at various blogs, the page referencing it, and some 50 others, disappeared from the version now available at U.S. Department of Energy document archives.

Therefore, it would seem that someone at DOE had done additional, post-declassification censoring of the Operation Castle document, at some point after Wilson and Broudy had accessed it. Fortunately, Wilson, Broudy and I possess copies of the original report. 

The UFO sighting incident occurred on April 7, 1954, and involved U.S. Navy sailors and Marines aboard the U.S.S. Curtiss AV-4, which served as the Atomic Energy Commission’s flagship. Consequently, also aboard were a number of nuclear scientists from the Los Alamos and Sandia Laboratories. The vessel had performed a crucial role in the tests, transporting the “special devices”—the hydrogen bombs—to the Marshall Islands test area, arriving at Eniwetok Atoll on January 24th. 

The deck log for that date reads: “...at 0408 on station in operating area BH 35-40-L; Steamed independently in operating area BG 28-36-L; At 1138 anchored berth N-6, Bikini; at 1948 left berth en route to Enewetak; at 2305 an unidentified luminous object passed over ship from bow to stern, yellowish-orange in color, traveling at a high rate of speed and a low altitude.” 

Dan Wilson and I interviewed several individuals who were aboard the Curtiss during Operation Castle. One of them, Joe Stallings, had been a Marine corporal at the time and held a high-security, nuclear weapons-related “Q” clearance. Stallings told me that he hadn’t seen the UFO himself but had heard about the sighting the following morning when it was “the talk of the ship.” 

He said that he had been approached by several sailors and marines who had seen the UFO, all of whom told him that it was oval-shaped, bright orange, silent, and had “buzzed” the ship from bow to stern. In short, the eyewitness accounts matched, almost exactly, the information about the sighting as recorded in the U.S.S. Curtiss’ deck log.

However, Stallings also mentioned another important fact: the eyewitnesses had all said that the UFO, once it was clear of the ship astern, had suddenly performed an unspecified number of zigzag maneuvers before racing away at high speed. For some reason, this important detail was not recorded in the log. 

It will be recalled that another Curtiss crewman, Tom Kramer, has reported that he observed another UFO above the ship—some 18 months earlier, during Operation Ivy—which also executed high-speed, zigzag maneuvers. 

I have also been made aware of another UFO sighting during Operation Castle, which was published in 1956, in The UFO Annual, edited by astronomer and UFO researcher Morris K. Jessup. It reads:

“Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, April 1954. Two male witnesses saw a round object, uniform brightness all over, vivid white, with sharply defined edges high in the sky at 2:00 P.M. Seen with 7X50 binoculars. A cone shape mist appeared on the leeward side of the object. The object then went straight up. The object was still for ten minutes—discounting a balloon explanation.”

The report was signed by J.C. Howard, who was presumably one of the witnesses, although the brief entry does not explicitly state as much. As far as I am aware, this report was the first published reference to a UFO being sighted at one of the operational sites utilized by the United States during nuclear testing on atolls in the Pacific Ocean. The island of Kwajalein served as a base of operations for many of the Air Force sorties associated with the Castle shots and other tests.

In conclusion, UFO activity was reported on several occasions—my book UFOs and Nukes details still other incidents—during the testing of nuclear weapons in the Pacific during the 1950s and ‘60s. Other sightings from that era took place in the midst of atomic tests at the Nevada Test Site and will be discussed in a future column.

​MUFON CAG Investigator Marie Cisneros and Montana State Director John Gagnon closed this case as Information Only. Investigators contacted the media relations department at Malmstrom and did not receive a reply. “Ruled out for astronomical or weather anomalies,” Cisneros and Gagnon stated in their report. “Ruled out for bolides or fireball activity. Ruled out for obvious hoax.

“Our conclusion: Unidentified object. Size, shape, flight pattern and path does not fit with known conventional aircraft. Because this was reported by someone other than the witness, this case has to be filed as an Information Only unless further information is forthcoming by the witness.”​ Malmstrom Air Force Base is in Cascade County, Montana, adjacent to Great Falls. It is the home of the 341st Missile Wing (341 MW) of the Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC). As a census-designated place, it has a population of 3,472.

by Roger Marsh

Source: from MUFON – UFO News https://ift.tt/2Cx9v4N

A later teletype message to the National Military Command Center in Washington, D.C., stated: "The A/C [aircraft] definitely penetrated the LAFB [Loring Air Force Base] northern perimeter and on one occasion was within 300 yards (270 m) of the munitions storage area perimeter." In the control tower, a member of the 2192nd Communications Squadron was on duty, when he picked up the craft on radar, nearing the base. After trying to contact the unidentified aircraft to warn it that it was approaching a restricted area, the aircraft entered the airspace over the nuclear weapons storage area and hovered over it at an altitude of 300 feet (91 m), later lowering to 150 feet (46 m).

Commander of the 42d Bombardment Wing, Colonel Robert E. Chapman[N 1] arrived 15 minutes later at the weapons storage area and police units were ordered in as well. At this time, he also declared a Security Option 3.[40]

At 2045 hrs, another person on duty in the control tower received a call to track the mysterious craft on radar. For the next 40 minutes, it was observed circling around the weapons storage area, when it suddenly vanished, as though it had landed or dropped below the radar. Witnesses later observed it flying away towards Grand Falls, New Brunswick, twelve miles to the east. Messages were sent to the National Military Command Center, the Air Force Chief of Staff, and Strategic Air Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base. 

