United States · 24 October 1968
Minot AFB and its Minuteman missile field, 1968
DocumentedThe B-52 radar recorded a target that travelled approximately 25 miles in 3 seconds, the aircraft radar and radio both failed while it sat off the left wing, and fourteen airmen guarding nuclear missiles watched an object appear to come down near launch facility Alfa-43.
- Where
- Minot AFB and its Minuteman missile field, North Dakota
- When
- 24 October 1968
- Who reported it
- 14 missile-security personnel at separate launch facilities plus a B-52 crew
- Entities described
- None reported
- Handled as
- INVESTIGATED / EXPLAINED
- Evidence class
- GOV-1
The record
An official file preserves that a report was made and examined. It does not, by itself, establish what was seen.
- USAF Project Blue Book / Foreign Technology Division Project Blue Book case file, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 24 October 1968 (107pp) (opens in a new tab)
The document is attached to this entry.
What is not settled
The file evaluation blocks read Probable (AIRCRAFT)(B-52), Probable Astro (SIRIUS) and Possible (PLASMA). Radio and radar faults on B-52s were not rare.
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