The base continued to remain on a high state of alert until the following morning, as efforts to identify the unidentified aircraft through the Maine State Police, local police departments, and the Houlton Federal Aviation Administration office remained elusive.[40]

The next night at 1945 hrs, a craft similar to the one the night before approached the base. In addition to being tracked on radar, it hovered around the area for 30 minutes, with characteristics of movement similar to a helicopter. Additionally, it hovered above the weapons storage area at the same altitude as the night before. At this time, possibly another object (it is unclear if it was the same one as the over the weapons storage area, but it is possible) was spotted over the flightline. The cigar-shaped object was described as hovering in mid-air, jerking around, and turning on and off its lights once. 

During the blackout, it traveled from the flightline, to the northern end of the runway. According to one service member, the object was chased, and eventually discovered to be hovering five feet off the ground. During this time, it was determined that the object was four car lengths long.[40]

Once again, the object was tracked on radar, taking off towards New Brunswick. Teletype messages were again sent to higher commands, with no explanation being found. One teletype sent on November from Loring's Office of Special Investigations detachment to the National Military Command Center and OSI headquarters reported another, "unidentified helicopter sighted at low level over Loring AFB" over the past two nights (31 October – 1 November). 

It also referred to the intruder as an "unknown entity." Additionally, Captain Richard R. Fuhs an Operations Officer in the 42nd Security Police Squadron (SPS) stated, "... advised that there had been three verified sightings of an unidentified A/C [aircraft] flying at low level over and in the vicinity of LAFB" during this period. An initial sighting was made by a member of the 42nd, who was on duty at 23:14 hours Another member spotted the object near the East Gate, going from east to west.[40]

Source: http://www.nicap.org/ncp/ncp-loringafb.htm

Source: http://www.rense.com/general70/speaks.htm

Despite the newfound attention the topic of unexplained incursions into airspace over sensitive locales across the United States is receiving, these types of bizarre incidents are not necessarily new. One of the most puzzling accounts of such an event, or series of events, occurred during the depths of the Cold War.

Over a series of nights in 1975, Loring Air Force Base in Maine was invaded by mysterious craft originating from Canadian airspace. At the time, the base was home to B-52 bombers and KC-135 tankers and was tasked with the nuclear alert mission. The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented, both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. What also made the events so interesting was just how many people were involved or knew about the potential threat and the reaction to it. It was truly a community-scale ordeal that even made its way into the national press. Considering we are talking about a base that housed nuclear weapons and a delivery system for those weapons, the bombers and tankers they rely on, the concern regarding the strange incursions was extreme, to say the least.

What is also interesting about the bizarre events at Loring Air Force Base in the fall of 1975 was what was going on elsewhere, as well. Based on additional official documentation and reports, similar occurrences were remarkably widespread during this time period, albeit few, if any, were as widely experienced or as public in nature.

Unidentified 'Helicopters' Appear Over Loring Air Force Base

It was October of 1975. At the time, Loring Air Force Base was a Strategic Air Command (SAC) base that housed two KC-135 tanker squadrons and a B-52 bomber squadron, which had the alert nuclear weapons delivery mission. It was SAC's easternmost base in the continental United States, putting it in a unique position to quickly respond to a crisis.

The strange affair began on the evening on October 27 when security personnel at the base observed what was described officially as “an unidentified helicopter” that appeared near the northern perimeter of the installation. The aircraft was said to be flying at a low altitude, estimated to be around 150 feet, and appeared to feature a red navigational light and a white strobe. The helicopter seemed to be particularly interested in the highly-secure nuclear weapons storage area at Loring. Army National Guard helicopters were dispatched in an attempt to contact and identify the aircraft, but those attempts proved unsuccessful. The base was immediately put on high alert.

Shortly after the craft appeared, radar operators in the control tower at Loring observed another unknown aircraft circling between 10 and 13 miles northeast of the base. Once again, that aircraft could not be identified despite numerous attempts to make contact by radio on both civilian and military channels. The first unknown aircraft eventually turned north and flew into Canada near Grand Falls, New Brunswick, and the second unknown craft vanished from radar, possibly landing or descending below radar coverage.

The next night, on October 28, another unknown aircraft appeared over Loring, this time without lights. Once again, National Guard helicopters were sent to investigate, but were unable to establish visual confirmation of the aircraft. In an Operation Report (OPREP) issued after the incident, officials wrote that “It is our opinion that the unknown helicopter has demonstrated a clear intent in the weapons storage area, is smart and a most capable aviator.” The incidents continued through at least October 30th.

In response to the incursion, Loring increased its local security presence and coordinated with Canadian authorities to allow U.S. aircraft to pursue the offending aircraft into Canadian airspace should the unknown aircraft return. The New York Times reported on the incursions in the 1979 article "U.F.O. Files: The Untold Story," adding that despite the fact the Joint Chiefs of Staff received multiple briefings on the incursions, "Subsequent investigations by the Air Force into the sightings at Loring Air Force Base, Maine, where the remarkable series of events began, did not reveal a cause for the sightings."

One account of the aerial intrusions at Loring comes from Arthur Beers, who served at the base from 1970 to 1976. In an account posted to LoringRemembers.com, a site dedicated to chronicling the experiences of the many men and women who served at Loring, Beers described his “most memorable experience” at Loring:

Probably my favorite story was when I was in the Rated Supplement as a Security Police Shift Commander. I was on duty one evening when the Nuclear Weapons Storage Area was buzzed by a unknown helicopter. Obviously we reported this up channel and I raced out to the storage area. When I arrived, I was told that the National Emergency Command Post was on the line for me. When I talked to the Colonel at the National Command Post and explained what had been reported by my team at the storage area, he gave me orders to shoot down the helicopter if it tried to buzz the area again.

I immediately went out to the brief my SAT Teams on these orders but before I could complete that briefing I was called back to the entry point where I talked with a General Officer who said that the President had been briefed and that my new orders were to shoot only if the helicopter tried to land (ah, heck!). I went out and rebriefed my teams in just the nick of time as the unknown pilot in an unlighted Huey type helicopter came back again and then two more times during my shift. He came back three other nights and then just disappeared. To my knowledge the identity was never discovered.

A interesting side note to this, once the information got up to NORAD that we had this unauthorized flying over the storage area, NORAD launched the F-106 that was on alert at Loring. Not exactly sure how that jet jockey was going to see or shoot at a helicopter, 50 feet off the ground in the Northern Maine woods at night running with no lights, but I guess NORAD had to do something. Never saw the F-106, did see the helicopter.

Other personal testimony complicates the claims that the intruder was actually helicopter. Michael Wallace, a former KC-135 tanker pilot who was stationed at Loring in 1975, shared his own bizarre Loring incursion experience on YouTube: Wallace states that he was briefed on an incursion over the nuclear-armed B-52s and weapons storage facilities at Loring. Wallace and a few hundred other personnel were informed of a silent, luminous object hovering over the base which could move "very quickly" and "unconventionally" in "rapid, straight-line movements, with straight vertical movements, can turn without any apparent radius in the turn. It's pretty incredible technology." The object was openly referred to as a UFO by base personnel.

Wallace goes on to claim that Loring personnel were briefed only to speak to SAC officers about the incursion, not to speak to the press, and that they were "going to tell the press that there was a Canadian helicopter crossing the border and harassing us." He also notes that interceptors were going to be brought in to assist in the efforts to protect the base and investigate what was going on.

Wallace was eventually sent on a refueling mission in his KC-135 to support F-4 Phantoms for unrelated training when his flight was notified by the base's command post to switch radio frequencies. The lead KC-135 in the flight was instructed to depart the formation, turn off its lights, go radio silent, and proceed to Loring under its own discretion, something Wallace describes as a highly unusual order.

Wallace remembers hearing "stressed voices" over the radio as the pilots and tower personnel attempted to track the object as it seemed to fly back and forth over the base at incredible speeds. As quickly as the transmissions began, they ended as tower personnel stated simply "We've lost it." When Wallace later saw the pilot of the lead aircraft who was sent to intercept the object, he told Wallace "I can't talk about it, and you wouldn't believe me if I could talk about it."

A NORAD document states "Information indicates that the A/C [aircraft] is a helicopter. However, the A/C remains unidentified. Descriptions of the observed A/C lighting have varied somewhat but not in such a way that there is any indication there is more than one A/C involved."

LoringRemembers.com contains numerous other references to the 1975 incursions, with many former Loring personnel calling the incident their most memorable experience. One former Field Maintenance Squadron member remembers "the activity on the flight-line was a frenzy" the night of the incursion.

John E. Morkavich, who served at Loring from 1972 to 1975, recounted the following to LoringRemembers.com:

I was a Hospital Corpsman OR Tech 72-75 and one night in the fall of 73 (I will stand corrected if someone else recalls and has better time line [sic]) the base sirens went off and they said thats [sic] the big one thats [sic] gonna scramble the jets and bombers. About 6 of us got on the roof of the medical barracks and waited for whatever. The base went nuts, claxons, sirens, security police vehicles speeding around lots of flashing lights. Lots of flight line roaring of engines. Well about 3 weeeks [sic] later I was in the Officers Club with Dr John P Sheppard and a couple of pilots were sitting with us. We talked sports and politics then Doc Sheppard asked what the hell happened the other night. They replied with the ubiquitous "Do You Have a Need To Know?" Sheppard said hell yes, so I heard this explanation and both pilots were dead serious.

There was a UFO that came up on radar out of nowhere and was hovering over East Loring near the weapons storage facility. Aircraft was scrambled to intercept, it was seen visually and tracked on radar. Then the Lt Colonel said. "This damn thing was there one second and gone the next, vanished....then radar analysis showed this bogey was so far away and at such a high altitude.....let me tell you this -"... there is NOTHING on THIS PLANET that can do the things this aircraft or damn UFO did...." Then they got up and walked away from the table. Sheppard and I were stunned and we did not talk about it again. This is no BS and I welcome those who were there and remember.

LoringRemembers.com even contains a section called "the official UFO story" which states simply "In 1975, a 'UFO' buzzed the WSA over a few nights. Internet lore has stamped this as a true UFO conspiracy involving numerous other bases. The DOD released a declassified report on the incident."

A 1975 CIA memo noting the Loring AFB incursion. One of the most thorough investigations of the Loring incidents was conducted by Barry Greenwood and Lawrence Fawcett and included in their 1984 book Clear Intent: The Government Coverup of the UFO Experience. An excerpt from that book containing sections on Loring can be found online here. It goes into great detail as to what the narrative of events was, at least according to their research. We will pick it up on the second night, but we encourage you to read the whole excerpt.

On October 28, 1975, at 7:45 P.M., Sgt. Clifton W. Blakeslee and Staff Sgt. William J. Long, both assigned to the 42nd Security Police Squadron, were on duty at the munitions storage area. Along with Sgt. Danny Lewis, both Sgts. Blakeslee and Long spotted what appeared to be the running lights of an aircraft approaching Loring Air Force Base from the north at 3,000 feet. The aircraft did not come closer to Loring than about three miles at this time, and it was observed intermittently for the next hour.

On first spotting the craft, Sgt. Lewis called the Command Post and advised it that the unknown craft had returned to Loring. Lewis reported that he could see a white flashing light and an amber or orange light. Once again, the Commander, 42nd Bomb Wing responded. Rushing to the area of the storage dump, he observed the unknown craft. He reported seeing a flashing white light and an amber-colored light on the object also. The speed and movement in the air suggested that the craft was a helicopter. From 7:45 P.M. to 8:20 P.M., it was under constant observation, both visually by the personnel in the storage area and electronically by the control tower radar, which showed the craft at a position three miles north of the Loring perimeter.

The unknown craft would appear and disappear from view, and, at one point, appeared over the end of the runway at an altitude of 150 feet. The object subsequently shut off its lights and reappeared over the weapons storage area, maintaining an altitude of 150 feet.

At this time, Sgt. Steven Eichner, a crew chief on a B-52 bomber, was working out of a launch truck along with Sgt. R. Jones and other members of the crew. Jones spotted a red and orange object over the flight line. It seemed to be on the other side of the flight line from where the weapons storage area was located. To Eichner and Jones, the object looked like a stretched-out football. It hovered in midair as everyone in the crew stared in awe. As they watched, the object put out its lights and disappeared, but it soon reappeared again over the north end of the runway, moving in jerky motions. It stopped and hovered. Eichner and the rest of the crew jumped into the truck and started to drive toward the object.

Proceeding down Oklahoma Avenue (which borders the runway), they turned left onto the road that led to the weapons storage area. As they made the turn, they spotted the object about 300 feet in front of them. It seemed to be about five feet in the air and hovered without movement or noise. Exhibiting a reddish-orange color, the object was about four car lengths long. Eichner described what he saw next: "The object looked like all the colors were blending together, as if you were looking at a desert scene. You see waves of heat rising off the desert floor. This is what I saw. There were these waves in front of the object and all the colors were blending together. The object was solid and we could not hear any noise coming from it."

They could not see any doors or windows on the object nor any propellers or engines which would keep the object in the air. Suddenly, the base came alive. Sirens began screaming. Eichner could see numerous blue lights on police vehicles coming down the flight line and runway toward the weapons storage area at high speed. Jones turned and said to the crew, "We better get out of here!" They immediately did. The Security Police did not try to stop them. Their interest was in the object over the storage dump, not in the truck which was in a restricted area. The crew drove the truck back to its original location and watched from there. The scene at the weapons storage area was chaotic, with blue lights rotating around, and the vehicles' searchlight beams shining in all directions.

The men in the crew decided not to report what they had seen, because they had entered a restricted area and could have been arrested for the violation.

The object shut off its lights and disappeared, not to be seen again that night. The 42nd Police conducted a security sweep of the weapons storage area inside and out, with no results. Radar had once again briefly tracked the object heading for Grand Falls, New Brunswick, finally losing the unknown at Grand Falls itself.

Priority messages were sent to the National Military Command Center in Washington, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the Air Force Forward Operations Division at Fort Ritchie, Maryland, SAC Headquarters, and the 9th Air Force, 45th Division, advising them that an unknown object had penetrated the base and had been in the nuclear storage area.

The writers interviewed Chief Warrant Officer Bernard Poulin of the Maine Army National Guard's 112th Medical Company (Air Ambulance), who was tasked with tracking down and identifying the unknown aircraft in a UH-1 as the nightly occurrences wore on in late October. Poulin told Fawcett that despite numerous witnesses seeing and hearing the intruder, his helicopter crew could not get visual confirmation on the aircraft, but gives additional details of his experiencing of walking into the SAC base on high alert for a mysterious intruder:

"Well, we were launched on the first search mission after ground personnel started to see or hear the, quote, if you will, "UFO" go by. So, we would launch, and I believe that we were in the air for around 40 minutes looking for this thing, with the idea that it was a rotary-type craft we were searching for. We were vectored in by ground personnel to different spots on the base where the ground personnel were seeing or hearing it. All this time we were being tracked by base radar [traffic control radar which is designed to pick up aircraft], and radar was not painting the object that was being reported. Ground personnel would call and say the object is at this location, but radar would not pick it up.

Well, anyway, we hunted around, and we didn't see anything. Again they would call and say they could hear it at a location, and we would go there, but could not see it. We would then shut down and wait for the next call. And that went on for a couple of nights. This, again, was early evening or early in the morning. I can recall on the second night of the mission radar picked up a return, but it turned out to be a KC-135 tanker returning from overseas."Poulin was asked: "According to some of the documents, personnel on the ground were reporting that at times you would bring your craft within 100 feet of the intruder, yet you could not see it?" He answered:

"Yes, well, we could go real low to where they said it was and would turn on our search light and sweep the area with the light, but we never saw the craft. After it was over, we discussed our mission. The powers to be were quite concerned about what was going on and if we were able to see anything. They maintained all along up there, you know, those are pretty sensitive places and they have to know what the hell was going on."

When they arrived at the base, the security lid was on so tightly that both pilots were permitted to call their wives only once to say that they were on a mission. In a meeting with Chapman, Poulin recalled the Commander saying, "We've got to keep the lid on the fact that someone has been able to penetrate in and around the bomb dump, and we don't know what's going on. We've got to find out what is going on and prevent it from happening again."

Greenwood and Fawcett continue:

At Loring, additional manpower was armed and ready for deployment. The Security Police Battle Staff was to be manned at Central Security Control. An additional two-man mobile patrol was assigned to the weapons storage area during the hours of darkness, while a ten-man reserve force was standing by, ready for deployment. A two-man patrol would be positioned at key vantage points about one mile north of the base for added surveillance. An SAC/SP message informed northern tier bases of the situation and recommended a "Security Option Three" alert all along the U.S.-Canadian border.

The message went to Pease AFB in New Hampshire, Plattsburgh AFB in New York, Wurtsmith AFB in Michigan, Kinchloe AFB in Michigan, Sawyer AFB in Michigan, Grand Forks AFB in North Dakota, Minot AFB in North Dakota, Malmstrom AFB in Montana, Fairchild AFB in Washington, and Barksdale AFB in Iowa. The subject-identifying line of the message was "Defense Against Helicopter Assault," and it read: The past two evenings at one of our northern tier bases, an unidentified helicopter has been observed hovering over and in the near vicinity of the weapons storage area. Attempts to identify this aircraft have so far met with negative results. In the interest of nuclear weapons security, the action addresses will assume Security Option 3 during hours of darkness until further notice. Actions also should be taken to re-establish liaison with local law enforcement agencies that could assist your base in the event of a similar incident. Bases should thoroughly review and insure [sic] all personnel are familiar with actions to take in association with the helicopter denial portion of your 207-xx plan.

On October 30, the Maine National Guard helicopter was replaced by a USAF helicopter and crew from Plattsburgh Air Force Base. The following evening there were several reports of unknown objects suspected to be helicopters, at distances varying from directly over the base to 10 nautical miles northeast of the base. Some reports were confirmed on RAPCON radar with altitudes between 300 and 5,000 feet.

Additional, sporadic reports of helicopters continued well into December, though many of these were subsequently identified as normal helicopter traffic. In these reports, however, a distinction was drawn between the October sightings and later reports: Robert Fauk, Deputy Chief Patrol Agent with the U.S. Border Patrol, said he felt that an alleged helicopter report of November 18 was not the "Midnight Skulker of Loring."

He added, "This craft was too slow and too small to be the craft they had problems with at Loring."

Strangely enough, the Lewiston Daily Sun newspaper in Maine reported two eyewitnesses encountering a curiously lit aircraft on the morning of October 27, 1975 near the town of Poland. Poland is in the southwest corner of Maine, while Loring was in the northeast, so the two events may be unrelated. Still, it's curious that two eyewitnesses far from the Air Force Base would describe seeing such a similar aircraft on the same night that the Loring encounters began. Greenwood and Fawcett's book also claims a rash of civilian sighting occurred around the same time throughout the area.

Eerily similar events occurred at other U.S. Air Force Bases in the months following the incident at Loring AFB, although there is no definitive evidence that any of them were linked. On October 30, just days after the Loring incursion, the now-decommissioned Wurtsmith AFB in eastern Michigan had its own encounter detailed in the missive below.

In November 1975, personnel at Malmstrom AFB in Montana, another Strategic Air Command site, encountered bright lights that seemed to be accompanied by jet engine noises. NORAD scrambled two interceptors in an attempt to locate and identify the aircraft, but was unsuccessful in their attempts to do so.

In January of 1976, Cannon AFB in eastern New Mexico reported two unidentified flying objects described as “25 yards in diameter, gold or silver in color with blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on bottom.”

On January 31, 1976, security personnel at Eglin AFB in Florida spotted lights near one of their radar sites, and later issued a press release announcing the incident.

Later that year, on July 30, 1976, security patrols at Fort Richie in Maryland spotted “3 oblong objects with a reddish tint” near ammunition storage areas, although a National Military Command Center memo issued after the incident cites temperature inversions in the area as a possible cause for the unexplained sightings.

Reporters Ward Sinclair and Art Harris referenced several of these events in a 1979 article in The Washington Post, and wrote that “a Nov. 11, 1975, directive from the office of the secretary of the Air Force instructed public information staffers to avoid linking the scattered sightings unless specifically asked.”

Numerous documents have been declassified via the Freedom of Information Act which shed light on the Department of Defense's response to the mysterious incidents at Loring and at other bases, some of which are mentioned above. You can read these documents for yourself at the PDF link below.

Loring And Other Base Incursion Incident Files From The Mid 1970s.

An Unsolved Mystery

The 1975 incident at Loring Air Force Base shows that even nearly 50 years ago, some of America’s most strategically sensitive sites were vulnerable to intrusion from mysterious craft. While some reports cite the objects as "helicopters," multiple eyewitness accounts complicate this characterization by describing jet engine noises, incredible feats of speed and maneuverability, bizarre descriptions of physical craft, and a seeming inability for pilots to get visual confirmation of them.

Whether the multi-day string of aerial intrusion incidents over Loring AFB was perpetrated by a wily helicopter pilot with still unknown motivations, some type of bizarre Cold War strategic gamesmanship, or something even more exotic, remains unclear. The reality is that any of those possibilities are fascinating in their own right.

What is clear is that something extremely strange did happen over the span of at least four nights at Loring in the fall of 1975, incidents that had hundreds of witnesses, some of which have provided direct testimonial as to their experiences. Although personal observations can vary in accuracy greatly, the core aspects of these events are backed up by numerous official documents that reach up to the highest levels of the U.S. military's command structure. According to other documents from the time period, Loring wasn't alone in enduring bizarre visits by unidentified aircraft, although in terms of the scope and detail of such incidents, the Loring AFB case seems to have few parallels.

For more information and documentation about the Loring incident and other incursions throughout the 1970s, check out researcher Paul Dean's extensive nine-part series, at his site, Documenting the Evidence.

If you served at Loring AFB between 1975 and 1976 and witnessed these unexplained incursions, The War Zone wants to hear your story.

Contact the author: Brett@TheDrive.com

Secret US nuclear missile bases ‘targeted by UFOs’ revealed in new map as Pentagon told to ‘come clean’

UFOs have reportedly tampered with nuclear bases and missile test facilities across the United States - and this is where the mysterious craft targeted, according to whistleblower military veterans. The Sun Online has mapped the alleged extraterrestrial meddling with Earth's doomsday weapons that apparently occurred during the height of the Cold War in the 1960s and 1970s.

UFO Nuke Shutdowns: A groupe of former US Air Force Officers, led by retired USA Captain Robert Salas, have alleged they have irrefutable evidence that UFOs shutdown American nukes

Former US Air Force chiefs went on the record yesterday, claiming aliens have tampered with US weapons systems undergoing tests and disabled secret ballistic missile silos. The veterans are calling on the US Congress to investigate and hold public hearings into reports UFOs meddled with, or knocked out, nuclear weapons at their hidden underground launch sites.

All the alleged witnesses claim they were gagged after their astonishing UFO experiences. One of them was former US Air Force captain Robert Salas. He was the on-duty commander of an underground launch control facility assigned to Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana, US on March 24, 1967. He claims all ten of his intercontinental ballistic missiles became inoperable. Speaking yesterday at a press conference at Washington DC’s National Press Club in Washington DC, Captain Salas said: "In the coming days and months, I think we will all have to deal with this reality — because there is abundant and sober evidence, past and present for the reality of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP)." Captain Salas added: "It is undeniable. It is not swamp gas, or any other quirk of nature. "Indeed, the evidence that there is some intelligence and intent behind the UAP has been established by the testimonies we have presented, and many more which have yet to be presented. "The question is whether can we finally get the court and public opinion to give it the attention it deserves."

A former nuclear missile base boss, who later went on to develop backpacks for NASA Apollo astronauts, claimed a UFO crippled ten of his nukes in their silos.  Retired Air Force Captain David D Schindele alleged the bizarre incident unfolded in 1966, while he was a missile launch crew commander in the Minot Air Force Base missile field in North Dakota. He said: "I estimated the object to be 80 to 100ft wide. After many minutes passed the object then glided to the north end of the building and out of sight. "But it then became visible to security guards in the control section of the building."

Meanwhile, the scared-witless base guards viewed the object through the security centre window. Captain Schindele said: "It was a short period of time before the object took flight and disappeared within a second. "They all confirmed to us a terrifying experience to behold, which  I could tell by the tone of their voice and expressions on their faces. "They knew the object was not a helicopter. Base choppers did not fly at night, especially without notice to the facility." Following the press conference, the retired nuke base bosses are now hopeful the military is edging towards disclosure. A crucial development towards this came in June when the Pentagon released its UAP Task Force report which revealed 144 unexplained UFO encounters.

According to Deputy Missile Combat Crew Commander Jerome C Nelson during the winter of 1963/1964 UFOs emitted beams towards his missile silos at Walker Airforce Base in Roswell. He said: "While I was on alert duty in the launch capsule at Atlas Site 9, west of Roswell, my topside security guard called me on the telephone and reported an extremely bright light — that is, a fully illuminated, round-shaped object — was hovering silently over the missile site and shining a spotlight down onto it. "I could tell he was serious and his voice revealed he was frightened. After five minutes the object left the vicinity." He reported what he thought was possible sabotage but was fobbed off. But during the next month or so it happened several times.

Two incidents were alleged to have happened here. The first was in 1966. It was reported by USAF Airman Patrick McDonough who was surveying Minuteman I missile silos. Here at about 1.30 am, he reported a 30 to 50ft wide UFO coming in from due North, stopping above the base at about 300 ft. He said: "It appeared to have dim lights outlining the disc and white light emanating from the centre. "It stayed there for approximately 20 to 30 seconds and, from a dead stop, sped off to the East at a tremendous speed. There was no noise or wind." The second was reported by Minuteman III ICBM launch officer Bruce Fenstermacher in 1976:

It stayed there for approximately 20 to 30 seconds and, from a dead stop, sped off to the East at a tremendous speed...there was no noise or wind.

One of the security guards he said had reported in an excited voice that they now saw a pulsating white "thing" in the sky. They claimed to have seen flashing red and blue lights between the pulsations. The craft was close to the launch control facility, hovering 100 feet or so. The UFO was said to have been shaped like a "fat cigar" and appeared to be about 50 to 60ft long. Mr Fenstermacher said it appeared above launch facilities or missile silos. He said: "Over the next couple of hours the pulsating light made stops very close to several more missile sites. "Each time it moved to a new missile. I tried to send a Security Alert Team (SAT) to the site in question. "Each time they responded that they were having car problems and other equipment problems." Sometime around 4.30 am the UFO "whooshed away" and turned into a white dot within a few seconds. Then it totally disappeared, it was claimed.

Source: https://www.the-sun.com/news/3897045/secret-us-nuclear-missiles-bases-ufo-map/

1975 - Seven BOL

Air traffic controllers say "no way" but there are three ambulance drivers, one policeman, and one deejay who are "damn sure" a dozen UFOs scanned Pickering's nuclear power station last night. "For eight hours they were up there, floating around, zipping this way and that," said Andy parks, music director of 14 CHOO radio in Ajax. red, green, orange, yellow, hot pink?

"Maybe a mile high. I've seen reports on the news wire for the last six years about UFOs. Never believed them. But seeing is believing." Parks, following reports of UFO sightings last night, went with a news crew down to Pickering power station where the objects seemed to be centering. Caption For Below Photo: Above: Flying saucers exist --- that's the view of, from left, Murray Martin, radio man Andy Parks and Ed Thornton.

Sometime in the Spring of June 1997 I was making a video of a bridal couple down by Lake Ontario shoreline when I spotted a UFO flying over & very close to the Pickering nuclear power plant. It seemed to fly up & down several 1000 meters at 75 degrees. It made no sound at all.

Repeating the pattern twice in a few minutes it vanished in an instant. You will notice that the outside perimeter of the object is spinning rapidly & that's how I remember the object's motion at that time with my naked eye. Judge for yourself.

I'm just posting this video now since I had lost the original tape & found it again a few days ago. This is not my 1st UFO video. The original video was shot on a Panasonic SVHS camcorder, up to 100X digital zoom. (Hence the grainy image) Transferred to DV tape in 2001. This video shows without a doubt that UFO's are very attracted to power plants & high voltage hydro lines as I filmed in my 1st UFO sighting in 1974.

Dark Colored Rectangular UFO Over The Pickering Nuclear Plant

Number of witnesses: 3

Number of objects: 1

Shape of objects: Small and rectangular.

A Vike Factor Note: The witness requested that none of their personal information be given out, or posted. The Vike Factor does not release or post personal information what so ever unless instructed to do so. As most of the reports I receive read, "thank you to the witness for their report". It is most important that folks who have had a sighting to know their privacy is fully respected here at The Vike Factor.

Full Description of event/sighting: I am hesitant to make a report like this but the object I observed over the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station on the 25th of June, 2007 was very similar to that reported over the station by other people so it made me realize that I wasn't the only one who thought that this object was a bit odd. I would appreciate that my name not be used (even my first name) as my credibility may come into question if this information became public knowledge.

I presently work at the Pickering Nuclear Generating station near Toronto and I witnessed the object described over the station by others on the Filer’s Files # 26 - 2007 report.

I start my shift at 7:00am, but usually arrive at around 6:00am as I have breakfast in the cafeteria before going to work. My first sighting of the object happened on the morning of the 25th of June, 2007. I had just cleared security and was leaving the security building to enter the administration building when I glanced up to see an object that seemed rectangular in shape. The object was fixed in a horizontal position hanging over the back of the turbine auxiliary bay on the A side of the building.

What caught my attention was that it was something I had never noticed from that location before and because it was so perfectly stationary I stopped walking to take a better look. At first I was thinking that it may have been part of the superstructure on the top of the building as it was so immobile. After thinking about it for a few moments I concluded that it must be part of the building and it was connected by a guide wire or something. I dismissed the original sighting as being irrelevant and went inside and quickly forgot about it.

Around 9:00am I had to attend to a job I was involved with out in the screen house building located behind the plant. (South of the main building toward Lake Ontario). After walking from the screen house going west I looked up and saw the same object again and this time it was a bit higher and now located about 200 feet, above and slightly west of the vacuum building structure. (The top of the vacuum building is about 200 feet and this was about 200 to 300 feet above it). I watched it for about 5 minutes and it did not move. When I say this I really mean it. It was absolutely stationary and that is the reason I stood there watching it. In my mind no objects in flight are so stationary and that is the reason it caught my attention.

After watching it for a bit I saw a friend of mine and I pointed it out to him. His analysis was that it maybe a kite being flown from Frenchman's Bay, located to the west of the plant. I was somewhat inclined to agree with him and went back into the plant to continue my work.

Later on in the morning I had the opportunity to walk out to the back of the plant again and I looked up to where it was and it was gone. I searched the sky and to my amazement I saw it again. It had changed locations. This time it was situated over the cooling water inflow behind the vacuum building structure at about even with its height (around 200 feet).

I watched it for a couple of minutes but again dismissed it as being man made as I figured it had to be.

Later on in the afternoon around 02:00pm I walked back out again to see it in the same place behind the vacuum building structure. It had not moved. I again used some excuse to write it off as being explainable as I had no other evidence to suggest otherwise outside of its very stationary position in the air that did not seem natural in my mind.

When I looked for it the next day there was nothing to be seen. The object was no longer there.

I have been looking since but have not seen anything unusual. I will keep looking as it has intrigued me and I really want to know what that object was.

It reminded me of some sort of surveillance drone as it seemed to be observing plant activities. In retrospect I should have informed security but I was thinking they wouldn't even follow it up. The reason I say this is that during the day I told a number of people about the object and they responded in such an apathetic manner that I was dissuaded to tell anyone else.

The object was dark and rectangular and may have been the size of a 45 gallon drum. It was positioned horizontally not vertically. I did not have any magnifying device so it was not very discernable.

I don't make any claims that this was not a man made object, but its behavior was quite peculiar.

From the Vike Factor archives (Brian Vike) http://the-v-factor-paranormal.blogspot.com/

If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.

Source: http://canadaufo.blogspot.ca/2011/03/dark-colored-rectangular-ufo-over.html

On November 4th, 1990 at approx. 1 am, I was getting ready to go to bed for the evening. My then husband, children, and my sister who was visiting, had already turned in for the night. I had been watching an "Elvira Mistress of the Dark" movie with my brother-in-law, when I looked up at the clock. Realizing it was way past my bedtime (I had small children at the time) I got up to lock the sliding glass doors to our balcony.

At the time we were living on the 10th floor of a condo building, and as I had young children it was my habit to make sure those doors were always locked. I will also mention that this apartment had a SSE exposure with a clear view of Lake Ontario, and the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. As I went to lock the glass doors I observed a large, red, glowing orb.

It was like nothing I had ever seen before.

In my pajamas I stepped out onto the balcony. I noted that the "orb" seemed to be in the vicinity of the nuclear power plant. My mind raced with all the possibilities, a plane, a search light, quickly discounting each.

I yelled out for my brother-in-law who was at my side within seconds.

I was yelling "what is it, what is it"? He started yelling back, "it's a UFO!” He had grabbed my arm, and I remember I glanced down to see my own goose-flesh.

Almost immediately after he said that it was a UFO, the full moon-sized orb, began to pulsate. And for some inexplicable reason, for which I cannot fathom I said, "they know we can see them." 

After pulsating, the UFO, which appeared octagon in shape imploded in on itself, turning into a speck, and shooting straight up. At this point my brother-in-law's memory and mine differ slightly. He says he saw the orb implode, but not shoot up into the sky.

I clearly remember that I looked down towards the street and I saw a single car driving eastward. I remember thinking we cannot be alone in seeing this. We went inside, and sat up in the kitchen discussing everything within our own experiences that we could to rationally try to explain what we had witnessed (despite my strange comment of a "them"). We were up until about 4 am. and I ran back to the sliding glass doors a few times that night to see if the orb had returned. It didn't, not that night nor in the many nights after that I would sit out on the balcony looking for it.

My brother-in-law and I failed to report our sighting immediately. We both were afraid of nor wanted to put up with ridicule. We also did not know who we should have reported this experience to. In those days there was no internet or easy way to locate a UFO investigative group. 

I did pick up a UFO book from the library and sent a letter to CUFOS in Chicago, which was listed as a place people with these experiences could contact, but the letter was returned to me as undeliverable.

Eventually many years after the fact I was able to report the experience to MUFON (Mutual UFO Network). They were able to piece together quite a bit of information and based on the fact I could give them an accurate time frame as Elvira had been on the television. 

Despite never answering the question of what we saw that night with any degree of certainty, I learned there were thoughtful and intelligent people who were looking into these extraordinary experiences without prejudice, and we were not alone in that regard. This in turn inspired me to follow suit and eventually towards the establishment of my own research interests. 

It was an experience that has radically shaped the course of my life, and continues to do so through other UFO events I have had since.